Sonic Unleashed (Xbox 360)

By Jason Killingsworth at 11:50 AM on February 9, 2009

Developers: Sonic TeamPublisher: SegaPlatforms: Wii, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360Sonic franchise still running on fumes...mostlyThe sneaker-wearing, spiky-haired furball at the center of Sega’s marquee franchise has had a limp in his step the past few years. As the game’s developers left behind the series’ traditional platforming style of gameplay for 3D, the enthusiasm of Sonic’s most ardent fanboys has steadily eroded. Based on screenshots leaked during the early stage of Sonic Unleashed’s game’s development cycle, this new installment was going to be the comeback that would catapult Sonic back into a full sprint. There are moments of thrilling rightness,...  read more

Guitar Hero publisher confirms: DJ Hero in the works

By Muriel Vega at 10:24 AM on February 3, 2009

Not in the mood to become a Rock Star? How about a DJ? According to MTV News, Guitar Hero publisher, Activision Blizzard, is working on yet another spin-off of its best-selling game, a DJ-based music game called DJ Hero....  read more

Jake Gyllenhaal's Prince of Persia gets date

By Rachel Dovey at 4:28 PM on February 2, 2009

What do you get when you mix medieval Persia, an evil vizier, an hourglass trickling sand that has the power to transform an entire village into demons, and a dagger that can reverse the flow of time? According to Disney's upcoming release schedule, the answer is Jake Gyllenhaal....  read more

Best of 2008: It's your turn

By Liz Stinson at 2:13 PM on February 2, 2009

Paste announces its 2008 Reader Survey...just in time for Feb. '09!  read more

10 Obamicons For Video Game Lovers

By Jason Killingsworth at 6:11 PM on January 27, 2009

Since Paste is responsible for giving the world the Obamicon and I am the video game editor employed by said company, it would only make sense for me to craft a few entries for my fellow gamers out there. (Fair play to Game Daily for scooping me, but I can assure that these were made before I realized, to my chagrin, that my post was arriving a couple minutes late to the party.) </remorse> Enjoy! ...  read more

The Dark Knight video game halts production

By Muriel Vega at 10:55 AM on January 26, 2009

As previously reported, The Dark Knight video game was in the works. However, due to various technical difficulties and licensing rights, the game project collapsed. ...  read more

Call of Duty: World at War (Xbox 360)

By Allen Brooks at 5:28 PM on January 19, 2009

Developers: Treyarch, Certain AffinityPublisher: ActivisionPlatforms: PC, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360Can Activision follow up its award-winning Call of Duty 4 without flaming out?The latest entry into the Call of Duty franchise had a pretty auspicious slot to fill. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare pulled down multiple game of the year awards, and remains a challenger to Halo 3's supremacy on Xbox Live. Call of Duty: World at War feels, at best, like a sidestep to the previous installment....  read more

Lips (Xbox 360)

By Gus Mastrapa at 12:21 PM on January 15, 2009

Developer: iNiSPublisher: MicrosoftPlatform: Xbox 360How well do you know the songs on your iPod?Lips, the new karaoke game from the makers of Elite Beat Agents, supplements its playlist with your personal mp3 collection. The game doesn't provide on-screen lyrics or pitch suggestions for the tunes you bring to the table. Still, the ability to “freestyle” songs from your private music stash is transformative, making complaints about the provided music (40 songs out of the box) being too mainstream or poppy completely moot. Don't like Lil Mama's “Lip Gloss” or “I'm Only Me When I'm With You” by Taylor Swift? Fine....  read more

Guitar Hero World Tour (Xbox 360)

By Jason Killingsworth at 2:32 PM on January 13, 2009

Developer: NeversoftPublisher: ActivisionPlatforms: Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii Helping kids appreciate music, one "Jessie's Girl" download at a timeThe Guitar Hero franchise has secured enormous bragging rights for its publisher Activision. The company announced in January of 2008 that Guitar Hero is the first franchise to crack $1 billion dollars in sales. Then it was just announced yesterday that Guitar Hero III is the first single game to break $1 billion in sales. That’s real money, like the kind you buy stuff with....  read more

Ghostbusters video game gets a release date

By Matt Goodlett at 2:13 PM on January 13, 2009

If you've played the first Ghostbusters game on the original NES, you may recall driving around in a white box meant to represent the Ghostbusters' Ecto-1, and disappointment that the game didn't live up to the movie. The news that Ghostbusters: The Video Game has made it out of production limbo, and is solidly slated for release on June 16 for all major systems might finally make up for that. ...  read more

