Archive for January, 2010

Capcom Developing Natal Game From Old Franchise

Tweet In an interview at CES, Capcom’s Vice President of strategic planning and business development (yes, all of that) Christian Svensson told G4 that the developer is working on a hardcore game for Microsoft’s Natal based on one of their old franchises.

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BioShock 2 Will Last At Least 10 Hours

Tweet The latest episode of Qore, the PlayStation Network’s subscription based online magazine, reveals that Bioshock 2 will be at least 10 hours in length.

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Video Game Winners and Losers of the Week: 1/10-1/16

Tweet Every week, I research all the best new video game releases to find the one game that you need to play and the one game that you need to stay away from: my Video Game Winners and Losers of the Week. On this week’s show, we’ve got Army of Two: The 40th Day, which [...]

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Splinter Cell: Conviction and R.U.S.E. Delayed

Tweet Ubisoft have today announced that their upcoming titles Splinter Cell: Conviction and R.U.S.E. will be delayed past their previously set release dates. Splinter Cell: Conviction is a hotly anticipated (by me, at least) action-stealth game, but you knew that already. It was set for a February 23, but has been pushed back to “April [...]

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Warfare Wallpaper Contest Voting Now Open

Tweet We’ve finally decided on the ten best wallpapers submitted for the Ripten and Echo1 contest, and now it’s up to you loyal readers (and all you disloyal bastards as well, not that we blame you) to crown the kings and queens of wallpaper making. Or to put it another way, which of the creators [...]

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Nintendo Wii Gets Disc-Based Netflix This Spring

Tweet Roku’s got it. Xbox 360′s got it. PlayStation 3 has it. And this spring, your Nintendo Wii will have it as well. According to numerous mainstream media sources including the San Francisco Chronicle, Nintendo and Netflix will announce a partnership tomorrow that brings the Netflix movie-streaming service to 26 million Nintendo Wii consoles across [...]

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Buying FFXIII? Buy from Amazon, Get $10 Off Your Next Game

Tweet This is not the best deal you’ll find on Final Fantasy XIII. No, I’d venture to say that within weeks of release, you’ll find plenty of copies of FFXIII available at used games stores around the globe, after their owners have finished the reportedly linear-to-a-fault story and traded them in for the next big [...]

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Ridiculous LIVE Games on Demand Prices Slightly Less Ridiculous

Tweet One of the most bizarre things that has stayed steady since it was implemented is the absolutely off the wall pricing of Xbox Live’s Games on Demand service. For snarky asshole video game news guys like me, it has provided more easy rimshots than the Brittany Spears is crazy/Lindsay Lohan is on coke/Paris Hilton [...]

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RISK Marching to XBLA Early Ths Year

Tweet Electronic Arts is planning to release an Xbox Live Arcade version of the popular strategy game RISK early this year, though no specific date has been given. It will feature “outlandish factions, a unique art style, new gameplay twists and off-beat humor.” Sounds good to me. Hit the jump for the full press release.

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James Cameron to Make More Games with Ubisoft?

Tweet James Cameron is apparently exploring the option of making more games with Ubisoft after they developed and published Avatar: The Game back in December.

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Study Says 90% of Games Bought at Retail, Macs Apparently Have Games

Tweet The NPD Group, a group that likes to find things out about stuff, has recently released information that shows the vast majority of games or add-ons purchased for new or used consoles occur away from the internet. 90% of all sales during Q3 were made from brick and mortar locations. Not only that, but [...]

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Sony: Heavy Rain Won’t See U.S. Censorship

Tweet When the final U.S. box art for Heavy Rain arrived yesterday, not everyone was as pleased as I at the inclusion of its dripping wet protagonist. That got me to thinking: what else might change in the U.S. release? Might we see a repeat of Indigo Prophecy? Might stateside gamers have to live down [...]

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EVE Online MMORPG.com’s Game of the Year

Tweet Despite being Released in 2003, EVE Online has been voted 2009′s MMO of the year by MMORPG.com. The game saw two major expansions this year, adding new ships, wormholes, better fleet organisation, and lovely pretty new planet designs. Another thing that happened in the world of EVE this year is that I started playing. [...]

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Dead Space 2 and Crysis 2 Coming Fiscal 2011

Tweet EA have revealed to investors (and therefore the rest of the world) that their next lineup of games, which most notably includes Crysis 2 and Dead Space 2, will release in Fiscal Year 2011. Don’t see that date and feel like it’ll be a long time, however, since Fiscal 2011 runs from April 1, [...]

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Left 4 Dead 2 Multiplayer Available for UK Xbox Live Silver Users This Weekend

Tweet Microsoft have announced that beginning January 15 at 17.00 pm GMT and ending on January 18 at 17.00 pm GMT, Left 4 Dead 2 will be playable online for all UK Xbox Live users, including ‘Silver’ ones. No news on whether this will extend to the rest of the world yet, but I will [...]

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