Atari has released a trailer for The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. Vin Diesel reprises his roll as the voice of Riddick in the 2nd game in this popular sci-fi series.

This trailer is choc-full-o’ clips from cut scenes as well as FPS gameplay. And, if you look closely, the possibility of some 3rd person gameplay. (check it out at the 52 second mark of the video, not sure if this is part of a cut scene, or gameplay… you be the judge!)

After watching this trailer, I can’t wait to get my hands on this. I was a huge fan of Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay on the original Xbox, and enjoy the movie series as well. I hope this game adds to the story and entertainment value of the Riddick saga!

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Here is a pretty sick deal. If you head over to Amazon right now and purchase the 160GB PlayStation 3’s Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune pack ($499), you’ll get LittleBigPlanet for FREE!

So not only do you get Uncharted, which is easily one of the best games to come out for the system — you get maybe the best game of the year in LittleBigPlanet. If I already didn’t buy my system on launch, I would be all over this.

If you’re on the fence with this one — act now because there is only 500 of these puppies available.

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When Ready 2 Rumble debuted for the Dreamcast almost 10 years ago, people praised the game for its unbelievable graphics. While the game was certainly fun for its time, it was a tad basic and by no means deep. But many people excused the flaws because of how it looked.

At the time Midway released the title, it was obviously heavily influenced by Nintendo’s ‘Punch-Out!!’ series. Rumble had the same type of goofy cartoony boxers that ‘Punch-Out!!’ started years before. However, that is not the only reason why gamers consider Nintendo’s boxing game legendary. Sure it was cute, but it also had depth. It was up to the player to understand and learn the opponent’s consistent patterns. It took a lot of failing in order to beat the game. But at the time, that is what made it outstanding.

Ready 2 Rumble did the complete opposite. The game was 100% trying to appeal to gamers by its good graphics and cartoony characters. When we look back at it, the gameplay was not as important. The fighting system was more of a button masher with limited moves. Again, it wasn’t bad — it just doesn’t nearly hold up to the test of time like Punch-Out!!.

Apparently Atari own the rights to Ready 2 Rumble and has the talented team over at AKI (WWF Now Mercy) developing the boxing title for the Wii. If somehow AKI can mix the fun characters with good quality gameplay and utilize the Wiimote — this game could be fun. However, if Atari wants a quick buck than we should all just skip it.

In the end, I do trust AKI and if anyone knows how to make a deep fighting system; it would be them. After the Jump check out the second video.

Ready 2 Rumble: Revolution should be available in March 2009.

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This could be the best review in the history of video games. Okay, I’m not serious at all, but for some reason I couldn’t stop watching. Gettinggoodatthis on youtube decided to review Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Although, I didn’t like it because of its in depth review — in fact it’s the complete opposite.

I just wonder if this was supposed to be a real review or a fake…

via: gonintendo

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It’s official, the Ghostbusters’ video game will be published in June 2009 by Atari. Right after Comic-Con 2008, it was reported the game was dropped by Activision because of their recent merger with Blizzard, even though the game was months away from being release.

By the time the game hits store shelves in June, the game will have been delayed 7 months from its original planned date. We’re hoping the delay is to make sure the game lives up to the name. However, when the game was shown off back in July — it received a decent amount of praise. Maybe with the game being pushed back; it’ll end up being even better…

Ghostbusters: The Video Game will be available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, Wii, PlayStation 2 and DS

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Capcom has just released a new video featuring their zombie game Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop for the Nintendo Wii. The game has been criticized for the lack of zombies on the screen at once and we think it has been a fair argument.

However, the latest clip shown above defiantly has more enemies on the screen at once during some scenes. Although sadly, you can’t even compare it to the Xbox 360 version. Also another thing we noticed was when an enemy dies; he/she almost instantly disappears. Which doesn’t help the issue the game is obviously having.

Hopefully the new mechanics introduced to the game will make up for the glaring problems. But don’t count on it.

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When Sonic and the Black Knight was announced a little while back, most people including myself we’re thinking; “WTF is Sega thinking?” Seeing Sonic running around with a giant ass sword was almost as weird as seeing him morph into a werewolf.

When the first trailer hit the web, my opinion somewhat changed. I actually thought the game had the potential of being the first good Sonic game in a long time. Although, overtime that could change — it is again a next-gen Sonic game.

However, Sega has released a batch of screens from the game and I once again have the confidence this could be good. Not only that, it appears to be one of the best looking Wii games to date.

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During the last summer Olympics, Michael Phelps broke the world record for winning about a million gold medals. Because of his crazy speed in swimming, Phelps has become a national phenomenon not seen for along time.

