Video Games
Final Fantasy Tactics A2 trailer full of whimsy, tactics
Filed under: Nintendo DS, RPGs, Strategy
It’s actually pretty difficult for us to tell if the above trailer is any good — you see, when the original Final Fantasy Tactics Advance came out, we played it until our GBA SP’s brilliant backlight peppered our poor eyeballs with cataracts. From what we can tell through blurs and […]
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Rumor: Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 wages ‘Civil War’
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360
One more revelation from yesterday’s massive exodus of games out from under the corporate shroud: Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 will be based on Marvel’s “Civil War” miniseries, which introduces the Superhuman Registration Act. The act requires anyone in the […]
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New Wii menu update 3.3 nullifies Twilight Princess hack
Filed under: Hacks, Nintendo Wii
We’ve got some good news and some bad news. Let’s start with the bad news: Nintendo’s latest Wii menu update (3.3) effectively plugs up the Twilight Princess hole that served to foster a homebrew community - or, perhaps more accurately, it casts the homebrew community into a realm of […]
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Price cuts and 60GB Xbox 360 rumored for E3
Filed under: Gaming
E3 is set to roll next month from July 15th to the 17th. With it comes the annual deluge of gaming rumors. Today we’ve got a pair for Microsoft. No, not another Blu-ray Xbox 360 whisper. Rather, we’ve got a resurrection of the 60GB Xbox 360 courtesy of Trusted Reviews as well as […]
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PSP firmware 4.00 due “soon,” adds Google search to XMB
Filed under: Gaming
There’s no indication of an exact release date just yet, but word just dropped on the official PlayStation blog that the PSP will be getting a boost to firmware version 4.00 “soon.” That’ll bring with it the addition of Google search directly form the XMB interface, which Sony says “replicates the Google Internet […]
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SimCity Societies demo (finally) available
Filed under: PC, Simulations
We know your type. You’ve been waiting for a demo of SimCity Societies to see if the game is right for you. Finally, after 213 impatient days, the now self-publishing Tilted Mill Entertainment have released a demo for the city builder, which you can find at Big Download.
Metareviews and Yahtzee be […]
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Sony’s Splittable PlayStation 3 Controller Sounds Very Wiimote-Like [Ps3 Controller]
According to GamesIndustry.biz, Sony’s in the middle of working on a PlayStation 3 controller that splits into two units, giving the player motion-sensing functionality much like the Wiimote + Nunchuk combination on the Wii. Their source knows of no official announcement timeline, but working units have been given to developers to test and integrate into […]
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Nintendo sues Nyko over nunchucks, ninjas still silent
Filed under: Gaming
It looks like Nyko’s nunchuck controllers for the Wii could possibly be getting a whole lot more limited, at least if a recently filed lawsuit plays out the way Nintendo would like. As Bloomberg reports, Nintendo is claiming that Nyko’s wireless Kama nunchucks not only infringe on its trademarks for the Nunchuk name […]
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