Three Dog, that howling voice in the quiet desolation of Fallout 3’s Capital Wasteland, may not have barked his last. Voice actor Erik Todd Dellums tweeted a brief tease yesterday that the Galaxy News Radio DJ could appear in the post-apocalypse again. “To all my #Fallout3 and #ThreeDog fans: There …
Read More »RadioRadar podcast 020: Holiday hangover
We’ve been off work for a while, but we think we still know how to do this. Let’s see… we talked about the Top 7… what else? Oh, and we discussed news, and even did a preview! Yeah. We got this. We totally got this. The Deets Post date: January …
Read More »Shooters finally have something to say in 2012
“To kill for yourself is murder. To kill for your government is heroic. To kill for entertainment is harmless.” Wait, what? I’m, like, an hour into Spec Ops: The Line when this message pops up on a loading screen. “What a weird thing to say,” I think to myself. But …
Read More »The Phantom Pain announced, though its likely just viral marketing for Metal Gear Solid
The Phantom Pain from Moby Dick Studio was announced at Spike’s Video Game Awards tonight, and it’s definitely… Something. Its cryptic debut trailer featured a man awakening in a hospital, his left forearm amputated and replaced with a prosthesis, confused and frightened by what’s happening around him. As the trailer …
Read More »November gaming sales down 11 percent, NPD says
We’re not going to give you any hints about which game led the NPD Group’s November retail sales figures in the U.S., we’re just all going to say it together, ok? We’re totally psychic, don’t worry. Ok…. NOW! Call of Duty: Black Ops 2! Yes! We did it! Now that …
Read More »The history of console redesigns
Console do-overs through the ages Nintendo’s newly unveiled Wii Mini (opens in new tab) might have provided momentary distraction from the company’s touch screen-toting big-ticket release, but the downsized budget-console hardly came as a surprise. After all, the one-size-only GameCube was the exception to a long-standing rule–one established in the …
Read More »Star Wars: Battlefront 3 mismanaged by developers, ex-LucasArts employee says
Star Wars: Battlefront 3 recently stumbled out of the morgue and into the spotlight when Free Radical Design co-founder Steve Ellis claimed the game was “99 percent finished” before its cancellation. The next in the Battlefield-esque series created by now-defunct Pandemic Studios was unceremoniously canned by LucasArts for financial reasons, …
Read More »NBA 2K13 dunks on October U.S. retail sales
The hoops have it as NBA 2K13 led the NPD Group’s U.S. retail sales figures for October 2012. The analyst firm revealed results for retail sales of games, hardware, and accessories over the last month–and here’s your monthly reminder right up top that, though the results are an industry standard, …
Read More »The games of November 2012
November is finally here, and it is expectedly the craziest month of the year for game releases. And that would be the case even if we didn’t have a brand new console coming out, thanks to huge debuts like Halo 4 and Call of Duty: Black Ops II, but come …
Read More »RadioRadar Podcast 010: Were gonna wreck it!
Though there weren’t any big reviews this week–look for that to change next week–but we have no shortage of topics to discuss. Henry and Cooper saw and enjoyed Wreck-It Ralph, Tom is furious with the ending to 007 Legends, and Ryan’s just happy to be there! This Week’s Hosts: Hollander …
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