Electronic Arts is spending big bucks on Super Bowl XLIV, reportedly to air a commercial for their new action game Dante’s Inferno. It’s a risky gamble for EA, one that’s probably not going to pay off considering CBS is charging $2.6 million for a 30-second spot. In gamer terms, here’s what else $2.6 million can buy:
– 200,000,000 …
The trailer for Vanquish, a new shooter from famed game designer Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil series), debuted last night on GameTrailers TV. It’s definitely a must-see. There’s zero chance the actual gameplay will look this amazing in the final product but the concept (guy in Master Chief-style battle armor wards off what looks like …
Some day you’ll be able to play DC Universe Online on the PC and PlayStation 3. This, along with a few other scraps of random screenshots and information, is all anyone knows about the massively multiplayer online game. Video footage of actual gameplay is scarcer than gold Kryptonite. The trickle of information reached new levels of …
This morning EA’s DICE studio released a Xbox 260 demo of Battlefield: Bad Company 2, which is sure to make first-person shooter connoisseurs very, very happy. It doesn’t offer much–you’ll only get to play the online multiplayer map called Port Valdez–but it’s enough to give you a sense of just how much havoc you’ll be able to cause …
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2K sports has just announced that they will give the first person to throw a perfect game in new Major League Baseball 2K10 $1 million.
The contest is available for Xbox 360 through Xbox LIVE and the PS3 through the PlayStation Network will begin on March 2 at 12:01 a.m. PST and end May 2 at 11:59 p.m. PDT.
Says Vice …
This post was supposed to be about MAG, the ambitiously-huge 256-player first-person shooter that came out today. But after watching the commercial for it, I realized I first needed to give props to the sardonic genius known as Kevin Butler. Generally, he’s the spokesperson you see in all of the PlayStation 3 commercials. Specifically, …
Seriously: Sony Computer Entertainment is producing a reality show about contestants competing to be an official PlayStation game tester. To prove it’s really happening, SCEA just announced the cast of the show, whose collective list of favorite games and characters suspiciously references titles that you can only play on the …
When Final Fantasy XIII hits U.S. shores in March, it’ll have a different theme song than its Japanese counterpart. Leona Lewis’ “My Hands” is the official anthem for the North American and European releases while Sayuri Sugawara serenades players of the already-released Japanese version with “Kimi ga Iru Kara” (“Because …
Techland’s Peter Ha reacts to nytimes.com announcing they’ll start charging in 2011, gives more insight into new revelations that Superman isn’t always a hero and explains why Sony is joining Wii in producing a motion-sensing controller.
All that and more in today’s edition of the daily Nerdcast with Peter Ha and Time.com’s …
Contrary to popular belief, the name of Sony’s motion control system will be called just that: motion controller*. Actually, that’s its tentative name until Sony can figure something else out.
Motion Controller will be released in the fall in Japan, Asian regions and countries, North America and Europe/PAL territories along with an …
Capcom’s retro 8-bit Dark Void Zero went on sale today on Nintendo’s DSI Shop for 500 points ($5). Billed as a “lost project” (read the details here), DV0 is a prequel of sorts to tomorrow’s Dark Void third-person shooter for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The SNES-style box art adds a nice touch, don’t you think?
Wait longer, pay less. This adage applies to nearly anything on your shopping list, but as I’m looking at some of the deals on Amazon.com right now, it seems to apply to videogames even more. Some of last year’s best titles—Assassin’s Creed 2, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, Forza 3 to name a few—are currently selling at a 25% …
