British gaming mag,NGamer, has broken the first news on Vivendi’sScarfacefor the Nintendo Wii. While the bulk of the information (including screens) can be found in their latest issue, NGamer’s official site teases with a few tasty lines: Shooting – a key part in most missions – is mapped on to the remote pointer, with players able to direct the aiming reticule around the screen, leaving a trail of Miami dead in its path....
Ubisoft has released a new trailer forSplinter Cell: Convictionat Comic-Con. It’s hidden somewhere in this post. It’s like finding Waldo, except Sam Fisher willf–king kill youif you can’t find him. Oh, and I haven’t actually made it difficult to find because it’s in exactly the same place all the trailers posted are placed. Which is, to say, below the fold. A good bit of the footage is recycled from the E3 trailer from last month, but stick with it through the first third and you’ll see some new things....
Publisher 2K sent a note out today letting everyone know thatSid Meier’s Pirates!is coming to the PSP — you know, that little Sony handheld that will work as a rear view mirror for your PlayStation 3. While there aren’t a ton of details about what seems to be a straight up port, there is word of ad hoc multiplayer, which is always a good thing. Check out the short and sweet press release after the jump....
Wallpaper designerAlchemist Definedhas just ruined my day. He (she?) created an absolutely stunning mock-up image of whatSonic the Hedgehog 2could look like in HD and now I can’t focus on anything else. All I see when I look down at this mound of work on my desk are images of a beautifully rendered blue hedgehog running through a gloriously polished parallax scrolling universe. Even though it isn’t real, I want this game … bad....
Sonyrecently attemptedto subpoena the Internet in an attempt to find justice for the notorious PS3 hacking debacle. Unfortunately for Sony, the judge thought it went a bit mental with its demands, and hasdeniedsubpoenas to such high profile establishments as Google, PayPal and Twitter. The PS3 platform holder went on a good ol’ fashioned witch hunt earlier this week, attempting to find anybody evenslightlyinvolved with the controversy. Even if you’d simplywatchedthe PS3 hack video, Sony wanted your name....
Sony’s Jack Tretton does his best to shrug off the announcement of Nintendo’s Wii U console. He’s back to his playful trash talking, like always. Check out what he said toForbesrecently, speaking on how they’ll react to the Wii U announcement: “I didn’t see anything about Nintendo’s announcement that said ‘Oh, we’d better get working on rolling out a new PlayStation here pretty soon.'” said Tretton. “What we’ve seen from the competition is trying to add features that already exist in PlayStation 3,” Tretton said....
It’s not exactly an insider’s secret that the PlayStation 3’s lack of rumble has something to do with past licensing issues between Sony andImmersionCorp. After asettlementwas reached back in February, it was a no-brainer to imagine Sony hard at work on putting rumble back to work for them. In short, a rumble filled Sixaxis is all but a given. With that out of the way, the focus now is on when we can actually expect to see rumble technology added to future PS3 controllers....
I can only speak for myself here, but after such a long week, I feel like spending my Friday evening mindlessly killing things in videogames.Dead Rising 2was already lined up as the go-to stress reliever for this week, but a new challenger has appeared. It’s a free, in-browser MMO dubbedRealm of the Mad God. You pick a character, jump on a server, and begin furiously killing scorpions, pirates, and other assorted baddies using projectile attacks....
Word from Ubisoft earlier in March pegged Sam Fisher’s PC return date inSplinter Cell: Convictionas April 30th, two weeks after the Xbox 360 launch of the game. It turns out that the reason for the delay, as Eurogamerhas discovered, has nothing to do with Ubisoft DRM or elit3 hackers. Chock it up to another round of polish. “The reason that has been given for the delay is that the extra time was need to polish and debug the game,” a publisher said, adding, “The slip has not been linked to the DRM....
Electronic Arts and Maxis have officially revealed today that they’ll be bringing theSporefranchise to Nintendo’s consoles, the Wii and the Nintendo DS, this year… with a twist. Spore Herowill hit the Wii, and is a “story-driven action-adventure” game, with players creating their own hero creature and going on some quest to save their planet. The title features Wii-specific controls for things like combat, puzzles, and more. Creature creation is also being emphasized, with more than 250 collectible parts and abilities available to customize your little heroic freak....
Capcom just released some new footage of its Wii-exclusive,Spyborgs, and now I’m afraid to go near any kind of dock area. Living in Baltimore, I’m near some water and a fair number of “dock” areas. If this gameplay footage is any indication, docks are a breeding ground for mechanized warfare and explosions. I dig the Cheesecake Factory and Discovery Zone in Baltimore’s “Inner Harbor” area, but not at the expense of my well-being, thank you very much....
Sweden’s Starbreeze sure is keeping itself busy these days. With the recently announcedSyndicatereboot for Electronic Arts set for a 2012 release, it’s already looking at its next preject: a new and original IP. The studio has steamed up with director Josef Fares, best known in Sweden for his hit film,Jalla! Jalla!and the 2010 comedy,Farsan. Right now, we don’t know anything about the game’s concept, which is being developed with consulting firm The Story Lab....
My fellow Americans, we find ourselves under attack. Not from terrorists. Not from communists. Not even from flesh eating viruses that turn our lungs into a lumpy red paste. We face a fresh onslaught, on an incalculable and pandemic scale. There seems to be no stemming the tide, and all we can do is make our peace before drowning in the mire as the floodgates burst open. I am of course talking about the ridiculous amount of handheld game systems that have done a wonderful job of dividing the market and ruining everything for everybody....
