IGN get a look at Six Days in Fallujah the controversial video agme

ign have posted their views after a first look at Six Days in Fallujah the new FPS war game from Atomic Games.

I what looks like a standard FPS war game Atomic have added almost total destruction to the landscape and buildings. ign seemed disappointed with the graphics but it is early days and they could be improved...

The Battle of Fallujah took place in November of 2004 and was one of the bloodiest battles in the Iraq War. The aim of this game is not political. Don't expect there to be any message of who was in the right or wrong. The aim is simply to tell the true stories of the men and women that lived through the fight. A group of 42 marines offered up diaries, recollections, photos and videos to ensure the game you play is as close to the real thing as possible.

Read the full post here on IGN...

Helldorado PC video game - go for your gun cowboy

Viva Media announced the release of Helldorado today, a tactical-action strategy game set in the old Wild West. Viva Media CEO Carlo Voelker commented, “This is a rich and detailed strategy game complete with exciting action and a thrilling storyline. Fans of the genre will not be disappointed.”

Helldorado was developed by Spellbound. The developer is well-known for excellence in its prior western-themed games, Desperados and Desperados 2.

1883, SANTA FE. Peace in this town has been shattered by a shocking kidnapping. Gather your men and ride on a series of challenging missions to stop treacherous, marauding outlaws in this story of nasty blackmail and revenge. The cast of characters include John Cooper, Kate O’Hara, Doc McCoy, Sam Williams, Pablo Sanchez, and Hawkeye. Capture a train a load of loot, dodge through saloon fights, a jail-break, and shoot-outs! The stage is set for this Wild West Adventure. Will you live to tell the tale?
Welcome to Helldorado. Is your trigger finger twitching yet?
At a glance:
-Quickly start the action by playing the exciting tutorial
-More than one way to play... Play it your way... or all ways
-60 different enemies with tactical behavior driven by our advanced AI system
-Multi-character game play: Play as 6 different characters, each with different specialist skills, abilities, and weaponry.
-3 levels of difficulty
-Movie Mode: Record your heroic deeds!
-Wild West: Experience truly authentic Wild
West locations on the PC, from a stormy train robbery to bloody sunsets and beautiful old New Orleans, and more.
-Technology: Switch between tactical view & actions view seamlessly, Bloom and HDR rendering, nVidia PhysX technology
-Weapons and Equipment: 6 shooter pistol, shotguns, rifle, bow and arrow, derringer, knifes, tomahawks and other weapons found in an 1880’s arsenal.

Sean Mort's Iconic Gaming Revolution T-shirt from threadless

Sean Mort has designed the fist of rvolution using video game controllers.

The T-shirt is available to buy from treadless here...

Send them a picture of you wearing one of their T-shirts to gain a discount on your next order...

Playing Pong with Street Fighter IV - video

Both players are handicapped so they have a pixel of health, and both have selected Rose as their character.

They are playing best of 9. At the beginning of each round, one of them "serves" by performing Rose's "Soul Spark" move - a half-circle towards on the joystick, and a punch button.

Then, they take it in turns to perform her "Soul Reflect", which can reverse projectiles; this is a quarter-cirlce away on the stick, with a punch button. Whoever fails to time the parry correctly will get hit by the "ball", and the other player will win the round.



Source: Infovore blog

Nintendo WiiWare for truly innovative games, not Mario

WiiWare supporters looking for killer apps to define Nintendo's downloadable game service shouldn't pin their hopes on seeing a Mario game hit the virtual platform. Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aime says it's not the best fit.

"When we're gonna work on a Mario title, we're gonna bring it to Wii or DS," Fils-Aime told Geoff Keighley on the most recent episode of GameTrailers TV. The company announced last year that the Mario and Zelda teams were hard at work on new titles, one of which it recently announced.


Read full post on Kotaku here...

Watch the GameTrailers episode here...

Video Recording in iPhone OS 3.0 images of 3.0 beta show video on the iPhone.

The iPhone is amazing for a laundry list of reasons, but one thing that always struck us is why certain features that are otherwise found on lesser, punier phones, still haven't made the cut. A smartphone that can't handle MMS? Really?

Waiting for the 3.0 update so that we can copy/paste text? Huh? But the biggest offender has to be the lack of video recording support from Apple, something that hopefully a newly uncovered screenshot of iPhone 3.0 software proves may just be around the corner.

Gizmodo's worker bees (by way of Boy Genius Report and Mac Rumors) posted up images that were found buried inside the latest iPhone OS 3.0 beta, which clearly show an app designed for video recording. According to the main screenshot, there's a toggle button to switch back and forth between a still camera and video camera, and a big fat recording button in the middle. Within the configuration files where the screenshot was found were notes on potential features for the video software, including an auto-focus camera, magnetometer, and voice control.

So will the 3.0 software transform your existing camera into a video monster? Doubtful, in order to work, the firmware needs to read that a video camera is present, something that we don't think the current camera will register as, so what we're looking at is probably beta files for a next generation iPhone killer app. Still, the concept of video recording, even if we have to wait for it, is exciting.