Video Games

Weekend Sales Thursday March 10th

If, for some unfathomable reason, you’re not playing Dragon Age 2 right now, then you might be interested in what other games you can grab to amuse yourself over the weekend.  GamersGate.com is celebrating their 5th anniversary all month, and the sale just keeps getting better. They have over one hundred and fifty games on sale at the moment, including some big discounts on great titles like Crysis and Mirror’s Edge among many, many more.  Do yourself a favor and check out this ever-growing list.

New Screenshots and Trailer for The Secret World

Funcom has created some spectacular games over the years; they made The Longest Journey, a highly regarded classic in the adventure genre, along with its sequel Dreamfall. In recent years they’ve become known for MMO’s like Age of Conan and Anarchy Online, and they have a new online game coming up later this year. The Secret World is a modern-day massively multiplayer online game and its Creative Director is Ragnar Tornquist, the lead designer on Longest Journey. This looks to be a must-have game for fans of Tornquist’s games.

EA Uses “Dragons” To Deliver Dragon Age 2

To promote the release of Dragon Age 2 in Europe at the end of this week, Electronic Arts unleashed a horde of giant reptiles on the streets of the United Kingdom today.  Of course, because Dragons don’t actually exists, the promotion had to settle for what appear to be some species of monitor lizard.  Each of these creatures was strapped to a tiny cart packed with copies of the game, then set loose to deliver the games to terrified customers waiting in line outside electronics retailers.

Apparently “Predators Approach Kids Through Video Games”

It’s been a while since we’ve had a good video game controversy, and it seems that NBC New York fluff reporter Andrew Siff has had to make a big stretch to find a way to frighten his viewers into watching his story about the dangers of video games.  After the tragic rape of a Michigan girl by a man she met while playing the online game Runescape, Siff and the NBC New York newsteam took it upon themselves to warn their viewers (Who live hundreds of miles away) that “Predators Approach Kids Through Video Games“!

New Releases This Week for PS3 (3.7.11)

New in stores this week for
the PS3 are the annual updates for two of the major baseball game franchises
with both MLB 11 The Show and Major League Baseball 2K11 hitting the
shelves. There is also a game called Yoostar
2, which uses the PlayStation Eye to create Hollywood
green screen style effects to let players join in well-known movie scenes. But,
the main store release this week must be Dragon
Age II; it has been getting strong reviews and anyone who is a fan of dark
action RPG’s should take a look.

Fable III Traitor’s Keep DLC Review

One of the most compelling concepts of Fable III was the fact that you not only had to breath life into a revolution, but then serve as king (or queen) and try to make sure Albion flourished after completing your main quest. But what would happen if someone else tried to start a revolution to dethrone YOU?

That’s the question that the new “Traitor’s Keep” DLC asks. Another one of your brother Logan’s nasty secrets rears its head when while going through your daily duties an assassin makes an attempt on your life right in the throne room! After dispatching the would be killer, you get word from some of your soldiers that an unknown ship is approaching the harbor. 

Microsoft Sells Ten Million Kinect Units

Microsoft announced today that they have sold over 10 million Kinect sensors worldwide.  The sales remained steady through to this year.  They saw very little dip in sales since the release of the Kinect.  This has also pushed Kinect game sales over 10 million.  Which is a big number but I wonder if they are counting all of the Kinect Adventures that comes with every Kinect?

Not only have they sold 10 million units but they also got themselves a new Guinness World Record.  The Kinect is the fastest selling consumer electronic device to date.  The device sold an average of 133,333 Kinect sensors per day for 60 days in a row.  For a total of eight million sold between the days of November 4, 2010 to January 3, 2011.  That is an amazing achievement for Microsoft.