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Rocky Reborn
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Shopping For Furniture, With Added Cosplayers So a bunch of former Rocky Mountain News writers held a press conference today to announce that they were going to try and launch an online only newspaper. InDenver Times is meant to be an aggressive, well-written, edited, thoroughly professional online newspaper. I love…
By Brian Crecente Published March 16, 2009 -
Nike Air Force Ones Reworked to Celebrate Playstation Anniversary
Playstation and Nike are at it again, collaborating on a new pair of Air Force Ones to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Playstation 2‘s launch in Japan. The new Playstation Air Force Ones feature full patent leather upper and a color design very similar color to the original Playstation 2 Air Force Ones. This time…
By Brian Crecente Published March 16, 2009 -
Rolando Update Delivers New Levels
A new update recently hit iPhone puzzler Rolando, adding five new secret levels to the game and tweaking the physics and rendering, according to iTunes. The $5 iPhone game was already stuffed with 36 levels spread out over four worlds and has received mostly favorable reviews. There’s even a free version now, if you’re not…
By Brian Crecente Published March 16, 2009 -
Dark Void Setting Concept Art Explained
Capcom dumped a few pieces of concept art for their upcoming Dark Void title over on their Unity site, and walked through some of the ideas they were going for in creating the different settings. In Dark Void, they say, they want players to be able to move from “lush jungle, to alien canyons floating…
By Brian Crecente Published March 16, 2009 -
Capcom Calls “BS” On Resident Evil 5 DLC Complaints
Capcom received some backlash last week when they announced that they would be selling downloadable content for Resident Evil 5 which would add multiplayer modes to the game. Most of the Internet angst seems to surround the timing of the release and questions why it wasn’t just included on the disc. But Christian Svensson, vice…
By Brian Crecente Published March 16, 2009 -
House of the Dead: Overkill Breaks F-ing Record
Continuing in it’s tradition of listing bizarre video game world record breakers, Guinness today announced the game with the most swearing in it. Weighing in with 189 uses of the F-bomb is The House of the Dead: Overkill. That works out to more than one rhymes with duck per a minute, or three percent of…
By Brian Crecente Published March 16, 2009 -
UK Gets Halo 3, PGR4, Mass Effect Price Drops
Halo 3, Mass Effect and Project Gotham Racing 4 all get price drops in the UK this month as they are added to the Classics collection on March 20. “We are delighted to add three of our finest titles to the Classics range, adding to the exceptional entertainment offering available on the Xbox 360 at…
By Brian Crecente Published March 16, 2009 -
Killzone 2 Podcast
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Four Months In, What Micro-Bash Can Do We recorded our next podcast today, this time inside Killzone 2 with some of the folks from Guerrilla Games. Fun times. As usually we were reamed. Of course, they did make the game, so it’s only to be expected that we would lose…
By Brian Crecente Published March 13, 2009 -
Clash of the Gaming Titans
Nintendo’s popular DS handheld hit a milestone earlier this month, topping 100 million of the portables shipped worldwide. But a much more important milestone looms. While 100 million is an impressive number, the Nintendo DS still has quite a bit of catching up to do if it wants to topple the Playstation 2 as the…
By Brian Crecente Published March 13, 2009 -
Grand Slam Tennis Trailer
This first glimpse at Grand Slam Tennis for the Wii in action gives us a glimpse at oddly large-headed versions of a bunch of pro Tennis players. The list includes Rafael Nadal, Andy Roddick, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Bjorn Borg, Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg and Pete Sampras, whose head looks just right. Why do the…
By Brian Crecente Published March 13, 2009 -
Coop, Soto, Kofie Art Appear in Midnight Club, On Shirts
Rockstar has teamed with three Los Angeles based artists to produce an artist series build around their upcoming South Central DLC pack for Midnight Club: Los Angeles. The designs by artists Augustine Kofie, Jeff Soto, and Coop can be seen within the game and on some limited edition apparel, prints and other items. Rockstar sent…
By Brian Crecente Published March 13, 2009 -
Offline Multiplayer Coming to Noby Noby Boy
Namco Bandia is working on an update for Noby Noby Boy, according to the game’s creator, that will add offline multiplayer. “In the hopes that more people can enjoy the game, we are currently working on an update. A featured addition to the update is going to be offline multiplayer. Some may say, “Offline!?” But…
By Brian Crecente Published March 13, 2009 -
Get Your Kubrick On At Chinatown Launch Event
New York’s Nintendo World Store is hosting a launch event for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on March 16. The party kicks off at 11:59 p.m. that night and runs into the next morning at 2 a.m. with DJ OhNo hosting fans age 17 and up. The first 25 people to buy the game get…
By Brian Crecente Published March 13, 2009 -
Wii Music As Teacher Shown in Action
A Washington, D.C. school is one of the first in the nation to get Wii Music in their school. The program isn’t using the game to teach music, it’s just meant to engage student in the arts, to get them interested in music. Which, I think, is a fantastic idea. Sure, Guitar Hero and Rock…
By Brian Crecente Published March 13, 2009 -
GDC Cometh
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: This Weekend’s Mission: Library Card We’re only a week and change away from this year’s Game Developers Conference. With this being the show’s year of Nintendo, and given what they introduced at their last GDC, I think that we could have a pretty exciting show on our hands. I spent…
By Brian Crecente Published March 12, 2009 -
Reviews
Resident Evil 5 Review: A Mutation of Fun
It’s unfortunate that before its launch Resident Evil 5 became about everything, but the game. The most hotly debated questions had little to do with what should matter most to gamers: Is it fun? In Resident Evil 5, Chris Redfield returns, no longer a member of STARS, but as a member of the Bioterrorism Security…
By Brian Crecente Published March 12, 2009 -
Red Faction: Guerrilla Weapons and Vehicles Trailer
In this latest video for Red Faction: Guerrilla we get a better look at the upcoming destructible shooter’s weapons and vehicles. We also get a look at some pretty explosions and the hammer, oh the hammer action.
By Brian Crecente Published March 12, 2009 -
Capcom Confirms, Prices Versus Mode for Resident Evil 5
Capcom today confirmed that a new multiplayer mode will be coming to the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Resident Evil 5 in a few weeks. The Versus mode will cost $5 on the Playstation Network and 400 Microsoft Points on the Xbox 360 and pits players against each other in a contest of survival,…
By Brian Crecente Published March 12, 2009 -
MadWorld Hoodie
Check out this amazing MadWorld hoodie, found over on the official Sega Blog. The bad news is that you can’t buy these, the good news is that Sega plans to give a few of them away to fans. They haven’t announced how yet, but expect the details soon.
By Brian Crecente Published March 12, 2009
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