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June 2010 - Posts
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Game developers take note: Wanted is how you bring to video game life a movie license that revolves around bas-assery. Instead of artificially inflating a game's length to give it a supposed "depth" most developers go with, Grin went with a less is more Read More...
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Nintendo's head honcho, Reggie Fils-Aime, guested on last night's "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" and he dropped quite a bomb on viewers: the 3DS will not be wrapped neatly in anyone's gift wrappings this Christmas. In America, anyway. Japan is still expected Read More...
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What's Hawt : Funny that the first title to remove "Tomb Raider" from Ms. Croft's artifact-hunting adventures is the one that most resembles its namesake. From the demo I tried out, I was dead center in a jungle full of pyramid-looking structures and...well, Read More...
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What's Hawt : Amazing graphics, new moves added, bigger than life bosses (3 in the demo!) made portable...again. Surprisingly, Ready at Dawn even managed to improve the visuals from Kratos' first handheld outing and added even more epic moments comparable Read More...
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What's Hawt : It has the predictable, light bike races, but also adds an adventuring element that resembles Prince of Persia . And that's a good thing. Wall jumps, wall runs, and acrobatic combat is in for this movie license game. From the demo I tried, Read More...
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What's Hawt : Technology enthusiasts with the money to burn have found their next showcase title for 3D gaming. Even with my pre-conceived notion of hating the 3D-centric path all media is taking, my time with Motorstorm Apocalypse in 3D sure warmed my Read More...
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What's Hawt : EA's first foot forward since losing the WWII first-person shooter crown and it looks great. The visuals are nice and the multiplayer plays well enough to stand with the best of them. And having the former makers of Modern Warfare games Read More...
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Earlier in the week, I told you about my brief experience with looking at 3D stills through Nintendo's 3DS but that wasn't enough. I braved the long line Nintendo had going for their newest portable at E3 and here's the games I got to see (playable and Read More...
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What's Hawt : Heavenly Sword meets Uncharted , but now platform agnostic! It was kind of odd to go hands on with Enslaved holding an Xbox 360 controller making me think: "Wait...Xbox doesn't get these kinds of games." Well, it does now and it's one to Read More...
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What's Hawt : Gives you an HD experience of something you've done before...on the Wii. What's really great about PlayStation's Move is that if you're a fan of Wii shooters, they transfer over well to Sony's peripheral. Time Crisis is an example of this Read More...
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What's Hawt : Brutal combat as you remember it from Mortal Kombat II with added technical moves and a genuine sense of impact when hits connect. The reboot to the classic franchise wasn't playable at this year's E3, but seeing it demo'd in front of me Read More...
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What's Hawt : Swing a virtual golf club! Unfortunately, that's something already being done with Tiger Woods on the Wii. The game seemed to run well and detect motion accurately enough but based on the demo, I didn't see anything spectacular or particularly Read More...
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Harmonix's booth at E3 this year was incredible. Sure, they showed off what the next iteration in the Rock Band series will offer (read: it's awesome) but the one thing that will blow everyone's mind when it launches is Dance Central . The game is the Read More...
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What's Hawt : What Capcom does when they get the Marvel license again and backed by the proven success of Street Fighter IV . A mixture of comic book-style graphics with the characters you expect, tag matches, and the madness of the most memorable fighter Read More...
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What's Hawt : The Burnout developers (Criterion) take on EA's premiere racing franchise. It's a complete reboot of the series with crash physics ripped out of Criterion's experience with automobile mutilation. Looks great and creates a sense of speed Read More...
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What's Hawt : 4 Pac-Men enter, one Pac-Man leaves. Namco brought this arcade prototype to E3 and definitely got me into eating the other Pac-Mans, pellets, and fruit on the Championship Edition -inspired boards. It even comes with cup holders so it would Read More...
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What's Hawt : Yarn-inspired art direction. It permeates all the facets of the game with no rough edges or worries of not being high-def enough, just Kirby gameplay with a great face lift. Cloth material makes up a lot of the more complicated elements Read More...
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What's Hawt : Harry's hoodie physics are incredible! Oh, and the game will be trying on Gears of War -branded boots on for a change. A strange move, for sure, but moving the franchise into a new genre got me to try out the game so it shouldn't have trouble Read More...
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What's Hawt : Play with real MIDI-compatible instruments! My heart skipped quite a few beats when this was introduced in MTV Games' behind-closed-doors demo. Harmonix went ahead and blew everyone out of the water as they showed how they have real tabs Read More...
