When Castle Crashers hit the 360 it was an instant classic for its sense of humor and simple, yet fun, gameplay. Even now it is still one of the highest rated downloadable games for the Xbox. Once The Behemoth announced that they were working on a port for the Playstation, at 2009’s Comic Con, many people have been waiting anxiously for their chance to see what all the fuss is about.
When it was first revealed that EA’s modern day reboot of Medal of Honor would take place in Afghanistan rather than some fictional Middle Eastern country like Activision’s Modern Warfare, it got me more interested in the game. The fact that they weren’t hiding behind a made up name so they could get away with controversial subject matter struck me as brave. But when I found out this would extend to the online multiplayer, with one side as American soldiers and the other playing as members of the Taliban, I knew it was only a matter of time before this became a public controversy.
GamesCom 2010 – Konami has announced that the next installment of the Castlevania franchise, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow will be hitting store shelves October 5th in North America, and October 7th in Europe on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
In Lords of Shadow, players will assume the role of Gabriel Belmont, as he fights to bring his wife Marie back from the dead. Players will have more than 50 stages to fight through, all while wielding various weapons with a battle system that boasts more than 40 different combo attacks.
This week, is littered with trailers thanks to Gamescon 2010 which kicked off earlier today. New footage of InFamous 2 and Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One are available for free download along with Sega’s big shooter, Vanquish. Some promising demos like NHL 11 and Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2 are also up for grabs. And because no one requested it, a game based off of the Top Gun movie is available for $14.99. LittleBigPlanet continues to grow its Marvel Universe with its 4th costume pack for the PS3 and even shows some love on the PSP with Western costumes.
Day 1 Studios has just talked announced that F.E.A.R. 3, originally being released October of this year, has been pushed back to 2011. There has yet to be an announcement for why it has been delayed but seeing with amount of games coming out around this holiday season it would be hard to compete with just Call of Duty and Halo: Reach alone. Not to mention all of the motion control technology coming out for both the 360 and PS3, so I can’t blame them for pushing it back because I would hate to see F.E.A.R. 3 fall to the shadow of everything else coming out since it is a strong franchise.
Insomniac Games officially announced Resistance 3 and Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One during Sony’s GamesCom press conference. Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One
Today Sony has announced via their GamesCom media briefing that they will be launching a couple of new PlayStation 3 models later this fall. Additionally, these have been confirmed for a North American, as well as a European release, though we have yet to receive a solid release date for either territory.
The first model is your standard PS3 Slim, with a 160GB HDD, retailing for the exact price of the current 120GB model, $299, but with the addition of 40 extra gigabytes. The second newly announced model will up the ante even further with 320GB of space, and will include the PlayStation Move starter kit.
