Valve Store Update: Cubes! Posters! Headcrabs! Other Stuff!
Posted by inpheaux on December 14th, 2007 at 11:14 pmWell, the day is finally here. Time to rush rush rush to buy Weighted Companion Cube merchandise.
Valve has two options to fill the Weighted-Companion-Cube-Shaped void in your life: Full-size plush (6" cube) or Fuzzy-dice-sized (4" cubes).
They've got other new stuff, too, like some new Aperture Labs Propaganda Posters and an Aperture Labs Mug.
Then there's the [...]
Sunday Dramabomb: Vivendi & Activision merge into “Activision Blizzard”
Posted by inpheaux on December 2nd, 2007 at 4:16 pmIn today's "Certainly Didn't See That Coming" news, Vivendi Games and Activision have buddied up to form "Activision Blizzard".
So . . . it looks like we're down to three omni-platform super-developer/publishers now. In one corner we have EA, the only company allowed to make sports games, and who will be making sports games with tiny [...]
Deus Ex 3 formally announced. Why, Eidos, why?
Posted by inpheaux on November 26th, 2007 at 3:19 pmEarlier in the year - much earlier - Eidos announced plans to open a new big fancy studio in Montreal. Ok, fine, all kinds of developers have studios in Montreal, most notably EA and Ubisoft, but today they actually opened up.
Oh and they announced that their first game would be another multi-platform Deus Ex.
With no [...]
Forums are open to registrations again
Posted by inpheaux on October 29th, 2007 at 1:34 amOk, this one's my bad. At some point it appears our CAPTCHA script stopped working, and no one told me.
Sorry?
Well, it's fixed now. So if you haven't been able to register for the past month or so (and aren't a robot) you can register right over here.
Review Megapost: Shooters, Future Law, Gimmicks and Hobos
Posted by inpheaux on October 28th, 2007 at 8:01 pmWe've been holding onto this set for awhile. It just kept snowballing, you know? Well, here they all are in descending order of quality.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
BioShock - PC / 360 - The best single-player game I've played since System Shock 2.
Portal - PC / 360 (and eventually PS3) - The second-best single-player game I've played since [...]
BAD END: Bioware & Pandemic gobbled-up by EA
Posted by inpheaux on October 11th, 2007 at 7:14 pmAll bad news, all the time.
Out of nowhere, EA has decided that it would be super neat if they went ahead and bought-out Bioware and Pandemic, to build upon their game-development Empire of Doom. If they were another less-established pair of independent developers, sure, this would be pretty decent news, since it would mean stable [...]
BAD END: Smash Bros Brawl delayed til 10 FEB 2008
Posted by inpheaux on October 11th, 2007 at 6:59 pmThey just wouldn't let us get away with a good week. Sure, we got the Sonic announcement, but alongside the delay to January in Japan, we've got word from Nintendo's mini-pre-E-for-All media event that they've delayed Smash Bros Brawl in the US until 10 FEB 2008. No reason, no explanation, it's just apparently not done [...]
End of the Universe Imminent: Sonic joins the Smash Bros lineup
Posted by inpheaux on October 10th, 2007 at 9:10 amAs if there wasn't enough going on today. The Orange Box, Radiohead's online release of In Rainbows, a new Wii firmware (USB Keyboards!) and now this.
Yes, the endlessly recurring rumor of "OMG IF YOU DO [insane/impossible thing] IN [a Smash Bros game] IT TOTALLY UNLOCKS SONIC!!1!1!1" is now real. No movelist yet, just an announcement [...]
Rock Band: 360/PS3 - 23 NOV 2007 for $170, PS2 - 10 DEC 2007 for $160
Posted by inpheaux on September 28th, 2007 at 5:05 pmWell, prices and dates are finally out, and frankly I'm pretty disappointed. Hear me out, OK. Sure, $170 is way better than $200, but there's only one version, they're making you buy a full set of Guitar, Drum Kit and Mic. I have absolutely zero interest in the Drums and Mic. Sorry guys, I just [...]
Online multiplayer confirmed for Smash Bros Brawl
Posted by inpheaux on September 18th, 2007 at 7:39 amAfter weeks of crap updates like gliding, finally something we actually care about: Online WFC Multiplayer has been confirmed for Smash Bros Brawl.
Sure, we were told from the start that online multiplayer over WFC was one of the whole points of Smash Bros Brawl, but remember: this is Nintendo, the undisputed kings of squeezing out [...]