Energizer makes gaming play with Power and Play Charging Systems

Posted by David Carnoy

Performance Design Products, which is simply known as PDP, recently licensed the Energizer brand to slap on its line of Power and Play Charging systems for the Sony PS3, Microsoft Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii. Indeed, the Energizer brand should give these chargers some added visibility in the marketplace, so we thought we’d give them a whirl.

While the PS3 and XBox 360 chargers look very similar, the PS3 version has some extra USB ports that allow you to charge up to four PS3 wireless controllers at one time. And the Wii Charger is a whole different beast.

Read the full review of the Power and Play Charging system for the PS3.

Read the full review of the Power and Play Charging system for the XBox 360.

Read the full review of the Power and Play Charging system for the Wii.

Gears of War 2 X360

Posted by Frado

The gears of war continue to turn as Marcus Fenix and his squad of Cogs go back into action in the sequel to Microsoft and developer Epic Games’ blockbuster action title. Gears of War 2 continues the story of Marcus Fenix and Delta Squad, locked in an increasingly desperate battle against the nightmarish Locust Horde for the survival of humanity. The game promises to be an epic saga of survival, loss, and retribution. Just as Gears of War set the standard for high-definition visuals, Gears of War 2 raises the bar even further with the amazing technological advances of Unreal Engine 3, delivering a bigger, badder, and more intense experience as the story continues.

Game features:

• Unparalleled gameplay. “Gears of War 2” takes the award-winning gameplay of the original and improves upon it in every way. The genre-defining cover system is further refined, making the “stop and pop” gameplay more intuitive. Dynamic cover is given new meaning as downed opponents can be picked up and used as shields. The intimate violence of the battlefield is heightened when combatants engage in chainsaw duels. Destructible environments and vicious new finishing moves add to the over-the-top experience.
• Jaw-dropping visuals. “Gears of War 2” continues to raise the graphics bar through its breathtaking visual effects, made possible through advances in Unreal Engine 3.
• Engaging experience that pulls you in and won’t let go. “Gears of War 2” takes deep and immersive storytelling in video games to greater heights. Players connect with humanity’s battle for survival on a personal level as they move through a story that introduces new characters and sheds light on the histories of familiar ones.
• Expanded cooperative play. Team up with a friend to fight through the harrowing story of Delta Squad in the enhanced campaign mode, now featuring drop-in/drop-out gameplay, as well as individual player difficulty options. Or recruit four friends to battle in the new game mode “Horde,” where you’ll fight together to fend off a seemingly endless onslaught of Locust forces to attain the highest score.

Release name: Gears.of.War.2.X360-Allstars
Language: English, German, French
Genre: Shooter
Region: PAL (region free)

Links: IGN | Gamespot

NFO: Here
Torrent : NTi

Midnight Club Los Angeles Remix EUR PSP

Posted by dot

There was a Xbox 360 version (Click here for post) of this couple of hours ago, and some people wanted the PSP version of it posted when it was released, so here it is (its a few hours late because it came out while i was sleeping).

If anything, the developers at Rockstar London are ambitious about the PSP version of their latest arcade racing game, Midnight Club: LA Remix. No, the game won’t feature the sprawling Los Angeles that will be found in the console versions of the game, but you’ll still have plenty of SoCal streets to drive on, as we found out during a recent visit by Rockstar reps and our hands-on time with LA Remix.

LA Remix follows a fairly standard plot: You play as an up-and-coming driver establishing a reputation as a force to be reckoned with after arriving in Los Angeles. To do so, you’ll need to–what else?–race every living thing you can in the hottest car you can muster. That’s the premise, but the execution on the PSP looks to be impressive, with nice graphics and a ton of options you can use to customize your rides in the game. While the game’s version of LA won’t be as large as the console versions, the different versions will share the exact same roster of cars and customizable parts.

Releases Name: Midnight Club Los Angeles Remix EUR PSP-ACCiDENT
Size: 548.38MB
Store Date : 24/10/08 (AU)
Release Date : 21/10/08
Links: Official Site | Gamespot | IGN | NFO | NTI | TPB | NZB

Midnight Club Los Angeles PAL XBOX360

Posted by dot

Yes, its another Xbox 360 game lol. This time its the latest from the “Midnight Club” series of racing games, ive never really been able to get into the Midnight Club games but this one actually looks pretty cool and im sure there are alot of people out there that will want this unfortunately for NTSC users this one is region locked.

The entire city of Los Angeles is your playground as you speed through the streets, parking lots, and back alleys in Midnight Club: Los Angeles, all on your way to becoming the most notable racer in the city. As a new arrival on the racing scene, you’re going to need to earn REP for others to take you seriously, and earn the right to upgrade your ride or purchase an even better one. Reputation Points can be earned by completing any task or race in MCLA, regardless of what position you finish.

