Could This Really Be Beyond Good and Evil 2 In Game Footage?
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There is definitely some debate whether this recently released footage of Beyond Good and Evil 2 is REALLY representative of in game footage, but I think it looks pretty impressive if it is. Reminds me a lot of Mirror’s Edge with the whole parkour vibe, and it’s WORLDS away from BG&E 1, so I’m excited to see a demo of this game and check it out first hand.
Tags: Beyond Good and Evil 2, Mirror's Edge, News, parkour
Bad Ass Trailer For the Week: Tekken 6
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Tags: News, Playstation 3, PS3, Tekken 6, trailer, Xbox 360
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Gamer News 04.21.09: Hey, Did You Hear…
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…Piracy may bring about the end of the PSP? We’re not talking piracy on the high seas here, we’re talking straight up illegal downloading of PSP games. In a recent interview with Gamasutra, Sony’s Peter Dille gave the scoop on all things Playstation, including the future of the PSP. Dille was quoted as saying, “We can look at data…and see how many copies are being downloaded illegally, and it’s frankly sickening.” He went on to say, “I think gamers, if they understood if this meant that a platform would go away, can we convince gamers to pay for their content?” Full story: Gamasutra
…Tuesday was the official birthday of GameBoy? The little portable gaming unit that could marked it’s 20th anniversary on April 21st. 20 years?!! Does that make anyone else feel ancient? I remember vividly when they first hit the scene. Excuse me while I sit in my grandma corner and cry now. Props to Gizmodo for posting a complete timeline/history of this mini legend of gaming. Check it out at: Gizmodo
…the Left 4 Dead Survival Pack is now available for download? This new game mode allows you and your team to battle a seemingly never ending group of infected (think: Horde mode in Gears 2.) You can download the PC version from Steam’s website, or on Xbox Live for 360 players. Details on the official Left 4 Dead blog are slim at best right now, but there is a great recap on Steam’s website of what is included in this download. Full story: Steam
Tags: Gamasutra, GameBoy, Gizmodo, Hey Did You Hear..., Left 4 Dead, News, Nintendo, PC, Peter Dille, Playstation Portable, PSP, Sony, Steam, Survival Pack, Xbox 360
Gamer News 4-14-09: Hey Did You Hear…
Posted by HCG Dreadsorrow | Filed under Hey Did You Hear..., News
NCSoft has announced that the division that handles the MMO City of Heroes shall henceforth be known as Paragon Studios. That in itself barely gets a notice from me. But what I found interesting was the bit that followed with a quote from Brian Clayton, general manager of Paragon Studios and executive producer for the City of Heroes franchise. “The renaming of our studio to Paragon Studios represents our devotion to the present and future of the City of Heroes series,”. Could this be the first hint of either a new add-on expansion or even a sequel? City of Heroes, as cool as the game still is after all this time, has pretty much turned into a test platform for their other properties. Perhaps there is indeed a full-blown sequel in the works. Click here for the full article.
OK, this is surely the clearest indication possible that Microsoft is admitting yet another fuckup with the 360. Not only are they extending the already extended warranty for the console to include the “E74″ malfunction, but they are also going to pony up and refund the money of people they charged for repairs of the E74, which has previously been considered “out of warranty”. At this point, I consider myself quite fortunate, as I have only had a single RROD, while other owners have had several. Still, I’d like to give the executives that rushed the development and release of the system a good stiff kick in the balls. When will executives understand that they do not know better than the engineers or game developers about when their product is ready for release? Click here for more details of the E74 warranty coverage.
There’s this superhero movie coming out in a few days, I think. You hardly see anything about it in the media. I think it’s called Mongoose, or maybe Weasel? I’m joking of course, but as you must know by now, there is a video game coming out tied in with the Wolverine flick. After my disastrous purchase of the s**t-fest that was the Iron Man game, I swore off of movie-tied-in-games completely. Anyway, this trailer comes out for the Wolverine game that is getting released on the 1st of May. After watching it, I may just add this one to my que in Gamefly. Click here to watch the video that features a scrap between Wolverine and Gambit. That’s nice I suppose, but I was more interested in the shots of Wolverine ripping a Sentinel to pieces. I always hated those guys.
If you have been wondering why you should shell out $250 (US) for the Beetles Rock Band complete set, then click here and see the details of what will be included. Basically, custom instruments are the real draw here. If you got the cash, and the hankerin’ to rock out with the great Fab 4, then get your credit cards ready. And the really good news…no Yoko Ono is included.
Tags: E74, Hey Did You Hear..., NCsoft, News, Paragon Studios, RROD, The Beetles: Rock Band, X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Gamer News 4-1-09: Hey Did You Hear…
Posted by HCG Dreadsorrow | Filed under Hey Did You Hear..., News, The Shit to Get
Have you seen the news coming out of a study from Huddersfield University for the British Psychological Society’s Annual Conference? Yeah I was on the edge of my seat too. Well anyway, the results of the study found that racing games cause more aggressive reactions in players than do violent shooters. Either way, Jack Thompson is still a dickhead. Click here to read about the study.
