Saturday, January 9, 2010
First 30 games in the Game Room revealed...
Just got new GI...Halo Reach
Bad Company 2 'reaching' Uncharted 2's graphics
Upcoming FPS Battlefield Bad Company 2 is "reaching" the graphical quality set by last year's stunning PS3-exclusive Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, but it will not surpass it, developer DICE had admitted.
Speaking to VideoGamer.com, producer Gordon Van Dyke said no game can claim to better the graphics seen in Naughty Dog's Uncharted 2.
"I wouldn't make that kind of claim," he said. "Uncharted 2 is an amazing-looking game. But we're reaching that level of quality. It's going to be hard for any game to be able to make a claim that they look better. But we are getting to, I feel, that level, where it's looking very impressive. When you see it - and I've heard other people say it as well, so it's not just me - other people are saying it's getting there."
Uncharted 2, released last year, raised the bar for video game graphics, with incredible animations and detailed environments wowing PS3 owners.
But Van Dyke reckons Bad Company 2, which is our 37th most anticipated game of 2010, will surpass Uncharted 2 in one key area: vistas.
"The thing is though, we have much bigger environments. To even be close, to me is quite an honour as a developer. The one thing I did was, when I looked at their game I was like, damn them! What have they done to the rest of us? I was looking for something where I could say, okay, that we're doing better. I looked at their vistas, and I think that our vistas, because it's in game, this is actual in-game terrain you could theoretically take your soldier and walk up to, our vistas are better. Naughty Dog, if you hear this, I challenge you versus our vistas!"
Friday, January 8, 2010
iPhone game Penguin Bounce free for next 2 days
Penguin Bounce is a little known but surprisingly fun iPhone game that was 99 cents in the app store. It is now free for the next couple days.
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Thursday, January 7, 2010
Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing Will Feature Mii Support
Modern Warfare 2 DLC Coming
Exclusivity. Love it or hate, it's a big part of modern day game publishing and according to information released during Microsoft's recent CES keynote, Xbox 360 players will be able to get their hands on Infinity Ward's first round of downloadable content for Modern Warfare 2
Xbox Live's very own Major Nelson confirmed this over on his official Live blog late last night stating "This Spring, the first Modern Warfare 2 content packs will be available exclusively first on Xbox LIVE."
Back in November of last year, IW's man in the spotlight Robert Bowling dropped hints that the DLC would be hitting in the spring, but made no specific mention of any kind of exclusivity deal. We're wondering how much cash Microsoft parted with to make this happen.
Details of the DLC remain locked down tighter than Captain Price's underwear drawer at time of writing.
Alan Wake to receive post-release DLC
Pre-order> Alan Wake
Microsoft Drops Natal Chip!
Halo Reach Anyone???
Halo Reach will be "THE biggest title of 2010", Microsoft's said in a statement released today.
The Bungie shooter is the prong of Xbox 360's Christmas attack this year, the other sides of the spear being Fable III and whatever it decides to release with Project Natal.
"2010 will deliver our biggest line-up ever of exclusive blockbuster releases," the platform holder said in a statement.
"Kicking off the first-half of the year with back-to-back Xbox 360 exclusives like Splinter Cell Conviction, Crackdown 2, Mass Effect 2, and Alan Wake. And the first content packs for 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2' from Activision will be available this Spring, exclusively first on Xbox 360."
Pre order here> Link Halo Reach
Project Natal will go on sale in November 2010
Microsoft to Announce '360 Game Room' Tonight
Capcom teases new Mad Catz Super Street Fighter IV Tournament Edition Fight Stick
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Matt Hazard: Blood Bath & Beyond Hits XBLA Today
Matt is back for another adventure this time in the Xbox Live Arcade service. Matt Hazard: Blood Bath & Beyond is available for 1200 MS Points today.
Dragonball: Revenge of King Piccolo $20
Amazing price drop... This game came out less than 3 months ago!
LINK: > Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo
NBA Jam Is Coming Back For The Wii
ESPN reports that Electronic Arts has secured the rights to remake the Midway classic NBA Jam for the Wii. Gaming enthusiasts who were in grade- or high school in the mid-90s are bursting with excitement; everyone else will probably be left cold.
BOXER SAYS VIDEO GAMES HELPED GET HIM READY TO FIGHT
Call of Duty: Vietnam!?!?
