It’s not surprising that Just Cause 2 , a game in which pretty much everything explodes, goes all out with its pre-order bonuses . More than just a simple gun or article of clothing, those who pre-order the game will nab two guns, a souped-up car, a special hovercraft and a unique parachute. It’ll be available on launch day ( March 23 ), so we wouldn’t be surprised if those non-pre-orders will be able to pay a little extra for the same perks.
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Just Cause 2 pre-orderers get special weapons, parachutes
When the holidays roll around, the gamers who buy everything they want throughout the year might find themselves stymied asked for a wish list. Today, we put the Nyko Charge Base IC through its paces, and it looks like a great way to pad your list to Santa.
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Nyko Charge Base IC Hands-on/Butter Cookie Tutorial
[ LittleBigPlanet Central ] It’s been nearly a year since Media Molecule created the Metal Gear Solid level pack for LittleBigPlanet . A recent Trophy leak shows that the PS3 platformer is finally getting an official MM-developed playable add-on — this time, inspired by the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. This partnership was first teased at E3
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Pirates of the Caribbean arrr coming to LittleBigPlanet
OK, everyone, let’s gather in a circle and repeat: Oh, lords of downloadable games, please guide PixelJunk Shooter to sales. For now is the time of retail and PJS has been released into the wastes .
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PSN Thursday: PixelJunk Shooter drops into dangerous territory
In what’s apparently the latest game industry victim of a down economy, Big Download reports that, according to its sources, Austin, Texas-based publisher Aspyr has laid off more than 50 percent of its employees. Though you likely recognize the Aspyr name from its PC-to-Mac ports, the company recently published the Call of Duty Classic port on XBLA and PSN, as well as Fighting Fantasy and Treasure World on DS
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Report: Aspyr lays off majority of staff
In a recent study conducted by Insight Media titled the “Stereoscopic 3D Gaming Report,” researchers concluded that the install base of 3D-ready televisions will rise to “over 40 million” by 2014. MCV reports that the $5,000 study’s results are based on the statistical outperformance of 3D film over 2D equivalents, as well as “extensive testing of the first generation of 3D games.” “We spoke directly with gamers, game developers, and game publishers …
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Report: 40 million homes will have 3D televisions by 2014
click to enlarge The latest item of DLC coming to Borderlands adds new, combat-focused content to the game … while simultaneously removing any artifice with which Gearbox was obscuring the universe’s cinematic inspiration . Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot (get it?) adds three new Riot Mode arenas for single-player or co-op, along with a new bank feature for storing weapons.
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Borderlands’ second DLC pack: Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot will enrage Mel Gibson fans
Terrifying video game news site Rely On Horror claims to have recently gotten its hands on the next issue of Game Informer , which contains a pretty comprehensive breakdown of the new methods of Necromorph murder featured in Dead Space 2 . According to the site, the Informer article reveals that the game’s designers are trying to make the game spookier , placing hero Isaac Clarke (who learned the ability to speak between games, it seems) in more death-defying situations, and likely a few impossible-to-defy-death situations as well. According to the report, the game’s action has moved off of the Ishimura, instead placing Clarke on the similarly monster-infested interstellar city Sprawl, which dwarfs the original game’s setting in size
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Rumor: Dead Space 2 info extracted from Game Informer
Modern Warfare 2 has made blowing up American capitals so passé. EA Montreal is far more visionary, preemptively blowing up the largest city of our future masters: Shanghai.
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Watch Shanghai blow up in Army of Two: The 40th Day’s intro
Having been rejected, accepted and subsequently removed , developer Manomio has finally gotten its iPhone Commodore 64 emulator back on Apple’s App Store. The emulator had originally been rejected by Apple, thanks to its inclusion of a BASIC interpreter
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iPhone Commodore 64 emulator back on the App Store
