Not only can you download Vita games early , you can buy boxed copies of first-party titles early as well. GameStop currently has copies of Little Deviants , Uncharted , Hot Shots , Wipeout 2048 , and ModNation Racers in stock online right now. They ship within 24 hours, the site notes, or you can use the site to check for stock at your local store
Let’s be honest, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning ’s quality came as the first nice surprise of 2012. Our quibbles with this first installment in what we hope to be a lasting series didn’t detract from it being a great fantasy RPG . Although other outlets weren’t as smitten as us, the RPG from Big Huge Games, a studio that built its rep on real-time strategy series Rise of Nations , is getting some solid reviews.
At CES , we scored a backstage demo of Table Soccer , one of three augmented reality games that show off PS Vita’s Wide Area Augmented Reality capability. Today, Sony Santa Monica Sr. Manager Dave Thach returns with two new augmented reality games, Fireworks and Cliff Diving
Activision and Double Helix have announced a video game adaptation of Battleship , the Hasbro Studios/Universal Films adaptation of Milton Bradley’s Battleship . Set for an April European release and a May North American release, Battleship will combine aspects of the classic board game with FPS gameplay.
Wondering what kind of difference Skyrim ’s high-res texture pack makes to the game’s already gorgeous PC graphics? The folks at HardOCP are all over that .
Sports fans – I’m psyched to give you a sneak peak at the new Miami Marlins ballpark in South Beach, courtesy of MLB 12 The Show . Have a look at where new acquisitions Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle, and Heath Bell will be calling home this year… After winning two World Series in less than 20 years since their inaugural 1993 season, 2012 ushers in a name change and a new ballpark for the Marlins.
By now you’re hopefully well versed in the long gun nuances, co-op narrative and all the hanging-by-your-fingers-on-edge-of-a-cliff action found in Uncharted 3 multiplayer. Today we’re firing a heavy salvo of Uncharted 3 DLC information your way featuring new content to download individually, or as part of the Fortune Hunter’s Club program .
Last month, domains for “Skylanders Giants” appeared, followed by a lot of cryptic teases from a ” SkylandersGiant ” Twitter account. Today, Activision and developer Toys for Bob have revealed that Skylanders: Giants is actually a full sequel to the game released last year. Alongside the new game come brand new figures to collect and, as the name implies, they are much larger than the toys released so far
February’s Qore crosses over, jumps into the future, and flies into the past. Jesse Blaze Snider starts off with this month’s lead feature by tagging into Street Fighter X Tekken . Capcom’s Seth Killian sits down with Jesse to discover how this wild mashup was first conceived, how the tag team gameplay works, and what’s going on with those “gems.” He also follows Birds of Steel , a game that rolls back the clock to World War II-era dogfighting.
A Touch Arcade forum user is making allegations that a company is offering to boost the ranking of free App Store apps using bots. According to “walterkaman,” the unnamed company will set up automated, repeated downloads of a client’s app in order to push it into Apple’s Top Free charts. A representative from the shady ad company pointed out eight games on the Top 25 Free chart that were promoted in this manner, walterkaman said
Until now, it’s been difficult for Elite users to level up their clans in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 . That appears to be changing in the near future, with the arrival of the long-awaited Clan Operations feature, which allows clans to take part in competitions for fun, experience, and even prizes. Beachhead posted a preview of the Clan Operations interface on the Elite forums , detailing how users will choose Operations, and what kind of information they’ll see (how much Clan XP an Op is worth, their current enlistment status, and start and end dates).
Nimblebit’s Tiny Tower keeps building up, up, up! Developer Ian Marsh tweeted last night that the addictive tower management title had reached 10 million iOS downloads. The company previously mentioned it has a million daily active users . It can’t hurt that the game doesn’t cost anything, but that’s still quite a few folks building up tiny office structures! Tiny Tower , named Apple’s 2011 iPhone Game of the Year, recently brought the fight to Zynga for its liberally inspired game Dream Heights