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What The Hell Happened To Sam Fisher’s Haircut?
When Splinter Cell: Conviction was first announced a few years back, Sam Fisher was different. He had a moppish haircut. People made fun of it. Now? Now the long locks are gone. The snippet of footage leaked from Ubisoft’s press site over the weekend shows Sam with a haircut that’s a little more…age-appropriate. I liked…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 1, 2009 -
That PSP Go Sure Looks Familiar…
As seen on Gizmodo.
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2009 -
Alienware’s New Gaming Laptop May Burn Holes Through Space, Time
This is Alienware’s new m17x gaming laptop. To give you an idea of what’s going to be inside it, you should know that it weighs 12 pounds, and costs an absolute minimum $1800. We say “absolute minimum” because there are hardware options for the thing that may prove too tempting to pass up on. Like,…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2009 -
Still Can’t Believe A Need For Speed Game Looks Good
With E3 almost upon us, EA have reminded us of what I like to think is the spiritual successor to the Project Gotham series, Need for Speed: Shift. Still freaks me out that I’m interested in a Need for Speed game. Then again, it freaks me out even more that EA had the good sense…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2009 -
Anyone For Designer BlazBlue Shirts?
Japanese 2D fighter BlazBlue – the spiritual successor to Guilty Gear – isn’t the most likely subject for an American fashion brand collabo, sure, but a fashion brand collabo is what the game is getting. These shirts are by Triumvir, who are continuing their run of game-related lines following last year’s Street Fighter II run.…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2009 -
PAL PlayStation Store Update: Sack Is The Law
Not a lot of great stuff on offer this week on the PAL PlayStation Store, though the addition of those 2000AD LittleBigPlanet characters should bring some smiles over the weekend. Aside from those, though, it’s slim pickings. There’s a couple of new games (Cellfactor: Psychokinetic Wars & Inferno Pool), the new Saints Row 2 DLC…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2009 -
Prison Break Star Wants To Be In BioShock Movie Real Bad
Universal have put the planned BioShock movie on hold, citing difficulties with the film’s ever-expanding budget. But don’t you dare tell dreamboat actor Wentworth Miller that! He seems to think the movie is still all stations go, posting on his Twitter account “Prison Break may be ending, but I’ve got things in the works. Hint…one…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2009 -
The DS Can Do Naked Ladies Slipping On Banana Peels Rather Well
You now know that, in the right hands, the DS can draw some amazing pictures of fast cars. But did you also know that, in the right hands, it can do naked ladies as well? This clip highlights the other half of February’s Kiwi exhibition 99DS (which featured the fast cars), with this component, done…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2009 -
Cryptic Studios To Rehash Old Atari IP In “A Series Of New Games”
When City of Heroes developers Cryptic were bought by Atari last year, it was said they’d be working on a single, secret game due in 2011. Now it turns out they’re working on several games. Atari’s yearly fiscal report has revealed that Cryptic “is working on the development of a series of new games based…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2009 -
Phil Harrison No Longer President Of Atari
Last year, in a major coup for the fledgling company, Atari managed to hire former Sony Worldwide Studios boss Phil Harrison to serve as President. Now? Now he’s no longer President. According to a statement made by Atari as part of the company’s fiscal year report: Because of a shift of business operations to the…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2009 -
Doom Is Coming For The iPhone
Having first teased the game a few months ago, id’s John Carmack has provided a slew of details on the company’s upcoming iPhone port of their classic PC shooter Doom. Carmack goes into exhaustive detaill on how the game has been nipped and tucked to both work and look good on the handheld, but the…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2009 -
DJ Hero Screens Show Off Gameplay
Need pictures to go with the words explaining how DJ Hero will actually work? These screenshots should do, showing it works…well, a lot like Guitar Hero, really. Which is what you’d expect. As for DJ Shadow, who features in all these screens…well, I’ve seen Shadow live a few times over the past decade, and never,…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2009 -
Rapstar Announced, Is Like SingStar But, Well…
4mm Games – the new studio formed by the two of the guys who founded Rockstar – have announced their debut game. And it’s called Def Jam Rapstar, a hip-hop karaoke game. As is par for the course with these stupid pre-E3 announcements, there’s not much else being announced aside from the game itself. No…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2009
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