Archive for June 2010

Do you need speed?  Do you live in a major US city?  If yes, then good news!  EA announced today that they’re taking their newest racing game, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, on tour across the country between mid-July and the game’s release in November.  According to EA, the tour “will take place at a [...]

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Assassin’s Creed is a series that seems to be going places. Improving on their original design in a multitude of new ways, Ubisoft managed to redeem the franchise’s cred in ways I had only dreamed of. Not wanting to rest on their laurels, the team is now about to release a new entry that will [...]

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A common trend that I’ve noticed in the gaming community is that when asked “who makes the best headset”, the answer is almost always unanimously “Astro does”.  Now, I’m not new to the gaming scene by any means, but it always intrigued me as to how this was the case.  Never one to really delve [...]

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E3 2010 has come and gone with a slew of new releases, technologies, and marketing strategies from all the industry’s biggest players. We saw a ton on the expo floor, and we’ve tried our best to keep everyone in the loop about the likes of motion sensing technology, Metal Gear Solid coming to the 360 [...]

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Update 1: Looks like the deal is still active. – ^DK Can you believe that everyone’s favorite hedgehog is already 19 years old?  We aren’t experts, but we thought the life expectancy for those little buggers was significantly less.  And don’t even think about making the “Sonic may as well have been dead for years” [...]

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Stepping into the Dead Space 2 demo room at my final E3 demo of the week, I found myself instantly transported into a chill-inducing candle lit inner sanctum deep within the church of Unitology, a fictitious religious group that worships alien artifacts which hold the power to re-animate the dead. Anyone who’s played the first [...]

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How often do you find yourself wishing that you could freestyle or rap like Lil’ Wayne? Well, if you try to sing every song on the radio, you may be interested in the newest game that caters to the rap and Hip Hop genre, Def Jam Rapstar. Before E3, we didn’t know much about the [...]

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One booth that was the talk of the town during E3 was the slice of expo-real estate dedicated to promoting Lucha Libre AAA: Heroes Del Ring. Aiming to engage players by throwing them into the almost mythological world of masked wrestling, the game’s promoters set up an actual ring and had several of the sport’s [...]

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Amidst the beeping of Pac-Man: Battle Royale and the colorful fury of  Naruto and Dragonball Z titles, one station at Namco Bandai was brooding with anticipation. With an enormous statue dedicated to its main character and a screen popping with eviscerating fury, I found myself drawn into the darkness of a demo showcasing Splatterhouse. Talking [...]

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Last year, Activision managed to find a way to breathe new life into the rhythm/music genre which felt like it had already reached it’s apex.  Up until then, every title gave faux-rockers the same opportunity to wail on their plastic instruments, and admittedly, it started feeling rather stale.  Looking to capitalize on the popularity of [...]

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