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The Actual Singer Of The Actual Pokémon Song Actually Made A Version For Actual Presidential Candidate Ron Paul
Really. This is Jason Paige, the guy who sang the original theme song back in 1998. He’s a big Ron Paul fan, I guess. I don’t even know anymore. (Thanks, Zack!)
By Jason Schreier Published May 7, 2012 -
Star Wars: The Old Republic Loses 400,000 Subscribers
Star Wars: The Old Republic has dropped from 1.7 million active subscribers to 1.3 million, publisher Electronic Arts said today in an earnings statement. That’s a loss of nearly 25% for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game, or 400,000 subscribers. In its Q3 earnings statement earlier this year, EA reported 1.7 million The Old Republic…
By Jason Schreier Published May 7, 2012 -
Fake Gamer Of The Week: I Wish I Were Dead
How… how could this be? I had it. I really thought I had it. But no. It’s over. I lost the match. There are no repeats. It’s never coming back. It’s over. Just like everything else in my life. Five years ago, I never thought it would be this way. I never thought I’d be…
By Jason Schreier Published May 7, 2012 -
You’ll Be Able To Recover Crashed Games In The Next StarCraft II Expansion
Say your StarCraft II match ends prematurely, either by crash or lightning strike or murder or whatever. Right now, your only option is to suck it up and start a new game. But when Blizzard releases the expansion pack Heart of the Swarm, you’ll be able to recover a crashed match by loading up the…
By Jason Schreier Published May 7, 2012 -
You Can Now Buy An Xbox 360 For $99 (If You Can Find A Microsoft Store)
The rumored $99 Xbox 360 bundle is now no longer a rumor. It’s live. You dish out $99 up front and commit to two years of Xbox Live Gold at $15/month, you get a 4GB Xbox 360 and a Kinect. (Oh and also you have to buy it at a Microsoft Store. Yes, there is…
By Jason Schreier Published May 7, 2012 -
New RPG From The Creators Of Lunar Hitting Vita This Year
Publisher XSEED Games will bring Ragnarok Odyssey to the PlayStation Vita this year, it said today. Ragnarok Odyssey was developed by Game Arts, the company behind the critically-acclaimed (and truly lovely) Lunar and Grandia series. Which makes this delightful news for any and all JRPG fans. Here’s how XSEED describes the game in its press…
By Jason Schreier Published May 4, 2012 -
Four Reasons You’re In Love With That JRPG Character
When I was a kid, I used to spend almost every summer at day camp. I’d ride the bus up across the Tappan Zee Bridge to upper-lowstate New York, where I was unceremoniously dumped on the grounds and told to go hang out with the other kids in my age group. We’d run around fields…
By Jason Schreier Published May 4, 2012 -
When A Kickstarter Fails
Sometimes video game Kickstarters just don’t take off. In fact, that’s most of the time. For every monumental success like Double Fine or Wasteland 2, there are ten projects that remain undiscovered and unfunded. One of those failures was Class of Heroes 2, a Japanese RPG for the PSP and sequel to a game that…
By Jason Schreier Published May 4, 2012 -
The Elder Scrolls Online Now Has A Trailer
There’s no gameplay in this new teaser for Bethesda’s upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game, but at least it sounds cool. The Elder Scrolls Online will be out next year for PC and Mac. Hopefully it’s not as generic as leaked details make it seem
By Jason Schreier Published May 4, 2012 -
Hopefully The Army’s Scheme To Fly Helicopters With Kinect Doesn’t Involve A Lot of Spinning
The army wants to install Microsoft’s controller-free Kinect sensor in military helicopters so pilots can use them both for body recognition and flying assistance, Innovation News Daily reports “New technology from the gaming world has the potential to substantially reduce the cost of adding head tracking to conventional helicopters, as well as the ability to…
By Jason Schreier Published May 3, 2012 -
Kim Kardashian is Psyched for the Next Call of Duty. Really.
Gaming connoisseur and poisonous celebrity Kim Kardashian is super psyched for the next Call of Duty, she said on Twitter today. Because the graphics look crazy. “But wait,” you might be thinking. “Doesn’t Kim Kardashian sell her tweets? Nope, Kardashian says. It wasn’t a paid tweet. She and her brother play Call of Duty “all…
By Jason Schreier Published May 3, 2012 -
The Elder Scrolls Online Coming Next Year
Bethesda will release a massively multiplayer online version of its popular The Elder Scrolls series next year for PC and Mac, Game Informer reports today. Set a millennium before the events of Bethesda’s last The Elder Scrolls game, Skyrim, The Elder Scrolls Online will take place across all of Tamriel during a time when daedric…
By Jason Schreier Published May 3, 2012 -
EA Backtracks On Shutting Down Rock Band Mobile
Publisher Electronic Arts seems to have backtracked on its plans to shut down the mobile version of Rock Band following a massive outcry from fans and press yesterday. Yesterday, customers with the iOS version of Rock Band received a message saying the game would shut down on May 31. Now, EA says that was an…
By Jason Schreier Published May 3, 2012 -
Satoru Iwata’s Wii U Launch Hype Is Refreshingly Realistic
Sometimes console makers like to promise the world for their new gaming systems, making lofty claims about how awesome their launch lineups will be. Those claims are never true. So it’s nice to see Nintendo president Satoru Iwata spitting some truth at a recent Nintendo investor Q&A, saying that while the company has certainly learned…
By Jason Schreier Published May 2, 2012 -
No Half-Life 3 At This Year’s E3
No new Portal or Left 4 Dead announcements either. Valve is attending the annual games conference, but won’t be showing any new games, the company confirmed today. [Valvetime, via Joystiq] Click here to visit our Half-Life 2: Episode Three timeline!
By Jason Schreier Published May 2, 2012 -
Mass Effect‘s Garrus Makes An Appearance On National Television
Brandon Keener, also known as the voice of Garrus Vakarian, made an appearance on ABC’s Castle this week. You can even hear tinges of the rogueish turian when Keener’s voice gets real low. And he didn’t even have to calibrate anything. Now I’ll leave you to your Garrus Vakarian/Malcom Reynolds fanfiction. Garrus Vakarian on ABC’s…
By Jason Schreier Published May 2, 2012
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