Archive for April, 2009

Brütal Legend

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Tim Schafer on RAWK and making love to centaurs.
Brütal Legend is the last piece of puzzle left over from Vivendi’s merger with Activision, which left a dozen top game projects as refugees last year.

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Dead Space Extraction

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Exec producer on living up to the original.
Dead Space is headed to Wii this year in the form of an oddly deep-looking ‘on-rails’ shooter where you chose your own paths, manage your weapons and fight alien nasties in the dark with glow sticks.

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Brief history of Alien vs Predator

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

Feature: They’ve been hunting you for decades.
In light of Sega’s recently-revealed Alien vs. Predator game, PSW takes a look at the topsy-turvy history of the games starring those slimy, black extraterrestrial horrors.

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Borderlands

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Graphically novel – new art style revealed.
Fallout was just the start of a floodtide of apocalyptic explore-’em-ups. Borderlands is the next wave, an open world RPG that plays closer to a traditional shooter than the clunky pistol flailing of Bethesda’s effort. Oh, and you can explore it with up to three friends. In jeeps.

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Modern Warfare 2

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Who’d have thought a two-minute teaser trailer could reveal so much? We dissect every frame for clues you might have missed.
Who’d have thought a two-minute teaser trailer could reveal so much? PSW dissects every frame for clues you might have missed…

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BioShock 2

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Who’s the Daddy?.
"The player of a first-person shooter is a plexiglass-faced powerhouse that thunders its way through corridors and occasionally is asked to care about things that it’s never met." This is Jordan Thomas, Creative Director of BioShock 2. He’s about to tell us who we play as this time.

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7 DSi Features You May Have Missed

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Feature: You won’t even find them in the manual.
If we made a new console with loads of cool new features, we’d shout about them. Not Nintendo though – it has instead kept fairly hush over many of the more acute capabilities of the recently resealed DSi.

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Little King’s Story

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Little King, big fun.
Look at that title. So unobtrusive. Put it next to the hyperbolically monikered brutes it’ll be sharing shelf space with – Madworld, Overkill, Chop Til You Drop – and it may as well be called ‘Don’t Worry About Me’ or ‘Sorry. I’m Just Really Sorry’. But that’s the little king’s secret: smile, look harmless and crush with extreme prejudice. Underestimating this diminutive dictator will be your biggest mistake this year.

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BioShock 2

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

First look: Who’s the Daddy?.
For more BioShock 2 talk don’t forget to read PC Gamer’s massive first look too.

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Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

No place to hide.
Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena should’ve been released a year ago. Originally starting life as a small expansion to Xbox’s Escape from Butcher Bay, it’s now a full-length, eight-hour sequel to the critically acclaimed shooter.

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