Alan Smithee

New Mass Effect 2 Screens

New Mass Effect 2 Screens

I hope you wanted to know more about Thane, the newly confirmed in-game squad member that we originally saw in the teaser trailer a few months back…’cause that’s all you get in these screenshots.

 Alan Smithee

Dream Build Play Challenger – Guru Guru

What’s this, a platformer…done in 3D…that actually has some style, and looks pretty cool at the same time? Whaaaaa?

 Alan Smithee

New Rage Trailer

New Rage Trailer

Holy…friggin’…crap…I’m serious, I think I just dropped a pantload while watching this video. Id Software opened up QuakeCon with the trailer you just saw up above for RAGE, the Fallout 3-ish, Mad Max-ish, The Hills Have Eyes-ish game that has sprung from the deviant minds of the same people who brought us Doom and Quake.

 Alan Smithee

Batman: Arkham Asylum ‘Gadgets’ Trailer

We all know that Batman is a world-class detective and a rich kid with parent issues, but we also know that a good part of what makes Batman so awesome are all of the amazing gadgets that he has at his disposal. This trailer just ratcheted up my desire for this game to come out […]

 Alan Smithee

Dream Build Play Challenger – Inferus

I just stumbled upon this video for one of the games that has been entered into the Dream Build Play Challenge that looks amazing like a cross between Strider and Castlevania in gameplay. It does my heart good to see that people are still trying to keep 2D gaming alive.

 Alan Smithee

EA Trademarks new Wing Commander

EA Trademarks new Wing Commander

Coming from a guy who was a serious PC gamer in the late 80s to the mid-90s, I have a real soft spot in my heart for anything Wing Commander related…yes even the horrible Matthew Lillard movie with gerbil themed Kilrathi.

 Alan Smithee

No PS3/Wii Netflix, and Why

No PS3/Wii Netflix, and Why

We have a reason now as to why we can’t ever have PS3 or Wii Netflix support (for the near future at least). It seems that in the system notes for the new update that’s out today, it says the following: Netflix Partnership This exclusive partnership offers you the ability to instantly stream movies and […]

 Alan Smithee

Xbox 360 Fall Update

Yup, it finally dropped this moring starting with the US and working it’s way across the globe. The update is live for all of us in the US, though the rest of the world might see a delay in updates…there really are a lot of countries that have Xbox 360s.

 Alan Smithee

Spielberg Wants Halo?

Spielberg Wants Halo?

The author of the Halo: Fall of Reach script has been shopping his wares out to any and every movie studio that will take it. Most notably, there has been considerable interest in making the movie from none other than Steven Spielberg. Apparently Dreamworks has a new independent studio that has distribution rights through Walt […]

 Alan Smithee

5 Minutes of Arkham Asylum

For those of you unlucky enough to have spent zero time playing the new Batman Arkham Asylum demo that got released to the PSN today, here’s your chance to catch up. An editor at MTV has posted up the first 5 minutes or so of B:AA for your viewing pleasure. After hearing Nikmonroe’s impressions of […]

 Alan Smithee

Microsoft’s Games on Demand Puzzles Me

Microsoft’s Games on Demand Puzzles Me

Yesterday, it was announced that the MS Games on Demand service was announced with a list of games that are coming out for purchase through XBLA. Then came the speculation as to what the pricing should be, as of writing this article, the only clue as to what the games will be costing us is […]

 Alan Smithee

New Halo: ODST Video

I don’t care what you all think, this game is going to rock. Ryan, STFU…geez, twice in one day that I’ve had to do a pre-emptive shhhh on one of my own editors. Also, nevermind the weird lookin slack jawed gamers…they can’t help it, they’re French.

 Alan Smithee

A bit of my childhood, raped today on Xbox Live Arcade

A bit of my childhood, raped today on Xbox Live Arcade

The HD remix version of Turtles in Time (Turtles in Time Re-Shelled) has been released today on XBLA for 800 MSP ($10) and has most of the retro fans here at MWN sighing a bit. I think I’ll go home and play my SNES cart of the original game in defiance of admitting it got […]

 Alan Smithee

GFX Whores, Get Borderlands on PC

GFX Whores, Get Borderlands on PC

The man behind Gearbox, Randy Pitchford, let us in on a little info recently about his upcoming game Borderlands. Apparently the best looking version of the game will be released on the PC, but in his own words: “The PC version destroys all the console versions in terms of the image fidelity – assuming you […]

 Alan Smithee

CoD4 Cheaters: You’d Better Hurry

CoD4 Cheaters: You’d Better Hurry

Call of Duty 4 cheaters of the world, get ready… Infinity Ward is on to you and they’re quickly scrambling to make a patch to fix all of the exploits that you’ve been using in the game. You’d think that a game about people killing each other using weaponry wouldn’t mind a bit of cheating, […]