Sony has just released a new trailer forMLB 11 The Show, and this one features Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer, who is on the cover of the game for the second year in a row. I wasn’t aware that Mauer’s performance against my favorite baseball team had earned him the name “Yankee Killer,” but apparently, that’s what SCE San Diego has dubbed him. In the two-minute clip, Mauer drills an 0-2 C....
This demo will let you test drive two full tracks from the game as well as test out the track creation tools.
You know how it works! With the help of each other, attempt to figure out all of the disguised game covers. They all share a common theme that, once solved, can help you figure out the harder ones. Last weekI stumped you guys again! Hard #1 is still unsolved if you want to go back and finish it off —keep in mind that if there’s more than six images in the gallery, not all of them will be displayed on the homepage....
iPad. It’s all you’ll hear about today, so get used to it. You’ll either hear some hype, or you’ll hear from those odd people that feel compelled to hate on a piece of machinery. If you’re…you know, not hating, then maybe you’ll be interested to hear that Namco has three iPad titles lined up for tomorrow’s launch. There’s an iPad version ofNoby Noby Boy, which Ireviewed last month on the iPhone....
After the dust settled fromGrand Theft Auto IV‘s release, thoughts quickly turned to when the inevitable sequel would be set and where. I know I was keen to see a return to the crime-riddled Vice City, a sunny Florida location where Tommy Vercetti established his crime empire in the 1980s. Well, a bunch of enterprising modders are planning a Christmas 2011 release forVice City Rage, a project that will putGTA: Vice Cityand most of its original assets intoGTA IV‘s engine....
Anybody who knows me will understand my love of skellingtons, and so they’ll know I’m now double eager to playThe Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings. It features some truly badass skellingtons, son. Seriously, I’m really keen to get my hands on this one. I lovedThe Witcherin spirit, but found it had a lot of flaws that kept me from bothering to finish the game. Second chances are always good, and it seems that the chaps at CD Projekt are grabbing the opportunity with both hands....
“When’s it coming out?” “Which platform will it be on?!” Woah, woah! Slow down! Unfortunately, as it is with a lot of Square titles, we don’t have the answers to those questions. What wedoknow is that the nextKingdom Heartstitle will soon be announced by Square Enix. So, yeah … they announced that they’re going to announce it. Talk about overhyping a product. Here’s the usual quote, this time fromSpiras Destiny:...
It looks like 2009 was not such a great year for Japanese developer Nippon Ichi (NIS). With a loss of299 million yen ($3.33 million) for the fiscal year the company is looking toturn their ship around(gohereif you can read Japanese) into the waters of profitability. As with many companies these days who are feeling the pinch, this means a bit of streamlining is going to be done. NIS is saying that they will be cutting out most of their externally developed games, as they believe they are one of the main causes of their massive loss....
Really? Are people really surprised by this? Thestory goesthat Reuters of all places has “let slip” the fact that Visceral’sDead Space 2is going to be released next year. EA has never officially confirmed the game, but we all knew it was coming, and I think very few people didn’t expect to see it next year. In any case, the relatively decent sci-fi shooter has been “confirmed” thusly: “Electronic Arts has a pair of horror offerings for gamers....
If you counted yourself among the many that were looking forward to seeing voice chat make an appearance inSuper Smash Bros. Brawlfor the Wii, your hopes have just been dashed. Speaking withIGN, Masahiro Sakurai let the bad news slip: “Well, when I first started makingSmash Bros. Brawl, I thought it would be wonderful if online battles between friends had voice chat and potentially keyboard based chat as well. But there are all sorts of rules and regulations regarding communication on the Wii platform and so it was apparent to me that it just wouldn’t come together, we weren’t going to be able to do it, so we decided to cancel that feature....
In a lot of ways, it’s kind of strange that Riskwasn’t brought to Xbox LIVE Arcade in the early days of the service. I mean, a popular board game with seemingly low production costs that would likely go on to be highly profitable — why the hell not? But that’s nothing; the fact thatRISK: Factionsis now happening, and its got a faction of war cats … yeah, this situation has now shot straight off the WTF charts....
Bitmob did a interviewwith Lorne Lanning, the father of theOddworldfranchise, where he revealed some exciting stuff forOddworldfans. Numerous things were discussed in the interview, but the most interesting bit of news is that theOddworldfranchise will be hitting the PlayStation Network and Steam soon. First up,Oddworld: Abe’s OddyseeandOddworld: Abe’s Exoddusare getting re-released on to the PSN. Lorne actually just signed the contract this past week to get these games on the network and we can expect them pretty soon....
[It’s time for anotherMonthly Musing— the monthly community blog theme that provides readers with a chance to get their articles and discussions printed on the frontpage. — CTZ] “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far....