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What's Hawt : Captures the unique brand of sport that is lucha libre: spanish ring-side commentary, the drama particular to Mexican wrestling, high-flying acrobatic moves and the mythos that is prevalent in the franchise. Match types only seen in lucha Read More...
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What's Hawt : Roadie-run-animation Link, of course! Kidding aside, at first thought to be failure on arrival at the press conference, I came away impressed from the demo at E3. TLoZ: Skyward Sword takes what Wii Sports Resort epitomized in all its mini-games Read More...
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What's Hawt : Retro-graded Donkey Kong before the nonsense that was banana-collecting in Donkey Kong 64 . This is the project Retro Studios went to work on after their excellent Metroid series reboot games. The difficulty you remember from the SNES days Read More...
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What's Hawt : Err...Daniel Craig is in it? There's not too much to love in the demo I was shown at E3. But, maybe...just maybe, the single-player. From what I saw, it's basically the same campaign from the N64 GoldenEye pretty'ed up much, much more. What's Read More...
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What's Hawt : Classic Sonic minus his buddy lowlifes who hang about on account of his famous-ness. Really, though, if the demo Sega has of Sonic 4 is any indication of the full game release...we're in for a good ride. It takes what we loved about the Read More...
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What's Hawt : The addictive gameplay of being a complete jerk and fouling left and right to get the necessary 3 consecutive dunks to be "on fire!" It's the same game we were playing in the arcades -- I, on N64 -- and it's back for the Wii with motion Read More...
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What's Hawt : Metroid picks up right from the end of Super Metroid with a beautiful CG cut scene. Team Ninja will deliver on pretty graphics, nice buttocks and cheesy dialogue. They even got the pseudo-2D aspects of the game right. You only move in four Read More...
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What's Hawt : Brings to the table the same off-center camera Alan Wake did and original in the sense that instead of presenting nice, clean HD-viable graphics, its art style is pure YouTube-style HD-viable graphics. The story grabs you right from the Read More...
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What's Hawt : The same team who brought you Hunter: The Reckoning , High Voltage Software, return with The Grinder and it's a Gauntlet-style co-op game that puts an extra emphasis on Borderlands -style story mixed in with a bit of House of the Dead: Overkill Read More...
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What's Hawt : Bonk is a pleasant re-imagining of the TurboGrafx-16's sole survivor and mascot. And that's all there it is to it. Besides the 3D graphics the game uses, it is the same traditional platforming game you've experienced before. Now downloadable, Read More...
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I came out of the Nintendo E3 '10 press conference just a bit ago and was impressed by most of the 'wares shown. Thought Nintendo was dumping Retro for Team Ninja? Nope. They just had better things to do...like Donkey Kong Country Returns . And the completely-out-of-left-field Read More...
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I may have gotten into my second E3 as "media" but I am in no way an industry expert -- yet. As a regular of web site "meet ups" such as Kotaku and Playstation.Blog's yearly traditional fan gatherings, though, I can attest to quite a few things if you Read More...
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Right when HawtWired goes to E3 and away from retailer options, they decide to drop a bomb on us: Mass Effect 2 's is going $20 cheap at Targets everywhere next week. Our review graded it an A+, our highest honor, so you may want to run (run!) when the Read More...
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Like Bejeweled ? Always thought it needed more RPG elements? Well, Puzzle Quest for iPhone, the game you've always been looking for, is FREE this weekend on the App Store. The developer did a weird thing with the title that split the original PC/DS/PSP/XBLA/etc. Read More...
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The long-awaited PSN download version of FFIX will finally be hitting the PlayStation Store next week right when E3 kicks off on Tuesday, June 15th. Remember, your purchase will allow you to play the game on Sony's blu-ray player, aka the PS3, and via Read More...
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Wow, those are some long titles. Makes writing the headline for this post quite ridiculous. Nevermind that, though. What is interesting is Kotaku's findings that we may see sequels to Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and Dead or Alive revealed at the big show Read More...
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Next up in the rumor mill: T-Mobile? Far and away the best example that no one knows what they're talking about when it comes to Apple switching up to providers other than AT&T. Most people believed that -- if anyone -- was to get Apple's wonder-phone Read More...
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Mr. Exclusive himself, Geoff Keighley, tweeted earlier that Tomonobu Itagaki, he of Ninja Gaiden and alleged sexual harrasment fame, will be revealing his new game tonight on GameTrailers TV. I've yet to try it, but Bayonetta is the game that supposedly Read More...
