The Walking Dead game's first episode is out

Episode1 - A New Day is now available on steam you can get it here. All 5 episodes are sold in a pack for $24.99


PC System Requirements

    Minimum:
        OS: XP Service Pack 3
        Processor: 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent
        Memory: 3 GB RAM
        Hard Disk Space: 2 GB Space Free
        Video Card: ATI or NVidia card w/ 512 MB RAM (Not recommended for Intel integrated graphics)
        DirectX®: Direct X 9.0c
        Sound: Direct X 9.0c sound device

    Recommended:
        OS: Windows 7
        Processor: Core 2 Duo 2GHz or equivalent
        Memory: 3 GB RAM
        Hard Disk Space: 2 GB Space Free
        Video Card: ATI or NVidia card w/ 1024 MB RAM (Not recommended for Intel integrated graphics)
        DirectX®: Direct X 9.0c
        Sound: Direct X 9.0c sound device

It also works on a Mac, but you will need a slightly better processor and more ram to get the same performance.

Prototype 2 is out, G4 has the first 15 minutes for your viewing pleasure.

Xbox 360 Games - E3 2012 - Prototype 2

Kinect Support Coming to Skyrim

Right on the tails of Bethesda adding kill cams to Skyrim in the 1.5 update, they have now announced Kinect support. Everything from managing the inventory, controlling allies and SHOUTS! Coming sometime in April?

American McGee takes on Red Riding Hood in Akaneiro: Demon Hunters

Akaneiro: Demon Hunters  is an upcoming game by Spicy Horse the team behind the American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns is making a game based on Red Riding Hood. Akaneiro means "angry red' in Japanese. The game finds you as Red in a forest hunting wolves with an isometric camera much like Diablo, and much like Diablo there is rumored to be some demons lurking around.

The game will be Free-to-play-hack-and-slash for PC, browser and tablets.

Netflix app for Xbox 360 gets an update

Major Nelson announced a Netflix app update on his blog, new features are stated to be

• Skip Forward/Skip Back allows you to move through movies quickly and between TV episodes easily. And with Kinect, just use your voice or the wave of your hand to activate this function.
• Zoom function lets you enlarge letterboxed video content to full screen.
• Better color contrast makes content more vivid and black levels darker.
• Single sign on with cloud profile makes it easier to access your Netflix account on another Xbox, wherever you are.

 The most important is most likely the third "Better color" feature where the contrast has been fixed, this has been an ongoing issue since the new metro dashboard. Somehow in that update it altered how videos are displayed and limited the color and contrast sent to your television, resulting in washed out colors and blacks that looked more grey than they should have been.

HBOGO on 360 coming for Comcast xfinity customers

Missing the boat by a few days was xfinity allowing their customers to log into the HBOgo app on Xbox 360. It seems early next week this oversight /  limitation will be lifted and Comcast customers will start getting the HBO content they are paying for on their 360 in addition to the website tablets and phones.

Major Nelson announces HBOgo for Comcast customers.

Comcast blog confirms HBOgo for Xbox live users.

Diabolical Pitch hits XBLA

Diabolical Pitch formerly CodenameD has been released on Xbox Live Arcade today.

Designed by Suda 51 best known for killer7, No More Heroes, Shadows of the Damned and the upcoming Lollipop Chainsaw. Developed by Grasshopper Manufacture.

It's a Kinect game where you play a Baseball pitcher in a creepy amusement park where you pitch to fight zombies and monsters.

Diabolical Pitch Xbox.com

Amnesia: The Dark Decent FREE demo and discount to insanely cheap on onlive

Onlive currently has Amnesia: The Dark Decent selling for $5, you can even check it out for free.

For those of you unfamiliar with onlive it's a PC game streaming service or cloud gaming. You only need to download a super small file to play the game on their servers with HD video streaming to your desktop. That means you could be playing Amnesia within minutes without a huge download and install.

Onlive for $5 free demo

Amy PSN and XBLA survival horror game getting patch?

Can developer VectorCell salvage AMY?

Have you been waiting for an AMY patch?

AMY has been out for quite awhile now and has received some of the worst reviews of just about any videogame in recent memory. I've included some video reviews from some major videogame review outlets so that you can hear them complain about how horrible it apparently is.

Yesterday VectorCell posted a Facebook status update on their AMY page stating:

"Hi all.
First of all, sorry for our silence those past weeks. The team were working for you and we didn't want to communicate before making sure we'd be able to deliver. Not all of your suggestions have been taken into account, but many. We should be able to announce some good news with more details soon... Thanks a lot for your patience."

Could patching AMY make it a better game?

This entire situation is reminiscent of what developer Dark Energy Digital attempted. They had released their game Hydrophobia to poor reviews, then did a massive overhaul of the game with a patch even going as far as renaming the game Hydrophobia Prophecy and discounted the game to half off. If it resulted in a better game is debatable, but the fact is they have since announced that they are closing their doors. Could VectorCell be next victim of the "small developer post review patch of doom curse"?

The Escapist : Zero Punctuation : Amy