While I was busy having a generally fun time at PAX and sometimes trying not to die, other people were there to get work done. Props to them, especially the ones that happen to work on this very Web site. Joystiq also fell into that category, it seems. While speaking toRed Steel 2‘s creative director, Jason VandenBerghe,the site was toldthat he “personally would love to see any and all consoles have more sword fighting experiences....
Curious users probing theStreet Fighter IVbenchmark tool’sfiles have found something mysterious: announcer audio files for T. Hawk and Dee Jay. These two fightershave been long-rumoredto hitStreet Fighter IVas downloadable content. But they may have also been included in early development, thus what people are finding now could be nothing more than stray data. In late May, Capcom’s Seth Killiantried to silence the character DLC rumblings. “No plans for additional DLC right now,” Killian said....
When Koei announcedBladestorm: The Hundred Years’ War, many people wrote it off as merely anotherDynasty Warriorsgame set in France. Of course, these people were likely unaware of Koei’s excellent past console strategy games.Bladestormmay place you into the midst of a medieval battlefield, but that’s where similarity ends with the cult button masher. Bladestormis, at heart, an RTS, but one quite unlike any others you could play this year. The question is, however, whether unique always means good, and it is this question that we shall answer after the jump....
If you’ve learned anything about me during my last year here at the ‘Toid, it’s that I constantly fantasize about the inevitable zombie apocalypse. Between my root cellar stocked with canned foods and deadly projectile weapons to my three-story personal library full of reference material — cue Max Brooks namedropping — on the subject, I’d like to think I’m well prepared for the day when Hell is finally full and the dead once again roam the Earth....
According to an article onVariety.com, long-time Hollywood director Dwight Little will be yelling “action,” “cut,” and “Kuma needs more make-up” on the set of the upcoming live-actionTekkenfilm. Little is no stranger to the action genre, having directed Steven Seagal in the classic film,Marked for Death. Other works of note includeAnacondas 2, an episode of the short-livedNightmare on Elm Streettelevision spin-offFreddy’s Nightmares, andFree Willy 2: The Adventure Home. It’s this varied experience that should give Little the edge in bringing Namco’s fighter to life on the big screen....
Speaking with VideoGamer, BioWare’s Casey Hudson described what we can expect from the next batch ofMass Effect 2downloadable content: a warm-up of sorts for the next game! “So, for the time being there’s going to be a continued stream of DLC for people. We’ll start to have packs that’ll tell the story betweenMass Effect 2and3. But beyond that,” says Hudson, “we kind of have to see how people are responding to what we have and go from there....
The other day we talked about howDragon Quest IXwasonly getting one save slotto a cartridge, and openly wondered what Square Enix’s motivation was for the relatively unique decision. The justificationhas been explainedas more a matter of space than anything else, withDQIXallegedly being too large for any more save data. “Because the amount of freedom we give players is huge, the data that needs to be saved is enormous,”explainsproducer Ryutaro Ichimuar....
Dead Space 2producer Rich Briggs came on stage during EA’s E3 2010 conference to “wow” us with a live demonstration, and “wow” us he did. The session started in a church, where Isaac was assaulted by a boss and had to hit its weak point for massive damage sort of like the tentacle battles inDead Space. Upon hurting the beast, it ran away and a bunch of kid-like Necromorphs rushed after Isaac....
One of my favorite experiences at E3 was when I got to sit down and playFallout 3for about an hour in a press only room. It was a glorious time and they had set it up so you got the fullFalloutaesthetic experience, which is one of the things the game truly nails. If the above trailer tells us anything it’s that that great aesthetic is returning. Also, guns and shooting people are returning too....
So, yeah. We all haveheard abouttheScott PilgrimPSN game coming from Ubisoft. We have evenseen it in action. And these new E3 screens are mostly from set pieces we have seen before. But that does not change the fact that they are awesome! Even taking away the fact that I am a giant fan of retro video games, this game looks like a lot of fun. It’s a 4-player co-op brawler in the vein ofThe Simpsons ArcadeandCastle Crashers, for crying out loud....
Playing Monopoly on a game console is something you may have done before, butMonopoly Streetstakes the game experience and makes it fully interactive. You’re done with the little pawns, plastic houses and that paper money you know you’ll eventually lose anyway. Instead you’ll get a full-blown online-compatible, immersive world that is inviting enough that it’ll make you want to add that board game to your growing garage sale pile. I had a chance to check out an early version of the game running on the Xbox 360, jumping into a match with some fellow game journalists, and then later in a one-on-one....
Sony has finally revealed a pay subscription service for the PlayStation Network. The service, called PlayStation Plus, will run you $49.99 for a one-year subscription and $17.99 for three months; it will launch later this month. For a limited time, you’ll get three additional months for free if you buy a one-year subscription. While the regular PSN services will not change at all, PS Plus will give you extra stuff and support on top of what already comes free....
TheKinect Sports: Season 2demo may have just birthed E3 2011’s most cringe-worthy moment, as two dudes pretended to be manly and normal as they played invisible football next to each other. I’ve always thought that voice controls were one of Kinect’s best features, and it’s great to see them implemented in so many up coming games. Playing team football with improved motion controls and newly-implemented voice controls looks fun. Doing it on stage is front of millions of people does not....
