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window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Here’s some more screenshots for Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed 2. And yes, in one of them, he is flying.
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4 Jun 2009At Konami’s E3 Booth yesterday I got my first chance to play the video game adaptation of the smash hit horror film series Saw, leaving me questioning the limits of my violence tolerance. window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; What Is It? Saw bridges the gap between the first two Saw movies, placing the player in the role [...]
window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; One of the most experimental concepts shown at E3 thus far, and yet another game quietly announced but not explicitly mentioned by Sony: a PSP followup to Jun Fujiki’s Echochome, the Escher-esque PS3/PSN downloadable in which wireframe artist models traversed impossible constructions using tricks of perspective to bridge gaps and open paths. [...]
One of the many exclusive PlayStation Network downloadables not specifically called out by Sony in its Tuesday conference: Gravity Crash, a new shooter from UK dev Just Add Water that mashes Geometry Wars-esque retro-vector style with twitchy dual stick shooting, and, more importantly, includes a full level editor to let players create and share their [...]
David Cage’s collective output at Quantic Dream have always been nothing if not massively ambitious: from the wide open world of his PC/Dreamcast debut Omikron to the multi-camera cinematic perspective and directly user-controlled actions of PC/Xbox 360′s Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy, with both just undercut from being true masterworks by tiny details. The jarring quick-time event sequences [...]
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1 Jun 2009Crysis, the gorgeous sci-fi shooter from German developer Crytek Frankfurt, is a PC game. So is its sequel, Crysis 2 — that, and an Xbox 360 and a PS3 game. The game is the second entry in the planned Crysis triology and will be published by EA. “The development of Crysis 2 marks a major [...]
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30 May 2009GamersConsoleNetwork scored a big scoop this morning, pulling the first images of the PSP Go (running LittleBigPlanet) out of the latest edition of Qore, which apparently went live early. On top of that, someone managed to film the video and place it on YouTube. That’s below (bad audio) In the video: • Grand Turismo, LittleBigPlanet, [...]
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28 May 2009Don’t expect the PS3 Slim at E3! According to website Ars Technica, it won’t be there. A “very well-informed mole” says that there won’t be a PS3 Slim announcement next week at E3, and that the console won’t be in stores until late summer or early fall. Why? “There are plenty of PS3 systems sitting [...]
Oh look. Another new product announcement just days before E3. In this instance, for a big, proper game based on Pirates Of The Caribbean. Why, exactly, do we have the show again? Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned is an “action RPG”, being developed by Propaganda Games and to be published by, who [...]