Archive for January, 2010

GRIN’s Final Fantasy “Fortress” Footage Found!

Tweet Another day, another out-of-work game developer leaking assets from what they supposed was a canceled project. Today, it’s former GRIN sound designer Jonatan Crafoord — and the assets are none other than the first footage of their doomed Final Fantasy game, codename “Fortress.”

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Cryptic Offers Lifetime Subscriptions to Star Trek Online

Tweet Cryptic Studios, the folks behind the upcoming MMORPG Star Trek Online, are offering some great membership deals exclusively to those who pre-order the game. Naturally, these bargains will expire upon the game’s release date of February 2nd, 2010. A 12-month membership option will be offered for $119.99. This package includes two extra character slots and [...]

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Mercs Inc. Concept Art, Platform Plans Leaked?

Tweet When Electronic Arts closed Pandemic Studios in November, the 200 employees they left in the wake weren’t particularly happy about the affair… but boy, has it been great for gamers eager to get their hands on leaked information about Mercs Inc, the unfinished game they left behind. Now, what appears to be the first [...]

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Ripten Review: Bayonetta

Tweet Let’s go ahead and address the elephant in the game- Bayonetta‘s eponymous Bayonetta is meant to be sexy. Reading the developer blogs and looking at the concept art, it’s clear that Platinum Games knew exactly what they were doing by creating a femme fatale with long legs and nude attacks, and they use it [...]

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Here’s a First Look at Deadly Premontion (Video)

Tweet Raining men I can live with, but blood? That’s never a good sign. What do bloody red peace signs, country bumpkin limbo zombie with a tongue feeling fetish, rumor spreading whispers, a hydroplaning police car, and hemorrhaging trees have in common? They’re all featured in the first look trailer for Ignition Entertainment’s Deadly Premonition, a survival horror [...]

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New God of War III Images, Kratos Too Sexy For His Shirt

Tweet Sony Computer Entertainment has released several new God of War III screenshots highlighting the muscular badass that is Kratos. Enjoy the shirtless God of War sexiness below.

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Monday Night Combat isn’t Team Fortress 2 or Smash TV, We Promise

Tweet Uber Entertainment has announced they will be releasing an interesting looking title for the Xbox Live Arcade later on this year. And by “interesting” I mean “I guess these guys have played Team Fortress 2 a couple times.” It seriously looks just like it, except placed in the world of Smash TV. Which begs [...]

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Videogame Inspired Diet Helps Obese Teen Lose Half His Weight

Tweet Taylor Lebron slims down by leveling up. An overweight teen by the name of Taylor Lebron found himself at an astonishing 297 pounds not long after his 14th birthday, and made the personal decision that enough was enough. His recently published book, titled “Cutting Myself in Half: 150 Pounds Lost One Byte at a [...]

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Honey I Shrunk the BlazBlue, and it’s Still Better than Street Fighter IV

Tweet The best anime fighting game of the whatever-amount-of-time-you-can-remember-back-furthest-you-stoners is getting a lovingly crafted PSP edition, so you can let the Wheel of Fate Turn while you are on the go. The best news is that there will reportedly be nothing lost in translation between the full sized version and its handheld counterpart, which is [...]

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New 3D WoW Armory Displays Recent Activity, Stalkers Approve

Tweet Those who frolic in the World of Warcraft are likely familiar with the game’s online armory site accessible at wowarmory.com. This has long served as a way to compare your in-game character with those around you as a form of e-peen measurement. Well, thanks to some snazzy new Blizzard programming, you can now do all [...]

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Capcom Releases Dark Void PC Demo Today

Tweet In preparation for the January 19th launch of Capcom’s sci-fi action adventure title, Dark Void, on the PS3, 360, and PC, the company has made an early demo available to PC gamers. Capcom promises “stunning in-game physics” on the PC via “extensive use of NVIDIA® PhysX® and APEX technologies.” You can download the PC only demo exclusively at FilePlanet [...]

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Halo: Reach to be the Biggest Game of 2010, says Microsoft

Tweet According to Director of Marketing at Xbox UK, Stephen McGill, Halo: Reach will be the biggest game of 2010 “across all platforms.” “Our hope for Halo: Reach is to be the biggest title of 2010 not only for Xbox, but across all platforms – a forecast which has been mirrored by industry professionals,” he [...]

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Put the Cyanide Pill Down: Beyond Good and Evil 2 Still Probably Happening

Tweet When Ubisoft made their State of the Union fiscal report, Beyond Good and Evil 2 wasn’t mentioned. Surely, gamers with taste were crippled with shock and horror. Had we waited all this time for a follow up only to have it dangled in front of us and then snatched away in the night? Has [...]

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Former EA Mobile VP Says Company is “In the Wrong Business.” Insert Banking Bail Out Pun Here

Tweet Mitch Lasky, who up until recently was a senior VP in EA’s Mobile division, has decided to dust off his axe and grind it for all to see on his personal blog.  He is of the opinion that EA has a business model that won’t support it as it continues to have problems, and [...]

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Swedish Heavy Metal Band Rocks About Starcraft

Tweet What’s cooler than a heavy metal band rocking out about videogames? Absolutely nothing, that’s what. That’s why Swedish heavy metal band Avatar is the cat’s pajamas as far as I’m concerned with their song Queen of Blades, based on the nasty Starcraft villainess. Hit the jump to check out the song and video.

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