When it was first announced that Nintendo would be a major sponsor of this year’s Vans Warped Tour, I was more than a little shocked. It didn’t seem like an obvious fit. Why would the biggest video game company in the world want to attach themselves to a tour full of under-developed bands? The fact of the matter is that Nintendo has a product out right now that you need to see to believe, the 3DS. Armed with a giant tent full of 3DS demos and a staff eager to educate attendees of the tour, Nintendo’s presence at the Warped Tour might be one of the smartest moves they make all year.
Posts Tagged ‘Sega’
Sonic Generations Demo Available Now For 20 Days
June 23rd, 2011
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Sonic turns 20 today! To commemorate this, a demo for the upcoming Sonic Generations game has popped up on Xbox Live and supposedly the PlayStation Network. I say supposedly because at the time of writing this I still couldn’t find it on there, although it is definitely on XBLA. The demo lets players run through [...]
New Rise of Nightmares Trailer is Sufficiently Creepy
June 22nd, 2011
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The upcoming Kinect-only game Rise of Nightmares just got a new trailer to show off some of the games creepy imagery and first-person gameplay. It looks like players will be using their own hands to wield a variety of weapons from a pipe to a chainsaw, as they try to survive one night inside the [...]
Sega is Latest Game Company To Be Hacked
June 22nd, 2011
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Add Sega to the ever increasing list of gaming companies to have their database hacked. Sega released a statement saying that information for 1.3 million subscribers of the Sega Pass online network had their information stolen. While no credit card information was taken, the security breach included names, birth dates, email addresses, and passwords. While [...]
SEGA Making Very Limited Sonic Figures for 20th Anniversary
June 17th, 2011
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Do you love Sonic? Like really really love Sonic? If so, you’ll want to do anything you can to get your hands on one of these Sonic figurines that SEGA is making for the 20th anniversary of the character. Oh, did I mention that they are limited to 1000? And that they are not being [...]
[E3 2011] Wii U Wiioos 3rd Party Developers
June 7th, 2011
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After we all got an idea of just how the Wii U and its innovative controller work, we were treated to a video interview of several third party developers. There were many kind words, praising the innovation and potential the Wii U controller is bringing to gaming. There are several third party titles already confirmed [...]
Aliens: Colonial Marines Coming ‘Spring 2012′
June 2nd, 2011
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First there were doll heads, then there were Pulse Rifle Replicas, now there is a “date”. Sometime during the Spring 2012 window, Aliens: Colonial Marines will be coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. In addition to a date, Gearbox and Sega released the first teaser trailer which, unless you are a fanboy like [...]
Is ‘Aliens: Colonial Marines’ Going To Be At E3?
May 26th, 2011
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Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo got some interesting mail today. While most of us would buy a gun if someone sent us a charred doll head, Totilo, as well as any Aliens fan, knows that this is no ordinary charred doll head. This is the charred doll head that Rebecca Jorden (aka Newt) totted around the LV-426 colony [...]
What Is ‘Aliens Infestation’?
May 26th, 2011
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Oh Australia, you just can’t keep your mouth shut. A game called Aliens: Infestation was classified yesterday (or maybe it was two days ago – time zones confuse me) by the Australian Government and, as of right now, we don’t know anything about it. As Joystiq has pointed out, Way Forward (the studio responsible for the [...]
Anarchy Reigns Pushed To 2012
May 19th, 2011
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Bad news Platinum Games fans the company’s latest Anarchy Reigns has been pushed to January of next year. The game was scheduled to be released late this year, unfortunately that is no longer the case. No word on why it was delayed, but it’s possible it caught a case of Modernwarfare3itis.