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Midway (PS2/Xbox/PC) Now Called Battlestations: Midway - Screens

by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under European Games Network - European Games Network 2004

Battlestations: Midway (PS2/Xbox/PC)

The game focuses on the naval and aerial battles of World War II leading up to one of the greatest naval victories of all time, the Battle of Midway, which saw the highly outnumbered US Naval and Air forces take on the might of the most powerful naval force in modern history: the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Battlestations: Midway offers a totally new approach to air, sea and underwater

'Crackdown' (X360) - 5 New Screens

by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under Tokyo Game Show - Tokyo Game Show 2006 Day 1

“Crackdown” pushes the action-driving hybrid genre into the next generation with the first ever truly 3-D playground. Gamers will enforce justice by any means necessary in Pacific City, a crime-ridden urban center built to encourage the exploration of the full width, depth and height of the city. Coupled with highly innovative co-op gameplay — a genre first — and an interactive world where nearly anything can be used as a weapon, gamers will be able to create a volatile cocktail of judicial oppression as they clean up the streets.

“Crackdown” is developed by Scotland’s Real Time Worlds exclusively for

'Talkman Lesson' [PSP] - Screens

by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under Tokyo Game Show - Tokyo Game Show 2006 Day 1

Listening, reading, and writing alone will not improve your English conversation skills.

The first-ever handheld English conversation learning software that provides you with virtual conversation settings. Enables you to improve not only your listening skills, but also your speaking skills using the microphone through back-and-forth conversation practice.

You don’t have to go to language schools or need an American friend to practice English conversation anymore. Max, we all know from Talkman, will be your conversation partner/teacher.

Whenever and wherever, practice your English conversation as much as you want without being humiliated in

'Def Jam: Icon' (PS3) - Screens

by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under Sony Gamers' Day - Sony Gamers' Day 2006

EA Chicago is delivering star-stunning action and bone breaking beats as players live out the life of a hip hop mogul, going from rags to riches. Incorporating hip-hop culture into every aspect of the game, DEF JAM: ICON will deliver the intensity of a no-holds-barred street fight but with style and rhythm. Music will effect how players fight in each venue and environmental interactions and hazards will become a key strategy to staying alive.

EA Chicago’s unique fighting gameplay controls introduce a new way for gamers

PC Preview - 'The Suffering'

by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under E3 - Post - E3 2004

Genre: Action
Publisher: Encore
Developer: Surreal Software
Release Date: TBD

I can sum up the overall feel of Encore’s newest survival-horror release for the PC in one concise sentence: The Suffering is Resident Evil meets Oz. Yes, this is an oversimplification, but you will undoubtedly come to the same conclusion as soon as you begin play.

You play The Suffering as Torque, a man convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of his wife and children. You arrive by boat to Carnate Island, a maximum security lockdown 10 miles off the coast of Maryland, protesting your

1C Company's EGN 2004 Lineup (PS2/PC) - Screens

by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under European Games Network - European Games Network 2004

Ascension to the Throne

Borderzone

Brigade E5: New Jagged Union

'Kingdom of Paradise 2' [PSP] - Screens

by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under Tokyo Game Show - Tokyo Game Show 2006 Day 1

“Continent Thema”, the end of lands. There stands the magnificent “Gate of Thema”, piercing the earth and sky. One day “Gate of Thema” begins to stain in red, driving the people in utmost fear.

This was the exact same omen of the great tragedy, “Judgment Day” whereby many were killed. Now, to save mankind from the coming “Judgment Day”, Row and Shunka begin the “battle of the guided ones”….!

Features :

  • An original RPG for PSP
  • Switch two characters real-time in battle!
  • Customize story development using missions!
  • Combine “Sword”, “Spear”, “Physical” and “Sorcery” attacks to

'Tony Hawk's Project 8' (PS2/Xbox/PS3/X360) - Features, Screens & Trailer

by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under E3 - E3 2006 May 12th

Get the Tony Hawk’s Project 8 (PS2/Xbox/PS3/X360) Trailer off WP (71mb)

Reengineered from the ground up for Sony and Microsoft’s next-generation consoles, Tony Hawk’s Project 8 immerses players in the definitive skateboarding experience using ultra-realistic graphics, enhanced physics and extremely responsive controls that simulate the feeling of skating with every trick and bail. The game challenges players to experience the intensity and pressure of skating against some of the world’s top pros in true to life competitions as they aim to become the #1 skater and establish their town as a skateboard destination. Delivering continuous skating action in a free-roaming

Xbox Preview - 'MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf'

by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under E3 - Post - E3 2004

Genre: Action
Developer : Day 1 Studios
Publisher : Microsoft
Release Date : January 30, 2005

When you play games day in day out everyday year after year it takes a really special game to make you say Wow. Mechassault 2: Lone Wolf is that game. Instead of improving one or two of the things that made the first Mechassault so great they decided to make all of them better. The focus of the game is vastly different from its predecessor, but they managed to keep everything that was so fun about the original intact. From the moment you

'Parappa The Rapper' [PSP] - Screens

by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under Tokyo Game Show - Tokyo Game Show 2006 Day 1

"Parappa The Rapper" is back! now to rock your PSP system with new head-to-head multi-player mode!

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