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Saints Row 2 Drops on Steam, Direct2Drive
By Joe Haygood | January 7, 2009
After a delay of a few months, the wraps come off of the PC version of Saints Row 2. This is the first time that a game in the Saints Row franchise has come to the PC platform, and the game is available on both Steam and Direct2Drive for $39.95. It is also available at retail, but who buys PC games at retail.
Saints Row 2 picks up the story five years after the events from the first Saints Row, and has you waking up out a coma, and finding that the city of Stillwater has changed, including the gangs that now run the territories around town. You play the game through co-op, single player or in multiplayer rooms, and offers a lot of mini-games and activities to play instead of the main campaign.
FCC To The DRM Rescue
By Joe Haygood | January 6, 2009
While DRM has been around for several years in the PC world, it was not until Spore that the DRM arguement came to a head in popular culture. Spore was a mainstream title that exposed the good and bad of DRM, and the arguements for and against having it in your game.
The FCC has kind of stayed out of the fray, allowing consumers and business users to try and solve the issue by themselves. Consumers have taken their arguement to the press, and in the case of Spore, to the courts. Publishers have put up a wall, telling the public that they need to protect their investment.
Capcom’s early 2009 release calendar a star studded affair
By Stephen Munn | January 5, 2009
Cry sequelitis all you like, but Capcom’s got something in each of a number of their key franchises rolling out in the next six months. There’s some Resident Evil, Street Fighter, Dead Rising, and Bionic Commando action coming your way, and some of that’s even coming to Wii, even if it may not be the one we really wanted.
Street Fighter 4 is coming February 17th to PS3 and 360. As disappointed as I was that the whole game doesn’t look like Okami as the original trailer seemed to imply, I still think there’s a lot of potential for some great fighting here. Unfortunately, I can’t help but wonder if there’s anything that can be done with the Street Fighter format to give it legs beyond what it was already doing 15 years ago. As interesting as it is, I’ll be waiting and trying before I consider a buy.
February 27th will bring the Wii edition of Dead Rising, subtitled Chop Till You Drop, which is still adorable. The game was expected last year, so I’m hoping the delays mean we’ll see more zombies in the game than the screens out there are showing *cough 6 killed cough*. Dead Rising on 360 was legendary for its swarms of zombies, and the idea that there might be so many fewer on Wii makes me think I’d be better off waiting for a PS3 version.
Resident Evil 5 is something of a legend at this point. In addition to being perhaps the game with the biggest shoes to fill of this lot after the incredible Resident Evil 4, it’s brought out a great deal of ongoing discussion on one of our older articles here at Aeropause. And for the record, I have the opposite opinion of whatever yours might be. Look for this one on PS3 and 360 on (dun dun dun!) Friday the 13th… of March! I’m glad to hear this, because the people at work keep asking me when it’s coming out. Now I have an answer.
Other games mentioned without release dates are the amusingly named FLOCK!, a download-only animal herding puzzle game with UFOs for PSN and XBLA and a bike-racing MotoGP game for Wii in March. They talk about Bionic Commando as well, but they keep the date on that one wide open. Like, six months wide, so we’ll see if it hits in that timeframe or not. It’s due for PS3 and 360 and I think it looks pretty slick.
Windows versions of the PS3 and 360 games are expected at a later date. Press release follows.
GTA IV Wrecks a Pixar Classic
By Joe Haygood | January 5, 2009As will be mentioned in the podcast that will be posted sometime in the next 12-24 hours, I have finally put together another video using the Grand Theft Auto IV video editor. While it is not my best work, I had a funny moment happen in the game that I decided to put to good use. Hope you enjoy, and for those that can’t get enough of her, the “harder to get caught” woman is my credits signature now.
Quantum of Solace Review (PC)
By Joe Haygood | January 1, 2009When Activision picked up the Bond franchise last year, a collective groan could be heard around the world, as everyone felt that Bond would be used as a commodity. Treyarch however, decided to take the Call of Duty engine which garnered high praise from the community for its great looks, and kick it up a notch for the famed martini drinking MI-6 agent in Quantum of Solace.
