It’s February, the month thatHeavy Rainfinally launches, so you can expect plenty of hype and bluster over the next few weeks. First out the door is Sony product manager Lucy Duncan, who has calledHeavy Rainan innovative gamble, but a gamble that Sony can afford to take. “Being Sony, I suppose we have a little more luxury to take a gamble on more original and innovative IP — andHeavy Raindefinitely fits that category,” she explains....
If you own an Xbox 360 and have a Gold LIVE account, you should have downloaded andplayed the demofor Black Rock’sSplit Secondby now. If you haven’t, go ahead and do that. I’ll wait. Done? If your reaction way anything like mine, upon completing the demo (it’s short, only one track and one car) you threw your controller down and yelled “F**k yeah, now that’s what I’m talking about” at your TV....
Strauss Zelnick has a few things going for him. First, he’s the chairman for Take-Two Interactive and successfully ousted the evil EA Empire out of his front room. Secondly, he’s ripped.GamePoliticsis reporting that Zelnick will grace the cover of this month’sMen’s Fitnessmagazine. Upon inspection of the cover, one doesn’t really come to appreciate what Zelnick has accomplished with his body. He’s obviously a busy man, doing whatever busy videogame industry executives do....
Many of us will agree,Dance Centralwas a good first effort for an emerging device. A sequel — one presumably not so pressed for time — could really take the Kinect dance series to new heights. Kotaku got a hold of a Microsoft Game Studios survey, which gives insight into what might be on the way forDance Central 2. As with most game surveys, the features detailed are essentially all things you’d want....
Tecmo has announced thatQuantum Theory, once a PlayStation 3 exclusive, is now also coming to the Xbox 360. I had a chance to play an early build for the PlayStation 3 at Tokyo Game Show earlier in the year, and found that it was a competent — if not slightly derivative — third-person shooter that has a heavyGears of Warfeel.Quantum Theorydoes, however, have two things that will set it apart from other similar third-person shooters....
I’m sure many of you rememberDoki Doki Majo Shinpan, the DS title that allowed you to “explore” young witches. Apparently there is no such thing in Japan as feeling up teenage girls too much, as SNK Playmore proudly displayed new postersadvertising the sequel at TGS. Many gamers complained the original title wasn’t a very good game, but I’m not sure what kind of opium they’re firing up to have a problem with a game that advocates legal molestation....
This is the last big show of 2008, and after a year of promises, the Tokyo Games Show is the perfect stage for Sony to pull out some big guns. It has recently revealed itsTGS lineup, including a somewhat decent PSP selection, not to mention fourteen unannounced titles. The usual suspects are going to be present —LittleBigPlanet,Resistance 2,Motorstorm 2andHome. We also get to see big third party games such asMetal Gear Online,Resident Evil 5andStreet Fighter IV....
A new level was shown for upcoming Vita title Uncharted: Golden Abyss at a Sony event in Tokyo last night, and I had a chance to check it out. This game is so hot that it’s on fire. No, really. In this demo Nathan Drake is in a predicament. He wakes up from being knocked out and/or drugged in a prison, and the building this prison is in is on fire....
Gamers that aren’t into the indie board game scene have been heard scowling about the appearance of many beloved board games on Xbox Live. I understand that it’s not their cup of tea, but the board-to-videogame phenomenon is only growing in popularity, and people who happily playedSettlers of CatanandCarcasonneon the weekends are pleased as can be. Lost Citiesis the latest in that trend, adapted from the Rio Grande board game of the same name....
Here’s the latestGrand Theft Auto IVtrailer titled “Move up, Ladies.” The trailer reveals a lot of the new characters and various gangs you’ll be interacting with. We also get glimpses at the various story lines Niko will be getting involved in. The trailer is up for download on Xbox Live and you candownload the Hi-Res versionof this trailer over at Xbox’sGTA IVpage too.This game just keeps getting better looking everytime a new trailer is released....
Well this kind of snuck up on me. Last time we checked in onThe Legend of Neil,it wasa musical episode fullof sex jokes! Somehow, four episodes flew under my radar since then and the final episode of this season premiered today. In the final four episodes, Neil goes to a bar and makes friends with some Moblins, gets saved and almost sodomized by another Moblin, is forced to kill his Moblin friends and eventually gets captured by Ganon....
Super Mario 64 While everyone enjoys videogames for different reasons, we all have one thing in common: we love toplaythem. When thinking about this week’s Memory Card, the word “play” kept popping up in my mind.Playingvideogames. Are we, as gamers, enjoying videogames because of the stuff that is happening on the screen, or because of the actual act ofplaying? Is picking up a controller and pushing buttons an enjoyable activity? If a videogame sequence had no specific goal, would you still be interested inplayingit?...
Half-Life 2: Episode Two This being the landmark 50th edition of The Memory Card (wow!), I decided to focus on something special. And by “special” I mean a videogame moment that affected me more than any other in the last five years. Now, I know I say that all the time (see:Lost Odyssey), but, in this case, I am not exaggerating. While I originally suspected the severe emotional punch in the gut this moment gave to me resulted from its surprising development, looking back that is not giving the sequence enough credit....
