Archive for September, 2008:
filed in Industry News on Sep.30, 2008
If your can’t tell the difference, the original artwork had a right hand with four fingers on it. Valve wanted a left hand with four fingers as a nice little joke. Get it? Left 4 Dead, left hand four fingers. Somehow a right hand originally made it to the box. Right 4 dead? What the […]
Tags: Left 4 Dead, Valve
filed in Industry News on Sep.30, 2008
Sony’s plans to take over this year’s Tokyo Game Show 2008 by storm. Not only are they bringing forth their highly anticipated titles such as Resistance 2 and LittleBigPlanet, but Sony will debut 14 unannounced titles at the convention.
According to Sony Computer Entertainment Japan’s, Sony will unveil 11 never-before-seen PS3 titles: nine games from Sony […]
Tags: Sony, Tokyo Game Show 2008
filed in Industry News on Sep.30, 2008
According to GamePro, five maps from the original Gears of War will be offered as DLC for Gears of War 2, but it is uncertain if this is true or how it will work.
We already knew that Gridlock and Subway would be returning, but now there could be 3 more battlegrounds from the first game.
Supposedly, […]
Tags: Gears of War, Gears of War 2
filed in Trailers on Sep.30, 2008
Gearbox and Ubisoft shows you what it takes to get an A-rating for AWESOME in this trailer for the gut-wrenching, tactical FPS Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway for the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3.
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Tags: Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, Gearbox
filed in Industry News on Sep.29, 2008
Playstation Universe say they have found the perk list for Call of Duty: World at War and it looks legit, but without sourcing or confirmation, we’re going to call this a rumor. Call of Duty: World at War drops Nov. 11 in North America, Nov. 12 in Australia, and Nov. 14 in Europe, on the […]
Tags: Call of Duty, Call of Duty: World at War
filed in Industry News on Sep.29, 2008
Good news today for Wii owners who want to buy Rock Band 2 when it’s released on November 18th. The Wii version will be able to download songs and play online, just like it’s peers Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. We’re not sure how this will be technically possible, with the systems lack of a […]
Tags: Nintendo Wii, Rock Band 2
filed in Industry News on Sep.29, 2008
August was a great month for Microsoft in terms of their Xbox Live arcade service. The company saw a 58% increase in unique users purchasing games from XBLA. These large numbers probably came from high profiled titles that were released in August like Braid, Bionic Commando Rearmed, Castle Crashers (pictured above), and Geometry Wars […]
Tags: Microsoft, Xbox 360, Xbox Live
filed in Trailers on Sep.29, 2008
Everybody wants to know what Halo developer Bungie has been working on since Halo 3. Bungie has released a trailer, but what it’s for is unkown. Our guess that it’s a Halo 3 expansion pack that focuses on enlarging the game’s single-player story.
Watch the new trailer
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Tags: Bungie, Halo 3, Trailer
filed in Industry News on Sep.24, 2008
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is coming out for the DS sometime early next year and it’s now been announced by way of a print magazine (Edge) coming out soon, that this version of GTA will have an ongoing side mission where the user, no pun intended, is meant to traffic 6 types of illegal […]
Tags: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Nintendo DS, Rockstar
filed in Industry News on Sep.24, 2008
After less than one week on store shelves worldwide, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is on track to become the best-selling Star Wars game of all time. LucasArts today announced that more than 1.5 million customers worldwide have purchased Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, making it both the fastest-selling Star Wars game and LucasArts game […]
Tags: Lucas Arts, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed