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Look up. That’s an image of the next Puzzle Quest title, dubbed creatively Puzzle Quest 2. We don’t know anything about the title (other than it appears to be hitting the Xbox 360), but someone else does have the details: GamePro.
The gaming magazine is blowing the lid off the title in its January 2010 issue, dishing out the initial “hands-on details.” The issue will also have several images of the new (old) game, aside from the one in the header.
If you’re hot for PQ2 information, start browsing magazine racks. The January issue is the one with BioShock 2 all over it, so it shouldn't be that hard to spot. Unless Maxim decides to do a “women who like to wear really large, old scuba suits” spread or something.
The ESRB has ratedEye of Judgement: Legends for the PlayStation Portable, and that reminds us -- that game's coming out!
While not officially announced for North America, the PSP adaptation of Sony's PlayStation Eye card game is set to hit the portable in Europe and Japan early next year. The game shuns the use of physical cards, instead packing all of the available PS3 cards onto the PSP, along with 30 new cards downloadable via PlayStation Network.
No word on whether the North American release will be timed alongside Europe's early 2010 launch, but this rating makes it likely we'll see it sooner rather than later.
YES. Anyway. Wouldn't you know it, the day I start talking a lot of smack about the Large Hadron Collider, they've got that f*cker up and running by the end of the night. And it works! And the universe didn't implode! That's dandy. Hopefully they've got their bird problem under control. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you show those subatomic particles who's boss.
Where was I going with this ... ah, yes.
SAOUNINDAH. I mean ... SCIENCE. Man, what does Aunt Sarah put in that sweet potato casserole, it's like NyQuil.
FRIDAY. Please tell me you're not going shopping today.
If tentative plans hold together, expect the first bit of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 DLC -- an Xbox 360 timed exclusive -- to hit at some point in Spring 2010.
Infinity Ward’s community man, Robert Bowling, tweeted as much on November 25th: “DLC is planned for the wonderfully vague timeframe of Spring,” Bowling said in reply to a fan. He added, “I’ll let you know when we know it’ll be done.”
2000 AD, Disney, IDW and Marvel are among some of the publishers planning to deliver Digital Comics content over PSN for the PSP’s Digital Comics Reader.
Earlier yesterday afternoon, the official EU PS blog revealed several publishers with plans to release Digital Comics content. Of major note is Marvel, the company responsible for Captain America and several other man-boy-style comics. 2000 AD (Judge Dredd, ftw!), Disney, IDW, Insomnia, iVerse and Titan round out the rest of the teaser list, proving that several different-sized hands are involved in the project.
According to the post, the Comics tab on PSN will debut with over 500 comics at some point this mid-December. The price of the content is still an unknown at this time, but surely all of you would pay whatever amount is asked to own digital copies of the Judge Dredd series, right? RIGHT?
"@Silent Protagonist
Definately agreed on the whole Marvel writing happening in circles. Always been that way. But I admittedly find Marvel characters significantly more compelling. Plus I've b..."...
This week's Friday update to the official Super Street Fighter IV website features a new trailer, (which we've already shown you), and gives the recently revealed new characters their own profile pages. Adon, Cody and Guy now join the rest of the fighters with bios avilable under the site's character section, and you can get a look at their stats and a listen at what to expect their Japanese voices to sound like.
Nakky has also updated her blog, albeit with little more than a celebration of the new characters. She does, however, show us the full, uncropped screenshot she teased us with last week, and it turns out Cody was the one giving Chun-Li a hard time.
Hit the gallery for a look at that, along with new screens featuring all three characters. There's also a better shot of Guy fending off Ibuki's kunai, as was teased in the latest issue of Famitsu. Hopefully it won't be much longer before we get to see the ninja girl who threw it.
People have been playing Aliens vs. Predator. People who are not me. This is clearly notright, but what is right is the fact that it looks bloody fabulous. This brand new trailer shows off the multiplayer aspect of the game, and briefly details a mode where eight marines get to hunt down a single Predator.
I'm simply stunned by the graphics hanging off this thing. The original screens looked like bullshots more than anything else, but the actual video footage seems to show no quality difference whatsoever. This is going to be one of 2010's early jawdropping visual treats, methinks.
Now Sega, let's do something about this whole "me not playing it yet" situation.
"that predator vs group of marines mode sounds a lot like Hidden: Source. I loved Hidden: Source and it saddens me that nobody plays it anymore.
This game is now something i must have"...
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When the world is falling to ruin, it is very important to know which side you are on. If you just happen to be the one doing the ruining, great, good for you. You are pretty evil and people definitely hate you. However if you're on the side doing the hating, you know, of the evil guy, it is also very important that you ally yourself with reliable friends.
