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Public Safety Notice: Games PR Are Watching You Post

Sorry, that was a little alarming. You, of course, knew that already. It's not as if games PR types sit around in ivory towers getting their information from carrier pigeons and whispers on the wind. They find out what you like, don't like and go "eh" about their games by, yes, trawling through your favourite forum, and reading up on what you - Average Joe - thinks about their games. Same goes for developers as well. Keen to hear more about how it all works? Please, hit the link below for the full 1UP feature, which features chats with, among others, PR reps from 2K & Capcom, as well as NeoGAF owner Tyler Malka.
Chairman of the Boards [1UP] [Pic]

4:30 AM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By Luke Plunkett
2,060 views, 63 comments

Latest by Gringorilla: I would like to take this opportunity to tell the devs: Please make ALL your FPSs so that you can change the way to use the analog sticks. I like them like this: Left stick: walk forward/back + turn left/right.Right stick: look up/down more »

clips

Warcraft III Patch Rap Battles

This could be the beginning of a huge trend. Eagerly awaiting news of a patch for Warcraft III, official forum poster TowerPowerNerf was getting increasingly frustrated. When the Blizzard RTS Community Manager Karune posted news that there would be no WCIII patch before 2008, something inside TPN broke, and he did the only thing a man with nothing else to lose can do. He created a rap video. Not a particularly good rap video mind you, but he certainly put a lot of effort into, breaking out his best approximation of the English language to make sure his point was heard. Imagine if all heated forum posts eventually jumped from flame war directly to rap off! The internet would be a better place, especially if the company's employees started responding in kind. Karune did. More »

11:20 AM on Fri Dec 28 2007
By Mike Fahey
4,134 views, 40 comments

Latest by n/a: For those of you that don't know, Blizz hasn't released a "real" patch for wc3 in the past 2 years. The only change worth nothing is to an item called "lightning shield". The last "major" patches were pretty much just bug more »

hi-def wars

Hackers Join Next-Gen HD Format Wars

In a sense, the next-generation HD battle of blu-ray versus HD DVD closely parallels the current generation console battle between Sony and Microsoft. Both have clear advantages and disadvantages over the other, and every time I try to choose between the two, something happens to cloud my judgment. Transformers on HD DVD. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. Over the holiday season the battle grew more heated, as both formats tried to out special deal the other and forums broke out into the verbal equivalent of fisticuffs, escalating to the point where hackers threw their hat into the ring, redirecting visitors to Blue-raydisc.com to HD DVD's "The Look and Sound of Perfect" website. Nasty! The hack was quickly fixed, but the message is clear. This is still very much a war, and perhaps "Hack the Planet!" Makes you wonder if all industries have fights like this, and somewhere on a craft site a knitter is calling a crocheter a little bitch. F***ing crocheters.

Hacks and smack-talking make hi-def format war even uglier [Ars technica]

3:00 PM on Thu Dec 27 2007
By Mike Fahey
3,081 views, 84 comments

Latest by LordChris915: I too got a Playstation on the christmas of 97 but with Batman, Excalibur and Jurassic Park. Some PS games deserve to be re-lived in full 1080p splender such as FF7-8, Crash bandicoot, Spyro etc retro games are the best! more »

dead internet

Dead Island Website Lives

Techland dropped us a line to let us know that the official website for Dead Island just went live. Sure to be your number one source for Dead Island info, the site contains links to press stories, screenshots, videos, and community forums so you can politely discuss the game with like-minded fellows, or call them asshats. You can sign up for the newsletter via the site as well to stay up to date on important Dead Island news, such as website openings.

Dead Island Official Website [Techland]

12:00 PM on Fri Sep 28 2007
By Mike Fahey
1,863 views, 23 comments

Latest by DigitalFigure: I'm on the website now, it reminds me so much of Dead Rising. - The ability to use all elements of the environment as weapons - Player decisions influence the way in which the game progresses, making it a multi-threaded story I mean more »

goodbyes

Nintendo NSider Forums Close

Several members of the Nintendo NSider forums have mailed us today to inform us that the popular community forums have been closed. Members seeking to continue discussions today are being greeted by the following message:

Nintendo is working on a major overhaul to Nintendo.com to support the continued success of Nintendo DS and Wii. As we prepare for this huge site update, Nintendo must unfortunately close the Nintendo NSider Forums message boards indefinitely beginning Sept. 17, 2007.

The forums are now set to read only for the next week, to be removed from public view on the 24th. Fear not, brave Nintendo forum posters, for hope is on the horizon. With the Tokyo Game Show kicking off I can only imagine that they are closing down the NSider forums in order to make way for something better, as the parting message on the page seems to suggest. "Thanks for your understanding and continued support. We'll see you soon elsewhere on the Web."

Nintendo NSider Forums Update [NSider Forums - Thanks Huelen10 & Chromium Blue]

2:00 PM on Mon Sep 17 2007
By Mike Fahey
6,036 views, 41 comments

Latest by Reinhart: [www.NintendoWorlds.com] Thats Your Answer. more »

crime

Correction's Officer Brags About Brutality On CoH Forums

One Portland Oregon corrections officer is in desperate need of correction, if his posts on the City of Heroes forums are to be believed. In a piece for the Portland Tribune, reporter Nick Bundick exposes the forum postings of David B. Thompson, which range from musings on the joy of tasering people to outright bragging about brutally beating a prisoner and then charging him for attacking him.

He also wrote, "I crushed a dude's eye socket from repeatedly punching him in it, then I charged him with menacing and harassment (of me)." Trafalgar then added, "he took a plea to get away from me. He shoulda picked somebody else to try and fight."

The article contains multiple links to CoH forum posts by Thompson, who reportedly only accesses the forums from his work PC, where he has posted 1,738 messages since January. More »

8:40 AM on Tue Sep 11 2007
By Mike Fahey
5,112 views, 86 comments

Latest by n/a: @justhesh: Don't get me started on the moron who decided he had to have my lane right then instead of the entire rest of the road that was empty save for us, cut in front of me, and then started more »

thems fight'n words

GoW Definitely Not Coming to PS3

The best way to get into a full-blown fist-to-cuffs fight these days to go around speculating which games are going to be exclusives and which ones are not. For those who still believe in the Tooth Fairy, just thinking about having of one of big three games rumored to get ported onto a foreign console will have you collecting enough teeth off the ground to pay next month's rent. More »

11:40 AM on Mon Jun 4 2007
By Kim Phu
5,041 views, 79 comments

break yourself

Rumor: Mod Proof Wiis in Japan

Looks like after you upset Nintendo Europe with all that mod-chip talk, it went crying to mommy and told on you. Unhappy modders on the forum, Hacken.cc have recently found out that the newer version of the Japanese NTSC/J Wiis have had the three pins removed that enable mod chips to be attached. There has been no news of the US versions having the pins clipped, but of course, it's still so difficult to get a Wii, how would anyone really know for sure. More »

9:40 AM on Wed May 30 2007
By Kim Phu
2,357 views, 103 comments

Latest by glamnesia: Yes. Robocop. more »

ds

New Lite Cracks Inspire Droll Repartee

With Nintendo gracefully acknowledging the Lite's hinge cracks and fixing them left and right, I felt justified in my choice of keeping my ol' reliable fatty on hand. And alas, a new crack seems to have reared its crackity head. More »

7:40 PM on Mon Aug 7 2006
By egauger
396 views, 18 comments

Kotaku

Manga Coming to Japanese Wii

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