Dreamcast classic Sonic Adventure and its "director's cut" edition, Sonic Adventure DX, have been rated for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 by the ESRB. Sonic Adventure was recently classified by the Korean ratings board, and briefly appeared in January in tandem with an "extend package," purportedly seen on the Xbox marketplace.
Sonic's companion on the great Sega ratings board journey, Crazy Taxi, has apparently not yet been re-classified for current consoles by the ESRB. We've followed up with Sega for details on both titles, but with E3 next week, the publisher likely wants it to be a "reveal" for the show. Start practicing your "we had no idea" face for the surprise next week.
#vanquish
Last Friday, a new trailer for action game Vanquish shot up the internet. The gameplay itself looks like a blast. Definitely excited to see more of this game. What I am not excited about? More »
#politics
If I told you a game cast you in the role of a US soldier in Iraq, would you simply assume you'd be spending your time shooting? You probably would. Which is why I like this game. More »
#wow
Think Jamie Lee Curtis and you think Hollywood star. Maybe that scene from True Lies. You probably don't think "World of Warcraft apologist". More »
#music
Anyone who's played Red Dead Redemption should instantly recognise this song. It's one of the highlights, not just of an amazing soundtrack, but of the entire game itself. More »
#pokemon
Like clockwork, every summer a new Pokemon movie is released to coincide with summer vacation. The last Pokemon movie featured the vocal stylings of Akihiro Miwa, who was Yukio Mishima's lover. More »
#coverstory
As we get closer to the release of Project Natal, we get closer to the day the Xbox 360 makes its biggest push yet for an image makeover. Leading the way will be...new box art. More »
#japan
Takaaki Mitsuhashi, an 40-year-old economic analyst, has made a name from himself by penning books on economic policy. He is a regular inhabit of 2ch, Japan's largest bulletin board. And now, he is running for political office. More »
#rumor
Since the Game Boy Advance was a Super Nintendo, and the DS was a Nintendo 64, most people expect the upcoming 3DS to have the horsepower of a GameCube. IGN say that may be under-selling the machine somewhat. More »
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There's just one more week to go before we will be in LA covering E3 2010. Even though it's considered to be a console show by many in the industry there will still be a ton of PC exclusive games shown at E3 this year. However we still have several days to prepare. Before the final week begins let's look at the past seven days at Big Download:
Exclusive features
Elemental: War of Magic preview: We get hands-on with the upcoming turn based strategy game from Stardock.
Sam and Max: The Tomb of Sammun-Mak review: We give our final verdict for the second episode in the latest "season" of Sam and Max games.
Boot Disk: Our weekly retro games look checks out the original Max Payne game from Remedy.
All You Need To Know: We give you all we know about the survival horror sequel Dead Space 2.
This sort of gameplay is absolutely amazing. I don’t even know how someone could keep their composure when doing something like this. It’s an older video, but it’s a great one.
- some songs feature an electric instrument among stringed instruments
- Takahashi wanted a battle song that would “destroy the atmosphere of the battle a bit”
- Takahashi would create sample songs for composers, but then the composers would end up making songs that didn’t sound original
- this resulted in many emails back and forth that involved [...]
