PlayStation Move Media Bonanza: SOCOM 4, Sports Champions, The Shoot, Party and More

PlayStation Move Media Bonanza: SOCOM 4, Sports Champions, The Shoot, Party and More

Having just blown the lid off the PlayStation Move (a.k.a PlayStation 3 Motion Controller) and its Sub-Controller, Sony has now unleashed a plethora of assets for some of the compatible games that were shown during this evening’s press conference. PlayStation Move (Hardware) SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs Sports Champions The Shoot (Working ...

PlayStation Move Hands-on Impressions

PlayStation Move Hands-on Impressions

At GDC 2010, Sony formally introduced its motion controller, aptly titled: PlayStation Move. For those that have not been following its development and unveiling at E3 2009, the technology pairs a camera (the already available PlayStation Eye) and a wand with a colored orb at the top.
Garnett Lee and I ...

Guest Post: How Writing Helps to Heal

Guest Post: How Writing Helps to Heal

Welcome to meryl’s notes blog (this here place you’re lookin’ at) in Plano, Texas. We’re honored to be a stop in Linda Joy Myers‘ WOW! Women On Writing Blog tour.
About Linda Joy Myers Ph.D. She’s president of the National Association of Memoir Writers and a practicing psychotherapist.

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 ...

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 ...

Weekend Discussion: Disk Cleanup Wizard

Weekend Discussion: Disk Cleanup Wizard

The weather’s getting warmer, the sun’s waking up earlier and staying out later, the birds are chirping, the cats are meowing, plus it’s March. Safe to say, spring is in the air.
So, how do I celebrate? Putting out the hammock, perhaps? Nope! Instead, I’m trolling the various folders, sub-folders and ...

The Release List of 3/7 – 3/13: Final Fantasy

The Release List of 3/7 – 3/13: Final Fantasy

Something called Final Fantasy XIII comes out this week. Maybe you have heard of it? Highlights
If you are looking for a particular system, skip to the PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS or PSP sections, or just read on through for the full breakdown.
Final Fantasy XIII will be ...

Evening Reading: The Portal 2 Reveal

Evening Reading: The Portal 2 Reveal

QuakeCon 2010 has been announced! See you fools there!
This week saw an incredibly innovative game announcement by Valve Software. Using its unique position in the PC gaming industry through its digital distribution service, Steam, Valve launched an ARG eventually leading up to the reveal of Portal 2.
On Monday, Valve patched ...

Dante’s Inferno DLC Packs Prequel Level and More

Dante’s Inferno DLC Packs Prequel Level and More

The first of the two announced Dante’s Inferno DLC offerings is now available on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The Dark Forest DLC will run you $4.99 / 400 MS Points.

Included in the pack are “the Disco Inferno costume, Stone of Wrath relic, and a prequel level featuring new ...

Game du Jour: Week of 8 March 2010

Game du Jour: Week of 8 March 2010

The following games will be discounted next week on Game du Jour, the first ‘one-deal-a-day’ website dedicated to indie and casual games:
Mon. March 8th: 50% off on House Racers
Tue. March 9th: 50% off on New Star Tennis
Wed. March 10th: 100% off on Space Spy – Free Game
Thu. March 11th: ...

Links: Marching Right in 2010 Edition

Links: Marching Right in 2010 Edition

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Ah, I got nothing this day — no stories, nada. Just lots and lots of work since I had a few appointments not related to business. At least, it’s been beautiful and sunny all week.
Brain food…
Bite-Size Edits: “Bite-Size Edits takes a text, chops it into pieces, and serves ...

EA Partners + Hothead Games = “Deathspank” (XBLA, PSN)

EA Partners + Hothead Games = “Deathspank” (XBLA, PSN)


Okay, so the math might not calculate but this is a team-up worth noting.  EA Partners and Hothead games have signed “an exclusive publishing agreement that will bring DeathSpank to Xbox LIVE® Arcade and PlayStation®Network in 2010. Developed under the vision of The Secret of Monkey Island creator and industry ...

Crysis 2 Screens Released

Crysis 2 Screens Released

It’s only a couple of screenshots so far, by it looks like developer Crytek is going to melt your GPU and CPU in one super-powered kick to your PC, nevermind what Crysis 2 will do to your Playstation 3 or Xbox 360.

Kick-Ass Interview: On Gameplay Details, PlayStation 3 Exclusivity, iPhone and Getting Beat Down

Kick-Ass Interview: On Gameplay Details, PlayStation 3 Exclusivity, iPhone and Getting Beat Down

Inspired by both the existing comic and the upcoming motion picture of the same name, Kick-Ass–the latest downloadable effort from Wisconsin-based Metalocalypse: Dethgame and Zombie Wranglers developer Frozen Codebase–is saddling an odd line.
On top of paying homage to both sources–”we go towards the motion picture story, but a lot ...

Sam Suede Brought Back to Life

Sam Suede Brought Back to Life


Sam Suede in Undercover Exposure was shelved January 2007 by iBase Entertainment and the first rumbling that anything was happening with it was announced today, three years later.
If you all remember, Sam Suede was a project that Leisure Suit Larry creator — the original Larry creator who had nothing to ...

Evening Reading: A World Where Macs Play Games?

Evening Reading: A World Where Macs Play Games?

So, it looks like Valve is getting ready to announce Steam for OS X and Mac, which probably fulfills some prophecy about games on Macs and the end of days. I do not even know what I would do with real games on my MacBook without having to Boot Camp ...

Heavy Rain Review

Heavy Rain Review

Heavy Rain appears to fall as far to the storytelling end of the game-design spectrum as possible. Its unique mechanic of using the sticks and buttons on the controller to mimic actions taken by the characters on screen gives an effect similar to directing the action in a movie. Game ...