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Friday, February 17, 2012 No Comments
I’ve got Mustaine on the brain! Harmonix announced today that next week’s Rock Band Music Store update will feature the first track pack from thrash metal mavens Megadeth (it’s cool if I call them mavens, right?). The icons of heavy metal will be bringing a small selection of their major hits from the 90s and [...]
Thursday, February 16, 2012 No Comments
This week, ZEN Studios announced the release of a new title that combines the role playing and pinball genres into one, called Epic Quest. Officially speaking, this is a new table for the Pinball FX 2 and ZEN Pinball platforms, but the ZEN team prefers to think of it as a genre-blending title that makes [...]
Thursday, February 16, 2012 No Comments
There’s something to be said about a company throwing its weight behind a product, and I’m quite sure that Ubisoft’s lineup of launch titles for the Playstation Vita counts as one such declaration, essentially saying “This is a good product”. Alternatives to that statement would be “We think this is cool”, or, more importantly, “This [...]
Monday, February 13, 2012 No Comments
Simple to play, but hard to master. That was certainly one of the mantras of the beat-keeping Nintendo DS title, Rhythm Heaven. With this week’s launch of Rhythm Heaven Fever, players can now take the beat-keeping from tapping and sliding on a small and portable touch screen to pushing buttons on their Wii Remote and [...]
Friday, February 10, 2012 No Comments
Harmonix is doing it up this Valentine’s Day, with a track pack to get you all emotional coming in next week’s Rock Band Music Store Update. And since Valentine’s Day is on a Tuesday this year, the update nicely looks as if they’re not trying to capitalize on the whole commercial effort of the day [...]
Thursday, February 9, 2012 No Comments
As it has been doing with its major Playstation 2 titles for quite some time now, Sony announced the release of its latest high definition remastered collection this week, the Jak and Daxter Collection. Originally created by Naughty Dog, who later went on to create a Playstation 3 franchise of which you may recall the [...]
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 No Comments
Today is an exciting day for Simpsons fans and, I’d like to think, classic arcade game fans as a whole, because FOX is celebrating the upcoming 500th episode of the long-running cartoon series. As such, Konami, in partnership with Gracie Films and Twentieth Century Fox’s Consumer Products branch officially released a home console port of [...]
Monday, February 6, 2012 No Comments
This past Friday, (yes, I know this is late) Harmonix announced that this week’s Rock Band Music Store update will feature a new three track pack from London alt. rock outfit Bush. Yes, the band that’s Better than the Rest (we’ll see if you got the reference later) will be bringing three hit singles from [...]
Thursday, February 2, 2012 No Comments
Do you remember Crazy Bones? I sure do. No, I never collected or played with them. I was lucky enough to spot that fad as it hit. Not like Pogs. Darn Pogs… Anyway! GameMill Entertainment announced today that it’s bringing yet another toy into the video game world, Gogo’s Crazy Bones. These new types of [...]
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 No Comments
Microsoft announced today that it has now made Windows versions of its Kinect hardware and software available to businesses and developers in 12 countries around the world, including Canada, the US and Mexico. This new hardware and software package was initially made available to a group of 300 early adoption companies – including American Express, [...]
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