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We rumored the return of Sonic Adventure and Crazy Taxi before, but now it has been confirmed by the company itself that the mentioned games will be seeing release on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network by September this year. Sega wasn't too heavy Read More...
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If you guys played the original Trine , you know it wasn't that good. Wait...that wasn't the general consensus? For me, the game offered really great trophy-whoring opportunities -- as most every trophy was worth at least a silver -- but the actual gameplay Read More...
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So while the scrubs (i.e. myself) are developing E3 stories next week, you guys at home will be able to enjoy a week-long Gears of War 2 multiplayer celebration that includes 6 times the regular post-match XP points. SIX times the XP. Most developers Read More...
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PerezStart's ace reporting caught a possible leak of Sony's plans to drop the PS3's starting price point to $199 at this year's E3. With plans to release the Move add-on and their supposed 3rd place in the "console wars," it wouldn't be too surprising Read More...
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"Even though Portal 2 will arrive slightly later than planned, all life on earth won't instantaneously stop as every molecule in your body explodes at the speed of light, which is what would happen should a rip ever appear in the fabric of Valve Time," Read More...
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Remember those classics in the header there? Well, maybe we can forgot about "Jurassic Park III" (with appropriate v-raptor swipes as the "three") ever existing. And, well, the original sequel wasn't too great either...regardless! Telltale, makers of Read More...
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Phew! And here I was thinking that my lack of support for the franchise by Gamefly'ing Yakuza 3 was going to keep Yakuza 4 out of my hands. Apparently, the sales of the series' first entry onto PS3 territory in the States has spurred the announcement Read More...
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Yup. DJ Hero 2 has been officially announced after tons of rumoring and executives dropping the name in several earnings calls...now we can rest assured that Activision will not stop until it makes some money off this thing. Oh, yeah, and the original Read More...
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So Valve announced that they have pulled any new information on Portal 2 at E3 and have shut down speculation that Half-Life 2, Episode 3 would be revealed in LA next week. That leaves me to wonder: what's their game? You know what I haven't heard too Read More...
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The ESRB, as per usual, has brought us yet another game release leak by way of officially rating Sonic Adventure for PSN. As Destructoid points out , an XBLA port of the original Dreamcast title has been rumored in the works forever and ever ago now, Read More...
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We haven't heard too much about Nintendo's successor to DS aside from the vague promise that it will release before March 31 in Japan and will produce 3D effects without the use of special glasses. IGN put up a feature on what -- based on "off the record" Read More...
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Destructoid put a story up earlier reporting that the above pic is the latest leak out of Activision's E3 2010 portfolio. Yes, publishers will be trying to bring you back to the good ol' days of '97 America when GoldenEye brought shooters to the console Read More...
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A little video nugget uncovered by Ignition Entertainment's Shane Bettenahausen suggests that the only way you'll be able to take out all the balls in Microsoft's Natal dodge ball mini-game is to "move more!" Glimpse at the future of how you will look Read More...
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"No! Al, you fool! Don't go down there!" Alan Wake sure makes you feel like the audience member watching a thriller at the movies. Unfortunately, you can't just close your eyes or look away. You are Alan Wake. And you have to get him through whatever Read More...
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Pfft, forget about the Crackdown -killer , the real deal is baked and ready to ship: "#Crackdown2 has passed cert, thanks for the fantastic work by all. Load up those trucks, Agents. We're heading out," proclaims the game's developer Ruffian Games' Twitter Read More...
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Long-rumored sequel to Cole MacGrath's original adventures in inFamous is in the works for the PS3. GameInformer is reporting that there will be additions to the game such as a new look, new powers, and will be set in a new city. Interestingly enough, Read More...
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Konami's first foray into the world of Lucha Libre, Mexico's version of the WWE, will be pulling no punches at this year's E3. The Japanese game publisher will be hosting a live wrestling match in the middle of the LA Convention Center for Mexican-developed Read More...
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The end is nigh...or so it would seem for iPad 3G owners -- like myself -- that bought the device to take web productivity and online access wherever they go unfettered by limited data plans. AT&T announced earlier today that they will be revamping their Read More...
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Call of Juar-ah-what? Gunnz? With Red Dead Redemption , Rockstar San Diego puts a stop to whatever other developers thought they were doing right with the wild west setting and shows them how it is really done. You play as John Marston taking part in Read More...
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