Archive for the 'Games' Category

-image-OXM: Saints Row Demo

Monday, July 24th, 2006

The latest issue of the Offical Xbox Magazine includes a demo of the GTA-esque Saints Row for the 360 on the cover disc. It looks like subscribers are starting to get their issues because YouTube is awash in demo footage.
Here’s a little taste. There isn’t any sound, but it looks pretty [...]

-image-Next-Gen Star Wars Video

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

Here’s something neat — some game footage from a next-generation game they’re working on at Lucasarts. Verry cool stuff.

-image-Freetar Follow-up

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

We have talked about this nifty program on previous shows, but it looks like the boys over at http://antonstruyk.com/freetar/ have finally gotten around to releasing a new version of their beta.
If you want to help support the project, you could probably also give them a bit of love over at Digg.

-image-Daily Show on Video Game Violence

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

-image-History of Console Prices

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

Curmudgeon Gamer put together some really neat graphs showing the relative prices of every game console from the Atari 2600 days to the announced price of the Playstation 3.

History of Console Prices (or: $500 ain’t the worst…)

-image-Guitar Hero PC : Freetar

Monday, May 15th, 2006

Anton Struyk is working on something he’s calling “Freetar”. Check it out:

Awesome.
It’s not ready for download yet, but I’m going to be keeping my eye out for it.
http://antonstruyk.com/freetar/

-image-E3 Off and Running!

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

We have already been posting a ton of E3 highlights, but I thought I would run down some links to the hot articles at the moment (im skipping anything already posted, so make sure to look at the other posts!)
Starting off, Voodoo Extreme had a couple of good wrap-ups of the various conferences held today…

Xbox [...]

-image-E3 : Pac-Man World Rally

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

Sometimes I look forward to the most idiotic things. Check out this video clip.

I love the sound effects and that the dragon from Dig Dug’s in there. I hope the game’s good.
Namco does have some experience with Kart games — they co-developed the arcade version of Mario Kart [...]