These are such things as dreams are made on, the colorful concepts of dying developers, the universes that will never be. A recent glimpse into the unpublished works of a now-defunct game developer shows us one such universe which includes fabled Star Wars good guy Obi-Wan Kenobi, corrupted and evil. In the original concept art…
Thieves are increasingly focusing on electronic goods, in particular game consoles, according to claims research by the Australian insurer RACV. The study showed that game consoles were the fourth most commonly listed item on insurance theft claims. “Traditionally, thieves have focused on jewelery, including watches, rings, bracelets and earrings,” said RACV Insurance General Manager Susan…
After clearing the way for another month or so of existence by getting half of their debt holders to hold off on collecting, Midway today announced they have convinced the rest of them to sit tight as well. The company filed an update with the Securities and Exchange Commission today detailing the agreements they have…
Sony refused to allow Sony Ericsson the use of its Playstation brand for a possible Playstation Portable phone during a pitch to the company’s board late last year, Mobile Today reports. Quoting sources close to the matter, the site says that the decision in December prompted a fallout between Sony and the mobile phone joint…
When he’s not busy maintaining an amazing personal arcade in his home, Luca City Arcade’s Peter Hirschberg is apparently spends his time developing retro games for the iPhone. Vector Tanks, soon to hit the App Store, will bring a reworked and amped up version of Battlezone to the Apple portable, reports Touch Arcade. Hirschberg, who…
It seems like just two years ago that we were reporting that Capcom Europe’s Gary Dale was heading to Take-Two as Chief Operating Officer of Rockstar. Wait it was two years ago, and now he’s leaving? Dale did spend his two years at the company doing a lot of ladder climbing, first being promoted to…
Oh man, oh man, oh man. This has got to be the coolest looking Obi-Wan Kenobi I’ve ever seen. Fresh from the Kotaku source line come these amazing concept images of what would have happened if Obi-Wan Kenobi turned to the Dark Side. Here’s what Free Radical did to turn the lovable teacher, into a…
Remember that amazing footage of Star Wars Battlefront III we caught a glimpse of yesterday in the leaked footage? It looks like we’re never going to be able to play that game. SPOnG reports that a former Free Radical employee has verified that the footage is genuine, but that the game has already been passed…
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Being An Only Child… I just installed some more memory in the computer, bumping it up to the motherboard max of 4GB. Firefox was sucking up so much memory I couldn’t take it anymore. Man, Firefox really does suck when it comes to memory leaks. Have you had any issues…
We’ve all had it up to our eyeballs with the mainstream press rolling out scenes of octogenarians Wii Bowling every time they want to talk about the successes of the Wii. Apparently so have they. So the press has moved on to Wii Boxing. Blanche Betten, a 76-year-old retired restaurant owner, hammered Bob Warner, 85,…
As the year progresses so do Electronic Arts’ planned and massive cuts. Today we hear that Mariam Sughayer, senior manager of corporate communications for Electronic Arts, and the person often quoted in official responses to rumors about cuts was herself laid-off today. Her position eliminated. Sughayer, who did an admirable job of getting official responses…
I just got a work-derailing, pants-tightening package in the mail today from Capcom. Inside were two Training Manuals for their upcoming fighter and copies of the game for the PS3 and Xbox 360 debugs. The glossy 39-page training manual is an ode to everything Street Fighter IV. Inside you get backstory on both the tournament…
Video gaming makes up half of the list of this year’s Jim Henson Honors, with Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto and PC game Spore both landing awards. Established in 2005, the awards program acknowledges organizations, individuals or products that reflect the core values and philosophy of the legendary Jim Henson and the company he founded. Criteria used…
Looking through that beautiful footage of Star Wars Battlefront III again and again and again this morning, I couldn’t help but notice something: It sounds like a Sith, perhaps even a hoodless Palpatine, is telling “Kenobi” to “stick to the plan” about four minutes and 55 seconds into the video. The actual quote is “Stick…
Ubisoft’s My SAT Coach made a musical appearance at CES last week, thanks to the singing of Princeton Review’s Pedagogic Troubadour. The Vocab Minute podcast author sang this song about the game three times a day during the show. Kinda catchy. Now do Iron Man, ala quartet. (Click on the pic to play)
How successful is Nintendo? So successful that even the cottage industry that supports the shipping, printing and manufacturing of their products are rolling in the dough. Duplium Corporation, the company North America’s largest Nintendo Certified packaging and printing facility, is doing so well that they’re planning on expanding into a number of new major North…
More leaks springing from the now dead in the water Free Radical, it seems. We’ve already caught a glimpse at some pretty impressive TimeSplitter 4 and Star Wars Battlefront 3 art. Now we’ve got what is supposed to be early footage of Star Wars Battlefront 3. The footage, we’re told, was taken at an internal…
Welcome to the Family is a series of three letters that will run this week from the heads of Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. We asked each of the companies to write up a welcome letter to new owners of their consoles. They did the rest. We are running them in the order they were received.…
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: So… How Is The Baby? I’ve checked on the baby a few times with you, but I keep forgetting to ask. How are you and MRS Bash holding up? I’ve heard having a second child is like 10 times the work instead of twice the work. Is that really true?…
Microsoft is teaming up with Best Buy to encourage parents and caregivers to talk about video game playing and ratings with their kids, Microsoft announced today. The Get Game Smart website is filled with glowing endorsements about family gaming, a break down of what exactly the Entertainment Software Rating Board’s ratings mean, and some neat…
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