Settle down back there and tuck into a hearty selection of brand spanking new trailers for lovely new games. We have hot videos for Marvel vs Capcom 3, UFC Undisputed 2010, Dead Rising 2 and many more, but we kick off with this weeks big release NIER, for PS3 and Xbox 360. You will be able to get yourself a copy of this action RPG from Square-Enix in the shops tomorrow and we’ll have a review up on this site soon!
This video more or less speaks for itself.
Speaking of pre-order bonuses, when was the last time you turned up to grab a game on release day and found it was sold out? It’s not exactly a massive problem, right? The videogame industry is growing year on year, and retail chains are smart enough to order exactly one metric fucktonne (MFt) of every new release to ensure every braying customer desperate to fork over their hard earned cashola gets a chance to do so.
Really, there’s no need to pre-order games, apart from the awesome pre-order bonuses. Statues, art books, the little accessories that give you a warm shiver — they’re worth the extra effort, and it’s why people still pre-order. For awesome stuff.
Not bits of linen with faces printed on.
EDIT: Also, those guys should clean up their apartment. Popcorn and old takeaway flyin’ all over the shop. Also also, why aren’t they playing Street Fighter? They just got the game right?!
On Friday Capcom were kindhearted enough to invite us round to their place for a spot of tea. and by ‘their place’ we mean a hollowed out railway arch in South London, strewn with sandbags and rusted oil drums, and decked out with military-grade camouflage. And a coffee bar. And several rows of beautiful televisions hooked up to Xbox 360s, beckoning the assembled gaming press to get to grips with Capcom’s upcoming Lost Planet 2.
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the original Lost Planet perhaps didn’t warrant a sequel, and after the disappointment that was Dark Void, we were feeling just a little mistrustful of Capcom 3rd-person shooters. After a day of Lost Planet 2’s multiplayer and co-op modes, we feel a bit better. Here’s the skinny:
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