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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 [...]
In: Gaming News|Nintendo
2 Jun 2009window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Nintendo announced today that it was adding the Wii Vitality Sensor to the list of things one can attach to the Wii Remote. Nintendo’s official announcement claims it will expand the appeal of video games. How? Well, we’re not quite sure yet, as we’ve not yet poked the Wii Vitality Sensor. But [...]
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2 Jun 2009window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Nintendo on Tuesday announced a new, multiplayer Super Mario Bros. game for its Wii console at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. Dubbed New Super Mario Bros. Wii, the co-op game is a side-scrolling adventure starring Mario, Luigi, Blue Toad and Yellow Toad. Up to four players can play together; the [...]
Ubisoft and Paramount Digital Entertainment have announced that the upcoming motion capture 3D-film adapted from the crazy-popular Tintin series is getting its own game. Stephen Spielberg is directing the film and, according to the press release, is directly involved along with producers Peter Jackson and Kathleen Kennedy in crafting the tie-in game. It’s being developed [...]
Starting this fall, movies and television shows from Zune Video will be playable on the Xbox 360 in 1080p HD. Microsoft says that video start up using their new service will be “as close to instantaneous as possible” by transitioning between many different bitrates and resolutions of video. What that means, Microsoft says, is that [...]
1.) Microsoft unveiled the 3D motion sensing and facial/voice recognizing “controller” project named Natal.
Microsoft promised the moon in its demo video for their Project Natal, carrying the tagline that it would “make ‘you’ the controller” and tha…
Microsoft’s new motion controller is a camera, that uses object, movement, and voice recognition to deliver a new kind of immersive gaming experience. It may look a bit like a Wii sensor bar, but it’s something altogether different. Project Natal, as Microsoft is calling it at their 2009 E3 press conference, is a camera and [...]
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1 Jun 2009Just announced at Microsoft’s E3 conference as an Xbox 360 console exclusive, Left 4 Dead 2, a new chapter of the game that takes the struggle against the horde to the southern bayou, and will focus more strongly on melee weapons — chainsaws, axes, frying pans, and baseball bats — on top of its updated [...]
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19 May 2009The world has been waiting many years for the first glimpse at the new PlayStation 3 project from the creators of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. This could be it. A video just released by PlayStation LifeStyle purports to be a work-in-progress early version of “Project Trico,” the code name for the third game [...]