Monthly Archives: August 2010

Rumors in Games - Bioshock 2 No Multiplayer for you!

Ken Levine, the original creator of Bioshock has been leaning towards to removing online multiplayer in the next chapter of the epic series. Bioshock Infinite, which is to take place in the roaring 1910s and most likely a prequel, is going to be in the ranks of Metroid Prime, where being in a series that had multiplayer in one title of its series, then didn't have it in the next. While this isn't really set into stone for Bioshock Infinite, Ken Levine stated that adding multiplayer on games are [...]

Gamer News - More Marvel vs. Capcom 3 characters revealed!
As if Capcom couldn't give us more of an excuse to get us fighting game fans to bulk up our fingers and prepare our Evil thumbsticks, just as of this past weekend, at Gamescom in Germany, it is revealed that both Viewtiful Joe (from Viewitful Joe) and Dormammu (the nemesis of Marvel's Dr. Strange) are going to be in the release of Marvel vs. Capcom 3. In addition, if you were to search back, the confirmation of Dormammu has significance in the leaked possibility of the Silver Surfer for Marvel [...]

Gears of War 3 won't be out till April 5th 2011, so until then, Sega's got your back.
Vanquish is a third-person cover based shooter inspired by the success of Gears of War. The man behind the title is Shinji Makami, more famously known as the father of Resident Evil. Vanquish is Platinum Games' attempt to break into the American market. Something they weren't able to do with Bayonetta and MadWorld.
Vanquish attempts to appeal to both the western and eastern audiences, but it's still a very Japanese game. It's got all of the Japanese trademarks: non-realistic settings, humans stylized like 3D [...]

Gamer News - Activision not finding Female Leads to be Profitable
Activision recently admitted they believe games with female protagonists do not sell, referencing a number of male fronted top selling games in previous years. As a result, Activision and other companies avoid using female leads in games directed toward the general gaming population, only showing female leads in licensed games such as Barbie and Dora. Furthermore, according to Gamasutra reports, companies like Luxoflux have even attempted to create titles with female protagonists but changed their concepts based on Activision's narrow-minded focus on current high sales of male driven games. Sadly [...]

Microsoft announced that it hopes to add 5 more years to the lifespan of its most recent console. Now the X-Box 360 has been released since its days back around 2005, and it has recently reported its first ever, profitable quarter. Microsoft believes that the Kinect and future services and features will contribute to this proposed lifespan. In this blogger's opinion, this could be a good thing and a not so good thing. I'll start with the not so good. If Microsoft is planning to expand its console's life by five years, there is a possibility that within those five [...]

Gamer News - Billy Mitchell to Continue being a Record Holding Champion
Billy Mitchell was the first world record holder in the game of Donkey Kong, achieving this feat back in 1982, officially recognized by Twin Galaxies (Videogame authority). Billy has been recognized as somewhat of a prophet when it comes to arcade gaming, being called the "greatest arcade "€œvideogame player of all time". His score went untouched for years.
In 2007, "The King of Kong: a Fistful of Quarters" came out, chronicling the journey of Steve Wiebe, a Washington state teacher, and his attempt to dethrone the hot sauce king. As [...]

Gaming News - Check your Email for Kinect Invite Exclusives
August 11,2010
Excited for Kinect? Go check your email! Microsoft is offering a "limited audience" of Xbox 360 owners an opportunity to beta test Kinect and changes to Xbox Live before they are due out in November.
If you receive an email, you may be sent pre-release software and hardware. Not everyone who receives an email will have the opportunity. But if they are one of the privileged few that do, they will get a chance to experience Kinect and the anticipated dashboard re-design before anyone else.
Follow the link below for the full [...]

Industry News - Optic Gaming and Evil Controllers team up!
OpTic Gaming is not only a gaming team, but a video game powerhouse producing hundreds of thousands of videos and channels with thousands of views each. They are a highly competitive team with some of the top snipers and players from around the world. With huge fan bases on youtube, facebook, twitter, and myspace, OpTic Gaming is taking the gaming world by storm.
Evil Controllers is one of OpTic Gaming's sponsors and partners in crime. Evil Controllers produces modded controllers for Xbox 360 and Play Station 3 and other various other products [...]

What to play this month, July 2010
There was definitely a wide range of great games that were released these past few months and July was no exception. For Play Station 3 and Xbox 360 NCAA Football 11 took the cake. The PC game was obviously the highly anticipated StarCraft II. Nintendo Wii struggled and didn't have a great game this month. Nintendo DS had Dragon Quest IX. Nintendo DSiWare had Steamworld Tower Defense. Nintendo WiiWare also didn't have any great games unfortunately. For the Play Station Portable, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable was a great one. PSN came up [...]

LA is known for so many things and now they can add having a video game-themed dodgeball team into the mix as well. People come out and play dodgeball dressed up as video game characters. It isn't a rule that you have to dress up every week, but who doesn't want to dress up as their favorite character and make them really come to life. Participants get creative with their costumes and display a wide variety of characters from Mario and Sonic to Duck hunt and Carmen Sandiego. This is just another way to bring video games to another level [...]