http://www.ripten.com All Your Geek Are Belong To Us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:35:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-us If you haven't played Trials HD yet, you should really check it out. It's a fun, compelling puzzle game with a time trial twist, but it doesn't feel like work. Though it's been doing rather well, the game's developer, RedLynx, didn't think it would sell as well, so they decided ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/07/redlynx-pirated-their-own-game-to-develop-interest/ You may remember the South Park clip we posted a few days ago featuring Cartman and the boys performing Lady GaGa's "Poker Face" with the Rock Band game. Well, thanks to the hard work of die hard South Park fan and YouTube user phr00ta, we can now enjoy a hilarious ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/07/cartman-rock-band-poker-face-remix/ While I'm sure many of you will just take this news to mean that Rock Band 3 exists in some form, there's a lot more news here than you'd think. While I assumed Rock Band 3 would just be an expansion of the previous games with a couple of new ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/07/rock-band-3-to-help-us-play-real-guitars/ Square-Enix posted a message/anagram on their North America website earlier today: A puzzle for FINAL FANTASY XIII fans! Solve this anagram to find out what lies ahead: A Henchmen Inventor Tent Unto. Check back Monday for the answer! Well, there's no need to wait until Monday, as hintonmj and Squirrel Emperor, two finalfantasy-xiii.net ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/07/final-fantasy-xiii-announcement-coming-november-13th/ According to Kotaku's Luke Plunkett, Nintendo's North American President and COO, Reggie Fils-Aime, wouldn't commit to a 2010 release of a new Zelda title during his recent Q&A session with GameTrailers TV host Geoff Keighley, stating: "We haven't committed to Zelda in 2010" I must admit, I watched the same video earlier ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/07/nintendo-non-commital-on-zelda-2010-release/ Tired of your unimpressive World of Warcraft pet collection? Would you rather die than be caught in Iron Forge with a run of the mill cat following your every move? Well if you answered yes, Blizzard has just the thing ... the World of Warcraft Pet Store! "Today we’re pleased to ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/07/blizzard-launches-world-of-warcraft-pet-store/ I haven't been following Avatar closely, outside of seeing a few movie trailers that didn't make a lasting impression on me, but today I came across the trailer for the game below (which just so happens to be the most recent one). My first impression of what I saw (considering ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/07/avatar-ignite-the-war-video-game-trailer/ Sega is offering early access to the Bayonetta demo to registered Sega Pass Members. Signing up for the Sega Pass is free and takes about 10 seconds (I did it while posting this). They have a limit of 40,000 codes and they will be given away on a first come first ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/07/bayonetta-early-demo-access-codes-fre-to-sega-pass-members/ The holiday season is closing in and that means the corporate figure heads we know and love are loosening their jaws to allow for some serious product pitching. Direct from the hefty predictions department come two haymakers. The first hails from the lips of Activision CEO, Bobby Kotick, and the second ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/06/reggie-new-super-mario-bros-will-absolutely-outsell-modern-warfare-2/ Every week, I research all the best new video game releases to find the one game you need to play and the one you need to stay away from: my Video Game Winners and Losers of the Week. Who will win this week? Dragon Age: Origins? Band Hero? ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/06/ripten-radio-video-game-winners-and-losers-111-117/ I'm about to head out the door to grab some dinner and maybe catch a movie, but before I go, I'd like to know what you all plan on playing this weekend? I'll be digging into Uncharted 2 and finally cracking open Batman: Arkham Asylum. You can find me on PSN ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/06/weekend-agenda-what-games-will-you-be-playing/ Our friend Sal over at Scrawl got his hands on some early scans of Shonen Jump (shown above). In addition to showcasing the Chocobo new look and giving us a glimpse at yet another summon, the magazine reveals that Japanese versions of Final Fantasy XIII will come with a beta ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/06/japanese-ffxiii-to-include-ffxiv-beta-codes-will-north-american-version-offer-do-the-same/ EA announced today that free trial access to their MMO Warhammer Online will be available to gamers on an unlimited basis. Jeff Hickman, the game's executive producer, states: "With the introduction of the endless free trial and streaming client, we are making it easier than ever for a new player to ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/06/unlimited-trial-play-warhammer-online-for-free-until-the-dwarfs-come-home/ Valve continues to show their love for the "it only does everything" PlayStation 3 console. The latest show of support comes from a CVG interview with Valve's writer extraordinaire, Chet Faliszek. "In hooking up with your friends and the community aspects, I think the Xbox 360 is head and shoulders above ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/06/valve%e2%80%99s-chet-faliszek-says-360-community-head-and-shoulders-above-ps3/ Activision's highly anticipated Modern Warfare 2 can already be found on a multitude of internet torrent sites (so I've been told), but the quick work of Dallas based IPCybercrime (hired by Activision) helped move one cyber-thief out of his spacious gadget filled hacker pad into something a little more "cozy". ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/06/been-caught-stealing-facebook-helps-put-modern-warfare-2-cyber-thieves-behind-bar/ Nintendo's President and Chief Operationg Officer in North America (better known as Reggie), firmly denied rumors of a Wii HD, telling GameTrailers TV: "I don't know how forcefully we can say there is no Wii HD." Well Reggie, you could pull the Wii HD out and beat people over the head with ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/06/nintendo-forcefully-denies-wii-hd-rumors/ Infinity Ward's decision to utilize Steamworks exclusively (it will handle updates, saves, achievements, etc) for the PC version of their Modern Warfare 2 title has IGN's Direct2Drive download service refusing to sell it. Valve's Steamworks platform is a direct competitor to IGN's Direct2Drive service, and considering the fact that you won't ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/06/digital-denial-direct2drive-refuses-to-distribute-modern-warfare-2/ The team at BioWare released a few new Mass Effect 2 screens for us to chew on over the weekend. How nice of them. Mass Effect 2 Image Gallery - Click Here To View http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/06/bioware-bunch-new-mass-effect-2-screens/ In a recent Twitter status update, Gears of War mastermind, Cliff Bleszinski, expressed his admiration for the new first person shooter based RPG "Borderlands". “Borderlands, I adore you. You’re Diablo for a generation raised on first person shooters. I want a Claptrap statue.” Interesting analogy. I guess that means Twitter is the ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/06/cliff-bleszinski-calls-borderlands-new-diablo/ The 2009 Today's Gamers Internation Survey tells us something that a lot of us could of guessed: most Americans love playing videogames more than anything else. According to the survey, 83% of the US citizens polled claimed that playing videogames was their number one past time, over watching the tube ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/06/americans-love-their-videogames/ The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York inducted the Nintendo Game Boy, created by the late Gunpei Yokoi, into the ranks of play time immortal. The "Toy Hall of Fame" is a distinguished and elite honor which includes other childhood favorites such as The Ball and Big ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/05/nintendo-game-boy-gets-inducted-into-national-toy-hall-of-fame/ The wrap up of a recent Square-Enix Financial meeting featured CEO Yoici Wadam assuring smooth development of the Western release, adding that there was a possibility the game could release globally before the end of the fiscal year. The Japanese fiscal year runs from April 1st to March 31st, so if ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/05/final-fantasy-xiii-march-2010-us-release-seems-possible-according-to-square-enix/ Short and sweet, the boycott laden announcement of Valve's Left 4 Dead 2 has made it's way through the shit storm of hate to amass a pre-order amount four times greater than that of the original. Setting aside the hurtful past, Valve's Chet Faliszek comments on the pre-order numbers ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/05/left-4-dead-2-pre-orders-four-times-original-remember-that-silly-sequal-boycott/ Oh the irony in life. A message board which states that it is powered by the Xbox 360 and Bungie serves as a home to several images featuring what the poster, "Tom Morello", claims to be leaked Halo: Reach in-game weapon screens. And now, the page scrolling list of leaked ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/05/halo-reach-weapon-images-leaked-on-mlg-forum-return-of-master-chief/ If you want your copy of Modern Warfare 2 as soon as possible, and live near one of these participating Best Buy locations in the United States, you can station your ass outside one of them on November 9th as the clock approaches midnight. Full press release below. Best Buy ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/05/best-buy-announces-nationwide-modern-warfare-2-midnight-release/ Fans of Activision's Action/RPG Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 will be happy to know that new DLC content is out today on both the Microsoft Xbox 360 and the Sony PlayStation 3. The download will unlock five new characters; Magneto, Carnage, Cable, Black Panther and Juggernaut (previously only available with pre-orders). ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/05/new-marvel-ultimate-alliance-2-dlc-available-now-includes-five-new-characters-and-civil-war-storyline/ Lace up your contractually obligated $200 dollar sneakers and hit the collegiate hardwood today ... assuming you're an Xbox LIVE gold member. EA Sports has just released a demo of NCAA Basketball 10 to Xbox LIVE gold members. Silver members will be able to try it out on the 12th ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/05/ncaa-basketball-10-demo-availble-now-to-xbox-live-gold-members/ Good Old Games, the best place for nostalgia-loving PC gamers, announced the arrival of some brand new old games to their ever-growing catalogue this week; Majesco Entertainment's Advent Rising and the highly acclaimed Psychonauts. To celebrate, we're giving 15 Ripten readers the chance to win the game of their choice ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/05/contest-win-the-game-of-your-choice-from-gog-com/ I'm not a trained killing machine, but if I was this trailer would definitly make me want to go out and find one terrorist after another and continuously shove each one of them up the others ass (kind of like those little stackable dolls) until there was only one heavily ... http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/05/modern-warfare-2-launch-trailer-features-eminem/ Infinity Ward released a fake PSA about grenade spammers (shown here) that closes with an offensive acronym. Fast forward to this weeks edition of Sessler's Soapbax as Adam Sessler shares his deep thoughts on the subject. http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/04/sesslers-soap-box-calls-out-infinity-ward-grenade-spam-psa/