Lionhead has recently announced a new promotion they are holding to celebrate the release of the See the Future DLC pack for Fable II. A contest will be held and the winner will recieve a copy of Fable II along with a Fable II branded Xbox 360 signed by the game’s creator, Peter Molyneux.

To enter the contest you’re going to want to head here and follow the directions which prompt you to sign in with your Lionhead account and then click the register button, it’s as simple as that.

If you’ve been around since the original Playstation console there’s no doubt in my mind that you have played at least one Crash Bandicoot title. Well, Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin are the masterminds behind the popular series and founders of Naughty Dog, developer of said series.

Anyways, these guys have branched off and announced the founding of their latest development studio, Monkey Gods. The new studio is said to cater mostly towards the casual PC demographic but their debut title will be the introduction of Snood for the iPhone.

Snood has been around for over 10 years now with versions of the game being released for the PC, Mac, Gameboy Advance and even TI-83 and 84 graphing calculators. Yes, you will be addicted.

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If you had any doubts that Fight Night Round 4 would be the most realistic boxing video game you’ve ever played, the above trailer should effectively put them to rest.

EA has recently released said trailer that details everything from the ridiculously realistic venues to the ridiculously realistic physics behind the cloth animation all featured in Fight Night Round 4. Now, I wonder what Fight Night Round 5 will look like.

The game is expected to hit store shelves on June 30th for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

To hype gamers up for its July 16th release, SNK Playmore has recently launched the official website for King of Fighters XII.

As you can see, SNK really put some effort into making KOFXII‘s website stay true to the game’s lineage with colorful artwork and creative navigation. Featured on the website are fighter biographies, news, all sorts of media, and details for a fan art contest.

According to the website, the contest runs from May 8th to July 31st and prizes range from a $1,000 grand prize to limited edition KOF figurines and Xbox 360 or PS3 consoles. Considering there is no purchase necessary, what do you have to lose?

You can hit up the website at www.kingoffighters12.com.

Remember when Google’s Jeff Huber jumped on board for EA? Well, a bit of information regarding the new position has been uncovered but beware, it ain’t too exciting.

Apparently, Mr. Huber will recieve an annual $50,000 added to his already high salary he is earning from Google. Additionally, he will be given 2500 restricted shares and the option to purchase an additional 17,500 shares for $19.46. This is all fine and dandy but it still doesn’t answer the question of exactly what Huber will be doing for EA.

Hey, I told you it wasn’t that exciting.

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The day has come for Call of Duty 4 fans everywhere to rejoice — Infinity Ward has recently released a video featuring the first in-game footage of Modern Warfare 2.

Now, don’t expect to see an abundance of actual gameplay but instead cinematics (read: cutscenes) rendered using the game’s engine. Although, the scene where the player is seen riding a snow mobile looks pretty kickass. The video ends with an announcement that Modern Warfare 2 will be officially unveiled on May 24th, mark your calendars.

With the success of Call of Duty 4 paving the road for this much anticipated sequel, we are sure to see extremely high sales numbers when Modern Warfare 2 drops on November 10th.

With all the hype about Guitar Hero and Rock Band, it was just a matter of time before another controller in the form of a musical instrument (in this case another guitar) would come out. And Logitech will not allow itself to be outdone as it unveiled its Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller for PLAYSTATION 3 and PlayStation 2 computer entertainment systems.

Following the introduction of the Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller, Premiere Edition (previously available only in select markets), the new black guitar controller is expected to be available worldwide later this month. The Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller is licensed by Activision Publishing, Inc. for the award-winning Guitar Hero franchise.

“Logitech’s new guitar controller delivers the same unparalleled Guitar Hero experience offered by our previous premiere edition to an even broader group of gamers and at a great value,” said Ruben Mookerjee, Logitech’s director of product marketing for gaming. “Everything about the Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller is premium – from the authentic wood material and flawless black finish, to the noise-dampening design of the strum bar and buttons, to the authentic accents provided by the metal frets.”

The Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller for PLAYSTATION 3 and PlayStation 2 computer entertainment systems is expected to be available this month in the U.S. for a retail price of $199.99 (U.S.) and will be available in Europe in June.

