Everyone loves actor Simon Pegg, so here’s good news: he’ll be lending his voice to Electronic Arts’ upcoming digital download title,Spare Parts.  Pegg will be voicing Con-rad, who will guide the mechanical duo of Mar-T and Chip in their efforts to repair their damaged ship. Stuck on a strange and hostile planet, the two will have to work together (with local or online co-op!) to make it off this mysterious rock alive....
Wishing for a little episodic horror in your life? Come July 24th, fire up your PS3, and the wait will be over. That’s the day thatSiren: Blood Cursemakes its debut in all its downloadable goodness — via PSN. Although I’d like to have the option of owning the Blu-ray Disc version, likeonlyJapan is getting, going for the episodic approach at £4.99 (about $10) per “chapter,” or £19.99 (around $40) for the whole shebang doesn’t sound half bad....
Tomorrow is Sonic the Hedgehog’s 20th anniversary, and SEGA is celebrating by releasing a demo forSonic Generations. You’ll get to have a crack at a “classic” platforming Sonic level and a “modern” level, all instunning 3Dfor those that have enabled televisions. Also announced for the PlayStation Network is a 20th Anniversary Bundle, which includesSonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2,Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1,Sonic Adventureand aSonic 4Dynamic Theme. The bundle will cost $19....
CNBC reporter Jane Wellswrote a piece yesterdaytitled “The Ultimate Proof Sony Is Winning”. Wow, that’s a pretty bold claim to declare someone is winning the console war this early on. So how does Jane know that Sony is winning? Has she been doing a ton of research? Has she been looking into the mind of Michael Patcher? Maybe she has a magical crystal ball! Actually, it’s none of that. She’s come to the conclusion that Sony is winning based on what her 16-year-old son has told her....
Who wants to launch pesky gaming software when you’re able to just get the job done in a browser? Electronic Arts understands where you’re coming from — you want to be able to create aSporecreature in the same place that you check your email and download your porn. Introducing theSpore Creature Creator 2D, a Flash-based application that features 250 some-odd body parts to design your own unique monster-pet-thing. The program offers the ability to start a creature from scratch, or import from the massive Sporepedia....
“As of right now I can sayBattlefront IIIis not currently at Pandemic,” wrote a Pandemic representative on the studio’sofficial message board. “While I know the title seems to be up in the air from all the buzz around the web… Lucas Arts will be the only one knowing where the title is at right now.” For weeks, we charted the imaginary hand changing of Free Radical’sStar Wars Battlefront III. Originally, we believed that it was in the hands ofRebellion, the developer responsible for the PlayStation Portable versions ofBattlefront....
Pfft. What do creative consultants — working on an MMO’s story, no less — really know about their projects anyway? Recently we reported thatStargate World’soutlook was grim, which is understandable assessment. Cheyenne Mountain are seemingly in dire financial straights and Brad Wright, the MMO’s creative consultant, thinks the game is toast. But not so fast.Big Downloadreceived a hopeful statement from Cheyenne Mountain’s senior marketing manager, Kevin Balentine that includes the phrase “the lights here are still on....
This first trailer for indie gameStormshows off the Spring season, in what looks to be a very calming puzzle game. Using three main elements — rain, wind, and lightning — and four ‘secondary’ elements, you have to guide up a seed to its destination to let it instantly grow into a tree. It looks really good already, although I’d like to see more to be convinced that it won’t have the same type of puzzle gameplay over and over again throughout the game’s 49 levels....
Like frightened doves released from captivity onto a movie set,the promisedStrangleholddownloadable map pack should be available now for the Xbox 360. The pack contains 10 additional multiplayer maps, which range from the Kowloon Market to the Rooftops of Chicago. Additionally, 21 multiplayer character skins are included. Achievement junkies who might have put the game back on the shelf months ago might want to pop it in and pick up the expansion — it includes 10 new achievements, for a total of 250 additional achievement points....
In an interview with Gamasutra, Kevin Tancharoen shares that theoriginal Mortal Kombat: Rebirth videogot published publicly on Youtube by accident. He had hoped to use the short film to lobby Warner Bros. to sign him on for a new movie: “It was still in its rough phase, but I couldn’t send a 2GB file over email, so my friend said I could create a private page on YouTube and sent it to him to review....
Tecmo has just dropped the newest promotional trailer for their upcoming DS RPGWind of Nostalgio(Nostalgio no Kazein Japanese) on their Japanese Web page. If you haven’t already hit play yet: get ready for RPG lust. This game, a collaboration between Tecmo, Red Entertainment and Matrix, the makers of your belovedFinal Fantasy IVDS port, looks like an epic RPG clusterfck. Staff members that made hits likeGrandia, Fatal Frame, andSakura Taisenare all working on this....
While most of you know Koei for its repetitive button-mashers, only a few of you might be aware that the company also has a range of incredibly solid and interesting strategy games in its library. Franchises likeNobunaga’s Ambition,Dynasty Tactics,Romance of the Three KingdomsandKessenare all from Koei, andBladestorm: The Hundred Years Warlooks set to follow in the tradition of the latter with its emphasis on full-scale medieval war action.I always view a new IP from Koei with a keen eye and it seems thatBladestormwill certainly be better thanFatal Intertiawas....
At a conference held by Team ICO which Dale North has described as having, “all of Europe and North America inside,” Fumito Ueda has given new details on the upcoming re-releases ofShadow of the ColossusandICO. In addition to the visuals being upgraded to high-definition, the games will offer 3D support. ICOis getting a bunch of additional love in the package. The version ofICOincluded in the collection is the European release, which features content previously unavailable in North America....