Midnight Club Los Angeles features over 40 vehicles from 4 different classes. Tuner, Luxury, Exotic and Muscle cars as well as Bikes will all be available to race throughout the game. All cars can be fully customized in one of two garages found in the game. Special Moves return from Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition — classics like Zone, Agro and Roar are joined by a newcomer, EMP. A wide variety of races can be begun just by flashing your headlamps at other racers, and there are also “Freeway Racer” challenges and Police Chases to test your skills on. Illegal street racing with no track, no load times, no rules: Welcome back to the Midnight Club.

Game features:

• Personalize officially licensed imports, tuners, classic muscle cars and motorcycles both inside and out with a dizzying array of licensed rims, spoilers, interior gauges, tires and more
• No load times, no tracks, and no rules
• Over a dozen racing events, including Circuit Races, Unordered Races, Freeway Races, Time Trials, Tournaments, Red Light Racer, Series Races, Wager Races, Pinkslip Races, Delivery, Payback, Telephone Challenge
• The Police are back and far more varied and dynamic than before. From the moment they’re introduced to you in the game, police will be out patrolling the city … and looking to bust up any street races that come across their radio.
• Four special moves to make use of. Each auto can be customized to use any move. Zone allows you to slow down time in order to take sharp turns or weave in-and-out of traffic like a champ! Agro will give your car added strength and the ability to damage opponents faster, or sometimes knock them completely out of the race. Roar sends a shockwave that clears your path by pushing cars off to the side of the road. EMP is an electromagnetic pulse that shuts down the engines of the cars around you, bringing them to a complete stop.

Release name: Midnight_Club_Los_Angeles_PAL_XBOX360-SPARE
Size: 6.76GB
Region: PAL (Region-locked)

Genre: Racing

Links: IGN | Screenshots
NFO: Here
Download: NTi | TPB | NZB

Dead Space PAL XBOX360-LoCAL

Posted by dot

Well i know people are dying for the PC version of this game, but still nothing yet so heres the release for PAL users like my self since the USA post a week ago was region locked (Click here for post), enjoy! (Please dont spam the comments with “wheres the PC version?” etc. when its out it’ll be posted)

Gamers step into a third-person sci-fi survival horror experience that promises to deliver the ultimate in psychological thrills and gruesome action. Set in the cold blackness of deep space, the atmosphere is soaked with a feeling of tension, dread and sheer terror. In Dead Space, players step into the role of engineer Isaac Clarke – an ordinary man on a seemingly routine mission to fix the communications systems aboard a deep space mining ship. It is not long before Isaac awakes to a living nightmare when he learns that the ship’s crew has been ravaged by a vicious alien infestation. He must fight through the dead silence and darkness of deep space to stay alive.

Release name: Dead.Space.PAL.XBOX360-LoCAL
Size: 6.17GB
Language: ENG
Genre: Action/Adventure
Region: PAL (Region-Locked)

Links: Wikipedia | IGN | Gamespot
NFO: Here
Torrent : NTi | TPB | NZB

Wii, Xbox 360 leave the PS3 behind

Microsoft Nintendo hardware sales benefitted once more from successful game titles in September. The best selling title for the month was Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (610,000 units), which helped lift Xbox 360 sales by more than 75% from 195,200 in August to 347,200 units in September, according to NPD. The Wii climbed from a weak 453,000 units in August to 687,000 units on strong sales of its Wii Fit game and accessory, which sold 518,000 times during the month.

Slowly but surely, Sony may be concerned about its PS3. In comparison to its rivals, sales have been weakening over the past three months. In September, the PS3 saw the smallest sales increase, from 185,400 units in August to 232,400 in September. The most successful game for the PS3 came in at the #5 spot: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed sold 325,000 units. The PS3 had only one top 10 game in September, while the Xbox 360 had five and the Wii had four.

Let’s look at the current market shares in the game console market:

Nintendo has solidified its market share of more than 50% and stood at 54.2% in September. Microsoft increased its share to 27.4%, while Sony dropped to 18.3%.

In September 2007, the Xbox 360 led the market with 46.0% share, followed by the Wii with 43.6% and the PS3 with 10.4%.

Source: TGdaily

Far Cry 2 USA XBOX360-Goomba

Heres a game that ive been waiting for looks really good from the gameplay and video interview i watched, even though for some reason i couldnt get into the first one (but im waiting for a PC version too), enjoy!

Caught between two rival factions in war-torn Africa, you are sent to take out “The Jackal”, a mysterious character who has rekindled the conflict between the warlords, jeopardizing thousands of lives. In order to fulfil your mission you will have to play the factions against each other, identify and exploit their weaknesses, and neutralise their superior numbers and firepower with surprise, subversion, cunning and, of course, brute force.

