Miscellaneous News

Earlier we posted about the awesome TRON Legacy viral game Arcade Aid, which challenged gamers to test their game title knowledge with this unique pixel-image puzzle. Some people were getting stuck on a few of these brain teasers, so we've whipped up a full solution guide and poster!

At this point it’s safe to say that most of us if not all of us are hyped for Tron Legacy. Slick visuals, buttery beats from Daft Punk and the continuation of one of the most original sci-fi stories ever has many, especially me, hyped for the film.  Even though the movie is still nine months away that doesn’t mean you can’t have your Tron fix now.

It seems like OnLive, the cloud processing based “super console”, is full steam ahead. Just today we’ve gotten word that the system will be up and running in all 48 contiguous United States. The on switch gets flipped on June 17^th, during E3.

I like game teases a lot, especially when they’re for unannounced games and all we get is a five seconds of footage. Usually such a quick tease would whip us all in a rage since after all we do like seeing games but thanks to the humorous nature of the Jace Hall Show this new tease isn’t completely devoid of any entertainment.

Wow. It’s really hard to come up with anything really brilliant to say to introduce this clip. It’s something that just absolutely blew me away and I feel the need to share it with all of you out there. If you’ve played through Modern Warfare 2 then you’ll be able to understand how truly great this re-cut and extended footage from the games “No Russian” level is. If you haven’t, the clip still stands on its own but you might want to at least YouTube the original scene so you can appreciate the level of work that’s gone into this.

Welcome to the QuarterSave Podcast for Monday March the 8th! This week’s podcast sees the return of the new hosting duo of Casey and Corey who sit down to discuss a little of the drama that has been going on throughout the whole of the last week. Included within this week’s podcast is some talk of Halo Reach, a rage-induced tirade from Corey about the PS3 shutdown, talk of the shake-up over at Infinity War, and recap of the events from Friday regarding the Illfonic Team being taking out of their building in cuffs at gun-point!

Sorry for the delay, all! Part one can be found here.

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Last night something extremely interesting happened to indie developer IllFonic that almost seemed like it was ripped out of a videogame. It’s not that often a game developer can say that they had two police officers point loaded guns at them, but now three members of IllFonic can due to a mix-up at the hands of the Denver Police Department.

After giving us unique visions of iconic tales such as “Alice in Wonderland” and “Wizard of Oz” the awesomely named American McGee is now tackling the tale of Little Red Riding Hood.  McGee’s versions of Alice and Oz (which was limited to a toy line) were known for their dark and mature characters designs and in the case of Alice the game was known for its rather gruesome violence and an Alice that usually had blood on her.

In case you’ve been avoiding the latest gaming news today or woke up in the past hour here’s the lowdown: some major sh!t went on at Infinity Ward yesterday such as Activision firing the two heads of the company due to “insubordination” issues. The full extent of how Infinity Ward’s Vince Zampella and Jason West were insubordinate is still a bit hazy but reports indicate that the studio wanted to create a new IP before moving on to Modern Warfare 3.

Even though their last two games were some of the biggest hits this generation it looks like some shake ups have happened at Modern Warfare developer Infinity Ward that could forever change the company.  Details are still coming in and further confirmations are still pending but it looks like Activision has given the boot to Infinity Ward bosses Vince Zampella and Jason West. Yup, the two top dogs at the company that made one of the most acclaimed fps games ever made have been fired.

Since our interview with Illfonic last year we've been keeping an eye on this development team. Illfonic graced us late Monday with with an email about their latest project Nexuiz. Working with Alientrap, Illfonic will be bringing the fun, fast paced first person shooter to XBox, PS3, and the Wii.

If you’re a Virtua Fighter fan then I have some good news and bad news. The good news is that VF5 is getting another update in the form of Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown. But the bad news is that this update is for Japanese arcades which means the chances it’ll be release outside of Japan are rather slim.

In what seemed like a millennia ago a cool looking game with the codename Project Offset was shown. The main attention grabber of Project Offset was that it was billed as Battlefield 1942 but set in a fantasy setting, something that immediately had a bunch of folks hyped up for it. But the other thing that caught the attention of people was that Project Offset featured some amazing visuals and art design which at the time sent a lot of people into anticipation overdrive since the game was shown prior to the unveiling of the PS3 and Xbox 360.

Despite announcing a profit of $113 million, Activision could be doing some trimming within their development studios. A report is coming in today via NeoGAF that Prototype developer Radical Entertainment has just been hit with a massive amount of layoffs.