Gadgets and Video Games

As Rocksteady’s Sefton Hill and Paul Dini eagerly explain in the video above, Batman: Arkham Asylum is a game about torturing Batman. Okay, okay, maybe not directly , but by way of Joker setting up a nasty ruse for Gotham’s greatest hero at Arkham Asylum itself. Trapping Mr. Wayne inside with all of his most fearsome enemies, when he thought he was just stopping by to deposit a criminal, leaves him at the mercy of the now-in-control Joker. From what we played of the game’s campaign back at E3 , we’re not sure exactly how Eidos/Warner Bros

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New Batman: Arkham Asylum dev diary gives Batman a terrible evening

You really have no excuse for not owning Fallout 3 at this point. Not only is it a really excellent game, it’s packing tons of value with all the different DLC available. And let’s not forget the indescribable pleasure of having Danny Kaye songs endlessly stuck in your head

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Fallout 3 50 percent off on Steam

“Wii has no hardcore games” is about as old, lame and untrue as “the PS3 has no games,” and “Xbox 360 has only shooters.” Real gamers know that each of the platforms has its gems — but not everyone can afford all three gaming consoles. Marvelous may be expanding its portfolio to include more non-Nintendo systems. Already, the publisher is working on a PS3 and Xbox 360 game, Rainy Woods ; however, according to a report by Siliconera , the publisher may look into porting some of its diverse Wii lineup onto the HD systems. Games like No More Heroes and the upcoming Muramasa would certainly appeal to the hardcore PlayStation and Xbox crowds. In fact, Suda 51’s most recent comments suggest an HD future for his franchise.

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Marvelous looking into HD ports of Wii games

If you think Unreal Engine 3 games feature too much gray and brown, laden with “pillars and girders,” all being stomped around on by bald space marines, Cliff “Young Clifford” Bleszinski wants you to blame the tech. Speaking with Develop recently, the man that birthed Marcus Fenix said, “The technology of this generation just happens to be very good at rendering metals and stones and dramatic lighting.” He argues that “translucent effects” are much harder to pull of with the technology given and as such, “the tech is good at showing off armor and it’s not that good at doing hair … that’s why we have bald space marines.” Though we’d argue that there are lots of bald men in our lives who happen to not be space marines — CheapyD and Dr. Manhattan prime among them — we can appreciate how Marcus Fenix may be more equipped to take down the Locust than an omnipotent blue man

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Cliff Bleszinski explains why there are so many bald space marines

EA Sports is ramping up the hype machine for its very crucial FIFA franchise, as it has issued out a new teaser trailer for the latest installment, FIFA 10 . Thankfully, it’s not your average teaser trailer, as though it is short, it does contain actual gameplay footage.

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FIFA 10 offers brief glimpse of footy-filled gameplay

Click image to fire a volley of screens at your eyeballs Eidos just fired off a press release, scoring a direct hit on our inbox, informing that Battlestations: Pacific will receive two resupply convoys in the form of the Mustang Pack and the Carrier Battle Map Pack. The first pack is available for download today and offers six new units (including the P-51 Mustang bomber, US Navy Alaska Class battleship, and Japanese Yamato Class battleship), along with 18 different pieces of nose art to be used online or off, and will set players back a cool 160 ($2).

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Man your download stations for Battlestations: Pacific DLC

If people can clean their hands with a simple name change, then why can’t games? Paleo Entertainment recently re-dubbed its bargain-priced shooter, Merchants of Brooklyn , as “Drug Wars.” Currently exclusive to Steam, Merchants of Brooklyn suffered an embarrassing release in mid-March when an alpha version was mistakenly sold in place of the final code and apparently failed to recover any credibility. Its Metacritic score of “36″ ranks near the bottom of all 2009 games to date.

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‘Drug Wars’ offers fresh start for Merchants of Brooklyn

Valve isn’t quite as against the idea of developing games for the PS3 as we previously thought. Speaking to Valve’s Doug Lombardi at the Left 4 Dead 2 event in London today (look out for the full interview soon), we discovered that the company is still “up on the idea” of developing for the PS3 — it’s just waiting until it has hired some decent PS3 coders. “If you look at The Orange Box — PC: 96 on Metacritic, 360: 96 on Metacritic, PS3 like… 84 or something

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Valve ‘up’ on idea of PS3 development, waiting to build talented PS3 team

With just the simple image you see above, developer Polytron announced that its dimensional-shifting platformer Fez would arrive on the Xbox Live Arcade platform at some point next year. Though we’ve seen a date of 2009 in a previous trailer, the teaser image is the best indication we’ve had so far in terms of a concrete platform for the game. Though we can’t say it’s a huge surprise (we spotted an Xbox “A” button in the game back in March ), it’s nice to have it officially official. Fez coming to XBLA in 2010 originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:05:00 EST

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Fez coming to XBLA in 2010

The PSP Go isn’t just smaller than the original PSP series — it’s more powerful. In fact, it features a processor that’s more than 40% faster than the original. The original PSP (1000-3000) series include a processor capable of reaching 333MHz speeds. FCC documents reveal that the PSP Go (N1001) includes a processor that can go up to 480MHz. It’s unclear what the added processor power will be used for.

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PSP Go processor more than 40% faster than original