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Heavy Rain: Video Review

8 Mar 2010 at 9:12pm
We promised to give you more content on the YouTube page and we are fully committed to seeing that promise through. Our video review of Heavy Rain is now live, we also have several game-play videos going up as well. Don’t worry the review is spoiler free, let us know what you think in the [...]

New Tomb Raider Game? Sort of

8 Mar 2010 at 6:35pm
Crystal Dynamics, makers of the last three Tomb Raider games, in an attempt to revive the classic series, has over the weekend announced a new project in the Lara Croft canon called Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Although the new game is minus the ?Tomb Raider? in the title, it still involves the tried [...]

First Glimpse of Transformers: War For Cybertron, at DICE 2010

8 Mar 2010 at 4:03pm
When we usually think of games based on movies or on comics, the general feeling is we would not touch it with a barge pole (at least in front of everyone).  So I can be right to say that this game might just turn out to be another cash cow for the people trying to [...]

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Penny Arcade Episode Two Goes Gold

2 Oct 2008 at 5:35am
Prepped and ready for launch later this Fall.

MEME Expansion coming for MGO

1 Oct 2008 at 10:25pm
Metal Gear Online getting another set of maps, new characters.

Queen Coming To The SingStore

1 Oct 2008 at 12:45pm
Two SongPacks scheduled for imminent release.

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Producer Thinks it's "Unlikely" WoW Will Ever Come to Consoles

8 Mar 2010 at 9:05pm

As they've established previously, Blizzard isn't anti-console and plans on making another console game -- eventually. World of Warcraft might seem like the natural choice for what game to bring to consoles, given its incredible success, and as producer J. Allen Brack told G4tv, it's certainly something that Blizzard thinks about often.

Asked why MMOs haven't made much of an impact on consoles, Brack explained, "I think there's a lot of reasons. There's not one thing. One is, it takes a long time to develop an MMO. The lifecycle of consoles being what they are, you have to really time when your console's going to come out, what its projected lifecycle is going to be with when your game is going to be, which is challenging."

Brack went on to outline the technical challenges of bringing World of Warcraft to consoles, which include the game's current 15GB size and the issue of releasing patches on a platform that's controlled by Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo. He added, "[A]nd then specifically in the case of WoW, WoW was designed to be a keyboard game and its control scheme and its camera controls and the number of abilities that you have and the spells and how things work are very keyboard-centric. The idea of translating that to a gamepad is a very, very challenging proposition."

Sega has officially announced the first round of downloadable content for Aliens vs. Predator. The pack will contain four maps that were previously only available for special edition purchasers.

The multiplayer maps are Docks and Machine, which are set in Weyland-Yutani's abandoned shipping complex and the BG-386 Refinery respectively. The Survivor mode maps include Hive and Outpost.

Look for them on March 18 for $6.99 on the PlayStation 3, and 560 Microsoft Points on the Xbox 360.

Mafia II Features Vintage Playboy Magazines

8 Mar 2010 at 4:58pm

Ah, the 1950s -- an era when Elvis Presley ruled the radio waves, Senator Joseph McCarthy helped fuel Cold War paranoia, and the internet hadn't yet made Playboy magazine totally irrelevant. That's precisely the point in American history that 2K Games hopes to capture with Mafia II, and they're partnering with Playboy to help lend a little authenticity to the game's '50s mobster atmosphere.

The licensing deal allows developer 2K Czech to place more than 50 vintage covers and centerfolds from the magazine's early history throughout the world of Mafia II. According to the announcement, players will be able to collect these in-game copies of Playboy magazine as they progress through the game.

"For more than 55 years, Playboy has been a part of America's pop culture landscape, engaging its readers with insightful features, interviews, and fashion spreads, as well as pictorials of some of the world's most beautiful women,? reads a statement from Playboy magazine editorial director Jimmy Jellinek. "Mafia II is set when Playboy first came into vogue and features characters whose style and attitudes mirror content from our early issues. We're excited to bring an element of authenticity to the game that is unmatched in the men's publishing category."