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What you gonna watch? Ghostbusters!
This trailer for Ghostbusters: The Video Game does a really great job of making the game, and the franchise in general, seem dramatic and action-packed. Which is a bit weird, since the actual movies are … comedies. Of course, the game is based more heavily on the shooting wiggly beams at ghosts and blowin’ stuff [...]
See Wolverine battle Gambit in new X-Men Origins trailer
Would someone please remind us that we’re not supposed to be this excited about a licensed game? Because we’re going to be straight with you, when … well, when that last thing happens in this new trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, our fists pumped above our heads of their own accord. It was like they [...]
Report: Konami may skip ‘Six Days in Fallujah’ Euro launch
The dust has barely settled on the announcement of Six Days in Fallujah, but it once again finds a way into the news. During Konami’s Gamer’s Day in Frankfurt last week, unnamed representatives for the publisher told GamePro.de that they were waiting to see how Atomic Games would portray the brutal battle for Fallujah [...]
Taking a look at March XBLA numbers
With March NPD numbers set to roll out this week, GamerBytes has posted its own analysis of Xbox Live Arcade sales for the same period. A good idea, considering NPD doesn’t include digital sales in its figures. It’s a rather exhaustive piece, so here are a few nuggets.
Watchmen: The End is Nigh started strong, but [...]
Joystiq interview: Halfbrick Studios
We recently fired off some long-distance questions to Halfbrick Studios, an independent developer located in Brisbane, Australia, about itself and its projects in the pipeline for Xbox 360 — more specifically, for XBLA and XNA Community Games. Lead artist Matthew Knight generously accepted our assault and blasted back with his answers.
Warning: Stepping into our [...]
Halo Wars title update incoming, new details
A post on the Halo Wars website has announced that a title update for the Halo RTS is on the way. The update looks to address some matchmaking bugs, fine tune game balance and implement a new feature. While the bulk of the update remains a mystery, community manager Aloysius does mention two changes.
One, the [...]
Terminator: Salvation trailer includes sweet action, bad voice acting
Grin is on a licensed game streak, having taken the reigns on Capcom’s Bionic Commando reboot, breathing digital life to Mark Millar’s Wanted and now shining light on Linda Hamilton’s dark vision of the future in Terminator: Salvation. Based on what we’ve seen and our hands-on impressions, Terminator: Salvation has potential; however, the voice [...]
Bayonetta gearing up to hair-kick demons in Fall 2009
In Tokyo last night, Sega quietly announced plans for a “simultaneous worldwide release for Fall 2009″ of action/hair manipulation game Bayonetta. New screens revealed at the event show the game’s heroine battling enemies on the side of a building, unleashing her guillotine on another and fighting a really, really shiny dragon. Would we expect any [...]
Binary Tweed: Clover release imminent
Binary Tweed has announced that its upcoming puzzle platformer, Clover, could arrive on the Xbox 360 Community Games service very soon. Managing director Daniel “Deejay” Jones notes that the game will hopefully be submitted to peer review over the weekend, meaning it could be available on Xbox Live “as early as next week.”
Clover garnered some [...]
Discounted Doom, Pac-Man CE top Amazon XBLA Store
The benefits of Amazon.com’s new Xbox Live Arcade Store continue to reveal themselves, as the two bestselling titles are Doom ($2.97) and Pac-Man C.E. ($4.97), both currently featured with discounted prices — and both no-brainers for anyone who has previously passed on these two gems. Clearly, the Amazon option provides the possibility of more of [...]