It's E3 Preview Time for The Bender, with half our staff attending this year (James Walker and the artist formerly known as Intern Perry Piekarski, we give the inside scoop as well as some predictions. News blips from the week are spread out throughout (including Mike and Perry gushing over how awesome Red Faction is), other than that, it's what we know and predictions for the upcoming event, enjoy!
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E3 Preview:
Microsoft Discussion - Zune HD, New Crackdown, Perfect Dark XBLA, Killer Instinct, Alan Wake, Halo ODST, Microsoft Motion Control, Grand Theft Auto IV Ballad of Gay Tony
Nintendo Discussion - Gameboy Virtual Console, Pikmin 3, Mother 3, Kid Icarus, New Mario, Gamecube motion control remakes, New Metroid, New F-Zero, Tatsunoko vs Capcom (for USA), Wii's Player Choice
Sony Discussion - PSP Go!, Team ICO, MAG, Heavy Rain, PS3 Price cut or game bundle, Playstation Home (not Beta), God of War 3, Pixeljunk Shooter, More PS1 Classics, PS2 Emulation or in PSN stores, Gran Turismo 5, Katamari Forever, Blockbuster parternership, New Persona, Free Realms PS3
Capcom - New "Retro" Games
, Lost Planet 2, New version of Ghosts 'n Goblins or Dino Crisis or Maximo or Final Fight or Little Nemo.
EA - Mass Effect 2, Brutal Legend, The Beatles Rock Band, Fight Night 4, Dante's Inferno, Dragon Age Origins
Activision - Blur, Tony Hawk: RIDE, Modern Warfare 2, Prototype, DJ Hero
SEGA - Aliens vs. Predator, The Conduit, Bayonetta, Planet 51, Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
UBISOFT - Assassins Creed 2 , I am Alive, Shanghai, Joel McHale, Ravin Rabbits
Bethesda - Obvlivion Party Wii or Fallout Party Wii, Wet, Rogue Warrior
Vavle - Portal 2, Half Life Episode 3
Our Final Way Off Predictions- Steve Weibe reclaims Donkey Kong crown, Ken Kutaragi is back on top of Sony, Miyamoto shows up at press conference dressed as something, Something Kojima exclusive 360 game (not Metal Gear Solid 5), Sega saves Sonic, somebody takes over Duke Nukem Forever project.. SOMEBODY!
News Blips:
Free Realms tops 2 Million Users
Ubisoft to product No More Heroes 2
Bioshock 2 Vitachambers are gone!
Call of Duty 4 is the best selling First Person Shooter
Mafia 2 Delayed
SNK makes Star Radish
FFVIII = 2010
Left 4 Dead Sequel?
Castlevania movie no more!
Alan Wake, from Max Payne and Control creator Remedy, is a horror classic, prompting one player to buy 4,000 copies that don’t even work.
Kind of a goody story...
On a serious note, that is why I try activating gift cards asap. It's happened to me where the store didnt scan it right where the card was unusuable. Happened at Wally World.
I just bought two of the MonsterVerse Godzilla movies on 4K - both had digital copies expiring in 2023. Both were actually expired.
I'd be surprised but it's WB, of course they'd actually expire them
Usually most of those redemption card have an expiry date on them. If they expired all buyer did was buy recycled paper. And some of those codes are country locked to certain countries. I buy a card from the States I can't use it in Canada.
Dumb and silly story. She wasted her money for no reason.
Is it really that hard to go to Steam or GOG. She spent $240, when its currently 70% off on GOG, and only costs $4.49.
Gee, I wonder, should I spend $240 on eBay, or $4.49 on GOG? 🙄
Most likely she wanted to resell a few or most of them. However, it was a too good to be true situation.
So in short she paid $240.00 assuming usd for a bunch on unactivated game codes.
I still don't understand why I guess cause there's not a physical version and she wanted something for a collection or art project.
The Opening Levels that hooked gamers from the outset.
Jack writes: "Yet again browsing the latest offers in the Steam Spring Sale has led us to track down the very best. In terms of price to quality, we don’t think that it gets much better than this. Portal 2 is now less than a dollar, and if you haven’t got it already, now is the time to pick it up."
Portal deserves to be one of steams highest rated games... It's almost tetris levels of perfect game design.
Gotta love Steam. Just got Portal 2 for .97 cents CAD. Should have been $1.29, selected the bundle with Portal 1 and 2, which gets a 25% discount, already have Portal 1, so it removes the cost of that, and still applies the full 25% bundle discount to Portal 2. 90% + 25% discount.
That's sweet, I've been thinking about building a modest pc to play some oldies
