Brian Crecente

Fallout 3 Tops GameFly’s 2008 Most Wanted List

Fallout 3 won Game of the Year and Xbox 360 Game of the Year in online video game renter GameFly’s annual Q Awards. The Q Awards look at GameFly members’ GameQ, a list of games that members want to rent and in what order. More than 100,000 votes were submitted between mid January and early…

The Thing About Little Dogs

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Chocolate From Mommy, Pretty Haircut Lady And Sonic The Hedgehog I’ve never really owned little dogs before. I’ve had retrievers, shepard mixes, a Great Dane, a doberman, greyhound, a Border Collie, but never a tiny dog. Not until LittleFoot, Tristan’s long-haired Chihuahua mix. They’re cute, but man did they figure…

The Shirts and Stickers of The Lost and Damned

The Lost and Damned is due out tomorrow and to celebrate, Rockstar sent us a clutch of shirts sure to get you killed if ever worn in a biker bar. Well, I suppose you could get away with wearing the Alderney, Algonquin, Bohan, Broker & Dukes. shirt to the local chapter of the resident one…

KENKEN Coming to DS, iPhone

I mentioned Sudoku-replacement KENKEN last week. An astute reader today points out that Capcom and Nintendo both have logos on the official KENKEN site. There’s a reason for that. This April, Capcom plans to bring a KENKEN game to mobile phones, including the iPhone, according to the official KENKEN website. The website also mentions than…

Resident Evil 5 Used Real World Virtual Camera

Resident Evil 5’s camera angles were created with a virtual camera, one of only four in the world. It will be the first game to use the tech, according to Gamers Weekly. Fox News’ Gamers Weekly also talked to Reuben Langdon, motion actor for Chris Redfield; Karen Dyer, voice of Sheva Alomar, and Ken Lally,…

Capcom Debit Cards Come With Gamer Perks

Not content to rock gamers in February and March with Street Fighter IV and Resident Evil 5, Capcom just signed a deal to slap their characters on debit cards. The co-branded Visa debit card is the first of its kind in North America. The cards will feature art from Street Fighter IV, Resident Evil 5…

Padres Reliever Credits Wii Fit For Weight Loss

Who says Wii Fit is a Fad? San Diego Padres reliever Heath Bell might want to have a word with you. Bell, in line to replace legendary closer Trevor Hoffman, says that Nintendo’s balance-board-sporting health game helped him lose 25 pounds. When the 6-foot-6, 270 pound Bell stepped on the Balance Board the first time,…

Get a Free Copy of Puzzle Quest: Galactrix

D3 is throwing a party for Los Angeles Puzzle Quest fans and you might be invited. On Feb. 19, D3 is taking over Melt Comics on Sunset Boulevard and opening the doors to 100 gamers interesting in checking out and playing Puzzle Quest: Galactrix. The event will give gamers a chance to checkout the DS,…

Playing F.E.A.R. 2 While Snakes, Rats and Bugs Crawl on You

Eight gamers playing in the official F.E.A.R. 2 competition had to compete with their hands in a box that was then filled with bugs, snakes, rats and other distracting objects. The winner then had to go through the underground floors of a haunted mansion in London and come face-to-face with Alma to win his prize:…

Art Site Reveals DOA PS3 Robot Game

Concept art for a never published Playstation 3 robot game for concept art studio Leading Light. Titan was, it appears, a game set to be in development by now defunct studio Stormfront. The Playstation 3 game appeared to be about a giant robot in space. According to notes found in some of the art, it…

Valentine’s Day

To: Bash From: Crecente Re: Humming The Star Was Imperial March Makes The Baby Cry Happy VD! Valentine’s Day doesn’t hit here until tomorrow, but I’ve already got my plans underway. Trish and I have decided to spend the evening home tomorrow, cooking a romantic meal together. I can’t remember, do you do anything there…

Wii Fit Is No Fad

The Wii Nation has spoken: Wii Fit is no fad. Last week I got into a bit of metaphorical hot soup when a Forbes article quoted me as saying that I didn’t know a single person who bought Wii Fit and used it routinely after a month. Now I do. Between the dozens of emails…

The Factions of Galactrix

Today we get a look at the 14 factions for humans and aliens in upcoming puzzle role-playing game Galactrix. In Galactrix, factions make the universe go round, they control the Star Systems, own the ships, shops and stations and sanction most of the game’s many missions. Your interactions with these factions are meant to have…

iPhone Puzzle Quest Gets Free Demo, Chapter 2 as Free Update

A free version of Puzzle Quest for the iPhone and iPod Touch has been submitted to iTunes and should be hitting the App Store next week. Even better, TransGaming tells me that Chapter 2 of the iPhone trilogy will be released for free to owners of the original iPhone title as an update. The free…

Postal Babes Go Mobile

Running With Scissors is known for two things: Their over-the-top violent shooter Postal and it’s sequels and their seemingly tangential monthly NSFW Postal Babes? What do buxom women in g-strings have to do with the infamous shooter? Got me, maybe it’s like cosplay, but Running With Scissors founder Vince Desi loves em. Now the Postal…

MotorStorm: Pacific Rift Gets New Demo

MotorStorm: Pacific Rift may have been out on the Playstation 3 for a couple of months already, but it just got a new demo. Pacific Rift game director Niegel Kershaw writes that the demo includes both a single player and a split screen multiplayer race. The track on the demo is Razorback, which features jungle,…

StarCraft II Valentine’s Cards

The Blizzard folks created three handy-dandy high-resolution StarCraft II-themed Valentine’s Day cards for tomorrow’s little romance celebration. The art I love, the words? Not so much. Why go with “You are always on my Overmind” for the Zerg one when they could have gone with something classy like “I want to Zerg Rush your lady…

Rock Band and Wii Fit Drive Mad Catz Sales

Mad Cats ended 2008, and their third quarter, with $40.8 million in net sales, and $10.5 million in profit. While that profit is down from the same period last quarter, at least they’re not bleeding cash. The company said they have Rock Band and Wii Fit accessories to thank for the big jump in revenue…

Video Shows Pure Devs Working on New Title

Tagged Burnout Paradise, and Pure, this "leaked" video seems to show a footage of a street racer in the works by Disney Interactive-owned Black Rock Studio. With off-road, over-the-top racer Pure and a slew of ATV and MotoGP titles under their belt, it looks like Black Rock wants to get into the street racing business.…

Storytelling

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Eatin’ With The In-Laws (No, They’re Not Trying To Kill Me) Last week, while driving Tristan to his Math Club (he’s learning Vedic Math) he asked me to tell him a story. So I told him about Odysseus and the cyclops Polyphemus. I’m not really sure why that popped into…