Games - Presidential Left 4 Dead in COD

Killing Nazi zombies in Call of Duty: World at War never made a lot of sense, it was fun and it worked, but it wasn't really compelling. This time around it'll be hard to argue when you've got these 4 playable characters:

Left to Right: Robert McNamara, John F. Kennedy, Fidel Castro, and Richard Nixon

Left 4 Dead is fun because it forces players to work cooperatively, gamers can't go off on their own without an extremely high chance of becoming incapacitated and needing help from another player. While this mode definitely looks to maintain the feeling of a Left 4 Dead campaign it'll be interesting to

Games - DR2 producer shares his views on zombies

Keiji Inafune, producer of Dead Rising series, has been in the past influenced by George Romero's Dawn of the Dead movies, but it wasn't just that movie series that inspired the creation of Dead Rising.

In a recent interview with Dengeki Online (a Japanese online magazine) that Resident Evil 4's zombies (despite they weren't really zombies...more like 75% zombies with free will) made him make Dead Rising because those "zombies" run. He stated that zombies shouldn't run...and why are they running since they're zombies.

"If I made my own [zombies]....there would be zombies like this."

~Keiji Inafune, Dead Rising

Gaming News - ESPN To be more interactive with its audience

Let's take video games and combine them with sports, what do you get, ESPN on Xbox LIVE! The gaming world is going to become a lot better with this release. ESPN has decided to partner up with Xbox LIVE and make the world of sports more interactive. I think this is a great step for our generation. A lot of people enjoy watching sports, but never been able to interact. ESPN and Microsoft plan to change that very soon. People will have the ability to watch 3,500 live and on demand events. They can vote on who they think will win the game. With the Kinects coming soon, gamers will not need a remote to change the channel.

I think this is a very exciting a unique combination, but it will definitely need working on after this initial launch. The problems with interactive products are the bugs that constantly occur. Over time that should become less of a problem. There are the possibilities of gaming going 3D. They are

Coming in November there will be the 2011 Jeep Wrangler Call of Duty: Black Ops Edition going for around $30,625 to $33,500. The thing people are asking about its existance. Mike Manley, President and CEO of Chrysler-Jeep Brand, said that their partnership with Activision marries two things together "€œ Jeep Wranglers and popular entertainment experiences, which will open to a new group of consumers.

It also to point out that the Jeep will make an appearance in Black Ops. The 2011 Wrangler and its Unlimited Call of Duty: Black Ops Edition is primarily based on the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, it'll come only in black, feature Black Ops

Games News - Black Ops to pass up Modern Warfare 2?

EA marketed Medal of Honor in a way that suggested it could be the next Modern Warfare, although it was a decent attempt, it just didn't match up. Will Call of Duty: Black Ops fall flat on it's face in the same way? At this point it's a little difficult to tell. The Call of Duty games developed by Treyarch have never been given the same critical acclaim as those made by Infinity Ward, but with Infinity Ward's lead programmers, designers, and Engineers starting there own venture with Respawn Entertainment, I'm guessing Activision's paying special attention to this title.

In many ways

Gaming Review View - Zombie Farm!

Forget Farmville. This Halloween, try out Zombie Farm for your iPhone or iTouch! Instead of farming cabbage, or broccoli, or whatever new vegetable Zynga has come out with, plant, harvest, and raise your zombies to create your own evil empire.

Although visually almost identical to Farmville, Zombie Farm provides a little more humor to an already relatively addictive concept. Beginning the game, as an evil farmer you must choose between planting crops or zombies. After, just like in Farmville, you sell your zombies or crops to generate money to plant more. Is it redundant and mindless, just like FarmVille? Yes. But is it way cooler because it features zombies,

NBA JAM not downloadable but a physical video game!

With NBA Jam already released on disc for the Wii, the PS3 and Xbox versions that were originally to be original downloadable content for delayed NBA Elite 11, will be now be a retailÂÂdisc release according to an EA Sports representative. EA Sports President Peter Moore stated that EA is going to ship NBA Jam as a standalone product in time for the holidays. This was sort of hinted at as Gamefly recently listed the game for a November launch which knowing Gamefly's rental service meant it was going to be a physical product.

Jen Riley of EA Sports Vancouver had this to say:
"The fact that retailers are showing the box is

INTRODUCING THE NEW EVIL-DPAD FROM EVIL CONTROLLERS

Well it's finally out, we've been excited for it's release for awhile now and it really couldn't have come out at a better time for you guys. Black Ops is just around the corner and Super Meat Boy is $10 until the end of the month. Both of these games, while massively different, benefit from our Evil D-pad.

While shooters may not use the d-pad as often as the analog sticks, typically used for aiming and movement, the d-pad is still an essential part of the experience. Anyone that's played Gears of War to a competitive degree testify that the original Microsoft d-pad is often a failure in critical moments. Bungie ditched the use of the

Games - EA embraces Mixed Martial Arts and trying to get you to enjoy it also

UFC and mix martial arts have been around for a few years. I mean if you go on to YouTube and type in MMA you will find some old highlights that people don't know even exist. Ever since UFC got their new president, Dana White, mix martial arts has been on the map. We always here about there pay per views, TV shows on spike and now video games.

EA sports MMA video game might help the MMA community instead of hurting it like the last few games made. No offense to the creators of Tapout, but the world just wasn't ready to play a MMA game. UFC Undisputed did a good job with creating a career mode that fans would love. After all these years

Industry News - Trading in Games Got Harder

With the age of DLC on every modern console threatening the used game dealers such as Gamestop, Game Crazy, and Play N Trade, the dealers will have to comply with a recent federal law. The 9^th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided that software publishers can stop buyers from reselling their software to others, which differs from rulings in which software can be sold again under a "first sale" doctrine.

According to Anthony Reese of the University of California-Irvine, the first sale doctrine is responsible for the bulk of public access via the existence of stores that sell used materials like books, records, and videos. He added in that this ruling can be used in other courts and impact their sight over other business types such as eBay and stores like Gamestop.

To put in an example, around thirty percent of Gamestop's profits are in used games. Add in the domino effect, Gamestop claims that it will impact their