Back in 2005 I picked up a game in a bargain bin in Whitcoulls for the original XBox. That game was Doom 3. Because I had young kids and a wife who didn’t want me playing it in front of her, I had to play it late at night with the headphones on. What the hell I figured, may as well go the whole nine yards and play it in the dark. You know, just so I can immerse myself in the game.
I lasted less than an hour before the XBox was off and I was in bed. The game was so freaking scary that I put it on Trade Me the next day.
I’m a little bit older now, though I’m not sure if I’m any wiser. Especially seeing as I repeated the same process with Aliens Vs Predator as I did with Doom 3. Minus the headphones ’cause I’ve got a decent sound system hooked up to my ‘Box. Read the rest of this entry »
An LA casting call for Call of Duty-related “voice over/motion capture” for an Activision “video game” has described character Frank Barnes as being part of an elite Vietnam unit, the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group.
SOG was responsible for covert operations in Vietnam, and was active from 1964-1972.
The news appears to confirm the game for a Vietnam setting. This follows heavy tips that Treyarch’s next Call of Duty game, slated to release towards the end of this year, would take place during the Vietnam War. Read the rest of this entry »
Have you downloaded the Battlefield Bad Company 2 demo on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360? If you have, you’re not alone. EA has tweeted that some 3.5 million people have taken the plunge on both platforms.
The demo launched earlier this month, and will end next week. Interest in the demo can potentially be chalked up to Battlefield 1943, which enjoyed considerable success as a downloadable title last year.
If you haven’t tried it out, you have until February 25 to download it and play it for yourself. After that, you’ll have to wait until it arrives on the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 on March 2. [1up]
John Riccitiello’s “Project Ten Dollar” endeavor – in which EA looks to combat used-game sales by offering free DLC goodies with new purchases – has another game marching under its banner: Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Just like Mass Effect 2, the game will ship with a code that enables access to free DLC. The first batch of add-on content for DICE’s shooter will be a set of new multiplayer maps, MTV Multiplayer reports.
“In the future you will get more content, for free, if you have this VIP code,” noted producer Patrick Bach, describing a free content delivery mechanism similar to BioWare’s Cerberus Network. [joystiq]
Criterion Games is better known for Burnout these days, but at one point they also developed a very good first-person shooter in Black. Senior designer Stuart Black has since moved on, and is now teaming up with Codemasters to work on another FPS.
No details yet, but Computer and Video Games is reporting that the team will be 80 people strong, and will include Split/Second senior producer Andrew Wilson. It will utilize the Codemasters Ego Engine, which last powered Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising.
“Codemasters’ Guildford Studio is key to our overall development strategy and this year has opened further positions across its design, programming and art teams,” Codemasters vice president of development Gavin Cheshire said. [1up]
Las Vegas survived Crime Scene Investigation and Wayne Newton, but it will never look the same after it gets the Fallout treatment.
In the alternate-history video game Fallout: New Vegas, coming to Xbox 360, PS3 and Windows PCs this fall (no price and not yet rated), the Las Vegas Strip and surrounding area in 2280 bear the effects of a nuclear holocaust more than 200 years earlier during a great war between the United States and China.
The mystery is, who are you in this nuclear wasteland?
At the outset of the game, your character is shot and left in a shallow grave in the desert, lifted of the package you were entrusted with delivering. A robot digs you out and takes you to a local caregiver, Doc Mitchell, who nurses you back to health. Read the rest of this entry »
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Available for 400 MSP from XBox Live Arcade, Chime is the first game released by the OneBigGame charity group, and more than half of the cost of the game goes to various children’s charities around the world.
That’s a noble idea, but is the game any good? At it’s core Chime is a simple single player puzzle game, clearly inspired by Tetris and played to some catchy electronic music from various artists like Moby and Philip Glass. You get to place the familiar Tetris pentominoe shapes on a flat board, trying to fill in rectangular areas which Chime calls ‘quads’. Once you create at least a 3 x 3 quad it starts to fill in. Until it fills in entirely you can expand the quad by adding more pieces, then you get scored for it. The catch is that filled quads remain in place, blocking placement of new pieces, until the sweeping ‘beat bar’ passes over them. The aim of the game is to try and paint the entire board with completed quads. Read the rest of this entry »
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