Down Lo on the Downloads: Shop-Store-Market 06/08
PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360
Until now, Wii owners have happily / reluctantly endured the steady onslaught of barrel-scraping retro rehash games made available for download in the Virtual Store. But with the launch of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King, freshly minted top-tier titles, under the auspices of WiiWare, are also an option. Just like Xbox 360 and PlayStation3 have been offering for quite a while now.
Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures
PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360
Swapping Force for Fedora, the plastic fantastic Lego games go grave robbing with some whipsmacking professor named Henry. Mind the snakes.
DFC: PS3 to overtake Xbox 360 in 2009
Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, Windows PC, Xbox 360
The record game sales of 2007 are just a start for the soaring videogame business according to industry research firm, DFC Intelligence. Further, DFC forecasts that sales of the formerly floundering PlayStation3 should overtake the Xbox 360 in sales in 2009, finishing in a strong second behind the Nintendo Wii.
Pro Evolution Soccer 2008
PlayStation 3
You can take the Winning Eleven Seven out of the Pro Evolution Soccer series' title, but the Pro Evolution... nevermind. It doesn't quite do that either.
Move over Rock, next Hero does Guitar plus full on 'Band'
PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360
Activision just unveiled Guitar Hero: World Tour, which will include an electronic drum kit and microphone along with the ubiquitous fake guitar for full on band jams, just like the phenomenally successful upstart, Rock Band.
Interview: Jason Allen, Designer, Silent Hill: Homecoming
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Long running and long-lauded as one of the best survival/horror franchises of all time, Silent Hill is readying for a new-generation debut on PlayStation3 and Xbox 360 as 'Homecoming.' In a one-on-one with Jason Allen, the game's Lead Designer, Chris Hudak gets an inside look at the development process for creating an interactive, American horror story told from a Japanese perspective.
The Cars go Rock Band
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Some dinosaur bands go on tour to bilk some extra coin out of nostalgic fans. However, these days, the real easy money is in re-releasing the glory days in Rock Band form, as is the case with The Cars.
Dark Sector
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Dark Sector smacks of familiarity as it peels key gameplay elements from several top-tier 3rd-person shooters like Gears of War, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Heavenly Sword et al. But it's not just imitation flattery, Dark Sector utilizes familiar elements in cleverly blended ways and does itself proud in the process.
GTA IV Sets Guinness World Records
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
It's official: Grand Theft Auto IV is the biggest entertainment release of all time. Better than Harry Potter books, stronger than Spider-Man movies, faster than Halo games. In fact, it simply stomps all other entertainment sales records.
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.