Motion controls are all the rage this year, with Microsoft and Sony jumping on the the bandwagon that Nintendo built There has been varied opinions on both entires.Why not share my since I finally got my mitts on the Playstation’s foray into the motion control world, at this years Comic-Con. The game happened to be [...]
Even as a dominant console gamer, the name StarCraft has always held a special place in my gamer heart. Memories of huddling around a friends computer monitor staying up all night in skirmishes are nights that have made me who I am today. After a 10 year wait StarCraft 2 will finally grace store shelves [...]
With Forge World and a massive amount of other customization options that have been revealed and exposed surrounding Halo Reach, it is quite clear why MLG would be utilizing these options as soon as possible. For those who are unaware MLG stands for Major League Gaming, and they have specialized in competitive Halo tournaments for [...]
Dean Tate, Dance Centrals lead designer, was at Comic-Con this year along side the Harmonix crew to announce a couple of things coming to his game. First he had to show off the game by having a a producer from Harmonix perform “Bust a Move” by Young MC, on hard. she four-starred her performance and [...]
Being the resident RPG fanatic here at IGXPro I have to say I was beyond ecstatic to be able to lay my hands on the sequel to my favourite game of 2009. Today I finally set aside the time at Comic-Con to wander over to the Hilton Hotel where they had demo stations set up [...]
This is probably old news to those for those who follow Harmonix on Twitter and even less exciting to those of you who were actually at Comic-Con this year but it is some exciting news, for me at least. The following six songs were announced by the Harmonix staff and I already can’t wait to play at least 3 of them. Here they are in no particular order:
Motion controls are all the rage this year, with Microsoft and Sony jumping on the the bandwagon that Nintendo built There has been varied opinions on both entires.Why not share my since I finally got my mitts on the Playstation’s foray into the motion control world, at this years Comic-Con. The game happened to be the much anticipated Socom 4, which is from a series that I have a little experience with. I gave it a shot.
At Comic-Con this year some nice chaps from Lucas Arts were there to show off some new Star Wars: TFU gameplay action. Before I get into the Nitty-gritty, I must first admit I have only played a demo of the first game so I had little knowledge of the story, though I am assuming that it falls somewhere in the Star Wars Universe. It was mentioned that this takes place somewhere in between Episode III and IV of the movies. They played it live on stage to really allow everyone to get a feel for the game. Here is what I got out of it:
After the Halo: Reach beta wrapped up in May, many questions surrounding the game had been answered, and even more questions began to pop up. After having a 3 week vacation in the Multiplayer world of Reach, the Campaign was left to be nothing but a mystery. With the overload of Reach news that was announced during comic-con, its hard to believe that Bungie still had something for us to chew on this week. “Battle Begins” was released today, and gives a great taste of what is to come in Bungie’s last Halo campaign.
Nintendo won a massive battle today when they got the very popular r4 cartridge banned from the UK. For those of you who did not know, the R4 cartridge is able to store dozen’s of homebrew and illegal games for the Nintendo DS. So nobody in the UK will be able to buy, ship or even advertise the R4 cartridge without the chance of being charged. Personally this would not really affect me because I am not a DS user or a hacker, but for those of you who do enjoy said activities, then let’s hope Nintendo’s ban does not spread to other countries.
Is Blu-ray going to be a thing of the past already? Maybe ,maybe not. Today Sony and Tohoku University announced that they have developed a new laser technology, that will able to fit 25 times the data that a Blu-ray disc can. A standard Blu-ray disc can hold up to 50GBs of memory on it, for all you people who don’t want to do the math this means the new disc format can hold 1TB… that’s a lot of cheese.
This new laser technology is a beast; it generates a high-powered optical pulsing speed of 3 picoseconds (three trillionths of a second) in a wavelength of 405 nanometers. In other words it can encode faster and use less space on the physical size of the disc, so it can fit more memory. This is Sony’s plan as a successor to the Blu-ray. But don’t think Sony will be phasing it out just yet, we probably won’t be seeing these disc’s for a while. But to us gamers, this could mean better graphics, longer games and more complex gameplay.
Even as a dominant console gamer, the name StarCraft has always held a special place in my gamer heart. Memories of huddling around a friends computer monitor staying up all night in skirmishes are nights that have made me who I am today.
After a 10 year wait StarCraft 2 will finally grace store shelves this evening with a variety of midnight launches at major retailers. When sequels to popular game franchises aren’t just an annual addition, that tends to represent quality not quantity. I think this release is a perfect example of that, a 10 year wait can only promote anticipation amongst gamers, then again hype and gaming go hand and hand.
Infamous 2 was really a great looking game that PlayStation showcased at E3. Bringing back Cole with a cool new hipster look, like one of those cool French parkour guys. Oh wait, they aren’t cool! At least that’s what I thought, and apparently so did all the other fans of Infamous. In fact, people disliked Coles new look so much that Sucker Punch Production have since decided to change his appearance to be more like his original look. Who would have thought that if you complain enough on the Internet, the companies would actually listen? It seems developers are actually using forums and gaming sites to help fix or evolve their games.
With Forge World and a massive amount of other customization options that have been revealed and exposed surrounding Halo Reach, it is quite clear why MLG would be utilizing these options as soon as possible. For those who are unaware MLG stands for Major League Gaming, and they have specialized in competitive Halo tournaments for the last 10 years.
MLG has always used the latest Bungie iteration as there flagship competitive console title. Bungie over the years has done an excellent job with blending community feedback and solid gameplay to make for the best competitive play possible.
Dean Tate, Dance Centrals lead designer, was at Comic-Con this year along side the Harmonix crew to announce a couple of things coming to his game. First he had to show off the game by having a a producer from Harmonix perform “Bust a Move” by Young MC, on hard. she four-starred her performance and put on a great show. A video of it will be up shortly.
The first announcement from Dean was two new songs: Snoop Dogg’s “Drop It Like It’s Hot” and Salt ‘n Pepper’s “Push It.
The complete list of announced songs so far:
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