Then, “CID receives the mission of a lifetime – to save the Professor’s daughter from the evil D-Troit, the most vengeful super villain in the world!”.

Sounds interesting, no?

There are 20 different levels to dig through and the game is rated E10 + so the game is appropriate for just about anyone.

From the release:

• Let Professor B.M. Werken show you how to utilize CID’s tricks, skills and weapons in preparation for your mission

• Learn how to fight and beat your opponents and also use stealth mode to sneak past the Guards and Zombies!

• Sprint and burst through walls and break down barriers

• Use the catapult to launch yourself and go even faster

• Aim your bazooka at targets and blast the enemy!

• When all else fails, CID jumps into PANIC mode to maximize his energy and show what he is really capable of!

CID The Dummy is available now for the PSP, PS2 and the Wii.

Below are some screens of the bad guys that you’ll meet on your mission.

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CID The Dummy

That’s when you can get your sweaty hands on the latest installment in the Madden franchise.

The game will be available for just about every console known to man: 360, PS2, PS3, Wii, and PSP. It’s also rated E for everyone so you no worries when your kids are beating on your shoulders asking you to stop playing the game. Not like that’s ever happened to you.

Right?

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Madden NFL 10 Screenshots

It’s being released for the PS3, PSP and 360 and looks like it will be a hell of a lot of fun.

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Tekken 6 Atari Trailer

Lewis Hamilton comes to virtual racing for the first time

F1 2009 will also be the first time Lewis Hamilton will appear in a racing simulation and you’ll be able to sit behind the steering wheel of his McLaren MP4-24 and fight to repeat as FIA Formula One World Champion. The 2009 Formula One season has been exciting and the driving tighter than ever before, thanks to the new regulations and aerodynamics. The introduction of the KERS boost system and the use of slick tires has made this F1 season one for the history books and the changes have been included in F1 2009.

Codemasters is planning on setting new standards for immersion and realistic detail for the Wii with F1 2009, by providing a variety of race modes, including a full Formula One season, a few single player arcade-type challenges, and a competitive multiplayer mode that will allow for wheel-to-wheel split screen co-op races.

The PSP edition of F1 2009 will allow players to compete wirelessly against other gamers and in challenging and satisfying single player modes that are optimized for portable game play.

Codemasters Studios also announced they will be bringing F1 2010 to the Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and Games for Windows, around the middle of 2010. They’ll be using Codemasters’ EGO Engine Technology to create F1 2010, which gave the BAFTA award-winning Race Driver: Grid its power, so expectations are high.

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F1 2009 Comes to the Wii and PSP

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PSP Laptop, QWERTY Assembled

The Shrine Auditorium was the site for Sony’s E3 2009 Media Briefing Tuesday morning, where the big news was the PSP Go, God of War III, and the upcoming PlayStation motion controller.

Sony kicked things off with this slick video that introduced us to the hardware and software of PlayStation:

Next, they showed us tons of game demos for the latest and greatest PS3 games, including Uncharted 2, where the crowd went wild over a firefight that ended inside a falling building:

There was the first public unveiling of live game play from MAG, with 256 live players all on the screen at one time:

We watched a new trailer for Final Fantasy XIII, after which the audience was stunned by the announcement of the PS3-exclusive Final Fantasy XIV Online. There was a trailer for this one, too. And it’s coming in 2010, just like XIII.

Agent, a new game from Rockstar, was talked about but not seen.

But worth admission alone was the live demo for Assassin’s Creed II. I videoed this bad boy, check it out below:

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get much more video than that at the Sony press conference, as my video camera’s battery died.

In the vein of Little Big Planet, a kind of game where you “create, play, and share,” is next-big-thing Mod Nation Racers. It’s a racing game where you can customize out the wazoo with simple but powerful level editing and creation, and it’s coming in 2010.

The Last Guardian, the next game from the creator of Shadow of the Colossus, got a huge reaction from the crowd.

Gran Turismo 5 displayed uber-realistic graphics, while the long-awaited God of War III, the final game in the bestselling PS exclusive trilogy. It looks ultra violent and ultra gruesome, just the way fans like it, and will hit in March of 2010.

Longtime PlayStation evangelist Kaz Hirai took the stage to tout the next big thing in PlayStation Portable: the PSP Go, a new, more compact PSP with a slide-out control pad that’s intended for users who prefer to download their games digitally instead of buying UMD discs. PSP Go launches October 1st and will be priced at $249.

