In their latest salvo against PC gaming naysayers and those who believe DRM is the answer to the format's piracy woes, publisher Stardock has today released a PC-centric "Gamer's Bill of Rights," a set of ten rules by which they believe all PC game publishers should abide. While some might argue that the document is [...]
Continue reading...29. August 2008
Update: System requirements updated. See bottom of post. After 36 hours of non-stop PC gaming at NVISION 08, some weary champions stumbled home, catching planes, trains and automobiles back to residences either temporary or permanent. Others passed out in not-particularly-comfortable chairs as they awaited a tremendous raffle at which thousands upon thousands of dollars in graphics [...]
Continue reading...29. August 2008
Call us crazy, call it coincidence, but it's not looking good for game companies whose names begin with the letter T. THQ's flagging fortunes have continued despite the company's new directions; they lost $27 million just last quarter. As I'm sure you're well aware, Take-Two will likely be purchased by EA. Traveller's Tales, Treyarch and [...]
Continue reading...28. August 2008
Knowing full well Nyko's pathological hatred of wires from our E3 tour, we weren't entirely surprised when we received word that the hardware manufacturer was preparing to debut a new wireless controller for the Nintendo Wii. Dubbed "Wing," the battery-powered wireless device will connect via dongle to the Wii Remote, and present an ergonomic, larger [...]
Continue reading...28. August 2008
Harmonix knew we needed a little cheering up after yesterday's news that Rush's "Moving Pictures" wouldn't be out this week after all, so they've gone ahead and announced all six of the full albums they promised to confirm this month. Spotted over at Kotaku, MTV Games spilled the news to Entertainment Weekly in a large [...]
Continue reading...27. August 2008
Castle Crashers is great fun. If you like the classic, simple fun of side-scrolling beat-em-ups, you'll enjoy this game. If you like the frantic hilarity of a cooperative/competitive four-player romp like Gauntlet or Four Swords, you'll enjoy this game. If you like the inimitable, tongue-in-cheek, grin-inducing art and humor of The Behemoth from Alien Hominid [...]
Continue reading...27. August 2008
Rush fans who have been waiting eagerly to play along with Moving Pictures in Rock Band since last week's announcement are going to have to wait a little longer. When the new downloadable content failed to arrive yesterday, Harmonix cited a "technical difficulty," hoping the album would be able to arrive soon thereafter. This afternoon, [...]
Continue reading...26. August 2008
I had the chance recently to spend some time with Yggdra Union, a colorful fantasy strategy-RPG from Atlus and Sting Entertainment. The game, a quirky, card-based, semi-real-time tactical JRPG, is actually a PSP remake of a GBA title which was released in 2006. I never had the opportunity to try the original, but according to [...]
Continue reading...25. August 2008
If you were cool and/or attractive enough to play the first episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, you might have noticed a "sneak peek" option in the game menu that delivered, as promised, a sneak peek at SBCG4AP Episode 2: Strong Badia the Free. If you didn't, well, Telltale Games has you [...]
Continue reading...25. August 2008
Since 2006, Ubisoft has released a new Rabbids video each year for Games Convention, showing the psychotic bunnies doing their best to invade the show floor. I love these little animated shorts; I think they're a great way to build enthusiasm for the games and their endearing characters. I mean, they're not sandvich-level awesome, but [...]
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29. August 2008
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