Video game rental service GameFly has released its annual list of “Most Wanted” games ahead of the holiday shopping season. Of the top 10 titles featured on the across all platforms list, seven have seen brisk retail sales and significant rental activity for GameFly. They include Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Halo 3: ODST, Borderlands, Dragon Age: Origins, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, and Madden NFL 10. Here are the top ten most wanted games according to GameFly subscribers:
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It came from retail: what’s in stores this week
Tuesday is release day and there are plenty of new games to choose from including shooters, games based on movies heavy weight sports titles, games for girls, games about apocalyptic wastelands, ports of games that should have sold better than they did, games involving dudes in spandex and more.
Come and take a tour of this week’s best and worst releases after the break - you probably won’t regret it, but if you do i’ll give you a refund (let’s see, 0 - 0 = ?).
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Borderlands gold, in stores soon
Gearbox Software announced that Borderlands has gone gold for the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the PC. Published by 2K Games, Borderlands will be available in North America on October 20 on consoles and October 26, 2009 on PC and in Europe beginning October 23, 2009 for consoles and October 30th on PC. In Borderlands, players step into the shoes of a Vault Hunter looking for a vault of alien technology hidden on the remote wasteland planet Pandora.
Gearbox describes Borderlands as an RPS (Role-Playing Shooter) with fast-paced shooter action combined with character development and growth, choice, and tons of loot to collect and use. Other promises include four different character classes with their own unique skills and abilities, plenty of loot to gear up the way you want, lots of sides quests to keep you busy and plenty of enemies to keep things interesting including vicious alien wildlife, marauding gangs of bandits, and their leaders. In addition to the single player game, Borderlands offers 4-player co-op (or 2-player splitscreen) multiplayer.
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It came from G4: Borderlands, L4D 2 and Sessler’s Soapbox
Our friends at G4TV have some interesting video to show you from Adam Sessler’s latest rant on Sessler’s Soapbox to previews of Borderlands and Left 4 Dead 2:
X-Play gets an exclusive first look at 4-player cooperative play in Borderlands. Gearbox Software CEO & President Randy Pitchford walks Morgan Webb through the process, showing her how players can join and leave games seamlessly, how players can trade loot and weapons in game, and how different characters can use skills and abilities to work together. The enemies multiply and get tougher as more players join, but experience and loot drops get better as well. Borderlands COOP Preview
X-Play previews a new build of Left 4 Dead 2 showing off gameplay from the Swamp level and showing players why it might be satisfying to use melee weapons like the frying pan, and why infected - “mud men” love to run on all fours. Bizarre. X-Play L4D 2 Preview
This week on Sessler’s Soapbox, G4’s most outspoken personality talks about censorship and how he expected more of an uproar over Grand Theft Auto IV than what actaully materialized. He also talks about how the Wii has helped bring videogames into the mainstream, and the distractions of the mainstream media right now. His concern, and the real topic of this Soapbox is, “be ready for a barrage of controversy over some game in the near future” when healthcare and the economy are no longer the top issues in the country. Watch it now on G4.
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Take Two E3 Press Conference Notes
Take Two’s E3 press conference had a few surprises, but was mostly a rundown of titles that were expected or already announced.
First the surprises: The company revealed at the very end of its show that Sid Meier’s Pirates! II and a new Red Dead Revolver game were in the works. No details, just a tease to get people excited. Fans of the Wild West shoot ‘em up and Sid Meier’s popular action adventure game were certainly happy to hear the news.
The games we're pulling together in this feature won't appear on any of those best-of lists and get confused looks when you mention them in conversation. Just because time has forgotten these titles, though, doesn't mean you should forget them, too.
Video game rental service GameFly has released its annual list of “Most Wanted” games ahead of the holiday shopping season. Of the top 10 titles featured on the across all platforms list, seven have seen brisk retail sales and significant rental activity for GameFly. They include Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Halo 3: ODST, Borderlands, Dragon Age: Origins, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, and Madden NFL 10. Here are the top ten most wanted games according to GameFly subscribers:
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves - PS3
Tuesday is release day and there are plenty of new games to choose from including shooters, games based on movies heavy weight sports titles, games for girls, games about apocalyptic wastelands, ports of games that should have sold better than they did, games involving dudes in spandex and more.
Take Two’s E3 press conference had a few surprises, but was mostly a rundown of titles that were expected or already announced.