kane & lynch

Kane & Lynch DLC Trailer

1:40AM Mike Fahey | For the five or six of you still playing Kane & Lynch on a regular basis, here is a trailer for the downloadable content that should be hitting your console of choice later this week. It contains four new multiplayer maps that you can choose while you sit around waiting for other people to come play. I kid Kane & Lynch. I am sure it has a very devout following and tens of dozens of people will be queued up to play come April 17th. Enjoy! More »

Kane & Lynch Demo Up On Xbox Live

11:00PM Luke Plunkett | Skulking quietly onto Xbox Live today was a demo for that game everyone just loves to douse in hatorade, Kane & Lynch. The demo’s a pinch over 500MB, features one level, where you climb down a skyscraper and shoot some guys up, and you can play it in either single-player or co-op. Remember: the PR shitstorm surrounding Kane & Lynch wasn’t the game’s fault, nor the fault of its developers. May as well give it a shot. More »

PAL PS Store Update Is A Tale Of Woe

7:00PM Luke Plunkett | This week’s European/Australian PS Store update is sad reading. Bring tissues. For while there’s a Kane & Lynch demo, a MotorStorm DLC pack and the Folklore add-on, there’s practically nothing else. No Guitar Hero DLC, for instance. No PS1 games. No PSN games. Just a bunch of rubbish themes. Disappointing, Sony. How long are you going to keep the PAL PS Store in the doghouse? Until we apologise for peeing on the rug? Well, Sony, I’ll tell you, we never peed on your damn rug. More »

GameSpot Q&A, A Response to “Gerstmanngate”

7:00AM Mark Wilson | GameSpot has finally responded in force to the Jeff Gerstmann situation, addressing the topic once and for all…though still not revealing why he was fired for unspecified legal reasons. With no more ado, let’s just cut right to the chase. Q: Was Eidos Interactive upset by the game’s review? Well, were they?? A: It has been confirmed that Eidos representatives expressed their displeasure to their appropriate contacts at GameSpot, but not to editorial directly. It was not the first time a publisher has voiced disappointment with a game review, and it won’t be the last. However, it is strict GameSpot policy never to let any such feelings result in a review score to be altered or a video review to be pulled. More »

Gerstmann Speaks A Little, I Think It’s Telling

4:40AM Mark Wilson | MTV’s Stephen Totilo exchanged some emails with ex-GameSpot review Jeff Gerstmann. And while Gerstmann didn’t go on record saying anything all that juicy, he did have something telling to say about the separation of advertising and reviews: you asked if it’s realistic for readers to expect a church and state separation between editorial and sales. Realistic or not, I think readers should demand that from a publication. Some people probably think that’s a little old-fashioned or hopelessly idealistic, given the changing nature of advertising these days, but there you go. Notice the diction here because I believe it to be quite important: “realistic or not” and “some people might think it’s…hopelessly idealistic” didn’t need to be used here to answer Totilo’s question. Instead of responding “yes” or “no,” Gerstmann is responding to an unverified problem. In other words, Totilo is asking “do you think it’s realistic for gamers to expect a church and state separation [that may exist now or in the future]” while Gerstmann is answering something along the lines of “how can we fix this already present craptastic overlap between editorial content and advertising?” If you buy into my reading, then Gerstmann is admitting that a problem exists by responding to it. The rest of the message: More »