In the latest issue of Edge, Activision Blizzard’s Boby Kotick said that he’s all for the new peripherals coming out from Sony and Microsoft. He also reveals that he’ll have new devices ready for next year. Yep, there’s going to be more stuff to crowd you out of your own living room. Kotick told Edge: “So as long as we think a peripheral is going to deliver something that’s compelling and interesting and innovative we’ll support it....
Alan Wakehasn’t exactly been generous with information since its 2005 “reveal.” In fact, nobody really knows what itis, despite the fact we’ve known it exists for a long, long time. The lack of any sort of information is actually quite boring, but that’s okay — Remedy has promised that one day, something interestingmighthappen … just not yet. “Yeah, I think we will see something interesting,”states Remedy. “[We] will be looking at our schedules and sorting interviews etc....
There has been no shortage ofnewsabout Nintendo’s domination of the gaming market in the past year or so. The world seems to have taken a real liking the Nintendo Wii and DS, and it looks like there is no end in sight. Of course, Nintendo is pleased as punch, and they’d love to brag to the world about how well they’re doing, but lately they don’t even have to lift a finger....
As many of you know, Amazon recently began selling Xbox LIVE Arcade games, whichallows for gifting codesand is a decent enough solution for that issue (for the time being). Nothing new, right? Well, here’s where it gets fun: the retailer has started to sell some XBLA games at a discount. At the time of this writing,Doomis down to $2.97,Pac-Man C.E.is $4.97, andUndertowis on sale for $5.00. Sure, it’s nothing massive, but saving a few bucks here and there sounds damn fine to me....
Grand news for everyone who recently picked up a 3DS: Tecmo Koei is going to cycle through the daily SpotPass outfits forDead or Alive Dimensionsagain — all 34 of them. Each morning at 10:00am, there will be a new costume to download for free. The types of costumes and order in which they are released will be the same as before. This redistribution period is going to take place from August 15 through September 17, and again on September 19 through October 22....
The fine folks atG4, obviously still in a champagne induced hangover, asked me to be a guest onAttack of the Showtonight. I guess those cookies I baked for everyone after my last appearance paid off. Sweet! you may check out all the verbal pizzazz tonight at7:00 p.m. ESTwhen I will tackle some 2008 predictions in a desperate attempt to make Destructoid proud (I love you guys!). Any suggestions on something to make my appearance more memorable?...
In this huge world of ours, there are things that happen roughly once every second: Somebody is born, somebody dies, and somebody complains about how easy videogames have become. The latest to worry about easy gameplay isMass Effectdeveloper BioWare. The studio seems concerned that we gamers have become “pampered.” “Sometimes I think we’re pampering gamers too much,”saysMass Effect 2producerAdrien Cho. “Just recently, a game likeDemon’s Soulsis fantastic because when you die, and you fail, it’s not because the game was cheap it’s usually because you didn’t do something properly....
I’m not saying thatResident Evilmade for a bad movie, but I cannot physically bring myself to finish the first one. Something happens inside me where I start to feel legitimately unwell and I have to switch it off. I usually get as far as the guy saying “you’ll have to work for your meal” to a group of zombies, and I start convulsing. Apparently, the sequels areworse. Do we blame Paul W....
A 12-year-old Bangkok boyleapt to his deathfrom a sixth floor veranda after his parents decided to ban him from videogames. The boy was an avid gamer, and it was deemed that his addiction was too much to handle. Apparently, he didn’t take too kindly to going cold turkey and chose death over a life without games. Kids, eh? Police found that the boy had used his mobile phone to send several complaints to friends via mail....
Splash Damage’s upcoming first-person shooter,Brink, does away with the traditional videogame dichotomy between solo and multiplayer modes. “We’re used to there being a real difference between single-player, and co-op, and multiplayer,” noted Edward Stern, the game’s lead writer, at a recent demo in New York. “I think we’ve all had the experience of being good at the single-player version of a game, and [then] you go online, and it’s justterrible— totally different — and it’s, like, ‘Hang on, I was good at this!...
High-end PC accessories company Razer is getting into the console game, and they’re kicking things off with a new Xbox 360 controller that they call the Onza. This is a really slick upgrade to your standard first-party controller, complete with customizable buttons and sticks, improved buttons and more. What’s better? The hand feel is better from the pre-production model I used to play Xbox 360 games. There’s three triggers on each side on the back of the controller....
I wanted to take a few moments to clarify a story that was posted a few days ago,“Super Smash Bros. Brawl errors: More than meets the eye.”Written by Ron “I called the Wii nunchuck a Wiichuck” Workman, this post has drawn a lot of ire and even caused a bit of confusion, so I do feel it necessary to clear a few things up. If anything, Ron’s post needs to be viewed as an “investigative” piece, and should not be taken as official information and/or confirmation from Nintendo....
Today I met and spent significant time with Bethesda and their most important title,Oblivion. I spent half of my day playing the expansion for the Xbox 360 and PC,Shivering Isles, and the other half playing the PlayStation 3 version of the title. While messing around, I cleared up a few rumors floating around about the PS3 version of the game. I’d like to share them with you and make sure you can seperate the truths from the lies:...
