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CHUD.com’s video game column, chaired by Cav Gallagher and his staff of inglorious gaming bastards, MCP is where you come to discuss the very best the console, PC, and handheld realms have to offer with varying levels of wit, verve, and, occasionally, pure, seething, psychotic venomous hate. If you fancy yourself a gamer, you’ve come to the right place. Press Start To Continue.

MCP: GAMING NEWS ROUNDUP – 3.22.07

Following yesterday’s assault of newsworthy items, today’s offering feels like the lull before the mustard gas hits. I’d like to stress that none of the items below are important in any way, especially my commentary on them.First off, as a followup to the announcement of Devil May Cry 4‘s multiplatform future, here’s a new trailer … Continue reading

MCP: GAMING NEWS ROUNDUP – 3.20.07

In the time it takes Jack Bauer to save the world:Microsoft’s codename Zephyr project has been confirmed as the Xbox 360 Elite. The Elite is all black, has a 120GB hard drive, a new, cooler chipset (power brick heat output is still a question,) and will have HDMI output for those desperate for the latest … Continue reading

MCP: GAMING NEWS ROUNDUP – 3.20.07

Exclusives be gone! One of the PS3’s premier titles has gone the way of Assassin’s Creed. Devil May Cry 4 will not only see release on Sony’s newest console, but also on the Xbox 360 and the PC, many sources are reporting. Not only that, but Virgil won’t even get timed exclusivity, as the PS3 … Continue reading

MCP: GAMING NEWS ROUNDUP – 3.19.07

Hot damn! (That’s the good kind of damn.) It’s like last Summer around the Xbox Live Arcade, except that we’re getting some good titles this time around. Alien Hominid, Worms, Ninja Turtles. Guess what’s coming this Wednesday? That’s right: Castlevania – Symphony of the Night. 800 MS points, or $10US. HD graphics, and a remastered … Continue reading

MCP: GAMING NEWS ROUNDUP – 3.16.07

This is delicious: via Gamepolitics we have here a story about Variety columnist Ben Fritz defending videogames against the world of film criticism. Fritz seizes upon the recent, prevalent comparisons between 300 and videogames, which almost always use "videogame" as derogatory. It’s an attack on lazy criticism as much as it is a pat on … Continue reading

MCP: GAMING NEWS ROUNDUP – 03.15.07

It’s Thursday, Ninja Turtles are awesome, and the world mourns for Caesar. All of which might explain where there’s so little of substance to report today. The crazy folks at the Wikipedia project have launched gaming.wikia to join their music, auto, and health community pages. These "wikia" aren’t exactly like the encyclopedia-format Wikipedia, instead filling … Continue reading

MCP: GAMING NEWS ROUNDUP – 03.14.07

Microsoft has announced that the Live service for Windows Vista will be available in North America on May 8th, which is also the release date for the PC port of Halo 2. The Windows flavor of the network differs a bit from its console cousin in that the server browser and multiplayer components aren’t restricted … Continue reading

MCP: WII HAVE MULTIPLAYER

Well, those waiting for Wii to have some online-multiplayer capability can start rejoicing. Kind of. GameSpy, the company who brought you the Nintendo DS online-multiplayer connection, announced today that it would be providing the multiplayer middleware technology for the Nintendo Wii. As long suspected, multiplayer for the Wii is not to begin until June 2007. … Continue reading

MCP: WHO PLAYS THE WATCHMEN?

So, 300 is doing all right, financially-speaking. This is good news for a man who goes by the name of Zack Snyder, because it greases the wheels for future projects. The one is turning my hair white with anticipation is Watchmen, the adaptation of Alan Moore’s landmark mini-series which Snyder took over after Paul Greengrass … Continue reading

MCP: GAMING NEWS ROUNDUP – 3.13.07

Lots of big news coming down the pike. That’s a phrase which I recently learned doesn’t refer to the species of fish taking a dump.First up comes Sony listening to its fans, or possibly to the numbers associated with the sales of DS Lites. A PSP redesign has been confirmed, and the prevalent rumor is … Continue reading