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Backbreaker Devs Fill You In

Wondering how “Backbreaker” is looking to change football games? Well, the game’s developers are here to fill you in. Check out their first Dev Diary and get clued in on what to expect when this anti-Madden hits the streets in a few weeks.

Project Needlemouse No More … Now It’s Sonic 4

There’s really nothing else to say, aside from, it’s about damn time.

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Dev Box Interview: Blood Bowl’s Project Managers

It usually takes a small army to create the video games that we play, and, most of the time, all of the focus gets put on the game itself, and not on the people that came together to make it. Our Dev Box interview series takes a look at some of the unsung heroes (developers, producers, artists, etc) that have committed their lives to entertaining all of us. In this week’s Dev Box we are letting Cyanide’s Villepreux Antoine and Pierre-Marie Chavarel (you get a bonus this week), who recently worked on “Blood Bowl,” for the Xbox 360 and PC, provide us some insight into who they are as a gamers, and how they ended up working in the game’s industry. [Continue Reading]

3D Dot Game Heroes Hopes To Help With Your Inadequacy Problems

Oohh Atlus, you always know how to make us giggle inappropriately. Check out the latest “trailer” for the blocky-looking upcoming PS3 title “3D Dot Game Heroes” and see if it questions your manliness. At the very least it should give you a look at some solid gameplay, and the upgrade potential that your sword holds. Who cares if it looks like “Zelda,” it still looks amazing.

BioShock 2 Launch Trailer May Cause Hydrophobia

Well damn. If you weren’t excited about “BioShock 2″ yet, watch this trailer and you will be. AND … if the massive battle that goes down there doesn’t hook you, check out Multiplayer’s guide to all the plasmids in the game. Yes, it’s a sequel to an amazing game, and has lofty expectations that it may or may not live up to, but come on, going back to Rapture is going to be amazing.

BattleBlock Theater Announced In New Trailer

The Behemoth is an interesting company, mostly because they’ve made a lot from a little. Even if you don’t like indie games, you have to give them some level of credit for what they have done with “Alien Hominid” and “Castle Crashers.” We’ll they’ve gone and officially announced their third game, which had previously been known as “Game 3,” and it looks epic, at least according to the trailer that’s above. I’m positive when “BattleBlock Theater” drops it will have the same level of polish and great gameplay that its predecessors had. Now it’s time to play the waiting game.

Global Agenda Preview: Solving The World’s Problems

With the launch date of “Global Agenda” upon us, its time to give you a brief overview of what “Global Agenda” is all about. I’ve been in the preview for the past few months, and I also took part in AvA, in one of the largest alliances in the beta. In short, I experienced everything “Global Agenda” has to offer with the expectation of vehicles (they weren’t in the pre-order beta).
 
So what is “Global Agenda”? It’s HiRez Studios’ attempt to mix traits found in MMORPGs like “World of Warcraft,” with the first person team games like “Team Fortress 2″ with jet packs thrown in. You essentially have four “agency” classes: Recon, Medic, Assault, and Robotics. Like a typical RPG, your agent will gain new skill points to use on the skill tree and unlock new equipment for them to abuse on the field. [Continue Reading]

Space Ark Trailer Invokes Retro Classics

The press release announcing that Strawdog Studios’ upcoming creation, entitled “Space Ark,” called out three of my all time favorite Taito classics; “Rainbow Islands,” “Bubble Bobble” and “Arkanoid.” When you drop a heavy hitting list of names like that, you better have something to show for it, and based on the tiny bit of gameplay showed off in “Space Ark” trailer it looks like there is actually some addictive potential here. We’ll just have to wait and see…

Resident Evil 5 Golden PS3 Box Art (HD)

If you didn’t take a swing at the first Resident Evil 5, you might want to take a look at the Gold Edition.  This version of Resident Evil will include additional foes, events, and new areas to explore.  For those of you love to go at it with regards to box art, take a gander at the new PS3 box art for Resident Evil 5: Golden Edition in the gallery below. [Continue Reading]

Tatsunoko vs. Capcom Producer Picks His Favorite Box Art

When Japanese games get ported for a U.S. release they usually go through a lot of changes. There are the obvious ones like text localization, along with some less obvious ones like fixing bugs, but there’s usually one that is obvious to the consumer right away – the box art. When the changes for the U.S. release of “Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes” were announced it quickly became clear that the box art was going to have to change, simply based on the additions and subtractions to the roster, but the overall changes run a bit deeper than that. I recently had the opportunity to talk to the game’s producer, Ryota Niitsuma, about the box art differences between “Ultimate All-Stars” and “Cross Generation of Heroes,” and then had him pick his favorite … and you might be surprised by his selection. [Continue Reading]

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