Archive for August, 2010
New James Bond: Blood Stone trailer shows off fantastic Istanbul and melee footage
James Bond: Blood Stone is shaping up to be the best Bond game in years, if this new trailer is anything to go by. The trailer shows off a lot of gameplay footage and cutscene footage from the upcoming title, which stars Daniel Craig as Bond, features GoldenEye 007 movie scriptwriter Bruce Feirstein who wrote…
Ace Combat: Joint Assault release date is August 31, 2010 (PSP). Go behind the scenes in developer diary
Namco Bandai has released a developer diary for Ace Combat: Joint Assault, the upcoming PSP title in the jet-fighter sim series, that gives you a look behind-the-scenes. Pilot over 40 fully licensed aircraft and control the skies in Ace Combat: Joint Assault. The second game in the franchise made for PSP, Joint Assault goes full…
Neverwinter Dungeons and Dragons co-op RPG announced for PC
Dungeons & Dragons: Neverwinter has been announced by developer Crytic Studios (City of Heroes, City of Villains, Champions Online, Star Trek Online) and publisher Atari. Neverwinter is a new online roleplaying game (but NOT an MMO) based on Wizards of the Coast’s global property Dungeons & Dragons and the beloved city of Neverwinter. Once a…
Deathspank 2: Thongs of Virtue releases September 21st on PSN and XBLA (22nd)
Deathspank 2 was in development alongside the long-in-development first game, and will be gracing our TV screens soon! Developer Hothead Studios announced that Deathspank: Thongs of Virtue will be released on September 21st for PSN and September 22nd on Xbox Live Arcade. The game promises to be a much longer adventure than the first game…
Crackdown 2 Toy Box DLC adds free and premium content
Crackdown 2 will be getting some free and some paid downloadable content announced Microsoft and developer Ruffian Games. The new “Toy Box” is the first Game Add-On pack for the title and will offer free content, as well as “Premium” content that you have to pay for (natch). Here is what you will get for…
Kinect will extend the lifecycle of the Xbox 360 five more years, says Microsoft
The Kinect, Xbox 360′s motion sensing camera peripheral which allows for “hands-free” gaming using your body, will extend the lifecycle of the Xbox 360 to 10 years. So says Microsoft. “Kinect really gives us, I think, a very genuine additional five years,” stated Chris Lewis, Vice President of Interactive Entertainment at Microsoft Europe. “What Kinect…
Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 DLC The Sacrifice expansion lets you choose who will die
The Sacrifice is a new expansion that works for both Left 4 Dead 1 and Left 4 Dead 2 announced developer and publisher Valve. The big focus of this new expansion, which will be released this October, is on showing the perspective of L4D2′s “The Passing” expansion but from the vantage point of the cast…
Mortal Kombat 2011 DLC may be offered for free. Software hooks allow post-release tweaking says Ed Boon. May come to PC
The upcoming Mortal Kombat PS3 and Xbox 360 title is being billed as a complete rebirthing of the franchise, which will take the bloody fighting series back to it’s side-scrolling roots. So far, the game looks incredible. And MK co-creator Ed Boon seems like he is set to make this the best MK game of…
Gaming as a means to survive highlighted in TED lecture by game designer and futurist Jane McGonigal
There have been a ton of interesting lectures at the 2010 TED (Technology Entertainment Design) conference, including a Live Milo demo from Peter Molyneux at TED that showed the huge Kinect interface potential. One of them is by game designer and futurist Jane McGonigal, who talked about “Gaming to Survive” in her lecture. You can…
Saw 2: Flesh and Blood videogame release date is October 19, 2010 (Xbox 360, PS3)
Saw 2: Flesh and Blood will be released on October 19th in America and on November 26th in Europe for Xbox 360 and PS3. It comes just in time for the release of Saw VII 3D, the seventh installment of the popular horror franchise from Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures. And reportedly the final, final, FINAL…
Doctor Who: Return to Earth announced for Wii. Doctor Who: Evacuation Earth announced for DS
Publisher and developer Asylum Entertainment, announced two separate Doctor Who videogames are in the works for Wii and DS. They are titled Doctor Who: Return to Earth on Wii and Doctor Who: Evacuation Earth for DS. Expect the games to use “a remote control unit and stylus shaped like a sonic screwdriver” to control the…
Will the real King Bowser please stand up? Extinct giant turtle bones found. King Koopa was real!
It looks like Super Mario Bros. gave us all a lesson in biology. How’s that you say? Because they found King Koopa! FIRST! A new discovery as reported in the August 16th issue of “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” (I assume it’s a magazine/report/thingy anyhow) shows the remains of an extinct GIANT Turtle….
NHL 2K11 video feature about 1-on-1 controls and WiiMotionPlus
NHL 2K11 has just been released exclusively for the Wii. 2K Sports promises as much 1-to-1 control as they could offer. This in order to make the hockey game feel like your stick in real life, at least to an extent. New and improved controls for NHL 2K11 Wii with the WiiMotionPlus showed to you…
Cowabunga! Do you want a TMNT game from the Batman team? I do! 
I woke up thinking about playing Dance Central. I just want to dance. I just want to dance my life away.
