With Nathan Hale prepping for his ongoing campaign against the Chimera, I recently found myself wondering what the other Insomniac characters were doing to occupy their time this summer. I imagine Captain Qwark is sitting on his astro couch, sipping Dr. Pepper and munching Doritos. However, what about Ratchet and Clank? Do they have any plans for the future?

Hit the jump to find out. (more…)

Hey there faithful readers.  I’ve got a treat for you.  You may have seen this video already, you may haven’t, but if you have, I’m sure you’ll agree that after viewing it, you’ll never be the same.

Maybe I’m overstating it a bit…

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The folks at Harmonix might want to change their E3 plans. Instead of debuting Rock Band 2 in Los Angeles, they might want to set up a live feed from their offices and simply confirm, or deny a recent slew of rumors that have lit up Internet blogs and message boards.

These rumors have primarily focused on a handful of leaked song lists provided by a few play testers that supposedly got their hands on the game early. However, today produced some potentially blockbuster news that could set the Internet ablaze.

Check out all of the Rock Band 2 goodness, after the jump! (more…)

A quick note to say that those PS3 owners who either intentionally avoided firmware 2.40 or missed their chance to download it can finally get their hands on the in-game-XMB-enabled Trophy-stacked update in the form of version 2.41. Unfortunately, you still get the rubbish music player.

A quick quote from the folks over at ThreeSpeech details what the initial issue apparently was with 2.40, and if you’re so inclined you can read it after the jump. Otherwise, go ahead and grab the new firmware.

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There’s a bunch of articles popping up in the gaming blogosphere regarding Project Abraham, the apparent viral campaign for Resistance 2, on the PS3. As far as I can see, the video that appears on the website seems to involve a patient who’s infected with the Chimera (the aliens of the series) virus and is slowly mutating, with armed guards standing by just in case the medical procedure to save their life goes horribly wrong.

Eagle-eyed gamers will have already noticed the logo on the mildly-terrifying blondie’s t-shirt is the same as you see while waiting for menus to load in the original Resistance: Fall of Man, with this logo presumably being that of the titular resistance. Oh yeah, and she’s Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica…

What the hell is going on?  Find out, after the jump.

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Nintendo, everybody probably thinks, are champions and creators of the casual gaming market. After all, they created the DS and the Wii, currently the most popular games consoles in the world, and these consoles offer up heaps of games for everybody. While I can admit that they have the market cornered, the creation of the market for ‘games for non-gamers’ should really be attributed to Sony.

Before we had games such as Brain Training on the DS (with a Western release in 2006) or the huge range of superb family-oriented games on the Wii, Sony was trying to kick start a new genre of games designed for those who don’t really enjoy picking up a joypad; these included SingStar in 2004 and Buzz! The Music Quiz in 2005.

Despite losing the majority of the market to Nintendo, they’re gunning to try and claim some of this back with the new version of their quiz franchise Buzz! for the PS3. My review begins after the jump!

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We covered:

• Don’t loan things to Doc
• Halo 4
• New console?
• GCN Promo
• Diablo fanboys
• Sony’s 2.4 Firmware Update
• Where did it go?
• Great customer service
• Doc’s fan club
• Dave’s not involved
• Bad Company single player
• Doc vs Lono
• Doc’s dog tag obsession
• Bad Company is getting fixed
• GCN E3 Update
• Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 gets free upgrade
• The gaming lull
• E3 trip sponsored by sumolounge.com
• Dave hearts Kojima
• Possible big announcement
• Rock Band 2!!!!
• The Ace of Spades!
• Doc’s ipod is hardcore
• Thanks
• Doc goes after Dave
• Dave take us out
• Martini time

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[Update]: Apparently, Harmonix isn’t satisfied with simply making all Rock Band DLC compatible with every game in the franchise. Kotaku has reported, based on statements made by IGN’s Nate Ahearn, that Rock Band 2 owners will essentially be getting two games for the price of one. That’s because every song that shipped with Rock Band will be available to download free of charge.

This is great news for those of us (myself included) that never purchased Rock Band. However, once again, early adopters seem to get screwed. Though, this free DLC will come in handy when you are craving REM’s “Orange Crush,” but don’t want to switch game discs.

This week has been a great for fans of Harmonix’s Rock Band platform.

On Monday, it was revealed that Rock Band 2 would be released in September for the Xbox 360 and later this year for the Playstation 3, Wii and Playstation 2.

Tuesday’s episode of X-Play aired a screenshot that was apparently taken from Rock Band 2’s in-game set list (9 new tracks revealed). A second list of leaked songs hit the Internet Wednesday, when a user on the ScoreHero forums, who claimed to have played the highly-anticipated sequel, posted 11 additional songs.

The full list of songs can be found here.

Alex Rigopulos, the CEO of Harmonix, recently spoke with CNN about the upcoming sequel to one of 2007’s best games.

Hit the jump to find out what he had to say. (more…)

A few weeks ago, I reported a rumor that Kratos, PTA President, Masters Champion and the protagonist of God of War, would be appearing as an exclusive guest character in the PS3 version of Soul Calibur IV.

Well, it appears that no matter how hard you wish for something, sometimes, it just isn’t meant to be. (more…)