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Subotron Seeks Female Artist In Residence

fdemarco — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:00:00 MST

From the awesome Subotron Shop, a retro gaming museum/store in Vienna, Austria comes word that they are currently looking for female applicants for their spring 2008 artist in residence program. The chosen entrant will receive free studio space at the museum and money to cover their expenses. The topic of this year's residency is Gender & Gaming and all applications must be turned in by December 14th. Past alumni include indie game designer Januz, street artist Space Invader, character designer Ryoskuke Tei, gameboy-sequencer Oliver Wittchow and that irrepressible troubadour, Jonathan Mann aka Game Jew.

Sounds like an amazing artistic opportunity and a chance to see some beautiful country to boot. To get all the skinny on requirements and such, check out the Subotron website which is presented in both English and German.

Simple 2000: The Japanese Hardware Chart

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:20:51 MDT

Good news for multi-billion dollar revenue making hardware manufacturers! This week's Japanese hardware sales chart, courtesy of Media Create, shows that everyone had a pretty decent week. Well, at least better than last. This week may signal the end of the Wii's low point, as Super Mario Galaxy is due to influence next week's sales.

The PlayStation 3 has narrowed the weekly sales gap between it and Nintendo's console by some 9,000, a marked improvement from the 90,000 unit disparity from the springtime. Even the old 360 is hangin' on to 3,000 territory. Is the playing field leveling somewhat in Japan?

Nintendo DS Lite - 76,243
PSP - 59,792
Wii - 27,502
PlayStation 3 - 18,785
PlayStation 2 - 11,698
Xbox 360 - 3,718

Weekly Sales [Media Create]

Gamestop Reactivates PS3 Trade In Deal

fdemarco — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:00:00 MDT

An anonymous Gamestop tipster has informed us that Gamestop/EB is revisiting their PS3 trade in deal that was available for a short time a few months ago. With your trade in of a fully functioning PS2 with cables and controller, a second Sony PS2 controller and an 8mb Sony PS2 memory card, you will receive $100 dollars off your purchase of a PS3. As the 20 gig Ps3's are no longer readily available (and apparently will no longer be available at all), your trade in will most likely have to go towards the 60 gig version.

As I remarked in my article in January on this same subject, $100 off still isn't enough to make me want to part company with my trusty old PS2. Flynn De Marco

Week in Games: TMNT Edition

fdemarco — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:00:00 MDT

Damn, there a ton of games coming out this week. There were more than I could reasonably list here, so I put together a list of some of the highlights for you. I'll be picking up Cooking Mama: Cook Off to provide a nice balance to my relentless bloodletting in God of War II, but everything else will have to wait...even the Turtles. Flynn De Marco

TMNT (X360, PS2, PSP, PC, WII, GC, DS, GBA) Cowabunga Dude! The pizza eating Turtle brothers come to every console known to man.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (PC)
Fight mutants, zombies, monsters and mutant zombie monsters in the ruins of Chernobyl

Cooking Mama: Cook Off (WII)
Have your own Iron Chef competition!

Silverfall (PC)
An all new action RPG to suck more priceless hours of your life away.

Virtua Tennis 3 (X360, PS3, PSP)
More better tennis.

Armored Core 4 (X360, PS3)
As our own Luke Plukett so eloquently put it, "Go jump into a giant robot and blow up other robots"

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (PS3)
The hugely popular PC and 360 title finally makes it's way onto the PS3. Now with a new race!

Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai - Another Road (PSP)
The enormously popular Dragon Ball Z series gets another incarnation on the PSP

The Godfather: Blackhand Edition (WII)
The Corleone family makes mince meat outta NYC.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (XBLA)
Kick old school vampire ass in widescreen!

Week in Games: God of War II Edition

fdemarco — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:07:01 MDT

After weeks of waiting and seeing pretty much the entire game in clips, God of War II is finally here. Not to much more terribly interesting but since I'll be spending all my time with Kratos anyway, I shan't need to pick up anything else. Hopefully, I can manage to stretch this one out until Bioshock comes out, but at six months I don't think that's very realistic. Flynn De Marco

God of War II (PS2)
Kratos is back and ready to kick ass.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (WII)
Tiger Woods swings in to action using the Wii-mote.

Call of Duty: Roads to Victory (PSP)
Call of Duty brings it's WWII shooter action to the PSP

Top Spin 2 (PC)
Become a Tennis suprstar

IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 (PC)
Find out what would have happened if WWII had ended differently

QuickSpot (DS)
A concentration style memory game featuring your favorite Namco characters, including the King of All Cosmos and others

Hans Christian Andersen: The Ugly Prince Duckling (PC)

Isn't it romantic?

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 17:04:23 MDT

Guess this is what they call having your cake and eating it too.

Pacman Eats Dish Dirt

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 12:30:05 MDT

Asked the wife to pick up some sponges at the local supermarket here in Japan, and this is what she brought home. God only knows what they have to clean the toilet...

—B.A.

Pac Man Guitar [Kotaku]