Month: December 2012
Eurocom Enters Administration, Lays Off Staff
This past fall’s 007 Legends wasn’t particularly well received by critics, including us. It looks like the developers behind the game, Eurocom have closed their doors for good as they enter “administration”, as reported by Eurogamer. A company in the U.K entering administration is similar to one filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy here in North […]
Ruffian Reveals Streets of Rage Reboot Concept
As we play video games in the current age of reboots, revisions and remasters, developers are always looking to revive vintage franchises that may have been lost in the annals of time for both hardened fans who can wax poetic of the classics, and the new generation of potential fans. Now, one such franchise that […]
Skylanders: Giants “Hot Dog” Now Available For Pre-Order
If you’re all like me and have been playing the Skylanders games with your children, you’re always on the lookout for when the next characters are releasing. I don’t know about other regions, but the Skylanders Giants figures seem to be staying in stock pretty well – I mean, Activision & Toys For Bob can’t […]
Dunwall City Trials DLC Trailer
Bethesda just sent over this fantastic new trailer for the first bit of DLC for Dishonored, called Dunwall City Trials. Check it out below! [youtube id=”mEqwAd1o_8k” width=”600″ height=”338″] This DLC comes out on December 11th, this coming Tuesday, and will cost you $4.99 on PC and PS3, and 400 MS Points on Xbox 360. Also, […]
Ubisoft Publisher Sale On Xbox Live Now!
Ubisoft is hosting a huge sale over Xbox Live that includes everything from full games, arcade games, and add-ons. Most notably all of the previous Assassin’s Creed games are on sale so if you haven’t had a chance to pick them up – now is the time! Not to mention that DLC for Assassin’s Creed […]
Phantasy Star Online 2 Vita Beta Begins In Japan
Phantasy Star Online 2 isn’t even out in North America yet but that hasn’t stopped an entire community of avid players from either figuring out how to sign up the Japanese version or posting on forums about the game. PSO2 will see a release on Sony’s Ps Vita sometime early next year in Japan and right […]
Black Ops II Kills Its Way To $1 Billion In Sales In 15 Days
Call of Duty: Black Ops II is a juggernaut of a game being enjoyed by millions of fans since it launched a few weeks ago. The game had already passed the $500 million mark, reached within 24 hours and now it has earned Activision a billion dollars. It’s a figure that would make even Dr.Evil […]
Fire Emblem Awakening Gets North American Release Date
Great news for North American fans of the Fire Emblem series, Fire Emblem Awakening for the Nintendo 3DS will be released next spring. You’ll be able to get your portable tactical RPG itch scratched on February 4th 2013 according to Kotaku. Fire Emblem Awakening is the first entry in the franchise on Nintendo’s next gen […]
End of Nations Dev Faces Layoffs, End of Beta Program
Things are not looking good for developer Petroglyph Games and their latest RTS offering End of Nations. After going into a limited closed beta earlier this fall development on the game seems to have halted with the studio reportedly laying off 30 employees from its Las Vegas office. This sad news comes on the heels […]
Square-Enix Creates And Pulls Hitman Absolution Facebook App
In just a single day, the P.R. department representing Hitman Absolution went from celebrating the creation of a brand-new Facebook App to promote the release of said game to initiating damage control because of it. The idea of the app in question was it gave people a chance to send a virtual death threat (yes, […]
Dishonored 1.2 Patch Available
Bethesda has released a new patch for Dishonored bringing the game up to version 1.2 on all platforms. The majority of these fixes are rather minor including one or two encounters that invalidate a non-lethal playthroughs and a bug that prevented the game from being played offline on Steam. Check out the full list of […]
PS Vita Firmware 2.01 Now Live
PlayStation Vita owners hold on your hats because a new firmware is now live! Okay, so it’s a minor update but it does fix a rather nasty bug that occurred when attempting to sync your PS+ Vita game saves to the cloud. Hopefully no one reading this has lost their saves, with great games like […]
Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Demo Lands on PSN
The collaborative RPG effort between Professor Layton developer Level-5 and legendary anime studio Studio Ghibli, Ni No Kuni, finally has a presence in North America with the release of a playable demo on the PlayStation Network. If you can’t wait for the game to ship on January 22nd of next year, you now can try […]
Skyrim’s Dragonborn DLC Arrives On Xbox 360 Today
Bethesda’s latest update to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim arrives this morning on Xbox Live with the launch of the Dragonborn DLC pack. This latest expansion allows your adventurer to explore the coasts of Morrowind as well as explore the fate of Solstheim. For 1600 Microsoft points you don’t just get a new area to […]
Wonderbook: Book of Spells | Review
Hoo boy I was not looking forward to this one. Harry Potter is a huge phenomenon all over the world and that is so for many reasons. Today we’re not here to discuss the excellent novels or the pretty good movies, we’re here to talk about the terrible, terrible licence games. None of the harry […]