News Roundup: Real Evil White Dracula

by: Randy - posted: 6/3/2008 2:02:00 AM

Demos

• The Italian demo for Dracula: Origin is mirrored over at AtomicGamer.  Though, being a vampire, Dracula would never see himself in a mirror.  Har har.
• Demo the Real Scenery Airfields: White Waltham for Microsoft's Flight Simulator X.
• For would-be Vince McMahons, the demo for Total Extreme Wrestling 2008 just flew off the top turnbuckle.

Articles

• If you don't have your gaming facts straight, Defunct Games will call you out in its "They Said What?!?" feature.  This month's sacrificial lamb:  Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine.
• Our own Ben Berry blogs his initial steps out On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, and how Battlefield: Bad Company doesn't necessarily love misery.
• GamingNexus Hardware Savant, John Yan, digs into some old E3 photos and finds Lord British wearing startlingly civilian attire.
• Cryptic Studios slithers a Snake Gultch concept art preview onto the Champions Online website.
• Ask TheTechLounge just "how much awesome stuck to the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 X2, and how much washed away?"
• The Belkin Nostromo n52te gaming keypad was put through the paces at I4U.
• Look no further if you need a look-see at NVIDIA's new Tegra mobile platform.
• Is the NVIDIA Tegra 650 Processor ready to battle x86 CPUs?
• AtomicGamer just assembled (and blew up) their review of Boom Blox.

Videos

• Spore Tribal Stage; Street Fighter IV Trailer #4 (WMV); Resident Evil 5 Trailer; Too Human Developer Diary #4 (WMV); Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword May 27th and May 15th Trailers (WMV); Ninja Gaiden 2 Documentary on Bosses (WMV HD, WMV), Weapons (WMV HD, WMV); Battlefield: Bad Company Characters Developer Diary (MP4 HD); Skate It San Vanelona (QT); Fracture Webisode #2, German Trailers (WMV); Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia Trailer (WMV).

Screens

• Spore (Mac, PC) [Tribal phase]; Resident Evil 5; Fallout 3; The Sims 3 (PC); Too Human (X360) [Ruiner shots]; Don King Presents: Prize Fighter; Little League World Series 2008 (Wii); Ironclads: American Civil War (PC); Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword (DS); Real Scenery Airfields: White Waltham (All) [FSX add-on]; The Sims 3; The East India Company.

Thanks to Defunct Games, Cryptic Studios, TheTechLounge, AtomicGamer, I4U, Techgage, Strategy Informer, and Legit Reviews for today's news roundup.