Archive for April, 2011

Cross Game Chat #35 – Console vs. PC
Monday, April 25th, 2011

The PSN may be down, but Cross Game Chat will always be here for you. The crew have strong opinions on this week’s news, and a few intense debates start up. var _CI = _CI || {}; (function() { _CI.counter = (_CI.counter) ? _CI.counter + 1 : 1; document.write(”); var script = document.createElement(‘script’); script.type = ‘text/javascript’; [...]

L.A. Noire Screenshots Show the Dark Side of 1947 Los Angeles
Monday, April 25th, 2011

Rockstar Games has been on a mission as of late with their upcoming release of L.A. Noire. Commercials have been seeing showtime on televisions everywhere, even taking the chance to make a large presence during the NBA Playoffs. Now some additional screenshots have arrived and, as usual, they’re impressive. var _CI = _CI || {}; [...]

Five Top Video Game Composers To Be at Anaheim Comic Con
Monday, April 25th, 2011

Music has become an increasingly important part of video games, with a great score essential to ensuring a gripping title. If you’re interested in the music behind video games and live in California then you might want to head down to the Wizard World Anaheim Comic Con at the end of the month. var _CI [...]

PlayStation Store Preview – April 26, 2011: PSN Down Edition
Monday, April 25th, 2011

Want to know what is coming to the PlayStation Store this week? Find out in our weekly PlayStation Store Preview, complete with confirmed content, as well as a look into the future in our coming soon section. NOTE: With the PlayStation Network down, we aren’t sure exactly when the update will go live, or if [...]

Dragon’s Dogma Devs Detail Game’s Plotline, Protagonist and Open World Action
Monday, April 25th, 2011

Capcom has some new screens to show off and some new details to share regarding its recently announced “epic action franchise” Dragon’s Dogma.

Still No Concrete Update On PSN Outage, Sony “Working to Get Back Online Quickly”
Monday, April 25th, 2011

Over the past five days, the PlayStation Network has been offline across the world, with millions of gamers unable to play games online or use many PlayStation Network services, possibly due to an “external intrusion“. After saying on Thursday that the problem could take up to a “full two days” to be resolved, Sony have [...]

Duke’s Hazards; Aliens, Babes, & One Huge Ego
Monday, April 25th, 2011

A new trailer shows us how Duke Nukem will retake his post as the ultimate alien killing babe magnet.

Tales of Xillia Gets Token Old Man, Screens
Monday, April 25th, 2011

Namco Bandai’s upcoming PS3 exclusive title Tales of Xillia is, as you may know, an RPG. This means it will need to contain a minimum number of items of an unwritten checklist, one of them being that a gray-haired man — or at least someone clearly beyond his prime — must at some point take [...]

Ragnarok Series to Light and Darken the PSP, First Screens
Monday, April 25th, 2011

GungHo Online Entertainment has announced that its popular Ragnarok series is headed for the PSP, in the form of Ragnarok Hikari to Yami no Koujo (most closely translated to Ragnarok: Princess of Light and Dark). The game bears a name resemblance and spiritual connection, but otherwise has no connection to the company’s MMORG Ragnarok Online.

SOCOM 4 and Move Team Up to Top Gamestop’s Sales Chart
Sunday, April 24th, 2011

It wasn’t long ago that veteran game developer Zipper Interactive released their 13th title, also known as SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs. As with the other releases in its series, its a very competitive third-person shooter which thrives on both attention to detail and teamwork. While some fans of the series have found it mildly [...]

id Tech 5 Provides Graphical Excellence in Latest Rage Gameplay Images
Sunday, April 24th, 2011

id Software’s upcoming first-person shooter, Rage, will be the first title to utilize the company’s latest propriety game engine, id Tech 5. While much of its improvements over previous engines has been marketed toward developers with its ease of use, it also lays the platform for stunning graphics by pushing shader and shadow technology to [...]

PSN Review – Go Outside and Live Your Life
Sunday, April 24th, 2011

As you’ve surely read by now, the PSN is down and no one knows how long the outages will last. Fortunately, the PS3 and PSP do feature some games that can be played offline with surprising amounts of fun. One that I have been taking advantage of has been Go Outside and Live Your Life.

Mass Effect 3 Won’t Be a Walk in the Park
Sunday, April 24th, 2011

Mass Effect 2 showed PlayStation 3 gamers what all the fuss was about when it finally hit Sony’s platform in January, and will be a tough act to follow for its successor later this year. Mass Effect 3 is one of the biggest releases of 2011, and given that it’s the finale for an award-winning [...]

Square Enix is All Over PSP Downloads on the PSN
Sunday, April 24th, 2011

On the latest episode of Pulse, presented by the PlayStation Network, we learned that Square Enix rules all.

Square Enix Marks a Target and Trademarks Hitman: Absolution
Sunday, April 24th, 2011

A few days ago Square Enix, owner of aforementioned IO Interactive put in a UK trademark for Hitman: Absolution.