Did you know that Mark Hamill was inDarksiders? I didn’t know that! He’s playing a character called The Watcher, who is in charge of making sure that the game’s antagonist, War, does his job correctly and doesn’t step out of line. He looks cool and he sounds a bit like the product of a sexual encounter between The Joker and a snake. Just another reason to look forward to this game....
Microsoft hastoday confirmedthat a revised Xbox 360 controller with an improved D-Pad is going to be released in the future. Here’s the catch though — it’s a limited edition item, and it’s only going to be available in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Out there, somewhere, a thousand American shmup and fighting game fans just put their heads through windows. “The new limited-edition green wireless controller offers enhancements to d-Pad functionality, which will add to the experience of playing games where the d-Pad is the primary control mechanism,” stated an MS rep....
Modern Warfare 2gained huge amounts of wrath when it was revealed that Infinity Ward planned to drop dedicated server support. WithModern Warfare 3, the studio is hoping to gain some goodwill with the announcement that dedicated servers are back! Beachhead is also working hard on a PC-version ofCall of Duty Elite, just to make sure nobody’s left out of Activision’s latest money-maker. On the console side, Elite is getting a “Console App” alongside everything else, which will allow Elite access without having to leave your armchair....
Hello, people outside of Japan! How are you today? I have some exciting news! You can finally now download your favorite tunes from the Game Boy Advance game,Mother 3! Two soundtracks have been made available —Mother 3+andMother 3i. Yes, it’s true! For $9.99, you can be listening to your favoriteMother 3classic tunes like “We Miss You – Theme of Love” and my personal favorite, “Oh, Buta-Mask.” What was that? You’ve never playedMother 3?...
Yesterday Infinity Ward Creative Specialist Robert Bowling went on an information dropping streak about the upcoming PC version ofCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Those looking to play the game on the PC can breathe a sigh of relief as hetweetedthat the PC version of the game will indeed be landing on the exact same day as the 360 and PS3. He doesn’t have the minimum specs yet, but he says the PC version will have Prestige Mode and plenty of Steam support, which is good news for those who prefer to shoot with a mouse....
Free-to-play MMOMythoshas gone out of beta and into its live release. you’re able to download the free clienthereor throughmirrors. While this concerns the game’s European release, servers are open to U.S. players until a North American release goes through. A boxed version of the game is available to local (European) retailers for £10 or equivalent, and gives you £10 worth of “a variety of exclusive in-game items.” Are any of you still playing it if you got into the beta?...
WhenNamco recently trademarked the name God Eater, the first thing I thought of was the bookThe Beast of Revelations: Comments on the God Eaterby famous occult writer Aleister Crowley. I’m pretty sure Namco doesn’t have anything quite as extreme as Crowley’s vision of the God Eater in mind, but you never know, I guess. That being said, the name conjures up visions of dark locales to explore and a possibly equally mysterious story....
I’d love to tell you I think pet simulators are below my maturity level, but as I said in last week’s edition ofRetroforceGo!,Nintendogsis a bit of a guilty pleasure — and I’m not the only one who confessed to such horrors! Most of the generic ones do pass under my radar, but being a Japanophile means that I also have a sweet spot for many of Asia’s famous animals, especially pandas....
I fired up my 360 and installed the New Xbox Experience last night.. After making my avatar and fiddling with the menus, I sunk my teeth into the feature I was most looking forward to, Netflix streaming, and watched a couple episodes of a short-lived, Jay Mohr TV show. This afternoon, I went back to watch some more, only to discover that the show was no longer listed in my Instant Watch Queue on the 360....
The crazy people that reside inEVE Online‘s CG rendering department sure know how to churn out a dramatic trailer, but you didn’t quite see thatlast time, since it the task at hand was to promote the game itself, and not its backstory junk. For stuff like that, you want to see the stuff they put out for the game’s periodic expansions. And here’s the latest one, promoting theIncursionexpansion which, among other things, aims to beef up the game’s co-operative, player-vs....
This week’s Pokemon Sunday has revealed a new legendary Pokemon for PokemonBlack/White. It’s Bikutini! Or at least, that’s one interpretation of the Hirigana. Some other sites are calling it “Victini”, so be ready to use either spelling in your Pokemon-related Google searches. Another interpretation of that Hirigana is “bikini”. Don’t look that word up on Google. Don’t! I found out the hard way that bikini doesnotland you much in the way of Pokemon....
Along with announcing anewDoomgame, Activision, id, and Raven Software also saw fit to release some new media for their upcoming first person shooterWolfensteinat QuakeCon. Although Nickorigionally expectedthe title to be a placeholder, the new logo seems to lend credence to the game lacking any sort of ridiculous subtitle. The new trailer shows the war-torn city that series protagonist B.J. Blazkowicz will be making his way through, along with several of the Nazi’s that he’ll be killing with his new supernatural powers....
Nintendo has stretched its legal muscles and shut down a Pokémon fan project MMO, Pokenet,Joystiqis reporting. The work-in-progress Pokenet was mostly operational at the time that it was shut down, with some 7,000 players logged in to the game. Players were able to catch, evolve, and trade Pokemon across two regions — Kanto and Johto — with more to come later. The game was free-to-play, with the developers losing money on hosting running the developers 80 American dollars monthly....
