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F.E.A.R. Combat Free Download
Posted by Christopher Sasaki Categories: Action, First Person Shooters, Internet, PC,
Game publisher Sierra has made their multiplayer component of the Monolith’s game F.E.A.R. available for free download. Gamers will just need to register on the official website to get a CD key, and then download the 1.8 GB distribution from one of the download sites. Downloads are available via Bittorrent, Sierra’s official site, FilePlanet, Gamespot, and Xfire. The system requirements for the game are:
- Operating System: Windows 2000/XP with latest service pack installed
- Processor: Pentium 4 1.7 GHz or equivalent
- RAM: 1GB RAM
- Video Card: 128MB DirectX(R) 9.0 video card with Pixel Shader 2.0 support
- Sound: 16-bit DirectX 9.0 compliant sound card with support for EAX 2.0
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Star Wars: Lethal Alliance by Ubisoft Announced for DS, PSP
Posted by Michael Cardiff Categories: Action, Adventure, Corporate News, Nintendo DS, PSP, Ubisoft,
Many Bothans died to bring you this game - just in time for Christmas (Dec 2006), Ubisoft will be releasing Star Wars: Lethal Allaiance. Taking place between the two trilogies, you’ll be playing as Twi’Lek Rianna Saren and her ‘droid in a mission to find the plans for the Empire’s secret weapon, the Death Star. The release states:
Ubisoft is honored to announce this exciting and innovative Star Wars game, the first original game in the legendary franchise built to take full advantage of the unique capabilities of both the PSP system and the DS.
Translation: It’ll be 3D, just expect more refined graphics for the PSP and some touch-screen control mechanics for the DS.
This marks Ubisoft’s third Star Wars outing - Revenge of the Sith for the GBA and DS and Apprentice of the Force for the GBA being their previous releases. Given the recent success Ubisoft has had in the platforming genre with games like the Prince of Persia trilogy, we’re keeping our fingers crossed for some solid Force-based action.
Read More | Ubisoft Press Release
Wii Say Goodbye to Sonic WildFire, Hello to Sonic & The Secret Rings
Posted by Michael Cardiff Categories: Action, Rumors, SEGA, Wii,
In yet another piece of news that was quickly censored by major videogame companies, Gaming Age reported today that the upcoming Sonic Wild Fire for the Nintendo Wii will now be named Sonic and the Secret Rings. Later, SEGA asked Gaming Age to remove this news from their site, but thanks to the power and beauty of the internet, the name can still be found on other major venues including Cubed3.com.
Censoring the fact that a black Wii is coming I can sort of see, but the name for a game? Come on guys - you haven’t even let us see enough screenshots to know what to think of this game, and the title really isn’t giving anything away. A Sonic game that features rings? Wowee! I never would’ve guessed.
Read More | Gaming Age
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IGN Snaps Photos of Black Wii at THQ Event, Then Takes Them Down?
Posted by Michael Cardiff Categories: Action, Driving, Nintendo, THQ,
Earlier this morning IGN Wii posted a ton of photos from a super-secret THQ event showing off their Wii games (including Cars, SpongeBob Squarepants, Avatar, and Barnyard. And up until about 9:30 this morning, there were a ton of photos showing off some new Wii secrets including the Wii Dev Kit, and a black Wii controller. However, it appears that all of the interesting photos from the event have been taken down from IGN now! If you scroll down to the bottom of this page, you can still see a few people playing with the black Wiimote, but clicking on the links will just take you to boring photos of the refreshments offered.
Joystiq is still hosting a bunch of the photos, but if Nintendo is behind the IGN photo disappearances, you can bet they won’t last long there either. Perhaps the existence of the black Wii was one of the secrets Nintendo planned to divulge next month?
Read More | IGN Wii via Joystiq
Display Your Inner Geek, Win a DS and New Super Mario Bros.
Posted by Michael Cardiff Categories: Action, Corporate News, Nintendo, Nintendo DS,
For all 5 of you out there that are huge Mario fans but don’t already have New Super Mario Bros, Nintendo is taking pity on you. By submitting a photo or video that shows your love for Mario and proclivity for public embarassment, you can win not one, but TWO DS Lites and a pair of NSMB cartridges to go with them.
You’ve only got 11 days to submit (the contest ends on August 25th), so start rummaging through the closet for your old photos and/or convincing your hot girlfriend to pose with your original Gameboy now.
