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Turning the Page: The End of My Time at Game Freaks 365
Posted by Kyle on Thursday, February 2ndI have been writing about video games over the course of the past ten years. It started with a gaming forum known as Gaming Freaks - a small, ugly experiment that flopped in less than twelve months. While it was sufficient for a start, I decided to move on to bigger and better things. Game Freaks 365 was born.
A lot has taken place in the industry (and the world) since 2003. It's hard to believe that it has been nearly nine years already. When the website was founded I was only fourteen years old and in middle school. Most of the people in the industry that I came into contact with had no idea that I was a minor. Looking back, that certainly did not hurt in procuring M-rated review copies.
Now that I am an adult going on twenty-four and graduated from college, I have to wond...
Read More - 179 hitsPSN Going Dark on Thursday
Posted by Kyle on Wednesday, February 1st
Hoping to buy something in the PlayStation Store? Better do it tonight. Sony's online gaming network will be down for maintenance from 9AM on Thursday to 3AM on Friday. The PS Store, Customer Account Management and Registration services will be offline during this time. However, this will not affect online gaming (according to Joystix). Game on!
Read More - 188 hitsCapcom Releases New Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City Trailer
Posted by Kyle on Wednesday, February 1st
Capcom has just released a new gameplay trailer for Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City which takes a closer look at each of the members of the US Government Spec Ops squad and Umbrella Security Service and their specific skill sets. Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City launches in North America on March 20, 2012 for PS3 and Xbox 360, with the PC version to follow.
As revealed last month, players will be able to choose their side in three online competitive multiplayer modes: Biohazard, Survivor and Team Attack. In a brutal four-versus-four player team battle players choose their character with unique skills and abilities ...
Read More - 112 hitsPuddle Now Available on PSN
Posted by Kyle on Wednesday, February 1st
Konami today announced that Puddle, a winner in the 2010 GDC Independent Games Festival Student Showcase Division, is now available on PlayStation Network. A brilliantly designed physics-based puzzle platform game, Puddle initially began as a project from six students from the French videogame school ENJMIN, and was ultimately picked up and developed by Neko Entertainment. It is selling for only $9.99.
In Puddle, players must guide a puddle of fluid to its target destination, not by moving the fluid, but by tilting the game world using their PlayStation Move or Dual Shock 3 wireless controller. A new experience based on physics and liquid properties, players mu...
Read More - 158 hitsSoul Calibur V Ships for PS3 and Xbox 360
Posted by Kyle on Tuesday, January 31st
Namco Bandai today announced that Soul Calibur V is now available for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 throughout North America. The next chapter in the premier weapons-based fighting game franchise comes loaded with new game features, expanded modes and fan-favorite guest character Ezio Auditore de Firenze from Ubisoft's multi-million unit selling franchise, Assassin's Creed.
Developed by Project Soul team, Soul Calibur V picks up 17 years after the events of Soul Calibur IV with new heroes and returning warriors clashing in an epic showdown between good and evil. The tale of Patroklos and Pyrrha Alexandra unfolds as their family's destiny becomes entwined ...
Read More - 309 hitsInsomniac Done Making Resistance Games
Posted by Kyle on Tuesday, January 31st
Fans of the Resistance franchise will undoubtedly be disappointed by this piece of news. Insomniac's CEO Ted Price told VG247 that the company behind the famed PS3 shooter is done with the franchise. "We won't be making any more Resistances," he said. Personally, it seems like the right move. The series has run its course. Too many developers don't know when to call it quits.
Read More - 139 hitsNintendo 3DS Getting New Mario Game
Posted by Kyle on Monday, January 30th
It has only been a couple months since Super Mario 3D Land shipped for the 3DS and Nintendo is already talking about a new 2D Mario game for the system. Details are in short supply, but the company is aiming for a release during the next fiscal year, which runs from April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013. My bets would be on a fall release just in time for the holiday season....
Read More - 265 hitsLaw & Order: Legacies Ships for PC
Posted by Kyle on Wednesday, January 25th
Telltale Games today announced that the episodic interactive crime-drama Law & Order: Legacies is now available for PC and Mac. Based on the Emmy-winning TV series, Law & Order: Legacies allows players to work cases as both investigators and district attorneys alongside the full roster of fan-favorite characters from the Law & Order franchise. The PC and Mac version is available for immediate purchase and download at the Telltale Games website for $19.99. Players will receive the first three episodes of Law & Order: Legacies with the subsequent four episodes releasing soon thereafter.
Law and Order is TV’s top rated and longest-running police procedural drama...
Read More - 331 hitsCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Gets First Elite DLC
Posted by Kyle on Tuesday, January 24th
Activision has lit the fuse on the highly-anticipated Modern Warfare 3 Content Season for Call of Duty Elite, with the release of two all-new multiplayer maps. The new maps are the opening salvo of nine consecutive months of downloadable content for Call of Duty Elite's premium members on the Xbox Live.
Call of Duty Elite Drop 1: Liberation, a militarized Central Park in the heart of NYC, featuring a vast landscape ripe for long-range sniper and LMG kills. Mounted turrets on opposing ends of the map offer overwhelming firepower to anyone brave enough to man them. Elite Drop 2: Piazza, set in an idyllic seaside village, Italian getaway gone rogue, where ...
Read More - 144 hitsI Am Alive Coming March 7 to Xbox Live
Posted by Kyle on Monday, January 23rd
Today, Ubisoft announced that I Am Alive, a post-apocalyptic action-adventure game, is coming to Xbox Live on March 7, 2012. I Am Alive follows an man's journey to find his wife and daughter, who were lost during the Event. A year later, he finds Haventon, his hometown, in shambles. Buildings are destroyed, toxic ash fills the streets and society has been torn, causing inhabitants to take all necessary actions to survive.
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