MindJack isn’t your typical Square Enix game. Then again, MindJack isn’t your typical game. Developed by feelplus and published by Square Enix, MindJack is set twenty years in the future and shows a world where people’s minds can be hacked. According to Square Enix, it is possible to hack the minds of enemies and civilians,…
Summertime is more than beaches and barbecues. It’s also when Hollywood releases some of its biggest motion pictures. Here’s a look at the Hollywood’s upcoming summer blockbusters, both good and bad. SALT – Release Date: 7/23 Angelina Jolie, star of the Tomb Raider movies, does her best cloak and dagger in this espionage thriller. Salt…
It’s Thursday, know that that means? Time for Tell Us Dammit. Wait a minute! TUD runs on Friday. Today isn’t Friday. I know, it isn’t! Here’s how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in you. Yes,…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Re: The Internet Sure Knows Its Books Yeah, man, the internet is great! Knows all kinds of stuff… You can ask it anything! And it knows. Oh, yes. It knows. It’s so hot here, man. When it gets hot, all I feel like doing is drinking pastis. What you missed last…
New Zealand television network TV3’s recent ad seems incredibly similar to a PS3 commercial from earlier this year. No wonder it won’t be running again. According to the New Zealand, TV3 did not comment on the similarities between the commercials, but did reveal that its ad had been pulled. “After a great response to our…
Japanese game company Konami already has an online store called Konami Style. The worst part about online stores? You cannot go visit them. Konami is rectifying that with its first bricks-and-mortar store, the company stated today. Konami Style Tokyo Midtown Shop will have limited edition Konami goods for customers to buy as well as a…
There will be 18 classes available to players when role-playing game Final Fantasy XIV launches this fall on PC. The classes are divided into four groups: Fighter, Sorcerer, Craftsman and Gatherer. More classes will be added once the game launches. These 18 should keep you busy until then, no? [Thanks for the info FFXIV Core!]
Sega is working on another new Yakuza game. Know what that means? Time to audition more hostesses. As it did with past games in the franchise, Sega holds open auditions for young women hoping to appear in the game. Sega then selects finalists who are voted on. It’s a popularity contest, and the winners appear…
An employee at a Foxconn affiliate has fallen to his death at a company dormitory building, reports the Xinhua news agency. Foxconn manufactures electronics like the Wii, the PS3, the Xbox 360 and the iPhone. Its Shenzhen plant has suffered ten suicides this year, causing the company to ditch its suicide compensation and look into…
For its latest ad campaign, Sony created tie-wearing trash-talking exec Kevin Butler. Kevin Butler isn’t real, but fictional. That’s why Sony created him, you know! Jerry Lambert is the VP of bit parts on television. Not a bad thing, not a bad thing at all. The actor behind Kevin Butler is Jerry Lambert, a veteran…
Upcoming third-person shooter Vanquish is not an open world game. At one time, however, it was. “Vanquish was originally an open battlefield type of game, where the goal was to move around crushing enemy positions,” writes Vanquish game designer Shinji Mikami in a recent blog entry. “However, once we got started with development, we quickly…
It’s not only the recently revealed Chun-Li, Doctor Doom, Super-Skrull, and Devil May Cry’s Trish who are joining the Marvel vs. Capcom fighting game fray. According to Marvel.com, there are apparently two more characters. The website for the venerated comic book publisher shows character art and in-game shots of both Thor and Okami’s Amaterasu. Neither…
Daigo Umehara could very well be the greatest Street Fighter player on this spinning blue orb we call “Earth”. There must be more to the man than that. There is. In an interview with Japan’s Sankei newspaper, Daigo talks about signing autographs and his English-language nickname, “The Beast”. Besides the money he earns from tournaments,…
I Am 8-Bit started out as an art show about video games, but that doesn’t mean I Am 8-Bit is only an art show. It’s more, far more. The gallery put I Am 8-Bit on the map, but from the moment it did, the show’s 27-year-old founder, Jon M. Gibson, was intent on exploring every…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Fast! Busy week! Luke’s hanging in there, banging out wonderful posts. I’ve been managing to get lotsa gaming in. Been playing the crap out of Red Dead Redemption (yeah, I know, late to the party), which I know was made especially for me. It’s truly a wonderful game. One of…
The timing for this week’s podcast could not be better. No, really. It could not. What better way to dive into Comic-Con than with Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. Shattered Dimensions game designer Francois Taddei will be on hand to talk about everyone’s favorite neighborhood hero — make that, heroes. The game features Spidey from various dimensions…
Worried about Kinect lag? Tetsuya Mizuguchi, the game designer behind Rez and Lumines, is here to quell your fears. Mizuguchi is hard at work on a multi-platform rhythm game, Child of Eden, for both the PS3 and the Xbox 360. About Kinect, he told website CVG, “Every day the technology and software improves, so we’re…
There are two new Yakuza games, both forthcoming. One is for the PSP and out this December. It doesn’t star series protagonist, but some young kid with bad hair Late last month, Sega revealed that it was working on another new Yakuza game, proving that the series with its annual launches is quickly becoming the…
In early 2006, members of Japanese idol group AKB48 were standing on Akihabara street corners passing out fliers. Now they’re the biggest female group in Japan. What a difference a few years make. AKB48 is an idol group with three teams: the A Team, the K Team and the B Team. Depending on how many…
There are words to describe this. I, however, am at a loss for them. A Japanese gamer spliced scenes and sounds from Resident Evil to reproduce “Infernal Galop”, more commonly known as the “cancan song”. Resident Evil Meets CanCan [Capcom Unity]
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