Archive | February, 2008

The Club, Reviewed [Xbox 360]

29. February 2008

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At first glance, Bizarre Creations’ The Club comes off as another over-the-shoulder third person shooter. What it presents, however, is something much more than your standard shooter. It’s a quarter-eatin’ arcade cabinet in disc form, putting standard story aside for sport and scoring in a brutal underground bloodsport hosted by a disembodied Englishman’s voice. The laughable [...]

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Watch: Battlefield Heroes Preview Trailer

29. February 2008

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If you’re one of the Battlefield fanatics who’s been up in arms in a panic that the upcoming Battlefield Heroes is going to ruin the franchise, we’d like to steer you towards today’s trailer. While the actual gameplay segments of the video are limited, we’re completely behind DICE on this one, if not just [...]

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Insider Interview: James Silva, Ska Studios

28. February 2008

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James Silva - Ska Studios As you may have seen earlier last week, we kind of really like The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai. I gushed about it to the crew here, and it seems that everyone is about as excited as I am. The gruesome action and intense sensory overload could only have come from [...]

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Do you want Assassin’s Creed on your PSP?

27. February 2008

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Would you like to play Assassin’s Creed on your PSP? Well there are a few thousand people out there who would like to! A petition has popped up over on petitions online and so far has over 15000 signatures. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred these petitions never work, but maybe this will be that [...]

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Kratos is Pleased. New God of War PSP, Metal Gear Bundle.

27. February 2008

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At the recent Destination Playstation event held by Sony in Arizona two new bundles were announced. The one announcement that peaked my interest was of course, the God of War PSP Entertainment Pack shipping in June. This bundle contains a new blood red PSP and a copy of the God of War: Chains of Olympus [...]

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Phil Harrison Leaves SCE

26. February 2008

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  Sony Computer Entertainment have announced Phil Harrison’s resignation. Harrison’s role as President of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios will resign from SCE and Kazuo Hirai, President and Group CEO of SCEI, will immediately take his place. Hirai will take his duties and carry on his current tasks. “As one of the founding members of SCE, Phil [...]

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EA Makes Take-Two 2 Billion Buyout Offer

24. February 2008

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The words Grand Theft Auto are synonymous with video games. Few three words have caused as much controversy, or made as much money. It hardly comes as a surprise that the world’s largest publisher, Electronic Arts, would make an offer for the franchise’s parent company, Take-Two Interactive. Electronic Arts offered the company the option to Take-two [...]

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New Wipeout HD Screens

24. February 2008

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Wipeout HD looks great, we all know that. One thing we didn’t quite realize is how amazingly crisp and detailed the final version will be. The title that will soon be on the PLAYSTATION Store will feature the best tracks from the Wipeout series while maintaining HD quality gameplay. You will be able to control your [...]

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Parental Guidance #1: Curious Villages and Geeks in Disguise

24. February 2008

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After 20 minutes of doing the same puzzle in Professor Layton and the Curious Village, my mother looks up at me with glowing eyes as she tries to suppress shouting “I’ve got it!”. We’ve been on each of our DS’ doing the exact same puzzle about four hours in to the puzzle happy Nintendo [...]

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Too Human In March-April “Coming Soon” Timeframe?

22. February 2008

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Xbox.com’s upcoming release calendar bared a little tidbit of interest to us this morning. On the main page, eight “coming soon” titles appear above the list, most of which are being released in the this-week-to-April release window. The Club, Condemned 2, Bully, MLB 2K8, Frontlines: Fuel of War and Dynasty Warriors 6 and the highly [...]

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