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We started late and had a last minute drop out so Andy, Mike and Kelly regale you with all that is new and exicting this week in gaming. Well, new anyway.. The rumors are back, the question is a little gruesome, but the conversation is all grade “A” gaming goodness. We’ve also got a review of Tower Madness Zero by John! Don’t miss it… |
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This Week in Gaming
- http://www.joystiq.com/2010/06/26/forget-the-bfg-the-vuvuzela-is-dooms-ultimate-weapon/#continued
- http://www.joystiq.com/2010/06/26/psa-current-xbl-members-can-roll-accounts-into-gold-family-plan/
- No new SSX
- Video Chat on the 3ds
- (joystiq) PS3 firmware 3.40 update adds enhanced Facebook integration, video editing ‘soon’
- (shacknews) Shooter MMO ‘Global Agenda’ Ditches Subscriptions
While Global Agenda’s previous $12.99 monthly subscription was optional, those who didn’t pay it found their game more than a little restricted. Subscribers gained access to the alliance vs. alliance ‘World Domination’ mode, the auction house, crafting, in-game mail, improved communication and more, not forgetting character levels beyond thirty.
“Future content updates will be delivered via optional paid expansions,” Hi-Rez explains, to support the game. One such expansion, named ‘Sandstorm,’ is being released for free in two parts this summer to give players a freebie taste of the new way. - Nintendo 3DS coming out 2011!
- Pax Prime performers! PAX Prime’s “bigger and better” convention hall will play host to big names like 2K Games, Capcom, EA, Microsoft, Nintendo and Ubisoft. The main stage will see a cadre of returning musical acts, including Anamanaguchi, Jonathan Coulton, MC Frontalot, Metroid Metal, The Minibosses, Paul and Storm and The Protomen.
- Just for the heck of it – the extended gameplay trailer for Portal 2. You monster.
Rumor Mill
- The first round of Star Wars the Old Republic testing started this weekend with 200 people given codes to test the starting planets. The starter planet testing will continue until launch and Bioware will continue to give out codes in a similar fashion until everyone that has signed up for testing has had a chance to play.
- Apparently the new Twisted Metal game will only be rated T for teen. They want it to appeal to a broader audience aka are hoping it will push PS3 sales.
- They are currently working on a script for the Assassin’s Creed movie following the plot of the first game. The team that will be making it are the same ones that make the live action mini movie for the second game only this time they’ll have a much larger budget.
5 Deals in 5 Minutes
- Toys R Us has a bunch, including: buy 1, get 1 40% off on all PS3, PS2, and PSP games, buy 1, get 1 50% off on all $19.99 and under games
- Best Buy, it’s buy any Wii game, get one for 50% off
- Walmart Video Game Bundles once again!
- Steam. Steam. Steam. need I say more?
- goHastings.com offers WET for Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 for $14.99. Apply coupon code “GAMETIME10″ to cut it to $13.50.
Question of the Week
- japoniano: a hara-kiri in a MortalKombat where the character stabs its own eyes
- broadwayblues: Has to be all of the interrogation sequences in Splinter Cell; Conviction. Some of them are brutal! also, Viva Piñata is kinda gruesome too.
- glassofwater2: a zombie eating a corpse in deadspace
- david_carroll: The pitch dark. It’s just full of grues. Or did you have a different meaning of “gruesome” in mind?
- slash2kormus: Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel’s castle for the Atari 2600. 28 years later, the nightmares continue.
- gettingworse: the game update message after you put a game disk into an PS3 that you just bought
- mrbryo: (FEAR) a railgun bullet through a body hanging on the wall, missing limbs with blood drip-age, oh ya…
- talkingship: Easily the golf club beat down in Bioshock. Close second is the decapitations in Fallout 3.
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