Monday, August 25, 2008
Quest For Glory II Is Back, Yo
11:20PM Luke Plunkett | Quest for Glory II is the greatest adventure game of all time. That’s not opinion, either. It’s fact. Science. Only problem is, the game’s from 1990, so it’s also a little…rough. No more! Thanks to the team at AGD (who have also done fantastic restorations of the first two Kings Quest games), the game’s “quaint” old VGA graphics have been updated, the timing of the real-time puzzles have been made easier and dialogue is now taken care of via menus, instead of having to guess via text input. Oh, and it’s 100% free. In other words, the greatest adventure game of all time just got greater. Quest For Glory II [AGD, via IndieGames] More »
Bionic Commando: Rearmed First Week Download Numbers
10:40PM Brian Ashcraft | Bionic Commando: Rearmed is a proper downloadable game. It’s meaty — like a real game! Reviewers and players seem to be picking up on that. And for a downloadable title, the game’s doing pretty good across the platforms. But how good? Over at the official Bionic Commando site, producer Ben Judd writes: While I have to admit, throwing out a number like 100,000 seemed pretty overzealous after seeing how hard digital titles are to sell, I still hoped we could reach that lofty goal. Boy, did I miss the mark. 7 days — over 130,000 units. Holy fiddlesticks! That may not seem impressive compared to package titles that sell in the millions but compared to other digital titles that is a friggin JUGGERNAUT! …Consumers voted with their dollars. They basically have sent the message loud and clear: We are tired of meta-emulated crap. We want the titles of yesteryear to be paid the proper respect. We want them done right. And if the price is right, we’ll buy. That’s a nice message, you know. Hopefully other developers are, you know, listening. BC Weekly Field Report: #12 [Bionic Commando] More »
Rumour: $US 199 Xbox Bundle With Motion Controller
10:40PM Brian Ashcraft | “A source close to Microsoft’s marketing department” tells game site Xbox 360 Fanboy that a new $US 199 Xbox 360 Arcade bundle will be hitting later this year. But that’s not all, the source goes on to say that the bundle will be packaged with the rumoured Xbox 360 motion controller as well as some motion controlled mini-games from developer Rare. The motion controller will apparently be bundled separatly and be sold with “an even more expansive list” of mini motion games. Supposedly this will be out for the holiday shopping season and would go head-to-head with the Nintendo Wii. Or something like that. All sounds a little too good too be true, but who knows. So yeah, consider all this a rumour for now. Rumour: New $US 199 360 SKU with motion controller [Xbox 360 Fanboy] More »
Sony: Home’s Coming In 2008, Promise
10:20PM Luke Plunkett | Home’s been with us as a concept for quite some time now. Since early 2007, actually. And here we are, in August 2008, and it’s still not out. Will it ever come out? Yes. Will it be out this year? If you’d have asked us that last week, we’d honestly have said “eh, probably not”, but now, the prognosis is a little more up-beat. Martijn Van der Meulen, a member of Home’s development team, has told IGN “it is a 100 percent guarantee that Home will be released by the end of this calendar year”. 100%? Dude seems pretty certain. There’s no wiggle room in 100%. GC 2008: Home Update [IGN] More »
‘Milk’ Squirting Comes To The Nintendo DS
10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Boob, butt and even little “boy” DS touching games? Been there, done that. It’s time for new ground to be broken. This time with white liquid (RELAX FOLKS, IT’S ONLY MILK) squirting mini-games. August 28th sees the release of To LOVEru, which follows he adventures of a high school boy and an alien girl named Lala who one days appears out in his home of nowhere buck naked. In a total fan service mini-game, players must squirt condensed milk on a strawberry Lala is holding. Milk dribbling screen after the jump. More »
Behold, Leipzig’s Best In Show
9:30PM Luke Plunkett | What would a games show be without awards? We wouldn’t know. Haven’t really seen one without awards. Don’t think the back-of-the-box art bullet point teams would stand for a show without them. So without further ado, here are the Best In Show winners from the Leipzig GC last week! Sure, none of them are new games, but they’re still the best games the show had, so give them all a round of applause. Best PC Game: Spore Best 360 Game: Mirror’s Edge Best PSP Game: Resistance: Retribution Best PS3 Game: LittleBigPlanet Best Wii Game: Skate It Best DS Game: Sonic Chronicles (or, its more awesome German name, SONIC CHRONICLES: Die Dunkle Bruderschaft) Best Mobile Game: Pro Evo 2009 Best Online Game: Warhammer Online Best Hardware: PlayTV Best PS2 Game: “As there were too few entrants, no award was made in this category”. More »
Mega-Man Volnutt Ready To Whoop Arcade Butt
9:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Another character enters the fray of Japanese arcade title Tatsunoko vs. Capcom. And it’s a whopper! The newest fighter is Rock Volnutt (AKA Mega-Man Volnutt) from Mega-Man Legends game. He’ll of course be joining the Capcom side, which currently has a roster that boasts: Ryu, Chun-Li, Morrigan and Alex from Street Fighter III among others. Hit the jump for a look at latest reveal. More »
Leipzig GC Sets New Attendance Record
8:30PM Luke Plunkett | While the food was certainly better than E3’s, there’s one other thing about Leipzig that trumps LA’s resident trade show: it’s open to the public. And the public, they come in droves. Indeed, this year’s Games Convention set a new record for attendance, 203,000 people passing through the Leipziger Messe’s doors over the course of the show. That’s a lot of people. More than TGS, even. More »
AMD Works With EA, SEGA and NHN Games For Hot DirectX 10.1 Action
8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Computer processing solutions company Advanced Micro Devices is working with three leading developer to bring AMD graphics and DirectX 10.1 support to their titles: Electronic Arts Phenomic Studio and its upcoming real-time online fantasy RTS Battleforge, SEGA and its real-time futuristic military strategy title Stormrise, and NHN Games and its 3D RPG Cloud 9. Says Microsoft Games for Windows Global Director Kevin Unangst: We welcome AMD’s broad support for DirectX 10.1 compliant hardware and we’re pleased to see our newest technology brought to market so soon. One of the great advantages of PC gaming is the rapid pace at which the experiences evolve and improve. Hit the jump for the full AMD press release. More »
