If you are sitting there at your desk at work, waiting for the last hour of the day to go by, then Friv.com is the place for you. With over 220 popular flash games all neatly nestled into a cool looking interface, it'll be easy to try a game and play and then jump out and do another when you're ready for the next.
EA Sports' FaceBreaker has had its website relaunched today. As always with a relaunch, you will see updated features to the site, blog, media, as well as new character reveals. The first two characters you will be able to see are Romeo and Voodoo. Sadly any videos of these two characters are currently null and void and therefore you don't get to see the great facial smashing that will happen with your hits to your opponents face.
The game will be available for the Xbox 360, PS3, and the Wii. It'll be interesting to see the game play mechanics between the Wii and the other consoles.
2KSports announced today the cover athlete for their NHL 2K9: All Star Rick Nash of the Columbus Blue Jackets. Sadly, there is not actual cover art yet, instead we get the above logo.
If you like the music from Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV, then you may be interested in a release coming from The Evil Genius Green Lantern on 05.20.08. From the press release directly:
Today, Rockstar Games and Future Green Entertainment are proud to announce the release of an original production album from The Evil Genius DJ Green Lantern featuring music from and inspired by Grand Theft Auto IV.
Containing eight brand new tracks crafted exclusively for DJ Green Lantern's "Liberty City Invasion" radio show on the in-game radio station ?The Beat,? as well as eight new songs directly inspired by Grand Theft Auto IV, The Evil Genius DJ Green Lantern has created an epic urban soundtrack. This special album release features an incredible lineup of hip-hop, reggae and R&B superstars including heavyweights Busta Rhymes, Wyclef, Fat Joe, Styles P and Fabolous as well as up-and-coming artists Mavado, Uncle Murder and Future Green Entertainment?s own Johnny Polygon, Qadir and more.
Singles include ?Where?s My Money? from Busta Rhymes and ?Nickname? from the brand new artist Qadir. The perfect summer anthem ?I?m So Fly,? featuring Fat Joe and Fabolous is inspired by Grand Theft Auto IV and while included on the album is not in the game.
?The Grand Theft Auto games have always featured stunning soundtracks and the amount of eclectic music in Grand Theft Auto IV goes above and beyond anything we have been able to do before? said Sam Houser, Founder and Executive Producer of Rockstar Games, "DJ Green Lantern?s contributions give the soundtrack a true New York flavor and we?re excited to be releasing his full album to fans.?
?From making mixtapes, to being on the radio, to touring with the biggest artists on the planet, and then for the biggest video game title to solicit me to create exclusive music is something most people could only dream about, it?s like a graduation,? said Green. ?Rockstar Games understood what I bring to the table as far as not just presenting music, but creating music.?
Green Lantern originally came to prominence in the mixtape scene by consistently featuring exclusive self-produced music with hip-hop superstars like Eminem, Jay-Z, The Beastie Boys, Mike Shinoda's Fort Minor, D-Block, Busta Rhymes, Mobb Deep and many more. This led to an acclaimed career as a proper music producer in his own right which has yielded such Billboard hits as "Number One Spot" by Ludacris and "In The Ghetto" by Busta Rhymes featuring Rick James as well as the street hits Akon "Ghetto" feat. Notorious B.I.G. and 2Pac, Uncle Murda's "Bullet, Bullet," and many more. Green Lantern can be heard every week nationally on his Sirius Satellite Radio show.
The Evil Genius Green Lantern makes his official production album debut with the release of Liberty City Invasion: Music from and Inspired by Grand Theft Auto IV. It will be available at all major digital retailers on May 20th with a physical release coming soon.
Grand Theft Auto IV is currently available for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system and the PLAYSTATION® 3 computer entertainment system.
Today is GameTap Thursday and you can find the following new releases today: Five Card Deluxe and Outpost Kaloki. Also, as an FYI, GameTap has a budding Indie Games section and they currently have 18 games to check out which include Gumboy, Blast Miner, and Shadowgrounds Survivor. And finally, to make the free games list step up to 122, Gametap has added Battle of Europe to its list.
