I was able to play through the Red Steel 2 demo today at Ubi’s booth while talking to a developer of the game. The demo lasted about twenty minutes, playing on Medium, and with me dying about four times. Some of the first details you should know about Red Steel 2 if you don’t already are that it requires the Wii MotionPlus, which it will ship with later this year, and that it has absol...[Read More]

After dumping countless hours into nailing all 50 spectra in PixelJunk Eden (and the rest in Encore), it was safe to say that Q Games darling PixelJunk line had my full attention. Their follow-up to Eden, PixelJunk shooter, was one of my most anticipated games of E3, and was undoubtedly the apple of my eye when we finally made around to Sony’s booth tour. Stylistically, Shooter doesn’t look all th...[Read More]

Single-Player Footage Tony Mecca and Keith Hladik give us an inside look on what it takes to complete the demo (which is actually the 7th level in the final game).  Please keep in mind that portions of this video were cut per High Voltage’s request so that the entire level isn’t spoiled.  Also, don’t forget that A) You’re watching a developer play who is practically flawles...[Read More]

At our SEGA meeting today we got to meet a couple of developers from Obsidian Entertainment. They showed off an early build of what looks like a very promising game: Alpha Protocol. Alpha Protocol is an open world espionage game that combines action, RPG, and adventure elements. Players have a tremendous amount of control over how their player looks, behaves, and levels up in various fields from s...[Read More]

I never actually played any of the early Silent Hill games. Resident Evil was where I got my survival horror jollies, so I always took a spectator role when it came to Konami’s series of mindf--- masterpieces. I watched my roommate play through the first three titles and parts of four, and promptly lost the same amount, if not more, sleep than he did. Eternal Darkness made a good run, but Silent H...[Read More]

Left 4 Dead 2 continues the excellent game play that follows the original, a long with a lot of minor improvements that will make this game great.

Oddly enough, Blur was quite hard to find. I failed to find it at Activision’s booth and, eventually, I located a single kiosk on the outskirts of Microsoft’s booth. I’ve always been a fan of both Mario Kart and Arcade racers like Burnout, and combining the two seemed like an idea on par with greats such as peanut butter and jelly. And well, yeah, it was pretty much everything I expected. I starte...[Read More]

Yesterday I caught a glimpse of New Super Mario Bros. Wii and was able to put my hands on the game for around 20 minutes with a developer and a couple other DigitalChumps editors in multiplayer. While I wasn’t able to get through the entire demo in that time period, I thought I’d report back here with my impressions anyway to update you guys on my thoughts about the game so far. First off, graphic...[Read More]

We spoke with the development team behind the upcoming Alpha Protocol today (published by SEGA), and we were able to unearth some new details which weren’t previously common knowledge.  Here’s what we’ve found out: Your skill level in each skill does indeed affect your proficiency at that particular mini-game. With a low lock-picking skill level, it’ll be “much harder...[Read More]

FACT SHEET PLATFORMS: Nintendo DS™RELEASE DATE: Summer 2009PUBLISHER: Warner Bros. Interactive EntertainmentDEVELOPER: Hellbent Games, Produced by TT GamesPEGI RATING: 7GENRE: Action-Adventure GAME OVERVIEW: LEGO® Battles is the latest game from the award-winning team behind LEGO® Batman™: The Videogame and LEGO® Indiana Jones™. With trademark LEGO fun and charm, LEGO® Battles combines three class...[Read More]

Since the release of the DSi, there has been a bit of a lack of downloadable content on the DSi. Though recently we’ve seen a small influx of new downloadable titles, most of them have been very short and not really too worthwhile. We would hope that Nintendo could create the same type of quality of downloadable content as other consoles as well as the PSP, as the amount of creative ideas ar...[Read More]

James Cameron’s Avatar is, arguably, the most anticipated movie coming out of Hollywood. The man who created Terminator and Aliens and, well, yes, Titanic has finally returned to conventional cinema with Avatar, a sweeping sci fi epic that has, we’re told, been gestating and waiting for appropriate technology for the last fifteen years. The producer, Jon Landau, told us that Avatar was the first f...[Read More]