Shinrei Shashin, orSpirit Photo, was revealed in the latest issue of Famitsu, though no release date was given. The Fatal Frame team is working on this 3DS title that uses the system’s camera in the Ghost Camera mode to take your “spirit picture” and pit it against other spirits (other people’s faces). Strange. Strange and not scary. Other modes include the story mode, where you’ll work with a girl brought into the real world....
Admidst a flurry of announcements at today’s QuakeCon, id software revealed their brand-new IP,Rage. Apparently the game is set to be a departure of sorts from their previous work, in that driving features heavily, and blowing stuff up is almost a secondary objective. With the lack of cybernetic, psuedo-religious ultra-violence, willRagestill captivate asDOOMandQUAKEhave in the past? Whatever the end result, the tech — id’s brand-new id Tech 5 Engine — behind this thing looks sexier than Jesus sodomizing a Large Hadron Collider....
David Jaffe’s blogJaffe’s Game Designis always an entertaining read, but the responses to a recent post should prove to beveryentertaining in the coming days. After that, we expect a steady decline in response post quality. You see, Jaffe ran a instant message log from a conversation between Adam Orth (a game designer who worked onTwisted Metal:Black, Calling All Cars, and some of theMedal of Honorgames) and himself. And yes, in that conversation, Orth said “f**k Halo....
If you squint hard enough, you might mistake this game for a futuristicResident Evilgame, but it’s actually just a tech demo developed by Emergent Technologies, as one of the Editors fromSiliconerafound out. As the screen suggests,Forbidden Terror(as it is called) is your typical zombie shooter with a twist: players share a single life bar, and the undead have a penchant for keeping their internal organs, well… internal. While reloading his gun in between zombie killing, Spencer noticed that those brain-eaters were stopping to tuck their intestines back in — an amusing touch, he commented....
It’s another month and time for another update on the Forums. The biggest thing that happened is the creation of a new section of the Forums. Inspired by the mighty Dyson of RetroforceGO! fame, we created the“Trade yo games!”trading section of the Forums. It all started with a thread that Dyson began in the RetroforceGO! forum, titled “RetroforceGO!’s Great Game Trading Thread of Justice!!” and we took that and ran with it....
Today’s freebie is quite a highly rated one, and with good reason. With rather high production values, a cute main character, and solid “runner” style gameplay,Hellkid: Hook & Jumpis a very worthwhile addition to your iTunes game library. It’s a very simple game. Hellkid runs of his own accord, and it’s up to you to jump by tapping the screen. Keeping your finger held will extend Hellkid’s arm to grab things that can be swung from....
As if you couldn’t tell from the name,Ragnarok Violetis a roleplaying game with a distinctly Eastern influence. It takes the form of several existing hack n’ slash mobile titles, such asZenonia, and it’s totally free. The game’s a spin-off of the popular MMORagnarok Online, but whether you’re a fan or not, it’s a solid little title that’s worth the short download time. Check it out if you want. Or, conversely, don’t....
I don’t really have much for you other than this free wallpaper fromSuper Scribblenauts. Of course, this is the follow-up toScribblenauts, and it’s coming to the DS and DSi in October. 5TH Cell has added new gameplay mechanics and upgraded controls to the mix. From what they say you can go nuts combining descriptors to create new items and whacked out situations. Somehow this free wallpaper is supposed to inspire that kind of creativity....
Hey, bunnies of the world. Today is Easter, your special day. Forget about Peeps, coloring eggs, and celebrating the resurrection of that bearded fellow. Today is all aboutyou. Without you, who would deliver the basket full of green novelty grass-covered chocolate that children everywhere are most likely getting sick off of right now? I bet you didn’t even know that you, my puffy-tailed friends, have even made quite the impression in videogames over the years....
Following theTGS teaser trailerforFront Mission Evolvedthat Dale recently posted, a full trailer (viaSiliconera) with actual slices of gameplay footage has made it onto the web. The game, which drops the series’ tradition of turn-based RPG play for something a bit moreArmored Core-esque, has been given a “spring 2010” release date. Although I was never invested in theFront Missionseries, it seems a good number of you guys aren’t too happy about the major shift in gameplay style forEvolved....
If you didn’t take the story inGears of Warvery seriously, apparently it has nothing to do with the fact that its dialog was corny and the characters were little more than meathead stereotypes. No,it’s your fault.Youdon’t take game worlds seriously enough! “One of the problems with videogamers is that they don’t take the videogame worlds very seriously,”accused theGears of War 2creator. “It’s just like wink-wink, hey, it’s a videogame – whatever, right?...
Talking with Joystiq at GDC, THQ’s executive VP of Core Games Danny Bilson (biggest business card ever) has upgraded the expected release date of the nextRed Factiongame from simply “fiscal 2011” to something a bit more solid — March 2011. “The new game takes [Red Faction] to a whole new place, it kind of goes back to the oldRed Factionbecause about 80% of it is underground,” he explained. Does this mean we get to create tunnels again?...
The people over atThe Cover Projecthave gone and made a custom cover forWii Sports, so that we all can enjoy it. They’re offering two covers, which run about 3.5 megs, and look very nice. The only problem is getting a white case at this point. You canorder them directly from Nintendofor $1.50 for one case, $6 for 5, or $13 for 10. 4ColorRebellion has a better suggestion, though, saying that you should go to Target and get their one cent Wii preview DVD that comes in a nice white case....
