Monthly Archives: March 2010

Submerge yourself into Naval Assault: The Killing Tide

click to DIVE into our gallery You’re probably sitting around watching a rerun of The Hunt for Red October on cable right now, wondering aloud, “When are we going to see another decent submarine game?” You’re even practicing your Sean Connery accent, which is good because, come this June, you’ll have a chance to use read more »

Zeno Clash delayed on XBLA until April

If you’re sick of being mired in a world that always makes way too much sense, we’re sorry to report that Zeno Clash:Ultimate Edition, ACE Team’s bizarre first-person shooter/brawler, has been held up from its debut on XBLA, originally slated for … right now. Writing on the company’s message board, co-founder Andres Bordeu said “Yes, read more »

DICE doesn’t want to charge for Battlefield:BC2 maps; EA can’t comment

A producer at DICE has apparently stated that the company doesn’t want to “ever” charge for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 maps. According to CVG, DICE Senior Producer Patrick Bach told Xbox World 360 magazine, “We don’t ever want to charge for our maps and insisted to EA that this attitude was crucial when it came read more »

Interview: Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands’ Michael McIntyre

Positioned as a new sequel to fan favorite Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Ubisoft Montreal’s Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands is a clear return to tradition. It diverges from 2008′s cel-shaded scurrier in more ways than one: platforming is more difficult; the time rewind is back; and the adventure is entirely linear. read more »

THQ Core Games VP teases fighting game and motion game for E3

Danny Bilson – executive vice president of “Core Games” at rebounding publisher THQ – recently told CVG that his “fighting group is actually taking on the management of another game that we’re going to announce at E3 that has a certain amount of melee combat in it … .” Before spilling all the beans, Bilson read more »

UFC not banning fighters who sign up for EA’s MMA after all

UFC prez Dana White previously said he’d blacklist any fighter who signed up for EA’s upcoming mixed martial arts game, EA Sports MMA. And now, Kotaku reports that White is willing to play nice with defectors who chose to be in EA’s game — despite his remaining distaste for the game’s publisher. When asked whether read more »

Joyswag: Get into the Lost Planet 2 multiplayer beta

Do you want early access to the Lost Planet 2 multiplayer beta? We’re giving away codes — ten for Xbox 360 owners and ten for PS3 owners — to get early access to Capcom’s upcoming online shooter. How do you enter? Simply join our Facebook page. Then, check the page beginning around 5PM ET for read more »

Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions swings into stores this September

Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions will get its amazing, noir web-slinging on this September. The game’s story, written by Marvel’s Dan Slott, finds four different wall-crawlers working across parallel universes to put together the Tablet of Order and Chaos, which sounds like a rejected item name from the Zelda universe. The latest issue of GamePro has some read more »

This Wednesday: Mega Man 10 available now on XBLA

Just a quick reminder: Mega Man 10 has finally made its way to Xbox Live Arcade. You download the game — right now — for the price of 800 ($10). Also, don’t worry if the last entry in the series, Mega Man 9, made you throw your controller into the blender in a fit of read more »

Nintendo accounts for nearly 25% of GameStop’s new product purchased in fiscal 2009

Of the many, many games that GameStop sold in 2009 (not to mention the millions of dollars it made), we were left wondering where the lion’s share of the game retail juggernaut’s capital went in terms of product that the company was actually buying for its stores. And in a recent SEC filing for the read more »