Rock Out, And Learn Something Too
Rocksmith is the next logical step in guitar music games, where you plug in your actual guitar to your console, and then learn how to play it. It’s a neat concept done well, but may not have mass appeal.
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New Characters Pile Into The Fight
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 adds a lot of things like 12 new characters and eight new stages, yet our reviewer feels that for everything added, something was taken away.
Highway To The Danger Zone
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is a breathtaking flight simulation combat title with a surprising amount of depth, variety and replay ability. Best simulation ever? Perhaps.
A Hit, But No Revelation
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations throws everything at a player that it can to really push the experience. But all the mini-games could have been trashed in favor of a richer main storyline.
A Genius Idea Meets A Wonderful Game
Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure is an amazingly cool action RPG that uses real world figures, which are transported into the game via a portal. In our testing, both adults and kids loved it.
Twitter Your Way Into Max Payne 3
Beginning today and continuing through January 13, 2012, Rockstar Games is offering our Twitter followers the unique opportunity to be immortalized as one of eight Max Payne 3 multiplayer gang characters, just by using the #MaxPayne3 hashtag on Twitter. Every week from now until January 13, we will be selecting 10 people at random that have used the #MaxPayne3 hashtag. If selected, participants will be contacted either via tweet or direct message to submit a photo for consideration. Two finalists will be chosen from each group each week (eight people in total), and will have their likeness appear as a … Continue reading Twitter Your Way Into Max Payne 3
Skyrim Ships 10 Million Copies
ZeniMax Media Inc. today announced that 10 million units of Bethesda Softworks’ The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim have been shipped for the Xbox 360 video game entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system, and PC, representing approximately $650 million in retail sales since its release on November 11. The PC version of Skyrim in North America outsold all other PC games by a factor of over three to one in the month of its release. Large retail reorders across all platforms and record-breaking digital sales reflect the ongoing global demand by consumers excited to explore this extraordinary fantasy … Continue reading Skyrim Ships 10 Million Copies
Tales of Graces f Gets Ship Date
Leading video game publisher and developer NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. today announced the release date for next year’s Tales of Graces f, exclusively for the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system. Tales of Graces f combines lush animated graphics, a dramatic storyline and an exciting real-time battle system into a sprawling epic for fans of the Tales of series and Japanese RPGs. Tales of Graces f will be available in North America on March 13, 2012. Tales of Graces f brings the renowned and beloved Tales of series to the PlayStation 3 system for the first time in North America. … Continue reading Tales of Graces f Gets Ship Date
A Trilogy’s Thrilling Conclusion
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is kind of like a summer blockbuster movie with lots of action and adventure to the point that we can forgive it being a little thin on story.
Hitman: Absolution
Agent 47 in another soon-to-be-released adventure! We can hardly wait. http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=ON4nyQ3ejjw Got to admit that I am looking forward to this game like nobody’s business. I like how the world has taken a bit of a darker turn, but I hope we still get to poison doughnuts and blow up BBQ grills. Publishers: Square Enix Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360