May 13, 2010

So Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, it turns out, like its vampire stars can shift and change its form. In this case, the beloved Metroidvania is now Castlevania Puzzle: Encore of the Night. It’s Puzzle Quest and Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo in a blender. Konami announced this new iPhone puzzler today in a press release. Yes, it’s another...

May 12, 2010

Steam for Mac is now officially live. There are still some Day 1 bugs going on, notably in what games show up in a user’s library, but it’s a start. To soften the blow, Valve is making their hit game Portal available for free until May 24th. Currently there are 57 games available for play on the Mac version of Steam, listed below: And Yet It...

May 11, 2010

Nintendo’s released a quirky brawler for DSiWare, by the name of Photo Dojo. It involves making use of the DSi’s cameras to take pictures of yourself and friends in fighting game poses, and then importing them into the game. It’s got two modes, a brawler and a one-on-one fighter. If you’ve ever wanted to inject yourself into a game,...

May 11, 2010

According to Syed Bilal Tariq, Microsoft’s marketing manager for Saudi Arabia, Microsoft will be launching their controller-free motion controller this October. “(It) is going to be somewhere in October and we will be in a position to confirm the date at E3, which is in June, but definitely it is going to be October 2010,” Tariq told...

May 6, 2010

Tonight Valve Software released a teaser trailer for the long-awaited Engineer Update for Team Fortress 2, to celebrate 119 TF2 updates. So! You ask, what’s the story with the Engineer Update? Well, we still don’t know. But you can watch this clip and try to figure it out! Maybe it’s a new melee weapon! Maybe it’s some kind of robotic...

Apr 29, 2010

Valve sent out an announcement, dating the Mac Steam client for May 12. That’s it, nothing other than that. Go on about your business.

Apr 29, 2010

Bungie the creators of such successful game series as Marathon and a little known game called Halo have signed a publishing deal with mega-publisher Activision. Activision publishes a handful of massively lucrative games such as the Call of Duty games and the Guitar Hero franchise. Bungie, a long time internal Microsoft studio, recently bought their...

Apr 28, 2010

Following on the heels of Halo 3: ODST’s “We Are ODST” spot comes this Noam Murro-directed short, “Birth of a Spartan.” The minute-long version premiered yesterday, but this one features a few extended cuts and shots that, while not adding anything to the narrative, helps make a more complete piece. Both the short version and this...