Sonic Runs Solo in Project Needlemouse

Sonic has seen better days. He was in his prime during the 2D with very fun and memorable adventures, great music and colourful zones. Unfortunately, he's been the subject of tons of crappy 3D games and we all just want him to die. Horribly. Preferably in flames. His last game, Sonic Unleashed was starting to get back to what the speedy blue hedgehog is known for but the "were-hog" sequences were so bad it ruined my entire experience with the game [...]

New Ubisoft Games, Next Assassin's Creed to Feature Online Multiplayer

Alex Tretrop Jan 14, 2010 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Gaming, Industry News, News

Ubisoft has just revealed it's lineup for the company's fiscal year of 2010-11 and boy is it looking good. New entries in some of Ubisoft's current franchises will be hitting shelves this year, like another Raving Rabids, Driver and Ghost Recon. Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, R.U.S.E. and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction will also be released this year as well. Near the end of the statement, Ubisoft reveals that a new Assassin's Creed game will be coming and, here's the real surprise, will have online multiplayer. Ubisoft has also confirmed that this new Assassin's Creed will be a standalone game that includes a mutiplayer component and that it's not DLC for Assassin's Creed 2. He did, however, confirm that the game will feature AC2 protagonist Ezio de Auditorre in some way. 

Personally I think it would be cool to run around on rooftops, assassinating people with my friends. There might also be some competitive modes which could also be fun if they implement it right. It's kind of wierd that they are making an entire stand alone expansion but there could be another great single player adventure in there as well so i guess we won't know until we get some more information.

Do you want an Assassin's Creed game with multiplayer? Or is the series good enough without one?

[Giant Bomb]

Modern Warfare 2 Hits One Billion Dollars in Just 2 Months

Alex Tretrop Jan 14, 2010 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Gaming, Industry News, News, breaking

Following movie news about James Cameron's Avatar hitting one billion dollars just a few weeks ago we now have yet another entry into the one billion dollar club. According to internal Activision-Blizzard estimates, Modern Warfare 2, released on November 10th 2009, has already sold One Billion Dollars in sales.

With it selling almost 550 million dollars worth of copies in its first five days on the market, I don't think it's any surprise to anyone that it would hit the billion dollar mark this quickly. Modern Warfare 2 released to stellar reviews and the game has been played by a ridiculous amount of people every day since its launch. The NPD report is expected to come out tomorrow and we'll have exact numbers on December's sales and the year of 2009 overall by then.

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Netflix Ground Pounds its Way onto the Wii

Alex Tretrop Jan 13, 2010 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Gaming, Movies

Netflix is a service that debuted on consoles with a system update for Microsoft's Xbox 360 earlier last year. It's  excellent for streaming movies in great quality and being very easy to navigate and use if you have a subscrition to their service. Sony announced, a while back, that the PS3 would receive the service but in a different form, with users having to use free disk that would give you access to the service when put it into the disk drive.

Now it seems that Nintendo is following suit, with today's findings that confirmin that the online streaming service would also be coming to the Wii "in the spring." And with the 360 having exclusive rights to having the service embedded in its firmware, the Wii will be getting it the same way as the PS3, with you having to insert disk whenever you want to use Netflix. Presumably it won't stream in HD because of the Wii's 480p limitations, and it's kind of weird that you still can't watch any form of DVD on the Wii.

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"Lots of DLC for Mass Effect 2" and Mass Effect 3 News.....Wait We're Already Talking About It?

Mass Effect 2 is coming out in just two weeks and it's looking like another stellar game from Bioware. The combat looks improved, the story and characters look more interesting then the first, and some undoubtedly excellent storytelling will be present throughout the entire second act of the trilogy.

But what about the third game?

PSP Game Review - LittleBigPlanet

Summary

LittleBigPlanet is one of the most family friendly, cheerful and fun PS3 exclusives out there. There is infinite replayabilty with new levels being constantly uploaded by it's thriving community and being able to easily enjoy any of these levels with a friend locally or online.

This year Media Molecule has made an iteration on the PSP people who want to play LittleBigPlanet on the go. Will you be making amazing user created levels on the PSP or does this game lose the charm of it's PS3 brother?

Motion Control on the PC!?

Alex Tretrop Jan 8, 2010 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Gaming

PC hardware developer Razer, makers of some pretty amazing gaming mice, keyboards and other gaming accessories, have just announced that they will be teaming up with Valve and Sixense to produce the “Razer Sixense Ultra Precise Motion Controller.” What does this mean for PC gamers? You’ll get motion control on your system! Yay?

The controller has “ultra-precise one-to-one motion sensing controllers that use electromagnetic fields to track precise movements along all six axes." Apparently, It can track it’s orientation within one degree and detect its positioning down to one millimetre. It’s also going to be compatible with all the current and future PC games that come to the market.

This newly announced technology is being shown off at Valve’s CES booth, where you can play Left 4 Dead 2 on the PC with an unfinished version of the controller. Their Software Development Kit is already reported to be on Steam as well.  Check out the video (above) to see how it’s looking.

So do you want to see motion control on the PC? Or do you think it’s going to be as gimmicky as the Wii?

[The Escapist via Nowgamer]