Cliffy B and company released some game play footage of Gears of War 2 today. I was recently asked what my thoughts were on the game play footage that was released and felt it was good enough to post here as well.
"Well I just rewatched the footage again and it looks just like Gears of
War to me, which is not a bad thing, it is what I would expect. There
are new character animations which is always nice to see in a sequel.
The apparently "up to 100 locusts" at once thing that we got a 1 second
glimpse of apparently is getting its ass kicked in development because
when you peer over the side of your vehicle to pick off a few of them,
it looks like they were just placed on the screen. It's as if they are
too random. It's hard to explain what I'm seeing here but it looked
fake. Again though, this is the type of stuff I would expect from a
sequel, still in development obviously, and needing to get the hype
machine running.
Oh and Cliffy B apparently has made some money for he's been working out
(he looks too buff to scratch his own back), is sporting an out of date
faux-hawk and apparently gets his teeth whitened."
If you're interested in looking at the images released, and the videos can be found in the Epic Games/GearsOfWar2 Directory in our download section of the site.
"On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness is an RPG-Adventure game set in the comic-book-meets-pulp-horror-meets-H.P. Lovecraft deranged 1920s universe of New Arcadia, delivering mature and compelling entertainment to gamers via accessible episodic delivery. The creative collaboration between Penny Arcade creators Mike ?Gabe? Krahulik and Jerry ?Tycho? Holkins, legendary game designer Ron Gilbert and veteran producers Hothead Games results in a 100% authentic Penny Arcade experience that pushes bizarre characters, outrageous combat, and adult humor to the precipices of darkness.
Players join Gabe and Tycho, the crime-solving team of the Startling Developments Detective Agency, to combat savage enemies and solve mysteries hidden deep in the sinister heart of New Arcadia. The ominous 1920s landscape features distinct artwork and characters designed exclusively by Krahulik and brought to life by the Hothead team."
The game will be available via Xbox LIVE Arcade for about 1600 MSP. And with this being an episodic game, your player stats will be carried over from episode, to episode. The biggest thing of all, Fruit Fucker will be in the game. Life is now complete.
We were notified today by our Widow, Leslie Sanchez, that she made it onto IGN as Babe of the Day! Congrats to Leslie as she deserves this. She may be IGN's babe of the day, but she is our babe everyday. Congrats 'gain Leslie!
2KGames released the debut trailer today for Top Spin 3. If you are a big tennis fan, or just want to see some girls playing tennis in those wonderful little short skirt thingies they were, than Top Spin 3 may be the game for you. Check out the video by downloading it here: 62 meg .WMV
The rumor mill has been all over the place on this, but Take Two has confirmed that Bioshock is in fact, in development for a Movie. Let's pray it doesn't suck! Is it still too early to stand in line for this?
With a week finally gone by after the release of Grand Theft Auto IV, Microsoft and Rockstar are truly loving life. Check out these stats on the over 6 million games sold within a week:
Actual MS sales data from last week shows Xbox 360 console sales at retail went up 54% week-over-week as a result of GTA's success
According to retailers more than 60% of all GTA games sold in the first week were the Xbox 360 version
Retailers are telling us that the game is attaching strongly to new console sales, with roughly 40% of new consoles selling with a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV
Regarding Xbox LIVE:
In the first week, more than 2.3 million people played Grand Theft Auto IV on Xbox LIVE
GTA IV is now the number one played game on Xbox LIVE
Over the weekend, we saw the Xbox LIVE service reach 1 million concurrent users
Gamers have unlocked more than 12 million achievements worth over 100 million gamerscore points in GTA
Grand Theft Auto IV set a new record for time played, with the average gamer spending more than four hours playing the game on LIVE in the first week alone
Congrats to Niko and the gang for a job well done. It's only going to get better.
