The classic is back and better than ever! Pipe Mania is a frenetic, addictive and infectious puzzle game. At it’s simplest, you’ve got to get that flooze to flow to the right place before it is too late. Requiring quick thinking, hand-eye coordination and keen spatial awareness, puzzle fans are in for a challenge that is easy to pick up but not easy to master. Alfonso Senior, having made his fortune from the original Pipe Mania has retired to his own private island paradise. There’s just one problem! Cowboy plumbers are ruining his island. The BIGGEST of them all, Buffalo Bonzo, is wreaking havoc all over his once happy home. Playing as Alfonso’s children, Junior and Fawcett, it’s up to you to take over the family business and save the island from pollution and return it to its original glory. With all new floozes and challenges, Pipe Mania is the puzzle game you won’t be able to put down.
The National Institute on Media and the Family, the non-profit group that has repeatedly blasted the video games industry, is now proud to “work together” with the Electronic Software Association after receiving $50,000 in funds from the ESA.
“Reasonable organizations can disagree on principle, but can work together for the betterment of families and children,” said NIMF spokesman Darin Broton to GamePolitics.
In an editorial aside, GamePolitics points out that “there’s a wide gap between ‘working with’ and ‘accepting money from.’” Continuing, the editorial claims that “taking funding from the industry it purports to be watching is a credibility-damaging decision on the organization’s part.”
As reported yesterday, the NIMF is using the ESA funds to “develop an on-line e-learning zone for using…
Their popular song “Undead” is featured on the new Madden soundtrack, and now you have a chance to play with Hollywood Undead in Madden NFL 09 in this Game with Fame event.
A Prima Guide sample for the game Brothers In Arms Hell’s Highway is now available for download from Xbox.com.
Traveller’s Tales brings the LEGO franchise to Gotham in LEGO Batman: The Videogame, complete with the much-anticipated chance to play from the villain’s perspective, including The Riddler, Penguin, Joker, Catwoman, and more.
Games Editor Denny Atkin brings you all the latest in what’s going on this week on Xbox.com.
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As should be clear by now, any talk of a successor to a still relatively new game console should be taken with a hefty grain of salt but, if word from Japan’s Impress is to be believed, it looks like we could possibly be getting a clearer indication of what might be under the
PlayStation 4’s non-existent hood. Apparently, unlike the massive shift from the PS2 to PS3, the eventually PS4 will be a decidedly smaller leap, with it relying on a slightly speedier (and, likely,
45nm) Cell processor but not a completely new architecture. That would let Sony keep the cost down considerably while also easing development for the console since, by then, developers should finally have a handle on the PS3’s hardware. To further cut costs, Sony is also said to be considering a switch from the speedy Rambus XDR memory to more traditional DDR3 memory, which could apparently be tied directly to the processor to cut down on latency. Or the PS4 could be powered by a pink slime that feeds on negative energy, you never know.
[Via Electronista]
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Pandemic’s explosive-filled open-world military action game, Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, is set to receive a free update in mid-October for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, followed by paid downloadable content in November.
The October update, dubbed “Total Payback,” will add cheat codes to the game. “Unlock the total-payback power of all weapons, vehicles and airstrikes in Mercenaries 2, as well as everyone’s favorite: Infinite Ammo and Infinite Health,” exclaims the press release.
In addition, six new playable characters will be added while removing region restrictions from co-operative play. The update will hit Xbox Live on October 13 and the …
Double Helix’s Silent Hill: Homecoming (PC, 360, PS3), which was refused classification in Australia last week, may get a less violent release in early 2009.
Atari, which is distributing the game in Australia, hopes to get the violence modified by publisher Konami so that it can be classified and released during Q1 2009 according to IGN.
Quoting IGN, Australia’s ratings body “cited several high impact scenes in the game, mostly focusing on drilling into and severing body parts.”
In a rather graphic descriptio…
In between bouts of Insomniac’s Resistance 2 (PS3) at a recent press event, I had the chance to sit down with creative director and studio founder Ted Price.
In addition to Resistance 2, Price discussed the surprising sales of the recent downloadable Ratchet game, the misconception that Gears of War and Resistance are rivals, along with his thoughts on games legislation, the future of the games industry and just how someone with an English degree can helm a game development studio.
Ted Price: I think that a lot of the press wou…
