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Fixing Pac-Man's 256th Board
Alright, this post should make clear the provocation for yesterday's digression into Pac-Man's bathroom habits. While Fletch and I were pondering the question, we both came across this site, where programmer Don Hodges says he has fixed the glitch that caused Pac-Man's split-screen bug at board No. 256.More »
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Europe's Xbox 360 Video Marketplace Is Still Working Kinks Out
While Europe was surely happy about the launch of Xbox 360's Video Marketplace, Microsoft has admitted that, unfortunately, there are a few problems arising. Current issues include downloads not completing, slow file transfers, error messages, and this is my personal favorite, the wrong media downloading. Times like this make me sad that hardcore pornography isn't offered alongside Disney flicks.
Microsoft apologizes for any inconvenience and is investigating the matter in full. But since these problems remind me a lot of the US roll out of Video Marketplace, I'm guessing they won't be permanent.
Microsoft confirm problems with UK Video Marketplace [via n4g]
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Stretch Armstrong Joins Cast Of Mass Effect: Glitch Edition
Sure, I could've gone with Plastic Man, Mr. Fantastic, Elongated Man or some other elastic type, but those felt a bit shameful. Regardless of the embarrassment of knowing who Ralph Dibny is, this amusing little bug from Bioware's Mass Effect was unique enough to share. According to reader Ryan, the above game ending bug occurred "while playing Mass Effect, a box landed on my character and began smashing me into the ground. It never actually killed me but continued to stretch out all my limbs." I nominate this for best Xbox 360 glitch of 2007.
Mass Effect WTF [Flickr]
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Ratchet And Clank Future Don't Let's Start
Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction is in stores today, but don't be surprised if you get your shiny new PS3 game home and it doesn't work. According to Insomniac, doh:
"We recently discovered a bug on the US version of Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction that some of you may encounter the first time you boot the game," Insomniac community manager James Stevenson told Shacknews. "With specific amounts of free space on your drive, you may see a screen that tells you have insufficient space to create game data even though there is plenty of free space on your drive."As the universe's most popular tool tells us, "Don't Panic." To fix the issue, all you have to do is wrap your towel about your head and either add or delete around 500MB of data to your hard drive. Why 500? No clue, though I suspect magic is at work. I love the current generation video game consoles, don't you?
Minor Glitch Halts Ratchet & Clank PS3, Simple Workaround Solves Issue [Shacknews]
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COD 4 Beta Download Issues
Despite the fact the Call of Duty 4 beta keys seem to be flowing like water, many people are reporting problems including downloading the beta itself. I have received many emails on the subject and the thread on the charlieoscardelta website is quite long with twenty one pages. It seems that in many cases the download doesn't happen at all and in some cases the download completes, but can't be played despite multiple tries at downloading. Other players report that once they get the game downloaded and start playing, they are consistently ejected from matches or their 360 freezes before they are taken to the match screen. Now of course we all know this is a beta and some problems are expected, but if you can't download the game, you can't play it and if you can't play it you can't give feedback. Currently, Infinity Ward has not responded to the issues, but gamers are starting to get angry and I can't say I blame them. Has anyone else been having these issues, and if so were you able to resolve them?
shortscreened
What's wrong with this picture? Well the normal area shows what the BioShock demo looks like on a widescreen monitor. The red areas show the extra space added when the game is played in standard 4:3 ratio. This is not how widescreen is supposed to work. Instead of slicing the top and bottom off of the image, widescreen should allow players to see more on either side. I have to agree with Paddy the Wak from the Widescreen Gaming Forum who posted the picture above - awwwww pants.
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BioShock's Widescreen Pissing People Off
What's wrong with this picture? Well the normal area shows what the BioShock demo looks like on a widescreen monitor. The red areas show the extra space added when the game is played in standard 4:3 ratio. This is not how widescreen is supposed to work. Instead of slicing the top and bottom off of the image, widescreen should allow players to see more on either side. I have to agree with Paddy the Wak from the Widescreen Gaming Forum who posted the picture above - awwwww pants.
