Bioware updates their web site with some Mass Effect screen shots. Grab a towel to wipe the drool.
New Mass Effect screens
Bioware has the Unreal Engine working overtime in these new Mass Effect screen shots.
Looks like there is going to be a novel based on the game, too.
Novel summary via Bioware
Every advanced society in the galaxy relies on the technology of the Protheans, an ancient species that vanished fifty thousand years ago. After discovering a cache of Prothean technology on Mars in 2148, humanity is spreading to the stars; the newest interstellar species, struggling to carve out its place in the greater galactic community.
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Team Xbox gathers together a bevy of Blue Dragon screen shots and videos.
Blue Dragon media
The fine folks over at Team Xbox serve up numerous screens and videos of the Xbox 360's Blue Dragon.
Blue Dragon summary via Team Xbox
Famed game producer Hironobu Sakaguchi of Mistwalker game studio and developer Artoon present the highly anticipated Xbox 360-exclusive "Blue Dragon." Featuring the character design of Akira Toriyama, who designed "Dragon Ball Z," and music by Nobuo Uematsu, the composer for "Final Fantasy," "Blue Dragon" is an epic role-playing game (RPG) centered on a young boy named Shu and several of his friends. These unlikely heroes possess miraculous strength and magical power to control phantom shadows that mirror the actions of their masters.
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What would happen if an undersea utopia went horribly wrong? We [Gamespot] dive beneath the waves for some exclusive hands-on time with this distinctive first-person shooter.
Later-Game Missions, Character Development, and Battles Under the Sea
Gamespot gets to spend some time with Bioshock. Jealousy ensues. Some of the best bits hi-lighted below.
By using stealth, we were able to eliminate enemies from a distance; we used lightning-based plasmid powers to electrocute splicers that happened to be standing in water, or we used fire-based powers to incinerate enemies that happened to be standing in a pool of spilled oil.
Bioshock's story unfolds in a way that is similar to Irrational's cult classic game System Shock 2.
As you cautiously inch forward, you'll often just barely catch sight of the enemies that were hiding on the upper level before they detect you. Those enemies will then immediately turn and bolt down some hidden staircase out of your view to prepare to ambush you from whatever unexplored twist or turn lies ahead.
The bowels of Take-Two Interactive's earnings report drops a bomb on Sony.
GTA IV Episodic Content for Xbox 360 Only!
Yup, yup. This is a bizarre turn of events being that Rockstar's people took a shot at the Xbox 360 about a month ago.
Oh, wait, Microsoft has really deep pockets.
Who says money can't buy, uh, stuff.
