Do you remember Total Annihilation from 1997? That’s the all time best startegy game ever made. Ever. After my opinion. It was completely groundbreaking, and now Gamespot has a preview of the next in line, Supreme Commander. A part from the preview:
We saw hundreds of tanks rolling through a forest, knocking down trees left and right. Then, during a battle, the forest caught fire, sending choking plumes of black smoke into the air, obscuring some of the action. The action can look downright cinematic, especially when huge armies meet. Tanks and ground units maneuver wildly while jets and other aircraft scream overhead.
Read it here.
French site JeuxFrance has some magazine scans of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. There is some text but we have no idea what it means. We do know that the pics look great. Youcan find the scans here
One of the best and most realistic football games (U.S. “soccer”) is coming to the Xbox360 and will be shown at this years E3 show. Martin Schneider, Euopean PR and Marketing Director for Konami said:
“It is fitting that the world’s leading video game show will this year feature the introduction of the leading football title. The show will offer fans of the series an early glimpse of what will be a landmark title, and whet their appetites as we gear up for what will be a key release for Konami.”
There is no mention of screenshots/videos or the technical features. From PixelGamers
Episodic content: New idea or a new way of ripping us off?
Remember when EA announced that they will be releasing new content for Battlefield 2? Remember 5 seconds later when you found out that you were gonna pay $10 for a few new maps? I sure was shocked.
Until then developers and publishers supported their games not only by making patches and fixing the bugs (something EA still hasn’t learned) but by providing additional content free of charge. That was their way of saying READ ON »
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If the recent Steam update news, Valve said that preloading of Episode 1 starts next week, and will be avalible to play June 1st. They also, surprisingly, said that Episode 1 was the best singleplayer game they have made yet.
“With Episode One, we really feel like we’ve produced our best single player game to date, and we’re excited for people to be able to play it.”
So there you go. 1 month left.
Xbxo 360 voice is a neat program that posts your current gaming progress to a blog. What you’ve played, music you listened to and so on. Check it out here. Or check out Major Nelsons blog too see it in action.
*UPDATE: Seems that it doesn’t record anything but the usual XML feed from Microsoft. Thanks Trapper.
Wondered if you’re getting the most out of your PSP? Bruce Beh writes in his blog how to watch movies, stream mp3′s and even play games of your memory stick on your PSP. Read on here
Koraku brings a very interesting feature, where they talk to a branding company about the “Wii” name Nintendo set for their next console. The branding people are convinced that it’s all a trick the Big N is pulling on us. One of the quotes from the Kotaku post;
“…it’s not possible to engineer a worse name for this product.”
Read on here and see if we’re all being Punk’d by Nintendo.
IGN is reporting that Microsoft owned Bungie Studios will present a 2 minute video of Halo 3 at E3. Microsoft didn’t comment on the rumor, but what has Microsoft to show off at E3? Not much, really.
