After the success of Lego Star Wars The Video Game, Lucas Arts and Traveler’s Tales aren’t about to pass up opportunities for new Lego [Insert Movie Here] The Video Game titles. In addition to your ordinary Indiana Jones games (by Lucas Arts), we’ll be seeing Lego Indiana Jones The Video Game. The release is set for “Summer 2008,” coinciding with the release of the new movie. According to the trailer on the official site, the game will cover the original three Indiana Jones films.

I haven’t seen much about it yet, but there have been rumors about a Lego Batman game as well.

Need For Speed Carbon has been labeled several times by the consumers as “the best one of the series”.

Unlike the games prior to Need For Speed Underground, Need For Speed Carbon has an actual storyline. It takes up where Most Wanted left off.

Your coming up to the finish line at a high speed, it’s obvious you’ll win…..when suddenly a few weird energy blasts come out of nowhere immobilizing all the other cars. As police cars come around the corner and start arresting everybody, you quickly grab your winnings and leave with all haste. Read the rest of this entry »

This new need for speed game is in my opinion the Ultimate and i mean Ultimate racing game. I have browsing the site over and over trying to see if i should get this Ultimate racing game.

The opening part of the site’s review states: “ What starts in the city is settled in the canyons as Need for Speed Carbon immerses you in the world’s most dangerous and adrenaline-filled form of street racing.

You and your crew must race in an all-out war for the city, risking everything to take over your rivals’ neighborhoods one block at a time.

As the police turn up the heat, the battle ultimately shifts to Carbon Canyon, where territories and reputations can be lost on every perilous curve.

With online racing and the most advanced graphics and car customization tools ever, Need for Speed Carbon is the ultimate next generation racing game.”

As you see, it’s not only you and the computer racing,  but the police  have  decided  to have some fun and race their interceptors also. You can also control the police to arrest illegal street racers (introduced in NFS Hot Pursuit).

They have introduced new classes of cars also (you choose one of them and race those cars). The Different classes are:

• Tuners: Choose these cars if you want to race normal cars that have been tuned-up. they are made to have heightened steering control so they are ideal for twisty courses.
• My Favorite Exotic cars: these are cars made in different countries. Exotic cars are high speed and performance cars (not very good for twisty courses). I looked at the car gallery and I saw something i didn’t like…….They didn’t put even one Ferrari in it!

Then there are muscle cars. These super fast vintage Mustangs and corvettes are the kings of road racing! They have the speed of the exotics and the cornering of the tuners! with a car like this you can’t go wrong.

Back in the early ’90s, ID Software released Doom, a truly revolutionary software title. It was one of the first Shareware game titles, and it’s graphics were amazing (not anymore, though ).

Today, they’re still doing some impressive work. With their upcoming game “Rage,” they do more than just introduce new graphics technology.

The new “tech5″ game engine not only aids developers in porting their games to other platforms, but it can render “massive outdoor environments and make them look glorious down to pixel level without any performance issues.” The game “Rage” will also introduce some “stuff that would surprise people,” adding some innovation to the current (boring) first-person-shooter genre. Hopefully this game will get some more creativity into the gaming industry. People are getting tired of the same old games repackaged with new stories!

On July 16th, phase one of the Pirates of the Caribbean Online beta testing will be concluded. After that date, the game will go offline until September ( ), when phase two of the testing will begin.

In the meantime, the following will happen:

• The developers will fix a ton of bugs, improve things, and build a new version of the game system.
• The website will be overhauled (hint: no Flash!).
• We will get frequent updates from the developers.
• There will be some community contests.
• Screenshots, etc.

Hopefully there will be no phase three of beta testing, and the game will be launched by the end of November.

The game is now installed and working. It’s definitely the best one yet. I’ll post a real review once I finish the game.

By the way, if any of you Windows XP users are having the installation quit with this error message, here’s the solution:

“With DVD in the disk drive, open My Computer.
Right-click your DVD drive and choose Explore.
Right-click Autorun.exe and choose Properties.
Select the Compatibility tab.
Click once in the box next to Run this program in compatibility mode for:
Select Windows 2000 from the drop down menu.
Apply changes.
Once you have set Autorun.exe to run in Windows 2000 mode, double-click Autorun.exe and the installation will start. Follow the instructions given and the game should install properly.” - EA Tech Support

Yeah, I’ve got a copy of the new Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix game (which came out yesterday).

The problem? I can’t install it. Though my computer exceeds the system requirements, it won’t let me.

The installer launches, I type in the serial number, then I get to the EULA page (which is blank for some reason). I click “Accept”, despite the EULA not coming up. The installer closes with the following error:

What the heck? I have DirectX 9.0c! I try reinstalling DirectX. No change. No matter what I do, the installer halts before it even gets a chance to copy any files.

Currently I’m waiting for a reply from EA’s tech support guys.

MasterTheMagic.com, the site for EA Games’ Harry Potter games, has been updated for the upcoming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix game. To be released on June 25th, the game will undoubtedly be the best of the Harry Potter games….and one of the best games this year.

The site now includes info about the game (and the different platforms), screenshots, desktop backgrounds, and a few other things.

While not the most cutting edge game, even when it came out, the game that really got me interested in computer games was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by EA Games.

Back when I was ten, I got the game after reading all of the Harry Potter books. If your a Harry Potter fan, you’ll probably like the game, while others may not.

The game has a few innovative concepts, but nowadays I’d say it’s too linear. The sequels, Chamber of Secrets and Prisoner of Azkaban were much better (though Goblet of Fire was horrible). From what I’ve seen, Order of the Phoenix, the newest of the Harry Potter games, will not only be the best of the HP games, but one of the most innovative games in general. Read the rest of this entry »

Lego Racers is one of the few good racing games. I know what you’re thinking. “What?!“, right? I’m serious. Unlike most racing games, it’s not a simulation. It’s Lego, which means cartoon-y, basically.

Instead of just driving, there are shortcuts, a wide array of power-ups, and other features that set it apart from the rest.

Lego Racers has the best power-up system I’ve ever seen. There are four classes of power-ups, each a different colored Lego Brick. You have the red Attacks, the green Boosts, the yellow Hazards, and the blue Shields. Then there are the white Modifier bricks, that change what the base brick does. For example, you pick up a green brick, which is normally a five-second (about) speed boost (a jet engine appears at the back of your car). If you collect two white bricks before releasing the power-up, you get two jet engines, wings, and like 15 seconds of ultra fast boost time. If you collect the maximum of three white bricks, you go into hyperdrive, teleporting way ahead.

If you get hit with a cannon ball (the base Attack power-up), your car flies into the air, and lands hard…giving the other cars a chance to speed ahead. There are worse power-up than that, believe me. There’s the Curse, which reverses your steering temporarily, and there’s the MagnaBeam, which holds your car back for 5 seconds. That’s just a small sampling of the vast array of power-ups.

It’s really fun in two-player mode, where you race another person (just plug in an extra controller).

Even though the game is no longer available in-store, you can buy it used. Lego Racers works on Windows XP, though I’m doubtful about Vista compatibility. Then there are console versions available used as well (Playstation 2, Gamecube, etc).

Lego Racers is my favorite racing game, seriously.