A second piece ofBrutal LegendDLC is slated to hit PSN and Xbox LIVE soon — as in December 17th, soon. Dubbed “Hammer of Infinite Fate,” the content adds several new Eddie Riggs outfits, a few item upgrades, and four fresh multiplayer maps. Sounds f’ing metal, right? Below are some quick-hits. The DLC is slated to hit at 480 Microsoft Banana Dollars over Xbox LIVE and around five bucks ($4.99) over PSN, which seems like a rather rad deal....
In a recentinterviewwith VG247, Capcom’s Christian Svensson says the company is currently at work on some PC-lead games. Quite the opposite of their usual way of doing things, this means that Capcom has a couple of games being developed for PC, with consoles ending up as the ones getting the ports. He says “the pedigree of the team and the primary focus of the design is around the PC, and the largest forecast is on PC for at least one of these projects....
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remixis f*cking beautiful. The high-definition, 1080p artwork by Udon Entertainment is so damn sexy. Everything from the character art to the level design that Udon Entertainment has done is magnificent. Screenshots and Internet-based videos just don’t do this game justice. You have to play it to really understand what I’m talking about. Thanks to the upcomingCommandos 3game, you’ll get the chance to see this soon enough....
In a sudden turn of events that have shocked the games industry, Treyarch has confirmed thatCall of Duty: World at Warfor the Wii will not have an online cooperative mode. Recently,WiiHDhad a chance to speak with a Treyarch representative about the matter. The reason for the exclusion of the larger mode is massively surprising. Apparently, the Wii cannot sustain theWorld at Warengine with that many people on-screen at the same time....
A copy of Ignition’sBoing! Docomodake— a puzzler/platformer for the Nintendo DS — arrived in our Baltimore offices today. Like many of the publisher’s other DS games (Metal Slug 7,Tornado!), the game comes packaged in a fancy cardboard slipcase. The presentation is nice, for sure. The game’s logo is raised, as are parts of the little docomodake mushroom itself. The boxes forTornado!andMetal Slug 7are just as slick, shiny boxes that would genuinely capture your attention at retail....
As of right now Konami has madeCastlevania Harmony of Despairavailable for the PSN, complete with some free content that was originally DLC for the XBLA release. For those of you who don’t remember, this was the crazyCastlevaniagame where 6 players could explore a gigantic map at once. It’s a good bit of fan service in general since it features most of the main characters from theCastlevaniaseries. The game released at 14....
With the PC launch ofThe Witcher 2rapidly approaching, we’re starting to see more questions about those fabled console versions pop up. So, how ’bout some answers? Surprisingly, CD Projekt was willing to divulge details to Eurogamer. “Production wise — coordination and scheduling and budgeting — this is a new project for us,” says senior producer Tomasz Gop of a console version. “But it’s not going to be a completely different game: it’s going to be the same storyline and everything....
Cloud saving — the ability to upload your save files in the event that misfortune strikes your hard drive — has been popular in the PC side of the industry, but hasn’t caught on with consoles yet. (It’s a must-have feature for the next line of consoles, no question.) According to Kotaku, Sony is stepping up first. While it’s nice to see PS Plus get something useful for a change, cloud storage would be very appreciated for all, thanks....
Composer Bear McCreary went all out onDark Void, Capcom’s latest. Yeah, they got the guy who composed the score for TV’sBattlestar Galacticato doDark Void. Awesome. Bear (awesome name) assembled an orchestra and recorded at the Warner Bros. Eastwood Scoring Stage for this game. Again, going all out. All of this work is going to be on the soundtrack that will be released on February 9th, at bothwww.sumthingdigital.comand retail outlets. Also included is a track from his 8-bit reworking of theDark Voidscore forDark Void Zero, the upcoming DSiWare game and prequel....
Even if theWiihas been handed a few sloppy ports from its higher-powered competition, there is still plenty of room for some original, top-shelf quality IPs to make their presence known on the little, white, wonder. One such potential title from THQ comes to mind, and it’s calleddeBlob. No, it’s not a misspelling, or some drunken French guy talking about one of his ex girlfriends.De Blobis in actuality, a title that has the potential to ooze originality from its pores....
At the end of thehectic GDC weekand right before the epicSan Francisco NARPwas Wondercon 2008. I, along with Dyson, Virtualgirl, .tiff, Reverend Anthony, Charlie Suh, Ceark, Dexter345, and Chad Concelmo, all ventured through the sea of nerds and cosplayers. There were tons of comics all around and plenty of delicious looking action figures and toys that we all drooled over. This experience was a nice change compared tomy previouscon adventure. The atmosphere was very welcoming and there were a lot of fantastic cosplaying all around....
Gather round, lads, it’s full disclosure time: I didn’t playSam & Max Season 1. I didn’t playSam & Max Hit the Road. I’m only perfunctorily acquainted with the entire adventure genre. I have failed you. This, along with my crippling insecurity and stunted legs, can be blamed on my parents — I wasn’t born in time to have developed higher-level critical thinking skills necessary to play adventure games during their 80’s heyday....
We’ve been chatting with Tim Jones, Head of Art and Design at Rebellion and project lead on Sega’sAliens vs. Predator. While chewing the fat over the game’s design, I got to ask how gamers can personalize their multiplayer experience, how much customization is involved, and, of course, whether we’ll see any interesting Alien castes like the notorious “Runner” Dog Alien fromAlien 3. “We are not attempting to create a class-based system for multiplayer — we decided we had enough of a challenge to make sure the three different species are sufficiently balanced,” said Jones, reiteratingearlier statementsfrom the studio....
