For the last 13 years, Haden Blackman has been neck deep in everything "Star Wars." Seriously, just look at his vast resume of projects. 35 separate "Star Wars" gigs, with much of that time focused on writing stories that would enter the canon of the world's most beloved sci fi franchise. Gamers best know him for his work on titles like "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed" (and its forthcoming sequel) and the still-running "Star Wars: Galaxies." Blackman announced today that he'll be leaving LucasArts.
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Activision and Neversoft haven't publicized all of the "90 plus" tracks it's promised for "Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock" yet, but they have gotten about two thirds of the way there since our last update. Rush fans should be especially pleased by the list after the jump, which contains every track confirmed thus far.
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Understanding the intricacies of multiplayer in "Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood" may require some some time and explanation-grappling. Understanding who the two additional multiplayer characters are that Ubisoft has just announced, however, should be easy. They are a blacksmith and a soldier.
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Behold the perils of reviewing PC games. Adam Biessener over at GameInformer was testing out Blizzard's RTS juggernaut when his video card overheated and fried. Yikes.
Odds are that you'd prefer to not have that happen to your video card. Thankfully, Blizzard has offered up an official fix for overheating problems people seem to be having.
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Blizzard's legal and virus-free "StarCraft 2" digital editions are on sale as of this week via Battle.net, but as with any other high-profile game release, illegal pirated editions have found their way to P2P networks as well. Some of those torrents appear to be coming with extra features that their downloaders weren't searching for in the form of malware.
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Like "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Mobilized" before it, "Call of Duty: Black Ops" will be getting a Nintendo DS game from n-Space to accompany its console releases this fall. Boasting six-player online multiplayer, a new perks system and a two-player co-op mode, the game will be slated to appear on November 9 along with the other "Blacks Ops" titles.
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(Spoiler Alert: Reach falls.)
Bungie's "Halo" trailers are usually pretty understated until the way end, at which point something ridiculous happens. Seems that they went another direction with the latest "Halo: Reach" campaign trailer, which has a solid dozen ridiculous things happening in just over a minute. The fleet of Warthogs cruising into battle against a fleet of Banshees probably takes the cake, but there are plenty of additional tidbits in there to drool over.
Hard to imagine that Bungie's final "Halo" game is only about a month and a half away. Now if only we had more new games coming out right now to distract us until then. "Mafia 2," please move your release date up to now. That'd be super.
Nintendo didn't get very specific with prices or release windows when they showed off their new 3DS at E3. Attitudes appear to be shifting, however, as the company has planned an announcement date in September to unveil pricing and release info for Japan.
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A few months back, one of our MTV News producers took a stab at recreating the trailer for "Prince of Persia" in LEGO form. It was an impressive feat, but I think it might be matched by the work put in to recreating "StarCraft 2" with LEGOs. You can watch the incredible video below, which captures everything from base-building to garrisoning units to harvesting minerals. Hell, they even manage to recreate the fog of war.
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Google's reported investment in Zynga may only have have been the first step in a larger, calculated move for the company into social gaming. Their social networking site Orkut got left in the shadows when Facebook rose to power, and though they probably don't want to create a new Facebook clone, they do seem to want a piece of the social network king's pie.
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