Sony Unveils PlayStation 3 Slim, Uh, Slim. Double Slim? Slim Deux?
It’s like the Slim, but slimmer.
Does your PlayStation 3 need a diet? I bought mine in 2008 before they shrunk it the first time and, well, it’s kind of a big console. Seriously, grab it or an original PlayStation 2 and you’ll realize just how gargantuan the things are. Of course, if you’ll remember the PlayStation 3 debuted to sluggish sales and at an incredible loss, so ripping out features (backwards compatibility, anyone) and shrinking the unit down to save money on individual units was probably foremost on Sony’s mind.
The Borderlands 2 Launch Trailer
Pandora Just Got Real.
Gearbox today released the brand new release trailer for Borderlands 2 and we’re here to share it with you.
Check it out after the rest of the article.
Black Mesa Source Review: A Welcome Re-Imagining
It’s a bit more than a new coat of paint…
It’s amazing to think back to 2004, nearly 8 years ago, when I made that purchase at Best Buy. G-man gave me a cold, analytical stare as I took up the box, put down my cash, and went home to play a game. It barely ran at 15 frames per second on my good ol’ Dell, yet still provided an excellent experience in the way that only a fantastically well-made game can. While we’re still waiting for the next installment, it’s always nice to return to past installments to fondly remember where it all began, and why we fell in love with this franchise. Sure, there are plenty of Source games out there delivering the goods in their own unique way: Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, and Portal are all unique franchises, and it’s hard not to love at least one of them. Read the rest of this article…
FTL Review: Think You Can Manage A Starship? Prove It.
This will be a common sight in your travels.
Kirk and Picard make it look so easy. Those guys lead crews of hundreds (or thousands) in their mutual goal of exploring strange new worlds and seeking out new civilizations. You, however, will have no such luck as you manage your small vessel with a crew of three or more, travelling from one end of the galaxy to the other with precious information on-board that the Federation (unrelated) wants. Of course, there’s a rebel force nibbling up the space behind your thrusters and your mission is in danger of failing at any moment. And it will fail. Over and over again.
Far Cry 3 Monkey Business Pack
Ok, normally I don’t care about pre-order incentives when you got to this place or this place. I usually just delete the email. Ubisoft did it right though with this exclusive pre-order incentive for GameStop. They got the guy who did the Honey Badger video to narrate this video and it just works. “Meet Hurk, an exclusive quest-giver that straps monkeys with explosives and sends them to blow-up his enemies. Now when you pre-order at GameStop for Xbox 360® or PlayStation®3, you’ll get four bonus missions and two multiplayer humiliations with Hurk and his monkeys. Watch the new trailer now, featuring Randall from the Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger.” Read the rest of this article…
First Video Dev Diary for Hearts of Iron III: Their Finest Hour
Plan, Execute, Win.
The Hit WWII strategy game Hearts of Iron is getting its third expansion, on September 26th in the form of “Their Finest Hour”. The Risk-esqe title is getting a number of new tools, units and options added to it and the developers have released a nice video diary detailing some of the changes which are coming up. You can see that at the end of this article.
Borderlands 2 Review: It’s Pretty Awesome! Maybe.
The final version is probably fantastic.
I’ve played Borderlands 2 and now I’m going to review it. There are some caveats: it wasn’t the final version, and since I’m not under any embargo, I can get away with posting my opinion on the game without retribution. We at FleshEatingZipper work super hard to get early review copies so that you can enjoy an early opinion without having to look at a newspaper or magazine or even other web sites. Well, we let you down with Borderlands 2 and we want to make up for it in the best way possible.
Check Out the Dishonored Developer Documentary to Tide You Over Until Launch
I need this game bad!
Are We Excited About The Wii U, Yet?
I’m usually head-over-feet excited for marketing stuff like this. But, eh, nah, not this time.
Sometime late last night, I had the opportunity to report on Nintendo’s Japan-facing conference regarding the Wii U’s price and availability in that region. An announcement like that is usually the last piece of major PR a company can send out prior to a console’s launch. Instead, I went to sleep. Hours after the American version of the conference had ended, I woke up, read the facts, and then dove back into bed. So now, even more hours later, I’m finally writing this and am struggling to come to a conclusion about Nintendo’s newest console: a long-in-coming reaction to falling Wii sales.
Theme Hospital, The Article About
The future of healthcare is CHAINSAWS!!!
Theme Hospital was one of the best games I never got to play during the PC’s great strategy renaissance in the mid-nineties. When that special issue of PC Gamer landed, I played the limited demo of this game over and over. Then I never bought it. And it disappeared. And then it really disappeared, because like many of those strategy games, even the late ones, they simply vanished off the face of the planet as soon as they got a Value Software label. Well, now fifteen years later, GOG has provided the world with yet another gem that had been previously been lost to Abandonia, the land where PC games go to die. Last year, they brought us Bullfrog’s Dungeon Keeper and now I finally got to experience Theme Hospital game as it was intended. But has this design held up? Can this game work all these years later? Let’s find out.
