…it would probably look something like Blood Bowl. Based on the table-top strategy game from the late 80’s and set in the Warhammer universe, Blood Bowl will feature some pretty vicious orc on elf action in a hundred yards of rectangular turf. Not a whole lot of details so far, but what we do know is that the game will feature two different modes of play. The first will be your standard football sim a la Madden, while the second will be a painstakingly accurate recreation of the actual table top game for all of you pen and paper strategy nuts.

Check out the first 6 screenshots below. This one should be hitting the 360 and PC’s by end of year 2008 courtesy of Focus Home Interactive and Cyanide Studios.

1up has the first exclusive screenshot of Ryu and says it’s going to be 2D based fighting with 3D models, and man are they shaping up nicely. Few other notable notes… Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li and Dhalsim will return to the game, along with untold others. There will also be new moves and locations.

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BIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRDDDDDDD MAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN!

Click the pics to see em all nice and big-like.

Ninjas? Check. Buckets of Blood? Check.
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Click one below to take a look at the ultra-violence in full glory!

Tired of paying to play WoW and not getting any real money kickbacks for working the auction house like it’s your real job (if you have one)? Has blasting fools in Battlefield 2 or Counter-Strike ever felt empty, as if it didn’t really mean anything? London-based developer Kwari thinks they have a cure for these nagging feelings.

Oddly-named publisher Kwari has made an oddly-named game called Kwari (Hey! They’re the same!) where the idea is to have real money exchange hands through a skill-based first person shooter. Players will be able to download the game for free but will have to buy ammunition in place of any other kind of price-point structure. Kwari says that there will also be a free-to-play structure, but no details were given on that (naturally), nor were there many details given on what the actual gameplay will entail beyond being a FPS.

There’s going to be a progressive jackpot that will require a key to unlock that Kwari is projecting to eventually be in the millions (how much is this ammo gonna cost?!?) but no word on how you’ll obtain the key. Supposedly gamers will be matched by skill level and all participants will be in pre-arranged stake level ranging from 1 penny to 1 dollar per hit (what a “hit” entails is also left vague). Unlike other interactive social experiences anonymity will be rampant since Kwari is assuming players won’t want to know who you’re losing your money to. The biggest detail omission to me is that it’s unclear if players will be able to take money out of their in-game accounts and transfer it to their real-life accounts.

This idea brings up some interesting conversation points but if you want to take a chance on it they’re taking sign ups for a beta test. I tried signing up last night and again this morning, but for some reason it’s just not working right. Take a peak at their web site for some other details and to track the progress of development.

Screens and full press release beyond the jump. Continue Reading »

My attraction to driving games seems to wax and wane. Every few years I get really into them, and then after a bit get tired of them for a while. Of course Gran Turismo 5 looks incredible enough that people that never play driving games will give it a shot, and I’m sure I’ll be right there with them.

Greshkov on the other hand lives and dies by Polyphonic Digital’s opus, and I can’t say I blame him. Pound for pound it’s the most realistic racing game out there, until you hit something. I keed I keed!

The in-car views are downright amazing. In the Audi pic you can see the temperature gauge! These stills come courtesy of ThreeSpeech, the “semi-official” (whatever that means) Playstation blog.

As usual, click em to get a better look!

This, my dear friends, is a TON of screenshots (enough that I had to use a paginate tag, a first!). But what the hell, they look fantastic and it’s a game that by all accounts isn’t really getting any marketing love from Microsoft. All attention on the JRPG front seems to be focused on making Blue Dragon a success in the states, leaving poor Eternal Sonata out twisting in the wind.

But fear not music fans. The RPG based all around classical music (or is as far as I can tell) has both a sweet free-faceplate-for-reserving thing going on and will have a demo hitting up the Xbox Live Marketplace soon.

I played the game at E3 but how much can you tell about an RPG after playing it for 5 minutes? I tell you this though, it looks fantastic. I don’t know much about it but I’m very intrigued. I’ll be keeping an eye on this one, for sure.

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