Guitar Hero: World Tour is coming October 27 to all three major consoles (Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii), and you probably know by now that "Guitar Hero" now focuses on guitars in name alone. World Tour is a full-band affair that adds bass, drums and vocals to the mix, much like that other game from EA. What, did you think Activision was just going to ignore it?
We recently traveled to Los Angeles to get some hands-on time with Guitar Hero: World Tour, and appropriately enough, the event took place at an actual recording studio. Much like the new …
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Guitar Hero: World Tour Preview (PS3, Xbox 360)
Killzone 2 Multiplayer Preview
During our Best of E3 2008 Awards, we alluded to Killzone 2 doing things with the first-person-shooter genre that other developers are either unable to do or afraid to tackle. Guerilla Games is neither. The single-player aspects of Killzone 2 were on grand display at E3, but with the Leipzig Game Convention now in full swing, Killzone 2's multiplayer aspects are coming into focus. We've learned some of the first details about Killzone 2's RPG-like elements, a facet that may initially confound many PS3 gamers but that could eventually win gamers …
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Pure Preview
Although today's highest-profile racing games focus on cars -- Gran Turismo, Forza Motorsport, DiRT and MotorStorm -- some of the most beloved and original racing games actually had a more blue-collar feel. For years, dirt bikes and ATVs ruled the racing roost, but as consoles began to direct gamers' focus to shiny graphics, shiny cars -- not muddy ones -- naturally followed. Rally games kept some of a focus on dirt, but the once-king ATVs were largely fringe. When Sony shipped MotorStorm, ATVs crept back into mainstream gamers' awareness, but …
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Ghostbusters: The Video Game Preview
Long before Activision picked up the rights to Ghostbusters: The Video Game, a video circulated online showing what amounted to a tech demo of the world's favorite ghost hunters walking around with their Proton Packs. The fact that people got excited about that simple video showed just how strongly we all wanted to re-visit the Ghostbusters universe, DailyGame included. That enthusiasm, though, also laid the groundwork for the Internet-wide cursing when news spread that Activision Blizzard had dropped the game from its 2009 lineup.
Well rest …
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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Preview
As we left E3 2008, we knew we had to create a special award category for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. When LucasArts unveiled The Force Unleashed three E3s ago, it did so behind closed doors, a move that some interpreted as a lack of faith that LucasArts' internally developed game was good enough to win over Star Wars skeptics. What a different three years makes. Not only is The Force Unleashed shaping up to be a truly great Star Wars game, it's on its way to being one of the year's great next-gen action titles. Since leaving E3 2008, we've …
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Dead Space Preview: The Environments
Going into EA's Dead Space Community Day, it was tempting to think of the new sci-fi franchise as little more than a DOOM clone. Science-fiction game set in space? Check. Horror elements? Check. Dark hallways populated by even darker demons? Check. That was our opinion at 9:00 am. By the time we left Electronic Arts at 6:00 pm, having played the (literal) hell out of three massive levels, our opinion changed entirely. Dead Space is anything but a DOOM clone. In fact, based on our time with it, Dead Space is poised to out-DOOM DOOM in every …
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Sacred 2: Fallen Angel Preview
Sacred 2 is a sequel long in the making. When the original game released on PC in 2004, the action RPG earned critical accolades and a cult-like following, so a sequel was bound to come down the pipe. But the sequel that CDV is publishing for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 later this year isn't just more of the same; it's more of, well, everything. The online multiplayer is intact, as is the hack-and-slash gameplay, but the graphics, audio and quest list have gotten bigger, badder and bolder than ever.
Although categorized as an action RPG, Sacred 2 …
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Don King Presents Prizefighter: Interview with Don King
Don King is "normal" in name alone. The boxing promoter is one of the most confident, sensational and quote-worthy men in the history of the sport. Perhaps best known for his work with Mike Tyson, Don King remains very much in the game with today's hottest boxers, but this week will quite literally be "in the game" for the first time, as 2K Sports releases Don King Presents Prizefighter for Xbox 360.
Ever the promoter, Don King carved some time from his busy schedule to answer our questions about his first foray into gaming and explain why he …
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Developer Interview: Fracture for PS3, Xbox 360
For all the attention THQ and the Red Faction Guerilla team have (rightfully) received for their environmental destruction, LucasArts has been working on its own deformation-friendly action game called Fracture. Designed to let players deform the world by using weapons that do things such as create holes and raise the ground, Fracture is set to hit the PS3 and Xbox 360 this October. We thought you might appreciate hearing from the development team directly about how Fracture is progressing for both PS3 and Xbox 360, and perhaps hearing a bit …
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Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.: Storyline and Fictional History
Ubisoft today released two new in-game screenshots for H.A.W.X., its aerial combat game set in the near future, but buried among the screens was an impressively detailed document highlighting the incredible Tom Clancy-esque backstory of the game, as well as the storyline that the game will follow when it releases on PS3 and Xbox 360. For your reading pleasure, we have included the entire document below, complemented by the two in-game H.A.W.X. screenshots. Enjoy.
H.A.W.X: A Brief History
The "High Altitude Warfare -- Experimental Squadron" …
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