http://www.thatvideogameblog.com Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:26:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Remember the days when the PlayStation 3 was in third place in console sales? Well, it still is, but that won't be the case for long if Sony sustains the strength of sales its console had in the month of October. Compared with October 2008, sales of the system were ... http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2009/11/22/ps3-sales-booming-in-october/ [bliptv gctbgbDleAI] In true Rapture spirit, with wrenched voices, art deco stylized environments -- in this particular case, the Tea Garden -- here's a full 0:42 seconds of multiplayer ass-whooping of BioShock 2, featuring one of the playable characters Danny Wilkins as the main contributor of said whoop. With mechanized crossbows, machine ... http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2009/11/22/raptures-civil-war-personalities-invade-the-tea-garden/ Got two hours? Then you might want to check out the demo for Torchlight, Perfect World Entertainment's new action RPG. The game is unabashedly a throwback to old-school RPG fare, with players traversing randomly generated dungeons from a third-person isometric view, a la Diablo. If you like what you see after ... http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2009/11/21/torchlight-demo-out-now/ While it won't be released until next year, details are beginning to surface for Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days. The first item concerns the game's protagonist: this time around, we'll be filling the shoes of the more sadistic member of the duo, Lynch, as the plot details how the ... http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2009/11/21/deets-emerging-on-kane-lynch-2/ Sure, there are some parts of Dragon Age: Origins where the game's characters give in to carnal desires and resort to "bumping rumpatay's," as the townsfolk say. But the game shows restraint where films like Basic Instinct and V.I. Warshawski had none - there are no depictions of nudity within ... http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2009/11/21/dragon-age-was-also-an-age-of-keeping-thine-pantaloons-buttoned/ The Olympics. Saturday Night Live. C-SPAN. Serious Sam. All of these things are best enjoyed in high definition. As such, Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter, will be released for PC on November 24. For you anxious types, you can pre-order the game on Steam, which will retail for ten ... http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2009/11/21/serious-sam-hd-dropping-soon/ There may be a global recession, but that's not stopping Microsoft from posting a slew of new job openings for Natal development. In the past two weeks, Microsoft has posted about 60 new openings, 14 of which are directly related to Natal. One such Natal listing specifically involves working as ... http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2009/11/21/more-natal-developers-wanted/ Stardock CEO Brad Wardell has stated that while his company's Impulse distribution service claims 10% of the PC game digital delivery market, Steam remains on top, with 70% of all digital distribution taking place on Valve's popular service. Wardell asserts that Steam's early jump on the digital distribution market - ... http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2009/11/21/steam-still-top-dog-in-digital-game-markets/ Bad news for owners of the PC version of Resident Evil 5. While Capcom was nice enough to bless PC fans with their very own edition of the thriller, they'll be getting no such love when it comes to downloadable content, at least not right away. "No plans for PC ... http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2009/11/21/no-fun-dlc-for-resident-evil-5-pc-version/ Sony is still hoping to sell 13 million PlayStation 3 systems this fiscal year and company vice president Kaz Hirai remains confident that they'll hit their goal. With half of the Sony fiscal year already passed, only 4.3 million PS3's have been sold, meaning that over 8 million consoles will ... http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2009/11/21/13-million-still-the-lucky-number-for-ps3/