EA will release a simpler version of the popular football game called ”Madden NFL Arcade”, which features “pick-up and play” 5-on-5 games.
The game appears to be more casual compared to its more realistic, and complex siblings. Players get four downs to march 60 yards and score a touchdown. The first team to 30 wins. Players can also use “Game Changers,” special power-ups to give players the upper hand, such as freezing an opponent’s receiver or turning off their passing icons.
Madden NFL Arcade will sport visuals similar to what EA used for the Nintendo Wii release of Madden NFL 10, and will sell as a download on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network for $15 this December.
The release of Madden NFL Arcade is also going to try and address one of the sports genre’s biggest issues: As controls for sports simulations bet more and more complicated, it gets harder and harder for newer players to catch on.
No, my name isn’t Rick Ladouche and I’m not coming to you live from inside Uncharted 2, but I do bring important breaking news to my fellow gamers. Recently announced over on the Playstation Blog, PS3 owners can now get their hands on the Uncharted 2 multi-player demo. If you were like me and wasn’t able to snag a multi-player beta key from the interweb, you can now get your hands on with the game. The multi-player demo is open for all PS3 gamers now, so get on over to the Playstation Store and start downloading!
The demo clocks in at around 1.2GB, but for that size it’s packed full with multi-player content, as well as a few hidden surprises. The package ends up containing 4 maps, four competitive modes, and two co-op modes. Not bad at all! Uncharted 2: Among Thieves looks absolutely gorgeous, so one would assume that all of those maps, the high pixel counted textures and gameplay features would take up most of that space, but that isn’t the end of this post. Oh no! There is more, so read on…
Naughty Dog is also including two new innovative modes to Uncharted 2 called Cinema Mode, as well as the innovative Machinima Mode in the demo. They apparently couldn’t wait to get it into the hands of gamers, so they decided to give everyone a little taste. Cinema Mode records literally everything that goes on in a multi-player round and exports it to a multimedia video file on your PS3. Everything is tracked and recorded to this file so it can be watched over and studied over from every different angle or viewpoint. Want to check out how WombRaider69 got you from behind with that knife behind the dilapidated car? Find out how he did it in Cinema Mode by following every one of his movements in slow-motion, and watch the knife go into your body from any possible camera angle.
Uncharted 2’s Machinima Mode looks to be the first set of tools put into a box released console game dedicated to the support of user created content and videos. This means you can record any and all of Drake’s movements in the game only to use that content for a custom video or webisode. Attach your blu-tooth headset or PS3 Eye camera mic, and watch Drake’s mouth move to what you are actually saying. Pretty crazy stuff! I’m excited! Are you? I can’t wait to hear Drake tell all of my crappy dick jokes.
This weekend I took off my pants, propped my feet up, and spent most of my Saturday in front of my PS3. Really there should be chicks involved, as well as sex, but you don’t have time for those sort of things when you are playing a video game for 7 hours straight! I just couldn’t get enough of the Batman: Arkham Asylum story missions and finding Joker challenges strewn around the island. I started at 21% completed and when I turned off the PS3 for supper, I was at around 53%. The story campaign of Batman: Arkham Asylum is pretty deep and varied so it should extend well over the 20 to 25 hour range (I’ve already put in about 12 hours or so). I purposefully am taking my time, soaking in all of the nuances of Batman and the Gotham universe.
Adding even more gameplay to the mix, are the challenge maps (or ass kicking rooms as I call them). These are where you take on a few of Joker’s henchmen with the difficulty getting progressively harder to get the FreeFlow combat system multiplier and score up. Eidos Interactive and Warner Bros. Interactive have just announced that two brand new challenge maps are coming soon in the form of the Insane Night Map Pack.
Are you a slightly obsessive compulsive freak like I am? Do you like things to be exactly the same, in line with each other and in alphabetical order? If you said yes to any of these questions, then firmware 3.00 is for you!
Sony Corp. I feel is slightly OCD. They can’t leave anything alone until everyone is on the same page and happy. This is a good thing though, annoying at first, but a good thing. Where am I going with this? Why is the title of this article completely different than the text within? Well, it’s because I have to get you completely confused first, and then explain myself later.
PS3 and 360 gamers may have to wait a bit to experience the pure awesome that is Trine, a 3D platforming puzzle game developed by Frozenbyte. The game ended up being a very pleasant surprise for me when I played it, everything about it is awesome – the puzzles, graphics, and especially the music, which reminds me of the original Fable game, somewhat.
Ari Pulkkinen, the composer of the Trine soundtrack, has made the music available for download today – for a price, of course, but you can hear the main theme for free.
If you’re a console gamer who hasn’t heard of Trine, or if you are still anticipating the release of the game on PSN or XBLA, trust me – it’s well worth the wait. The PSN version has been delayed until “Q3 2009″, and the XBLA version is still in development.
A simple picture can say a lot these days. What is that old saying? A picture is worth 1,000 words? But what if that picture is OF 1,000 words? Does that make it worth 2,000 words? I don’t know…..
Titan Studios, creator of the PSN title Fat Princess, just released a few pictures on Titan Studio’s website showing new Pirate and Ninja characters. Have you got something to announce Titan? Don’t make me hold your head under the hot investigation lamp!
Hopefully we will hear something about this new announcement soon to include two new classes to one of this year’s best PSN downloadable titles. I personally want to stick a throwing star into Matt and Steven’s forehead online now. Way to go Titan, you’re making me want to play Fat Princess even MORE now!
There has been a lot of great downloadable games this summer on both XBLA and the PSN. This title happens to be one of them. Shatter is a modern take on the classic brick-breaker genre, like Arkanoid. The basic concept, of course, is to bounce a ball off a paddle on one end of the screen and break bricks with the ball, not allowing it to leave play by bouncing “out of bounds” behind the paddle. I’m sure you’re all familiar with the basic game play right?
As we’re all aware, the PSP Go will hit store shelves in North America on October 1. Also on that date, we’ll be able to purchase Gran Turismo PSP, either digitally or on UMD. For a time, it was believed to be the first such simultaneous game release for the system, but that’s no longer the case. Atlus jumped in and stole the honor by announcing that they will be releasing the remade Shin Megami Tensei: Persona title in the same manner on September 22, a little over a week earlier.
We’ve known the Revelations: Persona remake was coming at us for quite some time. We didn’t know it would be available both digitally on the PSN and in stores in UMD format on the same day. But, think long and hard before you buy this title off the PSN – it’s the same price as the UMD ($39.99) and doesn’t come with the two-disc soundtrack that the physical copy includes. I’m going to go out on a limb and bet that the majority of gamers interested in this title will likely want the soundtrack to add to their collection. It will definitely look spiffy sitting on the shelf next to my Persona 4 soundtrack. I still rock that out every so often……what?
Check out this new trailer for an upcoming XBLA, PSN game involving, you guessed it, Ninjas. You can plainly see we have a vested interest in game of this nature. There is no gameplay, but by the quality of the trailer, this may be something to keep your eyes on come September. I kind of want some apple sauce now.
Anyone who has a hard-on for Capcom games, especially the good ones should pay attention. An utter shitload of games is being released on the PSN tomorrow which can only be downloaded onto your PSP. Hit the jump for all the games included in the download. There will also be even more Capcom content available on the PSN in due time. Expect games like Resident Evil 2 and 3 to be downloadable along with other previous UMD only titles.
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