The Paste 7 - February 09

By Paste at 11:52 AM on January 12, 2009

Our favorite entertaining bits of whatever. ...  read more

Grey's Anatomy video game on the way

By Matt Goodlett at 10:10 AM on January 9, 2009

You can imagine two things happening with Ubisoft’s recent announcement that Grey’s Anatomy: The Video Game will be released in early 2009 for the Wii, Nintendo DS and PC: sales of Wii consoles to soccer moms (swooning for McDreamy, natch) will rise and serious gamers will grumble....  read more

Mirror's Edge (Xbox 360)

By Jason Killingsworth at 4:45 PM on December 8, 2008

Developer: EA Digital Illusions (DICE)Publisher: Electronic ArtsPlatforms: Xbox 360, PS3, PCKILL THE MESSENGERThings get dangerous when the government decides you just might be a terroristAt the 2008 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, designer Ken Levine stood in front of a packed convention hall and delivered a presentation on the art of storytelling in video games. He’d earned the right. His award-winning game Bioshock, released in 2007, delivered one of the most engrossing narratives in the history of interactive entertainment—the harrowing tale of an underwater city called Rapture, founded on utopian ideals, only to spiral into chaos as rampant genetic...  read more

Paste celebrates 10 years

By Paste Staff at 4:48 PM on December 3, 2008

On Dec. 3, 1998, Josh Jackson, Nick Purdy and Jordan Feibus launched PasteMusic.com...  read more

Tomb Raider Underworld (PC)

By Scott Jones at 5:32 PM on November 25, 2008

Developer: Crystal DynamicsPublisher: EidosPlatforms: Xbox 360, PC, Wii, PS3, PS2Welcome (back) to the jungleThe eighth game in the Tomb Raider series feels perhaps a bit too familiar. As usual, Lara Croft—whose boobs can’t possibly be real (on a number of different levels)—sets off on yet another globe-spanning adventure in search of yet another artifact. This time it’s Thor’s Hammer. Underworld gets off to a snappy start, with Croft, alone, exploring the Mediterranean depths, and eventually stumbling upon a huge octopus, which seems content to sit still and groan while Croft clambers about its lair, solving the puzzle that will eventually...  read more

Signs of Life 2008: Best Games

By Paste Staff at 8:00 AM on November 18, 2008

Check out Paste's top 10 video games of 2008...  read more

The Best Music, Movies, TV Shows, Books and Games of 2008

By Paste Staff at 8:00 AM on November 17, 2008

Let’s be frank: any best-of list says more about the people who
 assembled it than it does about a particular year...  read more

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

By Paul Semel at 11:00 AM on November 13, 2008

Publisher: LucasArtsPlatforms: Xbox 360, Ps3, Ps2, Wii, DS, PSP, iPhoneEmbracing your Dork Side can be loads of funHardcore Star Wars fans are well aware of what happened during The Clone Wars and after the Emperor died. But in casting you as Darth Vader’s Secret Apprentice, who’s tasked with hunting missing Jedi, this third-person action-packed game is one of the few adventures set between the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Rebellion....  read more

Dead Space

By Scott Jones at 3:00 PM on November 12, 2008

Publisher: EA GamesPlatforms: Xbox 360, PS3, PCAverting disaster, once again, requires plenty of goreZombie-like aliens overtake an abandoned ship floating through space, and it’s your job—as the none-too-subtly-named Isaac Clarke—to traverse the corpse of the ship while running a series of mostly forgettable errands. That’s right: It’s Shinji Mikami’s Resident Evil 4 meets Ridley Scott’s Alien. Even the over-the-right-shoulder viewpoint is lifted straight from RE 4. And like Alien, the game’s most unnerving moments are found between encounters. Listening to the sound of something scuttling in the overhead ducts is far more goosebump-inducing than finally seeing whatever horror emerges....  read more

Rise of the Argonauts

By Jason Killingsworth at 5:30 PM on November 11, 2008

Publisher: Codemasters Platforms: PS3, Xbox 360Tracking the Golden Fleece is (mostly) a pleasure cruiseThe cultural obsession with superheroes is not a contemporary phenomenon. Thousands of years before Batman and Spider-Man saved Gotham and New York—and a few decades later, Hollywood—human beings were fascinated with superhuman do-gooders. Don’t forget: The Christian faith begins with an ordinary-seeming guy who reluctantly unveils miraculous powers in his crusade against injustice and an unfathomably sinister arch-nemesis. (Sounds like a Stan Lee creation, no?) The ancient Greeks had their own superheroes—some divine, some mortal. In a world filled with such wearying complexity, we yearn for tales...  read more