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Aliens vs. Predator demo coming Feb. 4th

February 3, 2010February 3, 2010 Doug Groves Aliens, Aliens vs. Predator, demo, multiplayer, PC gaming, Predator, PS3, Xbox 3606 Comments

The Sega Europe blog has officially announced that a multiplayer demo will be released on Thursday Geb 4th for the upcoming Aliens Vs. Predator game, via Xbox Live, PSN or Steam, depending on your preference. This AvP is set in the future (roughly around the time of Aliens), and will allow the player to take on the role of Alien, Predator or Colonial Marine, and duke it out in a refinery designed to feature areas that will be more suited for each species. From Sega… There are numerous vantage points…

Transformers: War for Cybertron is the Transformers video game you might actually WANT to play

January 21, 2010January 21, 2010 Danny X PC games, PS3, Transformers, Xbox 3603 Comments

Not since Hot Rod opened up the Matrix of leadership to the haunting tune of “You Got the Touch” have I been so moved by anything Transformers related. It’s not because I’m some kind of callow emotionless jerk-bot. It’s because anything transformers-related since 1986 has, um, sucked. But the Transformers: War for Cybertron game trailer looks like it wants to buck that trend. Featuring the voice of Peter Cullen and some cameo appearances by what appears to be Omega Supreme, the trailer appears to ramp up the battle scenes in…

Bayonetta may just make your head explode

January 18, 2010January 18, 2010 Doug Groves Bayonetta, review, Xbox 3602 Comments

Bayonetta is a new action game in the linear kill everything that’s thrown at you style of the Devil May Cry and Ninja Gaiden variety. There’s a lot of similarities especially with the former, given that both were directed by Hideki Kamiya, and from a purely game mechanics perspective, Bayonetta is certainly an evolution. Bayonetta is also a 10 foot tall witch with a sexy English accent, naughty librarian glasses and sassy high heel-machine gun shoes. Her hair would put Crystal Gayle to shame. In fact, her skin tight body…

Dark Void demo launches this week

January 5, 2010January 5, 2010 Doug Groves Capcom, Dark Void, PC games, PS3, Xbox 3602 Comments

Whether you’ve heard of Dark Void before or not, if you have a PS3 or Xbox 360, this is your lucky week. Those who know already have the date bookmarked. If you’re not familiar with the title, Dark Void basically a 3rd person action adventure game, mixing that old-tymey art style of Bioshock with interdimensional sci-fi monsters. Like most 3rd person shoots, it makes use of a Gears of War cover mechanism, adding a vertical cover mechanic into the mix. Why vertical cover? Oh, probably because your character has a…

Free Xbox LIVE Weekends – who needs eHarmony?

November 20, 2009November 20, 2009 Doug Groves Microsoft, Xbox 360, Xbox Live1 Comment

The Xbox LIVE Dashboard update has been launched, adding Facebook, Twitter, HD instant streaming via the Zune Marketplace and more. To give more people a taste of it, the Xbox LIVE team is taking a page out of the eHarmomy playbook, and is running free-weekend promos, which start today in many regions, while Europe starts on November 25th. As for the update itself, the main interface remains the same, and the additions are for the most part well done. The real stand outs have to be the Facebook app which…

Assassin’s Creed II: First Impressions

November 19, 2009February 16, 2010 Johnathan Leger Assassin's Creed II, PC games, PS3, review, Ubisoft, Xbox 3608 Comments

One of the most anticipated gaming titles of the year was finally released this week… and Assassin’s Creed 2 has a LOT of hype to live up to for some… and a LOT to apologize for to others. In 2007, the first game was greeted with polarized impressions, best summed up by Zero Punctuations review. Despite its glaring flaws, I was a HUGE fan of the Creed and after grinding through the first level of the sequel, my impressions thus far are nothing short of smitten. I wont get into…

Left 4 Dead 2 is out, and is all that and more

November 18, 2009 drsquid Left 4 Dead, PC, Steam, Valve, Xbox 3604 Comments

Valve unlocked Left for Dead 2 at midnight, on November 17th, for those who pre-ordered, and pre-loaded the game. I somehow forgot this fact, despite having done the former and latter, so the first thing I did when I got home tonight was play the game. Though I have only had time to play a for few hours, it’s defintely going to be my new gaming addiction. As said, in our review of the demo, L4D 2 takes all that you loved from the first game (you did buy the…

Mass Effect 2 gameplay footage

November 6, 2009 Doug Groves Mass Effect 2, Microsoft, Xbox, Xbox 3600 comment

If ever there’s a time to just sit back and chill, it’s a Friday afternoon when watching the clock slowly move to 5. To help it pass faster, Joystiq posted 9 minutes of game play footage from the upcoming Mass Effect 2 using the current build. Even though the video isn’t in HD, the level of texturing, and details in animation and environment are an obvious improvement over original. There’s some NSFW (or as I like to call it NSFFoxNews) language in the beginning, but beyond that, everything is shaping…

Alice sequel teased, twisted

November 2, 2009November 4, 2009 Doug Groves Alice, American McGee, PS3, Return Of Alice, sequel, Xbox 3603 Comments

American McGee’s Alice, the nicely twisted third person game that put an extra dose of creepiness into the Alice In Wonderland world back in 2000, finally had a sequel announced by EA back in February of 2009. Now the first teaser trailer, courtesy of developers Spicy Horse has been put online at the teaser Return Of Alice site (the main URL is showing black at the moment). Given the capabilities of hardware these days, I’m hoping that the game itself will have the same creepy stop motion style as the…

Left 4 Dead 2 Demo impressions

October 29, 2009October 29, 2009 Doug Groves L4D2, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, PC games, Xbox 3604 Comments

After some minor delays, the PC version of the Left 4 Dead 2 demo was finally available yesterday evening to those who’ve pre-orderd the game. The Xbox 360 demo was also available, it’ll be another week or more before it’s available for those who haven’t pre-ordered. I fired up a local server so Dr Squid and myself, along with a friend, could give the two map co-op experience a whirl or two. Some of the points mentioned in here were originally made by Dr. Squid during gameplay. Right off the…

Assassin’s Creed: Lineage Part 1 short film online

October 27, 2009 Doug Groves Assassin's Creed II, Hybride, PC games, PS3, Ubisoft, Xbox 3601 Comment

Remember when Ubisoft bought Hybride, the Montreal based studio that did effects work for Sin City, 300 and other films? Besides continuing work on film effects, one of the fruits of that purchase is now available to watch online, in the form of Assassin’s Creed: Lineage. There’s also a good interview with Ubisoft’s UK marketing director talking about the convergence of games and film… “So the beauty of something like Lineage is that it allows us to take a lot of the assets developed for the in-game engine and create…

Get Borderland on the cheap in Canada

October 20, 2009 Doug Groves PS3, Xbox 3607 Comments

If you live in Canada, and were considering picking up Borderlands, the post apocalyptic FPS/RPG for the Xbox 360 or PS3 (it’s out today you know), you might want to run to your nearest retailer and nab it quick. In a promotion similar to Batman: Arkham Asylum, numerous retailers (Best Buy, Futureshop and WalMart) will be selling it for the discounted price of $40. Game Stop/EB Games also has a promotion where you can pick it up for free with 3 select game trade ins, or for $19.99 if with…