Today sees the launch ofYooStar 2: In The Movies, for Xbox 360 and Kinect. The game allows the players to record performances of various famous roles, which become chopped into the movie itself, making it another game perfect for drunk social gatherings. The above promotional trailer was shot at Namco Bandai’s European offices here in London and I was lucky enough — I think — to be dragged along to play dress up and act like a fool for the day....
TopWare Interactive, the developers behindTwo Worlds II, wants to send one lucky Dtoider to PAX East this month. Travel, room, and a PAX pass will all be covered by TopWare, and the winner will get a behind-closed-doors preview ofTwo Worlds II. Plus, you’ll get the chance to interview the team working on the game. For the last month or so, weasked you to submita video telling us why you should be the one who goes to PAX East....
[Update:Just spotted an image of Mimiga Viliiage in polygon form onNicalis’s Twitterand added it to the gallery.] Cave Story 3Dis one of my most hotly anticipated titles at the moment. The promise of new content, designed byCave Story‘screator, is enough to deserve my hard earned dollars. Beyond that though, I’m just curious to see how the game’s visuals translate from 2D pixels to 3D polygons. If this exclusive sneak peak of the game’s first area is an indication, the translation is a strange, yet wholly familiar success....
If you still haven’t played one of three available versions ofPersona 3, you may not see what all the fuss over this Aegis figure is about, but the beauty of a socially maladroit android who shootsbulletsout of herfingersis self-evident. There are approximately a million neat pieces of papercraft on the internet, but Plus Kareha’s Aegis is the Sistine Chapel of making cool things out of dead trees. Aegis — specifically based on thePersona 3: FESversion — is fully poseable and articulated and comes complete with her own little stand....
Since no one can hear you scream in Space, why not playTetrisinstead! Isn’t that what all the good Russian Cosmonauts do? In my interview withTetreesTetrisCreator Alexey Pajitnov he reminds us that its a game we are supposed to know. Alexey was very amazed that other titles haven’t lasted the test of time. I ask him burning questions you want to know. The hot questions you want to know, like what will we be playing in Deep Space, Deep Deep Deep Space and Deepest Space....
The never ending debate between anime-watching geeks is called “subs or dubs,” or subtitles with original voices or dubbed with new voices. We take for granted that we have a choice. Ubisoft is thinking about the ones who don’t. In an effort to make games more accessible to the deaf or hard of hearing, Ubisoft will now include subtitles in all of their internally developed games. “This commitment entails modifications to some of our game engines, as well as the inclusion of subtitles in the conception phase of game development,” stated the company, according toGamesIndustry....
[What happens when the World Warrior tournament is over? Once the princess has been saved? Video game characters have to do what many of us are already dealing with — going around trying to find a job. For hisMonthly Musing, AwesomeExMachina shows us what the resumes of some iconic gaming characters might look like. — JRo] Let’s be honest, the economy is hitting us all pretty hard. Everyone’s gotta suck it up, budget some expenses, pretend to be satisfied with their job, and sometimes make Ramen Noodles in a coffee maker....
For those of us who follow Mixed Martial Arts and the Ultimate Fighting Championship, we’ve been begging for a good video game of our favorite sport for a few years now and thankfully THQ is ready to fill the void that has existed since the Dreamcast days.From 1UP: As of yesterday, THQ has acquired the rights to publish games based on the Ultimate Fighting Championship license through 2011. The agreement gives them rights to both past and present UFC fighters....
If you’re feeling nostalgic for the ’80s and are interested in getting a bunch of games on the cheap, you just might be interested in this one. The Atari Flashback 3 is a “new” console that comes packed with 60 retro games from the days of the 2600 including such classics as:Asteroids,Adventure,andMissile Command.The full list of included games can be foundhere. This Atari-licensed retro console comes by way ofAtGames, designers of other, similar pack-in deals....
Band Heroships on November 3 for a wide variety of platforms, including your home consoles like the Wii, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. But when it comes to the Nintendo DS this fall, it brings along its own peripheral — the drum grip. Activision went to an shopping mall to show it off and shot this trailer which is mostly a bunch of girls giggling about how “omg, they can totally playBand Hero....
This may or may not be news to you, butThe Warriorswill be coming to the PSP on February 13th. It appears that the game will be a port of the Xbox and PS2 games that were released last year. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, since the game itself was extremely faithful to the source material, as well as being a fun and competent brawler. But it gets better — bothGameStopandAmazonare listing the game at $19....
We’ve been chatting with 2K Marin creative director Jordan Thomas ahead of our upcomingBioShock 2review, as you may have guessed from the truckload of stories we’ve posted. We had to ask the question everybody asks — couldBioShockwork on the Wii? Thomas’ answer was that it absolutely could … if motion controls were more subtle. “Speaking only for myself, I don’t thinkBioShockis about interface,” he tells us. “It’s more about choice and expressivity — made immediate and spectacular enough to encourage experimentation....
At the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational, vice president of Blizzard Rob Pardo confirmed that Blizzard is working on an unannounced title. The confirmation came from a video interview withOnlineWelten, in which Pardo fields multiple follow-up questions regarding the “unannounced MMO” job listing. When specifically asked if the job listing was forDiablo III, Pardo answered quite assertively. No, [Diablo 3] is obviously not, since Diablo is not an MMO. We have another development team…...
