Games Cheats and Reviews

If the current crop of consoles has taught me anything, it’s that game developers have a real knack for transmuting my childhood memories into a revenue stream. New Super Mario Bros. Wii, for example, struck the nostalgia center of my brain like a laser-guided missile. Nintendo can call it “New” all they like — that game ostensibly boils down to four-player Super Mario Bros. 3, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. So when I heard that a multiplayer, high-def remake of Earthworm Jim was on the way, I thought, “Sure, I’ll bite.”

This latest, juiced-up classic to hit Xbox Live Arcade brings with it just about everything that was so great about the original Earthworm Jim: varied run-and-gun platforming, surreal environments, and absurd boss battles against walking non sequiturs (like Bob the Killer Goldfish and Queen Pulsating, Bloated, Festering, Sweaty, Pus-filled, Malformed, Slug-for-a-Butt). To top it all off, everything sports a fresh coat of fancy, high resolution paint, so the game looks good.

Fdkafjdsio. That’s what she said.

Ratchet & Clank and Resistance developer Insomniac Games has entered into a multi-platform publishing partnership with EA Partners, breaking a 16-year streak of PlayStation exclusivity.

While terms of the agreement were not disclosed, it was revealed that the deal covers an entirely new franchise created by the company, which will be published on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles.

Microsoft has released their fiscal data for the year and in this report they revealed that the Xbox 360 has sold over 40 million units worldwide since the consoles launch in 2005. In 2005 they sold a reported 5 million units and things have taken-off since then.

As today’s crop of consoles allow developers to create titles with heightened levels of graphical fidelity and storytelling, will gamers start to see more and more realistic portrayals of sex within the interactive medium? With this question in mind, let’s take a look back at some of the sexiest and steamiest scenes in the history of videogames.

Final Fantasy XIII’s first month sales figures in North America are in, and they are quite good. Releasing simultaneously on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, Square Enix’s RPG pushed some 1.3 million copies between both consoles.

Today marks a sad day as the original Xbox Live service shuts down later on this evening.  This spectacular service began seven years ago and has spawned a new definition of multiplayer gaming on consoles today.

One of the biggest games played on Xbox Live remains Halo 2.  Bungie has decided to send off Halo 2 players in style.  They are sending you off with a bit of a surprise for Halo Reach.

Urk from Bungie said:

Actually, after talking to The Wolf it does look like there will be a little something sweet for anyone who played some Halo 2 over Xbox LIVE, assuming the gt they use in Reach is the same account.

Be sure you do your part and play one last round of Halo 2 for old times sake.  We fully plan on it.

Sharing: It’s Win/Win

Kotaku: "It’s April 14. If you own an Xbox and play online with it, or still play original Xbox games on Xbox Live via your 360, you should know this is the last day you’ll ever be able to do so.

As Microsoft promised earlier in the year, today the plug will be pulled on the world’s first truly successful online gaming service for consoles, which first set up shop on the original Xbox all the way back in 2002."

THINQ: Sony has apologised for the row surrounding the removal of the Install Other OS function from older PlayStation 3 consoles.

We asked Sony UK to respond to reports that at least one user had received a partial refund from Amazon UK in compensation for the fact that part of the device’s advertised functionality had been removed.

A Sony spokesman told us:

NG: In an exclusive interview with NowGamer, Crytek boss Cevat Yerli intimated that, rare though it is, on occasion elements which work on the PC version but aren’t able to scale down to the consoles, simply don’t go in…