This Xbox 360 gameplay walkthrough for the upcoming Obsidian RPG, Alpha Protocol, recently popped up over at IGN and is worth watching if this game is on your radar. According to an April 27th interview just posted over at Gry.o2.pl (there is an English version on the right side of the screen), Obsidian is in the process of bug fixing and polishing and is still on track for a late 2009 release. I’m not exactly …
Need I say more? Capcom’s newest Nintendo DS entry in the Ace Attorney series – Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth – is scheduled for a late May 2009 Japanese release. Unlike the previous Phoenix Wright games, Gyakuten Kenji is not releasing with the dual Japanese/English languages so importing is not an option – unless you’re well versed in Japanese. I knew I should have started on My Japanese Coach before now. As soon as we …
Bad news for Atlus – 1UP and others indicate that the official website has been hacked and infected with a nasty trojan. Users who’ve visited the site in the last 24-48 hours are encouraged to give their systems a good Brillo-padding to ensure that they weren’t infected in a driveby. We heart Atlus here, and we feel a sense of solidarity with those who’ve been hacked. Keep fighting the good fight, Atlus! But this doesn’t …
Valve Software’s The Orange Box is on sale for $9.99 all weekend, meaning you have approximately fifteen hours left to do what you should have done when it was $50. This purchase gets you Half Life 2, Half Life 2: Episode 1, Half Life 2: Episode 2, multiple-game-of-the-year-winning-and-critical-darling Portal, plus the relentlessly jolly Team Fortress 2. Remember if you already own any or all of these, you can gift them to fellow Steam subscribers at …
I like this. Stop motion is so simple yet compelling. It’s like capturing a magical reality that’s always there but just out of sight.
So, I played the demo version of Flock! on XBLA a few days ago. Can I just say how freakin’ cute this game is? Fluffy cotton wool sheep squeaking as you herd them, tall grass that isn’t really grass at all but long pieces of yarn and a landscape that’s created from quilted fabric. I don’t think there are words to describe how cute it all is. It’s enough to make you want to cuddle …
Review by Matt “Steerpike” Sakey Prince of Persia: Epilogue Developer Ubisoft Montreal Publisher Ubisoft Montreal Released March 5, 2009 Available for Windows XP/Vista, Xbox 360 (version reviewed), PS3 Verdict: 1/5 Roadkill “Employing to great effect its considerable talent for destroying everything it touches, the team at Ubisoft Montreal has produced in Prince of Persia: Epilogue an even more obnoxious play experience, packed even fuller with infuriating Quick Time Events, gorged even further on unresponsive controls, …
Kotaku weekend editor Owen Good has a terrific and thought-provoking article worthy of discussion: he’s currently acting as a live-in caregiver for his 86-year old grandfather, a WWII vet and Harvard MBA who’s been asking him recently about video games in general. Owen asks the Kotaku crowd how best to introduce a man who’s never once experienced one – but is genuinely interested – to the medium we all love.
Numbers aren’t happy for Platinum Games’ latest Madworld, the artistically gory black-and-white-and-red-all-over chainsaw brawler for the Wii. NPD reports that U.S. sales for the title hit a pathetic 66,000 for the month of March, and this in a period when we’re not seeing a lot of console blockbusters jockeying for attention. It’s a pity, but not unexpected.
Review by Jason Dobry Empire: Total War Developer The Creative Assembly Publisher SEGA Released March 1, 2009 Available for Windows XP/Vista Verdict 3/5 Middlin’ “Fans (like myself) of prior TW titles will appreciate the massive improvements to the turn-based campaign, but may be disappointed by the sleepytime AI in both the real-time and turn-based portions of the game, the infuriating pathfinding, and poor unit diversity.”
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I love great performance stories – not just racing – but stories of human achievement from all endeavors. They are all stories of our human experience. The heroes have their day, the goats get their place in history, and everyone else provides the context against which such things are measured. I also enjoy the way, over time, that factual aspects of such stories start to blur and take on aspects of urban legend even if …
Sometimes the deepest ideas come from the shallowest places.
Ever wanted to see your name up in lights? You too can become a Star!
Our friend Igor Hardy over at A Hardy Developer’s Workshop blog has a cool and thought-provoking interview with Tale of a Hero creator Pavel Černohous. Tale of a Hero, a P&C adventure game in the classic Roberta Williams style, is not readily available yet in the States (or readily available widely outside of Eastern Europe at all), but the press has been good. With the adventure genre still in decline, it’s good to see a …