The announcement of WiiMotionPlus was considered a total surprise by some developers who believed they were kept in the dark. While other companies felt they were thrown a curve ball, Ubisoft has smugly pulled its braces taught andclaimed it knewwhat Nintendo was up to all along. Ubi president Yves Guillemot knew the dog before it came to class: Nintendo has been working on that for a long time, trying to see how they could improve the precision....
Harmonix was thoughtful enough at a recent press event to show off some of the brand new tracks you’ll be able to dance to in the Kinect exclusiveDance Central. Part of the event was to show off many of the new songs that players can look forward to dancing too, and the songs below are brand new additions to what we already knew about.
Heh, Vacation Quest. What a relaxing name. Actually, I’m on a vacation quest. A trademark for “Vacation Quest” has been filed by PopCap Games of Washington state, says theTARR system. The August 24th filing is listed under goods and services, and is for “interactive game software.” So it’s a game. I’m drawing blanks on what a game called Vacation Quest would be like. Maybe something along the lines ofDiner Dashwould be fun, with a vacation theme twist....
YesterdayI showed you guys a behind the scenes video forSpider-Man: Edge of Timefeaturing Laura Vandervoort, and today Activision has followed up with part two of the series. This time Val Kilmer talks to us about his role as main antagonist Dr. Walker Sloan. Kilmer gives us really good insight into his character’s role, motivation, methods and qualities. There’s even a few clips of Kilmer in action. At first I thought it was odd that the guy who played Batman and Jim Morrison in the early 90’s was going to voice a Spider-Man villain, but hearing him in action has quickly rested those fears....
The future is now my underlings, because Microsoft has justunleashedthe first Trojans from their gigantic white horse. That’s right, their Video Marketplace is now live and ready for you to use and abuse. But besides the movies and TV shows you can download, you care about price, right? Here’s the list: High-definition TV shows will be 240 Microsoft® Points per episode, and standard-definition TV shows will be 160 Microsoft Points per episode....
There’s a lot of room to talk about the overt game influences featured as mechanics in Vigil Games’sDarksiders. But let’s not forget that Vigil was creating the game while some of its influences were in production. Take the ‘Voidwalker,’ for example. According to Vigil’s general manager David Adams, the studio had conceived the idea for thePortal-style gun before seeing Valve’s downloadable. “That one is a weird amalgamation,” Adams told me when in a recent phone interview....
Dragon Age: Originsships with downloadable contentcalled “The Stone Prisoner.” The day and date content isn’t a traditional downloadable. It adds (among other things) a wide-shouldered party member named Shale, a character that was the cut from the final retail version of the gamebecause he broke it. Revealed to the press early in the development process, Shale was a massive golem with the same quirks as a typical party member. As the game grew and matured after his reveal, the team behindOriginsfound an issue, a big-big issue with the character: he couldn’t fit through doorways....
Ah,Pitfall. As one of my earliest experiences with a video game (I was seven), the original Atari 2600 version was responsible for many bouts of fun and intense frustration. Of course, considering that my patience was ten times as short as it is now, that may not be saying much, but I have fond memories of it regardless. It’s hard to say if this new Wii version will be any fun or not, but you never know....
Assuming there is a sequel, of course. But based onBorderlands‘ strong sales as a new IP andprior commentsto come out of both Gearbox Software and Take-Two, it’s more a question of “when,” not “if” in regards to a follow-up. Thanks to the ever-vigilant work ofsuperannuation, a trademark filed by Gearbox for “Borderworlds”has been found. WithBorderlandsbeing the fine game that it is and only needing a few crucial additions to see its distinct style of play perfected, a sequel sure would be fantastic....
According to John Carmack, id’s Xbox Live Arcade rendition ofQuake Arenahas been put to bed. The information was relayed to an audience at this year’s QuakeCon, and thunderous applause was not the response. Carmack outlined that all is not lost for another utilization ofQuakeif their browser basedQuake Livecatches on and performs well with users. Carmack cited the reason for the cancellation was publisher unresponsiveness. …right now the publishers aren’t all that interested in a multiplayer-focused game on [XBLA], and they’re probably right....
Coming up this Wednesday on Xbox LIVE Arcade, we’re getting two new equally bizarre games. First isDuke Nukem: Manhattan Project($10), a side-scrolling run and gun, which I feel like a lot of people are going to buy merely because they want to believe the Duke is alive. Nothing wrong with that! Next isRISK: Factions($10)from Stainless Games (Magic: The Gathering) and EA. As you can plainly see above, it’s not quite what you might expect....
If this doesn’t make your girlfriend squeal in delight, almost nothing will. In addition to Bob – omb, Etsy artistAmigurumiAmourmakes mushrooms in the grow large and extra life variety, along with a smattering of other cool goodies. At $12 – $15 bucks a pop, you’re able to’t beat this for a cool gamer gift. I imagine a little row of them along the top of the TV.
Jack Tretton claimed that 2008 was the “year of the PS3,” but it seems that, just like 2007, it was little more than another year of promises. Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida, however,is adamantthat with only a few months of 2008 left, Sony has enough in its bag of tricks to make Tretton’s claim a reality. “All the things are now coming together in terms of the right hardware, cost and pricing, and we are increasing our hard disc space as we are increasing the content we’re offering through the network and the big titles we’re working on, coming out this Christmas,” he claimed....
