A patch for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has hit Xbox LIVE, fixing exploits like the Akimbo glitch. Hooray. The patch is live on U.S. servers, so if you live there, download. If it’s live elsewhere, you can download it as well. So there you go. Thanks to all who sent this in!
To: Totilo From: Bashcraft RE: A Moral Quandary Worthy Of A BioWare Epic Not a baby, I made the baby. The dead starfish! And by “caught”, I meant walking along the Florida beach and finding a dead starfish on the shore. My mom is from Florida, so it was nice to get away for a…
But these days, what actor hasn’t? Still, with the sad news of Brittany Murphy’s passing, it’s not only time to look back at her movies, but her career as a voice artist. She voiced Karen Light in Marc Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure as well as Gloria in the Happy Feet game and movie.…
Sonic gives it thumbs up — as seen on flickr via UK:R.
Looking for a good fighting stick? Japanese peripheral maker Hori is releasing its latest Real Arcade Pro stick, the V3 SA, on December 24. That’s, like, tomorrow. Priced at ¥12,800 (US$140) for the PS2, the V3 SA version has a slightly curved front instead of a sharp edge like some other older fighting sticks. It’s…
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It’s a Christmas tradition in Japan to eat cake with your loved ones. So here’s where Konami’s DS love simulator Love Plus comes in. A special “Love Plus Merry Plumas Campaign” (Plusmas, geddit?) ran at three Tokyo-area cake shops — with each cafe selling a different version of the Love Plus girls, Nene, Rinko and…
In the 1940s, 1950s and right on through the 1960s, Hollywood churned out war epic after war epic. Sure, we still get war movies, but Hollywood isn’t exactly popping them out bam bam bam. Video game developers are. But why? Let’s get the obvious out of the way — these games make serious dough. “Business…
Missed the 1/1 scale giant Gundam when it was in Tokyo’s Odaiba this past summer? It may be long gone, but that doesn’t mean the chances of you seeing it are kaput. Far from it! A Bandai Namco spokesperson has revealed that the huge 18-meter statue will be once again erected in the city of…
Love Plus is a popular DS dating sim from Konami — in Japan, it’s the sleeper hit of the year or something! The game allows players to date in-game characters. This Love Plus is something else entirely. Located right up the street from Shibuya 109, Love Plus is also a newly opened massage parlor. Look,…
The Nintendo DSi has finally gone on sale in China. If someone asks you what the launch looked like, point to them right here and confidentially say, “This!” Photos come courtesy of reader Brian (no relation), who snapped them in downtown Puxi, Shanghai. “This was set up outside a subway station and shopping district,” writes…
To: Totilo From: Ashcraft RE: What Is This, A Movie Site? A week, it seems! Before we arrived in Texas, all Mini-Bash talked about was being able to eat pizza and hamburgers and drink Coke. And after maybe two days of that, he started saying he wanted to drink green tea and eat Japanese food.…
Kasumi, Kasumi, Kasumi. When talking Tecmo’s fighting series Dead or Alive, it seems like it’s always Kasumi. But she isn’t the only DOA girl. There’s also her half-sister, Ayane. Figure maker Kotobukiya has another Dead or Alive figurine to add to the heap. This ¥7,800 ($85) figure will be out April 2010. You can buy…
Mod Tools Coming For Modern Warfare 2? Comment by: RawrSpoon Nominated by: deanbmmv Imagine you really love Megadeth. Like, really really love them. As a metalhead, you enjoy their music very much. You, along with your fellow metalheads propelled them to heights by listening to their music and purchasing their albums. It’s all good. One…
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Talk about a busy guy. Tetsuya Nomura worked as main character designer on Final Fantasy XIII, director and designer for Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep and ditto for Final Fantasy Versus XIII. We forgot Final Fantasy Agito XIII! He’s character designer for that, too. In the most recent issue of Famitsu, Nomura reveals that he…
Square Enix’s upcoming MMO Final Fantasy XIV features a character editor that can be described as robust — with emphasis on bust. The creator allows for a variety of skin tons, eye colors, lip colors, hair colors and styles, tattoos, facial scars as well as waist, hip and bust size. Of course, these sorts of…
In Japan (like in many places in the world!), there is a strong culture of selling back used games and hardware. Japan especially is quite good about keeping instruction manuals and boxes in pristine shape as many who purchase gaming goodies do so with intent to sell back in the future. For retailer TSUTAYA, the…
There are two versions of action game NieR: NieR Gestalt for the Xbox 360 and NieR Replicant for the PS3. But what’s the difference? While based on the same universe, the games will have different stories. Also, the in-game butts are not the same — after close inspection, they are slightly different! That’s AI-controlled partner…
In the wake of the Rapelay controversy, Japanese erotic games have come under intense scrutiny. The Ethics Organization of Computer Software in Japan banned the sale of games with forced sexual situations after an outcry in the Western press over Rapelay, a niche game released a few years back. Some game adult game developers have…
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