Publisher: Telltale Games Developer: Telltale Games Platform: Xbox 360, PS3, Steam, iOS Released: October 9th, 2012 It’s not everyday that a company would bank 100% of their efforts on the writing, the story, and the love. Telltale is renowned for their point...
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Buggy
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD [Game]
Publisher: Activision Developer: Robomodo Platform: Playstation Network, Xbox Live, Windows Released: July 18th (360), Q3 (PSN, PC) Rated: T for Teen When Activision and company decided to reboot and re-imagine THPS, my entire generation of gamers rejoiced. However, I think we all...
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Awesome
Max Payne 3 [Game]
Publisher: Rockstar Studios, Distributed by Take Two Interactive Developer: Rockstar Vancouver Platform: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 (reviews), and PC Released: May. 15th (NA) on Console, May. 31st (NA) on PC. Rated: M for Mature “An Older, not-so-wiser Payne embarks on...
E3 2012: Sony Press Conference Live-Blog
This event is now OVER. Please feel free to read through the news as it broke, and comment on the article.
Jet Grind Radio Coming To Current-Gen Consoles!
In possibly the best news of the week, Sega America has posted a teaser video revealing the latest Dreamcast game to arrive on Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network…and it’s an excellent choice! The classic 3rd-person action title Jet Grind Radio (also known as Jet Set Radio, depending on your region) will be available for download soon! Watch the teaser here....
Sony Killing the PSN Brand, Changing to Sony Entertainment Network
PSN is dead. All hail the new SEN. From the out-of-left-field portion of today’s news stories, Sony has officially announced that in a scant amount of time (likely before you even read this) the Playstation Network brand will be dead and gone. In its wake will be the newly-christened SEN, or “Sony Entertainment Network”. Sony, explaining its decision to change...
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Lazy
Red Bull X-fighters World Tour – XBLA [Game]
Publisher: Konami Developer:Xendex Platform: Xbox 360, Xbox Live Arcade Marketplace Release: September 14, 2011 “It’s just barely passable. Though I can’t recommend it to anyone..” The Red Bull X-fighters are a series of Motocross stunt competitions conceived and carried out by Energy Drink Producer Red Bull. Given that FMX stunt shows can be pretty exciting to watch, someone had...
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Meh
Zombie Apocalypse: Never Die Alone – XBLA [Game]
Publisher: Konami Developer: Backbone Entertainment Platform: Xbox 360, PS3 Released: Oct 25, 2011 “Catering to gamers who are convinced they are prepared for the zombie apocalypse.” Why do we keep doing this to ourselves? I’ve seen too many Dual Joystick shooters in the past two years to care anymore, and too many zombie games where it’s just become a...
Mass Effect 3 gets 4-player co-op and Galaxy at War feature!
People already know that Mass Effect 3 is planned to be big, but today it more truly grew with the announcements of 4-player co-op missions and an online feature for the single-player campaign called Galaxy of War. Both of these will mark the first appearance of any multiplayer interaction in the Mass Effect series, and from the sound of things...
Sony launching “Only on PSN” promotion tomorrow
Possibly inspired by Microsoft’s popular Summer of XBLA, Sony’s announced that they’ll be rolling their own online sale event over the PSN, titled Only on PSN. Starting tomorrow, several games are going to be released, and several sales are going to be placed on PSN exclusives. At least two new releases are planned to come per-week, each of themfairly strong...
I Am Alive officially coming this Winter!!
There’s been ridiculous amounts of buzz around I Am Alive for the past few months. Forgetting its good-looking original concept, the game’s stayed pretty deep in the shadows while its IP got traded to Ubisoft from developer Darkworks. Well thanks to Ubisoft Shanghai, the game’s finally been announced to officially be coming out, with the hope to release it this...
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an Adventure
RAGE [Game]
Developer: id Software Publisher: Bethesda Softworks Engine: id Tech 5 Platforms: Xbox 360, iOS, Playstation 3, Games for Windows Release Date: October 4th (NA), Oct 6th (AUS), Oct 7th (EU) Rated: M for Mature “id Software Reclaims the Throne it Created” First off, let’s get these obvious fan-boy ideals behind us. I LOVE id, and anything id creates. Doom...
Call of Duty: Black Ops Rezurrection DLC arrives on PC and PS3!
About a month ago, Activision released the Rezurrection DLC pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops on Xbox 360, ending in generally decent reviews. Today, owners of the PC and PS3 versions will be able to finally bash more zombies at their leisure as the DLC has now been released for both platforms. Rezurrection features a total five maps, with...
Shuhei Yoshida confirms that the PS Vita is region free!
So how tempted are you to get a PlayStation Vita? Well, if you’re the most keen to pick it up in North America or Europe, you might have the freedom to get your hands on it a little earlier. President of Sony Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida has been under many Twitter questions recently, one of which about whether the PS...
Dragon Age 2: Mark of the Assassin DLC Announced for October
Sudden reveals and release dates are something pretty rare to find together, but BioWare has generously thrown both at us today. Coming October 11th will be some nice new DLC for the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC versions of Dragon Age 2 titled Mark of the Assassin. This’ll mark the third non-item pack DLC for the game, and it’s looking...
Debut Trailer released for Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD
Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath has had a pretty rough road to Sony’s doorstep. Despite its widely positive reception on other consoles, the PS2 version was cancelled, and the game has only been re-released once on Steam since its 2005 release. Well, a year ago we were blessed with the announcement of an HD remake for PSN, and Sony today has finally...
HD Max Payne Announced for Mobile Devices
At this point, it’s fairly known that the mobile gaming industry’s bigger than ever. Full studios are built around the cellular devices, and there’s more time and money put into it than ever before. Today, it’s grown a few more inches by adding the mighty name of Max Payne to the platform. Rockstar Games has announced that the original Max...
Crysis coming to Xbox 360 and PS3 in October
Back in July, people might remember a buzz in the Crysis community. This was because the ESRB page for the original Crysis was updated to include the Xbox 360 and PS3 in the list of available consoles. Since no announcement had been made of it, it had a lot of people confused and curious. The closest we ever got to...
Assassin’s Creed Revelations Beta Open to All PSN Members Tomorrow!
For the past short while, the hugely anticipated Assassin’s Creed Revelations has been in its online multiplayer beta. With its nine characters, three maps and four maps, it’s had the people with access more than happy. Up until now, that’s only included Uplay members, Playstation Plus subscribers, and those who purchased SOCOM 4: US Navy Seals. However, if you own...
Fallout: New Vegas’ Lonesome Road DLC coming September 20th
For the most part, Bethesda’s been pretty good about getting us as much Fallout: New Vegas DLC as they can. We’ve already had the first three new packs, each getting mildly mixed reviews, but each certainly adding plenty to the already massive post-apocalyptic RPG. After a somewhat short wait after the last DLC was released, Old World Blues, Bethesda has...
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