Great, does MadCatz make XBox 360s? DS Lites? Wavebirds? Rock Band guita...oh they do? Sweet, I'll buy 'em!

Instead, it's all about Journey.

I hope at least one of the rocker games has a Rickroll feature though. We're about due.

This looks like it actually might deliver on the promise I took from Burst Limit. Anything that keeps me from actually watching that show again is okay by me. I hate watching DBZ characters twitch for ten minutes after a scene that used up that episode's animation budget.

Can't wait to check this out.

Here, from Sigvatr's own forums, is a response to "Muslim Massacre". Like all works, meaning can be derived without the author's intent, so I don't credit the creator of the game with this - but it's still worth a read - anda defence of the game as it stands.

When I read the first thread about this I was very skeptical about the whole thing. I found it hard to swallow that you are 'apolitical' yet you're making such an obviously political game. But now I've played it, I kind of see where you're coming from. Or perhaps the message I got was never intended, but it was still pretty interesting and affecting for me personally.

So, most likely you don't give a shit and all, being the devilmaycare Sigvatr, but your game has affected me more deeply than most. In addition, it was extremely polished, with an excellent quality of music, pixel art and gameplay. It seems a bit of a waste though since I'm sure I never want to play it again.

Let's start by assuming this is satire - we won't bother judging how good it is. But we can say that this is clearly offensive - whether or not you personally find it offensive, I'm sure you can see that there are a huge group of people who aren't going to be pleased with it, even if they themselves see it as satire.

I saw a reference to Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal somewhere up there. An old Dublin boy wrote a brilliant essay about the famine and poverty in Ireland, claiming the solution was simply to eat Irish babies. Irish babies were clearly offended, but Ireland as a whole - as well as the Brits it was aimed at - saw it for what it was, a well written peice of satire.

This? It's at best a poorly constructed peice of satire, scripted by an outsider no less (I assume). It's like instead of Jonathan Swift, some half-drunk Brit walked into an Irish pub and proclaimed that eating babies would save their nation. I'm sure the half-drunk Brit would have meant to be satirical, and the two other Brits in the corner might have laughed, but I think the Irish in the pub would have every right to be offended.

Not that it would ever happen - I've received anti-semetic literature out of every fax machine I've come across - but still.

Paying $20 for voice chat functionality (essentially) is brutal. But unless people jump on this, Nintendo will never take in-game voice-chat seriously.

I've been jonesing for this game ever since I came up with the idea of basing a level off of Lewis Caroll's poem, "Jaberwocky". Reading through the manual though, there was no mention of being able to load images from the PS3 hard drive... I hope to god that didn't get cut over some overzealous copyright freakout.

And about the video games being bigger business than music... isn't HMV's DVD sales bigger than their music business already?

As for aquisition talks, Squeenix seems to be acting a little... hastilly? Desprate? No matter what they wind up buying, I think they'll wind up being forced to overpay.

Besides, save announcements for press conferences. This is a gamer conference - what's wrong with devs and pubs bringing games?

Sorry, it's just... every time I see this, I get depressed. Every peice of work about 9/11 is going to offend someone. Personally, I'm offended that some greedy capitalist is selling gold coins with the towers on them and billing owning one as 'patriotic'. This one doesn't offend me though, but that's because of my perspective, which is about equal to the artist's. If I was as close to it as the New York Fire Department, I don't think I'd identify with anything except art from people who were equally close. I'd be offended.

But then, this piece of art is being displayed half a world away from New York, probably out of consideration for those families affected so strongly by this. Kind of a dick move for the Daily to take news from half-way around the planet and show it directly to the people who would be most offended.

Missing Johnny Cage from the original MK cast (I guess Goro and Reptile too, if you want to get technical). Lex Luthor could have a place on the list - he's popular enough, and has a little more in his arsenal than, say, Kano or Sonya. The entire game is missing some 'heavy' characters though. Lobo and Bane could fill those spots, as well as some four-armed guys from MK.

Should be a deep roster though. 18 names dropped so far, and the game has a lot more to show us.

Huh. Maybe they've done their market research and come to the conclusion that adding a phone to a PSP is a bad idea. Which I guess means that the eventual release of the PSPhone won't play PSP games.

This is actually quite an elegant solution for me - I really, really, really don't want a set of plastic drums in my house. Can't wait for some hands-on impressions of how the air drumming works.

Go watch "King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters" and then tell me it 'isn't that hard'.

Donkey Kong - the original Arcade game - is so punishing that the number of people who have reached the 'kill screen' - or the end of the game - can be counted in single digits. Ikaruga, Battletoads, TMNT and the like can't hold a candle to that kind of punishment.

All we can do is hope and pray this fails miserably, and that the market research teams get fired.

Okay, we get it. You don't like Midway's games. But it's their business strategy that cost jobs this morning. Hopefully whatever CEO they put in place to replace the iterim prez has the sense to see what a mistake this round of layoffs was - and how much it will cost them in the long run.