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- Boss Fight Books to Get a New Look for Richard Moss’s “Age of Empires”
- GDC Awards: All the Winners from 1996 to Today
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Wins “Game of the Year” at 2025-2026 GDC Awards
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- Video Game Research Library
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- The History Of The Word “Metroidvania” And How It Spread – A Critical Hit (2025)
- Creator of Hit Game Shovel Knight Is at a ‘Make or Break’ Moment – Bloomberg (2025)
- Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history – Design Room (2025)
- In 2005, games started rewiring our brains – The AV Club (2025)
Author: John Scalzo
Expendables 2 tie-in game coming to PC, PSN, XBLA this Summer
The Expendables 2 is getting an action-packed tie-in game this Summer from Ubisoft, and it’s nothing like the Contra-inspired Facebook game the first movie received back in 2010.
The Expendables 2 game is, instead, a top-down, downloadable shooter designed for the PC, PlayStation Network, and Xbox Live Arcade. One-to-four players (locally and online) will be able to control Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), Gunner Jensen (Dolph Lundgren), Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) or Yin Yang (Jet Li) as they attempt to rescue a kidnapped billionaire. Of course, “all hell breaks loose,” and The Expendables are forced to shoot their way through the Somalian desert and the Burmese jungle in a story that leads right into the movie sequel.
The Expendables 2 will be available to download this Summer, probably around the movie’s August 17 opening.
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Tagged The Expendables 2
Nintendo Download: Kingdom Hearts 3D demo, Marvel Pinball, more
Marvel Pinball 3D leads this week’s smattering of 3DS eShop releases. But shooting a virtual metal ball through tables based on Iron Man, Captain America, and the Fantastic Four doesn’t compare to this week’s biggest addition: a Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance demo.
Tongue-twisting titles aside, Nintendo also added a second demo to the 3DS eShop today, the Sega-published rhythm game Rhythm Thief & the Emperor’s Treasure.
In other news, Nintendo is jumping on the weekly bargain bandwagon with their “3DS eShop Game of the Weekend” promotion. The first title to get a temporary price cut is indie side-scroller VVVVVV, which will be available for $4.99 this weekend.
Want to read more about this week’s new Nintendo Download titles? Hit the jump for more, including a pair of DSiWare titles. (more…)
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Tagged Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, VVVVVV
Pokemon Black 2/White 2 to be released on October 7
The DS still has one big game (OK, technically two) left in it as Nintendo plans to release Pokemon Black 2 and Pokemon White 2 this Fall. Today, the publisher confirmed that the games will be available in stores on October 7.
Nintendo also announced they’ll be adding Pokemon Dream Radar, an augmented reality game where Pokemon invade your house, to the 3DS eShop on the same day. Several hard-to-find Pokemon caught in Pokemon Dream Radar can even be transferred to Pokemon Black 2/White 2.
“Fans will want to count the days until October 7, when they’ll not only get to play the successor to one of the biggest Pokemon adventures ever, but also expand their Pokemon experience to the Nintendo 3DS with Pokemon Dream Radar,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing. “No matter whether people are playing on Nintendo DS or Nintendo 3DS, they’ll be getting an incredible Pokemon experience that expands upon the beloved Pokemon Black Version and Pokemon White Version games.”
It’s Pokemadness!
Posted in 3DS, DS, News
Tagged Pokemon Black 2/White 2, Pokemon Dream Radar
Circle Pad Pro will be available for 3DS XL
If you were worried that Nintendo’s 3DS XL would be too big to receive its own version of the Circle Pad Pro, fear not, a second stick attachment is in the works for the massive handheld.
The news comes from the latest issue of Famitsu, so the Circle Pad Pro XL (or whatever they end up calling it) is currently only scheduled for release in Japan. But an American release (sometime on or after the XL’s August 19 launch) seems likely.
[Source: Andriasang]
Walking Dead: Episode 2 now available on XBLA; coming Friday to PC, PSN
Telltale Games has announced that Episode 2 of The Walking Dead, “Starved for Help,” is now available on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Gamers will have to have Episode 1 installed before they can play Episode 2.
“Starved for Help” will also be available on the PC and PSN this Friday. All three versions of the game have been priced at $4.99. In the meantime, you can check out the brand new trailer above.
The Walking Dead: Episode 3 will be available in late July.
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Tagged The Walking Dead
XBLA Today: Jeremy McGrath’s Offroad
Jeremy McGrath’s Offroad gets all muddy on the Xbox Live Arcade today. And for 800 Microsoft Points ($10), you can play in the dirt too:
In Jeremy McGrath’s Offroad, players race four-wheeled 800 horsepower off road race trucks with tons of options including a host of tracks, single-player and multiplayer modes as well as a wide loadout of vehicle classes including Rally Cars, Pro Buggies, and Trophylite Trucks, all in crispy 1080p, 60 frames per second presentation. With multiplayer support for eight racers and a full career mode, Jeremy McGrath’s Offroad will be the title for racing fans who want to get down and dirty on the track!
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Tagged Jeremy McGrath's Offroad
The Last of Us wins five Best of E3 2012 awards
It’s hard to argue with those who believe The Last of Us reigned supreme at this year’s E3 Expo. That claim has been given some further validation by the Game Critics Awards, which handed five “Best of E3 2012” statues to Naughty Dog for The Last of Us.
The game, which stars two survivors of a post-apocalyptic America, won “Best of Show,” “Best Original Game,” “Best Console Game,” and “Best Action/Adventure Game.” It also took home a “Special Commendation for Sound.”
No other game came close, though Dance Central 3, Halo 4, and XCOM: Enemy Unknown all won two awards and Watch Dogs collected two Commendations.
The Wii U was mostly shut out of the awards show, though the system itself won “Best Hardware” and the multiplatform Injustice: Gods Among Us won for “Best Fighting Game.”
A complete list of winners can be found after the break. (more…)
Square Enix: No Final Fantasy VII remake because we have yet to top it
Ask any gamer why Square Enix hasn’t remade Final Fantasy VII yet and you’ll get the same joke answer, “They must not like money.” But, as it turns out, the publisher has a very specific reason for why they haven’t remade the defining RPG of the PSone era.
Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada revealed the real reason for the company’s reluctance at a Q&A session during the company’s annual shareholder’s meeting. According to Wada, Square Enix can’t remake Final Fantasy VII until they create a new Final Fantasy game that “exceeds the quality” of the 1997 game. He continued, “If we were to release a Final Fantasy VII remake right now, the Final Fantasy franchise would be done with.”
Considering the fact that the next game in the series, Final Fantasy Versus XIII, hasn’t been publicly shown in years, we’re likely in for a long wait.
[Source: Andriasang]
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Tagged Final Fantasy VII