Preview

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Rumbling To Consoles

When it comes to engaging in interstellar–and interspecies–warfare, it’s all about blowing shit up in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. Come May 27, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 gamers will get to experience all of the action that those PC geeks have been hooked on since last fall. Developers Underground Studios (PS3) and Nerve Software (360) have worked closely with id Software to ensure that this shooter delivers all of the action that console gamers crave without all of the mouse-clicks that PC gamers salivate over. Read the rest of this entry »

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News

Platinum’s Atsushi Inaba: “Everyone loves chainsaws”

Sega rolled out the red carpet—and the jumbo shrimp and Kobe beef burgers—to welcome Platinum Games as a development partner. Sega will publish four upcoming games from the acclaimed Japanese developer. In addition to announcing the names and platforms for the first three titles—Madworld for Wii, Bayonetta for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and Infinite Line for Nintendo DS (the fourth remains a mystery), Sega brought in the games’ creators to shed some light on these 2009 releases. Read the rest of this entry »

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Preview

Order Up! Simulates Kitchen Life Without The Inherent D-Baggery

Lee Cummings, the creative director at Green Screen Interactive, left his gig at Rockstar with the intention of checking out of the games industry altogether and becoming a chef. He never made it to culinary school, but he did end up developing a game focused around a restaurant kitchen in Order Up! During our preview session it became pretty clear that the subject matter for the title is flat out fucking weird.

Slaving over a Fry-o-lator and managing a team of AI sous chefs that range from culinary specialists to a monkey wearing a hair net doesn’t really make a lot sense. But it’s a Wii exclusive, so anything goes. To add another layer of strangeness, Cummings admitted to never even playing a Nintendo game prior to developing Order Up! Since he had a producers credit for San Andreas on his resume we had to ask if there was any nastiness reminiscent of working in a kitchen like grease burns, unfortunate disfigurement via the meat slicer or, at the very least, an assistant chef with a raging cocaine addiction.

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Game Trailer

Madden 09: Hitting People Is Fun

So what if this is a picture of Darren McFadden delivering a stiff arm instead of Ray Lewis making a ball carrier shit out their spleen. We still like the headline since it goes with the new trailer EA just released detailing in-game hits and the new Madden tackling engine. Read the rest of this entry »

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