One again, Harmonix reminds me how old I am by releasing a four pack of songs from a “classic” album, Nine Inch Nail’sPretty Hate Machine. It did not, as I want to recall, come out a few years ago. It came out in 1989; I purchased it on a cassette, and later in a giant cardboard box housing a CD jewel case. All tracks are $1.99/160 MS Points/200 Wii Points a piece, of you can buy the whole set for $6....
That’s okay, there are plenty of ways to skin a Frenchman Early marketing materials forAssassin’s Creed Unityhave largely included guillotines, headless bodies, and severed heads on pikes. It makes sense; the clash of classes that was the French Revolution was an awfully bloody affair, and decapitations played a major role. However, whenUnityhits shelves, players won’t actually be able to take that aspect of the revolution into their own hands. When asked if decapitations are available in gameplay during a recent Q&A session overTwitter, protagonist Arno Dorian’s voice actor Dan Jeannotte commented “The marketing guys are telling me ‘no, no it is not possible....
Assassin’s Creed III, Persona 4: Arena, Metal Gear Rising and more The PlayStation Store is rolling out a new sales promotion that’s packing ten different games with ALL of their downloadable content offerings. The Ultimate Edition bundles are all being offered at 65% off, with PlayStation Plus members getting 75% off: I want to state again that these prices you’re seeing includes ALL of the downloadable content for each game. You have until May 27 to nab these games at the discounted prices, after which they’ll be discounted to 40% off the normal prices for the game’s plus DLC....
Or, how to get shot in Rust Rustis the new gamefrom the people behindGarry’s Mod. It’sin alpharight now and it’s a mix ofMinecraftandDayZwhere you cut down trees to build sanctuaries from the crippling cold. It’s currently in alpha, and like DayZ, will surely produce many moments like this one incident. (ViaReddit)
Kotaku brings uswordthat NetDevil’s vehicular combat MMO,Auto Assault, just crashed head first into the wall of financial viability, killing all passengers and severely wounding the driver. The title, one of the six-hundred MMOs published by South Korean gaming conglomerate NCsoft, was one of the few games to veer away from the standard MMORPG mold by creating a post-apocalyptic combination ofTwisted Metal,Death Race 2000, and the single most complex crafting system since, um … reality....
No dick-tit monsters for us In a realSliding Doors, “what could have been” kind of moment,Metal Gearcreator Hideo Kojima apparently once asked Cliff Bleszinski if he would work with him onSilent Hills. The timeline on when this offer was extended is unclear, but presumably this was long before Konami decided to slitSilent Hills‘ throat and kick its corpse into a mass grave withCastlevaniaandMetal Gear. Cliffy says he was flattered but declined the offer, saying he A) didn’t want to move to L....
WithModNation Racerson the PlayStation 3, Sony introduced an easy way to create, play, and share tracks, karts, and customized racers. With its upcoming NGP version of the title, Sony’s San Diego Studio hopes to make it even easier using the portable’s front and rear touch screen features. Creating a track on the originalModNationwas pretty straight forward — you simply “drove” the track in real time, the game doing most of the work to bring it to life....
Gotta repopulate the Earth I guess I still go back toFallout Shelterevery so often in a casual capacity (it’s mobile, am I right, yuck yuck), and one of the things I’ve noticed is that it takes a long time to make a baby, which can severely impact the pacing of the game. It turns out that it’s a glitch that caused many mothers to just never give birth — that’s weird on so many levels....
Sheldon’s picks For all intents and purposes, Nintendo has been winding down support forSplatoon. One of the last known updates is set to hit later tonight (from 5:50 PM – 7 PM PT), and we’re only a week or so removed from the first anniversary (May 29). If we get anything more after this, it will have been more content-supported than your average western shooter. Tonight will signal the 2.8.0 patch, which brings in nine new weapons dubbed “Sheldon’s Picks Vol....
45 new cards in all Blizzard does a great job with its single-player expansions forHearthstone. I dugNaxxramasdespite the high price point, and I really enjoyedBlackrock. League of Explorers, by comparison, is a bit less straight-faced, aping films likeIndiana Jonesat every turn, and it’s all the better for it. Blizzard is trying something slightly different this time. Instead of the typical five-wing setup, there’s only four, and it actually works out better for me personally....
For 3DS and Wii U Tons of new games are coming down the line for the 3DS and Wii U, with more than 60 of them slated to release before the end of the year. This morning, Nintendo sent along a handy list of what we can expect this Fall. Skimming, I have my eye onShantae and the Pirate’s Curse, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call,andPersona Q, among others. And if this wasn’t enough, they also included a “looking ahead” reminder of the rest of the good stuff that is still in the works:...
Just a little off the DEATH As Ol’ Westwater and I continued our dangerous journey through Westeros, we came across a Barbershop Emergency™ in progress. Now, we couldn’t just pass by and leave that poor man with that haircut, so we thought it’d be a good idea to help him out…with our broadsword. We also start getting a political lay of the land, as the rest of House Forrester begins to make itself known....
Seasons, villages, replays, and more Mount & Bladeconsumed literally months of the lives of some of my friends. Capturing cities, becoming a great ruler, wide-scale battles on horseback, it’s no wonder it took them the way it did. Sleepless nights, muttering about bandits and countries I’d never heard of… it was a rough time. With TaleWorlds having releasedthe latest development update forMount & Blade 2: Bannerlord, I’m now sure we’re going to go through the cycle all over again....
