GameSpy Debriefings #153
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Bulletstorm Review
By Will Tuttle | Xbox 360 Reviews | Feb 25, 2011 1:45 PM | CommentEven at this early juncture, EA's over-the-top shooter Bulletstorm looks to be the frontrunner for the Most Divisive Game of the Year award. A lot of people are going to love it, and a lot of people are going to hate it for a variety of reasons. I fall squarely in the former category. Read More »
Refused Classification: Australia Bans Mortal Kombat
By Mike Sharkey | PlayStation 3 News | Feb 25, 2011 11:37 AM | CommentThe Australian Classification Board has performed its own fatality on NetherRealm's upcoming Mortal Kombat reboot. The fighter famous for its graphic finishing moves has been refused classification in the land down under, effectively banning the game in Australia. Read More »
Teaser Indicates Activision is Counting Down to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Announcement
By Mike Sharkey | Xbox 360 News | Feb 25, 2011 9:38 AM | CommentPlayers formed an unlikely alliance toward the end of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, turning Russian madman Vladimir Makarov on his former co-hort, Task Force 141 commander General Shepherd. Shepherd got his courtesy of a well-thrown knife. Makarov? The terrorist is still at large, but based on a new teaser, it appears players will be on his trail in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Read More »
Former Bizarre Creations Devs Form Lucid Games
By Mike Sharkey | News | Feb 25, 2011 8:54 AM | CommentA new studio has arisen from the ashes of recently shuttered Blur and Project Gotham Racing developer Bizarre Creations. Led by former Bizarre development director Pete Wallace, a number of the studio's former devs have joined forces to create Lucid Games. Read More »
There's a Dead Fashion Model in the L.A. Noire Pre-Order Promo From GameStop
By Mike Sharkey | PlayStation 3 News | Feb 25, 2011 8:05 AM | CommentPublisher Take-Two's pre-order promotions will add a few more pretty faces to Rockstar's upcoming crime thriller, L.A. Noire. Purchase the game before its May 17 ship date at any of six participating retailers and you'll add to protagonist Cole Phelps' case load and closet. Read More »
Electronic Arts Officially Unveils New Command & Conquer Studio, Victory Games
By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Feb 25, 2011 7:22 AM | CommentOn Tuesday we reported on EA's accidental announcement that a new studio had been created to take over the slumping Command & Conquer franchise. Electronic Arts made it official last night, formally introducing Victory Games to the world. Read More »
Defiant Map Pack Frags Halo: Reach March 15
By Mike Sharkey | Xbox 360 News | Feb 25, 2011 6:56 AM | CommentOn Valentine's Day, Microsoft gave Halo fans some love, announcing the next map pack for Reach. Now we know when the three new battlegrounds of Defiant will be available for download: March 15. Read More »
The Underachiever #16: Super Meat Boy
By Ryan Kuo | Xbox 360 Articles | Feb 24, 2011 5:15 PM | CommentAbout halfway into the warp zone, I realized no other game in 20 years had pulled me out of my doldrums. This thought was put on hold because I was dying at a rate of five times per minute. Forty minutes later, I unlocked 10G: The Kid, granting me permission to use the Kid -- the wishful hero from I Wanna Be the Guy -- in Super Meat Boy. As the game puts it, the Kid is "not the guy." He wears a cape, but he's doomed to die. He has a slick double jump that, for an instant, lifts the weight from his heels. Read More »
GameSpy's Top 50 Arcade Games of All-Time
By GameSpy Staff | Articles | Feb 24, 2011 4:00 PM | CommentOh, sweet, sweet arcades. Back before modern consoles and the Internet rendered the arcade both technologically and socially obsolete, we spent untold hours feeding quarter upon quarter into these addictive machines. The arcade may be dead (at least in the U.S.), but we'll always have our memories -- and we've turned said memories into an all-time top 50 list. That's right: These are GameSpy's picks for the top 50 arcade games of all-time, carefully selected and ranked by a dozen-strong panel of GameSpy editors and writers, representing all manner of arcade aficionados. Read More »
Albion Gets Hardcore in the PC Version of Fable III on May 17, 360 Gamers Get New DLC Pack
By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Feb 24, 2011 1:17 PM | CommentOriginally set to ship alongside its Xbox 360 brother in October, the PC version of Fable III was bumped back to an undisclosed date and seemingly forgotten. Not so, Microsoft revealed today, PC gamers can return to the fantasy world of Albion on May 17 -- and with a few extra goodies to boot. Read More »
Gears of War 3 Multiplayer Beta Opens Fire in April
By Mike Sharkey | Xbox 360 News | Feb 24, 2011 12:33 PM | CommentEpic Games is raring to show off its overhauled multiplayer mode in Gears of War 3, and today the studio announced that gamers everywhere will get to fire up their Lancer chainsaws in a beta beginning in mid-April. Read More »
Announcement Trailer For Dead Island Draws Criticism, Interest From Hollywood Movie Studios
By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Feb 24, 2011 11:18 AM | CommentPublisher Deep Silver got the gaming world's attention last week with the announcement trailer for its previously little-known zombie survival-horror game. From people disturbed by its depiction of a little girl turned zombie victim to Hollywood executives anxious to get a piece of the property, everyone is talking about Dead Island. Read More »
Slightly Mad Studios Describes Why Shift 2 Unleashed is the Genre's Most Authentic Racing Sim
By Mike Sharkey | Xbox 360 News | Feb 24, 2011 9:27 AM | CommentThis is real racing. That's the tagline (and jab at other racing sims) Slightly Mad Studios has been using since it announced the March release date for Shift 2 Unleashed last month. Today, courtesy of the game's first developers diary, the studio explains exactly what that tagline means. Read More »
Report: Sony Directs German Police to Raid PlayStation 3 Hacker's Home, Seize Hardware
By Mike Sharkey | PlayStation 3 News | Feb 24, 2011 8:21 AM | CommentSony has been fighting PlayStation 3 hackers in court for the past month, and now it appears the Japanese tech giant has declared all out war on anyone that messes with its console. Sony has confirmed that it directed German police to raid a PS3 hacker's home early yesterday morning. Read More »
See Bethesda's New Fantasy World of Skyrim Come to Life in the First Elder Scrolls V Trailer
By Mike Sharkey | Xbox 360 News | Feb 24, 2011 7:23 AM | CommentConan meets the Lord of the Rings in the first gameplay trailer for Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, providing a stunning peek at the fantasy kingdom built on Bethesda's new game engine. Read More »
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