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t's only a matter of time before it was explored, and now there are some rumors rumbling out there about the next installment into the Call of Duty series.
Rumors are that Treyarch's next offering up in the franchise, assuming it's during Winter of this year is that the next game will take place in Vietnam. According to PlanetXbox360 the game will focus heavily on the story and the individual stories of each person in your squad.
Also according to the PlanetXbox360, the game will lean heavily on other war films for inspiration such as "Platoon", "Apocalypse Now", and "Full Metal Jacket."
These are just rumors for now but considering that Treyarch is pretty predictable with their upcoming games, I'd think it's save to assume these are probably true.
Electronic Arts standing behind Tiger Woods
Electronic Arts Inc. said Monday it will stand behind Tiger Woods — at least for the release of a new online golf game featuring the embattled athlete.
The relationship between EA and Woods stretches back more than a decade, and Tiger Woods-branded games have pulled in hundreds of millions of dollars for the company over the years.
Woods' image has been tarnished following a Thanksgiving holiday car accident at the golfer's Florida home, which led to an admission of extramarital "transgressions." He is taking a break from golf and has been dropped by major corporate sponsors AT&T Corp. and Accenture.
Gillette, a unit of the Procter & Gamble Co., and Swiss watch maker Tag Heuer, a unit of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, have also said they will cut back their use of Woods in their advertising campaigns.
On Monday, EA Sports President Peter Moore said the company decided to stick with Woods because he is "still one of the greatest athletes in history" despite his "mistakes" off the golf course.
Moore added in a statement that the company has spent "considerable time" developing and testing the new "Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online" game, which he called a "breakthrough experience."
The game will be released in so-called "open beta" later this month, which means it is still being tested but anyone can play and help find areas that can be improved. EA said it doesn't have a date yet for the launch of the finished game.
The company, which is based in Redwood City, wouldn't comment on whether Woods' sex scandal will affect EA's plans for a new edition of Woods' popular console game, "Tiger Woods PGA Tour," a franchise that that doesn't do as well as the company's enormously successful "Madden" football series but is still a serious moneymaker. EA has raked in more than $670 million from the Woods franchise in the United States alone over the length of the partnership, according to estimates by market research firm NPD Group.
The most recent installment of the console game, "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10," was launched in June 2009. The next one is scheduled for the summer of 2010. The games are especially popular on the Nintendo Wii, whose intuitive motion controls lend themselves to sports games.
EA can continue to make "PGA Tour" games without Woods. It could pick another golfer with a more pristine family life. Or it could go back to the pre-Woods days, and simply call it "PGA Tour."
The game has no real competitors. EA is the only company licensed by the PGA to make games that carry its name. It lets players play in a setting that looks as close to the real thing as possible.
Most of Woods' $100 million in annual earnings have come not from tournament winnings but from companies that wanted to be associated with his persona.
Best Buy Caught Ripping Off Computer Buyers
It's best to avoid Best-Buy when buying computers. On some of their sale items, they add a mandatory fee for "computer optimization" which is nothing more than a scam to part you & your money.
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One shopper was told that optimization made the computer's processor "200% faster." The same shopper was told that he could try to optimize the computer on his own, but without assistance he would not be able to increase the processor speed.
When the shoppers asked if they could duplicate the optimization themselves, they got a variety of estimates of the time they would save if Best Buy did it for them. One shopper was told she would save "an hour and a half," while another was told that downloading Windows updates alone would take 6 hours. One shopper was even told that optimizing a computer at home would take about two days!
Another shopper was warned that the laptop was "incomplete" without optimization.
When she asked what the salesperson meant by "incomplete," he told her that it didn’t come with anti-virus software or Microsoft Office. The salesperson went on to tell her that optimization was her choice, but that Best Buy didn’t "recommend getting online" without it.
He explained, "You’ll get online, get a virus, and end up spending $200 to clean it up."
When she asked if she could install anti-virus software herself instead of paying Geek Squad to do it, she was told installing software yourself, "negates the vendor’s warranty."
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Blu-Ray Gets Bigger
Darksiders, no MP nor DLC coming up
"Vigil has a very strong all-or-nothing mentality, and if we're not confident we can pull it off, we're not doing it. So we focused on making the most kick-ass single-player game possible."