by Rainier on Sept. 16, 2009 @ 6:34 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Become Egypt’s greatest architect as you raise an ancient empire from the sands. In Empire Builder: Ancient Egypt, players meet a series of powerful pharaohs that want their help building empire along the lush Nile River. Over thirty fun and challenging levels of play, players won’t just construct cities, but some of the world’s most famous monuments!
by Rainier on Sept. 16, 2009 @ 4:51 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Reflection is a puzzle platformer developed primarily at the University of Southern California. The world splits when a powerful mirror is fragmented and its shards dispersed. Now to restore the world, thief for hire Kirra must navigate through a shattered reality to find and piece back together the broken shards of the mirror.
by Rainier on Sept. 16, 2009 @ 3:43 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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MapleStory is an online adventure game that centers around the "Maple World," allowing players to combat monsters and develop their characters' skills and abilities in an immense platform-inspired persistent world. Just in time for the German Oktoberfest, MapleStory Europe invites players to its annual virtual beer festival with (alcohol-free) beer-drinking monsters in tow.
by Rainier on Sept. 16, 2009 @ 3:35 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Clay flies in this humorous clay-kicking head-to-head fighter series. Classic characters, rendered in clay, duke it out to find the ultimate Clay Fighter! After a meteor transforms a circus into super-powered clay juggernauts, the clay fighters start a tournament to see who will challenge the awesome N. Boss.
by Rainier on Sept. 16, 2009 @ 3:25 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Our House Party is the only game that lets you build and remodel your home as you design a unique customized creation. After shopping for raw materials in the Home Store, players will use their Wii Remote to hammer, saw, paint, tile and much more as they assemble and decorate their family dwelling.
by Rainier on Sept. 16, 2009 @ 3:13 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Spore Creature Creator 2-D is a new Flash application where players experience an all new take on the variety and creative fun offered by the original 3-D
Spore Creature Creator. Now
available for free, players can create a creature from scratch or import a creature from the Sporepedia.
by Rainier on Sept. 16, 2009 @ 2:59 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Matrix Games' War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition, developed by 2 by 3 Games, is a new expansion for its WWII strategy game War in the Pacific, adding more detail, more history, and more features! This incremental hotfix update fixes two critical issues with the v1.00.84 official update.
by Rainier on Sept. 16, 2009 @ 12:00 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Modern Warfare 2 continues the gripping and heart-racing saga with an unprecedented level of action as players face off against a new threat dedicated to bringing the world to the brink of collapse.
by Rainier on Sept. 16, 2009 @ 12:00 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Halo 3: ODST is a new game in the Halo saga that lets people experience events leading up to the epic story told in Halo 3 through the eyes of an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, as they search for clues leading to the whereabouts of their scattered squad and the motivations behind the Covenant's invasion of New Mombasa.
by Rainier on Sept. 16, 2009 @ 12:00 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Family Fun Football is a fun, arcade-style casual sports game for everyone to enjoy, where you can play against friends and family in vibrant themed football stadiums, or perhaps even in space!
by Adam Pavlacka on Sept. 15, 2009 @ 7:21 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Modern Warfare 2 continues the gripping and heart-racing saga with an unprecedented level of action as players face off against a new threat dedicated to bringing the world to the brink of collapse. At an Activision press event it was revealed that apart from the
Prestige Edition, Microsoft revealed a $399 Modern Warfare 2 Limited Edition bundle which includes the standard edition game, 2 wireless controllers and a 250 GB Elite console, fully customized with MW2 graphics.
by Rainier on Sept. 15, 2009 @ 6:02 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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For the first time, players will be able to wage World War II across the massive expanse of the entire planet. From battles in Europe and North Africa all the way to Asia and the Pacific, WWII Global Conflict features the largest map yet.
by Rainier on Sept. 15, 2009 @ 5:51 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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While there is no word from TriStar whether they will commit to a follow up to the 2006 Silent Hill movie, which grossed $47 million in North America, screenwriter Roger Avary and producer Samuel Hadida
have signed on to work on a sequel based on Konami's survival horror video game. Davis Films plans to start shooting next year as it is currently working on Resident Evil 4, while Avary, known for collaborating with Quentin Tarantino on Pulp Fiction, is currently writing the script for Return to Castle Wolfenstein for the French studio.
by Rainier on Sept. 15, 2009 @ 5:03 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Halo 3: ODST is a new game in the Halo saga that lets people experience events leading up to the epic story told in Halo 3 through the eyes of an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, as they search for clues leading to the whereabouts of their scattered squad and the motivations behind the Covenant's invasion of New Mombasa.
by Rainier on Sept. 15, 2009 @ 3:28 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Having created the Lara Croft character in 1996, Toby Gard left then-developer Core Design a year later to go his own way and released Galleon: Islands of Mystery in 2004. After that, he
came to Crystal Dynamics as one of the senior designers on the Tomb Raider team, where he would complement the existing team and create Tomb Raider: Legend. Earlier this year, Gard became lead designer on an unannounced Tomb Raider project, and while he refused to comment as to the real reason, Gard insists the
split was amicable. Gard is currently a freelance consultant, with a focus on animation, story and cinematic design, character design, game design and balancing.
by Rainier on Sept. 15, 2009 @ 2:59 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Need for Speed Nitro will have players of all skill levels hooked from the moment they get into the action, while arcade racing fans will be exhilarated by the deep and challenging gameplay.
by Rainier on Sept. 15, 2009 @ 2:55 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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PES 2010 will benefit from the most exhaustive raft of new features in the series’ history, with every aspect of the game benefiting from key improvements and major gameplay additions. With the FIFA 10 demo coming later this week, Konami has now also revealed the system requirements ...
by Rainier on Sept. 15, 2009 @ 1:29 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Gratuitous Space Battles is a strategy / management / simulation game that does away with all the base building and delays and gets straight to the meat and potatoes of science-fiction games: The big space battles fought by huge spaceships with tons of laser beams and things going 'zap!', 'ka-boom!' and 'ka-pow!'.
by Rainier on Sept. 15, 2009 @ 1:25 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Bomberman Blitz will allow on-the-go gamers the opportunity to showcase their bombing skills locally or across the world with the ability to play up to 8 players at home or online through the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Bomberman Blitz will feature the ability to do battle in 10 unique locations, all making good use of the DSi’s capabilities with dual screen spanning arenas.
by Rainier on Sept. 15, 2009 @ 1:01 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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High Stakes Texas Hold ‘Em features the popular No-Limit rule set used in tournaments like the World Series of Poker to give players the authentic feel of a real Texas Hold ‘Em table. With tried and true Texas Hold ‘Em gameplay, the strategic nature of the popular poker game comes through in spades.