Rejoice! Fire Emblem: Awakening is coming to an American 3DS near you very soon! Nintendo of America made no mention of Fire Emblem during both press conferences, but after some pesky journalists kept asking about it on the show floor, Nintendo finally made an announcement via their twitter feed. We are excited to confirm a NEW game announcement coming to the US: the new 3DS Fire Emblem! More info to come. Fire Emblem: Awakening sold over 250,000 in it’s first week in Japan and is the fastest selling game in the franchise. It was met with critical praise from Famitsu, receiving a…
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Teaser and Concept art for Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls Online.
After the dreadful Devil May Cry 4 way back in the early days of 2006, Capcom had nowhere but up to go with the new Devil May Cry.
Being a huge fan of Resident Evil 5, I had high expectations for Capcom’s Resident Evil 6. After the gameplay demo at today’s Microsoft Press Conference, I was left feeling sad, dazed, confused, and downright angry at the direction Capcom was taking the franchise. Screens after the jump.
Shin Megami Tensei fans rejoice! Finally a numbered entry in the amazing Shin Megami Tensei franchise has been announced! Based on the article in Famitsu magazine, SMT4 will be a 3DS title. It’s unknown if this was in fact the rumored “new entry” in the SMT franchise that was supposed to be coming to the PS3. Hopefully we’ll see more details soon. For now, I leave you this:
This week’s Game Show will be featuring Christian Allen, founder of new studio Serellan LLC. With award winning games like Ghost Recon and Halo under his belt, Allen is tackling a new indie project called Takedown, hearkening back to the days of tactical shooters or as he calls it, “Crowdsourced Hardcore Tactical Shooter”. You can download the podcast right here on Padinga.com starting Tuesday May 1st! Don’t miss it! For more information please visit the Takedown Kickstarter page, and check out the Serellan official page as well.
No game show this week. Enjoy some nice quiet time with the wonderfully delicious and tasty turkey with a nice glass of white wine. Make it a date, confess your love for it. Just make sure you’re ready to return next Saturday for another episode of The Game Show.
I just want to this take this time to apologize for the lack of new Game Show updates over the past couple of weeks. We’ve encountered a few issues in the recording process and with our fearless leader gone from the fray, our morale has been rapidly decreasing! However, I can ensure you all that there will definitely be a brand new game show hitting the front page VERY SHORTLY. Hope you guys enjoy it and again, we apologize for the lack of shows over the past few weeks. See you soon.
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I like to cover the darker side of E3. It seems in recent years Tekken has been losing steam. What once was considered a top tier fighting game on the playstation has now been overshadowed by the likes of Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. I however, still enjoy every installment of tekken and it’s wonderfully unique and bat shit crazy storylines. When I heard that there was going to be a CGI movie in the style of Resident Evil Degeneration, I knew I had to get my hands on it as soon as possible. Here is the trailer for Tekken…
Tucked away in a small corner of Capcom’s booth covered by all the glory that is Street FIghter X Tekken, I found one of my favorite fighting games of all time. Street Fighter III 3rd Strike. What is it doing at E3 you ask? Why it’s getting an XBLA/PSN release. Many of you may have forgotten but Capcom announced Street Fighter III 3rd Strike Online back at San Diego Comic Con 2010. But is it worth your time? Well, to put it simply. No. That’s not to say SF3 is a bad game, in fact it’s probably the best in…
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This morning, Atlus announced that it would finally be bringing over the “lost” chapter in the Persona 2 series, Innocent Sin. It was never released in America, however it recieved a very well written english fan translation a few years back. Following in the footsteps of Persona 1 PSP, Innocent Sin will feature an updated interface which resembles that of it’s predecessor, updated character art, new quests, and an remixed soundtrack. However, in an attempted to more of the “hardcore” and long term fans of the series, Atlus also included the original soundtrack. There will also be some user generated…
The Game Show – Are Games Art?: Are games art? A question many gamers and journalists debate. Join the game show crew as they discuss the relevance of games like Passage and further debate the importance of art and video games.
Batman: Arkham City is due for release on October 18th, 2011.
The Yakuza series has never been successful outside of Japan, heck the game takes place in Japan and has many intricacies that wouldn’t appeal to many American gamers. When I heard that Yakuza was breaking away from it’s traditional action packed beat em up style to zombie shooter, I instantly thought Sega was trying to appeal to a wider US audience this time around by drastically changing the game’s core mechanics. I was wrong, but it’s still a blast to play.
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Here are some screens from the surprisingly fun Sonic Colors. Here’s hoping that they don’t add some kind of gimmick gameplay mode like the werewolf. Keep your eye on this one! You can read more about it in Greg’s post here.Screens are both from the Wii and DS versions of the game.
Vanquish is the latest game from game designer Shinji Mikami, creator of Resident Evil and worked on hits such as Viewtiful Joe and Devil May Cry. After leaving Capcom in 2007, Mikami formed his own studio, Straight Story, and is working with Platinum Games on the project. Vanquish shares a lot of similar art elements with one his previous works, P.N.0.3. The game features a very metallic setting with white being a main color, making it easy to distinguish enemies who are dressed in red. The E3 demo plopped me right in the middle of a battlefield. Chaos and gunfire surrounded me…
While standing by the sega booth and watching the mind blowingly awesome Sonic 4, a PR rep came by and asked a bunch of us media folk if we wanted a sneek peek at Shogun 2. The whole thing seemed like a desperate attempt to get people buzzing about a Total War game. I was taking to a tiny room where two developers were already talking about some of the basics of the game. Everyone in the room didn’t seem to know what was going on. The presentation jumped right into the combat of the game. Giant waves of Samurais…
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We had a chance to sit down with Blake Lewin, creator of GameTap and vice president of product development and innovation for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.) New Product Development, and he told us all about this new service. As a Gamer who loves SEGA, having the ability to play any SEGA game, especially since Saturn and Dreamcast games can be especially hard to find, is very exciting. Not to mention the vast library besides the SEGA games. GameTap largely celebrates the history of gaming as well as brings in the newer PC games. I will definitely be subscribing…
Interview with Kevin Browne– 08.28.2003 We had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Kevin Browne, who is studio manager for Microsoft Game Studios. I was extremely impressed at how ‘Gamer-centric’ everything there is. All of the people there are gamers, and they have gamers in mind in every decision. They also spend a lot of time researching what gamers want. For their philosophy on making games, the future of Xbox live, XSN sports, and MGS games check out the interview below in one of its flavors. Downloads Audio Interview (MP3)
With E3 just around the corner I thought it would be a great time to look back at E3 in the glory days. Here are some images from E3 2004 featuring some old breakmanx staff members! More classic breakmanx content to come.
Nintendo Entertainment System, or “The NES” as it was referred to, first garnished my appetite for video games in the fall of 1988. I was one of the many fortunate souls who came home from Toys R’ Us with the Mario/Duck hunt package, complete with an orange zapper gun. It was a big deal, spending over $100 on a toy for a kid. But having no concept of money I equated the intrinsic value of an NES as something closer to that of all the birthday presents I ever accrued in my short life combined. Game cartridges quickly became the…