The Darkness IIhas a sweet comic book style mixed with lots of blood and bullets. There are tons of awesome ways to rip, tear, and cut apart your enemies while simultaneously firing your two guns at them. That seems good enough for me, but not for Hamza. If it was up to him, he’d use an ancient evil of unimaginable power to sit around the house and be lazy. Come on, man, have some creativity!...
Clever girl. Yeah, there was no context for that, but how can you mentionJurassic Parkand not mention that incredible line? Being a giant fan of the original 1993 movie and an even bigger fan of Telltale Games, I have been looking forward toJurassic Parkfor a long time. And while we have already given you somenice previews of how the game is coming along, I just got a chance to sit down with Telltale and see a new section of the game that has not been seen before....
Next weekend (October 15 and 16) sees the launch of the EB Games Expo at Australia’s Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, offering one and all the opportunity to attend the show and play some upcoming games well before release. Previously, I was under the impression the Expo had announced everything in the way of playable demos for the two-day show, but it seems that has expanded quite significantly. What was initially announced as only 13 hands-on demos, hasblown out to a total of 43 gamesout of a possible 68 to be served up for the public to play....
The latest issue of EGM reveals the next step for Red Octane, the developers behind every geek’s rock and roll dream machineGuitar Hero. Apparently during the new year, they will be releasing an expansion pack of sorts to their belovedGuitar Hero IIin the form ofGuitar Hero: ’80s Edition. The news overwhelmed many of EGM’s readers with joy for at least a minute or two until they realized they weren’t alive during the 80s and their parents probably don’t want them touching “the damn Hi-Fi”....
Before there was Surfer Girl there wasElectronic Gaming Monthly‘s Quartermann, bringer of unverifiable rumors and high hopes. This month’sEGMbrings a new batch of juicy tid-bits, including some juicy Nintendo dirt that might make even the most dedicated fans toss their Wii remotes through their televisions. Quartermann drops some news about Activision’s recent acquisition, Bizarre Creations. The makers ofProject Gotham Racingare said to be working on a James Bond title, which may come as a surprise to some....
TheESRB has ratedEye of Judgement: Legendsfor the PlayStation Portable, and that reminds us — that game’s coming out! While not officially announced for North America, the PSP adaptation of Sony’s PlayStation Eye card game is set to hit the portable inEuropeand Japan early next year. The game shuns the use of physical cards, instead packing all of the available PS3 cards onto the PSP, along with 30 new cards downloadable via PlayStation Network....
From what we heard earlier, it seemed that the European version ofNo More Heroeswould be censored. Now, publisher Rising Star Games is doing its best to clarify matters, saying that the European version is not censored, and that it shares the same visuals and content as the Japanese version. “There are two versions ofNo More Heroesthat are going to be published in the West,” said Rising Star’s Martin Defries. “Ours, which will be drawn down from our parent company, Marvelous Interactive, which is directly from the Japanese iteration of the game, and there will be a version in the US that is a full-on gore, beheadings, dismemberment....
For about a year now, a group of mental health researchers have been looking into the effects thatTetrishas on PTSD-afflicted brain. Thus far, their research has shown evidence that playingTetrisshortly after suffering from a traumatic event will do more to prevent flashbacks than occupying your mind with a word-based quiz game, or doing nothing at all. Last night, I had the opportunity to ask Alexey Pajitnov, the creator ofTetris, what he thinks of this research....
Lionhead Studios’ upcomingFable IIexpansion, “See the Future,” will add several new Achievements. Two of the new Achievements involve private parts. (I giggled.) Naturally, the rest of the Achievements pale in comparison to the ones listed above. We don’t know much about the DLC. The officialannouncement postmentioned the objective: lift curses from three items possessed by Murgo the Trader. How dressing as a Hobbe or epic battles in the Coliseum factor into that plot thread is beyond us at this point....
Viral marketing strikes again! In a double-shot of promotion, Microsoft is going to try and entice you to use their 2D barcode system by giving you a chance to access theCrackdown 2demo early. They’ve set up a scavenger hunt using the Microsoft Tags. All you have to do to participate is download theMicrosoft Tag Readerto your smartphone and start looking for them. There will be five in all and you’ll be visiting such exotic locales as GameStop, Toys R Us and Best Buy before you’re done....
C’mon! Why tease us with games you’ve barely started working on yet? This whole time we’ve been hearing aboutFinal Fantasy Versus XIIIcould be counted as one long tease if you consider that the team at Square Enix hasn’t even started full production yet. Seriously? What’s the hold up?Check out what Producer Tetsuya Nomura says in the latest issue of Famitsu (translation viaAndriasang): “Since we’re still taking on so many new development challenges, the team is still made up of the core members,” he said....
Slam Bolt Scrappersis one of those games that’s hard to briefly — and eloquently — describe without cheapening the overall package. And what a glorious package it is. Today, we’re given a video overview by Fire Hose Games’ own Alec Shobin, which should help to get the point across better than any ofmy ramblingsever could. The wait forSBSon PlayStation Network won’t be much longer (March), and rest assured, there’s plenty more for us to talk about in the near future....
As more and more developers have come to grips with the complexity of programming for it, supporters of the platform have seen a resurgence of the PlayStation brand. Several high profile games have landed in the waiting hands of eager gamers, and for the most part, mirror their Xbox 360 counterparts — but has it come at a cost? The PS3 really is beginning to morph into a PC, and that has startled some fans of console gaming....
