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Archive for 'Video Games News'

ABC.COM USERS GET “LOST,” TALLYING MORE THAN 580,000 EPISODE STARTS OF “LOST’S” SEASON 6 PREMIERE ON WEDNESDAY

Network Site Garners Double-Digit, Year-Over-Year Gains in Uniques and Page Views
Following last Tuesday’s successful premiere on ABC, where it ranked as the night’s No. 1 scripted TV show and was watched by over 12.1 million viewers, “Lost” drove record online viewing at ABC.com on Wednesday with more than 580,000 episode starts of the final season’s [...]

Infinite Space Preview: Seems Vast And Charty

Platinum Games has made a video game that’s really sexy. Before that, one that’s really violent. Next: A game that’s really… spaceship?
Infinite Space is set for March release in the U.S., a Nintendo DS game from the Platinum label behind Bayonetta and Madworld but developed primarily by Nude Maker, creators of erotic games. Oh, and [...]

EA Sends Football Fans to Hell With ‘Dante’s Inferno’ in Company First Super Bowl Commercial

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–As the New Orleans Saints make their Super Bowl debut, so too does Electronic Arts . On Sunday February 7th, EA will air its first-ever Super Bowl commercial as part of the massive marketing program for the company’s newest videogame franchise, Dante’s Inferno. On Super Bowl Sunday, EA will invite 100 million football fans to [...]

BioShock 2 soundtrack Digital Release: February 9th

We heard that the BioShock 2 soundtrack was coming earlier, but now we have an official date and tracklist.
A press release confirms that the return to Rapture again features jazz and pop classics from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. Surely you remember being creeped out by the old timey tunes in the original. There’s more [...]

IRON MAN 2 The Game: “Unique Story, Movie Universe”

SEGA made it very clear at a press event in New York that they’re well aware the firstIron Man game tied to the blockbuster movie fell into a lot of the movie-game traps. “Not to speak ill of the dead, so-to-speak, but there were a lot of bad choices,” said Creative Director Kyle Brink. This is [...]

Dragon Age: Origins Returns to Ostagar

Dragon Age: Origins has released to rave reviews from both gamers and industry experts, including a 5 out of 5 from playstationlifestyle.net.  Along with all this positive talk Bioware has been pretty good about supporting their product with two DLC packs already on the PlayStation Store.  Now it looks like there will be a third pack for [...]

Nintendo’s Q1: Wario, Not Punishment

Nintendo of America will release its awesome make-your-own Wario game in early 2010, but apparently not Sin and Punishment 2, according to a press release issued Monday.
Faced with flagging Wii sales, the Kyoto gamemaker is under pressure to release more big software titles for the console in the U.S., but those aren’t forthcoming in the first three months [...]

Two Worlds II Site Launches with Screens, MoveShots

The official website for the upcoming multiplatform RPG Two Worlds II launched recently for those that haven’t been keeping up. Included in the first batch of content was information on the gameplay, story, monsters and a ton more. Today some fresh new assets are added to the pile: screenshots and “MoveShots.”
The original Two Worlds, if you’ve not played, did [...]

Paul McCartney’s Live Album Comes to Rock Band DLC Store

ambridge, MA – December 28, 2009 – Harmonix and MTV Games today announced that a three pack of songs from Paul McCartney’s latest live album will soon be added to the Rock Band Music Store and LEGO® Rock Band Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, [...]

Video Games Sales Drop, But Still Strong

The video game industry just keeps on seeing its sales numbers decline, in spite of a huge month for Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and the crucial holiday month of November was no different than the last nine months of 2009. For the month, according to industry analyst The NPD Group, sales across [...]