Archive for February, 2010

Exhibitors and Concerts Announced for PAX East in Boston

Tweet Exhibitors and concerts were announced today for PAX East in Boston, which takes place on March 26-28. Major publishers attending the show include EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft and Nintendo, along with well known developers like The Behemoth, Harmonix, Rockstar, Turbine and Twisted Pixel Games also making an appearance. Music acts will include, but aren’t limited [...]

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Super Awesome Cosplay Weekly Spotlight #2

Tweet Here at Ripten, we embrace diversity. We understand that there are many different shades of geek and that we have no right to cater to the handful we deem worthy of our love. Why ignore those who spend hard earned money and precious time on the costumes we take for granted? Now, we bring [...]

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RipTen Review: Blood Bowl (Xbox 360)

Tweet In order to accurately review a game like Blood Bowl, you have to look at it from two entirely separate perspectives. On one hand is the type of gamer who is intimately familiar with the warm embrace of the Warhammer tabletop games and their subgenera. You remember the days of wielding your 28 mm [...]

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Aliens vs Predator Demo to Slaughter You This Thursday

Tweet I’ve been excited about Aliens vs Predator for a while now for no real reason other than it being a new Aliens vs Predators game. I know most people are kind of making negative waves about it based on what they’ve seen and the circumstances around it. For one, the Alien vs Predator movies [...]

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Dante’s Inferno Will Keep Getting Hotter. Sigh.

Tweet Visceral Games has assured the gaming public that Dante’s Inferno will be heavily supported with post release content. While the game isn’t set to be released for another week, Visceral’s Johnathan Knight is already greasing the wheels for many upcoming additions to the classic tale. While, as fans of Left 4 Dead and the [...]

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The Fall of the Lich King End Game Cinematic (Major Spoiler)

Tweet If you don’t want know what happens after killing the Lich King in World of Warcraft’s latest expansion, you definitely don’t want to click play on the video below. Some of you may already know what happens due to internet leakage, so this will serve as nothing more than a visual confirmation. In any [...]

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Doritos and EA Sports Super Bowl Promotion Lets Fans Vote The Madden NFL 11 Cover Athlete

Tweet Believe in the Madden curse? Well, if you do, you’ll be happy to hear that Doritos and EA Sports have a Super Bowl promotion lined up that will let you get in on the Madden 11 cover athlete action. Starting this Thursday, EA and Doritos will begin to release more information, i.e. candidates, voting [...]

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Castlevania: Lords of Shadows Official Tweet Promises 15 Hours of Platforming Gameplay

Tweet David Cox, a producer at Konami and owner of the twitter account “CastlevaniaLOS”, tweeted a few details about the upcoming game today. In addition to sharing the title’s number seven ranking on GameTrailers most anticipated games list, Cox also revealed the following bits of information in response to questions about the game: “There is [...]

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Halo: Reach “not a Natal title,” says Bungie

Tweet Bungie has confirmed that Halo: Reach will not be a Natal title and that the game was made with the standard 360 controller “in mind.” Bungie wrote in its weekly update, “Halo: Reach is NOT a Natal title and is being developed expressly with the traditional Xbox 360 controller in mind.” Bungie continues to [...]

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