A Perfect Infected Evolution Imagine awaking in a morgue as your chest is about to be cut open, Heroes style, to then be chased by doctors and military for unknown reasons. Not even because they think you are a zombie. Then throw in the fact that you start to show signs of super human abilities and powers. When you try to figure out what is going on, you realize you have no memory of even how you got on the slab. How would you react? Read More...

Wow, the dark brooding hero has put on a few pounds since last we saw him! Max Payne, who is now bald and sporting a pretty fierce beard, is back and in full force and gracing the cover of Game Informer.  Not only that, the guy is addicted to pain killers. Who didn't see that one coming? Max Payne 3 takes place in Sao Paolo, Brazil, with "fully destructible environments". Which means more stuff to shoot at and blow up.  Players will also experience "day and night cycles". Read More...

Squirreled away in the back of the Los Angeles Convention Center’s West Hall during E3, Perfect World Entertainment showed off Runic Games’ Torchlight along with their other Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games.  Only minutes after putting my hands on this little dungeon crawler had I decided this game had no business being in the back any longer.  Torchlight by Runic Games is set as a Diablo-esque dungeon-crawling Action RPG, which is actually a good thing since the people behind it are some of the same people behind Diablo and Fate.  The story is that near the small mining town of Torchlight, a rich vein of ore has been found called Ember. Read More...

One of my surprises of the show was the game Section 8, coming from SouthPeak Games this fall. I was able to get a demo of this with the lead producer of the game. Section 8 is a futuristic sci-fi shooter with similar gameplay to that of Tribes and Battlefield 2. You have large map areas with 32 total players, two teams of 16 each. Each map has various objectives and areas your team must capture or complete to gain points for your side.As you spawn or respawn, you locate an area on the map that is a safe drop zone. Read More...

June 16th is just a little under two weeks away and Ghostbusters fans couldn’t be more excited. The highly anticipated release of the Blu-Ray editions are almost here, but more importantly so is the upcoming Ghostbusters: The Video Game. You’ll all the members of the original crew as a rookie trying to help rid New York of all sorts of ghostly ghouls. Doing their part to help hype the game’s release, Gamestop, Best Buy, Wal-mart/Sam’s Club, and Amazon.com are all offering preorder bonuses. Read More...

APB, which stands for All Points Bulletin, is the upcoming Persistent Online Game from developer Realtime Worlds. It is a game in which players enter cities as one of two sides, an enforcer or a criminal. With up to 100 people per city, the two sides, as well as various gangs, are in a constant conflict. APB strives to make the gameplay more player driven, than game driven as with most Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games. They like to consider it as a Dynamic Action Based game, not an MMO or a Role-Playing Game (RPG). Read More...

Attention Aggrogamer Readers! We will be in attendance at E3 this year and bringing you news, previews, and hands on impressions throughout the show. Keep your eyes peeled to the website as E3 essentially kicks off with three press events tomorrow (Microsoft, EA and Ubisoft). David, Brian, Ben, Binh, Andy and myself will be there for Aggrogamer.The Aggrocast will be in effect as well, as we will be doing nightly recordings where Michael, Brian and Binh will be joined by Ben, David, and Andy. We will discuss everything we have seen each day and we may bring in some special guests each night. Read More...

Today it was announced that 38 Studios acquired Big Huge Games.  38 Studios is the studio that was started by now-retired professional baseball player Curt Schilling who is also an admitted World of Warcraft addict.  Founding 38 Studios to create an “Online Entertainment Experience,” Schilling and his team have been working on this new fantasy MMOG, currently entitled Copernicus, since 2006. I know at this point you’re rolling your eyes at another fantasy MMORPG, and frankly, I don’t blame you.  Instead let’s look at how Schilling, a World Series Champion and fairly well-known and popular person in the US, bought into the industry to bring a quality product for the masses to enjoy. Read More...

Details On and Free Play of Unreal Tournament Black Just when you thought you were not going to have anything good to hold you over until the news from E3 starts rolling out next week, Epic Games and Steam hook us all up. Hook us up with free play weekend for Unreal Tournament Black. Not just a free play weekend, but a free play four day weekend, for those who have yet to actually pick up this title. Also so you don't miss out on any of the free time at all, you can start loading the game right now so when the clock strikes midnight you can hop in and go to town enjoying this game. Enjoy it you will. Read More...

Druids, are you tired of looking the same as all the other Druids? Would you want to change colors in your bear and cat form? Do you want to dance in bear form in style? Well now you can, as Blizzard has announced new looks for the Druids! In the next major patch for World of Warcraft, druids will be able to find color schemes for the bear and cat forms. Blizzard made the following announcement on their Under Development page: “There will be five different designs for each of these forms for the Horde and Alliance. Night elves can choose to change their cat and bear look at any time by visiting the barber shop and changing their character's hair color, while tauren will be able to change which look they use by switching skin tones in the barber shop -- a new feature for tauren in the next major content patch. Read More...

In 2006 Marvel and Activision teamed up to create Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. Built on the X-men Legends engine, Ultimate Alliance featured the largest collection of comic book characters ever seen in a video game. Combining the standard roster with downloadable content, Ultimate Alliance featured nearly 40 playable characters. The game was a success and this coming fall we'll get to see the sequel Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2: Fusion. Already there are 17 playable characters that will be a part of the roster with at least another dozen that have yet to be identified as playable or non-playable. Read More...

We present you Episode 29 of the Aggrocast, which will be our final episode prior to E3. In this episode we discuss the latest gaming addiction in Plants Vs Zombies, the Neo Steam: The Shattered Continents Beta released by Atlus Online, and what we hope to see and look forward to seeing at E3.Prepare yourself for E3, as we hope to bring you daily updates each evening of what we have seen and our thoughts. We may also bring in some special guests, so stay tuned for next week. :)We would like to wish our loyal listener HeyHeyChest well after her recent car accident and congrats to our other loyal listener Geomoose and his wife on their first child. Read More...

Looks like Nintendo just announced a very cool little goodie for the Nintendo Wii. As of August 24th you will be able to buy Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption for the Nintendo Wii, all utilizing the Wii Remotes control system displayed in Metroid Prime 3. Nintendo will be selling the bountiful package for $49.99 which is not bad for 3 games, all packed on to a single disc! You can read the press release on the Nintendo Website. Read More...

4MM games is a new gaming company founded by the original co-founders of Rockstar Games Jamie King and Gary Foreman.  Best known for their creation of Grand Theft Auto, Midnight club racing, Bully and Max Payne. “I was hugely honored to be approached by talent of Jamie and Gary’s caliber to co-found 4mm Games,” said Nicholas Perrett, Chief Executive Officer of 4mm Games. Looks like this time around 4MM games will be concentrating on the "online" aspect of video games.  4MM games is looking to create new properties for mobile platforms like the iPhone before expanding to consoles. Read More...

Hello all, and from the start I must apologize for the delay in getting this latest episode to our listeners. Since the last podcast, we all have had very busy and stressful weeks, whether it is getting ready for E3 or just dealing with personal issues. I would also like to apologize for how tired we all sound on the latest show. On this latest episode, we discuss 3D Realms shutting down, more insight into E3, and Brian's beard and whether it is troll or dwarven like. We also go over what games we've been playing, including Plants Vs Zombies, Princess Debut, Peggle and more. Read More...