Quake Live open beta

Yep, the glory day for FPS gamers everywhere has arrived. The Quake Live beta opened live to players last night. I've been attempting off and on to connect to the site, but so far to no avail. If the line for this thing could be visualized, I imagine it would be stretching out of several doors. Hopefully I'll have more interesting things to report on about the live beta later tonight.

Jack Black and a little illicit cross-platform action

Video embedding was disabled for this clip, so follow the still shot for the full thing. Pretty much NSFW.

Dead Space to take gore-filled, interstellar horror to...the Wii

Remember Dead Space? One of the scariest, (and definitely goriest) games to come out last year. Good game. Filled with claustrophobia and panic moments. EA Redwood Shores did a good job.

Now then.

You remember the Wii? Nintendo's cute 'lil family-oriented console that's largely geared towards kids and casual gamers? The one that has probably five good games for hardcore gamers that aren't ports from other systems?

Well, as weird as it may sound, there's going to be unholy marriage between them. That's right: today EA announced that a new Dead Space game is coming this year to Nintendo's child-friendly console.

The news broke during the company's fiscal third quarter earnings call today, when EA CEO John Riccitiello said that the intellectual property will be making its way to the Wii sometime this year. Riccitiello also stressed that the new game will feature the same elements that made last year's adventures through the abandoned Ishimura so damn scary on the PS3 and Xbox 360. Although no other details are known at this time, the new title will be its own unique take on the series built to take full advantage of the Wii's motion sensitive controls, according to an article on IGN's Wii page.