…then you have no gaming soul. Or, you hate JRPGs, dungeon crawlers, the Nintendo DS or Atlus. Or, you hate me. No, really. Atlus has released the first full trailer for their upcoming DS game,Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey. It’s the game I always wanted but never knew I would be getting on the DS. I mean, it’s rated M for Mature, and has “partial nudity” and “sexual themes.” There’s a dick-faced phallus-like demon....
We’ve got enough iPad games here to write reviews everyday, but we’re going to spare you (and ourselves) by only writing up the ones that we’re interested in, and the ones we think you’ll be interested in. That’s not to say that we don’t think your iPad game is worth our time, dear developers. It’s just that we honestly can’t play them all, and…well, we’ve been burned a few times. I’m not calling out any names, but I think we all know that there are some $....
At first glance, this video for the Xbox LIVE port ofSoulcaliburmight not look like much of a visual improvement over the Dreamcast version of the game from which it’s based upon.However, once you go back and play a quick match ofSoulcaliburor take a look at the comparison image located in the gallery below, you should start to see a difference. Seriously, look at the size of those jaggies!For a game that’s nearly 10 years old,Soulcaliburhas held up quite well....
November has claimed another big videogame release; Eidos has announced thatKane & Lynch: Dead Menwill hit stores on Nov. 20 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. We already knew that our wallets would be raped in the upcoming months, but who would’ve guessed thatKane & Lynch,Mass Effect, andUncharted: Drake’s Fortunewould all come out on the exact same day? Kane & Lynch: Dead Menis the work ofIO Interactive, the team responsible for theHitmanseries andFreedom Fighters....
Kane and Lynch aren’t exactly the most gentlemanly fellows to grace cover art, but forKane and Lynch 2: Dog Days, it actually kind of works. The intentionalimperfect presentationstyle of the game — artifacts, blur, washed out colors — translates nicely to the box art. For anyone not familiar with this sequel, the art probably won’t sell them on the product … or will it? At any rate, I can’t picture moms buying their kid the game after taking a good look at the front cover....
EA Sports has picked Oklahoma City Thunder small forward Kevin Durant as the cover athlete for its basketballreboot,NBA Elite 11. Durant is perhaps the best young player in the NBA today; this past season, he became the youngest player in history to win the scoring title, doing it at the age of 21 by averaging 30.1 points per game. He led the Thunder to a 50-win season and a playoff berth, and he also made the NBA All-Star team for the first time....
And you can only appreciate this mini-light show through the magic of night-vision goggles. The light show is so theKinectcan determine where the player is in the space surrounding the device, or something. That, or Microsoft just wants to kill us slowly with cancer lights. Night-vision goggles allow you to Kinect the dots[Joystiq]
Blaster Masteris one of my favorite games for the original NES. The visual style and challenge level make it a title that makes me come back again and again. What I didn’t know was SunSoft had developed but never released a direct sequel made for Nintendo’sPlayChoice-10 arcade machines. According to a press release sent out today, that lost sequel,Blaster Master: Destination Fred, will be arriving on the Wii Virtual Console April 26th for 500 Wii points....
If you liked the violent, three-colored world ofMadWorld, you may want to check out the official soundtrack, coming to us by way of Sumthing Else Music Works. Now availabe on both iTunes and theSomething Else store, this album contains twenty songs by PlatinumGames composer Naoto Tanaka, who worked with hiphop and rap artists for the soundtrack. “There are a total of 20 tracks on theMadWorldsoundtrack and they are all original songs that we produced especially for the game,” said composer and soundtrack producer Naoto Tanaka....
Zipper Interactive are good people. Not because their PS3 exclusiveMassive Action Gameis any good (I don’t know if it is or isn’t yet), but because they chose a great slow news day to post the box art for the aforementioned game. Desperate bloggers such as myself are now forever in Zipper’s debt. So here it is, the official box art forMAG. To help pad out the article even more, Zipper has also shared some interesting statistics from the game’s beta phase....
Mega64 has partnered up with GameTrailers and their new video features the one and only Jon St. John as they promote “Doug Huggem.” It’s likeDuke Nukem Forever, except you do nice things like help people cross the street. Jon’s one-liners are pretty hilarious and there’s a montage of it all that you can watch below. In other Mega64 news, the gang will be attending PAX East and have a panel on Friday at 12:30....
Wait,what!? In news that could be considered shocking at the very least,Halodeveloper Bungie has announced that it just signed a ten-year contract with evil publisher Activision, marking the studio’s first long-term engagement since it split with Microsoft in 2007. Bear in mind this is not an acquisition, with Bungie still maintaining control of itself. However, Bungie will now be providing a decade’s worth of content for Activision to publish. Details are scarce at the moment, but this is obviously a bit of a megaton announcement....
With Steam doing so well these days, it was only a matter of time before Microsoft realized that the majority of PC gamers will never, ever pay to play games online. Now that Games For Windows LIVEis freeand its console counterpart Xbox LIVE isn’t, it’s only natural that people get up in arms. GFW LIVE Head Kevin Unangstspoke to Gamasutrato try and explain the whole situation. He says that the PC focuses on game content, whereas the Xbox LIVE Marketplace is all about multimedia, not just game expansions or DLC add-ons....
