Hands-on: Mafia II

Hands-on: Mafia II

It seems like almost a year ago that I first saw Mafia II. That’s probably because it was almost a year ago that 2K Czech (formerly Illusion Softworks) demoed live gameplay from the title (which had been announced almost a year and a half before that.) Today, it was time ...

Final Fantasy XIII ships 5 million copies

Final Fantasy XIII ships 5 million copies

In a Japanese press release, Square Enix has announced that Final Fantasy XIII has shipped 5 million duplicates worldwide. Surprisingly, 3 million of those duplicates were shipped outside of Japan. Of course, Square Enix is not saying how many of those duplicates have been sold, so bear that in mind ...

Street Fighter IV iPhone Hands-on Impressions

Street Fighter IV iPhone Hands-on Impressions

Released tonight at GDC 2010, the iPhone version of Street Fighter IV is extremely impressive.
The game features 8 fighters: Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Guile, Blanka, Dhalsim, Abel, and M. Bison. The fighters can be used for head-to-head multiplayer over Bluetooth or for solo play modes including Dojo mode, which challenges the ...

Analysts predict hardware, software drops in February NPD

Analysts predict hardware, software drops in February NPD

In advance of NPD sales results for February 2010, analysts are predicting year-over-year declines for pretty much everything. Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter, according to Gamasutra, is predicting that hardware and software sales will decline 10 percent, with Wii hardware sales hit particularly hard (around 40 percent) due to shortages. ...

Shin’en Announces 3D Platfomer for WiiWare

Shin’en Announces 3D Platfomer for WiiWare

Shin’en Announces 3D Platfomer for WiiWare
March 9, 2010 at11:55 PST– Source:Silicon Era
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The creators of Art of Balance reveal their next WiiWare project.
Shin’en, the company behind Fun! Fun! Fun! Mini Golf and Art of Balance, announced their latest WiiWare game, Jett Rocker.
The title is a 3D action/platformer ...

Rock Band 3 Set For Holiday 2010

Rock Band 3 Set For Holiday 2010

Rock Band 3 Set For Holiday 2010
March 9, 2010 at11:59 PST– Source:Harmonix
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The details are scarce, but prepare to bring the Rock this holiday season.
Today Harmonix said on their Facebook account that EA would be distributing Rock Band 3 this holiday season.
Although they did not give many ...

MLB 10: The Show – PSP (E)

MLB 10: The Show – PSP (E)

Widely considered the most authentic baseball game available, MLB 10: The Show is set again to provide fans with the ideal baseball experience this console generation with even more features and modes destine to quicken the heart, raise the stakes, and hurl you further into a true MLB baseball experience. ...

BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger – PSP (T)

BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger – PSP (T)

This game is the ultimate 2D fighting game on the go! BlazBlue features all of the console modes—Arcade, Versus, Score Attack, Training, and Story…in addition to the all-new Shop and Legion modes, where you control your own party of fighters in an attempt to conquer the world of BlazBlue.
Twelve unique ...

Tiger Woods 11 to support PlayStation Motion Controller

Tiger Woods 11 to support PlayStation Motion Controller

Much like the star it’s named for, it seems the Tiger Woods PGA Tour franchise is not adverse to trying new things. EA has announced that the next iteration, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11, will support the PlayStation Motion Controller to “give gamers an authentic interactive swing experience.”
There aren’t any ...

We leprechaun’t believe this week’s LittleBigPlanet DLC

We leprechaun’t believe this week’s LittleBigPlanet DLC

No globally-recognized holiday can escape attention from Media Molecule’s DIY platformer, LittleBigPlanet, do not ya know? This week, the PS3 version of the game will receive a free St. Patrick’s Day-themed costume, which turns your cute sack-vatar into a reddish-orange-bearded leprechaun. That’s really exciting news if you are a fan ...

Resident Evil 5 (Gold Edition) – PS3 (M)

Resident Evil 5 (Gold Edition) – PS3 (M)

The critically-acclaimed chapter of the Resident Evil franchise returns with more content than ever before in Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition. Included is the original best-selling game and all downloadable content, including new playable episodes that take you even deeper into Resident Evil lore. From the ashes of old conflicts, ...

Final Fantasy XIII – PS3 (T)

Final Fantasy XIII – PS3 (T)

The latest in cutting-edge technology has been utilized in the development of Final Fantasy XIII, thus making this newest addition to the Final Fantasy series worthy of the title “next generation.”
It’s true!: One of the huge surprises revealed at E3 2008 is that the popular Final Fantasy series, in the ...

Resident Evil 5 (Gold Edition) – Xbox 360 (M)

Resident Evil 5 (Gold Edition) – Xbox 360 (M)

The critically-acclaimed chapter of the Resident Evil franchise returns with more content than ever before in Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition. Included is the original best-selling game and all downloadable content, including new playable episodes that take you even deeper into Resident Evil lore. From the ashes of old conflicts, ...

Final Fantasy XIII – Xbox 360 (T)

Final Fantasy XIII – Xbox 360 (T)

The latest in cutting-edge technology has been utilized in the development of Final Fantasy XIII, thus making this newest addition to the Final Fantasy series worthy of the title “next generation.”
It’s true!: One of the huge surprises revealed at E3 2008 is that the popular Final Fantasy series, in the ...

Final Fantasy XIII launch party equips +10 awkwardness

Final Fantasy XIII launch party equips +10 awkwardness

What do Cerny Games’ Mark Cerny, Gas Powered Games’ Chris Taylor, Microsoft’s Corrinne Yu, and Obsidian’s Feargus Urquhart have in common, besides being game developers? Absolutely nothing. Yet, Square Enix managed to sit them down for an hour long roundtable discussion to speak about one thing: how awesome Final Fantasy ...

Impressions: Power Gig: Rise of the Sixstring

Impressions: Power Gig: Rise of the Sixstring

Can the music genre be revitalized? Can gaming newcomer Seven45 Studios — a combined publisher, developer and hardware manufacturer — sway current fans of Guitar Hero and Rock Band to try yet another music game, and one that focuses only on guitar? The odds are undoubtedly against them.
At the very ...

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Review

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Review

EA and DICE are back with another iteration in their wildly popular Battlefield franchise, a series of multiplayer first-person shooters covering combat across land, sea, and air. The first Bad Company introduced a singleplayer campaign, a series first, along with destructible buildings. The story followed four military misfits, more ...