Posts with tag project8
Posted Jan 4th 2007 4:05PM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: Deals and Bargains
Major Nelson brings word that Best Buy has
Rainbow Six: Vegas on sale for $39.99. We checked it out and found out that
Splinter Cell: Double Agent is available for $39.99 as well. If you've been waiting to pick up either one of these games, you could do a lot worse than a $20 discount. While you're at it, you may want to pick up a copy of
Project 8 or
Madden 07, which are on sale for the slightly less attractive price of $49.99. As an added bonus, you can get an additional $10 off of any of these titles if you pre-order
Lost Planet.
Vegas for $29? Not bad. Anyone else find any good deals today?
[Via Major Nelson]
Posted Dec 20th 2006 12:45PM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: Fan stuff
Update: Several readers have informed this non-
Tony Hawk playing blogger that
Project 8 does have a bail mode. Very well then, at least the video is still funny.
One of the hellspawn from Joystiq tipped us off to a video of Project 8 yesterday. The video is basically just a long reel of
spectacular bails. Seriously, these bails take skill.
So much skill in fact, we think Neversoft should borrow a page from Flatout and consider giving bails their own game mode. Just imagine it: "perform a bail and make your body fly through the 'O' in that sign." We'd play it ... we'd play it 'til our eyes bled. Check out the bone crunching, spleen bursting action after the break.
Continue reading Project 8: ragdoll physics gone wild [update 1]
Posted Dec 1st 2006 5:30PM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News
Courtesy of our French friends at Xboxygen, we now have some screenshots of EA's
Skate to go along with the shaky cam footage that Joystiq ran last month. In short, the shots looks amazing -- then again, so did the target renders for next gen
Madden, and we all know how
that turned out. Still, EA knows a successful genre when they see it, and it's up to them to
exploit it try and make it better. The obvious question is whether or not
Skate can hold a candle to the current king of skating the
Tony Hawk series. Given the reception of
Project 8, that might be a tough order to fill. Watch Joystiq's video after the break and join the discussion.
Continue reading New Skate shots, can it topple Tony?
Posted Nov 6th 2006 2:30PM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News, Gears of War
Let's see . . . games shipping this week . . . let's have a look. Hmmmm, we've got
World Championship Poker: All In. Not bad, not bad. Let's see what else,
Viva Piñata, ooh that's a pretty big one. And, oh, there's
Call of Duty 3 and
Project 8, those are huge games, too. We've got
History Channel Civil War and
Blitz: the League, those might be pretty good. Anything else? Let's see . . . nope. No, that's it, nothing else. Oh wait, there's another one here at the bottom. Um . . .
Gears of . . . what is it,
War? Is that it? Is that a game about Richard Gere? If it is, they spelled his name wrong.
Continue reading Games shipping this week: ignorant edition
Posted Oct 21st 2006 12:25PM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News, Xbox Live, Xbox Live Arcade, Xbox Live Marketplace
Somewhere in the dark of night, the
Project 8 demo finally slipped onto Xbox Live Marketplace. We were at the movies (the
Prestige kicked ass) so, we're not sure if the demo made it onto Marketplace before midnight as promised or not. Of course, we're sure
some of you were
watching for it, and know
exactly when it came out.
And now, the other good news:
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 is now available on Xbox Live Arcade for 800 points. We're not sure if someone screwed up or if someone's is just making amends with all the gamers who wanted their
P8 demo earlier, but there you have it. Hell, maybe they actually
meant to release it on a weekend instead of a Wednesday. After all, MS works in mysterious ways. We're downloading both right now. Anybody tried these yet? Are they awesome? Not awesome?
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Posted Oct 20th 2006 5:50PM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News, Xbox Live, Xbox Live Marketplace
The hours keep ticking by and the
promised Project 8 demo is still a no show. Plenty of companies have gotten into hot water (here's looking at you 3D Realms) for missing promised demos, but this one had its own press release and everything. We would have figured that all the certification and whatnot was already taken care of, especially if someone authorized a press release. Still, there are many hours left in the day. Keep the faith, fanboys.
Posted Oct 19th 2006 1:35PM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News, Xbox Live, Xbox Live Marketplace
You heard it, folks. A
Tony Hawk's Project 8 demo will be available on Marketplace tomorrow, October 20th. The demo will give you access to many of the games new features, including the much lauded "Nail the Trick" -- think
The Matrix meets skateboarding. Also accessible will be the "Filmer" mode, in which you follow a cameraman and complete whatever tricks he wants to see. As if that weren't enough, there will also be what Activision calls "Spot Challenges," which are random goals that can be completed in the game world. All in all, it sounds like a pretty meaty demo. It's also the
only place you'll be playing
Project 8 for quite a while. We've said it before and we'll say it again, you gotta love Xbox Live.
Continue reading Tony Hawk P8 demo coming tomorrow!
Posted Sep 28th 2006 10:15AM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News, Downloads, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Xbox Live, Xbox Live Marketplace
The Bringing It Home content train just keeps a' rollin'. Today we are blessed with another demo,
Smackdown Vs. Raw 2007. The full list goes a little something like this:
Tony Hawk's Project 8 trailer
Wheelman trailer
Frontlines Fuel of War trailer
X06 Game Montage video
Crossfire trailer
WWE Smackdown Vs. Raw 2007
Fable 2 theme (150 points)
X06 theme (free)
Also new today, Europe can finally download all
Oblivion content packs (insert obligatory horse armor joke here). Oh, and we missed it last night, but there is now a
Halo Wars theme (150 points) and picture pack (80 points) available.
Posted Jun 25th 2006 3:00AM by Ken Weeks
Filed under: News
Team Xbox has the first gameplay shots from
Tony Hawk's Project 8 and they look pretty...um...gnarly. Most would agree the last Tony Hawk game didn't do next-gen justice to the long-running series. Let's hope this Hawk has enough tricks to end Tony's video game career on high note, before he starts turning up with a wheelchair rather than a skateboard.
[Thanks X Budd]
