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
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
There are a couple schools of thought when it comes to the purpose and potential of videogames. Some developers see the format as an abstract sort of canvas, an opportunity for interactivty, in which the player’s imagination is lord. The other faction (we’ll call them the "skins") views gaming as a fledgling narrative method, in … Continue reading
Back in the day when print media ruled the industry (a decade ago, or so), there was a games publisher that gave itself the humble name of GOD, which they claim stood for Gathering of Developers, but we know better. Well, Nietzsche won out over GOD and the publisher folded; but now it’s back, with … Continue reading
Happy Wii owners haven’t exactly been swept away by a deluge of quality titles for Nintendo’s eccentric console. It’s to be expected, this close to a launch, but what every Nintendo fanboy wants to know is: When do we get Mario? The plumber that built the House of N has been set to go for … Continue reading
In the latest issue of EGM, Sony executive Jack Tretton tried to dispel the rumors that the PS3 wasn’t in as high demand as its competitors by offering $1,200 for any of the units that had been on store shelves longer than five minutes. On January 24, I wrote in this very column about my … Continue reading
Welcome to the revival of CHUD.com’s video game presence, Master Control Program. Since it’s an exciting [and expensive] time to be a video game aficionado, what better time to bring back the column that almost was, a look at all things console and handheld? That is what they call in the business a rhetorical question. … Continue reading