Awesome Radical Gaming

If you don’t own Dead Space, be sure to check out the demo that’s out today on both Xbox Live and the PSN (in Europe it’s out on the PSN the 27th). It gets the awesome radical seal of approval, if you’re a fan of survival horror games, or just radical games in general, you should definitely check it out.

The demo will be available at the PlayStation®Store in North America and Xbox LIVE® Marketplace worldwide*. In Europe, the demo will be available at the PlayStation Store on November 27th.

Winner of over 27 critic awards and currently nominated for Best Action Adventure Game on Spike TV’s upcoming 2008 Video Game Awards on December 14th, gamers can experience a taste of, as GamePro magazine says, “…one of the best survival horror experiences ever created.” Now, before experimenting on a turkey this Thanksgiving, you can tear the Necromorphs apart limb by limb with four different futuristic mining tools, and Isaac Clarke’s telekinesis and stasis abilities.

So, let’s say you played the Mirror’s Edge demo and liked it, but you haven’t bought the full game yet because you’re completely and totally broke (me). Maybe you’re sad because you don’t have it, maybe you’re angry at the world. Well, do I have a solution for you! I mean, it’s not my solution, really, since I didn’t make it, but whatever, that’s not important. What is important is that you can now play the free flash 2D version of Mirror’s Edge here. Brad Borne (I think he’s from those The Borne Something Something movies, he also is the creator of Fancy Pants) and Electronic Arts have partnered up to create the game, which is actually very fun and the music is great.

This is only the beta version of the game, the full version should be complete in one to two weeks.

Mirror’s Edge 2D

I admit, initially I wasn’t too pumped about Dead Space. I honestly thought it was just going to be some cheap Doom or Resident Evil rip-off, just another generic game borrowing concepts from other series in hopes of making a quick buck. I was dead (get it?) wrong, Dead Space is an amazing game that will go down as one of my favorites in 2008. Every fan of the survival horror genre should pick this one up, it’s definitely worth it.

In the game you control Isaac, one member of a repair crew sent to investigate the Ishimura (a massive space ship) and determine why communication has been lost with the ship. Once inside, things rapidly go downhill as it seems every one on the ship is either dead, insane, or turned into a horrible monster with an insatiable love of human flesh. From that point on it’s basically Isaac’s job to kill tons of bad guys and fix everything that’s wrong on the ship.

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It’s not often that a video game release date gets moved forward, I honestly can’t remember the last time a game has come out early. Well, until now that is. Dead Space will now officially be coming out on October 14th. And by October 14th I mean shipping on the 14th and you won’t be able to play it until the 15th but for some reason game stores advertise the 14th, which is not awesome but whatever.

They’ve also setup a pretty cool website at noknownsurvivors.com.

At first I was thinking Dead Space was just going to be a Doom knock-off. Now I’ve decided that it doesn’t matter, after watching the trailer I don’t think I care one way or another, it looks pretty awesome. Fun fact, apparently this trailer wasn’t approved by the ESRB (that’s why it shows the EU rating at the beginning).

Also, for some reason it sounds like Bjork singing to me. I don’t know how to do the two dots over the ‘o’. Björk. I just figured it out. Just kidding, I just copied that. I searched “Bjork” on Google and got “Björk”. It’s probably totally not her, because I’m wrong about music always. Always. Except this one time, Liz knows, ask her. She might not tell you, though, or mysteriously forget. It really did happen though, seriously.

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Spore looks totally radical, I can hardly wait for this game. Sure it will probably run like crap on my PC, but that’s fine, I don’t care, it will still be awesome. I actually had this same idea for a game 10 years ago but everyone shot me down and said “Mike, you’re retarded”. Remember to always follow your dreams.

P.S. I encoded this video with flash myself.

I think this is the worst game trailer I’ve ever seen in my life. I mean, why waste time dropping a deuce on us all?

So it seems that Mass Effect is still on track for a November release after the EA buyout. I might have cried if not. For real. Microsoft has confirmed the release date will be unchanged, but had some grim news about the sequels: (more…)

I don’t know how I feel about this…most things EA touches usually turn to crap, which sucks because Bioware and Pandemic Studios are both great companies…hopefully this won’t screw up Mass Effect in anyway.

Here’s the whole deal… (more…)