Xbox 360: Now with less fail!

We’ve become used to Xbox 360 system failure as much as we we have to broken chips in the bottom of the Doritos bag. It’s a shame that the system with so much great game content has so many reliability issues. Now Bill Gates says that they aim to have ” the most reliable video game box out there.” Video Game box? We’ve got incredible reliability on the new work we’ve done…Our commitment is that it will be the most reliable video game box out there....

July 15, 2025 · 1 min · 149 words · Thomas Ross

You really should look at these Batman: Arkham Asylum screenshots

I don’t think excitement around any videogame based on a comic book has ever been as high as it is forBatman: Arkham Asylum. Why? BecauseBatman: Arkham Asylumlooksreally, really freakin’ cool. If the trailermoved too fast for your brain to process, maybe these screens will do it for you. To call this game “dark” is understatement, and I don’t think fans of the series could ask for anything more. It’s also interesting to note that everyone in this game (except the Joker) is ripped....

July 15, 2025 · 1 min · 167 words · Joseph Sullivan

5th Cell’s new game? Scribblenauts!

Earlier in the week, 5th Cell teased that a new game was in the works. As a huge fan ofLock’s Quest, I was certainly intrigued, and now I bring you word that, via anIGN interview, the company has made its revelation —Scribblenauts! Wait, what? Let 5th Cell explain the concept of this DS title to you: WhatScribblenautsis about in a nutshell is basically “Anything you write, you’re able to use....

July 14, 2025 · 2 min · 308 words · Shelly Wood

A2M’s Rango: The Video Game coming in 2011

It wasleaked earlier thisyear, but now it’s confirmed: Artificial Mind & Movement are developing a game based on the upcoming film,Rango. It’s calledRango: The Video Game(shocking), and will be published by Paramount Digital Entertainment and distributed by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, and Nintendo DS. Inspired by the upcoming film (which features the voice of Johnny Depp), the game takes place in an Old West town called “Dirt, where players rob through a gritty, pint-sized Wild West filled with wild rides, off-color characters and frantic shoot-outs....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 141 words · Christopher Little

Aliens: Colonial Marines not dead, details coming soon?

I recently just watchedAlien vs. Predatorfor the first time and now I need a solidAliensvideogame to help wipe the taste of bullsh*t from my mouth. As a lifelong Xenomorph fan, the wait for Sega’sAliens: Colonial Marinesis proving frustratingly difficult, not least because its very existence keeps seeming to hang in the balance. Once again, we’ve beengiven evidenceto show that it’s not dead yet, with UK gaming magazinePowerStationteasing detailsin next month’s issue....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 182 words · Rachel Spencer

All of Xbox LIVE Marketplace’s freebies listed

In this day of $60 games and $600 consoles, no one can fault the penny pinching gamer. Hell, controllersstartat $40 for this generation of consoles, and don’t get me started on batteries! When it comes to free things, some of us feel the need to stock up to take some of the sting away from our recently bruised pocketbooks. The fine folks atXbox 360 Rallyhave compiled a list of every free download, game, picture, or anything else you can pull down from the Xbox Live Marketplace without having to pay, save for the game demos, which are obviously free....

July 14, 2025 · 7 min · 1324 words · Cody Powell

Atlus releases secret demon passwords for Strange Journey

Atlus sent out four Demon Passwords for DS role-playing gameShin Megami Tensei: Strange Journeytoday. We wanted to make sure you didn’t miss them, especially if you’re hurting for demons in the game. Simply type in these passwords (case sensitive, watch out!) in your demon registry and then summon them up into your party. Here’s the four they sent out today: Atlus says that they’ll put out more demon codes soon, and not all from the same location....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 115 words · Erica Stein

BBC continues to attack Sony for PS3 hardware failures

The big drama yesterday came in the form ofserious accusations leveled at Sony and the PS3by the BBC. The British Broadcasting Corporation aired an edition of its consumer complaints show,Watchdog, that featured the so-called “Yellow Light of Death,” a PS3 hardware failure that has apparently affected “thousands and thousands” of PS3s. Today, the BBC has pushed the issue witha new articleposted on its Web site, refuting Sony’s six-page complaint letter and continuing to twist the knife with its allegations....

July 14, 2025 · 2 min · 299 words · Karina Oconnor

Book review: Udon’s Art of Capcom 2

For a long time, American comic books consistently butchered the works of Japanese game developers with hackneyed, half-hearted game-to-comic adaptations. I still remember the pain I felt after buyingMalibu’sStreet Fightercomic all those years ago. I think I actually said “YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP!” to myself as I read through it. Everything that I loved aboutStreet Fighterwas either badly mangled or removed completely, all in favor of a story and an art style that seemed to spit in the face of everything that madeStreet Fighterso special....

July 14, 2025 · 6 min · 1153 words · Erin Lopez

Carbine Studios and NCsoft announce WildStar

The massively multiplayer online game that Carbine Studios and NCsofthave been teasingthese past few weeks was unveiled at gamescom. And we have a bunch of images to prove it! It’s calledWildStar. Set on the good old “edge of known space,” you’ll play as explorers, soldiers, scientists, or settlers trying to make sense of a curious planet. The promise here is “content, challenges, and rewards” based on your style of play, which I’m sure we’ll be hearing more about in the coming months....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 100 words · Antonio Parsons

Carnage vs. Friday the 13th vs. Dead Consoles

Many years ago, I was shopping at a very exclusive flea market in upper Miami when lo and behold the most beautiful ouija board caught my eye. I’ve held on to this ouija board for 20 years! It has remained untouched … until tonight. This being most magical night of the year because it’s Friday the 13th, the nightSlaughter Housewas born. I’ve always pondered what become of peoples’ old, discarded consoles, so tonight I am going to conjure their lost souls!...

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 127 words · Lisa Smith

CES 2010: Ron Jeremy says games are worse than porn

Notorious porn star Ron Jeremy let himself down when trying to defend his industry at a CES panel. When deflecting attacks from an anti-porn activist, the adult entertainment star chosenotto stand up for pornography on its own merits, but tried to deflect the argument onto a scapegoat, claiming videogames were worse. “[Studies have] found that violent video games are much bigger a negative influence on kids,” claims the man known as The Hegehog....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 159 words · Tammy Wyatt

Check out Shogun 2’s multiplayer options, awesome hats

War is hell. Hell is other people. So what better kind of hell is there than war with other people? That’s like, hellsquared. Turns outShogun 2knows this, which is why The Creative Assembly have beefed up the game’s multiplayer options, as evidenced by this new multiplayer trailer. Would-be unifiers of Glorious Nippon can take to the real-time battlefield in matches involving up to eight armies, as well as a full-sized cooperative campaign (the turn-based kind, with cities and taxes and that sort of thing,like I previewed)....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 185 words · Margaret Cobb