Archive for the ‘Games’ Category

Gambling on matches and a suite of expanded customization options are some of the highlights from our time playing Black Ops online.   With Call of Duty: Black Ops, developer Treyarch is taking the venerable first-person shooter franchise into the secretive world of Cold War-era special operations. Thus far, we’ve seen single-player demos ranging from an intercontinental flight by SR-71 Blackbird aircraft to ... Full story

This eclectic sports collection is fun with friends and does a good job of showing what the PlayStation Move hardware is capable of.      Score: 7.5 / good Get the full article at GameSpot ... Full story

GameStop and Best Buy customers will be the only players to get invisibility and tag modes this year; Wal-Mart preorders receive Oddjob-themed "Cheater" apparel.   Last month, Activision announced a Goldeneye 007 bundle with a gilded Classic Controller to promote its upcoming remake of the seminal Nintendo 64 first-person shooter. The publisher's picked up its promotional activities today, revealing a trio ... Full story

This wacky action game doesn't contain any of the fun hinted at by its goofy premise.      Score: 4.0 / poor Get the full article at GameSpot ... Full story

Publisher more than triples quarterly sales to $354.1 million; L.A. Noire officially delayed to first half of next year.   Take-Two is riding a little higher in the saddle thanks to the success of Red Dead Redemption. Today the publisher released "significantly better than expected" financial results for the quarter ended July 31, saying the critically acclaimed open-world Western had sold-in ... Full story

Gambling on matches and a suite of expanded customization options are some of the highlights from our time playing Black Ops online.   With Call of Duty: Black Ops, developer Treyarch is taking the venerable first-person shooter franchise into the secretive world of Cold War-era special operations. Thus far we’ve seen single-player demos ranging from an intercontinental flight by SR-71 Blackbird aircraft to ... Full story

Legal council representing defendants against Nintendo suggest the battle against pirates has only just begun.   Sony’s PlayStation 3 mod chip lawsuit could be just the first of many gaming giant-initiated cases in Australia, according to a lawyer who defended a client against Nintendo in a similar case earlier this year. Late last week Australia’s Federal Court slapped a temporary ban--which expires ... Full story

This generic shoot-'em-up fails to breathe any life into its competent action.      Score: 5.0 / mediocre Get the full article at GameSpot ... Full story

Star Wars studio said to have trimmed some 85 positions in advance of The Force Unleashed II's October 26 release. In the past couple of months, Rockstar Games, Sony Online Entertainment, Firaxis, Realtime Worlds, and Ubisoft have all sent staff packing, for reasons ranging from studio bankruptcies to the ever-popular "realignment of resources." Now, ... Full story

Microsoft's motion-sensing system's voice-command features will be limited to American English, British English, Mexican Spanish, and Japanese when it launches Nov. 4. On November 4 in North America, Microsoft will launch Kinect with as much fanfare--and marketing muscle--as a new console launch. However, when the camera-based, controller-free motion-sensing system launches in Europe, Kinect won't have quite as much to hype.... Full story