The Rundown: March 10, 2009
Welcome to the New York City edition of The Rundown. As you can see from the shot above there’’s no money in this month’s budget for socks or shoes. Oh well, if General Washington’s boys can do it, why can’t I? Thank you very much Mr. President. Actual news is available after the jump, I swear..
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D Games Galore
Konami Digital Entertainment announced that Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Wheelie Breakers for the Nintendo Wii and Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Stardust Accelerator: World Championship 2009 for the Nintendo DS are currently in development and set to launch in May 2009. The latest games based on the new Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s series on the 4Kids Network, which takes place in the future and features Yusei Fudo and Jack Atlus, two of the most skilled duelists in Neo Domino City. More details on these new games can be found at www.konami.com.
Atomic Games: We’re Alive!
Atomic Games wants gamers to know it is back. Now you know. The company has been secretly working on a new game for the last year - which we suspect they will want all of us to know about in the not-so-distant future. More importantly, the company has been hammering out a new game development engine for making games on Mac, PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. Expect to hear more about this engine at GDC later this month. find out more at www.atomic.com
Get Into The Pixel!
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences and the Entertainment Software Association announced that submissions for the annual Into the Pixel art exhibition are open for the 2009 exhibit. Now in its sixth year, this is the only juried digital art exhibition that brings together experts from the fine art world and the interactive entertainment industry. The 2008 collection had over 200 submissions for the 16 pieces of artwork chosen. Interested artists should visit www.IntoThePixel.com for detailed information and to submit their artwork for consideration by the jury for the Into the Pixel 2009 collection. The deadline for submitting artwork is April 10, 2009.
Maple Story One Day Dress Up
Maple Story players can look forward to when Nexon America invites all Maple Story users to try any item in the cape, overall, hat or shoe category for free for one day - March 11. In this special “Free Items Day” event, players of the popular MMORPG can visit the in-game cash shop to customize their avatars and try on new looks throughout the day without spending a dime. Pretty cool. Details at maplestory.nexon.net.
More Good Old Apogee Games
Good Old Games is offering even more classic Apogee games today. The classic gaming destination is offering such classics as
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold and Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project. Both are just $5.99, DRM-free and work on Vista and XP. these games and more await at www.gog.com.
Terminator Salvation Goes Mobile
Gameloft today announced a licensing agreement with The Halcyon Company to develop, distribute and publish the official mobile game to the first film of the new Terminator trilogy, Terminator Salvation (starring a very fired up and sometimes crazy Christian Bale). The game will be available day and date of the film release on May 22, 2009. More details about the mobile game are to be announced.
Mana Khemia: Student Alliance Ships
Mana Khemia: Student Alliance for PSP is shiping today. Mana Khemia: Student Alliance is a port of the popular PS2 version of Mana Khemia: Alchemist of Al-Revis. While the games are similar, NIS says that the PSP features extra content like new items, monsters, recipes, and multiplayer mode. Look for the game in stores today.
