Are you ready, Steef? Just Add Water is working on a high-definition remake of Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath. The Gravity Crash developer announced the project earlier today, highlighting it as the first in a “long and fruitful relationship” with the original game’s developer, Oddworld Inhabitants. “Having a chance to update the great title and release it on PS3 is just a brilliant opportunity, not least for us, but for the fans too,” added Just Add Water MD Stewart Gilray.
Set for release during Easter next year, the PlayStation 3 remake of Stranger’s …
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Totally new and totally metal is the new Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock character artwork and this nifty new trailer! Despite what some people say about the series, I think it looks interesting. Of course, I love heavy metal and think this sort of stuff is hilarious, but that’s just me. The art assets are all one shots containing before and after shots of the transformations focused on in the new game. Besides that, also contained were images of the loading screens featuring each characters metamorphasis.
The idea here has to …
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We’ve just touched down in Seattle for PAX Prime, but we’ve already made a brief stop in Redmond to check out a few hours of Fable 3 and get hands-on with the new Xbox 360 controller.
Chris and Justin found a few minutes as they waited for a pizza to talk about what they’ve seen so far. So come, pull a chair, grab a beer and enjoy the calm before the storm with us.
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Recently Sega invited me over to its San Francisco offices to take a peek at the latest game in the Total War series: Shogun 2.
As a return to the original Total War game Shogun: Total War, Shogun 2 is the latest in the real time/turn-based fusion strategy game. Sega and developer The Creative Assembly were kind enough to show me the real time battle elements of the game, with the turn-based overworld stuff saved for something I have planned next week. Fans of the franchise will certainly want to pay …
When Sega went and registered the “valkyria3.jp” web domain, a lot of people went ahead and assumed that there would be a new Valkyria Chronicles title on the way. And why not? The strategy series has been a consistent critical success all around (Dale loved Valkyria Chronicles II), and even warranted anime and manga adaptations in Japan.
Which makes this teaser site, located at “code1935.jp” all the more exciting, because those silhouettes are clearly of the first game’s iconic Edelweiss battle tank, and various Gallian soldiers wielding various war weapons. …
Blizzard has already boasted that StarCraft II was the fastest selling strategy game of forever. So it’s not surprising to see find that it continues to sell at an alarming pace, having broken the 3 million mark in one-month.
“We appreciate all the enthusiasm that players around the world have shown for StarCraft II,” said Blizzard CEO and cofounder Mike Morhaime. “It was important to us to deliver an overall gameplay experience that was accessible, balanced, and fun, and it’s been gratifying to see how strongly the global community has …