Being co-developed by Grasshopper Manufacture Inc. and Digital Reality, Sine Mora is a shmup that is said to change the genre. A treat for casual and hardcore gamers alike with it’s scaling difficulty. Containing over 60 combinations of planes, characters and devices need for time manipulation. Time manipulation is key in Sine More although no details on how it’s used in the game have come out. Sine Mora is set within breathtaking levels backed by a beautifully...
THQ announced today that it’s previous net sales report of $510 million to $550 million for the third quater made need to be adjusted by approximately 25% less. Mainly due to the underwhelming sales of the uDraw Game Tablet for the Xbox 360 and PS3. “Despite uDraw’s strong success on the Wii in fiscal 2011 and market research indicating strong demand for uDraw on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, initial sales of our uDraw tablet and software on these...
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After the unpopular move to exclude North America in the release of the highly anticipated Xenoblade Chronicles for the Wii, fans of the Japanese RPG genre got together and started a campaign to bring Xenoblade to American shores. It is not yet known if the campaign, entitled Project Rainfall, is instrumental in bringing about the change of heart at Nintendo, but we will be seeing the game surface on store shelves in April of 2012. Proponents of Project Rainfall are also...
Update 3: No Fix Available anymore. UPDATE 2: We’ve found a fix. Microsoft pushed out it’s newest dashboard update today, bringing along with it a new Netflix app and a “Metro” design. Many subscribers of Xbox Live use Netflix to watch movies with friends via the built in party system, in-fact our very own Snickelsox had a holiday movie marathon planned around the party system. But to much debate Microsoft has removed the party...
Spike TV brings you the annual Video Game Awards. Will you be watching?
With the 2012 Independent Games Festival in North America , 14th Annual, coming around the corner on March 5 – 9th in San Francisco, California, it’s no wonder IGF wants to spice things up and give more resources to entrants and winners for their wonderful games. Recently announced on IGF.com, IGF is partnering with Microsoft Studios on a multi-year contract for Xbox Live Arcade publishing benefits. These ‘benefits’ will provide new notable...
This game takes places earlier in the Wipeout timeline, even though it is still in the future (hence the year 2048.) It is this time anti-gravity racing begins to be popular on Earth and racing takes place in big city locations. There will be races in New York City blending modern city designs with futuristic elements you are familiar with any Wipeout game. There will be three tiers; the lower tier will show the modern architecture of NYC and the higher tier will show the...
The Holodeck is here! Well, almost anyway. Sony Europe, by ways of Studio Output and Marshmallow Laser Feast, has taken the PS3, some projectors, Playstation Move, and done science. Everything you see is recorded without any post special effects editing. There are only a few select things that are actually in the room and the rest is being projected. This is some crazy trickery and while it is not quite the Holodeck it is one step closer.
I have been playing tabletop roleplaying games for a long time, longer than I have actually been playing the video game variety. I was involved in a game of Vampire: The Maquerade when I was a mid-teen, and played in a Dungeons & Dragons campaign made up of almost all the same people. This was back in the mid-90s before I had experienced the crushing reality of life and I entered a sort of personal Dark Age of tabletop gaming. I wouldn’t play another game of...
