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Review: Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Military-based action games have become the first-person-shooter staple thanks to franchises like Call of Duty. We’ve seen attempts to capture the same experience before, but Battlefield: Bad Company seems to do the best job at tackling the genre with its own take on things.
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Is Sony Playing a Dangerous Game with PS3 Customers?
The recent outage that crippled PlayStation 3 consoles for millions of gamers didn’t seem to faze Sony management very much. While frustrated players tried to figure out why their systems wouldn’t work — losing time, trophies and tempers — Sony’s response was lackadaisical. Sony apparently doesn’t understand that we’re now living in a social universe, and the balance of power between companies and customers has shifted.
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Sony: Repaired PS3 Software Glitch Preventing Users from Network Access
Sony Corp. said Tuesday it has repaired a software glitch with its PlayStation 3 that had prevented some users from accessing its PlayStation Network for more than 24 hours.
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2K Games Opens Secret Armory of General Knoxx
2K Games announced that The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, the third explosive piece of downloadable game add-on content for Borderlands, is now available for detonation starting today via the Xbox LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft for 800 Microsoft Points. The add-on content will also be available on February 25 from the PlayStation Network and from store.gearboxsoftware.com, Steam and Direct2Drive for Windows PC for $9.99.
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2K Games Announces Extensive Downloadable Content for BioShock 2
2K Games announced an aggressive post-launch downloadable content plan for BioShock 2 that extends and enhances the single and multiplayer experiences by adding more glimpses into the award-winning world of Rapture.
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Heavy Rain Drenched in Noir
David Cage is part of a new generation of video game makers who are tapping darkness — both emotional and aesthetic — as a way to tell fresh stories. Literature has Chandler, Hammett; film has David Lynch and David Fincher; television has David Chase and Matthew Weiner. And video games have David Cage, who wants to popularize a type of video game noir.
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Dead Rising 2 Hits PC in August
In what is unusual in the modern world of PC and console gaming co-existence, the sequel to a best-selling console game is headed to the PC.
Announced at Microsoft’s X10 event is that Dead Rising 2 will be shipping for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC platforms on August 31.
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Review: Bioshock 2
Much has been made of Bioshock 2’s narrative, and for good reason: it’s glorious. You could watch someone else playing and enjoy it as a movie. At its centre is the ideological battle between free-market individualist Andrew Ryan and proto-Stalinist collectivist Sofia Lamb, and this philosophical conflict affects everything you do.
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Sony Still Losing Money on PS3 Console
Japanese mega-corp Sony revealed their earnings recently, and the Wall Street Journal picked up on a very small, but notable point – Sony loses .06 for every $1.00 of PS3 sales sold, so basically, they take a $18 hit on every unit sold. However, they’re looking to make that back soon, and sales of the PS3 and its games were very well for the year 2009.
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Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Goes Episodic This Summer
Sega has taken the wraps off Project Needlemouse, and the publisher is positioning the game as a proper sequel to the series’ Genesis genesis and Sonic the Hedgehog 3, specifically. The publisher has released a new trailer for the game, revealing its official title: Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1.
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