City of Heroes developer confirms Power Customization in I16

Finally. After years of people complaining “Why can’t my fire be green?!?” throughout the streets of Paragon City and the Rogue Isles, there is much rejoicing as Paragon Studios developer Matt Miller a.k.a. “Positron” has confirmed that Power Customization will be in “Issue 16″ the game’s version of free expansions/patches/publishes that have come steadily [...]

Dan Aykroyd calls Gamestop preorders

The Ghostbusters game is due out today on every platform in existence, well, except in Europe where Sony owns exclusivity rights until November…  Anyway, it appears GameStop has asked Dan Aykroyd, “Who you gonna call?”, as the legendary film star is calling people who have pre-ordered the game from the store.

Here’s what the message says:

Greetings [...]

Max Payne won’t wound like Max Payne anymore

As detailed in the Game Informer first-look feature on Max Payne 3, Rockstar Vancouver will NOT be using James McCaffrey who was the voice of Max Payne in the first two games.
According to the article, Rockstar believes someone older should take the voice as Max has aged, and thankfully they do not intend to replace [...]

Unlockable Legendary Cars in Burnout Paradise: Big Surf Island

Big Surf Island launched this past Thursday and has been a very fun expansion for Burnout Paradise. If you wanted the Legendary Cars set but didn’t want to pay for them, you can get “Toy” versions of them by completing various tasks around Big Surf Island.
Unlock Legendary cars (for free!) in Burnout Paradise: Big [...]

New Release Schedule – June 16 thru June 18

Another big week in June, though mostly for Ghostbusters, out on ALL platforms.  Here’s this week’s list.
June 16, 2009
Multi-Platform

Ghostbusters – PS3, PC, XBox360, Wii
Guitar Hero:  Smash Hits – PS3, XBox360, Wii

Hand-held Consoles

Ghostbusters – DS, PSP

Erotic Games get cleaner names

Earlier in the month I posted how Japan had banned rape games, as a result, the erotic game makers of the world have cleaned up their titles.  Yep, that’ll show ‘em.  My mindset is this:  It’s probably safe to say that erotic games are a niche market, and as such, the people that buy games [...]

Review: Prototype

Game: Prototype
Developer: Radical Entertainment
Publisher:  Activision
Platform: Playstation 3, XBox 360, PC
Website:  http://www.prototypegame.com
inFamous: Cinematic gaming experience where ordinary man is cursed with superpowers and has a goal to find out and /or punish who did this to him.  City is in ruins due to <insert catastrophe here>.
Prototype:  Cinematic gaming experience where ordinary man is cursed with superpowers [...]

Assassin’s Creed II – “Black Edition” for collectors appearing on store sites

Play.com in the UK and EBGames Australia have both listed an Assassin’s Creed 2 “Black Edition” (Collectors edition) up on their sites, the details of the collectors bonuses with the game are as follows:

Courtesy of:  http://www.ebgames.com.au/xbox/product.cfm?id=14740&refer=smallhero

Rare “Master Assassin” upgrade Ezio figurine: This highly collectible figurine produced in limited quantities introduces a unique and powerful design [...]

WoW – Mount update in new patch

Another patch, another step to an easier WoW.  The latest patch for World of Warcraft involves lowering the exorbitant cost of mounts and training levels in order to ride said mounts.  Good for those of us who barely ever have any money in game.
Courtesy of: http://www.destructoid.com/blizzard-to-cut-mount-costs-and-lower-training-levels-in-wow-135780.phtml
Blizzard to cut mount costs and lower training levels in [...]

Pornstar + WoW Gold = MOAR Business?

I just came across a very interesting article that I figured I would share.  It seems that russian pornstart Anna Morgan will be getting the url of a Wow Gold website tattooed on her breasts.  The company believes that with her starring in 50-100 movies a year they will get a ton of exposure, the [...]