What is this? I know it’s aShin Megami Tenseigame. There’s a silhouette of someone who looks familiar, too. It came in an email with a subject of “???” and nothing else but this picture. I say maybe he looks like SMT’s Jack Frost, but then again, not really. And then what would that tell us anyway? He’s a kind of mascot anyway. Whatever he is, he’s got the round head going on....
It’s not hard to become numb while competing in an online shooter. As these components continue to become beefier and more complex, the impact an individual has in the outcome of a match shrinks. But not every upcoming online setup is following this trend: Digital Illusions CE is blending massive team strategy with individual, hard-nosed impact inBattlefield: Bad Company 2. I’ll give you an example. In a single match ofBC2last evening, I sabotaged two Russian beacons while keeping my feats-in-progress going with a hot barrel and a magazine packed with lead death-dealers....
Game room? Is that what people want to call arcade nowadays? Anyway, the$4 million game roomcalled Power Play is openingup this Thursdayin Bellevue, Washington. The place will be 18,000 square feet and can fit about 200 people at a time. The place will be open to all ages before 10PM and to ages 21 and up after 10PM. There will be over 150 arcade games includingSega Outrun 2 Super Deluxe,a big deal as there are only 16 of these in the world....
Jonathan Blow ofBraidfame is hiring a programmer who to do work with body tracking, according to a post on theBlow’sBraidblog. “We’re hiring another programmer into the new company, to do very interesting work with full-body motion tracking,” the post reads. Continuing below the essential response information, Blow mentions that applicants must have “substantial 3D game development experience and be good at what [they] do.” The videogame and peripheral that this work is intended for is unknown....
Capcom hadBionic Commando: Rearmedup for demo at the Digital Day event but were only showing off the challenge stage. They were timing the bloggers and journalists to try and beat a challenge stage. The ten best times would then be added to theBionic CommandoWeb site.I failed, miserably. Since Capcom is all about the community, they invited non-press people out to play and Destructoid made sure some local Bay Area Dtoid people came out....
Don’t tell me you’re surprised; we could all see this coming from miles away, right? Plus, if Blizzard announced something like anotherWorld of WarCraftexpansion in friggin’Korea(being theStarCraftcapitol of the world and all), I imagine they’d have a small-scale riot on their hands. IGN’s Charles Onyett isliveblogging the event in Seoulas we speak, providing the world with lots of sexy, sexy information about the much-anticipated sequel, but no images or videos just yet....
[Editor’s note: This is so awesome! snotrocketteased us awhile agoand now we get to see how amazing theCastle Crasherscostumes turned out! Fantastic work! — CTZ] Finally! They’re complete! All the costumes came out wonderful! We have all four knights, three princesses (because the blue one bailed on us), the nurse from the animal ark, barbarian and the evil wizard. you’re able to see frommy other bloghow the knights were made. The tunics were sewed together and made into shoe covers....
If you’re just dying for the latest numbers coming out ofMicrosoft’s CES press conference, I’ve got you covered. Armchair market analysis was never as sexy as it is now. Speaking to what I’m sure was a positively rapt audience, besweatered Microsoft CEO Steve “Bing” Ballmer explained that “nearly 10 million people have logged into Xbox Live’s nongaming applications” which include “Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, Last.fm, Sky, Canal and Zune.” Those numbers become less impressive when you consider that a lot of those people probably logged on once to poke around and never returned to the services....
It’s kinda hard to imagine a time when egg-shaped chairs were thought to be fashionable. Harder still to imagine that the day might come again. At least back then you could blame the purchase on the quaaludes. ThisSound Eggchair fromAcousticomis special, however, as it comes with a 5.1 surround sound system built in. With the interior walls covered in thick, acoustic isolation foam, I found the chair was actually pretty damn comfortable and the sound quality was highly impressive....
An attractive game for WiiWare that isn’t a puzzle game, you say? Bring it on!Gamelion Studiosis behind the upcomingFurry Legends, which the developers describe as “A mix of Sonic, LocoRoco, Mario and someLittleBigPlanet“. Well, those things all sound good to me! The platformer puts you in the role of a fuzzy character who is trying to escape from an evil tribe called theCube’y Squaries. The devs also promise a story that will dig into the backgrounds of the characters, as well as controls that use the Wiimote and nunchuk....
Okay, urine stain confirmed. Today, Atari announced the release date forChronicles of Riddick: Escape from Dark Athena. The game is hitting the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC on April 7 in North America. Europeans will get their hands on the title April 24 — mere weeks after the game is released, as opposed to months or … never. In addition to giving release date details, Atari announced that a demo for the game will be made available on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network this March....
We’vechatted about theSilent Hill 2filmin the past, and last thing we heard, we only knew thatSilent Hilldirector Christophe Gans would probably not be coming back for round two (which is a shame, as I think he captured the feel of the SH universe pretty well). According toBloody Disgusting, it seems like there’s some possibility that Roger Avary may take on makingSilent Hill 2. According to an interview onChuckPalahniuk.netwith author Bret Easton Ellis, Avary’s name came up in relation to a film adaption ofGlamorama, one of Ellis’ most popular novels....
Plain Sightis a game where you play as robot ninjas that use swords to attack other robot ninjas in order to steal their energy. The more robots you kill, the more energy you gain to upgrade your own robot’s abilities and powers. And the only way you can upgrade your robot is by self-destruction. Robot ninjas with swords and suicidal upgrades — if that hasn’t sold you yet, then nothing will....
