In a surprise move, 2K with help from developer Gearbox showed off a playable demo of Duke Nukem Forever at PAX today with a planned release on 4/11/11 to be forth coming.
It has been so long since I played the original 1996 hit Duke Nukem 3D that I forgot 3D Realms (the creators) had a [...]
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Duke Nukem Forever at PAX – Release 4/11/11
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Looks Excellent
With a God of War heritage and MercurySteam’s unexpected talent at creating graphical marvels, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is shaping up to look like a beautiful launch for October.
My first interaction with MercurySteam’s was their work on developing Clive Barker’s Jericho. As much as I liked the story (I’m a horror fan) and was blown [...]
Updated Xbox 360 Controller (D-Pad) Coming Nov 9 – $65
It is getting expensive to be an Xbox 360 user. Days after Microsoft announced increased pricing for Xbox Live memberships, they announce a new Xbox 360 controller with a new and improved D-Pad (pictured above). Big ups to Chris Hunkele for the news on this one.
Some of the changes you’ll notice:
Colored buttons are replaced by [...]
Tim’s Favorite YouTube Videos
I felt like taking time out to share some of my favorite videos from YouTube with the world, and here’s what I came up with.
First and BEST video I’ve seen in a very long time, except for “Two angry camels in a tiny car“, is this video spoof of Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” video. This is [...]
Duke Nukem Forever Revived by Gearbox
Rumors are about that Duke Nukem Forever has been revived and is under active development by Gearbox Software, creators of Borderlands.
Turns out Take Two had already given Gearbox Software a $2.5 million advance earlier in the year to begin work on a Duke-inspired spin off series of games titled Duke Begins. Collecting the Duke Nukem [...]
IEEE Working on Alternative DRM Approach
Technology Review has a piece covering some shifting in the industries understanding and application of DRM; namely that the days of railroading customers with products that won’t work and then not offer refunds will hopefully come to pass in the coming years.
Ferdinand Schober, grad student previously at Microsoft who worked on the Halo and Gears [...]
Halo Reach Leaked Online – Live Stream Available
CVG is reporting that as of this evening Halo Reach, the entire game, has been leaked online about 3 weeks before the official release date; September 14th.
Apparently NeoGAF’ers were some of the first to notice the leak when hackers (modders from the GameTuts community) circumvented the press access-wall that Microsoft had setup on Xbox.com for them [...]
GemStone IV – Great Old School MUD RPG
I was a huge AD&D player when I was in my teens. I loved all the intracacies of combat and roleplaying. And the best part was playing with other people. These were the building blocks of my life. It’s also why I am now a people person, for the most part.
Well, I’ve always been a [...]
Mafia II Release Party Planning
Mafia 2 is coming out August 24th, that’s in 6 days. We will explain why you should care…
Almost 8 years ago to the day, the original Mafia was released for the PC. It was, in our opinion, the best game of 2002 and a sleeper hit that garner none of the attention it deserved. I [...]
Fanboys: A Growing Epidemic or Really? Are We Doing This?
So today at Gamescom Bioware revealed that Mass Effect 2 would be coming to the PS3 in January and reading articles about it at IGN and elsewhere I keep coming across comments in the talk-backs like ‘RIP Xbox 360′ and all of this ridiculous sort of smack talk back and forth from fanboys on either [...]
Postal 3 Gameplay Video – Good or Bad Path
For fans of nonsense, violent hilarity you probably already know about the Postal game series by fellow Tucson developer, Running with Scissors.
RWS has been working on Postal 3, their followup to their 2003 underground humor-gore hit Postal 2. If you aren’t that familiar with Postal 2, it’s a FPS core wrapped in a world that [...]
Streaming Video on PS3 Slim Stutters and is Jerky
2 years ago I made a post about how video streaming on my original 60GB PS3 was stuttering and jerky. Years of comments, comparisons, 131 replies and the “PS3 Slim” later and it seems the problem has boiled down to:
Jerky video playback on the original “fat” PS3s can, in most cases, be fixed by increasing [...]
Medal of Honor Gameplay Videos – Sniper and Stealth
As someone who frequently complains about the lack of gore in these popular military first person shooters, you can’t imagine how happy I was to see full on head exploding in Medal of Honor sniper gameplay video. I would also point out the feel of “power” when your shot hits and just destroys the other [...]
Deus Ex: Human Evolution Gameplay Trailer
For folks that love the Deus Ex universe (I didn’t play the 2nd one, I just recall that it was a bit of a let down) it looks like we are going to get the Deus Ex sequel we always wanted in the form of Human Evolution.
In the new gameplay trailer play special attention to [...]
Ace Combat: Assault Horizons Looks Awesome!
I used to love flight sims when I was younger (8-12). I had different sticks I used to use, Falcon 3.0 and 4.0 were my shit and does anyone remember F-117A? That game made me a man fully qualified to fly a military aircraft… at least I thought at the time.
Given this, pedigree, you would [...]
SWTOR Multi-Player Combat a Different Kind of Tactic than WOW
A lot of people are trying to compare BioWare’s new MMO, Star Wars The Old Republic (SWTOR) with the MMO standard set by Blizzard’s beefcake revenue generator, World of Warcraft (wow). Sure, they’re both MMOs and they both offer the opportunity for PVP and cooperative play, but that’s about where the similarities end.
First off, by [...]
Kinect: Official Pricing and Our Thoughts
According to an email from Microsoft and updates on Amazon, Gamestop and Best Buy, Microsoft has announced official pricing. With a release date of November 4th, Microsoft plans to launch a couple of different official options for those looking to dive into the world of controllerless gaming.
For just the standard Kinect sensor bar with included [...]
Valve Free Game Giveaway Today: Alien Swarm
Heads up to the gamers out there, Valve is giving away their new 4-player co-op, top-down, action-based game Alien Swarm today over Steam; the game “unlocks” in a couple of hours for anyone wanting to install it.
Alien Swarm was developed by a couple of developers Valve hired directly out of the mod community and has [...]
Alan Wake on Xbox 360 Looks Bad
I picked up Alan Wake for the Xbox 360 yesterday and I have to say: good lord are the textures crumby. The entire game looks “muddy” or “washed out”, depending on if you are in a light or dark scene.
What is so disappointing about this is that you can tell with the right horsepower behind [...]
Transformers: War for Cybertron (Xbox 360) Review
Summary [8.0 out of 10]
Filling in the back story of why the Transformers had to leave their home world, War for Cybertron fits snugly into the official cannon of Generation 1. The ten chapter campaign gives you five chapters from the Decepticon point of view and five chapters from the Autobot point of view and [...]
What I Learned at E3
Things I Learned About Going to E3
My first E3 was quite the experience. I prepared as best I could but there are some things that just don’t occur to you until you are there. Some of them are things that you wouldn’t think of because you don’t know what is going to happen and others [...]
E3 Statues and Oddities
A lot of sights do Booth Babe features but instead of feeling like a sex-starved lech on the show floor I thought I would take a tour of the impressive statues and crazy things E3 has to offer. Walking around it almost gets to a point where these thing s seem normal until you come [...]
E3 Short Previews
Closing in on the end of my E3 coverage I have a few more games I managed to get some hands on time with but there isn’t much to put into a preview. So here are the short videos and impressions. Here goes.
Crackdown 2
The gameplay feels a lot like the first game with a similar [...]
E3 Mortal Kombat Preview
Taking its cue from Capcom’s recent back to basics approach to fighting games, Mortal Kombat is returning to its roots. This means 2D gameplay rendered with 3D graphics and a whole lot of violence and gore.
This new return to form for Mortal Kombat was not playable at the show and the presentation was a closed [...]
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