Archive: March, 2010
Shank Trailer – Bloody Marvelous!
Shank has a lot of people interested…
Whether it’s the Penny Arcade-esque imagery, the Streets of Rage gameplay or the metric shit-ton of violence, it just can’t seem to hit our desktops/consoles quick enough. The fact it has been picked up by EA Partners is even better.
There’s a trailer after the cut from the GDC. It might be loosely considered ‘Not Safe For Work’.… Read More…
DRMageddon continues *UPDATED*
We said it would certainly happen…
They claimed it wouldn’t…
It has!… Read More…
Hard Sell – Hothead Games disappointed in Rain-Slick sales
In an interview with Gamesutra about the signing of DeathSpank to EA Partners (alongside fantastic looking indie bludgeon-em-up Shank ), Hothead Games Ian Wilkinson let slip his disappointment in the sales of their recent offering, the episodic ‘On the Rain-slick Precipice of Darkness’ series, developed alongside Penny Arcade .… Read More…
Like Giving a Shark a SMG – Mass Effect 2 ‘Firewalker’ DLC soon
Bioware have teased us with the Hammerhead for a while no… First, they left a wide empty space in the Normandy’s hangar. Now Ray Muzykae & Greg Zeschuk have conducted an exclusive interview with Gametrailers TV, during which they get very excited about the Firewalker DLC.
The hovering battle tank will feature in a chunk of fast-paced new DLC due on the Cerberus Network (meaning its free for 1st-hand purchases of the game) soon and will feature missions that involve shooting lots of Geth Colossi & Armatures in their over-sized optics.
Click here to watch the video. Just incase you … Read More…
Digital Boobs – Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light annouced, not for retail
Crystal Dynamics are back with a new Tomb Raider game, only it’s not actually a Tomb Raider game… ‘Guardian of Light’ might just signify the abolishment of the Tomb Raider name, which is a strange move to make following the developers attempts to re-introduce the raiding of tombs to the series once again.
Whether it represents a simply re-branding by the new owners (Squeenix) to focus more on the core character or a fork for the series into different (more casual?) territory -similar to the Sonic the Hedgehog Storybook series – is as-yet unknown.
Square Enix Europe have announced that … Read More…
Under Siege – IW raided by Activision, heads rolling
Infinity Ward, the gurus behind the good (or ‘sorta alright’, depending who you ask) parts of the Call of Duty series, have been raided by their slave paymasters at Activision.
Reports state that security guards were posted at the entrance to the offices, el-presidente’s for life Zampella & West have been sacked for ‘breaches of contract & insubordination’ and a giant mechanical gorilla unleashed by the former bosses is current terrorising down-town Encino. Of course, the latter may not be true, as reports from the scene are sketchy at best!
Whether this is related to either the handling of Modern … Read More…
Y2K10: PS3 *UPDATED*
By now many of you will have encountered today’s problem with the PS3 and how the hardware clock seems to think it’s the 29th Feb and the OS clock is saying it’s January 2000.
Here is Sony’s explanation and advice:
As you may be aware, some customers have been unable to connect to the PlayStation Network today. This problem affects the models other than the new slim PS3.
We believe we have identified that this problem is being caused by a bug in the clock functionality incorporated in the system.
Errors include:
* The date of the PS3 system may