During an interview with the show 60 Minutes, it was revealed that the gold medalists is having his own game being developed as we speak. However, the only info to come out is that it’s going to be obviously a swimming sports game. As of now we have no clue who is publishing the game. Although, considering Michael Phelps worked to promote Call of Duty: World at War and starred in the Guitar Hero commercial, one has to assume that it will be Activision.

When more information breaks, we’ll let you know.

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With titles for all but the PSP this week, nothing really puts a blip on the radar bigger than Prince of Persia. This is an absolute must have for this week on my list. Other notables are GTA IV on the PC and the new Mushroom Men for the Wii.

(PS3)
Prince of Persia, SingStar ABBA

(Xbox 360)
Prince of Persia, Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon

(Wii)
The Tale of Despereaux, Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars, Nancy Drew: The White Wolf of Icicle Creek, My Fitness Coach, Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun

(PC)
Neopets Puzzle Adventure, The Tale of Despereaux, Grand Theft Auto IV, Dairy Queen Tycoon, A Vampyre Story

(DS)
Prince of Pesia: The Fallen King, The Tale of Despereaux, Animal Boxing, Mushroom Men: Rise of the Fungi, Slingo Quest, My Fun Facts Coach, Dreamer: Puppy Trainer

(PS2)
The Tale of Despereaux, SingStar ABBA, Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories

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It appears that the almighty hosts of The Video Game Awards would like to tease the announcement of Uncharted 2. Check out the teaser trailer / commercial for the 2008 Video Game Awards to air on Spike December 14th.

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Just recently I was watching someone play the original Half-Life for the PC. While the gameplay is still top-notch, the graphics just couldn’t hold up to the test of time. Remember, when the game was first introduced for the PC, the year was 1998 – 10 years ago! Most games, especially 3D games generally look their age over time. And sadly Half-Life was no exception.

Thankfully, the mod team Black Mesa has just released a trailer featuring their Half-Life remake using the source engine. And boy, it blows away our expectations. Check it out up top.

Of course in another 10 years — the game will look ‘old.’

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Ben Heck is one hell of a modder. This time around, he took both the Xbox 360 controller and the Dual Shock 3 and combined them to make a super controller. I personally like both controllers and the way I choose which controller I find best depends on what game I’m playing.

For instance, for a first person shooter, I find where the analogs are better placed on the Xbox 360 controller. However for a fighting game, the D-pad and feel of the 360 controller is just awful. That is when I choose the Dual Shock.

But, Ben Heck modded a 360 controller and kept the good things about it and replaced the negatives like the d-pad and used the PS3’s instead.

He didn’t specify which system it works for or if it can run both systems. However, we would love this for the Xbox 360. Let’s face it, overall the PS3 Dual Shock is better and manly because of the d-pad. The controller will work well for any game that comes out for the system.

If you don’t believe me; try playing Mega Man 9 on the 360.
After the jump check out more pictures of his work.

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I’m not sure why I’m posting this, but I have too. The artist ‘eluted‘ from deviantART drew a decent sketch of Mega Man. Now, at first glance you might think the drawing is alright, but certainly not worth posting on the site. However, what you don’t know about the sketch is what could be the most disturbing thing in video game art.

The person behind the sketch decided to use — ready for this, menstrual fluid. You know, the blood from a girl…from the place that bleeds every month.

Yeah, Mega Man is ruined for me…forever!

(thanks kdawg)

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Most likely when the year ends, Grand Theft Auto IV will probably win the most ‘Game of the Year‘ awards. Almost every gaming journalist I’ve spoken to all seem to agree Rockstar’s masterpiece will win the prestige honor.

Amazon is offering a terrific deal for the sandbox game. The site is selling GTA IV for only $37.99 for the Xbox 360 and $39.99 for the PlayStation 3. Considering the game is generally retailed at $60, this is a great time to buy the game. So, if you have yet to purchase the Grand Theft Auto IV — you have no excuse now.

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Strapya World has created a cool piggy bank concept. Instead of having the generic pig with a coin size hole in it, they modeled it after a mini-arcade unit. But get this, if you drop any coin into the bank, you can actually play a game.

The two games that can be purchased are ‘Breakout‘ or ‘Tetris‘ and the unit will set you back $39.99. Even though it’s a bit pricey and I’m pretty sure it’ll never pay off itself — I like the idea as a collectable.

The graphics on the unit is pretty basic, but I still find the idea cool and might have it pick this up and put it on my desk.

After the jump, watch a video of it in action.

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