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05.22.12
Earlier today, Take Two announced that 2K Marin’s first-person shooter XCOM has been delayed to fiscal 2014. This isn't the first time that Take Two delayed XCOM as the project had a 2011 release date, but is now set back to Take Two Interactive's 2014 fiscal year ranging between April 2013 to March 2014.  
05.20.12

Seth Killian knows more about fighting games in his sleep than most people do awake. Capcom’s resident pugilist has been helping the development team improve the Street Fighter X TEKKEN console experience with the new Sony PS Vita portable game. Check out the exclusive video interview below from Captivate 2012.

05.20.12

It’d be interesting to talk to the executive who green-lit a big $200 million budgeted film “loosely” based on the Hasbro board game Battleship…especially considering it’s bombing something fierce this weekend against the mighty Avengers movie.  (We’re not that surprised – it sucks horribly.)  For that matter, we’re trying to figure out why Activision, of all people, would jump at the chance to make a game based on the movie based on the board game.  No matter – like most movie-licensed fare, it doesn’t really get anywhere.

05.16.12

You may have heard about Microsoft upcoming first person shooter called Halo 4, which is releasing this Fall. We are only three weeks away from E3 and new details have started to emerge. Some are predictable, but the latest multiplayer details will catch your eye.

05.16.12

The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), which assigns the official age and content ratings for computer and video games, announced a new public service announcement (PSA) campaign starring San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey and pitcher Ryan Vogelsong at AT&T Park. The PSAs, which feature the players explaining the ESRB rating system and encouraging parents to use it when buying games for their families, will soon begin running on television and radio stations throughout northern California as well as at Giants home games this season.  

05.14.12

Taking full advantage of Kinect for Xbox 360, Steel Battalion Heavy Armor is a first-person perspective action game that will put players in the cockpit of futuristic Vertical Tanks (VTs) starting June 19. Set in 2082, the game depicts a world devoid of semiconductors, where war is waged with rudimentary weapons as new superpowers struggle for dominance. In a twist of fate, the U.S. army has been forced to begin major landing operations on what was once its own soil. Playing as pilot Lt. Powers, players control one a VT as he embarks on a mission that will see the action shift from North America to battlefields and war-torn streets across the globe. The multiplayer mode of the game made its debut at Captivate 2012.  Capcom’s Antoine Molant was on hand to discuss this sequel in this exclusive interview.

05.14.12

When WarHawk released for PlayStation Network a few years back, it introduced some important new fundamentals to the multiplayer battle experience, letting teams take out one another either on the ground or in the air, using a number of well-armed vehicles.  While it was fun for networked battles, it really didn’t offer much outside of that, since there was no sign of a single player campaign.  That said, some team members behind that game have since shacked up with Lightbox Interactive to produce a sequel of sorts, and StarHawk is the result.  And as fun as the original Hawk was, this experience surpasses it.

05.14.12

There are some options if you want to play Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo III for free at launch, and beyond. ORIGIN PC is celebrating the launch of the highly anticipated action role-playing game with a free Diablo III Standard Edition to anyone who buys one of their PCs on May 15. Those who don’t want to make an investment can try to win the highly coveted, sold-out-everywhere Diablo III Collector's Edition game by going to their Facebook page.

05.11.12

First introduced at a Microsoft event in Tokyo a couple of years back, Crimson Dragon has been hidden in secrecy for some time, with Yukio Futatsuki, the creator of Sega’s Panzer Dragoon series, and his team toiling away on its spiritual successor for Xbox Live Arcade.  But recently, Microsoft provided us a hands-on opportunity with the upcoming release, giving us the ability to fly around with a dragon using body motions.  And you know what?  It’s not half bad.

05.09.12

Recently, I was given the opportunity to visit Santa Monica Studios to demo two new upcoming games. The first was a Celtic magic adventure called Sorcery exclusively designed for the Playstation Move. You play a young wizard apprentice armed with an arsenal of spells and abilities fighting through a variety of fantasy locations to free the world of evil. Using the motion controls as the on screen character’s wand via the Sony Move was actually quite fun.

05.09.12

The IOS market has been around for roughly six years and has helped revolutionize everything tech related from movies, music and games. It has given artist and developers a new platform to communicate and speak directly to audience and that’s exactly what Aoineko Studios is doing.

05.08.12

Deep Black: Episode One has been in production for what feels like ages.  The game was initially announced like four years ago, and back then it was known under the code name Underwater Wars (or U-Wars).  Since then, though, development notes here and there slipped out, but it almost seemed like the game would never release.  But, last week, it finally showed up, unannounced, as if 505 Games was slipping it under the door just to see who noticed.  After going through it, I can say that it has its problems, but it also has a few intuitive additions that make it stand out from the pack.  Whether that’s enough to make it worth a purchase depends on how much you can stomach the problems.