Far Cry 2 immerses players in an entirely new kind of gaming experience, featuring a custom-made video game engine built from the ground up. Players discover a true open world gameplay set in Africa, brought to life by high-definition next-gen technology.

Game features:

• DUNIA ENGINE – The Dunia Engine was built specifically for Far Cry 2 by the award-winning Ubisoft Montréal development team. It delivers the most realistic destructible environments, amazing special effects such as dynamic fire propagation and storm effects, real-time night-and-day cycle, dynamic music system, non-scripted enemy A.I. and so much more…
• REAL-TIME IMMERSION – Real-time story telling, systemic auto-healing, minimal in-game interface are just few of the features that will make you feel the tension of being alone against barbarous warlords that threaten thousands of innocent lives.
• WEAPONS OF CHOICE – Choose from a wide range of weapons to make your way to your primary target. Meet the fight head-on with your machine-gun, go berserk with your machete or make stealth kills as a Sniper. If you feel that the atmosphere is not warm enough, light up your flamethrower and let your enemies and everything around them feel the heat.

Release name:Far Cry 2 USA XBOX360-Goomba REGION FREE
Size: 6.76GB
Region: USA (Region-free)
Language: English
Genre: First Person Shooter

Links: IGN | Screenshots
NFO: Here
Download: NTi | TPB | NZB

Obama’s ads in Burnout video game

Video gamers who have recently played the racing game Burnout Paradise may find it offers more than a high-speed driving simulation: advertisements for Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, above, have begun appearing in the game. Players of Burnout Paradise who are connected to the Internet are also connected to an in-game system that allows real-life sponsors to place advertisements on billboards and other surfaces in its digital world. Jeff Brown, vice president of communications at Electronic Arts, which publishes Burnout Paradise, said Mr. Obama’s campaign had purchased ads to run in the Xbox 360 version of the game, which he said is most popular among male players ages 16 to 30.

The EA representative said that the ads would appear in only 10 different states, most of them contested battleground states. Paradise City residents in Ohio, Florida, Iowa, Colorado, Indiana, Montana, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, and Wisconsin are being targeted by the campaign. In the 2004 presidential election, all of those states except Wisconsin went to Republican incumbent George W. Bush. Mr. Brown said Senator John McCain’s campaign had not purchased in-game advertisements, but added, “There’s still three weeks before the election.”

Under the radar: Golden Axe: Beast Rider

By Mike Koss

One would think that when you’re reviving an almost 20 year old franchise that you’d want to have some type of fanfare. Seems that Sega does not seem to think so since Golden Axe: Beast Rider is due to hit tomorrow, October 14th, and the only information has been the same in-print magazine advertisement, a trailer, a teaser, and a video interview with fans and the original developer. There are a couple of screenshots, some of which are also found in the in-print magazine ad, but nothing to really write home about. Oh, and IGN has a short preview up with about as much information as available in the trailer.

When I first caught a glimpse of this last year, I was immediately excited by the chance to play another Golden Axe game. I absolutely loved the first two games in the series, including the single-player only port to the SegaCD. In the heyday of the Genesis, these games were staples for cooperative play with my brother, our friends, and I. So when I saw the title and the first screenshots, I time-warped back to my childhood and basked in warm memories.

So in trying to track down what information is available about the game, I found out a very important and gaping hole: there is no co-op play in this release. That’s unfortunate, since that was one of my favorite parts of the series. “CAST IT!” was a common yelled phrase during the boss battles between each other to indicate it was time to bring down Hell (or a dragon) itself on an insurmountable foe. Seems now I’ll just have to yell it to myself. That was one of the most exciting parts of the games. To cast the big spells, you had to collect/horde the magic bottles until you built up enough for the strongest levels. This usually meant not casting any spells until the ubiquitous end of level boss. The varied types of magic and their accompanying animations were exciting to watch unfold on the screen with dazzling displays that would fill the entire screen, and all before the advent of the Final Fantasy summon’s and their 2 minutes of video.

If it’s not obvious from the title, this one is centered on another fan favorite part of the series: the beasts. In the original games, there were different beasts with their own type of attack. From a simple sweep attack to a fire-breathing lizard-dragon, the beasts became a hot commodity. In fact, players could attack each other and knock the other off the beast to steal it. Of course, this had the downside that it lessened the ‘life’ of the beast and after a pre-determined amount of knock-off’s, or inactive time, the beast would run off the screen. So once again, with out the co-op play mode, looks like I won’t have to compete with another player over my coveted ride.

In a time of the year that is generally over stuffed with great games, it’s going to be shame if this is a sleeper hit since I’d really like to see it revisited with a sequel with atleast multiplayer. Here’s hoping that Sega and Secret Level bring an awesome hack-and-slash action/adventure to the table in a few days.