Hell if I can find an arcade around where I live, so this is great news: Namco has released a free iPad demo version of its upcoming multiplayer-focusedPac-Man Battle Royalecoin-op game. Tha game plays a bit likePac-Man Championship Edition, at least in layout, with the maze altering as pellets are eaten. The catch is here it’s Pac-Man vs. Pac-Man for up to four players; each a Power Pellet, gobble other Pac-Men, win....
PsychonautsandBrütal Legenddesigner Tim Schafer has said that thebiggest barrierbetween fresh audiences and videogames is a lack of varied subject matter. Stating that games need to get beyond just a handful of basic genres, the respected game creator posits that the industry has a long way to go if the mainstream will embrace the medium. “I think it’s a subject matter barrier. Not everybody wants to get into these super violent worlds and yet here I am making a game about broad axes and decapitation,” he explains....
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Sony is a huge company, and they have plenty of products from their games, electronics, music, and movies divisions that they’d like to pitch to us, but they’ll also be working with outside companies to sell virtual ad space. This new unit will be headed up by Darlene Kindler, who was formerly employed by Irem, Data East, 3dfx Interactive and even Nintendo. Kindler will also be the go-to person that third-party publishers and other external companies would contact to get their ads in Sony’s products....
Sony bossface Kaz Hirai has stated that the PlayStation 3 will top 13 million sales in 2010, helped along by a bevy of new features. He believes that the target will be met before the financial year is over in March. Next year will see Sony jump on the whole “it only does everything” tag, as it plans to distribute content over net-work capable TVs, Blu-ray players and, of course, the PS3 itself....
It was supposed to his shelves this week, but Ubisoft’sSplinter Cell Trilogyfor PlayStation 3 has been pushed back to June 21,IGNreports. The collection will feature high-definition updates ofSplinter Cell,Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, andSplinter Cell: Chaos Theory. The collection will also be available as a digital download through the PlayStation Network. Ubisoft gave no reason for the delay, but this isn’t that big of a deal. Sam Fisher is noDuke Nukem, right?...
Final Fantasy XI could have been even more multiplatform than it is now, but it turns out that some dude at Sony quit. That dude was Square Enix’s contact for the deal. I know it sounds like a crap excuse, but that’s how Square Enix laid it out to1UP. “Initially we were in talks with a representative from Sony [to achieve this], but it appears that that person quit,” said FFXI producer Hiromichi Tanaka, inducing laughter from the rest of the team....
Freaky first-person-brawlerZeno Clashis eagerly anticipated by many here at Destructoid, and developer ACE Team has sent a Web comic along to whet our appetites. The comic, created to celebrate the IGF awards whereZeno Clashwas nominated for “Excellence in Visual Art,” teases a little of the storyline, as the presumed sister of the game’s protaganist hires a blind hunter to track him down. It doesn’t give too much away, but it sets the scene....
Are you fapping under your covers at night at the thought of upcoming MMOStar Trek Online? Aftermy visit to Perpetual Entertainmentduring GDC this year, I can’t say I haven’t had a little private bath time myself over whatStar Trek Onlinecould become. Thankfully, I have a new tidbit here that you can work yourself up over. Star Trek-Online.netlaunched their offical podcast (called STOcast) today on the development of the game, giving those fans waiting with bated breath something to talk about....
Massive savings can be found at GameStop from now until August 2 both in store and online. A big group of games, including the console versions ofStreet Fighter IV, have been given atemporary price dropand are now only $19.99: It’s crazy to think that I haven’t played most of these games, and I cannot tell you how hard it is not to give in and spend a hundred bucks right now....
Michigan: Report from Hellmay have had one of the worst titles for a videogame ever (especially considering the fact that it took place in Chicago and around Lake Michigan, not actually in the state of Michigan), but that doesn’t mean that the Grasshopper Manufacture developed game wasn’t up to par in the interesting category. In the game players took on the role of a cameraman covering different paranormal stories, and basically had to beat each level before running out of tape....
Hey look, it’s a bunch of media forSuper Street Fighter IVyou’ve already seen! Deal with it. New screens, new artwork and the new teaser trailer all await your brains pleasure zone. T. Hawk is so overrated and Juri is a cutie. She’s also a lesbian and that makes her somehow hotter. No, really,she is. While the media is a day old (which is the equivalent of two years on the Internet), we do also have someshaky cam footageof Juri and T....
Unsurprisingly,Duke Nukem Foreveris a commercial success in spite of being a creative dog. Even less surprisingly, Take-Two is going to capitalize on that by giving the world more Duke. He is more certainly back. “Part of it is the economic opportunities that interact with entertainment are so huge,” said CEO Strauss Zelnick. “Part of it is that we are very creative folks in control. Part of it is we don’t want to ever be in the position of dumping something down just to make another buck....
