Wow. This is a real thing. Amazon lists a Halo Covenant Titanium Color Energy Sword for $44, marked down from the list price of $99.99, sold by Top Swords. Hey, there’s only five left in stock — order soon! This is a real (not real) 27″ Energy Sword, Type-1, made of heat-treated stainless steel, giving fans their own IRL version of the much loved close-quarters meleeHaloweapon, complete with an ABS plastic handle....
A hot newLeft 4 Deadpremium themeis available, and you can buy it from your local UK newsagent! It comes wrapped in this weird thing called Official Xbox Magazine Issue 49, but you can throw that away and to get your hands on the theme, which has been designed by Valve itself. Not only does the theme look rather cool, it also casts an eerie green light on your friends list to make the Avatars of your chums look a little bit infected....
Unable to hold back their giddy excitement at unleashing what is almost certainly going to be hailed as the best game of ’08 (if not all time), Legacy Interactive has released a downloadable version of their PC simFarm Vet. I know what you’re saying to yourself right now, “I thoughtFarm Vetwas slated for release next month, no way they broke the release date on a game this amazing.” And hey, that’s a reasonable statement to make given the current state of gaming and near constant news of delays, but that’s just how Legacy Interactive rolls, with a singularly gangster aplomb....
Activision must be seeing some kind of meaningful return on theirLittle League World Series Baseballfranchise, because they’re continuing to crank out the games. Today, they announcedLittle League World Series Baseball 2010, due out this July. But whereas the past two games in the franchise released on the Wii, an appropriate home for the kid-friendly game, this year’s installment is coming out on the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 — and there’s no Wii version in sight....
Originally planned for 2009, then pushed back to the congested Q1 2010 slot, it looks like Activision’sSingularityis facing a third delay, with US retailer GameStop listing the first-person-shooter for June. Activision refuses to comment. GameStop is usually very reliable with its release dates, so a Summer launch forSingularitylooks likely. One could hardly blame Activision, either — it’s a brand new IP and likely to become overshadowed thanks to the big 2010 Q1 exodus that a bunch of games undertook last year....
Rhythm game fans were delighted to hear last month that Majesco isworking with the creative minds behind theParappa the Rapperfranchise to bring out a new Wii rhythm game. Today, Majesco has revealed that game to beMajor Minor’s Majestic March, which will be a marching band rhythm game: “There’s something magical about marching bands that truly captures the imagination. The concept of leading a virtual band that’s reliant on your musicianship is a perfect fit for the interactive capabilities of Wii,” said Gui Karyo, Executive Vice President of Operations, Majesco....
Microsoft iscurrently usingitsHalofranchise management team as a shining example of diversity in the workforce. This is part of The ‘Soft’s “You At Microsoft” recruitment campaign. After what must have been hours upon hours of searching, Microsoft managed to locate a woman that worked in the company, and she had this to say: “Game development is hard.” Keep rockin’ it, sister! If you want to work in a diverse environment, Microsoft and its women are the people to call....
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2DLC that mysteriously disappeared for no good reason has now made a return. The DLC pack features five playable characters — Magneto, Black Panther, Carnage, Psylocke, and Cable — along with new challenge missions. All of that for only 800 MS Points for Xbox 360 or $9.99 for PlayStation 3. (“Only”? Really?) You can also pick up Juggernaut as a playable character for 160 MS Points/$1.99. The content is available right now on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace, and “coming soon” to the PlayStation Network....
Remember thatMass Effect 2surprise teased over the weekend? It looks like that surprise has now been revealed, and well, we’re still reeling from the shocker. In a recentFacebook post, the person behind the official account revealed that theME2Web site has been revamped. Surprise! Now you — just like we did with mouths wide open and drool dripping from the corners of our full lips — can navigate theME2Web site with relative ease....
Metroid: Other Mcomes out in about 2 weeks. Excited? Scared? Both? Me too. These two videos have me feeling a little more secure about the game. Between the two of them, I think we get a good idea of whereOther M‘s priorities lie. The video above is an off-scree capture froman event in Australia, where audience members were presented with recap of theMetroid-story so far, narrated by Samus. I’m still hoping for aJapanese voice option, but still, I’m impressed with the level of care the game has for the series’s past....
If the state of Avatars in my Xbox Live Friends list is any indication, all my friends are apparently closet Master Chiefs, attendees of PAX 09, steam punk aficionados and Halo Waypoint award whores. Seriously, that floating ball thing is attached to almost every other person on that list. However, you may want to hold back buying anymore doodads for your little digital likeness, according to1UPthrough a recent Microsoft patent called “Avatar Individualized by Physical Characteristic....
[facepalm] Everythingis coming to the iPhone, isn’t it? And while some of it is good lately, I kind of wonder about aTime Crisisport. I mean, isn’t the charm to have a gun in your hand and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with your partner? Well, this time around, your “gun” is your finger. InTime Crisis Strike, you tap to fire. That mechanic worked fine forSilent Hill:The Escape, but somehow it seems less cool inTime Crisis....
It’s time for another Monthly Musings — the monthly community blog theme that provides readers with a chance to get their articles and discussions printed on the frontpage. Expanded universe novels. Television shows based off existing videogame franchises. Fan fiction. For better or worse, nerds, like no other social group, justloveto see more of their favorite places and characters than their source material allows. Film fans don’t yearn to watch a two-hour spinoff ofThe Godfatherfocusing solely on what Bonasera does before and after his “I believe in America” speech....