The Entertainment Consumers Association has had a little pow-wow with the FTC about some of the issues that we gamers frequently run afoul of, especially with PC gaming. Those are DRM and EULAs. Specifically, Hal Halpin of the ECA is recommending to the feds that EULAs be standardized, and DRM be noted on the exterior of game packaging. Naturally game publishers hate the idea, presumably because they want gamers to be ignorant victims of their bullshit. Click here for details.
When the development of the online streaming game service OnLive was revealed recently, people were naturally very skeptical of the claims made by the developer. Now the founder of OnLive, Steve Perlman, is addressing the skepticism. He is among other things, pointing out that OnLive has been in development for 7 years now, and the partners involved, which are some of the biggest game developers in the business, have signed off on the new technology. Click here for the article. Personally, I’m looking forward to the possibility of not having to sink gobs of cash into a gaming rig every year just to stay up to date with the latest games. I really hope that OnLive works out.
Guys, are you looking to get married to that special lady in your life? Give her this ring. If she swoons, then she is the right woman for you. If she starts crying and screams a lot, and not in a good way, then dump that zero and go play some Resident Evil 5. Click here to gaze at its glistening majesty.
Tags: Entertainment Consumers Association, Hey Did You Hear..., Jack Thompson, News, OnLive
OnLive - If this works, holy fraking crap it will be huge
Posted by HCG Dreadsorrow | Filed under News, Previews
The other day when I first read about the upcoming video game system called OnLive, I thought it was the biggest crock of s**t I had ever seen. Now after researching it and mulling over the whole idea in my head for a while, I have to admit that I have started coming around. That tentative interest in this radical new gaming system has one big caveat however, which is that it is still a great big giant “IF” they can pull it off.
Click here to see the official website for OnLive, being developed by Warner Brothers Games.
Coming to us with the tagline “Any Game. Anytime. Anywhere”, OnLive is already loaded down with the biggest pie-in-the-sky promises perhaps ever made to gamers. How is it possible that they could think themselves capable of fulfilling such a dubious pledge? First let’s look at what OnLive is.
Gamer News 3-23-09: Hey Did You Hear…
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Those RRODs that us 360 gamers have had to deal with because of Microsoft’s incredibly shitty heat dissipation half-assed into their console have been “solved” if you believe the bullshit. Even if you haven’t had another RROD in the past couple months, there is something new to worry about. Called the ‘E74′ error, it will kill your box, M$ says it’s not their problem, and they will charge you $100+ to fix it. Yeah, and you jackholes expect us to lay out a few hundred $$$ for Windows 7? Well, pucker up and kiss the fattest part of my ass. Click here for details. On the E74 error, not my ass.
New map packs are coming soon for both Gears of War 2 as well as Halo 3. Well, the update coming for GOW2 is a bit more than just a map pack. Perhaps just shy of a full blown expansion, there are lots of goodies to try to lure players away from games of lesser levels of pwnage. Click here for details of the GOW2 update, which will be available on March 24th, with the map pack to follow on the 31st. The Halo 3 map pack is coming on April 9th, though if you laid out the extra $$$ for the Halo Wars limited edition you can get it now. Click here to see details on the Halo 3 map pack.
So features that should have been included in Resident Evil 5 upon release, are not only coming as DLC (which you will have to pay for), but now they have been delayed. April 9th is the new day (for North American players) when you will have the honor of paying for the developer’s rush to market. Seriously, I don’t care how great the game is, this should have been available at launch, or made available for free by the developer. No amount of fanboism or justification can account for these shenanigans. Click here for details.
So, have you heard about the recently announced Blacklight? This is the wave of the future in a quickly coalescing entertainment industry. Zombie Studios is developing a futuristic-themed shooter called Blacklight. Well anyway, Fox Atomic has signed a deal with them to help in the development of said game, in addition to producing a comic series and feature film on the same game. Click here for details as well as the first screenshot. Well, there’s not too much info available yet, but if they keep Uwe Boll away from it, they may have a chance. Click here for the official site, or rather what there is of it at this early stage.
Tags: Blacklight, DLC, Fox Atomic, Gears of War 2, Halo 3, Hey Did You Hear..., Microsoft, News, red ring of death, Resident Evil 5, Xbox 360, Zombie Studios
Gamer News 3-17-09: Hey Did You Hear…
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Big Huge Games is up for sale, again. A brief writeup up on Crispy Gamer informs us that THQ is looking to unload the developer. If they can’t find a buyer, then they are hosed. THQ is also looking to separate itself from both the Heavy Iron and the Incinerator studio as well. Seeing as how video games have been a driver of computer technology for many years, second only to pr0n, perhaps they could get some of that bailout money instead of those AIG executives? Click here to read about it.
Did you hear that there is going to be a sequal to Mass Effect? I know, this came as a complete surprise to me too. I bet it takes place in space, and there are aliens. Now that I have gotten to blatantly obvious out of the way, there is now a tentative time frame for release, which according to Dr. Muzyka over there at Bioware will be sometime “around” early 2010. Everybody with half a brain knew that this was coming, but now it is “official”, so you can rejoice. I am kind of glad they are shooting for an early2010 release, because this indicates that the DRM-mongering rectal parasites at EA are not pressuring Bioware to rush it out early for a holiday season ‘09 release. Click here to see the official website. All you gamers under 18, don’t you click this at all. You have to put in your birthday to enter the site, so that means there is absolutely no way for you to possibly get past their security. It is impervious to fake birthdays, absolutely foolproof. Don’t even try. And as teasers go, this one sucks.
