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The sequel to the user generated masterpiece, Little Big Planet has received an official release date via the US Playstation Blog. Little Big Planet 2 will release on November 16 and will have multiple pre-order options available.
Media Molecule, the developer of the game, has joined forces with Disney, to give...
Man alive, how great would it be to be rich? You could afford crazy things like, I don’t know, new shoes, healthy food, and six 20-inch monitors to play Modern Warfare 2 with. That’s the dream. So as you can see, the game scales quite well across all six screens—the only “glitch” occurs when text gets cut off at the bezel of the TV. ATI’s Eyefinity technology makes this magic possible. The 5800 series of cards (and up, presumably) allow you to span compatible games across several screens. It’s not something you’re going to find at a Best Buy demo area or whatever, so people were freaking out while they passed by. Pretty neat, I thought.
Speaking on the developer’s Facebook page, Harmonix has confirmed that Rock Band 3 will release this holiday season.
Harmonix is developing Rock Band 3 for worldwide release this holiday season! The game, which will be published by MTV Games and distributed by Electronic...
After a hiatus, HP is back in the camera game with its Spring line-up of five new point-and-shoot cameras and three new camcorders. The budget devices mark HP's...
The China operator of World of Warcraft will seek new government approval for the game, dragging it further into a turf war between Chinese regulatory agencies.
The creator says at Reddit that he only used about $70 worth of parts in addition to the exercycle itself. Basically a magnet on the wheel triggers a series of sensors, and the frequency with which the sensors are hit determines the “pressure” on the analog stick. I’m thinking it must be pretty hard to use the controller at the same time. I’d fall off right away. More info and schematics at the project’s site.
It rarely takes much to entice a techie to fire up a game, but here's how gaming skills pair up with professional expertise.
Gizmodo has posted a leaked video of someone playing Half-Life 2 using Microsoft's Project Natal. It's not yet clear whether the video is authentic but seeing it in action, and actually working, is definitely a nice step forward if genuine, one can't help but notice the strange hand motions that are being made to make the game playable. The hand motions also don't seem to work too well in some instances. You'll see, a little over halfway through the video, the guy has issues interacting with an object.
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 What's so hard about this, guys? I mean, obviously you can't make a controller that works with all the games out there, but if you make a good, cheap, basic one, plenty of developers will add a control option that accommodates it. Instead, we get garbage like the Game Grip and this plastic Batarang-looking thing.
A few of you may already know that Team Fortress 2 didn’t always look like Toy Story más violence, but for the unawares: it did. So, proof! A certain Curits Lassam, friend to all, found an old PC Gamer preview from the year two-thousand that described the game in its old, Counter-Strike-like art style. Yuck. It’s safe to say I wouldn’t have spent nearly as much time sniping those red dogs if the game looked realistic. There’s a certain charm to mayhem and carnage when it looks like Buzz Lightyear.
In the end, after going through two engines and efforts to render more complex strippers, the game fell into spiral of improvements. This spiral, in the end, is what killed it. Not content to release just any game, they never ever released a game.
This year's game-changing product is from Novatel and it is called a MiFi, a super small card that's about the size of a third of a pack of playing cards.
Anyone who grew up in proximity to a video arcade in the 1970s or '80s remembers Space Invaders. And anyone who grew up afterward has probably seen the game...
A French dude named Christopho has created The Legend of Zelda: Mystery of Solarus DX, essentially a fan homage to the Zelda world. It comes complete with the requisite durdle-durdle-string-string music of the original series as well as a back story so convoluted that Tingle himself might have something to do with it. However, it kicks ass.
The game works under OS X, Windows, and Linux and is truly a sight to behold. Give it a download.
Sony hasn’t given up on Home, its virtual world filled with avatars and overall weirdness. It just launched Sodium One, which is the latest Home world you and your avatar can spend the day in. There’s a game to go along with it, one that looks an awful lot like Wipeout, which isn’t bad at all. The actual game, Salt Shooter, does have a ludicrous premise, but it’s hardly the only one with that affliction: “This entertainment event, set in a future of advanced technology where man and machine meet on a vast salt plain to turn deadly battle into extreme sport [lol wut?], resides only in the ever-growing world of PlayStation Home.” Like I said, ludicrous. My guess is that once you play it you won’t pay any attention to the story. Sony’s giving away 1,500 vouchers for full Salt Shooter unlocks, so best to login as soon as possible for your chance to win. More Salt Shooter less random stupidity:
This week, Yahtzee takes on the game that is, to me, the best reason to buy a PS3 right now: Demon’s Souls.This innovative title was hailed widely by critics as a return to the old-school “you die now” style of gaming many of us grew up with, but it doesn’t sit quite right with Yahtzee. Of course, he doesn’t mention the controls, graphics, depth, or anything other than the fact that it’s groin-punchingly hard, so you can bet he thought all that was great and just didn’t want to say so.