Looking Back At 2008 Predictions
By Joe Haygood | December 31, 2008
At the beginning of 2008 I made a few predictions for the coming year. Some were crazy, some were serious, and some just made people scratch their heads. So how did I do when I look back at my predictions? I would give myself a big fat F, because I missed on quite a bit. So lets take a look at what I guessed at and what actually happened, and I give a little commentary on my guesses in regards to the actual happenings of the year.
Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Online MMO Enters Open Beta
By Joe Haygood | December 30, 2008
After a long closed beta in Japan, that saw numerous persons from out of country attempting to join the game, Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Online has gone live with an open beta here in the States.
Shin Megami Tensei is a series that has been running in several variations for the last twenty years and includes the highly successful Digital Devil Saga, as well as the Persona series. Now you can join other fans of the game online to battle out evil demons in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo.
Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Online features real time combat, fusing of demons and personas, along with having your friends joining you in the fight along the way.
The game is free for anyone to play, and while it is supported with Microtransactions, you can complete the main quests and side quests without spending a dime, as the microtransactions are based on new outfits and different looking weapons.
Broken Sword Games Coming to Good Old Games
By Joe Haygood | December 30, 2008
Good Old Games gave us two free adventure game releases last week from Revolution Software. Now, Good Old Games has released two of the four games in the Broken Sword series.
Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror, takes George and his co-hort in adventuring, Nico on a trip to South America, where he tries to stop a power mad kingpin from raising a Mayan god, who will bring about the end of the world. Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon, continues the adventures of Nico and George, as they try to stop the Neo-Templars from using Earth’s fault lines to bring about immortality to its members.
Both games are highly entertaining adventure games, with The Smoking Mirror being a classic cell animated point and click adventure game, while The Sleeping Dragon is more of an action/puzzle adventure game, with more environmental puzzles than logic puzzles. Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror is currently available for $5.99, and is DRM free. Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon will be available soon for hopefully the same low price of $5.99.
EA Lets You Try, Try Again Installing Spore
By Paul Munn | December 28, 2008
EA has surprised most by offering Spore and other games on Steam, but before Christmas I also saw a little tidbit hit the news wires that some may have missed. I know a friend of mine with multiple installs of Spore on various machines in his house missed it and was happy when I filled him in. The promised de-authorization tool for Spore has been released by EA about three months after announcing it to quell the anti-DRM outcry. This tool lets you “undo” the authorization of the five installs the game allows you before blocking further installation.
You might be wondering why I’d be talking about my friend’s five installs off of his one copy of Spore so casually, but the truth is just one or two of those installs actually succeeded. They were done to a variety of computers — some laptops, some desktops, all not very new — to try and find out which of them would run it acceptably. Some of them wouldn’t run the game due to driver problems he didn’t get into, others wouldn’t even finish the install but did grab one of those coveted install licenses before failing. This tool will get him on the road to playing it on the best PC platform he has available.
That is, if he wants to play Spore anymore. He and his family got a PlayStation 3 for Christmas and has fallen head over heels for Super Stardust HD and LittleBigPlanet like many of the rest of us have.
Seen on Shacknews.
The First (of Many) Aeropause Gaming Nights
By Joe Haygood | December 27, 2008
Tonight was the first of what we hope to be many Aeropause Gaming Nights. The game on tap was Gears of War 2, playing Horde mode. We only had myself and a couple of people from the Aeropause community, Jordan (whom I called Jonathan Snyder again) Snyder and Terry, a not so regular visitor of the site.
The night started with myself just trying to learn the controls in Gears 2, to which I had just bought two hours before the gaming night began. Snyder (gamertag snyderunc) was the star of the evening, getting myself (gamertag mclazyj) and Terry (gamertag tawspot) out of a ton of jams. We worked our way up to level 17 in Horde mode and had a blast the whole way.
Best moment of the night had to be after Terry had died, and he was giving us heads up on where people were coming from, and as myself and Snyder made our last stands, all we got from Terry was “You have everything coming up the stairs at you!”. It was a blast and we hope to have more join us.
If you have a game suggestion and a night you would like to play, either use the current gaming thread here, or create a game specific thread in the appropriate forum. I will see about making a forum specifically dedicated to gaming nights if they become popular enough. Also, we have another gaming night happening on Sunday night and it is for Left 4 Dead on the PC. I will be in there for the start, but will have to leave early to podcast. Hope to see you PC gamers there on Sunday!
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