Jurassic Park: The Game Receives Retail Release on Xbox 360

Hold on to your butts…

Good news console gamers, it looks as though Telltale Games’ episodic title, Jurassic Park: The Game, will be available for the Xbox 360 and PS3 this fall. On top of that, the publisher has a special treat for Xbox 360 owners. Read more »

Star Fox 64 3D to Use Gyroscope

President of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, recently revealed a new feature available in Star Fox 64 3D in the companies’ Financial Results Briefing for March 2011. According to the briefing, the game will offer a new feature that uses the 3DS’ gyro sensor to control the Arwing. Read more »

Geoff Keighley’s The Final Hours of Portal 2 Raises the Bar for Video Game Journalism

Released for iPad yesterday, The Final Hours of Portal 2 is an inside look into one of gaming’s most loved developers, Valve. Told by GTTV frontman Geoff Keighley, The Final Hours begins at Portal 2 writer Erik Wolpaw’s house in the early hours of a February morning and takes us on an engrossing journey through the development and birth of Portal and its highly anticipated sequel, Portal 2. Read more »

Amnesty International Releases Mobigame-Developed iOS Game

It is surely a sign of the times when Amnesty International teams up with iOS game studio Mobigame, best known for hit titles like Edge and Truckers Delight, to create a game to raise funding and awareness for the organization. In observance of its 50th anniversary, Amnesty International has released Bulletproof, a game where the player must deflect incoming shots from some unsavory looking characters by touching green crosshairs that indicate the target. The app is meant to raise awareness for Amnesty International’s mission of protecting human rights around the world.

Bulletproof costs 99 cents on the iTunes App Store and all proceeds from its sale go to Amnesty International and their mission. So even if the game isn’t as enthralling as you wished it to be, you can still rest easy knowing that you contributed to a great cause. + 1 good karma.

The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time Gets Two New Ways to Play

In addition to touting The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time’s first person gyroscope mode, Nintendo has revealed two new game modes for the 3DS version. Master Quest and Boss Challenge, two modes that were not featured in the original game, will be making their debut when the game releases in June. Read more »

Mega Man Universe: Canceled

Capcom has announced cancellation of the somewhat mysterious Mega Man Universe. While the announcement cited “various circumstances,” the departure of series creator Keiji Inafune in October of last year may have something to do with the game receiving the axe. Read more »