Video Games

Ace of Spades – Bad Company 2, Eat Your Heart Out

At its core, Ace of Spades is an extremely simplistic game.
The brainchild of Ben Aksoy, AoS takes Ken Silverman’s popular Voxlap-based
Minecraft and remakes it as a 32 player first-person shooter, utilizing the
blocky graphics system to build fortifications, tunnels, bridges and anything
else you can think of; the only ultimate objective is to secure a briefcase
from the opposing team’s base and return it to your own. If you want to build a
bridge across the skies to their base, go for it. If you want to tunnel beneath
and emerge in the lion’s den, have fun. From these basic beginnings, entire kingdoms
can be built and defended.

Mortal Kombat (PS3) Review

As a young boy, Mortal
Kombat was one of those games that all your friends loved, and all the
parents hated, as the first arcade fighting game of its kind to go for a deliriously
dark art direction, with outrageous violence and gore. Since its debut to the
arcade cabinets in 1992, it became the most popular Beat-em-up franchise since Street Fighter. And after numerous games
and spin-off’s throughout the years, developer NetherRealm Studios brings you
the newly rebooted Mortal Kombat, but does it maintain everything that made it
the genre-defining franchise that its heavily regarded as today?

Well, let’s get to the gory details.

Tech Preview: The Razer Switchblade

There
has always been a strong divide between PC and console gamers. Console
gamers seem to like the simplicity and ease of use that their consoles
provide while PC gamers love the freedom and control they have over
their gaming. A common reason why many PC gamers stick with the platform
despite the many alarmist claims that the PC gaming market is dying is
the strength of the mouse and keyboard control scheme. No
joystick will ever come near the precision and control that a mouse can
and with a keyboard it’s almost impossible for a game to be limited by
the number of buttons on your controller. That’s where the Razer
Switchblade comes in. Razer has tried to fuse the best components of the
PC gaming, console gaming and handheld gaming experiences with their
experimental concept gaming device, the Switchblade.

Like Gels in Portal 2? Play Tag

By now, most of you have probably played Portal 2, the sequel to the critically acclaimed Valve puzzle game. There are still portals, but there are also plenty of new puzzle elements to keep things fresh. Two of those puzzle elements in Portal 2 are the Repulsion Gel and Propulsion Gel, but this is not the first time gels have been used in a puzzle game.

EA Confirms No Battlefield 3 Demo

Despite prior rumors, EA confirmed that there will not be a pre-release Battlefield 3 demo. This rumor began when Patrick Bach told MSXbox-World that an early Battlefield 3 demo would be released. It made sense, since EA is positioning Battlefield 3 to be a Call of Duty killer, and a pre-release demo would be a fine way to lure Call of Duty regulars to try out Battlefield in the fall while waiting for the next installment of Activision’s juggernaut. Bach did not specifically call out a demo, but answered positively to a question about a demo, not giving any details on gameplay. An EA spokesperson has said that Patrick Bach, when telling MSXbox-World of a pre-release demo, was actually referring to the multiplayer beta.

Alice: Madness Returns – Preview

There’s one thing that hardcore action gamers agree on:  We need more games where the main character is a little girl in a frilly dress.  It’s been over ten years since shooter fans last got to run around as Alice in the original American McGee’s Alice, and it’s high time that pinafores and petticoats were brought back to the third-person shooter genre.  Fortunately, we won’t have to wait much longer for the chance to kill things at a tea party, because Alice: Madness Returns comes out in a few weeks.

PSP Go is Dead… or is it?

It may not seem like much of a surprise to many, but Sony
Japan has now confirmed that they will cease production of the PSP Go, and that
all future sales will be limited to current stock. The reason that this may not
come as a surprise, is of course the current hype around the NGP
(Next Generation Portable).

On their official website, Sony Japan stated that the
discontinued production of the PSP Go is so they can focus on the successor of
the PlayStation Portable, which is set to see a retail release in Japan later
this year.