Games Cheats and Reviews

Despite a recently released map pack and a fairly successful movie, Sega has announced that it will not be releasing any future patches for Aliens vs Predator. The word came from the Sega forums (via Joystiq), from an apologetic moderator going by the username Clumsyorchid.

“I just received a mail this AM regarding patches for the console versions of AVP and I regret to inform everyone that these have sadly been scrapped,” the post read. “I had previously made a claim that these were coming and at the time, this was very much on the table. For the console community, I apologize, as I know there are many features and updates you’d like to see. I’ll keep fighting internally for this to happen, but until I hear otherwise, there will not be a console patch for either Xbox or PS3.”

The game didn’t score particularly well in reviews, so Sega may be refocusing its development efforts towards new games instead of patching an older title. Still, the vocal AvP community has not taken the news well, especially just after buying a large map pack with the promise of continued support.

Nintendo had a ton of new games and demos to demonstrate the 3DS at E3 this week, but one particularly curious demo reel showed off not just a lot of older games, but really older games — all from the NES and SNES era.

As Kotaku reports, this reel included Mega Man 2, Castlevania, Urban Champion, Kid Icarus, Yoshi’s Island, Smash Ping Pong, Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros., Tennis, The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and Mystery of Murasame Castle. They all were shown with 3D effects that gave them a “pop-up book feel,” and when asked whether they were all actually planned for eventual release on the 3DS, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime said that yes, yes they were.

He also said not to think of them as full-blown “remakes,” but that they might be “potentially getting more than just ported over.” Other than that, there weren’t any other details on this gaggle of planned old-school rereleases, so there’s no telling when or how they’ll be coming (this is pure conjecture, but perhaps they’ll be released as downloadable games, like the Wii’s Virtual Console?).

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PC Games published six brand new high definition screenshots of Black Mesa, the upcoming Source-Engine Remake of Half-Life 1.

Check out the first footage of the new Pokemon games from Pokemon Sunday (brief).

IncGamers’ Tim McDonald highway surfs into the Penal Zone with a six-foot dog and a hyperkinetic rabbity thing.

From the review: "Are we really on the third season of Sam & Max already? It seems like only yesterday that we heard the announcement that yes, there would be new Sam & Max games! In episodic format! Oh, for those exciting and terrifying days when we didn’t know whether Sam & Max season one would relive the glory days of the LucasArts adventures, or be memory-tarnishing tosh."

Andriasang: In its latest issue, Weekly Shounen Jump promised for its next issue a big feature on a new entry in a popular series. First details from that next issue have leaked out through the usual source, and it seems that there are three possibilities for what the magazine was referring to.

Dragon Ball Tag VS and Bleach Heat the Soul 7 for the PSP have been revealed in the latest issue of Weekly Shounen Jump.

Not only have the first scans of Pokemon Black/White been released, but there are also new details about the games.