Archive for March, 2009
Rumor: Sony may make global announcement on Tuesday
Australian trade magazine Smarthouse reports that it’s received word regarding a “global announcement” from Sony on Tuesday, possibly concerning the PS3. Kotaku states that it has also received word — apparently from Sony itself — that a big announcement is imminent, but the site speculates that it could be for a PS2 price drop — [...]
Design a weapon for Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time
You’ve already seen the Ratchet And Clank Future: A Crack In Time GDC announcement and the subsequent teaser trailer. Now, the PlayStation Blog is announcing that the A Crack In Time Weapon Contest is officially open. Between now and April 10 you’re required to submit weapon designs for the next Ratchet And Clank game. The [...]
Rumor: PS2 dropping to $100 around April 5
A single source at a Kmart has sent us images that the PS2 will be promoted for $99.99 starting April 5. This source has given us reliable retail information in the past and does not believe this is a sale, but the new price for the nearly decade-old, DVD-enabled console. The last-gen juggernaut currently retails [...]
PSA: Guitar Hero: Metallica melting faces, store shelves today
We thought we’d pass along a courteous reminder from Activision informing the gaming community that Guitar Hero: Metallica began rocking store shelves today. If you haven’t found current full-band simulators to be punishing enough, Metallica promises to deliver with an “Expert +” mode, double kick pedals, and guitar solos capable of turning even the sturdiest [...]
Fashionably late: Ratchet And Clank: A Crack In Time teaser trailer
The lombax is out of the bag. Insomniac’s next game is Ratchet And Clank Future: A Crack In Time, making 2009 the fourth year of leapfrogging between the Resistance and Ratchet And Clank franchises. The game was announced via press release during GDC, but game assets were nowhere to be found. Thankfully we haven’t had [...]
GDC09: Leaked Uncharted 2 gameplay shows urban gunplay, acrobatics
You might want to stop reading this now, and check out the video posted after the break. You see, when dealing with leaked gameplay footage posted on content-removal-friendly YouTube, time is seriously of the essence — particularly when that footage was shamelessly yoinked (no, not by us) from a closed-doors GDC panel showing off the [...]
GDC09: Dead Rising 2 will have most rendered characters ever
During a GDC presentation about the bolstered graphics engine powering Dead Rising 2, Izmeth Siddeek, the game’s character art lead, made a fairly startling proclomation: “Dead Rising 2 deals with the rendering of the greatest number of characters ever seen in a video game,” he said. In other words, the massive amounts of on-screen zombies [...]
Video: Top ten reasons to play Prototype
Despite what the above trailer has to say on the matter, the number one reason to play Radical Entertainment’s open world destroy-em-up, Prototype, is not “Deadly Shape-Shifting Action.” No, the number one reason to play Prototype is because you can elbow drop a tank. More importantly, said action will cause the tank to explode. [...]
Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena getting DLC map pack
Fans of the surprisingly well-crafted Escape from Butcher Bay have likely been salivating over the brutal possibilities offered by the multiplayer mode featured in its successor, Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. With six different gameplay modes and 15 levels to choose from, the “shiv-happy” among you will probably have enough to keep yourselves [...]
GDC09: ‘Rock Band’ was almost ‘Metal Lords’
This comes as something of a shock to us, but Harmonix actually considered names for Rock Band other than the perfect, obvious Rock Band. Senior designer Dan Teasdale unveiled a series of rejected alternate titles for the music game at a GDC session.
The titles included winners like the aforementioned Metal Lords and Power Chords, [...]