You remember those terrible Burger King games? You remember Kinect coming out in a few months? You want a Burger King Kinect game? Well boom, son. It’s happening, come to your home Xbox console this holiday. Now you can eat a Double Cheese Burger, Fries, all while flailing around aimlessly! The future is here, folks!
The gaming calendar up until this year has typically played out as one long drawn out crescendo starting at January and culminating into the holiday season. It’s during the holiday season were top publishers and big name developers release their blockbusters to the world, in what inevitably turns into one big “great, now my back account is empty” situation.
That really hasn’t been true for 2010 however as early on this year we got several titles that were pushed out of 2009 due to the behemoths of Modern Warfare 2 and Halo 3: ODST, perhaps you’ve heard of those. And the result has been interesting. While we’ve hit a bit of a slow period at the present moment, most of 2010 has been steady gaming, all the time. And not just for the PlayStation 3 of course. All platforms in fact have played a part in making the first half of 2010 a memorable one.
It’s Friday and that means one thing to destitute nerds: Weekend Game Sales! This week Steam is discounting Mount & Blade along with its expansion pack Warband. M&B is going for $7.50 while Warband is priced at $10.20. For those not familiar with the franchise, it’s an Action RPG with mounted combat; a unique game with a small but hardcore following.
The Italian Mafia gimmick is rarely shown the spotlight in video games, Godfather 1 and 2 being the most prominent and well-known video games involving mafia-type figures. Even then, the reason we know those games is because they’re based off the hit movies. Mafia 1 was released in 2002 and at the time was truly something special. Since then, that long eight year gap has given birth to many hit open-world games and somewhere along Mafia II’s development cycle, they forgot that years were advancing and games were getting progressively better and more inventive.
It is a time of the summer when the crack of the bat is replaced by an aluminum ping and the average player goes from being 6′ 5″ to more like 5′ 4″. It is a time when Williamsport, Pennsylvania, plays host to kids from all over the world who care more about getting their homework done than a seven-figure salary as they all vie for a shot at the world title.
Activision has released a new trailer for the upcoming James Bond adventure Blood Stone. Due to MGM’s money troubles, the 23rd Bond movie is stuck in development, therefore Blood Stonewill not be a tie-in, but rather will be a standalone story – the next chapter in the Bond saga.
The game, a third-person shooter, will star Daniel Craig as 007 and British singer Joss Stone as socialite Nicole Hunter, as they hunt down a missing researcher. The game will feature a global conspiracy involving the UK’s secret biochemical weapons program, and a story stretching across five different locations, including Istanbul (as featured in the new trailer), Athens, Monaco, Bangkok and Siberia.
It’s been exactly two weeks since I complained that Bioware is releasing DLC for Dragon Age at a faster rate than we can play it. As if to spite me, those jerks have announced yet more DLC is on the way. In their defense, they’re saying that this will resolve the last plot thread in Origins, so it might be the last time they harass us with their DLC and let us all get on with our lives (I still have all that Mass Effect DLC to play too, guys). After all they’re hard at work on Dragon Age 2, and they have to make sure it is so full of content that no one will be able to finish that before Dragon Age 3 comes out.
