The NPD declaredthe Xbox 360 version ofCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2the top seller of November, with a huge number of copies sold. Try 4.2 million copies on for size. That’s over twice as much as the PS3 version sold. While chatting last night with Microsoft’s Director of Product Management, Aaron Greenberg, he pointed out that the total number of copies is actually quite a bit higher than the NPD’s numbers....
Holidays are a great time for gaming news. Not because there’s something industry-shaking going on (there’s not), but because videogame companies like sending out Christmas cards. They also sometimes like donating money to save endangered tapirs in South America, but it wasn’t until Splash Damage came along that these two innocuous activities could be combined. What you see above all these words is Splash Damage’s tapir-themed Christmas card promotingBrink, their upcoming, post-apocalyptic first person shooter, not to be confused withBrink!...
What do you do when a game makes an appearance on every outlet’s “Game of the Year” lists? You discount the hell out of the expansion content, of course! Today’s Xbox 360 “Countdown to 2011” deal is on Mass Effect 2’s adds-ons,“Lair of the Shadow Broker,”“Overlord,”and“Kasumi.”They’re a measly 200 MS Points a piece, which means even if you pick up the worst of the batch (arguably “Kasumi,” by most accounts), you’re getting a good deal....
Chillingo recently (a week ago — OLD!) released a trailer for its upcoming horror gameD.A.R.K. It has more than a faint whiff ofDead Spaceabout it, but if the company’s past output is anything to go by, it’ll be pretty damn good. The trailer doesn’t show much, but we know that it’s about surviving against alien monstrosities in a game that mixes shooting and roleplaying elements. [ViaPocket Gamer]
Mega Manhas been beloved around the world for over twenty years. Despite more than half of that time spent with no new games, fans have always clamored for more of its distinctive gameplay and charm. Today, the series continues by going back to its roots with the ninth installment to star the Blue Bomber. Sporting graphics that harken back to the 8-Bit era,Mega Man 9released on WiiWare today with versions for PSN and XBLA to follow in the coming weeks....
Worst April Fools’ Day joke ever is Hudson as we know it closing up shop. They become the property of Konami on this day, and they’ll be turned into a social networking division for the company. Also, Hudson Entertainment, the U.S.-based arm of Hudson, will close down at the end of this month. Konami is hoping to cut some staff at Hudson Japan, saysAndriasang. They’re looking for 40 people to go....
We all knew it was happening, didn’t we? A premium version of Hulu is coming soon to a bunch of devices, including Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. For $9.99 a month, you’re getting a number of full seasons (over 120, to start) in high definition versus a handful of trailing episodes from the current, free Hulu. Oh, I almost forgot! Perhaps most important of all, Hulu Plus will be available for PlayStation 3 in July and Xbox 360 in “early 2011....
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Here are four newBioShock: Infinitescreenshots. Yes, fewer than you can count on one hand, unless Matt Groening drew you. Alright, look — I wantBioShock: Infiniteyesterday. You know what? I’d settle for today, Irrational. How’s that for a compromise? See, I’m willing to work with you here. What’s that? I can’t have it until next year, so I should take these four screenshots and stop complaining because you don’t owe me anything?...
Recently, Ubisoft announcedJust Create modeforJust Dance 3. And I know how much y’all love the series. This latest video features young, attractive people being silly in front of their televisions. Joking aside, these games are officially too big for us not to cover them. Thanks, game-buying population at large! As shown here, Just Create allows you to record custom choreography via Kinect, and you may then upload your routine to the social network circuit or challenge friends....
It looks like the next update forKillzone 2has been revealedvia the gift of PS3 Trophies, as new awards for an unannnounced batch of downloadable content have made their way into the clammy hands of Internet gamers. Two new maps will also be joined by two new weapons, if the list of Trophies is indeed real. The maps will be known as “Suljeva Cliffside” and “Arctower Landing”, while two powerful guns from the single-player mode, the Boltgun and the Flamethrower, are scheduled to make an appearance....
I’m legitimately surprised that people don’t seem to be making any sort of fuss aboutKingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. You’d think a game developed by formerElder Scrollstalent, with R.A. Salvatore writing the story and Todd McFarlane designing the setting, would garner some attention. Weirdly, few people seem to care, and yet I’ve been hearing that any who play it are instantly impressed and consider the game strong enough to stand up next toSkyrim....
Yasuhide Kobayashi, Sony Japan studio VP andThe Last Guardiandevelopment boss, has stated that Japanese developers must focus their efforts on capturing the hearts of Western gamers or suffer an untimely death. “There are so many issues we have to solve, and the biggest challenge is that the market in Japan is shrinking — they key is gaining success in the US and Europe,”he explains. “At the time of the original PlayStation the Japanese market was one third of the global market, and production costs weren’t that high — so we were able to generate profit from that market alone....
