Luche Libre AAA Heroes del Ring Preview

As a part of CGR Undertow, I had a chance to talk to the developers of Luche Libre: AAA: Heroes del Ring before it's October release.

EAT OUT YOUR HEART MARIO KART

I had a chance to sit down with Indycar and NASCAR racecar driver Danica Patrick. It wasn't to talk about the Indianapolis 500 or her transition to NASCAR or even those provocative GoDaddy.com Super Bowl commercials.

If you know anything about me at this point, you know it had to be about a video game. The video game in question, in which the very lovely Danica stars as the final boss, is called Blur.

Blur is a graphically beautiful game that has the real-time damage features of games like Need for Speed combined with the multiplayer and weapon caused chaos of Mario Kart.

Check out my interview with Danica below and then get ready to go out and grab an electric shooting Lotus or super turbo charged Mustang as Blur hits store shelves May 25th for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC.

WAKING UP INTO NIGHTMARES

It was one of the most talked about titles from E3 2009 and after several delays, psychological thriller fans will finally see their dreams turn into living nightmares on May 18, 2010, with the long anticipated release of Alan Wake for the Xbox 360.

For those of you caught unawares, Alan Wake sees the title character, a horror writer, and his wife taking a vacation in a tranquil Pacific Northwestern city trying to help Alan overcome his writer's block. Once in the town though, Alan starts having nightmares and wakes up one night to find his wife is missing and a story he can't remember writing has come to life. As Alan scrounges about the wilderness collecting pages from his otherworldly novel, trying to find his wife and unravel the mystery of where the book came from, he must combat members of the community who have been consumed by a poltergeist-like darkness.

Done in a cinematic like style that sees each level of Alan's exploration broken down into something like episodes out of the X-Files (even with a nice little narrator's "On the last episode of..." montage between levels), Alan Wake is a story that can't help but pull you in.

On that note, I had a chance to catch up with the man behind the story of Alan Wake, Remedy Entertainment Lead Writer Sam Lake.



Alan Wake Preview - Ray Carsillo w/ Lead Writer Sam Lake

Video by Jared Bodden