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My philosophy on life is this: you can never be too thin, too rich or have too many t-shirts. Fortunately for those with bare torsos and a taste for gaming, Simon Carless from GameSetWatch has announced the availability of the site's newest venture, a line of limited t-shirts known as GameSetApparel. The first of four, available now, highlights one of gaming's more infamous urban legends, Polybius. Legend has it, Polybius was an arcade game so frightening that merely playing could lead to insanity, resulting in the game being pulled from public display. More »
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GameSetWatch points us to a terrific article over on Hardcore Gaming 101 that explores the history of Capcom's other fighting game, Darkstalkers. As they note, Darkstalkers never attained the kind of widespread attention as it's brother Street Fighter, but it still has quite a strong following nonetheless. Morrigan and Lilith alone have inspired countless cosplay costumes and fan art. I share GameSetWatch author Simon's love for the Darkstalkers series as I have been monster obsessed since practically falling out of the womb. More »
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Simon from GameSetWatch was tipped off to some fascinating flyers for older Capcom arcade games that got special treatment in the form of "Secret Files" bonus promos. The series of multi-page promotional booklets looks to have run from 1996 to 1999 and includes well known games like Street Fighter III and lesser known titles such as Battle Circuit. More »
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Supereditor Simon Carless points his court of GameSetWatch readers to an interesting bit of info on the PlayStation 3 version of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion culled from this month's EGM. (For the record, I'm a subscriber—just haven't received my issue yet.) When following up on a comment from the game's executive producer on the PS3's slower Blu-ray drive, EGM reveals that: More »
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Simon Carless, who is, I'm sure, even busier than I am, just announced that he's moving GameSetWatch from the daily post-a-thon model to the thoughtful post occasionally model. Not that the two can't ever meet, they do, I believe, meet quite a bit on Kotaku. But trying to maintain a daily site with a lot of quantity and quality can be overwhelming at times and knowing what Carless does in his non-existent free time, I understand the decision. More »
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Music man XOC, also known as Jason Cox, responsible for arguably the best video game cover album of ALL TIME, has made the penultimate sacrifice. Okay, not even close. But he did turn his original NES—the one he's had since age ten!—into a functioning guitar. More »
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Thank the heavens above for GameSetWatch and chief poster of all things interesting, Simon Carless. If we could somehow transform him into a single, beautiful woman with a massive trust fund and a penchant for giving foot massages, we'd be all over that. In this week's edition of scraping through the muck of eBay for interesting video game auctions, he came across this "Holy Grail" of Game & Watch units—10 unopened, mostly untouched, perfectly mint Donkey Kong Jr. units. More »
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Simon's got a nice round-up on GameSetWatch of some of the interesting games-related stories you may have missed in the past day or so. And I don't just say that because he links both to Kotaku and one of my Rocky articles. More »
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Eagle eyed GameSetWatch overlord Simon points us to this bordering-on-insane eBay auction for the unreleased Echo Delta. With a Buy It Now price of $1520, the Nintendo 64 game that never saw the light of day outside of its prototype state was an RTS/RPG action hybrid. More »
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Via the always excellent Game Set Watch (Hi, Simon!) comes the Nintendo garage sale haul of a lifetime. Hardcore SNES and NES cart collectors are creaming their collective jeans over the rarities one lucky fella snagged for a mere $40. More »
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Gamasutra has started its own blog. GameSetWatch is edited by Simon Carless and written by a laundry list of some of my favorite bloggers: GeenOnStun's Michael McWhertor, Wonderland's Alice Taylor, Edge Magazine's Brandon Boyer, LostLevel's Frank Cifaldi and Insert Credit's Brandon Sheffield. More »
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