Watchmen isn’t really a superhero comic book, it’s a deconstruction of superhero comic books. Similarly, it has been hinted that the Watchmen movie won’t be a superhero movie so much as a deconstruction of the superhero movies that have recently surged in popularity.
So this Watchmen sidescrolling beat-em-up coming to Xbox Live Arcade is… what, exactly?
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Word came out about this during E3, but details were a little sketchy.
Xbox Live Arcade is getting its own version of Portal, titled Portal: Still Alive. This isn’t a sequel as the title might imply, but a re-release of the original game with extra content.
The obvious question is, will there be more of everyone’s favorite passive-aggressive homicidal artificial intelligence, GLaDOS? The answer is no.
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During Microsoft’s press conference at E3 today, Square-Enix made official a longstanding rumor: The next game in the blockbuster Final Fantasy series will be on the Xbox 360 as well as the PS3.
This is big news because new Final Fantasy games have been PlayStation exclusives for over a decade, and Sony needs high-profile exclusives to push sales of the PS3.
It only makes sense for Square-Enix, though. As expensive as it is to make a game like this, they can’t rely on putting it out on a platform that has less than half as many units sold in the U.S. For the same reason, the 360 version probably won’t see the light of day in Japan, where the 360’s market share is relatively minuscule.
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I mentioned Persona 4 coming out a while ago, but there’s something I overlooked.
It’s a PS2 game.
It’s been around a year and a half since the PS3 was released and two and a half years since the Xbox 360, launching the so-called “next-gen” era, despite the fact that it is now the current gen.
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It may be a slow news week for video games, but Kotaku is putting out some fantastic feature stories. The latest is “Once a Labor of Love, Sales of Football Rosters Now Inflame Passions.”
Here’s the deal: EA puts out a series of games called “NCAA Football.” But where an NFL game would have a full roster for all the players, NCAA rules keep any player names or likenesses from being used. That means that everyone in the game is named “HB #15″ or something.
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I’ve been kind of rooting for Battlefield: Bad Company to come out well, thanks to a love of Battlefield 2142 and an extremely tenuous connection to someone who did modeling work on the buildings.
When I loaded up the demo on the ol’ Xbox 360, something seemed a little… familiar.
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Anyone else remember those old Dilbert strips where Dogbert put on the ridiculous napkin-hat, picked up a vaguely-dog’s-head-shaped scepter and declared himself Saint Dogbert, the Patron Saint of Technology? Yeah, we all had a good laugh over those, but somewhere, I think somebody’s Xbox 360 got touched by the hand of Dog…bert…very recently.
I read about this over at the Planet Xbox 360 forums–the story’s simple enough: while playing Rainbow Six Vegas 2, someone’s Xbox 360 starts sputtering and then goes into full-bore red ring arrest. A couple frantic calls to Microsoft and, sure enough, the coffin’s on its merry way as has happened to so many of us. Well, this is where the story gets strange. The fella in question waits ten minutes and tries again–only to discover that the 360 is now, somehow, operating like nothing went wrong.
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Acronyms or no, I’m still positively roaring with laughter on this one, kids. Seriously, if I found this any funnier I’d have an embolism.
The PTC, or the Parents Television Council, recently sent master-level winged monkey Dan Isett, their Director of Public Policy to take on the Arizona Daily Star’s Phil Villarreal in a desperate attempt to help build grass-roots support for having both GTA IV and all of its creators banned from the United States. One of many watchdog groups chiding the massively popular game, the PTC was recently shown to have absolutely no clue whatsoever what they were talking about in terms of Grand Theft Auto Four.
Isett: I’ve actually played ‘Grand Theft Auto IV,’ and it’s right in keeping with previous versions. The series continues to lower the bar and this is the first game that has an alcohol content warning. You get points for driving drunk in this game.
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Virtuoso modder Ben Heck made waves again last week with his showing of a one-handed Guitar Hero controller. Ben was kind enough to take some time while making a pan of Hamburger Helper to talk about what he’s been up to and what he’d like to do next.
A former graphic designer, Ben has been making a living at making and selling custom video game hardware since early 2001. His projects range from portable Atari 2600s to Xbox 360s in laptop form.
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