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Monkey Island 2 Special Edition

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition was a runaway success, so it’s no surprise that Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge would get its turn for the spotlight. According to LucasArts, the game will feature new graphics (with the ability to switch back to the originals), voiceovers, a hint system, and re-mastered music. Commentaries are also on the cards as well as an interesting control method that foregoes the traditional point & click.

MI2 is coming to a ton of devices including PC, PSN, XBLA and iPhone. It’s launching sometime within June-August. Just be prepared, it’s one heck of a hard game!

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ButtonMasher Podcast #70

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

It’s a full house again this week, GaR returns from the netherworld of riding his bike, Wugga gets cornered at his own house, and well, I remembered.

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Rock Band 3 This Year

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Harmonix/EA has announced to the world that Rock Band 3 will be coming out this holiday season as a worldwide release. Though can we really trust EA seeing what happened with the last two games? Perhaps they’ve learned the errors of their ways; Lego Rock Band and The Beatles: Rock Band have all turned up on time.

Not much else has been revealed but there has been rumours about Harmonix working on something educational, as in teaching music. With the Rock Band Network unavailable in New Zealand, I guess a new Rock Band is what we’ll have to take.

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Battlefield Bad Company 2 Review

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Getting delayed can often times mean a death sentence for a game, the hype dies down, people look else where for their fix. Battlefield’s move back to releasing this week was either due to the developer needing more time or EA deciding that they might prefer to avoid going head to head against MW2. Either way, the time is here, so what is the final result?

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Portal Updated With Secret Hints [Update: Portal 2]

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Valve have updated the Steam version of Portal with a ton of secrets, hinting at the inevitable Portal sequel/Half-Life Episode 3 mash up. Steam forum goers discovered that the new Achievement, “Transmission Received” tasks players with carrying the radios around the game to uncover 26 secrets.

While most of the secrets are complicated SSTV pictures and morse code, there is an extended ending which you can find after the break. It’s pretty incredible how they went in and added all this stuff to a three year-old game. A great publicity stunt if I ever saw one. Now the big question is, how long do we have to wait Valve?

Update: Did I speak too soon? Portal 2 was announced today by Valve as coming “this holiday season”. Guess we can finally put aside those Half-Life mash up rumours now. Game Informer magazine has an exclusive 12 page article along with a pretty snazzy cover.

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ButtonMasher Podcast #69

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Metro 2033 gets some airtime this week as we celebrate not being Russian. The conclusive post review summary of Bioshock 2 and plenty more Heavy Rain including a spoilatious section which you might want to avoid if still playing the game (we do give a fair warning in the pod)

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Metro 2033 Trailer – Kill Or Be Killed

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

Metro 2033 is looking and sounding like something pretty terrifying. But I don’t know what’s scarier; the monsters that ravage the underground train tunnels or the voiceover guy who sounds over-enthused about the whole thing. Watch it after the break.

For those of you that aren’t into the whole Twitter craze you probably haven’t heard Brian and Wugga’s latest chat about the game’s title amongst other things. It’s like a ButtonMasher Podcast but bite sized. Also don’t forget to check out the full list of ButtonMasher peeps if you’d like to get on board the Twitter train.

Update: There’s a new soundbite from the Brian-Wugga dream team, actually talking about the game (along with some table tennis).

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The Old Republic Video – Returning to Taris

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

This developer video shows what life is like on Taris 300 years after events occurring in Knights of the Old Republic.* Now I must say I’m not that into MMOs but Star Wars: The Old Republic is looking mighty interesting, especially seeing as BioWare are behind it.

*I’ve just gotten around to playing that one, shame on me I know. Still haven’t got off Taris yet so just spoiled it for myself! Word to the wise; don’t watch the video if you’re still planning on playing KOTOR.

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Red Dead Redemption Trailer – The Women

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Red Dead Redemption has cowgirls and nuns aplenty. They fight back, though I’m not too sure about the nuns, you never know what they’re hiding under there.

After I get my hands on Heavy Rain I think this is the one other game I’m looking forward to the most, apart from Splinter Cell: Conviction. You can find the aforementioned women after the break.

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Super Mario Galaxy 2 Release & Trailer

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

We just can’t get enough of that Mario guy, 29 years later and he’s still popping up! Announced today by Nintendo, Super Mario Galaxy 2 is coming to stores near you, around May 23rd.

Super Mario Galaxy was probably the best Wii game I’ve played so Nintendo certainly have their work cut out for them. It looks like riding Yoshi will be a big focus this time around but if you want proof you can see the trailer for yourself, you guessed it, after the break.

Update: The UK PAL release is 11th June, so I’d expect the NZ release to be around then too.

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