I don’t much like writing about the videogame violence debate, because the discourse tends to land squarely in the territory of pure politics — that is, politics for politics’ sake, used as a talking point to further the agendas of senators and lawyers and people who give no indication of caring for those people involved … Continue reading
Sonic and the Secret Rings for the Wii is turning up with some good reviews for the beleaguered franchise. The average review score is 76/100, according to Game Rankings. Reviewers generally seem to appreciate the return to speedy and active gameplay and the diminished story elements, while criticizing the limited player freedom. I spent the … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Tartan VideoMSRP: $22.95RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 10 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES: • Feature Commentary w/ director• "Making-of" featurette• Photo gallery• Premiere footage• Trailers The Pitch "It’s LA Confidential, in that it, too, is made up of images flickering on a screen." The Humans Aaron Kwok, Ekin Cheng, Daniel Wu, Angelica Lee. The … Continue reading
Mostly rumors today, if you can dig it. Playing a little catchup from the long weekend, here: CHUD contributor Jon Cassaday pointed me in the direction of this Saturday article from Shacknews which made a preposterous!, outrageous!, and factual! claim, that being that the SNES is selling better than the PS3 through Amazon’s gaming and … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: KadokawaMSRP: $29.98RATED: Various The Kadokawa name umbrellas over a vast media empire in Japan, including comics, movies, and books. As with any large publishing house, there’s bound to be quite a bit of chaff around the gems. The gems might reasonably include the Gamera films, or the Zatoichi series. … Continue reading
[Note: Close to Home is set for a limited theatrical release starting today, February 16. IFC Films sent us a screener of this and a couple of their other upcoming releases, reviews for which you’ll see appearing in the coming week or so. IFC’s website has full release information.] Here in the states we have … Continue reading
IGN is reporting that Japanese Xbox 360 owners can now access free downloads for the RPG Blue Dragon. The interesting thing is that instead of being downloads of the "new item" or "new quest" variety, these offer two new difficulty levels for the campaign, as well as an option to import characters from a completed … Continue reading
There’s a single image that inspires me to submit to further Star Wars punishment. It’s not even an image from in-game. It’s a piece of concept art, which is probably even more misleading than the doctored screenshots often used to advertise games. It’s this image over there to the right. You can see the entire … Continue reading
It was with a heavy heart that we learned earlier this year that Capcom was shutting the doors on Clover Studios, the development house responsible for great games such as Okami and Viewtiful Joe, as well as oddities like God Hand. We sometimes forget, though, that "shutting the doors" in studio-speak isn’t equivalent to "shutting … Continue reading
Piggybacking on yesterday’s story about Bioware’s upcoming RPG Dragon Age comes this little tidbit of news about their other current project, Mass Effect. The Xbox 360 exclusive title is rumored to feature a main quest that will last somewhere between 20 and 30 hours. That’s a healthy length for this sort of game, especially considering … Continue reading