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 [...]

Tweet We here at Ripten are a rather silly bunch of folks. Sure, we save the world, defeat robot villains, and fight wars in the middle east- but that’s all in a day’s “work”. We can do those things multiple times a day- but for now, we need to get serious. Unfortunately, it’s hard to [...]

Tweet Three years ago (exactly three years ago, even) Microsoft announced that the Xbox 360 would support IPTV, effectively turning your Xbox into a set-top box. Up until now, everyone had forgotten this functionality was even mentioned, but Microsoft brought the idea back to life during their CES conference today, saying that AT&T U-Verse subscribers [...]

Tweet I’ve always said that exclusive content for consoles suck. For a company to actually go out of its way and pay exorbitant amounts of cash just to ensure that certain gamers don’t receive certain content is more malicious than it is helpful. Microsoft, however, doesn’t see things the way that I do. During their [...]

Tweet In 2001, I was 9 years old. Bush had just become the President of the United States, America was feeling the pain from the WTC attacks, and the Xbox and Gamecube were hitting homes across the nation. Apparently, GameStop was also taking pre-orders for an obscure little game you’ve probably never heard of called [...]

Tweet Yesterday, in a fantastic show of irony, a movie was put up in the PlayStation Store for free, in both HD and PSP formats. The movie, you ask? Armored- a movie that hasn’t even been in theatres for a month. Sure, it wasn’t that great of a film, but it was on the PlayStation [...]

Tweet As the most popular platform for PC gaming, you’d think that Steam would inflate their prices all the time- just because they could. Of course, the exact opposite is true; Steam’s always been fair with their prices, and I’ve never seen a game exorbitantly priced on the service. That’s why their holiday sale is [...]

Tweet Back when the MAG beta was first released, I was lucky enough to get in on it. At first, I downloaded the game, pleasantly surprised at how small the file size for the game was (around 300MB) but as soon as I turned on the game itself, I was treated to a 1.8GB update. [...]

Tweet It seems like every week there’s a new gaming marathon that’s raising money for a new charity, but it’s not a bad trend. We here at Ripten love helping others, and as long as these gaming marathons continue, we’ll continue to support them. The latest is from Zeldathon, a team of students from Florida [...]

Tweet Ah, eighties morning cartoons. Full of campy dialogue, loose plots, tie-in breakfast cereals, and minute doses of awesome that would only brighten up your day. Or at least, that’s the way I assume they were- I’m a 90s kid through and though, but I know for a fact that The Legend of Zelda morning [...]

Tweet Today is a great day for Mass Effect 2 news- first with the massive, packed collector’s being announced, and now, with 90 seconds of brand-new footage that signals the coming of a full trailer for the game. If the game looks anything like this footage, it’s sure to be a real contender for 2010 [...]

Tweet Get it? Because that’s one of the things that is said in the game when yo- ah, forget it. Above is an image of Scorpion & Sub-Zero (you know, of Mortal Kombat fame.) on the back of the winner of Ripten’s Coolest Person Alive 2009*. One of them is performing a fatality on the [...]

Tweet Unfortunately, “LittleBigPirates of the Carribean” isn’t the official name for the map pack, but there’s still time, Media Molecule. The things that are official, according to MediaMolecule, are the pricing, release date, and content included in the pack. Sorry, Pirates fans- as an E-rated game, there’s no rum here. What there is included however, [...]

Tweet I wasn’t at all impressed with the 2009 VGA trailer for Activision’s True Crime. I somewhat enjoyed the previous two games in the series, but the voices, character rigidity, and somehow-superhuman movement in the trailer just didn’t impress me. A press release for the game just hit my inbox, and while I can’t say [...]

Tweet If you played the first Army of Two game, chances are that you have pretty mixed feelings about it. On one hand, the game’s multiplayer aspect is super-fun. But on the other hand, when you play solo, its flaws really shine through. When EA Montreal announced the sequel, set in Shanghai, I expected it [...]