05.08.12

Ronimo Games dodged quite a bullet with the release of Awesomenauts, as the game’s publisher, DTG, was just about ready to file for bankruptcy, throwing its release into question.  But things got worked out, and now players everywhere will be able to experience the MOBA – multiplayer online battle arena – action that awaits within.  While there are things that are hard to overlook, the situations you can get into with friends really put the “Awesome” into the game’s name.

05.05.12

Capcom connected with gamers back on the original Xbox with Steel Battalion, a game best known for its massive controller filled with buttons and levers to control the in-game Mechs. Thanks to Kinect, the newest game in the franchise (which is not a direct sequel to the Xbox game), eliminates any new controllers while making the experience more immersive. Capcom’s Antoine Molant details the new game at Captivate 2012 in this exclusive video interview below.

05.03.12

BELLEVUE, Washington – NCsoft-owned developer ArenaNet has built its entire foundation on its fans. The walls at its gorgeous new studio are adorned with concept art from the game and fan letters and pictures. There’s even a giant fan-made Charr that moves from hall to hall. Martin Kerstein, community manager on Guild Wars 2, talks about the role the fans have played throughout the development of the new MMO – even beyond the recent beta – in this exclusive video interview.

05.03.12

There was something about the Fatal Frame games that was utterly spectacular.  The series, which ran on PlayStation 2 across multiple releases, raised some genuine scares while avoiding the pratfalls of most survival/horror games, arming you with a special camera rather than a powerful array of weaponry.  The concept worked quite well over the years, prompting Tecmo Koei to give it another shot, this time on the Nintendo 3DS with the mostly unrelated Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir.  It was a great idea, but from the first moment it tries to take advantage of the system’s built-in augmented reality, things fall apart rather quickly.

05.02.12

LAS VEGAS – Celebrity gamer Adrianne Curry was kicked out of San Diego Comic-Con last year for wearing an Aeon Flux costume that the police department found too revealing. But she’s determined to wear that custom-made costume again this year. Curry also reveals what she has in store for cosplay at the biggest convention for comics and games in this exclusive video interview, in which she’s dressed as TEKKEN fighter Christie.

05.01.12

Want to know more about Diablo III’s new auction house feature? Blizzard Entertainment has just updated the Diablo III Web site with a comprehensive Auction House guide that walks you through the ins and outs of Diablo III’s in-game item marketplace, including details on buying and selling, a breakdown of how the real-money auction house works (in regions where available), and more. You’ll also find some important information on Battle.net account-security requirements that players interested in using the real-money auction house will need to know about. The developer breaks down that and other new features of the new RPG in the exclusive video interview below.

05.01.12

Once you see one Dynasty Warriors game, you’ve pretty much seen them all, right?  Let’s be honest, over the years, the countless Warriors games that Tecmo Koei has released haven’t diverted much, save for the Gundam games, which wraps the familiar beat-em-up gameplay around the popular anime universe.  And even there, repetitiveness is starting to kick in.  Thankfully, it’s believed that the development team has listened to the fans and is throwing in some new elements to keep things interesting.  While Warriors Orochi 3 can’t shake the same old “diabolically kill hundreds” formula that’s been in the series for years, some new elements keep it from feeling like the same old game.

04.30.12

The point and click genre is most known for Tim Schafer 1990’s work with games like Grim Fandango, Full Throttle and Secrets of Monkey Island, but has long held the work of Jane Jensen. Jane Jensen is a designer, director and writer in the genre. She was most known for her writing helping to create interesting characters and interesting storylines in games in like the Gabriel Knight series and now her newest Kickstarter project. A game that has been purely designed by and for the fans of the point and click genre.

04.30.12

What does the current number one box office hit Think Like A Man and Sony’s upcoming shooter Starhawk have in common? Award-winning film, television, and video game composer Christopher Lennertz has scored both projects. Lennertz worked with Sony Santa Monica Studios and Lightbox Interactive’s on the PlayStation 3 exclusive. The score album will be released June 19, 2012 through La-La Land Records.

04.29.12

This summer will be a big one for Sega fans, as the company has recently announced that it is bringing back the Dreamcast classic Jet Set Radio for a whole new audience to enjoy.  Set to release in the next few months on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, the game will feature hours worth of skating and grafitti spraying fun, along with high definition visuals and most of the original soundtrack.  It's a party just waiting to happen, and you can bet that Beat and Gum will be in attendance.

04.29.12

BELLEVUE, Washington – With the Guild Wars 2 beta weekend in full swing, fans can finally see what ArenaNet has been working on for the past five years. With NCsoft as a partner on the new MMO, the studio grew out of its original digs and moved into a specially-designed new studio this past year in Bellevue. ArenaNet marketing guru Chris Lye takes us on an exclusive guided tour of the cool new studio in the video below.

04.29.12

ArenaNet has spent the past five years creating a brand new type of massively multiplayer online (MMO) game with Guild Wars 2. The developer, along with publisher NCsoft, has opened the game to fans for the first time over the beta open weekend. Whether playing the game over a weekend or when the final game ships, here are the Top 10 things to do in the new-and-improved fantasy world of Tyria.