Video Games

Costume Quest (X360) Review

Costume Quest is a game that targets your inner child with pinpoint accuracy and drags it out into the daylight. From its cartoony aesthetics to its whimsical story about kids transforming into robots, ninjas and monsters, I was left with a big, goofy grin on my face while playing this game.

It’s the clever way that Costume Quest takes standard RPG mechanics and dresses them up as Halloween traditions that is its biggest strength. Enemies aren’t randomly encountered on a field; instead you fight monsters by trick-or-treating at different houses, some of which have candy-giving grownups while others hide treat-stealing monsters. Instead of money, you use your accumulated candy to purchase items (which come in the form of stat-boosting badges) and new abilities are learned by assembling new costumes for your party members to wear.

Killzone 3 Gets a “Helghast Edition”

All hail the glory of Helghan! By which I mean Killzone 3 is getting a limited edition release. Guerrilla games will release a “Helghast Edition” that will come with:

–Killzone 3
-Helghast helmet replica
-6.5″ cloaking Helghast figurine
-Art book
-Super Voucher

Sony Ships 320GB PS3

Sony has officially begun shipping a standalone 320GB PS3 console in North America. Before the new release, the only other way gamers could acquire a 320GB PS3 meant slamming $399.99 on the counter and getting a bare-bones Move bundle

New Vegas Gets First Patch

Bethesda has made the Mojave Wasteland a bit tamer this week with the release of the first patch for Fallout: New Vegas. New Vegas, though well-received by critics, has endured numerous complaints of bugs since shipping last week. These have ranged from floating enemies to gameplay freezes to the corruption of saved data.

Halloween Sales- Thursday

Halloween is just three days away and many online stores are getting in the spirit by holding sales on Horrifying games.  Steampowered.com is having not one, but TWO blowout sales right now.  The first is a different Daily Deal on games Published by THQ; today’s deal is a massive 85% off Frontlines, Fuel of War.  That brings the game down to just $2.99.  It’s an underrated FPS with an open-world design, Developed by Kaos Studios.

Way of the Samurai 4, Persona 2, Explodemon Announced

There have been few announcements today for new and updated games coming to the PS3 and PSP: 
Way of the Samurai 4 was announced today by Japanese game publisher Spike. This open-world samurai action sequel is set to be exclusive to the PlayStation 3. No US releases date has yet been given but it will be coming out this winter in Japan.

Dead Rising 2 Hits 2 Million Copies Sold

It seems that Capcom’s zombie killin’, chainsaw usin’… zombie killin’ game Dead Rising 2 has surpassed two million copies within its first month of release. I’m a bit surprised by this, in all honesty. I’m assuming the “pre-lc” that was released (Case Zero) did wonders for the sales numbers but not even I expected that many sold, that quickly; especially when Dead Rising 1 sold only around one million copies.

“Capcom is pleased to confirm that since its release at the end of September Dead Rising 2 has achieved  global shipment numbers of over two million units,  bringing the total number of  units of the Dead  Rising franchise shipped worldwide to date to over four  million. The achievement of Dead Rising 2 is a result of the successful collaboration between Capcom and Vancouver based developer Blue Castle Games.”