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Did Microsoft Just Out Kinect "Console-On" Feature In New Star Wars Trailer?
Ok, firstly… yes there’s a new trailer for the Star Wars Kinect title that was introduced at last year’s Kinect unveiling – if you didn’t already know. Never mind that the trailer tries its hardest to convince us that this game is going to basically bring the Star Wars universe into our living rooms, almost literally – I was too …
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 Review
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is back and ready to take another stab at giving gamers the opportunity to kick galactic amounts of butt utilising the Force. As a clone of Starkiller, you escape Darth Vader’s clutches after memories of a past life start rushing into your head, and so begins a trail of destruction that leads our dear force …
Preview – Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
The sequel to Star Wars: The Force Unleashed will be out on October 29 and the demo is now available to play, so we downloaded it to give you a quick hands-on impression, Back in 2008 we did a double review feature of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and the two reviews awarded the game an 8/10 and an 8.5/10. …
Darth Threepwood Coming To A Force Unleashed Near You
Dear gamers of the world, I bring you possibly the single greatest unlockable skin of all time. LucasArts have confirmed that Guybrush Threepwood will in fact be an unlockable skin/model in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2. It’s not a hoax, it’s real and yes, it’s friggin’ awesome. Source: Gamerzines Last Updated: September 29, 2010
Monkey Island devs back under one roof
Well, two of them are at least; Ron Gilbert has just joined Tim Schafer’s development studio Double Fine Productions, and the two are currently busy on something new. Both are veteran game designers and last worked together at LucasArts nearly twenty years ago when they created The Secret of Monkey Island as well as Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge. Since …
Lucasarts’ Incredible Frame Rate Upscaler – Is this the Future of Console Games?
At the recent SIGGRAPH 2010 – Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques – one of LucasArts’ coders, Dmitry Andreev, who’s currently working on the new Force Unleashed showcased an interesting technology he and his team devised. They’ve come up with a software frame-rate upscaler – that makes games look and feel like they’re running at 60fps, and uses …
Xbox Live Deal Of The Week – Yo, Ho, Ho And A Bottle Of Half-Priced Rum
Paying full price is like, seriously overrated, right? Right. This weeks Xbox Live Deal of the Week involves, pirates, seas, and monkeys… or something. For this week, and only for Xbox Live Gold account holders, you can get yourself the mighty HD remake of the legendary The Secret Of Monkey Island for a price so low that it could almost …
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