Treyarch gets a lot right with Call of Duty, but the bolts may be turned a little too tightly. Playing Call of Duty: Black Ops is like plunging your hand into a bowl of monkey balls to find the pecans. It all depends on how badly monkey balls irritate you, and how much you like pecans.
If you've picked up the PC version of Call of Duty: Black Ops, chances are you've been pretty disappointed. The problems isn't the game is a bad game - it's that the performance and memory usage for the title have been through the roof even on the most high end systems. We've seen complaints about constant stuttering, long load times, and plenty of lag. Thankfully today, Treyarch have released a patch for the game, that by most accounts, smooths out the situation.
Owners of both DJ Hero 1 and 2 found themselves in a bit of a conundrum when they realized their DJ Hero 1 DLC wouldn't work with the second game. Thankfully Activision has been quick to answer the call - the latest patch for DJ Hero 2 will allow your tracks to be imported and played from the first game.
There have been plenty of stellar sequels this fall/holiday season: Halo Reach, Call of Duty Black Ops, Fable 3, and Rock Band 3 immediately come to mind. But one highly-anticipated sequel will be delayed past the holiday season: LittleBIGPlanet 2. Held back to make sure it was the "perfect" experience, Sackboy will return early next year, just in time for the post-New Year's doldrums. So what's a fan of the adorable little mascot to do in the meantime, apart from enjoying the thousands of user-created levels in the original LBP, that is?
Monday Night Combat is a fine arena shooter for the Xbox LIVE Arcade. We gave it a 4 out of 5 in our review. Fans of the game can now pick up some sweet merchandise from the Uber store. There are four hand-painted resin statues available, pictured above. You can adorn your office cubicle with the Assault, PitGirl, Tank, or Assassin models. These quality statues stand 9 to 10 inches tall and will run you $69.99 to $89.99.
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Way bigger than whatever this is.
We only recently discovered Mindjack, a unique co-op game that blends single player, co-op and versus into one seamless experience. Developed by Square-Enix and set for a January release, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game is set in the future which of course means one thing - lots of shiny objects that are devoid of color.
Codemasters has confirmed that Operation Flashpoint: Red River (I apologize in advance for being gross, but I still can't get over that name) is still inbound, ETA sometime between April 1st and June 30th, 2011. This info comes straight from the CEO, Rod Cousens.
Viacom, who owns such properties as Paramount Films, MTV, Comedy Central and Harmonix, have reported a 59% loss in earnings for the third quarter of 2010. From the report - it seems partially to blame on Rock Band 3 development costs and early indicators of poor sales of the game. Both the film and TV division of Viacom reported an increase in earnings - thereby making the Harmonix investment even more dire.
Does the word Super Saiyan Ultra Kame Ki Blast mean anything to you? If so you'll probably want to read our review of Dragon Ball Z: Tenkaichi Tag Team for the PlayStation Portable. It's a two player co-op fighting game set in the DBZ universe - plenty of big hair, fireballs, and sparks will happen
After the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops (without campaign co-op - again), we thought it was time to start looking to the future of the series to see what comes next. It sounds like the developer Sledgehammer games took that idea one step further and wants to see the next Call of Duty title literally set in the future. In space to be exact.
If you are reading this news bit in anticipation of a new cowboys vs. dinosaurs game, well, I'm sorry, you're out of luck. That would be Gwangi, not Guwange. The latter, released today on Xbox Live Arcade, is a port of a 1999 shooter. The game was developed by Cave, a company legendary among shoot-em-up afficianados. (Deathsmiles, released on XBLA a few years back, is another Cave title.) Guwange is set in fuedal Japan, and the heroes travel on foot, rather than flying around in a spaceship as is typical of the genre.
