BioShock 2 Developers Call (via Xbox Solutions) -- XBS was invited to another great Developers call thanks to Chase over at Access PR. This time around it was all about BioShock 2 which hits stores this Tuesday. Due to the fact this was one of the largest calls and the amount of questions. I want everyone to be able to listen to the Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 1443 | 6 months ago
Sakamoto: Other M shows 'human side' of Samus (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) -
Other than knowing it's a thing, details of Nintendo and Team Ninja's collabrotive effort to bring Samus back into 2D space in Metroid: Other M are slim. In the current issue of Famitsu, a one-page interview with Metroid co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto didn't reveal much in the way of new information but the legendary creator did say the upcoming game will focus on Samus Aran's "human side. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 1353 | 6 months ago
Brock Lesnar makes the cover of UFC Undisputed 2010 (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) -
We knew the Ultimate Fighting Championship was open to all forms of combatants, but we think professional brawler Brock Lesnar's admittance to the league is just a little unfair. Our attention was turned to Lesnar by the recently revealed cover of UFC Undisputed 2010 (the full version of which is posted after the jump), which features his countenance. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 1341 | 6 months ago
Red Dead Redemption screens go hogtie wild (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) -
We've already seen John Marston get himself into a whole mess of different being a cowboy-related situations before Red Dead Redemption's impending April release date, but today's are (as you might imagine) just a bit different. That's right, folks -- this time he's got a lasso. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 1299 | 6 months ago
BioWare Defends Against Charges of Mass Effect 2 Self-Censorship (via 1Up) -
It's been a couple years, but maybe you remember the ridiculous fake controversy that erupted on Fox News after the first Mass Effect was released, where they flagrantly misrepresented the game's sex scenes as being hardcore with full-frontal nudity. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 1290 | 6 months ago
Sega cites 'tweaks' and release position for Alpha Protocol delay update (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) -
It would have been nice to hear more of an explanation way back in October when Sega's Alpha Protocol was "officially delayed" to the amorphous "Spring 2010," but, unfortunately, that didn't happen. Speaking with MTV Multiplayer this week, though, assistant producer at Sega Matthew Hickman explicitly detailed the reasons for the delay, saying, "We really wanted to polish the game up, make it everything Obsidian planned it to be, and give the consumer a very polished game. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 1278 | 6 months ago
Achievements: Toy Soldiers (via 360 Monster) - We have just added the Achievements for Toy Soldiers on the Xbox 360. The list contains 12 achievements worth 200 GamerScore Jumped the Bags 10 Complete level 1 Old Contemptible 20 Defeat Tsar Tank Flying Pig 20 Defeat Zeppelin The rest of the achievement list can be viewed here. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 1257 | 6 months ago
echoshift demo hitting PSN this month (via QJ) -- Loved echochrome? Better ready your PSP for the follow-up coming soon. SCEA has just announced that a demo for the upcoming echoshift is arriving on PSN this month. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 1233 | 6 months ago
L.A. Noire First Details Revealed L.A. Noire (via Game Radar) - IGN writes: "In the March 2010 issue of Game Informer (on stands this month), the first real details of L.A. Noire are revealed. Developed by Team Bondi (The Getaway), L.A. Noire is an open-world action-adventure game set in the City of Angels in 1947. Unlike previous Rockstar efforts, L. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 1218 | 6 months ago
Brock Lesnar is the face of UFC Undisputed 2010 (via QJ) -- With every installment to annual sports titles, the boxart honors are given to the athletes that made waves in their respectives sports. For UFC Undisputed 2010, that honor goes to former WWE superstar and current UFC heavyweight Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 1182 | 6 months ago
New images of Red Dead Redemption (via Xboxyde) -- Rockstar released some new images of Red Dead Redemption. Nothing to complain about, except that it makes it even more difficult to wait for the game's release in April. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 1164 | 6 months ago
Today on the Spot - Trauma Team, AvP, BioShock 2 (via Gamespot) -- Today On The Spot we have another triple demo weekend with Trauma Team on the Wii, Aliens vs. Predator and BioShock 2! We also show you whats new This Week on PC and This Week On PSN! All that, and our Super Duper Bowl, Today On The Spot! Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 1155 | 6 months ago
Final Fantasy XIII Xbox 360 to use Bink Video (via QJ) -- Bink has been revealed to be utilized for the Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XIII. Really, you only have to check the back of the box to confirm it for yourself. Apparenlty this is needed most Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 1137 | 6 months ago
