In 2005, "F.E.A.R." rocked the FPS gaming world by introducing sophisticated horror and smart A.I. into a genre that had long relied on stop-and-pop combat. Enemies would team to flank you, spectacular, booming bullet ballets would ensue, and just when you thought things were safe, your enemies all dead, a horrific little girl with a [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 22, 2009
The single player "F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin" demo, previously only available to PlayStation 3 Qore subscribers, has now been released for both the PC and the Xbox 360, as well as the PlayStation 3 for regular users. Weighting at over 1.5 GB, it's certainly worth the download for fans of the first game, or anyone else [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Capcom announced today that PS3 owners won't miss out on the huge, two-level co-op "Resident Evil 5" demo -- they'll just get it one week after their Xbox 360 brethren. The demo, scheduled to arrive on Xbox LIVE this Jan. 26, will be available to download on PlayStation Network the following Monday, Feb. 2. For some [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 19, 2009
Surprise, surprise. Another Sony demo is coming out that requires a pre-order to play! While other Sony titles have walked the "pre-order to play the demo" path in recent weeks, this time the perpetrator is the PSP's upcoming title, "Resistance: Retribution." If you pre-order the game through Best Buy, Amazon, GameStop, or Game Crazy, you'll [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 14, 2009
This week, you can read quite a few impressions of "Resident Evil 5" around the web, including a co-op gameplay preview by our own Jesse Henning -- but assuming you own an Xbox 360, you won't have to fight African zombies villagers vicariously much longer. For one week starting January 26th, Capcom is opening up two [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 11, 2009
Update: According to those who have downloaded the latest issue of "Qore," it states that the "F.E.A.R. 2" demo should be "expected" on January 15th, which would be this Thursday's PSN update. I've also heard back from a source at Sony, who said that a subscription will be required to download the early demo--but a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 7, 2009
We Americans have to pay for our "Killzone 2" demo, but according to CVG, European PS3 owners will be able to download the demo for free, lucky blokes. For yanks, Sony Computer Entertainment America made the demo accessible only by entering a code awarded after putting money down on a pre-order.
Continue reading...Saturday, January 3, 2009
If you’re one of the many looking forward to Killzone 2, starting next week at GameStop people who pre-order the game will be given codes to access the demo. In-store pre-orders will begin receiving cards with demo download codes on January 5th, while online pre-orders will have their codes emailed out on February 3rd. Why the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 1, 2009
If you ever played Tony Hawk games back in the day (when they were still original and good), chances are you’ve either played, or will like, Skate. EA’s newly formed skating series with a questionable future now that Black Box has been dismantled burst onto the scene as the best skating game since the golden [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 19, 2008
Yesterday's PlayStation Network updates brought some pretty sweet goodies, for owners of both the PlayStation Portable and the PlayStation 3. The PlayStation Portable got a collection of downloadable titles with PlayStation classics Castlevania Chronicles and Rayman 2: The Great Escape available for $6 each, as well as Tokobot, a former UMD release from 2005 sold for [...]
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Friday, January 23, 2009
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