After only two weeks, Gears of War 2 has already dropped from the top of the Xbox 360’s most-played list (according to Major Nelson’s Live data). After debuting at numero uno, Gears was the first game since GTA IV to knock Call of Duty 4 and Halo 3 from their incredibly long lasting, rotating perch. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Normally I would avoid all things VGA related, and do my damndest to not even think about Spike’s award show. This year, though, I’m actually contemplating watching it. Why? Two reasons: Jack Black is hosting, and a slew of games are revealing their trailers during the monstrosity program. We already knew Uncharted 2 would make its [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 1, 2008
There are just too many times in Gears of War, while chainsawing a wretch in half with my Lancer, that I have asked aloud “When is someone gonna make one of these? They are so practical.” Apparently “when” is now. Gizmodo has unearthed from the AR-15 forums this pretty amazing and very homemade version of the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 27, 2008
It seems that not everyone checked out early for Thanksgiving. Very early this morning, Epic Games released an update for Gears of War 2 to deal with the current matchmaking issues. According to Epic’s Rod Furgesson, “In order to get the update out as quickly as possible, we focused just on immediate infrastructure issues and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Add another one to the “Bwa haha!” column for Australian politician Michael Atkinson. The Down Under Jack Thompson has long been a thorn in the sides of Aussie gamers, with his stubborn-as-hell stance when it comes to Internet censorship and his policy that there should never be any AO games (R18+) corrupting the Australian youth. [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 23, 2008
Yesterday, some of Kotaku’s readers noticed that you could download Banjo Kazooie early by accessing its Marketplace page on the Internet, and then buying it after logging in to your Live account. Shortly after, people began to notice a host of exclusive pre-order and limited edition content also available for purchase online: the Gears of [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 20, 2008
Remember how weird it was when 7-Eleven started selling select promo-partner games at their stores? Remember how awesome it was when they completely ignored street dates of aforementioned games and sold them regardless of labels warning them against doing so? Well, now you can buy AAA games at 7-Eleven year round, starting with seven this [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Remember back in June, when I suggested that an adult content toggle would be a quick and easy way to improve hardcore games? I didn’t think so. Regardless, it seems that I may soon get my wish. WhatTheyPlay is reporting that Gears of War 2 will, to some degree, filter out both violence and language [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 14, 2008
“One more thing.” It’s the trademark line of Apple’s Steve Jobs, used right before the master of the lowercase “i” drops a bombshell on the consumer electronics market, announcing a revolutionary new piece of hardware or a price drop precipitous enough to throw competitors for a loop. But “one more thing” was also in attendance at [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 12, 2008
Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Enthusiast: Cryptic Studios countdown to reveal existence of Star Trek Online [or another blatant asset ripoff] this July 28 (Hailing Frequency Forum via Ten Ton Hammer) X360 Unreal Tournament 3 gets July 7th ship date, contains exclusive new video preview of Gears 2 (BusinessWire) Game “borrowing” Oblivion assets [...]
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