Tags: Big Huge Games, Bill Roper, Diablo III, Hey Did You Hear..., Mass Effect, News, World of Warcraft
Gamer News 3-12-09: Hey Did You Hear…
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The licensing deal that New Line had with Electronic Arts has expired, transferring the game-making rights to Warner Brothers. See, the game rights (ultimately bestowed by Tolkien Enterprises) held by EA expired at the end of 2008. Perhaps the impending end of the IP licensing was the cause to such a substandard and shitty game in Lord of the Rings: Conquest being crapped out in such a hurry. Click here to read the article on Variety. Conquest was just such a disappointment, but I really can’t have any lower of an opinion of EA than I already did.
Planet Fallout has an interview up with Jeff Gardiner, a senior producer at Bethesda Studios, and lead producer of the Fallout 3 DLC. He talks at length about the upcoming downloadable expansion for Fallout 3, called “The Pitt”. If you want to get an idea about what it will be like, then read the interview. Speaking as someone living and working in Pittsburgh, I am looking forward to running gunfights among the clearly recognizable landmarks seen so far in the screenshots. Click here to check out the interview for yourself.
It looks like New York state goverment has finally pulled their collective heads out of their asses and realized that you don’t stimulate a foundering state economy by jacking up taxes on items that derive all of their capital from the limited discretionary funds of the consumers. Especially when all of the revenue you hope to collect is earmarked for the wasteful deficit spending of an out of control bureaucratic juggernaut. This has become so obvious, that even the dynamic duo Paterson and Bloomberg think that taxing the crap out of leisure activities would be counterproductive to any reasonable recovery plan during a recession. Yeah another surprise, HCG Dreadsorrow reads economic news. Click here to read about the s**t I just talked about.
The DLC for Call of Duty: World at War has finally been dated. Available on March 19th for both the 360 and the PS3, the pack will feature several new maps for those that want to wreak havoc on other players in pretty, new settings. In addition, there will be ZOMBIES. Yes, zombies. Nazi zombies. And you get to shoot them. Click here for details. Maybe it’s just me, but I think the next game should be Call of Duty: Zombie Apocalypse. It’s OK Activision, you can use my idea free of charge. Please?
Tags: Activision, Call of Duty World At War, DLC, Electronic Arts, Fallout 3, Lord of the Rings: Conquest, News, The Pitt, Tolkien Enterprises, Warner Brothers
Gamer News 03-10-09: Hey Did You Hear…
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Congressional video game critic and general pain in the ass Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) had his house broken into. Among the items stolen was a Nintendo Wii. Gee, I sure hope the senator only had games that the ESRB had played all the way through before awarding a rating. Anything else would make him a two-face assclown and a typical government hypocrite. Click here for details on this story. I wonder what was on the laptop? Wouldn’t it be funny if it was a collection of material that would prove “inconvenient” to someone planning on running for governor of Kansas in the near future? Naw, it’s probably just pr0n.
There was electronic fun before PCs and consoles became popular? Wired has a lovely gallery up on electronic games and toys from a bygone age of the rotary phone and when the Pittsburgh Pirates didn’t completely suck. Click here to see the gallery for yourself. I so wanted the Bigtrak, but simply couldn’t afford one with my Dungeons & Dragons addiction. If you are over 30, check out the games and count how many you either owned or hung out with some kid because they had one. Except for Paco and KP1gl37 who probably have all 14 of them sitting around their living room.
Tags: Fable 3, Fable III, Hey Did You Hear..., MadWorld, National Institute on Media and the Family, News, Nintendo Wii, Sam Brownback
Gamer News 03.05.09: Hey Did You Hear…
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…Amazon.com launched a video game trade-in feature on their site? It allows you to send Amazon old games in good condition in exchange for Amazon gift cards. You will also be able to buy from the stock of used titles. The program is still in its beta phase, but you can learn more at: Amazon
…Some hardcore gamers can now rent games from GameFly straight from a kiosk rather than waiting for their queue to ship? The unit, called “G-Box” made its first appearance at Texas Tech University, and offers Xbox 360, PS3 and Nintendo Wii rentals for $2.49 a day. Full story: The Daily Toreador
…Jimmy Fallon is showing the love to hardcore gamers? The late night funny man has vowed to cover notable video game releases on his new show Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Fallon has vowed to treat games in the same way most late night hosts cover movie premiers including interviews with the dev team and footage from the game. Here’s hoping he focuses on some of the smaller dev teams who crank out some amazing work, rather than a Late Night Madden Party (yawn.) Full story: Random Gamer
Tags: Amazon.com, GameFly, Hey Did You Hear..., Jimmy Fallon, kiosk, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, News, Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, PS3, Random Gamer, Texas Tech University, The Daily Toreador, Xbox 360
