This surprise title from Nintendo's Press Conference will add a few new elements to the classic Luigi's Mansion formula.
It's been nearly a decade since the gaming world first experienced Nintendo's charming ghost adventure, Luigi's Mansion. Today, Nintendo surprised gamers by revealing the next title in the series, Luigi's Mansion 2, coming to the 3DS next year in 2012.
A confined location, new gameplay elements, and a new character make up Capcom's first 3DS Resident Evil title.
There hasn't been very much information released about Capcom's upcoming Resident Evil title, Resident Evil: Revelations. Today at Nintendo's E3 Press Conference we saw a brief view of the game in action, and finally gamers were given a small amount of additional information.
A Nintendo promotional reel reveals the game.
Further information from Nintendo after the reel, reveals that the game is in fact Luigi's Mansion 2. The trailer appears to feature new locales, including several new mansions for players to traverse. Mummies were spotted in the trailer, but little else new, just ghosts.
Jason analyzes the recent sale of Harmonix, and what it means for the future of rhythm game sales.
A few months ago, Viacom sold off rhythm game developer Harmonix for a reported amount of fifty dollars. The most shocking aspect of this trade is that Viacom originally bought Harmonix for $175 million. Apparently the trade gives Viacom about $150 million in tax benefits, which is quite a hefty number, itself, but still, it seems like this is a major failure on Viacom's part, which reflects as a failure on the part of Harmonix, itself. A little while later, Activision reported that they will not publish a new Guitar Hero or DJ Hero game in 2011 after disappointing sales of the previous entry, simultaneously halting future DLC for the two franchises. The once-popular music gaming genre appears to have come to a screeching halt after oversaturation and the companies' failure to understand the market.
Gamers who only own a Wii can even do better than this at this point.
Utter mediocrity. There’s no better way to describe High Voltage’s second Conduit title. It’s almost unfortunate for the team, really. Had this been a year ago, mediocrity of this sort could’ve crushed something like Red Steel 2, given the complete dearth of competent Wii shooters. However, after the release of GoldenEye and Black Ops, Conduit 2 doesn’t shine so brightly. Things get even worse when you start pitting it against shooters on other consoles, like the recently released Killzone 3. In any case, Conduit 2 feels very much like an imitator of modern shooters – an imitator that doesn’t really grasp what makes all of those other shooters so great. Though a valiant effort, the end result is somewhat akin to Valve’s Half Life 2, without the big thrills, surprises, and competent enemies.
THQ has announced a new collaboration of games with renowned director Guillermo del Toro. The first is expected to release in 2013.
THQ and Guillermo del Toro, director of the films Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy, have revealed their intentions to collaborate in creating an original 'Triple-A trilogy' of highly cinematic games. The games, titled inSANE, are being developed by Volition, Inc. for the Xbox 360, PS3, and Games For Windows with a slated release date of 2013 for the first chapter.
I hate to say it, but Telephantasm is the best part of the whole package.
At this point, the Guitar Hero series has undoubtedly overstayed its welcome. While the series saw some definite innovation in its transition from 3 to World Tour, and moderately so from World Tour to 5, Warriors of Rock brings almost nothing to the table. Sure there's a new track list and they added the mediocre Quest Mode, but the only thing that truly stands out is the Quickplay + Mode that began in the last iteration of the series.
The game is based on a Japanese TV Show and is releasing soon in Japan.
As reported earlier, Nintendo has yet another game in addition to Pokepark and New Super Mario Bros. Wii coming to Japan this holiday season.
The title will be released on cell phones in Japan and will be based on the upcoming anime.
Guin Saga is a long-running manga in Japan that had its first edition back in 1979. With the thirty year anniversary of the series coming up, it's receiving an anime makeover in Japan.
According to Ubisoft CEO, Yves Guillemot, "The acquisition of Nadeo is an important step in [their] expansion within the on-line gaming sector."
Today, Nadeo, developers of the popular TrackMania series, was purchased by French video game company, Ubisoft.
