The Klei developed beat’em up Shank is getting its deserved sequel early this week to bring a bit more blood into this lovey-dovey month. Shank 2 brings players back in control of the titular character Shank as he travels the gritty comic-book-style world to, well, beat dudes to a bloody pulp, this February 8.
A legislator in Oklahoma is proposing a bill to tax violent videogames. Something which I doubt is constitutional, and he is also playing the “Think of the children” card. Quite disgusting. The democratic member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, William Fourkiller wants to levy a tax of 1% on violent games.
I see it all the time nowadays. Hardcore being used as a title for gamers like it means something, kinda like ELO on League of Legends or karma on Reddit. Touhou aimed at hardcore shooter fans, Etrian Odyssey being aimed at hardcore dungeon crawler fans, same with Dark Souls and anything else that loves to show you the game over screen whenever it feels like it. Sure, I get what it means, but it spawns a problem.
THQ, the publisher behind titles like Saints Row: The Third and the WWE franchise, has certainly seen better days in the financial world.
If Mass Effect 3 is on your most wanted listed for 2012, I have a little treat for you this afternoon. Head over to your Facebook page and check out the new FB app called Mission Command. This is a direct promotion to go along side with the upcoming launch of Mass Effect 3.
NeoGaf is at it again, with one user claiming he’s stumbled across signs of both a new Populous and other projects involving Insomniac.
Remember my previous article on how Zynga rips off people’s games shamelessly? Well another company that does the same thing picked a fight with the wrong people. Spry Fox, upon hearing that Yeti Town was basically a clone of Triple Town, took action against 6waves.
This past weekend professional competitive gamer, Milkfat, set the new world record for consecutive hours playing Heroes of Newerth. While Guinness is still verifying the figures, S2 Games, creators of HoN, is reporting that 69 of the 76 hours were spent actually playing, while the rest was reserved for breaks. Although he could have spent some of that break time sleeping, he chose to remain awake the entire time in order to, “prove his manliness.” That’s pretty bad-ass considering a South Korean man died in 2005 after a 50 hour Starcraft marathon, due to heart failure caused by exhaustion.
In portable gaming battery life matters. No one wants to be stuck on a 6 hour flight and only have 3 hours of game time. So, in a recent test of both the PSVita and 3DS’s battery life while playing games, with all battery-saving features enabled, the testers came to a surprising conclusion.
Good news this afternoon for PS3 CoD gamers, you will not be in the dark for much longer. After the CoD content seasons kicked off last week, the Sony community was once again put on the waiting list for the new maps Piazza and Liberation.
OK, well maybe not free live time for all, but if you happen to be a silver member when downloading the upcoming ME3 multiplayer demo, Microsoft has a surprise for you.
Downloadable titles, I personally feel, are the future of how console gamers will digest their games. With consoles every year offering hard drives with more available space, the ability to save a full game locally and play off the hard drive is inevitable.
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