Archive for January, 2010

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Demo Confirmed

Tweet Recently, there was a Bad Company 2 Beta on the PlayStation 3. If you missed it, or only have an Xbox or PC, you might be issuing a series of expletives. Well, that stream may now cease, as the official Battlefield blog has confirmed that there will be, at some point between now and [...]

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Latest Metal Gear Movie Update Cites Franchise Success As Main Reason Big Screen Adaptation Won’t Get Done

Tweet The latest not-so-positive update from the “hold your breath and wait” Metal Gear Movie universe features a quote from Producer Mike De Luca:

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Star Wars: The Old Republic Looking at Spring 2011 Launch?

Tweet Star Wars: The Old Republic has been hotly anticipated by nerds across the galaxy (myself included) since BioWare first announced the MMO in October of 2008, well over a year ago. When talking about Electronic Art’s fiscal year, EA CEO John Riccitiello may have announced that the game is aiming for a Spring 2011 [...]

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WoW Cataclysm Alpha Opens to Friends and Family Today-ish

Tweet Alex Ziebart over at WoW Insider reported receiving a reliable tip yesterday stating that the next World of Warcraft expansion, titled “Cataclysm” will begin an alpha phase of testing open to Blizzard friends and family on January 12th (today). The tip also mentioned that the access would be obtained via a disc as opposed [...]

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Rumor: Midnight Club Series in Limbo, as “Rockstar Spouse” Decries Working Conditions

Tweet In an anonymous and yet-to-be-confirmed report sweeping the web, an individual calling themselves the “Rockstar Spouse” posted an open letter Thursday that denounced the working conditions at Rockstar San Diego. Calling out management for pushing employees to the brink of depression with overtime while withholding overtime pay, the “Spouse” threatened legal action on behalf [...]

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NBA JAM Arcade Style Basketball Coming to Wii 2010

Tweet A remake, or should I say “Wii-make”, of NBA JAM has been formally announced by EA Sports with a release date for the Nintendo Wii due sometime in 2010. NBA JAM was very popular in the arcades back in the early 90s, something I personally can attest for because I was there burning through [...]

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Heavy Rain Box Art, Release Dates Finalized

Tweet You know the old adage about how sex sells? That valuable marketing information has not been lost on developer Quantic Dream, who has seen fit to place a dripping wet female front and center on their final box art for Heavy Rain. I can’t say I approve, but that didn’t keep me from downloading [...]

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New Game Releases: 1/10 – 1/16

Tweet The second week of 2010 isn’t much better than the first with only a handful of new videogames coming out this week. The highlight of the week has to be Army of Two: The 40th Day, the sequel to the 2008 co-op hit from EA. Other notable titles include, well, that aren’t really any. [...]

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Gaze Your Eyes Upon Fable III Next Month and be Humbled

Tweet Steve Van Tilburgh, Lionhead’s community manager, took to the twitter to tease the fact Fable fans will find themselves witnessing a few videos of the spectacle that will be Fable III next month at an event nobody knows anything about yet. Fable III, being the third Fable for those who lack the ability to [...]

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Mega Man Fan Movie Looks So Awesome it Doesn’t Need a Witty Post Title

Tweet I almost don’t even want to talk about this because Capcom might be listening, and I don’t want a repeat of the Hero of Time travesty. Maybe fan movies should become like Fight Club, we just don’t talk about them until they are out and available in every dark corner of the internet. Regardless, [...]

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[Update: Fake] Rumour: Next Need for Speed Game to be Titled “Out of the Law” According to Concept Art

Tweet Two images have surfaced today which are believed to be concept images of the upcoming Criterion-developed Need for Speed game. They both suggest that the game’s subtitle will be “Out of the Law”, one of the worst subtitles since “And the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”. Obviously this is an unconfirmed rumour at this [...]

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Darksiders Treasure Chest Requires Glitch Hopping to Access?

Tweet While playing Darksiders for my upcoming review, I noticed a treasure chest across a room that has had the center flooring gutted out. In other words, it seemed pretty inaccessible, but this is treasure we’re talking about, so there’s no way I was just going to pass it up. I looked around for standard [...]

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Make Your Dumb Kids Mega-Man Up to the Alphabet (Video)

Tweet This is a video. It involves teaching the Alphabet to using Mega Man bosses. It is awesome and much better than our dirty socialist public school system can do. I would have learned much more gooder if they taught me things using Mega Man, instead I had to wait until I was paying a [...]

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2K Boston Reverts to Irrational Games Name, Patriots Inevitable Fourth Super Bowl Win Incoming

Tweet Two years before I moved to Boston in 1999, a quaint little studio called Irrational Games was formed by three former members of Looking Glass. Irrational plugged away winning awards while their NFL counterpart, the New England Patriots, racked up Lombardi trophies. All was well in Bean Town until a  2K Games acquisition rebranded the prospering studio [...]

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Darksiders 360 Screen Refresh/Tearing Issues Taint War’s Debut, Vigil Games Says Patch Coming Soon

Tweet I started digging into Darksiders last night and exchanged a few emails with Jim Sterling over at Destructoid about 30 minutes in or so. I wanted to see if any other writers out there had gotten the PS3 version, or if they were experiencing any of the screen refresh/tearing issues I was getting on [...]

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