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Ubisoft is taking a huge gamble by making the upcoming Red Steel 2 to be fully dependable on the new Wii Motion Plus accessory. Ubisoft acknowledges the risk involved, as Ubisoft’s Jason Vandenberghe says,

“It’s a huge risk,” he said. “We have no idea what the penetration rate for Wii MotionPlus will be. We assume high. We would like it to be high. I would love to say to you that it’ll be compatible with just a regular controller, but the gameplay simply isn’t there without MotionPlus. That core experience just isn’t there without it.”

Since the original Red Steel was criticized for lackluster controls, the new Motion Plus attachment might help, but there’s no indication of how popular it will be among Wii owners.

Valve has revealed the first unlock of the Sniper class in the upcoming update. The new unlock will be a bow and arrow, which not only charges to full power in a mere second, it also sticks enemies to the wall, as Valve puts it:

“Any experienced sniper will tell you how irritating it is when your targets keep moving around,” writes Valve. “The question is how to stop these cheaters from wind-sprinting around like they own the place. And the answer is to pin them to a wall. How? With arrows!”

The Sniper update will include three unlocks, like all previous updates, and will also come with new maps for the multiplayer shooter.

Well, I’ll say one thing for Warriors Orochi, today’s target of choice–it’s not a first person shooter. So I’m prepared to cut this game a great whopping lot of slack.  And it’s a good thing, too, because this game is going to NEED a whole lot of slack.

Now available for the Playstation 2 and Xbox 360, and with a sequel that I’ll be tackling later, Warriors Orochi posits the combining of two different time periods, the Three Kingdoms era of China, and the Warring States period of Japan.  These two are separated by about fourteen hundred years, so this is actually quite an achievement.  Anyway, this massive time rift was brought about thanks to the demonic efforts of Orochi, the Serpent King, who decided that life was entirely too boring what with wars going on and all, and instead decided to bring a couple totally different wars together and then get personally involved.  When you actually answer to the name “Serpent King”, you shouldn’t expect a whole lot in the way of sanity, so I’m sure on some basic level this whole thing really must make sense to Orochi.  Anyway, you’ve got a whole lot of disparate warriors taking on the various armies, including Orochi’s own demon-fuelled army where most of the lieutenants seem to be named after snakes, in an attempt to get back to their proper space and time.

On the one hand, this is a pretty sweet story.  This actually puts Eric Flint’s 1632 novel, and resulting Grantville Saga, to shame in terms of sheer epic.  The problem, of course, is that you’re going to have almost NOTHING to do with this epic aside from running around and hammering the quick attack button until your thumbs begin to ache sullenly, as though every throb is saying “Why are we even bothering with this ridiculous tripe?”  Seriously—in the first level alone I killed over five hundred men.  The fact that I had to take on a LIGHT BATTALION (seriously—a battalion is comprised of between five and fifteen hundred troops) armed with a giant pointy stick (a spear, really) alternately excites and horrifies me by turns.  But sadly, I’m not sufficiently excited to go on nor am I sufficiently excited to recommend it.  Maybe if I’d had a laser cannon instead…no.  No, it really doesn’t matter because all I did was run around a field swinging my big pointy stick and prematurely ending the lives of an entire light battalion’s worth of men in just one stage.  At the rate I was going I probably would’ve exterminated an entire brigade of men by the time I got to Orochi, and all I ever did was pound that light attack button fully two thousand times.  Possibly more.

Not that’s the only problem with this—just the biggest.  The graphics and sound are strictly mediocre and, while you can upgrade your weapons throughout the game, it really doesn’t seem to make a fat lot of difference to the gameplay.

And worst of all, they’ve got a plotline here on par with the greatest of alternate history science fiction, but your involvement with it comes down to pound a button several thousand times.  If you’re into repetitive action and racking up a kill count that would make Freddy Krueger hang his burn-scarred head in shame and admitting that he is a TOTAL pussy compared to you, then Warriors Orochi will give you that sweet bloodlust taste you’ve been craving.  Otherwise, I’m sad to say, give this one a pass.