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A simple forum post is what tipped us of. Without any news about the tournament swarming around the usual virtual hangouts, we were not sure what to expect. But soon, curiosity got the better of us and we found ourselves at the Wii Virtual Tennis tournament, held at Bangalore a week and a half back.
Now we have been to gaming tournaments featuring hosts of killer rigs, PS3’s and Xbox 360’s but just like the Wii is trouncing them in sales, so seems to have been the case with the Wii tourney as well. It was easily the best and well managed gaming tournament that we have been to in a while. Pictures and more after the break.
Not to be outdone by its fellow Sony-platform developing brethren, Washington-based Sucker Punch Productions finally gets its chance to show off Playstation 3 owners what it’s been cooking for the past several years. But rather than sticking to its anthropomorphic animal parade of cel-shaded thievery and macking-it-up with police officials in quick-time ballroom dances, Sucker Punch brings an altogether new IP to the mix. inFamous is an open-world action thriller drenched in heavy comic book tones and one hell of an opening sequence. After waking up from a cataclysmic event, delivery boy Cole McGrath ends up in a hospital and learns that he’s the sole cause and survivor of an immense explosion in Empire City, caused by a package he was asked by an anonymous sender to unwrap. To put it in Zero Wing broken Engrish, somebody set up him the bomb. With his entire hometown (what’s left of it, anyway) tossed into mass hysteria, McGrath takes the center of public blame. All this trouble, and for what? Just for a silly plot-device to net Cole some killer electrical powers?
Actually, wait. That sounds quite the bitchin’ compensation deal.
While E3 2009 did not bring any good news for the PC gamers, here is some news to cheer them up. Xtreme Gaming is back with the 8th edition of BYOC and it is just 26 days away.
Scheduled to be held at DLF Place Mall, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, this LAN party will be held on the 4th and 5th of July, 2009. To register, send in the following details to xtremegamingcentre [@] gmail [dot] com.
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Hit the jump to have a look at what all went behind the doors in the last BYOC event. Be warned though that certain images faturing tattoos and half naked gamers might scar you for life.
Gamers worldwide leapt in joy at the news of Capcom decision to bring Bionic Commando to the Hi-Def era with a sequel. Not only would the game be a continuation of the original story, but would also take the game out from the limiting 2-D plane to glorious 3-D. While we wondered how the game and more importantly, the bionic arm work in the three dimensional world of the new Bionic Commando, Capcom went ahead and wowed us with videos of Nathan “Rad” Spencer, saving the world yet again with his trusty arm. But like so many other games before this, do the promises made actually make it into the game? Do you actually have as much fun as the guy in the trailers and videos seems to be having? We got to find out for ourselves as we swung our way through the ruins of Ascension City.
Now here is a piece of news that caught us completely by suprise. While talikng to a little bird recently, Dell’s plans of getting Alienware to India slipped out.
Apparently Dell is looking for a launch sometime in July 2009. It will be bringing in an Alienware laptop to test the waters. Initially, only one model will be launched. If successful, we just might get to have the whole product range of Alienware launched here in India.
Now how successful will Alienware be with the price-concious Indian customer but we are sure lot of gamers will be delighted to see Alienware on the shelves soon.
Here is the classical chicken and egg puzzle, but with a twist. What came first, the name or the idea? By naming a game, “Plants vs. Zombies” (PvZ from hereon), Popcap Games got us wondering. Did the name crop up in one of their brainstorming sessions and then they decided to go ahead and make a game around it? Or was it the other way round? No matter what the answer might be, Popcap games sure have sprung a surprise upon us with PvZ. Tower defense games have been here for ages now but we never expected one to look like this, pitting the unlikeliest of the enemies against each other. The result is just the right combination of cuteness and addictiveness, all hallmarks of Popcap games.
“Think someone could spend half their life in a slam with a horse bit in their mouth and not believe? Think he could start out in some liquor store trash bin with an umbilical cord wrapped around his neck and not believe? Got it all wrong, holy man. I absolutely believe in God… And I absolutely hate the fucker.”
If you had watched the 2000 sci-fi film Pitch Black, you may remember this line. It gives you a small peek into the harsh upbringing and violent streak of one of the best anti-heroes in the gaming world - Richard B. Riddick. This was also the first time that the character of Riddick was introduced to the world. Four years after Pitch Black a second movie called “The Chronicles of Riddick” was released and this time it was accompanied by a game based on the lead protagonist of the movie – Riddick. The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay released on the Xbox and a little later on the PC. The game turned out to be sleeper hit on the Xbox and even though it was highly acclaimed on the PC, the sales were pretty low. The lack of any kind of promotion for the PC version, save for an odd trailer probably was one of the reasons for the low sales. I wasn’t even aware of the game and happened to pick up the game on an impulse. I came to know it was a movie-based game and I was initially skeptical considering how movie based games always turned out to be mediocre efforts and were mere cash-ins, but I was absolutely blown away when I started playing the game. The game turned out to be a lot of fun and had a great blend and balance of various gameplay elements supported by a good story, amazing voice acting, a great atmosphere and superb visuals. To date it remains one of my favorite PC games of all time.
DICE delighted us by releasing a trailer of the upcoming game featuring the multiplayer aspect of Battlefield: Bad Company 2, a direct sequel to the previous game in the series.
Featuring a snow laden level, the trailer showed off in-game vehicles, lots of shooting, trucks falling of cliffs, buildings being blown up, air strikes and the new shock pads which the medics will be carrying this time around. Everything is supposedly done in-game.
Damn the skeptics. The fan boy in us loved every moment of it!
Here at The ANGRY Pixel, Bionic Commando has already swung it’s way into our hearts. For the fence-sitters, Bionic Commando is now available for a test-swing in Chennai and Bangalore.
Gamers from Chennai can flock to Blur to try out the game for themselves. Bangloreans on the other hand will have to make a beeline for Consoul.
The game will be launched in India on May 22nd for the Xbox 360 and the PS3 at a price point of INR 3499.
All I can say here is just - “WOW!!. Just when you thought Chris Kline had created his masterpiece with the Contra Jungle Jam, he goes and pulls a new one out of the hat!
Check out the latest in video game music wizardry on his newest video. This one’s him performing the Castlevania Rock live at Games Live in Loveland Colorado.
The performance is an arrangement of Beginning - Castlevania 3 Dracula’s Curse, Wicked Child - Castlevania, Vampire Killer - Castlevania, Moonlight Nocturne - Symphony of the Night. And boy does it rock your socks off!