It’s only been a couple of months and 2010 is already shaping up to be one of the best ever for gamers. If your wallet hasn’t already been emptied, Electronic Arts and development studio DICE have tossed yet another videogame on the pile that can’t be missed. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 ups the intensity and visual [...]
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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Ultimate Edition Review
Posted: September 16, 2010 in Playstation 3, XBOX 360Tags: ps3, shooter, xbox360
Assassin’s Creed Android Review
Posted: September 16, 2010 in Android, iPhone/iPad/iPod, PC, Playstation 3, Smartphone, XBOX 360Tags: action, android, iphone, pc, ps3, wireless, xbox360
Assassin’s Creed: Altair’s Chronicles should look somewhat familiar to you. It was released in 2008 on the Nintendo DS and in 2009 for iPhone. And now Gameloft has ported the adventure to Android. If you were a fan of Ubisoft’s ambitious Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 production, you know the set-up. An assassin named Altair is scouring the [...]
Sonic Adventure Review
Posted: September 16, 2010 in Playstation 3, XBOX 360Tags: dreamcast, platformer, ps3, xbox360
I was always a SEGA kid. Sure, A Link to the Past is at the top of my all-time list, and I felt a guilty thrill cheating on my Genesis as I played through Super Metroid, but my fondest 16 bit memories were of games like Sub-Terrania…and Sonic the Hedgehog. I remember counting the minutes ’til [...]
UFC Undisputed 2010 (PSP)
Posted: September 16, 2010 in Playstation 3, PSP, XBOX 360Tags: fighting, ps3, PSP, xbox360
UFC Undisputed 2010 on PSP is going to be an interesting case study. Here, you have a portable port of a big budget PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 game. The fighters, modes, and options you’d expect from those versions have been carried over to the PSP, and from a broad perspective the transition went smoothly. Still, this [...]
PlayStation Move goes on sale at Best Buy a little early
Posted: September 13, 2010 in Playstation 3Tags: ps move, ps3
We’re still a couple days away from the PlayStation Move’s September 19 launch date, but hey — who said Best Buy has to follow the rules? One of our readers picked up a Move at a Best Buy in Benton Harbor, Michigan today, and we’d expect the trickle to turn into a flood by the time [...]
PS3 jailbroken with… a TI-84 Plus calculator
Posted: September 13, 2010 in Playstation 3Tags: jailbreak, ps3
Sure, you can jailbreak a PS3 using a USB drive, or even a Palm Pre or Nokia N900 — but isn’t that a little too straightforward? Jailbreaking a PS3 with a TI-84 Plus calculator, on the other hand; well, that’s more like it. Still skeptical? Head on past the break for the video evidence, and hit up [...]
Dragon Age: Origins Witch Hunt (PC)
Posted: September 11, 2010 in Arcade, PC, Playstation 3Tags: arcade, pc, ps3, rpg
Those hoping for some sort of satisfying closure on the Morrigan storyline in Dragon Age: Origins unfortunately won’t find it here. If you know what that sentence means and find it to be disappointing, then you’re the target audience for this downloadable content. If you have no idea who Morrigan is and why you should [...]
Mafia II: Jimmy’s Vendetta (PS3)
Posted: September 11, 2010 in PC, Playstation 3, XBOX 360Tags: action, pc, ps3, xbox360
It’s been just two weeks since Mafia II stormed stores across the nation, but it’s already time for its first batch of multiplatform downloadable content. Mafia II: Jimmy’s Vendetta picks up the story of — you guessed it — Jimmy, a wise guy who used to be a go-to guy but was double crossed and [...]
Resident Evil 5 & PlayStation Move: Does it Work?
Posted: September 11, 2010 in Playstation 3, XBOX 360Tags: action, ps3, third-person, xbox360
PlayStation Move hits store shelves on September 19th, and Sony has announced an eclectic collection of internally produced launch titles to go along with it. But non-Sony developers are working on Move experiences, too, and they’ll begin trickling in soon after launch. One of the higher profile Move applications is an upcoming patch for Resident Evil 5: [...]
Black Ops Dedicated Servers Come With a Catch
Posted: September 11, 2010 in Nintendo DS/i/3DS, PC, Playstation 3, Wii, XBOX 360Tags: first-person, nds, pc, ps3, shooter, wii, xbox360
Call of Duty: Black Ops for PC will ship with dedicated server support this November, but there’s a catch. Activision and Treyarch studios announced it has partnered with GameServers.com to offer exclusive dedicated server rentals when the game launches. “We are extremely excited about this unprecedented relationship with Activision to offer dedicated servers exclusively for Black [...]