A few weeks ago, I showed you every Nintendo DS that had ever been released. Turns out I missed one: the official McDonalds Japan DSi console! While we knew that staff in Japanese McDonalds restaurants were being trained on Nintendo’s handhelds, we had no idea they were being trained on official, company-branded consoles. And tastefully-branded…
A concerned parent has apparently taken to the official 360 forums, looking for an explanation as to why his son had been banned from Xbox Live until the Year of our Lord, 9999. Microsoft was only too happy to oblige. “Would be helpful if someone could enlighten me as to why he has been suspended…
Last year, Hong Kong animation house Imagi brought Astro Boy, a beloved Japanese character, to the big screen in a computer-animated film. Astro Boy is great and all, but…what about Mega Man? Artist David Espinoza must have been wondering the exact same thing, because he’s done a number of stunning works showing Mega Man characters…
There’s a feel-good story to be had behind the PAL release of role-playing game Demon’s Souls: not just the fact it’s on its way to Europe and Australia, but that the accompanying strategy guide has been written by fans Yes, when Namco Bandai said the strategy guide was all-new, it wasn’t kidding, having enlisted the…
If there’s one thing 2K’s announcement of a shooter-focused XCOM remake has done, it’s open the door to a slew of games cashing in on the company’s seeming abandonment of the series’ turn-based roots. Games like this iPhone title! Much like Xenonauts, which we saw last week, Isochron is a game that sets out to…
If some screenshots are to be believed, a number of classic Dreamcast and PC titles are about to be released on Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade service for the 360. The screens, captured by MasterChief over on the Digiex forums, reportedly show a number of pre-release screenshots for Xbox Live Arcade verisons of Crazy taxi and…
The Lion King is probably the last truly great film Disney (not Pixar!) produced (though I did dig Atlantis). Know what makes it better? I bet you do: Team Fortress 2. A couple of months ago Fantachan released this clip, above, where a sequence from the Lion King was re-dubbed by characters from the Lion…
Electronic musician Christopher Leary (aka Ochre) has taken to Twitter today, pleased as punch to officially announce the inclusion of one of his songs in Sony’s upcoming LittleBigPlanet 2. Whether Sony is as happy remains to be seen. That’s because while Leary is only too keen to go speaking publicly of the game’s existence, Sony,…
While we never reviewed it, know that I played a lot of Just Cause 2, and I loved it. The only thing that would have made it better was some multiplayer, and, hey, what do you know. Look at this. Similar to mods for the Grand Theft Auto games on PC, some guys are working…
From Software’s brutal role-playing game Demon’s Souls, one of 2009’s real surprise packets, has only been available in Japan and the United States. From June, though, (as suspected) it’ll be available in PAL territories! That’s you, Europe and Australasia! To make up for the delay (and perhaps to entice those of you who imported the…
A four year-old boy in the United Kingdom was chuffed to bits when his dad bought him an Xbox 360 game. He wasn’t quite sure, though, what to do with the bag of weed he found inside. Riley Brown, from Littlehampton in West Sussex, England, was bought a copy of Fight Night Round 4 (which,…
This small child isn’t terribly interested in a green cup. She’s damn interested in that Xbox 360 controller, though. She’s not laughing at it. It’s not quite a scream, either. Or a cry. She’s just…freaking out, and won’t stop staring at the left analogue stick. Leaving us to wonder if that man created a baby…
Not with flowers, but with cake. As seen on Major Nelson’s Twitter
Steve Holcomb won America’s first gold medal in the bobsled in 62 years at the recent Vancouver Winter Olympics. For his troubles, he’s since had his Xbox 360 stolen, which has left the guy devastated. No, traumatised “It’s like a death in the family,” he told cnet, “at least for me being single with no…
Thanks to a confusing set of press releases and an even more confusing name change, most people aren’t sure who to thank/blame for the development of the new XCOM game. So let’s set the record straight. I spoke with Martin Slater, studio director of the former 2K Australia office in Canberra this morning. The fact…
How much you enjoy petty squabbles between large multinational companies will determine how much you enjoy the latest instalment of the increasingly public soap opera surrounding Activision, EA and Call of Duty developers Infinity Ward. Me? I enjoy them immensely Earlier today, Activision put out a press release boasting of the success of Modern Warfare…
Shigeru Miyamoto, the legendary Nintendo game designer behind classic series like Mario and Zelda, is nearly 60. Which for most people is approaching retirement age. Not Miyamoto! No, while he recognises that there’ll eventually be a time he stops working for Nintendo, he can’t envisage a day where he stops making games altogether. “Well, I…
The new XCOM game isn’t the same as the old X-Com games. Some people are cool with this, while others are not cool with this. If you’re in the latter group, you should check out Xenonauts, an upcoming indie PC game. It is, essentially, X-Com. Or, as the developers Goldhawk Interactive call it, a “planetary…
Google Earth is pretty great as it stands, but I like where it’s going even better. And that place is Simsville, with a stop-off at Liberty City along the way. The internet giant has released a map of New York City that’s astonishing in detail, combining satellite data with shots from its fleet of Google…
Here’s an inspiring way to start your day, as Civilization co-creator Sid Meier builds a video game in under 48 hours. It was part of a competition known as the Wolverine Soft 48 hour Game Design Contest, held every year at the University of Michigan. Meier, a former graduate of the university, was in town…
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