Dead Rising 2

The announcement that the Xbox 360 version of Dead Rising 2 would be getting exclusive DLC wasn’t the only DR2 news to come out of the recent X10 event as Capcom also demoed the game for the first time since TGS last year.

It’s been a little while since we’ve heard anything from Capcom about Dead Rising 2. The last bits of information that trickled out were regarding the combination of weapons that was going to be available to help you hack your way through the hordes in the upcoming sequel. Today Capcom decided to make up for the DR2 drought by providing us with two rather large announcements.

With today being the slow news day that are most Monday’s I’m resorted to writing a quasi-fluff story based on a piece of Twitter info. Yes, once again Twitter is showing that it’s becoming an actual source for news instead of being a place where I can post that I’m having a nervous breakdown.

Finally thanks to TGS we have some new footage for Dead Rising 2 including our first look at the inventive multiplayer mode.  If you’re looking for fun ways to kill zombies then DR2 is the game for you and people will definitely get a kick out of some of the new weapons.

Among the new weapons players can use to kill the endless zombie horde include combining a pitchfork and a shotgun to make an almost modern take on the bayonet.

Since the E3 trailer news on Dead Rising 2 has been rather quiet and many were bummed out that the game didn’t have a presence at E3.  Well since it's TGS time the lid is ready to be blown off on the latest installment of the zombie killing franchise.

One of the wildcard games this year was Capcom’s reboot/relaunch or whatever the hell you want to call it of Bionic Commando. After releasing a remake of the original Bionic Commando last year that not only was a good game but hit all the right notes when it came to fan nostalgia it was unclear if the “proper” next-gen version of Bionic Commando would be solid as well.

If you're an ADD gamer, with a taste for zombies, gore, and mall-rating like myself; then one of your favorite games of the last couple of years was Dead Rising for the Xbox 360.

A recent GDC announcement is good news for gamers and bad news for lead character in the next Dead Rising 2 game.

Izmeth Siddeek, Dead Rising 2's character art lead, announced at GDC that a new game engine technology called "Mental Mill" will allow up to 6,000 zombies to appear on-screen at once, without any sacrifice to the quality of graphics or frame rate. The developer of Mental Mill, Laura Scholl, has confirmed that Siddeek told him that their development teams were ready to take advantage of the technology and hit that magic 6,000 mark.