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Harley Quinn's Revenge Is Batman: Arkham City's Bad New Ending The New York Comic Con might as well be called the New York Video Game Con – Now With Comics for all of the gaming goodness that’s going on over the weekend. Various publishers and developers will be on hand to show off their wares, most notably the living legend himself, Mr. Sid Meier. Sid will be at the 2K Games Booth (#1157) on Saturday, April 19, from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, to meet fans, sign autographs, and just generally be Sidly. 2K will be showing off Civilization Revolutions throughout the entire weekend, though you might want to stop by early to get your hands on one of the limited edition prints created in collaboration with Studio Number-One and Shepard Fairey they’ll have available. Seriously, I would seriously maim someone if it meant I could be there this weekend, so those of you with the means owe it to me to go in my stead. Off with you!
Q Entertainment and Valve have announced that henceforth the brilliantly addictive puzzle game Lumines shall be available for purchase via Steam. Much like the Xbox Live version of the game, Lumines is available as a base pack for $US9.95, with an Advance Pack containing 21 new challenge mode skins, 60 puzzles for puzzle mode, and 35 stages for puzzle mode setting you back an additional $US7.95, or you can grab the whole thing for $US14.95, which is a much better deal, especially when you factor in the extra 10% you get if you purchase the game before Friday April 25th. I wonder if it will have the Heavenly Star stage? Just thinking about it makes me want to listen to the song 200 times in a row.
NBA Ballers: Chosen One comes out next week and we got a peek at a little bit of it at last night’s Midway Gamer’s Day. NBA Ballers lets you create your own player and use them to go up against the big boys or you can use any of the eighty playable NBA stars to make your way through the game.
Despite my penchant for sweaty muscle men rolling around on the floor grappling each other, I’ve never really liked wrestling games. They are a little too slow for me and I much prefer the fast pace of a Soul Calibur over the lumbering likes of WWF. That said, what I saw of Midway’s TNA Impact left me walking away a fan and quite impressed.
Epic Games’ Unreal Tournament III is coming to the Xbox 360 at long last. The new release will have five exclusive new maps and two new characters. It will also contain all of the DLC that was created for the PS3 and PC versions. You will also be able two play in a two player split screen mode. So, if you have been patiently waiting for for UT III to arrive for your 360, Epic has answered your prayers.
You read that right folks. According to BusinessWeek’s annual World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies, Microsoft comes in at number 5, beating out Nintendo at number 7 and Sony at number 9. Take that, Sony and Nintendo fanboys! Oh wait, we’re talking about games, aren’t we? Well then I suppose Microsoft didn’t really even place for games. Their innovation was attributed to their Surface PC and efforts to catch up with Google in the search engine market. Both Nintendo and Sony, however, were specifically lauded for their video game systems, with Sony called out for PlayStation Home and the PlayStation Network, and Nintendo for tapping into an entirely new gaming audience. This doesn’t mean the Xbox 360 isn’t innovative. Just not innovative enough for BusinessWeek, that’s all! Just look at it this way – three of our favourite companies are in the top 10 of the list. We should throw a party, or at least stop hitting each other for a minute.
The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies [BusinessWeek via Gamasutra]
newVideoPlayer("inronmanplay_kotaku.flv", 480, 380,""); You’ll notice long periods of silence in this video of my play through of the Iron Man demo on the Xbox 360. Those were moments when I was genuinely enjoying myself enough that I forgot I was filming it. Despite said enjoyment, I’d have to say that if I weren’t an Iron Man fan, I probably wouldn’t have been moved to buy the game after a single play through. To controls take a great deal of getting used to, the bits that let you use special moves to take out vehicles and turrets are simply jarring interactive cutscenes, and I could certainly see Tony’s running dialogue with his computer JARVIS (Just A Rather Very Intelligent System) growing stale quickly. You’re watching my second play through here. On my third I actually took things slow, and the flight controls grew on me quite a bit. Oh, and you can upgrade a couple of the systems in the suit…just not the one I was attempting to. Not exactly overjoyed, yet not quite heartbroken either.