Hirai also announced four new titles for the PSP:

• Gran Turismo PSP, a fully featured GT game with 800+ cars
• Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, a true sequel that fills in a missing chapter from the saga of Solid Snake. Being scripted by Hideo Kojima himself.
• Resident Evil Portable comes to PSP in 2010
• Final Fantasy VII comes to PSP as a downloadable game starting today

Sony had to answer the challenge thrown down by Nintendo and then Microsoft on the motion-controller front, and its answer is an as-yet-unnamed peripheral device that’s basically a wand with a lighted orb on the end that the PS Eye camera can track with “submillimeter accuracy.” (Think of a motion-capture suit — like the one used to create Gollum in the Lord of the Rings movies — with a single ball on a stick.) A few tech demos were shown to demonstrate an early engineering build of this wand controller, showing how the wand can simulate guns, swords, painting tools, hands that grasp and throw, and much more. You can even hold one wand in each hand, for more complex movements. The rate at which it mapped to the real time movements of the user was impressive, but like the Wii Remote and Nunchuck, it maps only arm movements, whereas Microsoft’s Project Natal is promising full body tracking. PlayStation’s motion controller is launching Spring 2010.

Not a bad press conference. A little dry in a few spots, but overall very engaging.

All photos and video by Robin Parrish.

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E3 ‘09: Sony’s PSP Go & motion controller

Rewrite many of golf’s most dramatic moments in Tournament Challenge; an all-new character progression mode in Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10. Experience historic situations over various seasons, including Tiger’s clutch birdie that featured the amazing putt on the 18th green to win last year’s Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill, only this time you determine the outcome. Get an intimate account of specific moments as introduced by Tiger Woods, as he provides his personal insight and strategy to his real-life approach. The Tournament Challenge mode is available on Xbox 360, PLAYSTATION 3, Wii and PSP versions of the game.

Could it get any better than that?

Oh, I think not.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 hits stores on June 16th for the PS3, Ps2, Psp, Xbox 360 and the Wii.

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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10

It’s a mulit-platform game and by multi-platform I mean that it’s coming to just about every system known to man-PS3, Xbox 360, PC-DVD, PSP, PS2 and mobile phones. Wii got left out but surely you have one of the other systems hanging out somewhere?

Highlights include intelligent AI: “Midfielders and defenders now work together to cover open space and close down attacks, meaning that cover can be provided for lower-ranked defenders”.

Crowds that react in new and different ways to what’s going on during the game with new chants and cheers. Also, there are subtle differences between home and away games.

From the release concerning gameplay:

PES 2010 focuses on enhancing the excitement of matches between players, making for a truly challenging experience that will constantly test the player. Intuitive zonal defending will cover spaces and players need to look constantly for new ways to attack. PES 2010 focuses on being a real football simulation, as it requires both strategic play and quick reactions, as in real life. In addition to key out-field elements, goalkeepers are more versatile and with abilities matching those of modern shot-stoppers. The game’s referees have also been reworked, with smarter AI elements allowing them to make more balanced calls during matches.

PES 2010 should be available in the fall.

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PES 2010 Coming at End of Year

I’ve never been very much of a fan of the whole comic book scene [though I do have an unnatural amount of lust love for Wolverine] but I know that there are a lot of people out there whole eat this stuff up.

Who am I to keep these pretty, pretty pictures from you guys?

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 is set to hit this fall.

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Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 Screenshots

Actually, I watched my boyfriend play the scary ass game while I randomly covered my eyes and generally acted like a scared little girl. In my defense, I was only 17 or so at the time so any “scared little girl” acting was pretty accurate.

There have been numerous other Silent Hill games released for numerous systems and Konami just announced a new game to be added to the “let’s scare the crap out of Amy” group.

Silent Hill:Shattered Memories is set to hit in the Fall of ‘09 and I’m telling you right now that I won’t be playing it. Nope. No more Silent Hill for me. I had my fill of it many years ago and value my nightmare free sleep too much to risk it.

Well, that and the fact that the game is being released on the Wii, PS2 and PSP. I don’t own any of those systems so I’m golden by default. And, don’t try and talk me into playing the game by telling me that Steve III is backwards compatible cause I’m not hearing it.

This is what the “fact sheet” has to say about the game and why try and explain it to you when the fact sheet does a good job of getting down to the brass tacks of it.

From the fact sheet:

• A re-imagining of the original Silent Hill that turns everything you thought you knew on its head.
• The game watches you and adapts to your actions to create a unique experience to each player and intensify their fears.
• Implementation of a cell phone as the user interface, which acts as a story telling device, map, puzzle helper, and camera that provides seamless flow with no interruption in gameplay.
• New nightmare sequences focus on escape and evasion rather than direct confrontation.
• Silent Hill: Shattered Memories will feature an all-new soundtrack by acclaimed series composer Akira Yamaoka.

It sounds like a great addition to the ever so scary line-up and I hope that you have a blast playing it.

I’ll stick to my Fallout 3 since post-apocalyptic America is MUCH less scary than whatever Konami has in store for you.

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Silent Hill:Shattered Memories Set for Fall