The Castlevania series was born in Japan on September 26th back in 1986. That knowledge in hand, you can imagine the demographic of 30+ year old gamers who would kill to get an old school franchise title on a new graphic intensive console. We’ve had many new Castlevania releases since 1986 including releases on the […]
Entries Tagged as 'Xbox 360'
New Castlevania Title For 360 and PS3: 2D or 3D?
October 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Industry News · Konami · Platformer · playstation 3 · TGS · Xbox 360
Guitar Hero World Tour Bundle Mayhem
October 7th, 2008 · No Comments
You’re looking to pickup a copy of Guitar Hero World Tour, but you’re currently unsure which bundle does what and how much each will cost. That has now been made clear and gamers can go about their holiday shopping business later this month (Oct. 26th) to pickup the bundle of their choosing. USD $190 for […]
Tags: Accessories · Activision · Guitar Hero · Industry News · playstation 3 · Wii · Xbox 360
Mega Man 9: Initial Impressions (Xbox 360)
October 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments
With a few hours of Mega Man 9 under my belt I’ve got to admit, this game is FREAKING HARD. I’ve played many games since the original Mega Man series was released on the NES and later on the SNES and nothing compares to Mega Man 9 in terms of sheer difficulty. This new franchise […]
Tags: Editorial · Platformer · Retro · review · Sequels · Xbox 360
Has Rare Lost Touch With The Gaming Industry?
September 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments
In an interesting interview this week at 1up.com, Peter Moore, now at Electronic Arts, believes the skillset that Rare holds is a bit dated for our gaming industry. Moore, best known in his role of VP at Microsoft in their Interactive Entertainment Business division, understands how great Rare and their games once were but seems […]
Tags: Editorial · Microsoft · Rare · Xbox 360
Microsoft’s High Hopes Holiday Lineup
September 13th, 2008 · No Comments
This year Microsoft believes they’ve got a heavy hitter lineup of titles starting around now until the end of the year including: Gears of War 2, Fable 2, Guitar Hero: World Tour, Rock Band 2 and Fallout 3. They’re also looking at Lips, their karaoke title with a casual appeal to bring on the sales […]
Tags: Holiday · Microsoft · playstation 3 · Sony · Xbox 360
Xbox 360 Price Cut Leads To 100-Percent Sales Increase
September 11th, 2008 · No Comments
Why release a single block buster game with a two week pop when you can simply lower the price of your console and boost sales by 100%? That’s a question Sony may be asking themselves right now, as Metal Gear Solid 4‘s hype may have lasted years but the sales and console unit sale boots […]
Tags: Industry News · Microsoft · Xbox 360
Five Dollars Gets You 55 Original Rock Band Songs
September 9th, 2008 · No Comments
If you’re into Rock Band and love the songs you’ve played, you may want to migrate them into Rock Band 2, correct? For the price of 400 Microsoft points ($4.99) you’re now able to download an export “patch” to allow exporting of 55 Rock Band songs into the next version of Rock Band. There are […]
Tags: Guitar Hero · harmonix · Industry News · playstation 3 · rock band · Sequels · Xbox 360
Microsoft Shoots for Number Two In Console War
September 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Microsoft recently announced their price cuts on the Xbox 360, effective today, but what is motivating them? Microsoft’s not going to make much additional money by passing off the savings to the customer but they will, more than likely, sell a bunch of great new Xbox 360‘s to a new crowd of gamer. Motivation? Sony. […]
Tags: Console Games · Editorial · Holiday · Microsoft · Nintendo · Sony · Wii · Xbox 360
PS3 and 360 Price Cuts, Before Holidays End
August 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
A lot of people have purchased the Xbox 360 and a growing number have had new interests in the PlayStation 3. The summer time is winding to an end and fall will bring us a new host of video games and reasons to keep playing our current generation consoles. Many analysts and industry leaders believe […]
Tags: Editorial · Holiday · Microsoft · playstation 3 · Sony · Xbox 360
2old2play’s 2008 LAN Video, Older Gamers Having Fun
August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
2OLD2PLAY from Janks Morton on Vimeo. For those 25 and older, 2old2play offers lots of great gaming fun and communities for all genres of gaming. They’ve been around since roughly 2005, this video, done by Janks Morton (one of the members) is excellent. This type of footage could easily be something on a cable network, […]
Tags: Industry News · rock band · Video · Xbox 360