Like with every game not called World of Warcraft, I played Assassin’s Creed II for a solid two or three hours, and it’s been collecting dust ever since then. This is relevant because, what, Ubisoft sold me (and all of you!) an incomplete game? Apparently! The game’s upcoming DLC, Sequence 12: Battle of Forli and Sequence 13: Bonfire of the Vanities, which go on sale in January and February, “complete” the game. At least they’re cheap: $3.99 and $4.99. This is news to me because I never completed the game and had no idea about this corrupted DNA nonsense. Yes, it’s merely a presentation issue—Ubisoft could simply have added DLC like everyone else does, as “bonus” content, but to present it as though you’re completing the game by buying the DLC? Rubs me the wrong way.
It’s probably not a huge stretch to think that some people may very well be purchasing an Xbox 360 just to play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Wal-Mart knows this and, as such, is offering a pretty enticing deal: Xbox 360 Arcade console, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and 12 months of Xbox Live Gold service for just $249. If purchased separately, you’d have the console at $200, the game at $60, and the Xbox Live service at $50. That’s a savings of… [counts fingers] …money! An even better deal, perhaps, is that for $349 you can get a 120GB Xbox 360 Elite console, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the Xbox Live Gold membership, and the two games included with the Elite console: LEGO Batman and PURE. Xbox 360 with Call of Duty- Modern Warfare 2 [Walmart.com]
Stating in a press release, Valve has announced that its zombie-infused cooperative first-person shooter, Left 4 Dead 2, will be receiving its first downloadable content in early 2010. Dubbed "The Passing," the game's first add-on will see the sequel's survivors meeting up with the original game's cast including Bill, Francis, Louis and Zoe. "Targeted for release in early spring, 'The Passing' takes place just after the Dead Center campaign of L4D2. Set in a small town in rural Georgia, players assume the role of the L4D2 Survivors as they meet with the L4D1 characters." The content will also include new arenas for Survival, Versus and Scavenge, and introduce a new co-op challenge mode.
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Amazon.com has dropped the price of Assassin’s Creed II for Xbox 360 and PS3 down to $39.78, today only. According to the product description:
Kind of puts your own life in perspective, huh? Unless you’re a modern day assassin, in which case this game probably won’t interest you all that much. Assassin’s Creed II [Amazon.com]
We’ve all seen MythBusters when there’s nothing else on TV, right? Right. Well here’s a video showing a Modern Warfare 2 several game myths either busted or confirmed. Well, mainly confirmed. Sorta reminds me of that Halo Warthog video.
Didn’t Nickelodeon used to give away JVC boomboxes and whatnot on its game shows back in the day? (I’m primarily talking to twenty-somethings here, yes.) Imagine you were a contestant on Double Dare, and you manage to find the flag inside the big nose filled with goo, and you win this, the TH-BA3. It’s a sound bar, which are a heck of a lot easier to incorporate into a small space than a complete surround sound system. The TH-BA3 ($550) is the world’s first dual wireless sound bar. That means both the speakers and the subwoofer are totally wireless—handy if you or yours hate to see wires strewn about. It’s a 5.1 sound system, one that works with Dolby Digital, DTS, and Pro Logic II. There’s more! JVC has one more sound bar, the TH-BS7 ($600). Whereas the TH-BA3’s big deal is that it’s dual wireless, the TH-BS7 is quite tiny at 1.4 inches. This one is only 4.1-channels, but works with all the aforementioned codes.
Both are available now. Anyone else remember What Would You Do and Wild & Crazy Kids?
Warner announces its next Batman game, and surprise-surprise, it won't be set in Arkham Asylum.
Good news, people who play Modern Warfare 2 online multi-player. It seems Infinity Ward has fixed the dreaded “javelin exploit” that has plagued multi-player matches since the game’s launch. This patch is for the Xbox 360 version (the PC and PS3 versions have already been patched), and brings the game up to version 1.06. As a refresher, here’s the javelin exploit, complete with Benny Hill music. Can we let that song die already?
With less than 24 hours to go before the world premiere of Halo Reach, Aaron Greenberg has gone on the record declaring already that Halo Reach "will be the biggest game of 2010". Considering the anticipation for some of next year's upcoming titles, with games like Final Fantasy XIII and Gran Turismo 5 finally making their debut, the statement's not one to be taken lightly. Despite the fierce competition though, Greenberg remains confident. "Is [Gran Turismo 5] launching next year? I've seen years and years of minigames, but I haven't seen that the game is done." Considering what little we know about Halo Reach right now, it's hard to agree with what he's saying.
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Real-time search, Google Goggles, and personalization are changing the game.
I just thought this was a pretty fun group achievement idea; reminds me a bit of the Noby Noby Boy reaching the other planets thing. But more awesome. Valve has proven once again that it knows how to engage its community. I’m gonna go start tearing some fools apart right now. Oh, one more thing: GO TEAM DEMOMAN.
That sounded pretty dirty… probably because her last role was a crypto-robotic sex addict. Check out the video and see the rest of the talent. I’m really looking forward to this game — ME1 was great but I think it really only set us up for this one and the next.
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I’m trying to remember the last good thing to come from the Transformers franchise and am sadly unable to do so. Well, that’s not entirely true, the awful 
I was kind of hoping for more than one kind of moon-dungeon this time around (Mass Effect notoriously reused some environments), but I guess I might have to be satisfied with hearing Caprica’s sultry voice guiding me to a safe landing.