Performance Designed Products will be making 750 new limited-edition TRON controllers for the XBox 360, available exclusively through its website for $49.99 from August 9th, 2011 onwards. Available only for a limited time, these new wired controllers feature soft rubber grips, vibration support, and a simple, elegant design. The last time PDP released a TRON-themed
Majesco Entertainment has released a new set of gameplay screenshots for BloodRayne: Betrayal. The upcoming PSN and XBox Live Arcade title is a violent, side-scrolling brawler being developed by WayForward. Featuring hand-drawn graphics, fluid animations, and a positive deluge of gore, the title is due in August.
Shadows of the Damned is a paradox. It’s the product of three acclaimed creators each considered a master of their respective craft mimicking the same sort of B-movie many professional filmmakers (aside from Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, of course) scorn. It’s crude, lewd, sophomoric, and — most damningly — not nearly as action-packed as
Starcraft Universe, the fan-made massive-multiplayer-online project, released its first full-length trailer today, featuring raid footage from the current build. The brand-new trailer will feature gameplay footage of the first “raid” in Starcraft Universe, and will be available here, on the project’s YouTube account, and on their brand-new site.
In the past week I’ve had over an hour of discussion with my brother over the final decision — and endings — of inFamous 2. Not bad, considering that the ending itself consists of maybe a couple minutes’ worth of narration and still-shot frames, and the final divergent missions aren’t much longer. After years of
Twisted Pixel’s Ms. ‘Splosion Man is live on the XBLA Marketplace today. The website of the game has been revamped, and Twisted Pixel has released a brand-new trailer for the game. They’ve also announced plans to leverage Microsoft’s Title Management Storage (TMS) system to release free, periodic new Challenges for players to accomplish within Ms.
inFamous 2 is, like the first game, one of the best arguments that sandbox games can be more than crime sprees or player sociopathy for laughs. Had the game been precisely what it seems to be for around three quarters of the playtime, inFamous 2 would still easily merit every bit of admiration its predecessor
It’s the Kinect’s first anniversary, and doesn’t Microsoft want you to know it. Our favorite mummery-based-interface device was undoubtedly front and center at Microsoft’s E3 booth; ensconced in its own private booths and orbited by a constellation of lesser stars. (You know, the AAA titles and the best of the Xbox Live aimed at those
Bethesda has recently displayed a gameplay demo for their upcoming RPG The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The demo’s showing off a number of features, including a positively gorgeous engine and world design, dual-wield controls allowing the player to manipulate spells or weapons in either hand, and wandering, apparently unscripted and unpredictable dragon encounters. The demo