Roughly halfway through his excited explanation of the Xbox 360’s new community features and curious new system of user representation, a few game titles were unveiled. The head of the Live Services team, John Schappert, announced four new titles coming out for Xbox Live Arcade — some as soon as next month. I know two [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 20, 2008
Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Enthusiast: Guitar Hero: World Tour details revealed at (IGN) LittleBigPlanet will have some semblance of story, feature user-policing for adult content (PS3 Fanboy) “On September 2nd, shovel talks. You dig. Monsters die,” and Atlus sets you to work building dungeons in Master of the Monster Lair for Nintendo [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Today, Sony revealed that they will finally provide the in-game XrossMediaBar functionality that was first demonstrated back in 2006, as well as the “trophy” achievement system promised in early 2007, as a part of their v2.4 software update for the PlayStation 3. They’re not saying when it will arrive, but perhaps that’s a wise choice; [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Though the social experience of the coin-op arcade is all but dead and buried in the United States, arcades are still hanging on in other countries. Africa uses old Sony PlayStations. China has 185,000 internet cafes where the over-18 crowd can get in some MMO time, while Xiahe temple monks kick back with a game [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 9, 2008
With the tremendous success of Kingdom Hearts having proved that you can toss iconic characters in a blender no matter how disparate their backgrounds, we’re actually surprised no one has thought of doing it on a smaller scale until now. Or perhaps we should say larger — a new RPG revealed in this week’s [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Namco Bandai released a flurry of information following its Editor’s Day today, but the big news is mostly Soul Calibur related. Today they announced that Soulcalibur IV will be available for both Xbox 360 and PS3 beginning July 29th.
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 1, 2008
It’s not just panels, strips, books and bindings at this year’s New York Comic Con; video games are more than welcome, and those able to make a trek over to the Jacob K. Javits Center late this April will find them in spades.
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Monday, July 14, 2008
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