Read More | Nintendo Contest @ Buzznet
Dead Rising Gamers Report SDTV Issues
Posted by Christopher Sasaki Categories: Action, CAPCOM, Xbox 360,
It looks like some users without high definition television sets are having problems with text readability in Capcom’s latest release, Dead Rising. According to reports on the Xbox forums, people running standard definition television sets with composite inputs are finding the mission requirements text unreadable. Others have claimed that using the s-video or component inputs can help correct this problem. However, if the gamer has a “crummy… very-non-hi-def” television, they might be out of luck. Unfortunately, it appears that this issue wasn’t caught by either Capcom or Microsoft’s acceptance testing, so addressing this issue will probably require a patch; yet another Xbox 360 game to do so. Hopefully, Capcom can address this issue soon and get all of their customers playing the game without issue.
Read More | Xbox Forums
Psychonauts PS2 @ Amazon.com for $9.99: Now THAT’s Bargain Bin Gaming
Posted by Michael Cardiff Categories: Action, Adventure, Hot Deals, PlayStation 2,
When Xbox 360 owners complain this loudly about getting backwards compatible support for a specific game, you know it must be a real gem. Such is the case with Psychonauts, a rare blending of amazing artistic style with solid platforming, the likes of which hasn’t been seen since Rayman 2.
In what may be the best gaming deal this month, The Frugal Gamer is reporting that Psychonauts for the PS2 is now available on Amazon.com for $9.99 (and thanks to the PS3, now with no backwards compatibility worries!). So if you’ve never played it, GO! Go now!
Update: Looks like it may have been a typo in Amazon’s system, unfortunately. The game is now priced at the usual (still quite reasonable) $29.99.
Read More | The Frugal Gamer
Bullet Witch Producer Tohru Takahashi Interview
Posted by Christopher Sasaki Categories: Action, Xbox 360,
Prior to the release of the Xbox 360 in Japan, Microsoft predicted they would do much better with their console this time around. While “better” is a relative term, Microsoft had to certainly think they would be moving more than 2,000 consoles per week by this time. Microsoft had hoped to entice more Japanese developers to take on the Xbox 360, and one of the developers hopping on board was Cavia, with their third person shooter Bullet Witch. The game met with pretty mediocre reviews from Japan’s Famitsu magazine, but the game does have an interesting graphical style. Atari recently announced that they were going to bring the title to the US in 2007. 1up was able to talk to game producer Tohru Takahashi about Cavia, their approach to software development, and Bullet Witch
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Read More | 1up
The Force Is Strong With These Blocks: Lego Star Wars II Demo Out
Posted by Michael Cardiff Categories: Action, Adventure, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Gamecube, PSP, Xbox, Xbox 360,
The original LEGO Star Wars was a rare treasure—an action game that oozed style and creativity and was easy enough for kids but enough fun for any gamer. Based on the new trilogy (Episodes I-III), the game LEGO-ized scenes from the movies and even improved on them in some instances. (Thank you, Traveller’s Tales, for NOT including voice work!)
So how do you make a sequel that’s even better? Well, for starters, you base it on the original trilogy, but from the looks of it Traveller’s Tales has also improved the gameplay in several ways, including things like adding greater freedom of movement to the vehicle-based missions and a create-a-character mode. But don’t take MY word for it (insert Reading Rainbow jingle here). You can now download a demo of the game for your PC to tide yourself over until September 12th.
And may the Force be with your ‘net connection.
Read More | 3D Gamers.com via Opposable Thumbs @ Ars Technica
Prince of Persia a Trilogy No More, Coming to Wii
Posted by Michael Cardiff Categories: Action, Rumors, Ubisoft, Wii,
Late last week some rumors were running around that the much-lauded Prince of Persia series would be making it to the Nintendo Wii. Other than the fact that this goes against Ubisoft’s earlier statements that The Two Thrones completed the PoP trilogy, the rumor made a lot of sense, as Ubisoft has proven to be the Wii’s most staunch 3rd-party supporter.
Well, the news is a rumor no longer - today on IGN.com a spokesperson for Ubisoft replied:
“I can confirm that a game based on the popular Prince of Persia franchise is one of many titles Ubisoft has in development for Nintendo’s Wii… At this time we can not provide an official date for the game or any additional information about it.”
... and that’s all we have to go off of for now. Given how much Ubisoft is enamored with Nintendo’s Wiimote, it seems a given that the game will use this control scheme. We’ll probably have to wait a good while, though, before we find out exactly how Ubisoft plans to implement the controller for this franchise.
Read More | IGN.com
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