Friday 3 April 2009

Gaming news 3/4/09 and madworld


Hey guys, last night i bit the bullet and bought Mad world on Nintendo WII for what i thought was a fairly modest price of £25.So i rock on back home with my purchase not knowing weather it was a big waste of time and money. dont get me wrong i always knew the idea on the game would appeal to me but i have always been sceptical of its control system, i thought it was going to be complex and spoil the game. However as strange as it does feel at first after the opening level control do become more intuitive anyway i will review this at a later date, and for those who are interested a game trailer is below.








Screenshots for Barsh entertainment/Konami's  forth coming Saw:the video game have been released. For those who don't know Saw: the video game was some what skecthy after Brash entertainments untimely death but has now been picked up by the kind guys at Konami. 
Rumors coming from around the source, suggest that Lionsgate have struck a deal with Konami (the rights reverted back to lionsgate when brash breached its contract,as lionsgate hold the rights to the films.)
The game is still rumored to be on schedule for its October 2009 release date, this is to coincide with the realise of Saw VI film, although nothing has been said if it is a worldwide release or region specific.
You will therefore not be surprised to here that the whoisjigsaw.com website is no longer running as it was part of the old "brash" regime.
the screenshot (all 3 of them) can be found HERE


Funcom announced yesterday, that its bloody MMO The age of conan: hyborian adventures will be offer some new free game trials through fileplanet and Ausgamers the free trial will vary from 7-14 days depending on where you download it from.
Morten Larssen, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at funcom. told gamespy "The game has matured tremendously since launch, and we feel confident that this is the time to launch a trial. 'Age of Conan' is simply bigger and better than it ever was, and we want both new and previous players alike to experience that!"

As an added bonus new players to the game, through various website offers, can pick up rare virtual items to help them in their online quests, there have not, however been any mention of the rumors of an xbox live/360 version of the title.


New to the playstation store this week is the Dynasty warriors: strikeforce demo, for your gaming pleasures. Labeled as "Heart pounding action" by PlayStation.com this surely must be the pick of this weeks Ps store items, with a pain and every body's golf game packs really being the only other items of note.



theres not much noise coming out of Xbox live other than the mansions game/experience that they are working on with popcap.



Where as lastly, but by no means least, nintendo.com's news is all about the release of several titles on there virtual console service, with The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask the strange and quirky but supposedly fun and enjoyable sequel to the N64's The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Nintendo describe it as "Link must wield the power of several magical masks to save the land from destruction – and he has only 72 hours to do it! Majora's Mask is an epic, gripping race against time that should belong in every fan's collection"




Wednesday 1 April 2009

Sony "big" announcement??


Much hype has been gathering recently of a "big" announcement to be made by Sony. Yesterday, we got our announcement. Many predictions and guesses were made as to what the announcement would be a price cut to the PS3 was amongst the favourites. But we at the gaming blog blog can tell you  as predicted by IGN the announcement was nothing more than a price cut to the PlayStation 2 which in America will now cost you a tidy $99, so if you missed it the first time our just plain love the past, then this could be good for you.


those eagerly awaiting Metal gear 5 could be forgiven for being a little excited this morning, as on the stroke of mid night a new trailer for Metal Gear was posted to Konami's japan website. 
Konami have recently been teasing at developers conference about the new addition to the series.

Some may remember other such titles like Assassin's solid or metal gear creed, this time they have come up with THIS enjoy.


People who love online FPS's will be please to know that Quake live a free to play browser based FPS based on the much loved quake series, is in its official Beta stage, and is accepting new members to play right now. The developers I.D. software are still working on a number of issues, but its good to see them trying this. so would be quaker's should register HERE.


Tuesday 31 March 2009

News and updates

Figured, i would write a bit again seen's as i have been asked alot about games recently.So coming up very soon (over the next week or so) will be some more reviews (killzone 2, resident evil 5, street fighter IV and X Blades just for starters.)


The Rat pack clan have our first clan match on Friday April 3rd, of which I'm gutted i will be missing due to family birthdays and meals, some best of luck guys, and anyone from the U.K. or any commonwealth country with a playfire account should sign up HERE.


Next up is a nice little gaming site called ps play girl  although
the banner on the right has nothing to do with DjDarkstars website (will change the banner once permission is obtained) it is a fun, creative site with the starts of a fun community, so for those of you with a Ps3 say hi and join up here.



As soon as onlive was announcing its self as the future of gaming, and boasting Hot new games with out large downloads or high end hardware requirements, some amongst the gaming community have been a buzz with excitement and praise. IGN U.K. reported yesterday that Sony Entertainment Japan have recently registered PS Cloud as a trademark, as a "a product or service expected to be Sony's venture into cloud-based gaming. Where as it is still unclear if Sony intends to develop a system of this type or just simply wants to leave options open and worry sites like OnLive the full story HERE


 Square Enix's have released more screenshots for their much anticipated Final fantasy XIII. CVG magazine reports that this time they have release screenies of the battle system and i agree with them that if these screenshots have not been touch up and represent actual gameplay graphics then the game will look nothing short of breath taking. Full list of screenshot are HERE.