Down Lo on the Downloads: Shop-Store-Market 05/08
PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360
With the PlayStation Store closed for virtual renovations the last month -- it's reopened now -- only Microsoft's Xbox Marketplace and Nintendo's Virtual Console offered up any new downloadable games. That's good news and bad news on the competition front; a few good games came available... and a few lousy ones.
Doom 4 coming, id Software hiring
PlayStation 3, Windows PC, Xbox 360
Two, two news bites in one, id Software just announced that development of Doom 4 is underway, and that they need help.
Grand Theft Auto IV
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
It turns out, sometimes hyped-up things really are all they're cracked up to be. Not often, but sometimes. This is one of those times. If you want to see a monster of a videogame and don't have a new-generation console yet, get one. Then get Grand Theft Auto IV.
Kiwi parents can't buy GTA IV for kids
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
If ever there was a reason to worry that GTA IV might spur some otherwise normal person to acts of real life aggression, it's this one. In New Zealand, anyway. Kiwi parents can go to jail if they buy their teen a copy of GTA IV.
Grand Theft Auto IV: No Game for Young Kids
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
The new pinnacle of videogame development on a technical level, Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA IV) is also representative of the great divide between art and entertainment, or better said, the public's perceptions of it and kids who couldn't care less.
Midway Gamer's Day: This is (near) Vegas
PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360
What happens in Vegas stays... a good 15 miles off the actual strip, just to be sure. Or such was the case with Chris Hudak during his orchestrated visit with big huge game publisher, Midway. This is his story.
Midway Gamer's Day: This is Vin Diesel and Batman near Vegas
PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360
Chris Hudak and a gaggle of other game journalists were recently treated to a trip to Vegas under the auspices of Midway and the "Gamer's Day" event that allowed said journos a sneak peak at several forthcoming Midway games. Ironically, they weren't actually in Vegas per se, but at least one game, made up for it.
DFC: Nintendo looks to conquer Europe
PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, Windows PC, Xbox 360
Game industry analyst group, DFC Intelligence, is readying forecasts for release over the next few month. In this overview, DFC notes that Nintendo Wii is expected to dominate Europe, the PlayStation3 might start to recover but never regain its former dominance, and the Xbox 360 will just sort of dither about in all European markets other than the U.K.
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue
PlayStation 3
Not actually the Gran Turismo 5 that has motorsport aficionados around the world all hot and bothered with anticipation. No, it's a "prologue," an interactive prolegomenon of the full game that still doesn't have a release date. A tease. But, oxymoronically, a tease that satisfies.
Zero Wireless for PS3
PlayStation 3
For five dollars more, Nyko's Zero Wireless controller for PlayStation3 does everything a DualShock3 does, some of it just as effectively, some of it not as well, but at least they had the decency to include a 10' USB cord.