Capcom unveils forthcoming games at 'Digital Day 2008'
Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, Windows PC, Xbox 360
Last week, both the press and select members of the gaming community were invited to Capcom's US headquarters in San Mateo, California for a hands-on sneak peak at a fistful of forthcoming games. Chris Hudak was there and managed to stay both alert and sober (the latter only because the event was uncharacteristically dry).
Turok
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Consistently stunning, visually, as you'd expect from any old new-generation shooter, Turok is only sporadically fun, and you've played it before under some other no-neck name, and probably with an original sense of purpose.
Lost Odyssey
Xbox 360
To paraphrase a phrase, with great expectation comes great responsibility. Unfortunately, Lost Odyssey from master game maker Hironobu Sakaguchi of Final Fantasy fame, does very little to take stock role-playing gaming to another level, though the promise of such has been emanating from the Xbox hype machine for some time now. On the upside, Final Fantasy games remain the pinnacle of RPGs, and Lost Odyssey ranks right beside them... just not on top of them.
Down Lo on the Downloads: Shop-Store-Market 03/08
PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360
In February, as if knowing that you had little better to do, Xbox Live Arcade rocked with the downloadable games. Wii did too. PlayStation Store, not so much. Chad Sapieha runs 'em down.
Dynasty Warriors 6
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Meet the new Dynasty Warriors game, same as the old Dynasty Warriors game, which was the same as the four (or more) other old Dynasty Warriors games before that, which makes Dynasty Warriors games, well, a dynasty. Not so much a memorable dynasty though, because, by now, they're all just one glorious hacking smear of vague memorableness.
Academy Awards of the interactive kind
Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, Windows PC, Xbox 360
Hollywood might be basking in Oscar-afterglow, but the game industry's 11th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards offered sexier trophies.
The Club
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Under blazing gung-ho gunnery there is zen-like simplicity to The Club that boils down to an experience akin to "wax-on, wax-off." That, plus rocket launchers.
GDC 08: Rise of the dead horse (N-Gage), Sid's Civilization
Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, Windows PC, Xbox 360
Long hauls through the Game Developer Conference (GDC) might be draining, but compared to the over-flogged dead horse known as N-Gage, rising again like bird on fire, it's nothing. Plus, Sid Meier was on hand to chat Civilization and the state of the art. Chris Hudak woke up and smelled the Revolution.
Surprise! Xbox 360 price drop in Canada, now normal
Xbox 360
Odd timing, but Microsoft just announced a price drop for all versions of the Xbox 360 in Canada, pricing them on par with those found state-side, just like the dollar has been for months. Uh, thanks.
Toshiba Announces Discontinuation of HD DVD Businesses
Blu-ray, HD DVD, High-Def, Television, Xbox 360
If it's any consolation, Toshiba "remains focused on championing consumer access to high definition content," but it won't be through HD DVD, the high def format that officially died today.