Video Games

Konami PS2 Classics Get HD Makeovers

Konami
revealed through their pre-E3 press conference yesterday plans to
release three separate HD collections of some of their most revered
games of modern times. Metal Gear, Silent Hill and Zone of the Enders are the franchises receiving the HD makeover and shall all be released between 2011 and 2012.

The earliest of which will be the Metal Gear Solid HD collection, due for release this November. Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 as well as PSP game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker will be included. The original Metal Gear Solid
is omitted from the collection for unknown reasons. All versions will
feature redrawn art, upgraded audio and UI, trophies or achievements
(depending on the system), and “transfarring.”

Max Payne 3: Can It Live Up To the Series Legacy?

Rockstar have been doing quite well for themselves in recent years with gamers immersing themselves in the wild west with last years “Red Dead Redemption” and L.A. Noir already becoming a huge critical success. The next item on Rockstar’s to do list is Max Payne 3. While Rockstar didn’t make the original two Max Payne games, (That developer, Remedy is off working away at the next Alan Wake game), it’s up to Rockstar to live up to the legacy of the series.

Rumors On Devil May Cry Reboot

I’m just going to cut right to it here, if what you’ve already seen from Ninja Theory’s reboot of the long running Devil May Cry series has shaken your confidence; this isn’t going to change anything. I must emphasise here and now that this is not confirmed, so take the following with a huge pinch of salt.

Is It Worth It?

I have been a PS3 owner for a while now. I still love my machine as much as the day I got her. However, times have changed. While my 60 GB PS3 was once the biggest fish in the sea, now, it’s just a bloated fish. Newer members of the PS3 family have bigger hard drives that you now need with all the downloadable content, and enough left over to store all your movies and music. However, there is always the option to upgrade.

Upgrading your PS3 is not a new prospect. Its original purpose was to give extra space for those that added a second operating system, though with that being a dead idea the feature is most useful to those who feel they need the space for other things: music, videos, pictures, DLC, or even games. It is one of the many things that sold me on the system. Now, I’m sure you’re wondering if it would be worth it for you. The answer is easily yes for older users like myself. At this point in the game, with all the great things you can do with the PS3, space is a growing issue. Having just 20 to 80 gigs of memory is cutting it really close, and honestly it’s really easy to upgrade. Best of all, it’s not that expensive.

Dungeon Siege III Hands-On Preview

Be glad this games exists.  A few years ago the Dungeon Siege franchise was going strong, then “filmmaker” Uwe Boll adapted it into a horrendous movie that nearly killed the franchise.  It took a new publisher and a new developer to salvage it, so we should all be grateful anything Dungeon Siege at all.

L.A. Noire Review

L.A. Noire is an incredibly ambitious hybrid of Rockstar’s typical
violent, open world action games and the kind of investigative puzzle
adventures that rarely get budgets that approach this level. It’s an
interesting experiment and for the most part a very entertaining
experience, though it does have a few issues that prevent it from being
counted among the best of both genres.

Activision Announces Call of Duty: Elite

Activision has announced a new title in the Call of Duty franchise called
Call of Duty: Elite, which is being developed by Beachhead Studios. But, unlike
other products in the Call of Duty series, this new title is not a game. Instead
it is essentially a tool to unify a player’s profile across the different Call of
Duty games. Because of the popularity of the Call of Duty series, there are still huge
numbers of people playing the older games, like the first Modern Warfare, as
well as other gamers spending most of their time on the latest game, which is
currently Black Ops. The aim of Elite is to give players one single profile
that will work across all the Call of Duty games that support it.