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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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Facebook-Xbox 360 Overlap Games Launch
You play a game on Facebook. I’ll play one on Xbox 360. Our winnings will contribute to the same side of a virtual reenactment of World War I. Behold, the first Facebook-360 gaming link, launching this week.
About 11,000 Facebook users are playing Match Defense: Toy Soldiers, a Microsoft Games Studios game quietly launched a couple of weeks ago. The game will link to Toy Soldiers (pictured up top), an Xbox Live Arcade game that launched Wednesday.
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Review: Toy Soldiers
Toy Soldiers—the new Xbox Live Arcade game from Microsoft Game Studios that kicks off the March’s Block Party promotion of hot new XBLA games—is one of those games that could have been a military strategy game that went for realism, but instead stayed closer to its die-cast inspiration and is a game about playing with toys: toy soldiers and their wind-up weapons of war, fighting large-scale battles out in large dioramas set up in bedrooms and backyards.
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Review: Greed Corp.
In the style of heady German board games like Carcassone and Catan comes Greed Corp., a fascinating strategy game taking place in a new fantasy world called Mistbound. There is a major difference, though — whereas Carcassonne and Catan are about building and cooperating, Greed Corp. is about beautiful destruction.
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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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Peter Molyneux Breaks Down Fable III
“Fable III is all about power,” begins legendary game designer Peter Molyneux, during a presentation at the recent X10 event in San Francisco. “We want you to feel power in a way you haven’t before in a game.”
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Review: Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce (Xbox)
In 2009, KOEI released Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce to PSP, so many found it strange that a console port would be heading to Xbox 360 and PS3 so soon. But Strikeforce managed to surprise critics and the gaming community with something different. The entire DW system received a massive overhaul with major improvements left and right, including hints of an RPG.
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Microsoft Reveals Exclusive Line-up for 2010
Microsoft has several console exclusive franchises, their most famous being Halo. Now we have word that at X10, Microsoft has showcased an array of exclusive games which are set to defy the more traditional genres, creating new experiences. The company expects 2010 to be the biggest year in gaming history.
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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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