Archive for January, 2008
First Facebreaker Screen (That Was Quick) [Ea]
31 January 2008This post brought to you by Kotaku.
Remember that new boxing game from EA that we just told you about earlier today? 1UP already got their hands on this pretty picture. The game is called Facebreaker, and after just one screen and a press release, I’m seriously interested. As Fahey mentioned earlier, EA games have […]
X3F Week in Review: January 25, 2008 - January 31, 2008
31 January 2008This post brought to you by Joystiq.
Filed under: Features, Microsoft Xbox 360
Wow, we thought last week was a big week for X3F. One week later and we’ve put out our first enhanced Fancast and our first video podcast (which we’re calling X3F TV, clever right?). We’ve also got yet another edition of Ask X3F […]
PX-3600, The Official Bestest Console In The World [Hardware]
31 January 2008This post brought to you by Kotaku.
We have no clue what games you can play on this PX-3600. Made by Hong Kong’s Cheer-Tech Industries, we wouldn’t risk actually inserting any of your precious optical disc-based games into this thing. We just wanted to point it out as a knockoff mutt of the console world. […]
Throw away your pads, pencils: Buku Sudoku coming to XBLA
31 January 2008This post brought to you by Destructoid.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based developer Merscom has announced that it will be publishing the "first, and only" Sudoku title for Xbox LIVE Arcade.
According to Merscom CEO, Kirk Owen, Buku Sudoku takes the popular game to "a new level." With HD graphics that make the Sudoku grid easy to […]
Game Critics Full GOTYs Revealed [Goty]
31 January 2008This post brought to you by Kotaku.
The full 2007 Game Critics: Game of the Year Award winners have hit the Game Critics website, naming BioShock the game of the year.
Here’s the complete break down, via the Game Critics Geoff Keighley and Rob Smith:
Top 10 Games of 2007:
1. BioShock
2. The Orange Box
3. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
4. Rock […]
Patterson waxes expansive about ‘Woman’s Murder Club’ game
31 January 2008This post brought to you by Joystiq.
Filed under: Culture, PC, Adventure
Gamers around the world have been waiting with bated breath for more information on James Patterson’s Woman’s Murder Club game since it was announced back in December. OK, they haven’t really, but maybe they would if they didn’t exclusively pay attention only to games […]
Madden 2008 simulation picks the Patriots as this year’s Super Bowl winner
31 January 2008This post brought to you by Destructoid.
EA’s annual Super Bowl Madden predictions have picked the New England Patriots as this year’s Super Bowl XLII winners. The simulation has the Patriots beating the New York Giants 38 to 30. The last five Madden simulations have been correct so a betting man might be wise to […]
Epic Still Fighting For UT3 Mods on 360 [Dlc]
31 January 2008This post brought to you by Kotaku.
After finally getting around to loading my copy of UT3 for PS3 last weekend, I can really appreciate just how easily Epic made downloading elements during multiplayer—it feels just as simple as it did years ago on PC. But Epic is still fighting the good fight to […]
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames delayed (again)
31 January 2008This post brought to you by Joystiq.
Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360
Shacknews reports that Pandemic Studios’ action-packed Venezuela-wrecking shooter, Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, has been struck with another delay, this one sending it careening into publisher EA’s 2009 fiscal year. Though the game “is likely to ship […]
EA boss confident Spore to debut ‘before the holidays’
31 January 2008This post brought to you by Joystiq.
Filed under: PC, Business
Speaking during an EA conference call, EA CEO John Riccitiello (who’s a poet, though he may not know it) told an audience of hungrily-eying analysts that their long-time-coming sim-everything, Spore, wouldn’t be making a fiscal 08 release (which we already knew, of course). So the […]
