Batman: Arkham Asylum at IGN.com I won’t be playing Batman: Arkham Asylum anytime soon because I don’t have the console required to do so, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been looking forward to it. It’s a mix of excitement and dread, to be honest, and it’s for the same reason: it’s a Batman game. [...]
This week’s mega-deal of the day comes courtesy of Disney. The company behind Mickey Mouse and his gang have coughed up $4 billion USD to acquire Marvel Entertainment. That’s right, folks, Mickey can now count Spider-Man as one of his best pals. More than 5,000 iconic comic book characters will soon be in the hands [...]
BlizzCon came and went. Here’s what’s new: • World of WarCraft: Cataclysm was announced. The third expansion of the popular MMORPG takes players back to Azeroth. The old world will change as we know it, thanks to the vengeful return of Deathwing, leader of the Black Dragonflight. • New races are playable: Worgen for the [...]
Fans of StarCraft are going to have to a wait for a while as Blizzard has announced that the game is not going to be released this holiday season. The reason? Battle.net. Over the past couple of weeks, it has become clear that it will take longer than expected to prepare the new Battle.net for [...]
Capcom has released the system requirements for the PC version of Resident Evil 5. Here’s what you’ll need to have in order to run the latest installment of the survival horror series. Windows XP: Required, Windows Vista: Recommended Intel PentiumD Processor, AMD Athlon64 X2 Required, Intel Core2Quad Processor or better, AMD Phenom X4 or better [...]
Blizzard has announced that Sam Raimi will be directing the upcoming WarCraft movie. No other details were revealed as of this time, but the name should be familiar to most. Raimi’s work includes the 3 Spider-Man films, The Evil Dead and the recent thriller Drag Me To Hell. “Blizzard Entertainment and Legendary Pictures have a [...]
Blizzard’s highly-anticipated sequel to one of the most critically-acclaimed RTS games of all time just revealed startling news. StarCraft 2 will not support LAN multiplayer. In a move that makes no sense to gamers, the sequel is not going to have one of the key features that made the original very popular. “While this was [...]
Indulge me for a minute here. When someone says action game, what do you think of? Me, I’d say Devil May Cry, followed by a mental image of Dante. It doesn’t matter that I prefer God Hand over DMC. Thanks to Capcom’s promotional material, the image association between action game and Devil May Cry is [...]
Prototype is out. Is it good? Is it playable? Do the controls suck? Does it turn you into a god? Video Games | Prototype | Review XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii The key thing to remember here is that it succeeds as a sandbox game that has one focus: combat. There is [...]
Blizzard wants everyone to know that StarCraft 2 is just around the corner. It sent out the email for the beta and although it didn’t mention a date when that’s actually going to take place, it did tell everyone to prepare a Battle.Net account for it. The email, which asks game writers to make sure [...]
