Sony saw how great the turnout was last year for their PlayStation Home virtual E3 booth, so they did it again this year. It was a success, with over 500,000 users popping in to check out what Sony has in store for us in the coming years, saysVentureBeat. Compare that half a million virtual attendees to the 46,800 people that attended in real life! Sony had some really cool stuff going on during E3 online....
Bungie’s latest playlist changes forHalo: Reachwent live today, and there are quite a few noteworthy tweaks to the formula. For me personally, it was when I saw how all of those dreaded Snipers gametypes were removed from Team Slayer that my eyes bulged out of my head in pure delight. Anyone who takesHalofar more seriously than I ever could (aka 99% of the game’s audience), will definitely want to see the full list....
The good people atSka Studiosreached out the Destructoid community for help with naming an attack inThe Dishwasher: Vampire Smilebased on the above video. The best name would win the submitter a place in the game’s credits, an autographed bottle of Fervor Shine! dishwashing liquid, aVampire Smilet-shirt and a Ska Studios guitar pick. Ska Studios went through the 270 plus entries and have picked Ceark for the “Righteous Shockwave of Judgment” attack name....
Hot Chicks with Cheat CodesisSpike TV’sspecial series where they have hot chicks giving out cheat codes. The premise is extremely simple, and is also completely retarded. But hey, I’m not complaining here. The mini-show started back in November of last year, and has covered various games with a few girls in rotation.Theirlatest episodegives out cheats for the originalRainbow Six: Vegas.One complaint I have is that the show tends to give cheat codes for older titles....
Listen up youretro gits, cop a load of theseMega Man 9screensand try not to get jizz in your keyboard. I know it’s difficult, but do please try because it’s too early in the morning to be tightening up thin strips of tissue paper and digging them in between the keys. Yes, it’sMega Man 9, every retro fetishist’s wet dream, with some more NES-inspired visuals. These particular images show off everyone’s “favorite” platforming stereotype, the lava level....
I have found that, when it comes to indie games, it’s best to try and have no expectations whatsoever. Impossible, really, when you see a field full of platformers and space shooters but it’s something I that I keep in mind.Icarus Proudbottom in: The Curse of the Chocolate Fountainis a perfect example of why. I thought this was just going to be a forced-scrolling dodge-em-up. And it is. ButChocolate Fountainis made a little bit deeper through a strange narrative and the introduction of melee combat about a third of the way through....
QuakeCon 2010 kicks off in only a few hours, with doors opening to crowds of folks at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas. What would a major event be without a major announcement? According to id founder and technical genius John Carmack, count on one. “I’m showing something neat and unannounced at QuakeCon tomorrow,” he teased on hisTwitter. “Deciding if I should leave it be or sneak a little more code in…”...
Tim Schafer. Timf**kingSchafer. He’s a man that most of us know. One of the writers behindThe Secret of Monkey Island, and the man behindFull Throttle,Grim Fandango,Psychonauts, andBrütal Legend, Schafer has remained on the cutting edge of game narrative and humor. It’s with good reason that at the 2008 Spike Video Game Awards, Jack Black decided to chant Schafer’s name for a solid two minutes: it’s one of the biggest in the industry....
Most of you by now should be familiar withCooper Lawrence, the smug psychologist who grinned and giggledwhile slanderingBioWare’sMass Effectfor content she had neither witnessed nor indeed, had any experience with firsthand. Well, it seems that she’s now gettinga taste of her own medicine, as insulted gamers have swarmed onto Amazon to reviewher book. The catch? They’ve not read it, but just like she andMass Effect, that little detail hasn’t stopped them forming a belittling and negative opinion of it....
Seth Killian is the community manager atCapcom-Unity.com. I would have told you that in the headline, but I didn’t have room. Plus, I was on a roll with the whole alliteration thing. I recently asked Seth a few Capcom questions that have been eating away at my brain since outlast interview. As always, Seth manages to say nothing and everything at the same time, dancing around my inquires with a style and grace I can only fantasize of someday possessing....
Despite being a massive fan ofKillzone 2, I have to confess that the game’s story has always disappointed me, not least because of how much wasted potential there is. The universe ofKillzone, and the tragic villainy of the Helghast, can be quite fascinating, but the best stuff is out-of-game fluff. Senior producer Steven Ter Heide, however, promises thatKillzone 3will ramp things up. “The thing aboutKillzone’s storyline is that while it always takes a backseat to the action, you’re able to learn a lot about its universe by carefully reading between the lines,” says Ter Heide....
There’s nothing more satisfying that sitting down after Thanksgiving turkey and playing video games until you pass out. This year, that game might beLeft 4 Dead. In a recent interview with Shacknews, Valve’s marketing director, Doug Lombardi mentioned that Valve was looking to do a simultaneous worldwide release forLeft 4 Deadsome time in November, several months after the initial summer release date. This isn’t particularly surprising, given Valve’s history of long delays (hey there,Half-Life)....
I want you to envision a DS game that’s kind of like a hybrid betweenAnimal Crossingand the Harry Potter novels. Got that vision in place? Ok, good, becauseLittle Magician’s Magic Adventureis basically just that. Slated to come out in mid-March, the title places the player in a real-time world where they attend the Magic Academy to learn spells and socialize with up to 150 characters. That’s a lot of meet and greet to do!...
