Comic Con is the perfect opportunity to show off your love of fantasy and the imagination. Whether your fantasies involve you being Superman, Leeloo, Prince Leia in full bondage attire, or the crazy clown lady from Condemned 2 – cosplay is inevitable at Comic Con.

There, is a limit to what is deemed attractive and beyond nerdy though, and you can check these out yourself by clicking through the link at the bottom of this post. Not only will you be privy to some pretty nice looking ladies (some of which are paid models I am sure) but an entire gallery of some of the best costumes of Comic Con. Some of these made me laugh hysterically, but cheers to all who have the guts to go out into public dressed as their favorite video game or comic book character.

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Looks like a system update and a Condemned 2 demo aren’t the only surprises in store for Xbox 360 owners today. Now it looks like a demo for the upcoming Iron Man game is also available for your perusal. Well this certainly beats just a new trailer, like we’ve been getting almost every other day for weeks now. Now we can finally see if this is one of the better movie-to-video-game adaptations or if it will crash and burn like so many others before it. Finger crossed, people.

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You’ve read Stephany’s impressions, you heard what Yahtzee had to say, now it’s your turn to try out Condemned 2. A demo has finally been released on the Xbox Live Marketplace after a long wait. While I imagine most of you have already either lost interest or bought the game, now you’ve got a chance to try the sequel to what was a pretty awesome game.

This single-player only demo is 736 MB and isn’t available in Germany. Not a big loss, though, if Yahtzee is right about this one. (Sorry Steph.)

It’s been two weeks now since there’s been a real update to the PlayStation Store, so much of what’s been released today is catching up for missing out on the past few weeks – Rock Band songs, videos, and a UEFA Euro 2008 demo.

Of course, the big news is that Gran Turismo 5 Prologue has been released. I’ve spent some time today playing it, and I think it’ll be a fine holdover for diehard Gran Turismo fans.

The new Warhawk Broken Mirror pack is also now available for $8, as well as a bundle with both the Broken Mirror and Omega Dawn DLC packs.

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Ah, those simple drawings on a yellow background must mean that it’s Wednesday, and thus time for another hilarious Zero Punctuation review. This week, Yahtzee is tackling Condemned 2: Bloodshot with all the mirth you’d expect him to bring to a game that mostly involves wailing on the homeless. Naturally, he finds plenty in the game to poke fun at, since some of the first game’s odd quirks have either remained intact or been fleshed out in some strange ways. Personally, I have to agree that my interest in a game also tends to wane once something about a mystical cult starts to pop up along with all the derivitivenes that comes with it.

According to an interview with Tim Bennison of Radical Entertainment, Prototype has had multiplayer removed from the game.

From its inception Prototype was planned first and foremost as a single player open-world/action game. Naturally, with Alex’s genetically mutated shape-shifting abilities, we started to explore what would happen if he were to sub-divide into two Prototypes and what kind of multiplayer gameplay we could create around that concept. We’ve been looking at this potential multiplayer idea much more closely as Prototype’s development has been progressing, and while it’s a great concept and gameplay bonus, our conclusion is that we won’t be able to pull it off with the same level of quality and polish that we’re aiming for with the original single player story.

So there ya have it folks. No multiplayer for Prototype. Is that so bad really? Not all games HAVE to have a multiplayer aspect to them, and sometimes – especially here of late – the single player campaign can suffer for it. On the other side of the spectrum though, you can’t just throw in half-baked multiplayer modes just to appeal to the multiplayer crowd or it in turn suffers as well – *cough Condemned 2 cough*.

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Condemned 2: Bloodshot
Developer: Monolith
Publisher: SEGA
Price: $59.99
Platform: PS3, Xbox 360
Category: Action/Adventure, Psychological Horror
ESRB: “M” for Mature
Release Date: 3/12/2008

When I first heard that the folks over at Monolith were making a sequel to Condemned: Criminal Origins, I was both excited and leery at the same time, because let’s face it, sequels are not usually up to par with the original. Granted, the God of War titles seem to do justice to our favorite Spartan, but that cannot be said of the majority of sequels sitting on shelves. My initial disquiet over another offering of Ethan Thomas and the maimed world in which he resides seemed to mitigate slightly when I viewed the first set of screenshots from the game, and the more I saw, better I felt. The trailers looked great, the weapon selection was both pacifying and hilarious at the same time, and the overall ambiance the trailers portrayed finally allowed me to let my guard down completely for Condemned 2: Bloodshot. However, before I get too far ahead of myself, I would like to point out that while this was indeed a very fun and entertaining game, it was far from perfect. So far, to be quite honest, that afterwards when I had played through it a second time, I started to feel extremely let down.

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The XBL demos for Condemned 2: Bloodshot and SEGA Super Star Tennis are already out, and now finally, like Chris mentioned last week, the PSN store  will be getting in on the love today – well, only in the US.

Both the PSN and XBL versions should be arriving on European shores soon but the exact dates depend on certification by Sony and Microsoft. I know, its a pain when most of the world already has it and you don’t, but we promise that we will keep you posted on the dates as soon as we hear more.

In the meantime, go ahead and just buy the games and trade them back in. You may loose about thirty dollars in the process, but if you are the impatient sort, this is your only option at this point.

Thanks: Eurogamer

This week’s PlayStation Store update is headlined by two new demos of Sega games: Condemned 2: Bloodshot and Sega Superstars Tennis. Xbox 360 owners have had access to the Condemned demo for nearly a week now, but Stephany thinks highly enough of the game that it’s something you have to download. The Sega Superstars Tennis demo allows you to try out match mode or mini-game mode with up to two players as you get to play as characters like Sonic, Shadow, AiAi, and Amigo.

This week’s Earache Trash Pack addition to the Rock Band DLC library has also been added. You can find all the details here. Other in-game DLC you’ll find includes a new free course – the Turnberry Golf Resort – for Tiger Woods 08 as well as a premium course – the Doral Golf Resort Blue Monster Course – which costs $4.99. And, if you’re feeling like a sucker, you can pay EA $2.49 to max out your golfer’s skills. Y’know, to do the same thing cheat codes used to do back in the day. For free.

There’s also a helping of new videos and trailers. You can find all the details after the break.

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SEGA announced today that gamers can now play a demo of Condemned 2: Bloodshot via XBL. The demo starts half-way through the first level and will reacquaint players with the game’s hero Ethan Thomas and if you have not downloaded it already you need to do so right away.I bought Condemned 2 the day it came out, and while I was a bit shocked to see some of the changes made to the game, my initial feelings of “what the hell have they done” went away very quickly. While I am still not too keen on the overabundant hazy and blurry special effects that flash across the screen – they could have left those to a minimum and still maintained the creepy feel of the game – there is nothing really to complain about.

You will notice when you play it that hit combos have been added to the game, and Ethan looks more like a drunken Glen Danzig on a shower-strike than the cool, buff detective that he did in the first game, but these new changes do not take away the fun violent hell that is Condemned 2.

I do not want to give away too much of the game because I really think you should play it, but you will be pleased with the storyline, the extra amount of environmental interaction, and the cool gadgets you get to wield. You also get to explore a demented doll factory with exploding babydolls and fight an insane clown lady – clowns, dolls, oh the horror!- its like my two biggest phobias brought to life. Thanks Monolith for the nightmares, I couldn’t love you any more!

For more information on Condemned 2: Bloodshot check out our previous posts.

Via: Press Release