Archive for June 2011

Break out your sword and ninja clothes, everybody. Ryu Hayabusa is back in Team Ninja’s Ninja Gaiden 3. This will be the first game in the series that will not be headed by the enigmatic Tomonobu Itagaki, who left Team Ninja in 2008. This time around, Ryu Hayabusa is called in to London to help [...]

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It was almost two long years ago that Twisted Pixel’s sophomoric endeavor, ‘Splosion Man, burst onto the Xbox Live Summer of Arcade scene and instantly captured our hearts.  With its quirky yet mysterious characters, deceptively tricky platforming, and premium Omaha Steaks, ‘Splosion Man was one of the stand-out hits from 2009′s downloadable catalog. Twisted Pixel, [...]

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DICE seems to have done it again, bringing players eyeball melting beauty and visuals amidst the visceral adrenaline pumping action of all out war. Who else can make a vehicle segment so damned thrilling? And in a tank no less? Battlefield 3 is setting Modern Warfare 3 firmly in its sights, and if this is [...]

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Bo Jackson, eat your heart out.  Two sports?  Laughable.  Kinect Sports: Season Two is sure to make us proficient in six different sports, all from the comfort of our living room.  Apparently, it’s also given us a tenuous grasp of the definition of the word “sport” because we’re including darts as one of our projected [...]

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Leave it to Frank West to know how to have a good time in the middle of your typical zombie apocalypse! Hop on-board this new trailer and join Frank as he takes in the sights at what has to be the happiest place on Earth: Uranus Zone! Oh yeah, you heard right. I just love [...]

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At Monday’s Microsoft press briefing, we caught the first official word that Harmonix is developing Dance Central 2.  We weren’t exactly leveled with surprise given that Dance Central was the best-selling Kinect dance game of last year’s launch and, in our opinion, the most functional as well. Move-busting enthusiasts will be happy to hear that [...]

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  In Los Angeles tonight, Epic Games is holding an event where they’re showing off the new Horde mode in Gears of War 3.  It seems as if they’ve managed to keep the specifics of Horde under wraps, but tonight the curtain’s pulled back and looks like it’s being revealed in its full glory.  Unfortunately, [...]

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Microsoft has made it clear to the Xbox 360 community: If you don’t have one of the new slim 360s, you probably better get your act together and get one. Hot on the heels of the E3 presentation, Microsoft has unveiled the special Gears of War 3 Xbox 360 Bundle. The bundle, of course, comes [...]

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With a colorful art style inspired by the likes of Okami and taking notes from the Biblical book of Enoch, El Shaddi: Ascension of the Metatron now not only has one of gaming’s most obscurely referential titles, but also a demo available for download on Xbox LIVE.  Developer UTV Ignition Games is utilizing a team [...]

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What’s that you say?  You’re right; there IS a lack of video games based on Tom Cruise movies.  Fortunately, the good guys at 505 Games are in your corner.    Revealed today is the newest title in the handful of games in the Top Gun franchise, Top Gun: Hard Lock.  It’s set to land in [...]

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