I don’t watch TV, but even I’d tune in toAttack of the Showtonight to check me out. Of course, I’ll be there doing the show so I can’t, but you guys can do it for me and I’ll live vicariously through you. None of that sentence really makes much sense, does it? Anyway, the show airs at 7pm ET/PT and the topics of discussion areHalo 3‘s preorder madness, the360 price cut, what 300 has done forBlu-raypopularity, and upcoming Neil Gaiman filmStardust....
Make that “the next cute (and also, uh,good) WiiWare game.” Based on this first teaser, I’m inclined to say yes — the potential is certainly there, anyway.Gods vs. Humansis currently in the works by Zallag and Artefact Studios, and it taps into Norse, Egyptian, Greco-Roman, and Japanese mythology. Lovely. The basic premise is that humanity wants to build an enormous tower to challenge the gods head-to-head, so as a god yourself, naturally, you want to stop them before they reach your sky-bound kingdom....
This isn’t the first timeDead Space Extractionhas been mentioned as getting ported to Xbox LIVE Arcade and PlayStation Network in some capacity —here’s the proof! Whereas last time it was a simple survey gauging interest in such an idea, this time we have something more bulletproof to work with. A rendering engineer at EA Montreal listed the aforementioned port on his resume. Of course, since nothing has been officially announced quite yet — E3, perhaps?...
Many gamers got a surprise first-glimpse of Shortfuse Games’ upcoming XNA-developed title,Colosseum, during Microsoft’s E3 2008 press conference. The inclusion of the multiplayer arena-fighter was a surprise to the developers as well. “We were actually watching a low-quality feed [of the press conference] on Gamespot,”Colosseumproducer Sebastian U. Badylak told us, “and were all like ‘Awesome!’ when we saw it, which of course felt really good for us.” Gamers’ reaction to the short clips has been pretty positive as well, and with Microsoft offering up very little information, many were left wondering: “What’s thisColosseumnonsense all about?...
Halo 3 makes a boy uppercut his mother, Yaoi-Con gets covered at Japanator and the CBlogs, Grim’s hack is still freaking insane over at the Forums. What was the hot topic for you this week? The awesome wallpaper above was made by deiga-the-semivaliant. Steal the wallpaper at the catalogue ofDestructoid wallpapers.
The developer ofHail to the Chimp, Wideload Games, started out its young career with the endearingStubbs the Zombie in “Rebel Without a Pulse.”Stubbswas a hit-or-miss game for most. Its mixture of dark humor, satire, and zombie ethics was refreshing, but ultimately hobbled by its limited options and repetitiveness. Hail to the Chimpis an entirely different game from Wideload. Instead of a salesman zombie that maims humans, players are constricted to ten cutesy animals in their epic journey to become king of beasts....
You may have heard that retailer Best Buy is stepping up their game (pun!?) in their stores for games sales. We’ve heard for some time now that they’re working on focusing that game area into a store-within-a-store, sort of like a GameStop inside a Best Buy location. DualShockers has some shots of the program’s launch guide, and they give us some idea of what the retailer is going for with this new program....
Battlefield 3developer DICE has spoken out in favor of tightly scripted, more linear games, writing off the sandbox approach as mostly boring and unpopular. “I don’t see it as an absolute goal for all games to be sandbox games,” said executive producer Patrick Bach. “We’ve been building sandbox games for quite some time and we’ve got pretty good at it, but I don’t see that as the only way of building games, because then we wouldn’t build campaigns at all....
From Software disappointed withNinja Bladeon Xbox 360, but it has a chance to redeem itself with the medieval-flavoredDemon’s Soulson PS3. This PlayStation exclusive looks really pretty, but the amount of gameplay we’ve seen is limited, despite the game being available over in Japan Land. Luckily, one our resident Community Bloggers has set us straight andprovided confirmationof a fire-breathing dragon that flaps around a bit during one point of the game. The twenty-four seconds of questionable-quality footage does not show or do very much of anything at all, but it’s anexclusive console title, and that means fanboys will want to absorb any and all information they can, even if it’s silly....
I’m a guy that really enjoyedDreamfall: The Longest Journey. I can’t say it was at the precipice of graphical prowress, but I believed it sufficed. Today,Developis reporting that Spinor has ported the Shark 3D engine that was used inDreamfallto the Wii. Spinor didn’t comment if the engine lost any of its luster in the port, but I would suppose that it did. Folker Schamel, CEO of Spinor had this to say about the victory:...
With giant monsters like these, it’s understandable why Sonyforgot to mentionKillzone 2in their keynote! At the Sony keynote earlier today, a new level fromResistance 2was shown off. On this level, you encounter the Leviathan, a gigantic monster that’s too stupid to just knock over the building you’re hiding in. At the beginning of the fight, the Leviathan will grab you and throw you to a nearby building. From there, you will make your way across a make shift bridge that’s strong enough to take two hits from the beast....
I had seen some screens ofMagna Carta 2when I made my way over to the Namco Bandai booth today, but beyond that I had honestly no knowledge about the series. All I really knew was that it was a Xbox 360 exclusive RPG, it looked pretty, and that all next gen RPGs are starting to look kind of the same to me these days. I wasn’t jaded, but I wasn’t enthused either....
Great news! In the world ofFallout, bombs never hit Las Vegas. You know what means? Super mutants be damned… Sin City, here we come! At E3 this year, Bethesda and Obsidian have decided to pull back the covers on the Vegas strip as seen in the upcomingFallout: New Vegas. With the Hoover Dam still running, power still flows through the area, allowing for casinos and, uh, other “services” to still thrive....
