Archive for March, 2009
New Alan Wake details emerge into the cold, hard light of day
We’re not quite sure how, considering the media blackout approach that Alan Wake developer Remedy Entertainment has taken, but Norwegian gaming site Gamer.no sat down for dinner with head of franchise development for Remedy, Oskari Häkkinen, this past week. New details were (unsurprisingly) scant, though we were able to glean a handful of facts from [...]
Marvel Universe MMO keeping masked until 2012
What with analysts anticipating new console launches and the Mayans predicting our doom, 2012 is set to be a pretty eventful year, though we’ll probably be too busy living out our lifelong fantasy of being Ant-Man to notice. Simon Philips, Marvel’s president of worldwide consumer products, let slip in a recent interview that the upcoming [...]
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 [...]
Lips DLC: CCR, Boyz II Men and Local H
This week Lips adds three DLC tracks, starting the ride with some classic Creedence Clearwater Revival, new jack swinging it to Boyz II Men and wrapping it up the journey with the grunge-rock stylings of Local H. As a bonus to this post, here’s the Joystiq Meta Game: Can you guess which band is [...]
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, [...]
Bungie: No plans for more Halo 3 content beyond ODST
Seemingly in contrast with recent comments made by producer Allen Murray, Bungie has told Eurogamer that it currently has no Halo 3 content planned following the Fall release of Halo 3: Overly Descriptive Subtitle Treatment. “We’ll never say never, but currently Bungie has no plans to make new Halo 3 content beyond the release of [...]
GDC09: Actual Batman: Arkham Asylum gameplay footage, no joke
There’s only so much we can say about Rocksteady’s upcoming Batman: Arkham Asylum. There’s only so much screenshots can convey. So it’s pretty nice to finally be able to show you what we’ve been jabbering on about via the magic of video — and not just any kind, this is (at last) actual gameplay.
Specifically, this [...]
Queen track pack, Bond theme hit Guitar Hero: World Tour
We all miss Freddy Mercury, but he lives on in each and every drunken karaoke performance the world over. Now fans can trade in their public embarrassment and enjoy this activity in the comfort of their own homes, with the release of the new Queen track pack in Guitar Hero: World Tour, available for [...]