Video Game Awards News Roundup
The Spike Video Game Awards (VGA’s) is an award show that celebrates the best games of the year. This year it will be held on Saturday, December 11, 2010 at the
The Spike Video Game Awards (VGA’s) is an award show that celebrates the best games of the year. This year it will be held on Saturday, December 11, 2010 at the
Have a traditional Unitology Christmas this year with the demo for Dead Space 2. On December 21st, you’ll be able to enjoy all the Unitologist holiday activities you remember from your childhood, and hopefully no one will show up and start sawing off limbs, incinerating corpses, and stomping heads. That just ruins the festivities.
As most publishers tend to use Black Friday as an unofficial Christmas deadline for game releases, this week only has one store release for the PS3, which is TRON: Evolution. On the Playstation Network there are three new PS3 games which are Alien Breed 2: Assault, Qlione Evolve, Kung-Fu Live.Of those three, Qlione Evolve and Alien Breed 2 both offer some good old fashioned arcade gaming, while Kung-Fu Live’s use of motion controls might appeal to those who like their games to be a little more energetic.
Just about all of the online digital distributors are in permanent sale mode for the rest of the year, but below is a compilation of what’s going today, Tuesday. Direct2Drive is holding an Atari-themed week; no not the Atari you remember from your childhood, but rather the new Atari which publishes games like Star Trek Online and Test Drive Unlimited; the latter you can get for half off at $9.95 today only. Remember that D2D is also holding a promotion where one in five orders is free.
So you thought World of Warcraft Cataclysm would be the last game you had to get this year? Well, one last gem was just announced, Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath. It’s coming to PC with the nebulous release date of “Holiday Season 2010”, and it should definitely go on your Christmas list.
When I received my copy of Nail’d in the mail I had no expectations for the game, partially because I had no idea what type of game it was. Before I ripped open the packaging I expected some new extreme carpentry simulator or perhaps even an innuendo laced romp similar to the Leisure Suit Larry series. Instead of those equally interesting choices, I got a questionably named arcade racing title. Needless to say, I was underwhelmed.
Sony have been talking about their ten year lifespan for the PS3 from day one, and Microsoft have suggested Kinect will add another five years to the Xbox 360’s life. But even so, as the 360 celebrates its fifth birthday the current consoles are starting to show their age, and behind closed doors both Sony and Microsoft must be at the stage of starting to think very seriously about what comes next. So, here is a list of ten things both companies will, or at least should, be thinking about when designing their next consoles.
