The folks at Harmonix, the makers of Rock Band is going to put The Who‘s upcoming Superbowl Mashup on XBLA for 160 points ($1.99). The band recorded a special version of their upcoming half time show just for us Plastic Instrument players. Frankly it’s a pretty terrible release. It didn’t say if it’s coming to the PS3 or exactly when this song will be or exactly what the mashup is going to be – but you can pretty much guess it’ll be combination of “Pinball Wizard,” “Baba O’Riley,” “Behind Blue Eyes,” “Eminence Front,” “Going Mobile,” “Leaving Here,” “Magic Bus,” “My Generation,” and “Real Good Looking Boy.” The main takeaway is, you’ll be able to play The Who’s Super Bowl performance. How cool is that?
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Who says January through March is a slow month in the gaming industry. After taking the month of December off, the industry has returned with a vengeance in January, we have 5 big games this month Bayonetta (which I hated – 15 minutes of cut and loading screens for 5 minutes of gameplay), Dark Void (which I hated) and Darksiders. Then next week we have M.A.G. and Mass Effect 2, this Gut Reaction is about a weird little gem called Darksiders. I’ve played about 8 hours of this game so far, but according to the game stats I’m only 2 1/2 hours in – how is this possible?
Many early reviews have said that this game is a Zelda done right for the next generation and yeah, I can see some similarities between the two games, but I don’t think it’s as blatant as everyone is making it out to be. I mean sure at some point in the game you get a horse (which I haven’t seen yet) and you do have to collect skulls to sell to some demon to get your weapon upgrades and you are running around castles instead of dungeons, but really by now aren’t these standard gameplay mechanics by now? I think reviewers who spend hundreds of words talking about how this game is like Zelda misses the point.
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Here’s something interesting, ESPN Streaming is coming to the Xbox 360. With the Xbox 360′s large male audience this a great fit. According to the New York Times Disney and Microsoft are having closed door meetings and live streams of sporting events à la the now aptly-titled ESPN360 could come to the console on a per-subscriber fee, along with related interactive games. Now this is something I certainly pay for, but it’s an interesting example of where television is going. I’ll admit I have soured on Microsoft due to their restrictive licensing policies and if MS really wants the Xbox 360 to become a multi-media powerhouse they have to start releasing larger capacity HDs. I only have 40 gigs left and there’s no larger drive I can buy, even if I could, I couldn’t because I already did a license transfer and have to wait another year before I can do it again. WTF is that? I guess MS doesn’t want people to purchase multiple Xbox 360s! The PS3 let’s you redownload stuff up to 5 times.
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We’ve now had the opportunity to experiment with two segments of Rocksteady Studios and Eidos Interactive’s anticipated “Batman: Arkham Asylum” ahead of its Aug. 25 release date. Downloadable demos on PCs, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 walked players through the game’s first obstacles, while adventurous souls who banged around Target (or similar retailers) might have discovered an early combat room scenario that has The Dark Knight taking down round after round of escalating, lunatic hoods.
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We all dream of world domination. Don’t deny it, you know you do. There’s a new game out called Overlord II for the PS3 and Xbox 360. We have 3 copies of the game for the PS3. We’re going to try something a little different, to win this game is simple, see the image below? Give us a caption for it. We will select three winners. The contest will run Aug 11 – August 21. On August 21 send an email with your full mailing address and your caption (also post your caption here).
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Activision. Bioware. EA Games. These are the big names that you think of when you think of video games, at least in North America. There’s another big name currently on the rise, though, and that’s 1C Company. On June 25th, I had the opportunity to attend their press event, held at the Russian consulate. Why the Russian consulate? Because 1C is one of the largest independent game developers in Russia, with over a thousand outlets in Eastern Europe. That night, as North American representative David Trachtenberg told us, we were all Russian.
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This is old news, but I wanted to give a quick update that the Ghostbusters Game is still on track to hit the streets this June with a twist. It went from being a multiplatform game to being a Playstation 3 and Playstation 2 timed exclusive. Meaning, it’ll take a few months before we’ll see the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii versions. The latest screens and trailer for the game is looking really good. I think the game industry is finally starting to get a handle on the whole movie based games thing.
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