Sure, the DS is choked with cute platformers — we all already know that. Still, when I hear that a game is coming our way that not appeal to my retro sensibilities, but also is being headed up by the same folks who took the lead on the excellentHenry Hatsworth and the Puzzling Adventure, I tend to take note. As that is the case withMonster Tale, an upcoming title from Majesco, we thought it might be worth checking out....
The long-ass press conference I attended in Tokyo last month told us that the PlayStation Vita would officially launch in Japan on December 17, but today we’ve learned that the original date was going to be December 3. In an interview in Weekly Famitsu, Sony president Hiroshi Kawano revealed that the system was originally planned for a December 3 release. How cute: 12/3. But they later decided to move it out to December 17 to make sure that they had enough stock for launch....
It’s time for Sony’s billionthPSP firmware update! If there’s one thing that pisses me off about the PSP, above all else, it’s that in between every game for the system that’s actually worth buying, a new update appears. This means that not only do I barely switch my PSP on, butwhenI do, I have to sit through yetanotherupdate screen. This has happened with the last three or four games I’ve played, and it’s getting quite beyond a joke....
“Explore everything. Stop at Nothing. Download theTomb Raider: Underworlddemo now!” That’s the description for the 1.27GBTomb Raider: Underworlddemo that appeared on Xbox LIVE Marketplace this morning. While I’d imagine you won’t have the opportunity to “explore everything” (and the whole “stop at nothing” could be an issue if you don’t have an Xbox LIVE Gold account), you’ll probably want to download the demo. Why? Because Lara Croft is back and as usual, she’s wearing tiny cargo shorts to crawl around on rocks and shoot tigers....
Perhaps you’ve read our review onRatchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destructionand were wondering if you could connect this game to other titles. Okay, so maybe not, but you might be interested to know that it does support some kind of connectivity to the upcoming PSP gameSecret Agent Clank. 1UPtells us about aninterviewwith Insomniac’s Creative Director Brian Allgeier that revealed that the newly released PS3 game does in fact connect toSecret Agent Clank in “some secret, undisclosed way....
This one’s for folks using Safari or Chrome only: a clever programmer has designed a version ofKatamari Damacythat you can play in your web browser on any web page. Simply paste the following code into your address bar and go to town: javascript:var i,s,ss=[‘http://kathack.com/js/kh.js’,’http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js’];for(i=0;i!=ss.length;i++){s=document.createElement(‘script’);s.src=ss[i];document.body.appendChild(s);}void(0); Use your mouse to roll up elements of the webpage for fun and… well, that’s about it, really. It’ll keep you busy for about 30 seconds, maybe a minute if you have a longer attention span than I do....
While Microsoft hopes forGrand Theft Auto IVdownloadable content by this fall, a source close to Rockstar is claiming that the company is “wrong” to believe that it’ll see anyGTAepisodes before 2009. This mysterious source toldVG247that the first of the episodic downloads would more likely hit in January or February. This runs contrary to the previous rumor that November was the golden month for the DLC to launch. Perhaps that’s what Microsoft thinks, but it’s possibly not what Rockstar thinks....
T-Energy sounds like some awful-tasting energy drink that promises to “give you a boost” when what it really means is “give you a sugar rush that will result in a nasty comedown and/or diabetes.” In actuality, T-Energy is an important plot point in the upcoming PC/Xbox 360 RPG,Sacred 2. But even knowing that, it’s stillexactlylike an energy drink. Get this — T-Energy is a mystical substance that people rely on for power, even though their constant use of it is incredibly bad for them and will be their eventual ruin....
In yet another frustrating but unsurprising case of Japan getting all the cool stuff, a new version of theDevil May Cry 4Collector’s Edition is…wait. Coming to the US? Signed by Kobayashi-San? Packaged in tins for both 360 and PS3? Why yes, it actually is. Don’t bother to check your surroundings, Hell hasn’t frozen over just yet. Here’s the catch though – these 200 copies will be randomly distributed to retailers, according to theCapcom Unityblog:...
Bethesda has detailedThe Elder Scrolls: Skyrimfor PC gamers and they will be pleased to learn that the good times are back again! The only disappointment is the lack of a 64-bit version of the game, but other than that, PC gamers are getting what they want. First of all, Bethesda’s promised “Higher res textures, larger render modes” and “a bunch of other effects,” which you can take to mean that the game will appear significantly more gorgeous on your computer than your console....
The bad news just keeps on rolling. Hot off the heels of June’s NPD results showing theworst industry performance for almost a decade, it’s also been made public that Sony Online Entertainment has laid off 5% of its workforce. “In a move to increase operational efficiency and reduce costs, Sony Online Entertainment has eliminated 5% of its full-time workforce, equaling 41 people,” SOEconfirmed in a statement. “SOE looks forward to continuing its leadership role in the online games industry as it celebrates the highly successful launch ofFree Realms, the 10-year commemoration of its ground-breakingEverQuestfranchise, and the continued performance of the company’s other games....
It was recently revealed that the 3G-enabled PlayStation Vita wouldhave a download cap of 20MBwhen it launched in Japan, pretty much making it useless for anything worthwhile. In a recent interview, SCEA boss Jack Tretton said there were no plans to introduce it in the US … but it’s not that simple. “That’s probably based on the partner and the amount of data that they’re going to allow to be fed based on the plan,” Tretton told AZStar, while talking about the cap....
It’s been a big week of deals from Amazon, what with their whole “Prelude to Black Friday” thing going on. Earlier in the week, the retailer did a huge sale of games under twenty dollars that had a lot of fantastic bargains. Today, they’re doing it again, sort of. Not really. We do have aselection of games under twenty bucks, though there is a lot more junk in here than before....
