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- Rent Games for $2 Per Day Starting Tomorrow at Redbox
- FarmVille Maker Files Lawsuit Over Copycat Games
- Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer Comprised of Original Co-Op Missions - Report
- 18,000 BioWare Accounts Compromised in Latest Attack
- 1UP's Alice: Madness Returns Giveaway
- Wii U Games Pulled From E3 Due to Underclocked Hardware - Report
- Alice: Madness Returns Review
- Bobby Kotick is an Actor in Brad Pitt's New Movie
- Hunted: The Demon's Forge Review
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Adds Five New Maps This Month
| Rent Games for $2 Per Day Starting Tomorrow at Redbox Posted: 16 Jun 2011 05:54 PM PDT As originally announced last week, the company will kick off its renewed efforts to move into the world of videogame rentals with prices double that of a DVD. For $2 plus tax, you can rent a game for one day. It might seem a bit pricey, and it certainly would be if you intend to hold on to a title for an extended period. But as a way of trying out a demo-less game for a day or two, it seems like a very convenient option. Some Redbox kiosks had been previously offering games, but it now appears to be a much larger point of emphasis for the company. With retail rental stores like Hollywood Video going out of business and Blockbuster shutting down many of its stores, rental-by-mail service GameFly has become the most popular way to rent games in the United States. It allows subscribers to keep games for as long as they wish, but it's not entirely ideal because you're forced to wait while games are shipped back and forth. The immediacy of Redbox -- which operates out of kiosks located inside and outside of stores -- is sure to appeal to some. |
| FarmVille Maker Files Lawsuit Over Copycat Games Posted: 16 Jun 2011 04:21 PM PDT "Zynga's anti-competitive effort to bully us with a frivolous lawsuit -- especially when we have some of the same key investors -- is pathetic. While Zynga plays games with the legal process we will continue focusing on using our substantial resources to create games that entertain our customers." Original Story: Zynga has sued Brazilian social game company Vostu, accusing it of copyright infringement. The massively successful FarmVille developer alleges Vostu has copied nearly everything about its games and, in the process, "continue[s] to harm Zynga irreparably." |
| Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer Comprised of Original Co-Op Missions - Report Posted: 16 Jun 2011 03:37 PM PDT Eurogamer reports a four-player, online co-op mode is included. It's a "standalone" component and has "competitive elements." The story refers to the possibility of something similar to Gears of War's Horde mode or Halo's Firefight as a possibility. Both of those examples see players working together to fight off increasingly difficult waves of AI-controlled enemies. BioWare co-founder Ray Muzyka told Eurogamer last week, "We haven't talked at all about multiplayer in the Mass Effect franchise, but we're exploring multiplayer in all of our games and all of our franchises." He added, "It's always an idea we're interested in." |
| 18,000 BioWare Accounts Compromised in Latest Attack Posted: 16 Jun 2011 02:27 PM PDT According to EA, this is a "very small percentage of total users," and among the information potentially exposed were e-mail addresses, account usernames, passwords, countries, and birth dates. Any account that was connected to an EA Account opens the door for any information connected with the latter (such as a mailing address and billing address) to have also been accessed. EA and BioWare became aware of the breach on June 14 and began securing the servers for BioWare Edmonton's NN forums. Legacy BioWare accounts have been disabled and any affected EA Accounts have had their password reset, which is one indication that your account was affected. E-mails have also been sent out to those users who are involved. If your EA Account password still works and you didn't receive an e-mail informing you of the situation, you should be safe. |
| 1UP's Alice: Madness Returns Giveaway Posted: 16 Jun 2011 01:54 PM PDT We'll be giving away copies of the game all day, so catch up on how to play and make this a very scary un-birthday: |
