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BLAST PROCESSING! Episode 91 – Adam’s Wallet vs. Capcom!

Steve is out this week with a severe case of the Fallouts, so instead we’ve got two gibbering monkeys who’ve managed to finagle their way onto the internets.

Adam is saving mad ducats playing indie games on Steam, but which of these “Magickal” diversions possesses voodoo powerful enough to peel him away from World of Warcraft?  Jon has embraced his inner twelve year old and has plunged a la Scrooge McDuck into a giant vat of Marvel vs. Capcom 3, but can the final product deliver on a decade of fighting game fanatic’s prayers?

The boys tread into dangerous waters as they discuss the lack of balance in pre-Street Fighter IV 2D fighters, and then briefly touch on the gruesome fate of everyone’s favorite music franchise.

Have you played Marvel vs. Capcom 3? Hows about Magicka? How many boxes of plastic guitars do you own? Share in the comments below, over in the DVD Verdict Jury Room forums, or by emailing feedback@pixelverdict.com.
“Terrible Beat” by Yuzo Koshiro from the game The Revenge of Shinobi.

 

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WoW: The Shattering!

Farewell, Azeroth! It’s been a blast. Now you have a gigantic hole in you, and a dragon came out of it. You’ll probably want to get a doctor to look at that.

Must have been something Azeroth ate.

The Shattering is here! Blizzard’s massively addictive and popular behemoth World of Warcraft will see the release of its newest world-changing expansion Cataclysm in two short weeks. In preparation, the latest patch released today has torn the world of Azeroth a new hole, literally. Fans looking to play the new character classes (goblens and worgens) and explore new high-level content will have to wait until December 7th, but the world changes today.

Entire continents have shifted. Lands have been torn asunder by rocks and lava and destruction. Cities have burned down, and new encampments have been hastily erected. It’s a whole new game, folks.

Oh, and they molested warlocks something fierce. But that’s how it goes. Everyone gets a taste of the nerf hammer.

Check the jump below for a list of the official changes.
Continue reading WoW: The Shattering!

REVIEW: Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)

The Charge:
Four parallel worlds, one unparalled adventure.
Opening Statement:
Spider-Man, like most tier-one superheroes worth a lick; has been the star of videogames since the industry’s toddler years in the early 1980’s.  I’m not going to lie to you; pretty much everything prior to the first movie’s tie-in game in 2002 was terrible.  Like Batman, pre-Arkham Asylum; the spectacular wall crawler has arguably not yet been the star of a true, triple-A videogame adaptation.  After years of sandbox games; and Spidey web-slinging across a massive, open-world New York City, fresh-faced developer Beenox are reeling in the leash for Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions and hoping a bit more structure is the missing element that will allow this Spider to soar.

Hold On… Activision Wanted To Turn Brutal Legend Into A Guitar Hero Game!?

brutal_legend The plot thickens. Double Fine, developers of the upcoming Brutal Legend, filed a countersuit against Activision, who are suing to block the game’s October release. News of that suit hit during E3, and struck a lot of people (most notably the game’s creator Tim Schafer) as sour grapes. Activision had the chance to publish Legend when it bought Vivendi, but chose not to. Now it seems that one of the reasons they made that choice was because they couldn’t shoehorn it into their prolific Guitar Hero franchise. At least, that’s what it says in the suit, as reported by Yahoo! News (as linked from Joystiq).

If true, I officially have zero sympathy for Activision. It’s one thing for them to pull a George Costanza and pretend they didn’t quit on Brutal Legend. It’s another for them to have dropped the game in the first place because they couldn’t turn Tim Schafer’s baby into the thousandth entry in an “annualizable” franchise. That is so not rock ‘n’ roll!

Review: Prototype (PS3/Xbox360/PC)

Ripclaw? What's a Ripclaw?

Ripclaw? What's a Ripclaw?

The Charge:

Become Anything… Change everything!

Opening Statement:
After a few less than stellar Crash Bandicoot titles, the developers at Radical Entertainment, the guys behind the critically acclaimed Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, have returned to the sandbox territory with Prototype, but does the game have what it takes to survive in today’s more sophisticated sandbox?

Facts of the Case:
A gravelly, brooding voice tells us that we are Alex Mercer (no relation to Pixel Verdict’s own resident superhero, Jon Mercer), and Alex Mercer is having a bad day. It would seem Alex has woken up dead, or more accurately, he’s woken up on an autopsy table, with no memory of who he is. Turns out there’s a virus loose in New York City that he may have something to do with, the GenTEK corporation is hunting his every move, his wardrobe looks like he mugged Avril Lavigne, and his sister just can’t stop compulsively dropping f-bombs, with extra enunciation on the “f” part. Luckily, Alex is also blessed with super mad crazy super powers, the kind that let him morph parts of his body into melee weapons, defy gravity by running sidelong up the surface of even the tallest buildings, and disguising himself as whomever he’s consumed in order to escape detection. It’s all up to Alex to piece together the fragments of his clouded past and hopefully save the Big Apple from certain doom. All in a day’s work for a super hero, right?

Continue reading Review: Prototype (PS3/Xbox360/PC)

Rumor Mill: Guitar Hero: Van Halen Edition?

Stack this one up in the rumor bin, but it deserves our immediate attention for a few reasons I will make apparent. From a story picked up by Destructoid, it seems Activision is not content to rest on the laurels of their numerous, marketplace-flooding entries in the Guitar Hero franchise (Guitar Hero: Metallica edition due out this month) and are already hard at work on numerous ways to take more of your money. Except this time, they might pull it off, because the rumor is that Guitar Hero: Van Halen will be the next entry in the franchise, scheduled for August 2009 (if real).

PLEASE let this be me and my three friends.

PLEASE let this be me and my three friends.

Continue reading Rumor Mill: Guitar Hero: Van Halen Edition?

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