The original Lost Planet has sold somewhere in the range of two million copies, so a sequel certainly comes as no surprise. What did surprise us, however, was the way in which the game was announced. Instead of holding a conference or even using its own blog, Capcom revealed the game on Xbox Live Marketplace and then went dark.
On October 14, 2008 Far Cry 2 went gold - meaning the game was fully completed and sent to printers. One week later on October 21, 2008 Far Cry 2 was released in North America by Ubisoft. With an average Metacritic score of 85 - across the 360, PS3 and PC platforms - Far Cry 2 has received praise for emergent gameplay in an open world African setting.
The Assassin's Creed 2 teaser site has gone live. You can see it here. But what does it all mean? Is there any kind of information to be gleaned from it? You bet! Here's everything worked out so far
Writing about video games isn't always as easy as it looks. Sometimes you get distracted, sometimes you want to just play the damned things, and sometimes... well, sometimes you walk into the demo of a German game being given to a bunch of German press folks by a German developer speaking entirely in German. Which we don’t speak.
If you make a bad game, it can only haunt you for so long. All that ties you to failure is a name in the credits – that’s not so bad. But star in a game’s horrific live-action cut scenes and your image is tarnished forever. Your horrible accent, ridiculous costume, and unmitigated willingness to make an ass of yourself for money are all digitized and archived forever - ripe to be picked out of the interdepths years later
Today is a sad day for Sega fans, as news breaks that 50-year-old creative genius Yu Suzuki has stepped down from his post as R&D Creative Officer at Sega, taking up a much-diminished role as R&D manager at the AM Plus division.
So, as a tribute to one of the greatest visionaries the industry has seen (or is ever likely to see), and as a history lesson for anyone too young to remember, here are five of Yu Suzuki's greatest moments
We hate rubbish endings. There's nothing more unsatisfying than becoming emotionally attached to a game for 10 or so hours and then have it end on a whimper. It's like having a really tasty meal and then finding a rusty nail in your last forkful. A nail that ends in an unsatisfying cliff-hanger, cheesy line or unresolved plot thread. And sod everyone who says it's about the journey, not the destination. The following games all take you on a
Max Payne releases on DVD and Blu-Ray in the UK on Monday 13 April. The movie stars Mark Wahlberg as Max Payne and the incredibly hot Mila Kunis as Mona Sax. It's a stylish adaptation of the cult game series and you can catch a clip from the movie further down this page. Watch it carefully and you could win yourself a copy of the Max Payne movie on Blu-Ray along with a PlayStation 3 and 32" TV to watch it on.
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VIDEO: We didn't just wreck things. We wrecked them SPECTACULARLY.
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Post date: April 3, 2009
T-Dar 45 length: 2:44:36
Quote of the week: “He doesn’t have an Astro Gaming headset and he falls to sleep at night punching himself in the dick”
Intro song by: Anamanaguchi
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