Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Castle Crashers Gives Alien Hominid A Leg Up
11:20PM Luke Plunkett | Alien Hominid came out aaaages ago on Xbox Live Arcade. Did OK for itself, but really, as good as it looked it was just way too hard. So it promptly faded away. But this week, it’s back! With The Behemoth’s Castle Crashers coasting into the top spot on the XBLA sales charts for last week (and deservedly so), Alien Hominid’s been dragged along with it, slotting back into top ten in ninth spot. If you dig Castle Crashers, and have seen the “please buy our stuff it helps keep us alive” notices all over The Behemoth’s site, you should be quite pleased with yourself. Xbox Live Arcade Activity For Week Of August 25th [GamerBytes] More »
Don’t Hold Your Breath for Red Steel 2 Just Yet…
11:00PM Brian Ashcraft | You’ll turn blue, pass out. Well, according to this rumour French Wii news site Wiiz is running, the game won’t be out until something like Winter 2009. Ubisoft’s announced the game is using the MotionPlus add-on, so maybe it’ll be there when the peripheral launches — but for Ubisoft’s sake, we hope that doesn’t happen. The last thing we need is another rushed Red Steel game. Well that, and pictures of Ubisoft devs with the Wii-mote. Red Steel 2, pas avant fin 2009 ? [Wiiz via Go Nintendo] More »
Will There Be More PS3 or Xbox 360 Games At Tokyo Game Show?
10:40PM Brian Ashcraft | Wondering what awaits at the Tokyo Game Show? This should provide an insight. A list of how many titles for each genre and a list for how many games are coming to each platform has been released. Let’s start with the game genres: • Action: 90 titles • RPG: 35 titles • “Simulation”: 22 titles • Sports: 20 titles • Adventure: 14 titles • Shooting: 11 titles • Racing: 3 titles Hit the jump for the major platform breakdown! More »
You Will Remember The Sonic Chronicles Story ‘For A While’
10:20PM Brian Ashcraft | Mass Effect and Knights of the Old Republic developer BioWare is churning out RPG Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood for SEGA. A Sonic RPG? Nothanks.jpg. But a BioWare Sonic RPG? Okay, we’re at least receptive. When vaguely talking plot, the game’s art director Joel MacMillan said: I think this is obviously best left for the audience’s first playthrough to find out. I will say that the overall story is broken up into two Acts, the first taking place in a very familiar Sonic World, and the second branching out into something we haven’t seen yet, something a little darker (not just visually). I’m confident that what has been done with the story in Sonic Chronicles will be something that fans will remember for a while, and will hopefully be expanded in the future. Sonic fans remember a lot that has happened to that blue hedgehog in the last few years, none of it good. Break the trend, BioWare, do it. Not for your own sake or SEGA’s sake, but Sonic’s. Q&A: BioWare on Sonic Chronicles [GameSpot] More »
How Did This Erotic Tentacle Game PS3 Port Do?
10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Tears to Tiara was originally a PC strategy RPG from adult game developer Leaf. It was then ported to the PS3 as a 12 years-old and up title, and it featured a whole smorgasbord of saucy stuff: cow milking and bound girls and gals in mid-riffs. Not to mention tentacles. The game went July 17th in Japan, and it’s done fairly well for such a discerning game. Apparently, it’s sold over 50,000 copies in Japan. That’s 50,000 discerning PS3 customers, you know. Tears to Tiara is rated 12 and up. PS3「ティアーズ・トゥ・ティアラ」の販売本数が5万本越えで制作費回収 [basicchannel] More »
Welcome Back, Commodore!
9:30PM Luke Plunkett | OK, this is about as Commodoure as Phil Harrison’s Atari is Atari, but still. There’s a Commodoure logo on the thing, it’s called a Commodoure and it even shares that common Commodoure aesthetic, so it’ll do. The Commodoure Netbook is the first machine to hit the showroom floor following the brand’s reanimation, and while it’s not necessarily a gaming machine, again, it’s got a Commodoure logo on it. And it will play games. Which is good enough for us. Min er mindre enn din [NRK, via Boing-Boing] More »
Xbox 360 Hitting ‘Upper End’ of Graphics Potential
9:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Epic’s Gears of War 2 franchise senior producer Rod Fergusson and his magnificent beard point out that the Xbox 360 is starting to get near its max point for graphics. Fergusson does admit that he’s not the technical guy, saying, “I mean, I’m not the technical guy”. So while Fergusson is not the technical guy, he does offer this about the Xbox 360’s graphic’s potential: So I think we’re certainly approaching the upper end of it, as far as what developers are able to do with it, but just looking at all the demos we saw today — ours and others — it’s clear that all the games just keep improving, and keep pushing that bar… There will be games in development that won’t ship until 2010, and I’m sure they’ll look killer, just because, again, they’ll have more time with it, and learn from mistakes and optimisations of others. So, I don’t know; I think we’re getting up there, but I still think there’s room to grow. Wonder what the technical guy thinks. Xbox 360 ‘Approaching Upper End’ Of Visual Potential [Gamasutra via CVG] [Pic] More »
Space Invaders: The Inevitable Keyboard
8:30PM Luke Plunkett | We say inevitable because, really, by 2008 it’s one of the last things that hasn’t seen some kind of Space Invaders cash-in. And while we’d be well within our rights to loathe this particular tie-in, what with the fact Space Invaders isn’t really a PC “thing” and the fact you can’t see the letters on the keys, we’re going to set our blasters to stun and go easy on it. Because not only does it looks surprisingly appropriate, with all the bad guys the keys and the spacebar our lone hero, it’s modelled on the new Mac keyboards, which we wish more PC hardware types would take heed of. space invaders bendiboard keyboard [technabob] More »
THQ vs WWE Lawsuit Thrown Out Of Court, Then Hit With Folding Metal Chair
8:00PM Luke Plunkett | You probably won’t remember, but back in 2004, the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) sued THQ. The wrasslers accused THQ of bribery and – get this – racketeering, basically saying that THQ swindled them on a licensing deal. They weren’t only seeking to have THQ’s licensing deal cancelled, but were also after a hefty payout. Well, the Connecticut state court’s thrown the case out, after the federal court did the same thing, which means not even some sneaky Jimmy Hart megaphone action can save the WWE in this one. Connecticut Court Dismisses WWE Claims Against Jakks, THQ [Gamasutra] More »