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Crackpot Entertainment and Gamecock have just launched the new and improved website for their DS and PC game Insecticide, a hard-boiled detective 3rd person shooter that follows Detective Chrys Liszt and her partner Roachy Caruthers as they unravel a web of murder and deciet. To celebrate, they've provided us with some exclusive wallpapers featuring Chrys and Roachy doing what hard-boiled detectives do best: looking dramatic.
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Insecticide: Bugs For Your Desktop
Crackpot Entertainment and Gamecock have just launched the new and improved website for their DS and PC game Insecticide, a hard-boiled detective 3rd person shooter that follows Detective Chrys Liszt and her partner Roachy Caruthers as they unravel a web of murder and deciet. To celebrate, they've provided us with some exclusive wallpapers featuring Chrys and Roachy doing what hard-boiled detectives do best: looking dramatic. Chrys 800x600
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Warning: Ar Tonelico on the PS3
I spent my weekend playing Ar Tonelico, the charming yet slightly disturbing new highly Japanese PS2 RPG by Atelier Iris developer Gust, and enjoying myself completely after logging nearly 16 hours on the title. I was playing on my PS3 since I thought it looked lonely, and everything was going well until the last time I tried to save. First it told me it was loading save data from the (virtual) memory card, and then I got this:I was on the verge of tears. In one fell swoop most of my weekend was rendered null and void, and my only option was to restart on the PS2 to make sure this doesn't happen again, as the save was irreversibly corrupted. My suggestion? Don't play this on your PS3. If you've already started, pick up PS2 memory card adapter and switch the save to your PS2, or just back it up constantly. Don't let this happen to you.
world of warcraft
Buggy Burning Crusade Patch Released
In preparation for next week's big Burning Crusade release, Blizzard has gone ahead and released the 2.03 patch. Druids and Rogues get talent point refunds, items have been nerfed over level 60 to avoid having them be useful, blacksmithing and leatherworking have undergone changes, and much more. Also included in the patch are world events leading up to the big opening of the Dark Portal upon launch, including invasions and a random raid boss spawning throughout the lands of Azeroth. More »
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Clips: Buggy Saints Row. A Musical.
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Vista Flawed, Insecure
The New York Times is reporting that reports of serious flaws and security holes in Vista are already starting to roll in to Microsoft. More »
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Genji Massively Damaged
Chris Kohler over at the Wired gaming blog had several unkind things to say about Genji: Days of the Blade, one of the PS3's few original launch titles. The game is plagued by a crappy camera, off-screen objectives, and at least one bug that could completely screw up your day.But even that wasn't so bad when you compare it to the fact that I didn't know what to do next, and I wasn't finding anything because there was nothing to find. So it was back to GameFAQs' board, but this time there was no solution. Just confirmation that there was supposed to be an item for me to pick up, but due to a glitch in the game it disappears after a certain point. And of course, I'd been diligent and saved my game, meaning I was completely screwed. I'd have to start the game over.
Kudos to Chris for getting that far. I got bored and moved on to something else before even reaching that point. Too many potentially great launch games on two different systems to waste time not enjoying myself. Besides, why should I have to finish the game if Sony didn't? More »
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NBA Live 07 "Fans" Sick of EA
And five years after the rest of us became weary of their greed and incompetence, a huge chunk of the NBA Live '07 has wised up and realized that EA blows. More »
lego star wars ii
Many of the Amaze Entertainment team members let me know that the bugs in the game were known issues and that the company knowingly shipped the game with them still there. More »
Legos SW2 DS Shipped Incomplete
I received a bunch of very interesting emails after my "Why I hate Lego SW2 for the DS" rant. Many of them were from people who worked on the game... and they agreed with me.Many of the Amaze Entertainment team members let me know that the bugs in the game were known issues and that the company knowingly shipped the game with them still there. More »
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Ropin' Bugs and Feedin' Gods: Nimian Hunter
Let's start the day with indie games! More »
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