Archive for January, 2009
New Final Fantasy 13 trailer shows first in-game real-time footage!
Square Enix has released an all-new trailer for Final Fantasy 13 and man is it a doozie! The trailer clocks in at nearly three minutes and shows a ton of all new footage both in-game and CG. I must say that the game looks drop-dead gorgeous. I also like the new characters from what I’ve…
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers resurfaces with new Wii trailer
The thought-to-be-cancelled Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers for Wii has resurfaced in an all-new trailer that shows lots of gameplay footage. The trailer was released via the just released (in Japan) Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time (for Wii and DS) and included on the disc is this new trailer for Chrystal…
Resident Evil 5 coming to PC in late 2009
Capcom’s upcoming mega-hit Resident Evil 5 (which is scheduled for release on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on March 13th) will also be coming to PC in late 2009 according to GamersHell who discovered via a youtube video that CD Projekt will be publishing the PC version of the game. Mr. Jerzy Cichocki from CD…
Halo Wars downloadable content being looked into by Ensemble
Ensemble’s upcoming Halo Wars real-time-strategy title doesn’t even release until March 3rd in the U.S., but already Ensemble is dreaming up ways on how they are going to add Downloadable Content (DLC) to the title and working out all the details internally on how that will work. Or at least, that’s what seems to be…
Banjo-Tooie release date on Xbox Live Arcade on April 29, 2009
Banjo fans are in for a treat when Banjo-Tooie will release to Xbox Live Arcade this April the 29th, 2009. The game follows the release of the original Banjo-Kazooie on Xbox Live Arcade which was released on December 3rd, 2008 at a price point of 1,200 Microsoft Points ($15), so you can probably expect Banjo-Tooie…
Fallout 3 Operation: Anchorage DLC out now for Xbox 360 and PC
Bethesda has released the first Downloadable Content update for Fallout 3 called Operation: Anchorage. The update is available now for purchase on both Xbox Live and Games for Windows – Live at a cost of 800 Microsoft Points. Operation: Anchorage focuses on a pivotal event in the Fallout timeline before the Great War took place,…
Mother 3 aka Earthbound 2 on DS? Co-developer Brownie Brown’s interested
One of the most outrageous things Nintendo has ever done in their history is refuse to re-release the extremely popular EarthBound games in the West. Known as Mother in Japan, the series is made up of the original Mother for NES (a game that was never released outside Japan even though a port of the…
Pole’s Big Adventure is Sega’s new WiiWare title revolving around 8-bit satire
Japanese magazine Famitsu has revealed Sega’s upcoming WiiWare platformer “Pole’s Big Adventure”. The game is a satirical look at the classic video game platformer with lots of crude humor, in-jokes and 100 hidden gags that are a throwback to everything you know and love from your gaming childhood, although most of the game seems to…
H.A.W.X., Tenchu 4, EndWar PC all due March 2009. More on the way from Ubisoft
Ubisoft has announced most of its release list for the first half of the year with a large swath of high-profile Ubisoft games hitting in March. According to Shacknews they’ll be releasing the flight combat title Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, the PC version of Tom Clancy’s EndWar and the Wii-exclusive…
Why there’s no photography in Dead Rising Wii. Rejected pun titles listed
Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop is a Wii version of the hit Xbox 360 zombie-killing-spree action game released by Capcom. The game is scheduled for release on February 24th. Although the game will be an enhanced version of the Xbox 360 game with new Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition-style controls, an over-the-shoulder camera, motion…
Too Human 2 and 3 in danger with Microsoft facing less global demand?
According to a Spaceworks‘ mocap studio, edit suites animation and production facilities profile, Microsoft hired them as part of the huge 80 million dollar budget for the Too Human video game trilogy. Microsoft obviously bet big on the first title and the question is if the 560,000 copies sold worldwide in 2008 are enough to…
On Xbox Live Arcade today: FunTown Mahjong
From today, at 9AM GMT (2AM PDT), you can play Microsoft’s FunTown Mahjong on Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360. FunTown Mahjong will be available worldwide (except for Korea) for 800 Microsoft Points (that’s US$10 / €9.60 / £6.80 / CAN$12.40 / AU$13.20). Get FunTown Mahjong to play a traditional Chinese tile game! Compete against…













