The very idea of a subscription-based service that is full of promotional advertisements that are viewed between promotional advertisements appalled us when Sony’s PSN-exclusive Qore was announced this week. We know they’re giving gamers an extended glance at the upcoming SOCOM: Confrontation, trailers for Metal Gear Solid 4, the upcoming Incredible Hulk movie and more, [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 9, 2008
By turning the camera to connect the two edges… Echochrome is a deceptively simple concept. The visual style and complete lack of gameplay give viewers the impression that the game is more straightforward than it is. But once the controller is in your hands, you will soon realize that the game, while not particularly [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 2, 2008
With weapons-based combat titles such as Devil May Cry and Ninja Gaiden largely coming out of Japan, it was great to see a western touch on the genre when SCEA dropped God of War for the PS2 in 2005. The differences in these games were quite noticeable, most poignantly that God of War required [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 29, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 28, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Coming out of GDC today was the release of playable XNA games for the Xbox 360. After over a year, Microsoft has finally brought the software to the public in an easy-to-access download via Xbox Live Marketplace, and while the content is currently limited to trials of seven games, the quality of them shocked us [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 30, 2008
I received this letter in my e-mail and was immediately intrigued. I had not heard of the Professor Layton series before, so I dug deeper. Like the Phoenix Wright series, this is another Japanese port. Japan is currently waiting for the third installment while the first comes out in North America on February 12th. This game [...]
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Friday, June 6, 2008
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