In the world of gaming this act of camaraderie is referred to as "Co-op."
The goal in any co-op mode is to work together to complete common objectives. It makes perfect sense! Why do what one person can do when more can do it better and faster?!?! However my experiences have proven time and again that this dream theory brings with it more chaos than any mob of baddies could ever have wrought down upon my blistered thumbs.
What I mean of course, is that friends, nay ANY ally, when converted to virtual sprites and polygons, are the most evil creatures you will ever meet. Just picture it, if you and your friends were basically immortal and on a quest to save the world, how many times would you f**k with them just to do it?
"@Rainydays
We had better failures in Diablo 1. You'd randomly turn and fire a shot at me for no reason, or firewall me while I'm swarmed by skeletons."...
Three designs to check out in this edition of Geek Chic! Teextile has a Black Friday sale going on for every shirt this week. All shirts are $12 and they have a videogame design as part of this week's deals. "Thousand Needles" was designed by Kiji and is of that lovable Cactuar thing from the Final Fantasy series.
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In my lifelong career as a gamer, I have saved the world countless times. I have saved it from aliens, I have saved it from Nazis, I have saved it from nuclear war, and I have saved it from long-haired mama's boys. But if one thing has been consistent in my genre-spanning heroic romps, it's that when saving the world, I've taken my sweet-ass time doing it.
Nothing is ever urgent. The games may lead us to believe the situation is dire, but it rarely is. Huge meteor threatening to collide with Midgar? It'll hang in the sky indefinitely. Ophelia is in danger and needs help? She can wait for Eddie Riggs to find some sweet jumps in his hot rod. There is a friggin' castle collapsing from naval bombardment around Sgt. Gary "Roach" Sanderson? He can still take the time to look for dubiously unexplained "enemy intel" laptops. Such is the life of the procrastinating protagonist.
Being a space wizard in the original Mass Effect required patience and a knack for navigating radial menus. Not to discount the power, of course. In the end, we just found that space soldering gave us the most redeeming combat experience. But it looks like Bioware has stepped up the Adept in Mass Effect 2, making us excited to give the class another look this January.
For example, and as explained in the latest trailer above, the Adept can now curve his pulls, enabling him to grab enemies from behind cover. The class can also angle pushes, allowing for easier bad-dude-off-of-ledge action. Neat.
Now it looks like the only thing the Adept needs is a pointy hat and the ability to summon a demon or cast Magic Missile. Game’s not out yet, so you never know -- these things could make their way into it. Or not.
""In the end, we just found that space soldering gave us the most redeeming combat experience"
Ugh. It's just basics. High level biotic combat in Mass Effect was extremely satisfying. It's good t..."...
November? Not so much. That was when Rock Band Network was expected to arrive, bringing strange and exciting new music to the Rock Band downloadable content-lovin' masses straight from the people confident in using Reaper.
As reported by Kotaku, Harmonix is hopeful the current closed beta status of RBN will switch to "open" before we hit next year. Of course, no specific dates were given yet. The actual storefront -- the thing us paying customers will use to download these new tunes -- is making it out of the testing grounds in "early 2010."
"The open beta launch will add access to the currently private website where all of the RBN community activity and peer reviewing of tracks will take place," an MTV Games rep said.
"People who join the Rock Band Network (bands, fans or otherwise) will be able to play and preview any song before it hits the store, so they should stay tuned for the official launch." You heard the person, folks!
"The weirdest part is there are a shit ton of songs ready to go out the door and there've been two updates to get this thing off the ground. What's the hold up? Servers?"...
The soft-spoken, brilliant machinist Tali is making a return in Mass Effect 2, joining a growing cast of several fresh faces and a single familiar one (as of now). Her role in this game is unclear, but it appears as though the Quarian has found herself in some sort of trouble because of her contact with Commander Shepard. At the end of the latest character trailer shown above, we hear an elder Quarian saying, “You are hereby found guilty of treason against the Quarian people and sentenced to exile.”
Sounds like bad news, right? Right. Then again, Tali is no stranger to being outside of the Fleet or even ruffling a few feathers. In the last game, she was getting her Pilgrimage on before finding herself in trouble with Saren. She managed to discover some nasty evidence about his attack on Eden Prime in a Geth memory core and thus had to seek out protection from the Shadow Broker. The Quarian would eventually join Shepard for the entire ME ride, serving as a brilliant lock-picker and an excellent bullet-sponge before a certain dude became available. Oh, gosh, now we feel real bad about that. Sorry, Tali.
""[Tali served] as a brilliant lock-picker and an excellent bullet-sponge before a certain droid became available."
I don't remember any droid party members in Mass Effect.
I really liked Tali. ..."...
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