So many deals, so little money...
Here's a list of items that will be on sale at WalMart on Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year, which is the day after Thanksgiving. Stand out deals are the Xbox 360 Kinect Bundle and PS3 160 GB bundle.
Get three mission packs and some vampy threads for one lump sum.
As publishers try to circumvent the whole used market rigamarole, some ideas fall flat and anger consumers (see: Batman Arkham City) while others seem to stick. The online passes have been a controversial step taken recently, and you can read our thoughts about that subject in our roundtable discussion. But the Season Pass is a relatively new concept that has gained traction recently thanks to Mortal Kombat and Gears of War 3. Saints Row the Third will be going the Season Pass route as well, and we have the first details on what you’ll be getting and how much you’ll pay.
At last, this classic game gets re-released. Woo-hoo! But we don't know where it's going to land. D'oh!
Konami created some very memorable arcade games based on licensed properties in the late 80s and early 90s. The two highest-profile games have seen releases on XBLA and PSN, namely Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game and X-Men: The Arcade game. But there’s been one Konami arcade release that people have been clamoring for, and it looks like the wait may be almost over. Yes friends, there is evidence that The Simpsons Arcade Game will be coming to a game machine near you.
Two games in one part! Can you guess which one I like better?
Different things usually happened with Nintendo in two completely different continents. While the NES arrived in 1986 in North America, Japan was already in its third year of Famicom glory. Nintendo’s then-released Famicom Disk System introduced the battery back-up save feature, eliminating the need for long over-drawn password saves. Games like Metroid and The Legend of Zelda greatly benefited from this innovation. It was also this year that Nintendo saw fit to release a sequel to Super Mario Bros, appropriately titled Super Mario Bros. 2. This was a completely different Super Mario Bros. 2 than the one North Americans got in 1988. So what in the world happened?
New friends are a quick trip to the toy store away.
Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure has been getting a lot of buzz from some interesting places. The game on its own is a pretty standard kid-focused adventure game (read our review here), but what sets it apart from other things on the market is the set of action figures that can be scanned and placed into the game, and the official website. There were 32 figures available at the outset, and you can now add three more to the roster, if you can find them on shelves, that is.
Play EQII for free next month.
The MMO landscape has been changing rapidly in recent years, influenced greatly by free-to-play games like Wizard 101 and Freerealms, as well as the crushing competition of World of Warcraft. In this volatile market many popular MMORPGs have gone free-to-play, with SOE’s DC Universe Online being the most recent game to make the switch. In December, you can add Everquest II to that list, as well.
Includes an impressive 4-disc soundtrack and more.
Final Fantasy XIII-2 will be hitting store shelves early next year to the delight of many a Final Fantasy fan, but now they have even more to be excited about with the announcement of a special collector’s edition that actually delivers some very special content.
It's a quick look, but it's sure to get some people pumped.
Spike TV's Video Game Awards has become a popular place to stage major release reveals. Last year’s show saw the announcement of Skyrim which will see release this Friday and a host of other major releases such as Portal 2, Batman: Arkham City and the still mysterious Guillermo Del Toro’s Insane.
Online Beta also dated and it starts sooner than you may expect.
It’s been a while since the Batman-themed multiplayer First Person Shooter was announced, but we haven’t heard a whole heck of a lot about when we could expect to see the game. That changed today and you’ll be happy to know that you’ll be taking shots at batman look-alikes and Joker posers sooner than later.
Good isn't always good enough.
As the owner of a brand new Kinect, I was somewhat surprised when I realized that Kinect Sports wasn't included. Being that it's clearly Microsoft's answer to Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort, it would only make sense to offer it to purchasers of the hands-off peripheral. Yet it's a game sold completely separate of the peripheral at full retail price. Because Microsoft has chosen to separate the game from the peripheral, they've forced Kinect Sports to stand as its own product. After some extensive time with the game, I'm not quite sure it lives up to its steep expectations.
