Category: "Genre"

Grand Theft Auto IV — Polished and Prepped for a Spring Release *Update – Release Confirmed!*

Niko’s aiming for Spring — brown is supposed to be in this season. Rockstar’s golden hooker, Grand Theft Auto, was supposed to return last October in the much anticipated fourth installment… wait, sixth installment? Eighth? Okay, let’s just say Grand Theft Auto IV and move on. October came and went, and obviously the game was [...]

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Turning Point: Fall of Liberty Demo Impressions

Turning Point: Fall of Liberty does a lot of things right, but misses the mark where it counts.

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FFXIII Demo On The Horizon

Character designer Tetsuya Nomura has revealed that “2008 will be the year” for titbits of Final Fantasy XIII info, in addition to a playable demo.

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Turok Xbox 360 Demo Impressions

So just how hard is it to screw up a game about stabbing dinosaurs? Not that hard, apparently.

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Ninja Gaiden II Probably NOT Coming to PS3… Or Is It?

I’m sure this is not what you were hoping for. According to the February issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly, it’s a definite “maybe”. Of course that could just be a typo.

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Smash Bros. Dojo – Manaphy

Today’s edition of Smash Bros. Dojo brings us a pokemon new to the series: Manaphy.

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Master Chief Eats Soap – CoD4 Takes Top Spot on Xbox Live

Major Nelson posted the LIVE activity for the week of January 14th, and guess what took the top spot? Well, I guess I already gave it away. Infinity Ward’s awesome military shooter finally de-throned Master Chief and his rascally gang of Spartans.

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Richard Diamant Interview Part 2: Art Style, Water, and the Advantages of Blu-ray

The second part of our interview with Richard Diamant, Naughty Dog’s Lead Character Artist, is upon us. In this part Richard talks about Uncharted’s art style, lighting, water, the advantages of Blu-ray, and the possibility of swimming underwater or crouching in the next game.

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Exit DS Demo Online

Web-based DS demos are all the rage these days. No surprise then that a few levels of Taito’s spatial puzzler’s have found their way onto a browser near you.

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Rumor – Two New Super Smash Bros. Brawl Characters Revealed

Last week, Smash Bros. DOJO!! revealed that stickers you collect in the single player campaign of Super Smash Bros. Brawl would act as power-ups when applied. However, the website may have inadvertently revealed something much, much bigger.

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New Final Fantasy XIII, Versus, Agito Scans

The latest issue of Jump featured screens from the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII and its seemingly obligatory spin-offs. They look good.

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Crysis Shark Attack

Here sharky sharky…What better way to stop players from going out of bounds and meeting game walls than getting them eaten by a shark. Crysis takes an engaging game world a step further with impressive animation and A.I. Perhaps Crysis doesn’t even have game walls, instead being an endless labyrinth of possibilities where you can [...]

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Cheers! Undertow is Your Free Xbox Live Game

Undertow is officially Microsoft’s sacrificial lamb, offered up to all the players who suffered through the recent Xbox Live outages.

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More Resistance 2 Info: Some Rumours Finally Put to Rest

The big reveal of Resistance 2 was a sight to behold on the forums. “Shock and Awe” might be an appropriate catch phrase, though that may be copyrighted for another invasion. In all the commotion some details were lost in a web of forum excitement. Insomniac enlighten us on some misconceptions, in addition to letting [...]

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Richard Diamant Interview Part 1: Background & Uncharted Character Design

Today we begin our three part interview with Naughty Dog’s Lead Character Artist, Richard Diamant. Joining this experienced developer in January 2006, Richard is in charge of the look, pipelines, and creation of the characters in Naughty Dog games. In the first part of our interview we discuss the character creation process and the models [...]

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