It is GameTap Thursday and you know that means? There is an update out there on the GameTap servers for you. Today you will have the chance to play Alpha Prime, Chameleon Gems (Zuma?) and Flip Words 2. Also, with each Thursday update, there is an additional game added to the already huge free play list. If you are short on cash, you can partake in the list of 120 free games plust with Morning's Wrath making the list 121 free play games, you should be doing just fine in these days of hard economic times.
The word came out just a bit ago that if you have been having some problems with your PS3 version of Grand Theft Auto IV, there is a patch coming out. Here is the official press release:
"Rockstar Games has released a GTA IV patch for Playstation 3 today that prevents Gamespy?s
servers from being overloaded and therefore reduces the impact on those servers
that were causing the game to stutter and lock up. We continue to monitor
the performance of the game both on and offline and will provide further updates
as necessary. We want to assure everyone that, together with our
hardware partners, we continue to strive to give our fans the best possible
interactive entertainment experiences possible. This update will ensure
that everyone will experience Grand Theft Auto IV the way it was intended.
We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused."
Dice and EA released the first trailer for Mirrors Edge today and it's friggin' fantastic. The free running you see, and do, is really slick and is all from in game. What the mean sin particular, we're not sure because it could just be in game pulled graphics and not actually game play. We haven't received word yet on how the control mechanics work, but in certain areas, it looks like you will need to balance yourself as you run across skinny items like pipes, etc. In any case, just sit back, download the 90MB .mov file and enjoy it's sweet goodness!
Xbox LIVE Arcade will have Wits and Wagers as its Wednesday arcade game release. Since last week was a no brainer as to why there wasn't an update, read GTA IV, this week we have a cool trivia game to play with your friends while you take a breather conquering Liberty City.
"Just like the award-winning board game, players don?t
have to be trivia experts to excel at 'Wits & Wagers,' which
balances social and betting skills with trivia knowledge. Choose your
wacky dancing character and then dive into the game. You can win by
making educated guesses, playing the odds or just knowing the interests of
other players, whether they are local or online.
Break out the Big Button pad controllers and invite friends
over for an entertaining couch vs. couch multiplayer experience on Xbox LIVE,
supporting 1-4 players offline and 2-6 players in online multiplayer
mode. With 700 trivia questions, great character costumes and dance
moves, catchy music, achievements, leaderboards, support for the Xbox LIVE Vision
Camera, the Xbox Big Button Pad and more..."
Deadspace, EA's thriller of a lifetime, has an update today from its developers. This is Developer Diary #2 and describes how the story has developed since the beginning and how it is important in the game play. Also released for your viewing pleasure, the new full comic book video for the 1st issue
of Dead Space live on the site. As you may know the Dead Space comic was written and illustrated by Ben
Templesmith (30 Days of Night) and Anthony Johnston (Wasteland).
In case you are still playing Need For Speed ProStreet, which we think you should be if you want a break from all of that GTA IV action you've been doing, there is a contest going on.
Need For Speed: Prostreet is putting on the Energizer LITHIUM Community Race Day starting today May 2 and will be going on through May 4. Racers
from North America can compete for awesome prize packs from Need for
Speed and Energizer!! All players have to do is head to the Race
Day Page, and follow the steps to join the Energizer LITHIUM Race Day
(Race Day will be up soon). Prizes will be available for winners on Xbox
360 and PS3.
In case you are one of the very few who DO NOT have GTA IV, you can look forward to the upcoming releases for Gametap Thursday over at...Gametap.com. This week you can expect to find for playtime:
The headline image attached to this posting pretty much says it all. Grand Theft Auto IV is garnering a score of 100 on Metacritic. That's is a rarity my friends.
Mafia 2 is coming up soon to be released. To help garner the attention that it deserves, 2K Games is putting out pretty screen shots. To see everything that exists so far that has been released, head on over to our gallery section of Mafia 2.
They game is currently in development for both the Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 and the screen shots look brilliant. Playing as a member of the mob in the 1950's never looked so good.
