Gaming News & Gaming Culture from the Source
In: Gaming News| PC
9 Jun 2009window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″;
What’s new in Left 4 Dead 2? This collection of direct feed gameplay snippets from Valve’s quick sequel shows off the highlights: melee weapons, incendiary bullets, new Special Infected, zombie killin’ action set during day time and… tractors!
Yes, this is the South, so you’ll come across a John Deere or [...]
In: Gaming News
8 Jun 2009window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″;
I called Just Cause 2 the best thing I saw at E3. That’s a big call for a sequel to a so-so game. So, just in case you think I’ve gone mad, watch this.
It’s the same developer demo I sat through behind closed doors at E3. It runs for around 10 [...]
In: Gaming News
8 Jun 2009window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″;
Fresh out of E3, Eidos have released some screenshots for their upcoming sandbox sequel Just Cause 2. That half of them feature explosions is not a coincidence.
In: Gaming News| Nintendo
4 Jun 2009At a developer’s roundtable the other day, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto showed a select group of people some concept art for the new Zelda game. That select group isn’t so secret anymore.
I don’t know about you, but that’s no Princess Zelda. Could it be, as so many are speculating, the living incarnation of the Master Sword?
In: Gaming News
4 Jun 2009Prepare to meet your frosty, carbonated maker in this E3 trailer for Telltale’s Tales of Monkey Island.
Brings back memories, doesn’t it? That’s Dominic Armato voicing Guybrush there. He’s the original voice actor for the character, and it shows. Who else could pull off a line like, “Here comes Guybrush Threepwood’s glowing sword of hot monkey [...]
In: Gaming News| Microsoft| Technology
4 Jun 2009This being E3, there’s been a lot of impressive stuff on show. But nothing as impressive as seeing somebody play Ubisoft’s RUSE on Microsoft’s $20,000 touch-screen “Surface”.
In: Gaming News| Microsoft| Playstation| Sony
4 Jun 2009 At 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.
What Is It?
Saw bridges the gap between the first two Saw movies, placing the player in the role of Danny Glover’s character, [...]
In: Gaming News| Humor
3 Jun 2009So, Mario and Luigi are Italian, but are they Italian stereotypes? Be warned, bad words and bad fake facial hair ahead!
Thanks, B W!
In: Gaming News| Nintendo
3 Jun 2009Mario is back and ready to circle around planets in spaaaaaaaaaace.
As we posted previously, Miyamoto said that the original plan was to “essentially create new variations of the worlds in Super Mario Galaxy.” But, over time, the developers have had so many ideas that Miyamoto estimates that 90% of the game’s levels are all new. [...]
In: Gaming News| PC
2 Jun 2009Yes, Left 4 Dead 2’s release is shockingly close to the release of the original Left 4 Dead. And yes, Left 4 Dead 2 plays very similarly to the original Left 4 Dead. But there’s a reason for both of those things.
Left 4 Dead 2 is arriving almost a year to the day after the [...]