Brock Lesnar Revealed as UFC Undisputed 2010 Cover Star (via 1Up) -
Considering UFC Undisputed 2009 sold tremendously well and had "2009" in its title, a follow up in what is now obviously an annual series was a foregone conclusion. And after a teaser trailer being shown during the 2009 Spike TV VGAs last December, UFC president Dana White spotlighted UFC Undisputed 2010 again at a THQ event earlier this week, along with announcing Brock Lesnar as its cover star. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 1134 | 6 months ago
TechCrunch: The Future of Web Content – HTML5, Flash & Mobile Apps (via Ozymandias) - Came across a guest post on TechCrunch today written by Michael Allaire, one of the creators of Flash. It summarizes the evolution of the web as an application platform (ie, all of those programs you use within browsers), and also gives a good sense on what’s driving all of the competition you see amongst relevent [. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 1101 | 6 months ago
Fallout: New Vegas details (via CVG) - PC Gamer dishes the dirt on new Fallout. New information has come to light on Fallout: New Vegas from the current issue of PC Gamer. Be warned though, there may well be a few spoilers ahead. Wouldn't be 'news' otherwise would it?Related StoriesFable 3 nearing completionFable II, Halo Wars go Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 1077 | 6 months ago
DLC Removal Threatens Halo 2 Farewell Halo 2 (via Kotaku) - Downloadable content for the original Xbox has been taken offline as Microsoft prepares to terminate the console's online support. One problem: Matchmaking restrictions require all Halo 2 DLC to play it online. That could make for a small going-away party.Here's the situation: Matchmaking requirements mean those playing Halo 2 on the Xbox 360 need all of the maps to participate online. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 1065 | 6 months ago
First L.A. Noire gameplay details on Game Informer (via QJ) -- The last time we heard about Rockstar and Team Bondi's L.A. Noire was back in Q3 of last year, and back then, they described it as "going splendidly". Thankfully, we're set to hear something more concrete than Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 1047 | 6 months ago
Aliens vs Predator demo patched (via CVG) - 'Unprecedented demand' to blame for PC trouble, says Rebellion. The PC multiplayer demo for Sega's Aliens Vs. Predator game hit some bugs before the weekend due to unprecedented demand for the game - which developer Rebellion has now fixed with a patch.Related StoriesLA Noire details arriveMass Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 936 | 6 months ago
Poll: Consumers not interested in iPad (via QJ) -- In what could probably be only described as "disappointing" for Apple, not too many consumers are saying "iLike" to their latest gadget, the iPad. This was revealed in a recent poll conducted by Retrevo.
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BioWare Responds to Self-Censorship Charge on Mass Effect 2 Sex Sex (via Kotaku) - Mass Effect 2's tamer (and sideboobless) sex scenes led some to believe that BioWare held something back, after the 2008 uproar over Mass Effect started by the Network That Must Not Be Named. But a dev sternly denies that charge.User Menelaos1971 opened a forum thread on the subject, calling the sex scene in Mass Effect 1 "a step in the right direction for Rated M games," but implied that the uninformed uproar over it chilled BioWare's intent to extend the theme in the sequel. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 459 | 6 months ago
Fair or Foul, MLB 10 The Show Still Looks Great Clips (via Kotaku) - Gametrailers put up a few exclusive videos of MLB 10 The Show, one of which is 90 seconds of gameplay featuring cover man Joe Mauer. This game looks very good.It's a CPU-vs.-CPU sim so we don't see pitching meters or batting controls and can't tell if they've been modified for this year. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 405 | 6 months ago
Are You a Bad Enough Dude to Listen to This with Speakers On? Nsfw (via Kotaku) - This hardcore Bad Dudes rap is one of three game homages put out so far by the group Action Adventure World, all of which are chock-a-block full of filth-flarn-filth. That means I'm a-watchin'!
You can check out Mario World and Castlevania II by the same act, but the same warning applies: If it's coherent, it's probably profane. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 402 | 6 months ago
Stick Jockey's Super Sim Spectacular Stick Jockey (via Kotaku) - Earlier this week, EA Sports ran its annual Madden Super Bowl simulation, predicting New Orleans to be tomorrow's winner. But there are plenty of contigencies and scenarios - some less plausible than others - that they didn't take into account.Here then is Stick Jockey's inaugural Super Sim Spectacular, in which we start with a Super Bowl XLIV matchup of Indianapolis and New Orleans at full strength, and gradually devolve into madness, in hopes that it might tell us something beyond what the touts and pundits say will happen tomorrow. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 402 | 6 months ago
