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Steve Van Neil
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Assassin’s Creed Goes Gold
The game that nobody thought would actually come out this year is officially done and on its way to be pressed, boxed, and shipped out to game stores. Yes, that’s right. Assassin’s Creed, the long-in-development Crusades sandbox epic has gone gold for production. “We’ve been working very hard for nearly …
Posted on: October 25, 2007 at 9:21 pm on Playfeed - 3 comments total -
E for All: Metal Gear Solid 4 Demo Impressions
My mission was clear. Behind a barbed wire facade and slew of No Camera signs lurked one of the few worthwhile E for All offerings: a playable Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots demo. The official word was that this short demo was the only taste we Americans …
Posted on: October 23, 2007 at 11:11 am on Playfeed - 0 comments total -
Brutal Legend Debut Trailer
Sometimes you see a game trailer that just renews your faith in the industry. Such is the case with this teaser for Brutal Legend, the latest from Tim Schafer and his Double Fine Productions. Yes, I know it’s a CG trailer, but the insane genius on display here cannot be …
Posted on: October 16, 2007 at 7:57 pm on Playfeed - 0 comments total -
Bionic Commando Returns!
Remember Bionic Commando? The classic NES side scroller, which introduced a grappling gun to the system’s action-adventure slate, blew us all away with its sheer difficulty when it debuted in 1988. Popular with gamers and critics, Bionic Commando pretty much disappeared, only to resurface as a GameBoy and GameBoy color …
Posted on: October 16, 2007 at 8:32 am on Playfeed - 1 comments total -
New Assassin’s Creed Video
The developers of Assassin’s Creed have always boasted of their game’s high level of environmental interaction. They claim that every wall, object, or person in their highly anticipated Xbox 360/PS3/PC action-adventure game can be scaled, moved, or shoved. And now here’s the video to prove it. Watch Altair (the game’s …
Posted on: October 12, 2007 at 8:45 am on Playfeed - 2 comments total -
Halo 3 Racks Up $170 Million in Day One Sales
The internet has been set ablaze with hyperbolic phrases like “biggest day in US entertainment history” and “redefining entertainment” and “worldwide celebration,” all used to describe Halo 3’s truly mammoth first 24 hours on the market. Microsoft estimates that the game garnered $170 million in US sales in its first …
Posted on: September 27, 2007 at 10:51 am on Playfeed - 0 comments total -
Fatal Frame Sequel Coming to Wii
Tecmo has announced that the next installment of its Fatal Frame horror series is in development for the Wii. The earlier games didn’t sell especially well upon release but have amassed a sizable cult following, or so I gather from the growing number of GameStops that have been unable to sell …
Posted on: September 25, 2007 at 8:56 pm on Playfeed - 0 comments total -
Lost Odyssey Spread Across Four DVDs
When Microsoft executives call Lost Odyssey epic, they mean it. At TGS, Hironobu Sakaguchi announced that his upcoming Xbox 360-exclusive RPG will span four discs, at a game length of forty to fifty hours. In addition, the game will ship with multiple language options, so we know that the insane …
Posted on: September 20, 2007 at 11:31 pm on Playfeed - 0 comments total -
“White Knight Story” Gameplay Video
This year’s TGS is awash in media from loads of promising Japanese RPGs. The spiky-haired adventurers in Infinite Undiscovery (ouch at that title), The Last Remnant, and Lost Odyssey promise to take the genre to new excruciatingly emotional heights. But the most impressive of them all, the one that may …
Posted on: September 20, 2007 at 10:38 pm on Playfeed - 1 comments total -
PS3 Finally Gets Rumble…in Spring ‘08
At Sony’s pre-TGS press conference, Kaz Hirai announced that rumble is coming back to the PS3 in a big way, in the form of the new DualShock 3 controller. Gamers have been clamoring for force feedback ever since Sony first unveiled the PS3’s Sixaxis controller sans rumble. We just couldn’t …
Posted on: September 19, 2007 at 9:26 pm on Playfeed - 2 comments total -
Playable Metal Gear Solid 4 at TGS
Konami has announced that the PS3 game the whole world wants will be playable on the showfloor of this year’s Tokyo Game Show, which kicks off later this week. That’s right, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots will make its playable debut to the tune of fifty demo kiosks …
Posted on: September 18, 2007 at 9:14 pm on Playfeed - 1 comments total -
Watch the First Five Minutes of Mass Effect
Forgive yourself if you mistake the opening of Bioware‘s upcoming Xbox 360 RPG for an early peek at Ridley Scott’s interstellar follow-up to Blade Runner. From the woozy synth-phonic score, to the pre-credit crawl that leads into the main title reveal, to the camera movements that just feel so right, …
Posted on: September 17, 2007 at 9:16 pm on Playfeed - 0 comments total -
Rez Coming to Xbox Live Arcade
There once was a game named Rez. Developed by Tetsuya Mizguchi’s division within Sega, Rez was a hybrid music-shooter for Dreamcast and PS2 that sputtered in sales but turned some heads in the process. Before long, the game was out of print and new copies were fetching a pretty penny …
Posted on: September 12, 2007 at 9:39 am on Playfeed - 0 comments total -
First Ninja Gaiden 2 Screens!
Wow, these came out of nowhere. Xbox Japan has posted the first screens of the highly anticipated Xbox 360 action sequel. Things have been so quiet on the game’s development front that some of us were wondering if it was even happening. Well wonder no longer. Judging a game’s graphical …
Posted on: September 11, 2007 at 9:46 am on Playfeed - 0 comments total -
“Trauma Center: New Blood” Premiere Trailer
It looks like the Wii is turning the corner as far as compelling third-party content goes. Joining Zach & Wiki, Manhunt 2, and Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles at the cool kids table in the not-too-distant future is Trauma Center: New Blood, the sequel to the popular medical/supernatural/arm-flailing/impossible-to-categorize DS and Wii …
Posted on: September 07, 2007 at 8:45 pm on Playfeed - 0 comments total - Page 1 of 3 pages 1 2 3 >
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