Videogame News
There’s nothing really huge, huge available this week on the Nintendo Download services, though a rhythm-action zombie slaying game does sound pretty unique! See what’s available.
Square Enix continues to take the Final Fantasy series in unique directions, and with THEATRHYTHM Final Fantasy for the Nintendo 3DS, they may have topped themselves. Read on.
LittleBigPlanet Karting is coming, and today Sony made it official. Being developed by United Front Games, and Media Molecule, the game will take the Play, Create, Share functionality of LBP and Modnation Racers and mash them into a brand new karting game. [Update: More screens and pre-order link]
To celebrate the astronomically huge release of Angry Birds Space tomorrow, Rovio has released a brand new, “official trailer” for the game. Needless to say, my son, who is both a huge space and Angry Birds fan, is bursting with anticipation.
Itching for another look at the impressive CryENGINE 3 and/or Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2? Well today, City Interactive provided a look at Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 in their recently released CryENGINE 3 GDC Tech Demo trailer. Take a look.
EA Sports and ESPN’s SportsNation this morning revealed the 32 player bracket of the players who are in the running for the Madden NFL 13 Cover. Vote for your favorites beginning today!
Nintendo is continuing to pave the way for 3D music video releases on the Nintendo 3DS via Nintendo Video, and this morning, they have announced their upcoming line-up of even more videos and artists coming to the service soon.
This is a very good week for shmup fans and classic platforming fans at the very least. Sine Mora is here and it looks spectacular with classic shooting action in a more modern style. Rayman 3 gets enhanced and re-released as well.
SCEA is kicking off Spring with part 2 of their Spring Fever PSN lineup on the PlayStation Store. Rayman 3 HD for the PS3 is the big release, along with Sumioni: Demon Arts for the PS Vita. There are a number of sales on Final Fantasy titles and content, price updates and add-ons too.
I Am Alive for the PS3 is… alive. Well, it was never dead actually, it was just staggered with the XBLA release. Today, Ubisoft has confirmed the PSN release of the game, and April 4th is the day.
Dragon’s Lair has been released for 65 platforms (seriously), so what’s just one more to add to the pile? Digital Leisure and Microsoft Studios are brining Dirk the Daring’s classic quest to XBLA… with Kinect controls.
Finally, after countless throwaway remakes of Frogger, we finally get one that counts. Obviously inspired by Pac-Man Championship Edition, Frogger: Hyper Arcade Edition looks to up the ante with score based, competitive Frogger action.
The Walking Dead is shambling onto Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and PC beginning in late April, and Telltale Games has revealed pricing info and a new teaser trailer for the game.
Irrational Games and 2K this morning sent over new media highlighting another of the Heavy Hitter enemies in the game. In this case, the very unique, and noisy, Boys of Silence.
Starhawk is finally nearing completion, and so far, it is looking to check off all the required boxes for an awesome experience. Single player, local and online competitive and co-op play? check. Awesome transforming vehicles? Check. Action and strategy? Check.
Dishonored is looking more and more like a mash-up of Assassin’s Creed, Hitman and BioShock, and the latest batch of screens offered up by Bethesda and Arkane Studios shows off the unique style pretty effectively.
Disney Interactive and Disney?Pixar have announced the inevitable videogame version of their upcoming fantasy adventure movie, Brave. Just based on the flick’s setting and story, we’re guessing there is quite the potential for an awesome game.
