To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Tough Times Yeah, horrible times. I just found out that a paper I worked at years ago had massive lay-offs, like six months ago. Even though it’s old news to everyone involved it’s still pretty shocking stuff. Print may not be dead, but it’s certainly going into hibernation. I really…
Red Bull island, complete with Red Bull air racing, is coming to Home this week, hopefully free of the lines that have made bowling feel so restrictive in the virtual Playstation 3 world. Playstation Home community manager CydoniaX says that Home-goers will be able to access and explore the island by clicking on the Red…
The man behind such pinball greats as Fun House, the Addams Family and The Twilight Zone, Pat Lawlor, recently sat down with Gamasutra to discuss the history and design of pinball games. The interview covers a bunch of topics, but most interesting is Lawlor’s take on pinball kinetics. There are obviously many aspects involved in…
Valve will be announcing a major update to the software development kit for PC users and downloadable content details for the Xbox 360 “very soon”, a company spokesman told Kotaku today. The new details, first hinted at in our December in-game interview with Valve’s Chet Faliszek, could be announced as early as next week. Valve…
Last year Multiplayer came up with a great idea: sorting through all of the Game of the Year Awards to pick one conclusive winner. This year, I’m stealing that idea, and not making it better. After scouring the internet for upwards of 45 minutes I managed to find 24 different publications that had finished drip-feeding…
In this video you see jetdaisuke jamming with an iPhone, two DS, iPod Touch and Kaossilator. The iPhone has Bloom on it and the iPod touch has Mokugyo. He’s using one DS to run Electroplankton and another to run KORG DS-10. The whole thing is backed up with the touchy Kaossilator. This is where chipmusic…
Mad Catz is unveiling their new controllers for Street Fighter IV, a HAWX compatible flight stick and their latest PC flight stick at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. The Saitek Aviator Flight Stick comes in an Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 model, but both are fully PC compatible. The controllers include an oversized flat base…
SanDisk today unveiled a Rock Band branded 2GB memory card for the Wii. The SD cards will sell for $13 a pop and are set to hit the U.S. this spring. With songs taking as much as 50 megs each and the Wii only sporting 512MB of onboard stoarge, extra external memory seems like a…
Increasingly, the Independent Games Festival is where smart game publishers go to find tomorrow’s big hits. Games like Braid, World of Goo, flow and Everyday Shooter all had their start here. So it’s worth checking out which games have piqued the interest of the judges for this year’s festival. The list of finalists includes five…
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: About Glasses… I had the pleasure of hanging out at a Best Buy for an hour and a half or so today while they car guys installed a hands-free telephone dealio into my uber-wagon. I eventually meandered over to the game section and then over to where they had Rock…
MTV Shows MTV’s Stephen Totilo is mixing things up over at Multiplayer, first redesigning the site to look oddly familiar, now posting odd, news-light videos. Totilo’s first stab at irrelevant videos is a quick tour through some of the game-related crap he discovered in his desk while cleaning out the office. Included in the list:…
The Christian Science Monitor recently visited Beijing’s internet addiction center to talk to the docs and addicts about the issue of, among other things, gaming addiction. The center, which opened in 2004 at military base, has become the model for the nearly 300 similar centers that now dot China. The center treats the addiction with…
This has got to be the most work for the least return I’ve ever seen in a mod. The Geekothon points to a modder who completely gutted his DS Lite so he could: A: Make it play videos B: Turn it into a Pez dispenser C: Add video camera support D: Swap out the logo…
Lord of the Rings Online developer Turbine confirmed that they are working on a new massively multiplayer online game that will sell in-game items for cash. Word of the game leaked out after a job posting for a micro-transaction and e-commerce manager hit Turbine’s website. In the description, the company said the position would be…
Logitech today took the wraps off of three new PC gaming peripherals: A color LCD-toting keyboard, a 5000-dpi mouse and a 7.1-channel surround sound headset. The new lineup is an expansion of Logitech’s gaming G-series. “The G-series product line is all about seeing how far we can push the envelope, giving gamers extraordinary, engineered-to-win features…
Crayon Physics Deluxe, last year’s Seumas McNally Grand Prize winner at the Independent Games Festival, hits PCs tomorrow, developer Petri Purho emailed to let us know. A true indie developer, Purho only entered his whimsical game in the Independent Games Festival so he could get a free pass to the Game Developers Conference. Now Purho…
Midway landed a stay of execution late Monday night, getting their debt holders to hold off on collecting until February, Business Week reports. The Chicago-based developer and publisher convinced the holders of its $75 million convertible senior notes to extend their right to make the company buy them back until Feb. 19. Midway is in…
Fable II might not have won many Game of the Year awards, but the PETA liked what they saw, handing the game one of their annual Proggy Awards for being the most animal-friendly video game. But it’s not for what you think. Sure, the game makes your dog a character central to your emotional involvement,…
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Has 2009 Hit You Yet? We drove back from El Paso Saturday, speeding under clear blue skies until we hit Pueblo. Than we hit a snow storm. And another. And another. We spent a good hour going 20 miles an hour before things cleared up a bit. I do love…
Nothing sells tickets to a movie about fighting, sexy fighting, better than faces. And that’s why I know Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li is going to kill. Just look at all of those faces. [ComingSoon]
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