Category: "Horror"

EA CEO Interview Hints at Dead Space for Wii

After an extensive interview with John Riccitiello, CEO of Electronic Arts, and Venture Beat, the stock market tycoon gave multiple hints at EA’s approach for the Nintendo Wii. While most of his comments regarding the company were aimed at maintaining neutrality, he ended with stating Nintendo’s weak 1st-party line up giving way for 3rd-party domination. [...]

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Alan Wake at 2008 Tokyo Games Show

Alan Wake, the upcoming action-thriller from Remedy Entertainment (developers behind Max Payne), was mysteriously missing at this year’s E3 convention. Now, however, it looks like the game will show up at this year’s Tokyo Games Show.

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Hands-On Preview: Resident Evil 5

The good news about Resident Evil 5 is the same as the bad news: It plays very, very similarly to Resident Evil 4. The stage we played at E3 was just like the Ganado Village at the start of RE4, only with a greater variety of zombies, ultra-sharp environments and lighting, and a few gameplay [...]

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Hands-On: Left 4 Dead

Andrew and I tackled the first level of Valve’s co-op survival horror shooter, Left 4 Dead, on PC. In case you don’t already know how cool this game is, let me first just say that (if you didn’t catch it on our final E3 podcast) it was definitely the best thing I got my hands [...]

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Ripten Radio: E3 08, Day 3 Wrap Up

Our third installment of Ripten Radio, will run you through the high (and sometimes low) points from E3 08 day 3. We give hands-on impressions of Fallout 3, Mirror’s Edge, Dead Space, Madden 09, DC vs MK, PixelJunk Eden, and many more. This particular edition features the following Ripten super studs: Andrew “Hotel DJ” Podolsky, [...]

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New “Loved Ones” Dead Space Trailer

I reported earlier that Spike TV would be airing “Loved Ones”, a new Dead Space trailer created by James Wan (Drector of SAW) on GameTrailers TV at 1:00am. The video is available below, in case you missed it, or wanted to watch it again.

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New Dead Space Trailer From SAW Director Premiers Tonight On Spike TV

If you liked the SAW movies, then you may want to hang around for the debut of EA’s new Dead Space trailer titled “Loved Ones” on Spike’s GameTrailers TV tonight at 1:00 am. According to EA’s press release (available in full after the jump) the trailer was directed by James Wan — the director of [...]

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Xbox 360 Review: Alone in the Dark

Sorry, sir, but this game has nothing to do with you. She can stay. I’ve been looking forward to Alone in the Dark for some time now.  I’ve watched probably several hours worth of gameplay videos and developer interviews, each one making my itch for the game that much harder to scratch.  Unfortunately, the game [...]

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Alone in the Dark to Include SecuROM

Atari has announced that the PC version of their upcoming survival-horror game, Alone in the Dark, will ship with the SecuRom anti-piracy system. After the game is installed, players will go through an “activation” process, which requires connecting online to unlock components that will allow the game to be playable. Once the process is done, [...]

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German Videogame Site Claims Atari Pulled Ads & Filed Wrongful Suit Against Them

The past few weeks of videogame publisher drama have been for the most part dedicated to the dispute between Tecmo and their former Rockstar/Director Tomonobu Itagaki, however Tecmo will need to move over and make room for another old school publisher. German videogame site 4players.de claims to be involved in apparent legal battle with Atari [...]

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