9 Sep, 2011

People love to talk about who the greatest player is in a particular sport. It is an age old obsession for sports fans to sit around and boast that this guy or that guy is the best in their sport profession of choice. Maybe it is Barry Sanders in football or Ted Williams in baseball or even Kevin Keegan in soccer. However, most agree when it comes to...

5 Sep, 2011

Sony is trying its best to keep its audience and market happy, and they have come back stronger than ever after the frustrating hack attacks left millions of players in the dark, angry, and with pitchforks. Starting just a few weeks ago with a major discount fest of 100 downloadable titles, Sony is gearing up to push out its lower-priced PSP and setting the...

5 Sep, 2011

Gamers, hold on to your wallets. If you aren’t smarting over the blow of buying Deus Ex two weeks ago, you’re going to start feeling the pain of all the awesome releases coming from this month until the end of the year. This week’s top picks include Dead Island, Driver: San Francisco, and Resistance 3. We’re staring down a golden barrel...

5 Sep, 2011

Finally, a shift in the United States’ gaming charts. Nintendo has been dethroned as the driving force behind sales this last week as Square Enix’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution stormed onto the scene. It’s no wonder, as the highly anticipated stealth-action-shooter has garnered some of the best scores in recent memory. Speaking of which, have you...

2 Sep, 2011

Today we received a new trailer for the upcoming Atlus title, Persona 2 PSP Innocent Sin, and it shows off the rumor system that is in the game. You have the ability to spread rumors that can affect certain people and things in the world. It is a new concept for me, as I never imported Persona 2 (it was never available outside of Japan until this PSP release),...

1 Sep, 2011

2K Sports has put out a new trailer for NBA 2K12 that shows off not only the featured legends from this year’s iteration, but also some of the current NBA stars that have set the league a fire. I had to sit back and watch the trailer several times as the action in this year’s NBA title looks so much like a broadcast television network. If you are a...

1 Sep, 2011

Ronnie 2K, the NBA guru over at 2K Sports, has put together another Developers Insights column for NBA 2K12, this time focusing on Art Direction. The idea behind the art direction in NBA 2K12 is getting the eras of the Legendary players just right. This means adding things like filters to create grainy black and white imagery, or the interlaced live TV effect...

30 Aug, 2011

Codemasters’ Bodycount kicks off the release schedule this week as gamers the world over finally celebrate the end of the Summer Draught. With Deus Ex releasing last week and creating a stir, many of us still have our heads stuck in augmentations, but hopefully we’ll come out of it long enough to take on some other favorite titles, especially with...