Game Downloads

After releasing the strange, but amusing “Get Sprunk” video, Rockstar has now released a couple more videos that show off the capabilities of the upcoming video editor in GTA IV for the PC. The one above is titled “Exploder,” and is basically a fake trailer for one crazy action movie. There’s also a second video after the break called “The Amazing Conrad” that’s just kind of strange. From the looks of things though, that video editor is certainly going to allow people to create a wide range of videos. Unfortunately, knowing the internet, I’m sure you’ll have to wade through a lot of hastily thrown together Linkin Park music videos before you can find anything actually worth watching.

Sorry, Nintendo. You can try and try to hype up a game as being family-friendly and do whatever you can to keep it that way, but it still only takes one wayward employee to flush all that down the toilet. Apparently, some members of the press have received copies of the new DS title, Animal Crossing: Wild World, that comes with some content already unlocked…including one very out-of-place racial slur. One of the features of the game is that you can teach characters to say certain messages to you, and it seems someone at Nintendo decided to train one of them to call the player “N—a.” So now when you talk to the adorable sheep named Baabara, she greets with phrases such as, “How are you, N—a?,” “So got any juicy gossip for me, N—a?,” and “Want to get crunk tonight and pour out a forty for our fallen homies, N—a?” (okay, so that last one was totally made up).

Some decent downloadable content for Guitar Hero: World Tour is heading our way this month and consists of the very popular and sometimes genius stylings of The Eagles, Nirvana and The Smashing Pumpkins. These bands are already present on the game disc, but the new content coming from each should give fans or gamers feeling a bit of music fatigue a bit of a relief.

The Godfather II is expected to be released by Electronic Arts for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 in February 2009 and supposedly goes beyond the film’s story by setting players in the world of organized crime in 1960’s Florida, Cuba and New York.

We have known for a while know that The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena was heading to the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, but what has been a bit scarce are the actual details on the game–especially after being dropped by Activision.

Yesterday, during the big Atari press conference in London, Infrogames President Phil Harrison mentioned that Atari is planning on future installments of Forgotten Realms games Baldur’s Gate, Dungeons & Dragons, Neverwinter Nights and the racing game Test Drive Unlimited. Being that I am a huge Baldur’s Gate fan, I cannot believe I missed this yesterday, but here it is anyway.