| Wii U Games Pulled From E3 Due to Underclocked Hardware - Report Posted: 16 Jun 2011 01:38 PM PDT This is all according to a report by Hit Detection, the consulting firm founded by former Newsweek writer N'Gai Croal. It states, "However, due to titles not looking much better than what is currently available on Xbox 360 and the PS3, Nintendo decided late in the game to not show those titles and focus instead on tech demos." During its E3 press conference, Nintendo showed a sizzle reel of third-party games -- including Ghost Recon Online, Ninja Gaiden 3, and Darksiders II. They looked just as good as anything on PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360; as it turned out, that's because the footage came from the games running on those systems. According to Hit Detection, Darksiders II "could have been shown" as it was up and running on the Wii U's dev hardware. |
| Posted: 16 Jun 2011 01:00 PM PDT Wonderland has always been near and dear to my heart, probably owing in large part to me sharing the same name as the little girl who fell down that rabbit hole oh so very many years ago. But the story of Alice traveling into her imaginary world is so full of beautiful imagery; it's a rich breeding ground from which to take creative liberties, and Alice: Madness Returns does a good job of twisting the existing material into something new and interesting, yet still instantly recognizable. Alice's movements are smooth and effortless, which makes both platforming and combat feel fluid and easy. Switching between her arsenal of weaponry is seamless, and allows you to chain swipes from her Vorpal blade with hits from her Hobby Horse or a barrage of pepper-bullets from the Grinder without fuss. Her abilities to jump (triple jump, even), twirl, float, and dash (in a burst of butterflies) over obstacles, and to avoid enemy attacks are a treat to make use of while working your way through the expansive levels. Alice is even able to shrink down (drink me!) to either enter small keyholes, or reveal hidden platforms and messages painted on walls that can only been seen while tiny. |
| Bobby Kotick is an Actor in Brad Pitt's New Movie Posted: 16 Jun 2011 12:36 PM PDT You read that right. As seen in the trailer above, Kotick plays the role of the Oakland Athletics owner in Moneyball, a film starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill that's based on the book of the same name. The book tells the story of how Billy Beane, the A's general manager, was able to build a successful baseball team through the use of advanced metrics and statistics despite having a relatively small amount of money to work with. |
| Hunted: The Demon's Forge Review Posted: 16 Jun 2011 12:15 PM PDT You can clearly envision what the pitch for Hunted: The Demon's Forge sounded like: "It's the depth and addictive replay ability of Diablo, but with the visceral camera and controls of Gears of War." On paper, that doesn't sound half bad. But with an abundance of broken elements, and a notable lack of polish on the ones that do work, the game comfortably settles for mediocrity. The story revolves around a pair of mercenaries that traverse the standard litany of fantasy environments in search of the Mayor's daughter. If you think that plot sounds like Final Fight with magic missiles, you'd be right. Unless you are a Lucy Lawless aficionado, the story will most likely bore you. Even the most diehard of fantasy fans will groan at the pure barrage of clichés and stereotypes that appear at every beat of the campaign. And for a game that hinges on cooperative play, the relationship between the two leads might just be the weakest aspect of the story. At its best, their banter is acceptably pithy. The rest of the time, it's a mute-worthy affair, with your given partner either sexually harassing you, or mocking you for not being able to find your way out of a poorly designed labyrinth. |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops Adds Five New Maps This Month Posted: 16 Jun 2011 12:03 PM PDT This is the third map pack to be released for Black Ops, matching the number received by Treyarch's previous CoD title, World at War. It'll include four new competitive multiplayer maps carrying the names seen in the leak: Drive-In, Silo, Hazard, and Hangar 18. It also includes a new Zombies "experience" called Shangri-La, described by Treyarch boss Mark Lamia as "an exotic and mysterious map filled with deadly traps, dark secrets and innovative gameplay that will challenge even the most daring Zombie hunters." As with the previous two map packs, it'll be coming to Xbox 360 first, presumably at the same 1,200 Microsoft Points ($15) price. It's scheduled for a June 28 release, followed by a double XP weekend event starting on July 1. PlayStation 3 and PC versions will follow a later time; no specific date for either platform was specified. |
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