In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, players can use one gun at a time. Modern Warfare 2 is letting players wield two guns at a time. Two in two — geddit? Infinity Ward blogger FourZeroTwo showed off the feature at a GameCrazy convention, blogging: I was presenting a singleplayer mission at the GameCrazy show this…
PS3 firmware 3.0, apparently. That’s what PlayStation Network operations director Eric Lempel said, and he should know. He is the PlayStation Network operations director. “You know, I wouldn’t say that or sure just yet because we are working on some things,” Lempel told G4. “But this is a big and significant update, so you would…
British film director Paul W.S. Anderson first met 33-year-old actress Milla Jovovich during the filming of Resident Evil. A trilogy of RE films and one baby girl later, the duo have tied the knot. The director and Jovovich were wed at their Beverly Hills abode in an outdoor ceremony, attending by friends and family. This…
Famous for his elegant Final Fantasy and Vampire Hunter D, artist Yoshitaka Amano will be drawing Japanese-style ASCII art. Folks will vote on which one of the four 2ch characters they want the famed illustrator to do his own interpretation of. The drawing will be shown live on Nico Nico Douga tomorrow from 8:00 to…
Nintendo has announced that Wii Sports Resort has reached the million seller milestone. The game launched on June 25 in The Land of The Rising Sun and was met with brisk sales. The second week was a sharp drop off, but as the chart below points out, the title has recently seen an upswing in…
Since the console launched in 2006 until the official announcement of the new, slimmer machine, the PS3 has been written in the same font used for Sony’s Spider-Man 3 movie. What’s more, the official way to type out the name was in ALL CAPS. The new console iteration ditches both in favor of either the…
A playable demo for upcoming role-playing-game Final Fantasy XIII has already been released in Japan. Bundled with Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete, it came out earlier this spring. And with the Japanese PS3 version being something like 90 percent finished, you’d think that the game would be in playable form at this year’s Tokyo…
The hardware business is not a profitable business. Don’t believe us, just ask Sony. When the original PS3 launched, Sony bled money on each PS3 sold. But the manufacturing process improved, and Sony was able to close the gap. Just as that started to happen, the company is now launching a new hardware iteration. New…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft The worst thing about living in Japan is that we usually get foreign movies late, way wait. We do get Japanese movies earlier than everywhere else, which is great when there’s a fantastic film out. Interested in seeing Inglourious Basterds and District 9, but they’re not out here. Anyone see ’em?…
And this is it. Wowzers! SEGA’s bringing its fictional WWII game Valkyria Chronicles to the PSP. The game is set in 1937, two years after the first game. Cadets from the Gallia Royal Military Academy are sent to suppress an insurrection in the southern part of in-game country Gallia. The game’s central concept is contrasting…
The most romantic day of your life. A next chapter. A new family. What better way to mark that occasion than with a giant mecha? Japanese wedding planner T&G are, well, planning a wedding ceremony for one lucky couple this Tuesday. The soon-to-be-wed couple were selected from 548 entries last month. A 18-meter-tall (59-foot-tall) RX-78…
A Japanese retailer claims to its shop will only be making ¥700 (US$7.40) on each PS3 Slim sold. The reason for this, it seems, is buying the consoles from Sony and then selling the console at sticker price. We don’t have any data other than this and do not know how the PS3 Slim compares…
Yuji Horii has a spectacular comb-over. Something not lost on comedy program G-Tech when it had the Dragon Quest creator on to discuss DQIX. You ready for the what the Japanese internet is called an “unbelievable” question? G-Tech asked Horii, “Do you know what the bald-headed dance is?” To which the game designer replied, “I…
Cave, known for fantastic, frantic shooters like Muchi Muchi Pork and DoDonPachi, has posted an email account where folks can, among other things, send requests for games they want on home consoles. Keep in mind, that Cave is asking Japanese users to send in Japanese emails for which games they want on Japanese Xbox 360s.…
This fall, Japanese game maker Atlus is churning out a PSP port of its popular PlayStation 2 role-playing-game Persona 3. The PSP version, dubbed Persona 3 Portable, will feature a female lead character.
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If The PS3 Is A Formula 1 Racer, What Is Xbox 360? The Wii? Comment by: Spritz Nominated by: Curse_Lily Who wants to drive a Ferrari that has a 50/50 chance of its brakes failing? Gamescom Booth Blitz: The Old Republic Comment by: Yossarian Nominated by: Showmeyomoves! [Gamescon opens to a wild mob of Star…
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SEGA has posted a handful of rough character art for Valkyria Chronicles 2. We love rough character art. It’s so… rough. In the gallery are illustrations of lead characters Avan, Jerry, and Cosette. Valkyria Chronicles 2 has been announced for the PSP and will be out in Japan this winter. It is set two years…
Roger Avary, who won an Oscar for Pulp Fiction, has pleaded guilty to DUI and vehicular manslaughter for a deadly crash in 2008 that left his friend dead and his wife in critical condition. The filmmaker penned the Silent Hill script and was slated to make a big-screen version of Wolfenstein. In January 2008, Avary…
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