Archive for March, 2009
Noby Noby Boy eats its way from PS3 to iPhone and iPod Touch
The iPhone and iPod Touch continues to make inroads into hardcore gaming as the creator of Katamari Damacy, Keita Takahashi, announced that the unexplainable PS3 game Noby Noby Boy is heading to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Details on the title weren’t released but they did show gameplay footage in which players will use their…
Mega Man 2 now available on iPhone and iPod Touch
Mega Man 2, the classic NES Capcom platform shooter, is now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch at a price of $5. The game comes in at 13.2 MB which means you won’t be able to download it if you are using a 3G or Edge. The game is pretty much a straight port…
Shooter videogames improve vision, shows new study
Action video games, specifically shooters, can improve your vision according to an new study. In the study, 22 students were divided into two groups. One group played Unreal Tournament 2004 and Call of Duty 2 (why not World at War or 4? The world may never know) while the other played The Sims 2. The…
First Mass Effect 2 Alpha gameplay videos
The first Mass Effect 2 gameplay footage has been revealed from GDC 2009. It was shown during the “Iterative Level Design Process of Bioware’s Mass Effect 2″ panel where they detailed how the company goes about designing levels for an open-ended RPG such as Mass Effect 2 and what the process is. The videos include…
Dante’s Inferno animated movie and game to launch in 2010. Film also in the works
Electronic Arts is planning to make not only an M-rated Dante’s Inferno direct-to-DVD animated feature, but also a big budget live-action film (at least, it’s assumed it’ll be live-action) which will expand on their new intellectual properties beyond the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC videogame which will be released in 2010 (created by EA…
First Bad Company 2 trailer
GameTrailers got the world exclusive teaser trailer reveal for EA’s upcoming Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. Very heavy on style, very light (almost non-existent) on substance, the trailers shows pretty much what you’d expect from a teaser trailer to an upcoming shooter. Blood, bodies getting shot and . ….
First Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time trailer
The first trailer for Ratchet & Clank: A Crack In Time on PS3 has been released. Sadly there is no gameplay footage shown but the trailer is very cool and dramatic. As the title suggests, it seems that this game’s main theme will be time and the manipulation of it. Although specific details on exactly…
New video game releases week 13, 2009
Here’s a list of this weeks game releases. The most popular title is Guitar Hero: Metallica on Xbox 360, PS3 & Wii. On the downloadable games front we’ve got today’s Wii Shop titles Bonsai Barber and Super Punch-Out!!, as well as Burn Zombie Burn on PlayStation Network (Tuesday), The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai on Xbox Live…
Dead Rising 2 gets multiplayer modes and zombie hordes 6000 strong
Dead Rising 2 news was sparse at GDC 2009, a place that does not usually release news in the traditional sense. However it does get leaked and sometimes revealed in the various panel discussions that go on throughout the Game Developers Conference. And it was no different this year with Dead Rising 2. Speaking about…
Uncharted 2 gameplay footage leaked from GDC09
Uncharted 2 gameplay footage was also leaked at the Game Developer’s Conference 2009. As with the God of War 3 gameplay video the Uncharted 2 footage was not supposed to be seen by any eyes that were not in attendance at GDC ’09. But being the world we live in today, it is now possible….
God Of War III gameplay footage leaked from GDC09
God of War III gameplay footage has been leaked from the Game Developer’s Conference 2009 where the game was showed off in playable form. However, the rules stated that although the game was fine to be played, it was NOT ALLOWED to be filmed. Somebody broke the rules. And youtube was complacent in the shenanigans….
Why World of Warcraft is not released on Xbox 360 or PS3
World of Warcraft for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3? Not bloody likely says Blizzard’s vice-president of game design, Rob Pardo. Although it would seem to counter-productive to not release the best-selling MMO for this generation’s current consoles, Pardo says that the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 simply are not built to support the kind of…
Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena downloadable content starts with map pack
As seems to be the norm nowadays, even though The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena has yet to be released, downloadable content is already being worked on for the upcoming title. The new Riddick game will include a multiplayer mode that was originally supposed to be in the first game. The multiplayer will…
Max Payne 1 and 2 coming to Xbox Originals soon
The American videogame rating board ESRB has listed both the first Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne for Xbox 360. Making an Xbox Originals appearance likely very soon. This is good news for fans of third-person shooters, as the Max Payne series was highly rated in the genre on the…
On the Wii Shop today: Super Punch-Out and Bonsai Barber
Today Nintendo adds new/classic games to the popular Wii Shop Channel. The games go live at 9AM Pacific time. Wii owners with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel or at stores like Amazon (see Card above). We’ve included videos…













