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DC Universe Online Extended Trailer

theMegaton — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:29:02 +0000

For those of you into the goofy, and impotent DC Comics characters, here’s the goofy DC Universe Online trailer you’ve been waiting for.

Video Games | DC Universe Online | Exclusive Who Do You Trust Trailer

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Superman falls for that kryptonite trick every time.

Alice Madness Returns – American McGee’s Alice 2 First Images and Trailer

theMegaton — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:51:00 +0000

EA finally released some media for the Alice sequel Alice: Madeness Returns. It looks like the real deal, the same atmosphere and style with a modern graphical upgrade. The teaser trailer is short, but shows us that they won’t be holding back on the weird for the sake of grabbing the mainstream audience, This is a true sequel to a flawed classic of PC gaming.

See more Alice: Madness Returns Videos at Alice: Madness Returns Official Site.

Hitman 5 Concept Art

theMegaton — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:22:45 +0000

SquareEnix Eidos have released some concept poster art for the next Hitman game (Hitman 5). It seems Agent 47 will get burned, or god puts a contract on Satan or something. Agent 47 looks a little to movie game friendly in this picture, but it is just a little promotional concept art.

The image also confirms that IO Interactive will continue to be the ones devolping Hitman, so there should be no need to worry.

Another Century’s Episode R Long Gameplay Trailer

theMegaton — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:53:34 +0000

Here’s the full twelve minute extended trailer of Another Century’s Episode R (ACE:R) for Playstation 3. It’s not going to be the most graphically impressive PS3 game ever made, but it looks damn fun.

Trailer Part 1

Trailer Part 2

NPD Sales Numbers For June 2010

theMegaton — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:02:57 +0000

NPD for June changes things up a little bit with the Xbox 360 just barely taking the number 2 spot thanks to stock clearing sales on the old model 360′s and the release of the 360 short. Red Dead and Galaxy 2 continue to hold the first 3 software slots, while Toy Story 3 for DS and Lego Harry Potter Wii make a strong showing for licensed titles. Being beaten in the portable space by Toy Story 3 must be painful for Hideo Kojima whose Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker failed to chart on that unlovable loser the PSP. Alpha Protocol, Singularity, and Transformers should also commit seppuku for their horrible sales this month.

Nintendo DS 510,700
Xbox 360 451,700
Wii 422,500
PlayStation 3 304,800
PSP 121,000

Top 10 Games Sales

Red Dead Redemption 360 (Take 2) - 582,900
Super Mario Galaxy 2 Wii (Nintendo) - 548,400
Red Dead Redemption PS3 (Take 2) - 380,300
New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo) - 200,900
Just Dance Wii (Ubisoft) – 174,800
Wii Fit Plus With Balance Board Wii (Nintendo)
Toy Story3 NDS (Disney Interactive Studios
UFC 2010: Undisputed 360 (THQ)
Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 Wii (Warner Bros. Interactive)
UFC 2010: Undisputed PS3 (THQ)

Updating with the rest of the top 20:

11. Pokemon SoulSilver DS
12. Transformers War For Cybertron 360
13. New Super Mario Bros. DS
14. Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 360
15. FIFA World Cup 360
16. FIFA World Cup PS3
17. Mario Kart Wii
18. Pokemon HeartGold DS
19. Toy Story 3 Wii
20. Wii Sports Resort

Also some numbers for specific games were released.
Transformers 360 did 132,000, and Wii Sports Resort in the 20 position sold less than 100,000 which should give you an idea of how bad some of this month’s other releases did. Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker failed to even crack the top 20 selling only 52,000 copies. Even worse numbers for Green Day Rock Band which sold only 83,000 copies between ALL 3 of the console releases. Skate 3 only sold 253,000 copies in it’s first 2 months down forty percent from Skate 2, and Tiger Woods 11 dropped 68 percent from last year’s release, due entirely to Tiger’s unquenchable love of white meat being made public this year.

According to the twitter account of an IGN employee some bombs of the month are in this order:
Naughty Bear > Singularity > Sin and Punishment
Perhaps if Singularity, or Sin and Punishment had had any promotion whatsoever they might have had at least a remote chance of beating out Naughty Bear!

Swords And Soldiers Coming To PSN

theMegaton — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:21:45 +0000

Another Wii exclusive makes it’s way to an HD console. Swords and Soldiers the cute 2D RTS will be heading to PSN this fall. Price TBA.

New MediEvil Rumored To Be In Developement

theMegaton — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:21:12 +0000

According to this month’s issue of PSM3, Sony’s Cambridge Studio is working on developement of a new MediEvil game. There hasn’t been a new entry in the mediocre action series in many years. It’s unclear whether this will be a Playstation 3 or PSP title, though given the disastrous sales of your average PSP game these days it seems likely that it will not show up on the much maligned portable.

NBA Jam Coming To Xbox 360 And PS3

theMegaton — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:27:26 +0000

Surprising absolutely nobody, it appears the formerly Wii exclusive arcade basketball title NBA Jam will be making it’s way to the HD platforms 360 & Playstation 3. Discovered, as these things often are, via a ratings board the German USK has rated NBA Jam for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 release. It’s not known at this time whether or not this will be a disc release or a downloadable title, though it would seem somewhat insane to undercut full price disc release sales on one platform by releasing the same game as a lower price download on two other platforms.

Super Street Fighter IV Ships A Million

theMegaton — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:32:11 +0000

Capcom today announced that they have shipped 1 million copies of Super Street Fighter IV. A huge success for this budget release upgrade to Street Fighter IV in an otherwise struggling fighting genre. Now this number is purely shipped to retailers not sold to customers, which Capcom is notoriously good at considering the <30k selling Bionic Commando shipped 500,000 copies to retail.

Grin Cuts 160 Jobs After Failing With Wanted, Terminator, & Bionic Commando

theMegaton — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:34:10 +0000

GRIN managed snag the licenses to make Wanted, and The Terminator video games, and got the privilege to create the new Bionic Commando for Capcom, and they quickly failed with all three. Failing in this expensive HD world has consequences, and today it is rumored they are cutting 160 jobs! That’s out of apparently 230. It’s a shame for the people now out of work, but they should have made better games, and probably less of them.