Are you a fan of real world cars and locations but always thought standard racing games were a bit… dull?
Do you like the power-ups and over-the-top nature of kart racers but can’t get behind the cartoony style?
Looks like Activision’s Blur might be to your liking, then. And what luck! – CFD! is giving away codes for the recently started Xbox 360 multiplayer beta!
Ready to get your Blur on? Race past the jump for details…
More details have dropped like a big Dookie bomb on Green Day: Rock Band – the first we’ve heard since the game’s announcement at the 2009 Spike Video Game Awards – including a release date.
Besides the video above and screenshots below, we now know that the game will be going Kerplunk onto shelves worldwide on June 8th, 2010 in two different formats. Want some Warning of what to expect? Well then don’t be a Nimrod and hit the jump for details.
The second piece of this week’s Rock Band related news is arguably the most awesome (and most bizarre) of them all. Brace yourself, kids. It’s going to get messy in here.
Not only is next week’s Rock Band DLC bundle a 4-pack of tracks from the iconoclastic electro-pop diva, Lady GaGa, but there will also be a extra single release of one of her biggest hits, as covered by South Park, Colorado’s own Eric Cartman.
Hit the jump for details while you let that all sink in.
Who needs press releases when you have Facebook? That’s the location where Harmonix decided to confirm – in between your friends’ horoscopes and the ten-thousand Farmville updates they’ve posted today alone – that Rock Band 3 is indeed a thing which is real, and bound for retail in the 2010 holiday season.
Okay, who didn’t see this one coming? Show of hands?
Let’s be honest here; with such a fertile ground of classic adventure gaming available to mine it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that the other Monkey Island titles would be getting the same revamp love as last year’s The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition. And that’s just what LucasArts announced this evening!
Indeed, ye scurvy bilge rats! Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge sets sail this summer for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, iPhone/iPod Touch, PC and probably every other platform in the known universe if you just give them time enough. And it’s not just the same old facelift (and… earlift? what would a re-orchestrated soundtrack count as?) that the first release got (though it does have all of those same features again).
It’s official. Arc is out – Move is in. PlayStation Move, that is.
Touting 1:1 motion sensing and a latency of “only one frame”, Sony rolled out their long awaited motion controller platform at GDC 2010. Hit the jump for details from the press conference.
What would a daring super-spy be without his daring super-spy gadgets and weapons? And what would an RPG be without loot and gear? The answer to both questions: probably dead in the water.
It’s a darn good thing that Alpha Protocol is packed full of gizmos, guns and other goodies then. Take a look at the newest developer diary from Obsidian and Sega for a peek inside the toybox.
Alpha Protocol is on track for a June 1st, 2010 release.
We’re almost done with the Trauma Team walkthrough videos, kids! This one focuses on First Response gameplay, where you take on the role of feisty, spicy paramedic Maria Torres.
First Response plays out similarly to the standard gameplay, but simplified – after all, you’re just trying to stabilize the patient for transport – with the added wrinkle of having to juggle between multiple patients at once. Looks like this’ll be a nail biter on the time management front.
After an incident made public last year where an Xbox Live user was banned for self-identifying as a lesbian in her gamertag profile, the terms of service for Microsoft’s online service have come under increased scrutiny by the LGBT community. Microsoft claimed that any expression of sexual preference (including straight) was banned under the TOS, clarifying and stating that it was to prevent potential harassment and hate speech. This claim rang rather hollow with anyone who has actually played the average multiplayer game online, however, since it takes all of about 20 seconds to get called a faggot by some random idiot halfway across the country.
Still, the verbal outcry following the incident apparently caused Microsoft to look into reevaluating their policy, as Xbox Live General Manager Marc Whitten announced Friday on the Gamerscore Blog that the service’s TOS had been altered, finding ways to include, rather than exclude, LGBT gamers.
Hey again, everybody. Sorry for the absence of the new release lists for the last couple of weeks. To make up for it, we’ve highlighted some of the bigger games for the last two weeks in the New/Recent Releases Amazon sidebar (just in case you wanted to pick some of them up, y’know? Hint, hint?).
As for this week’s titles, there’s really one title that stands head and shoulders above the rest – I honestly shouldn’t have to even tell you which one it is. But here’s a hint: it starts with and “F”, ends with an “inal Fantasy” and has had 12 other entries before it (well, more than that if you count spinoffs).
Beyond the long-awaited RPG, there are a few other releases that may be on your radar: Calling or Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition for two different flavors of tension, Mega Man 10 on PSN for retro-style action, Assassin’s Creed II on PC for the perpetually late-to-the-party, or Yakuza 3 on PS3 for your niche import goodness.
Regardless of which way your tastes run, hit the jump for a full list.
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