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UncategorizedThree Minutes of Capcom’s Fright Club, it’s Like Fight Club but With More Braaaaaaains
Capcom and gaming pub Kill Screen spent the night treating the downtown NYC area to “Fright Club”, a gathering for people to come out and play two new Resident Evil games and one new take on Dead Rising. If you missed out, you can still catch Capcom at New York Comic-Con this weekend. Bonus Content?…
By Chris Carolan Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Aiko Island is a Good Idea Whose Time has Already Come
What was in my gaming app hopper this week? I had a choice. Something that was either blatantly derivative of an iPhone hit, involving vegetable matter and Japanese assassins, and another that was at least a little more discreet in its promotional copy. But sure enough, when I booted up Aiko Island, there was the…
By Owen Good Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Vita Fever Starting in Japan
In-Store | TOKYO, JAPAN: Vita pre-orders start this weekend in Japan. (Photo: @AT_Coo | Twitpic) Grand Theft Auto III Getting Android and iPhone 4S Versions, Pricey Action Figure Rockstar Games revealed today that it would be honoring Grand Theft Auto III‘s 10th anniversary with a special edition. Later this fall, it’s coming to an array…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Video Unlimited Service Arrives on Sony Tablet S
Today, Sony stated that it’s bringing Sony Network Entertainment’s Video Unlimited service to the Tablet S. Over 40,000 movies and tv shows are available to rent or buy starting today on the Tablet S.
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Grand Theft Auto III Getting Android and iPhone 4S Versions, Pricey Action Figure [UPDATE]
Rockstar Games revealed today that it would be honoring Grand Theft Auto III‘s 10th anniversary with a special edition. Later this fall, it’s coming to an array of portable devices for Android, but fewer ones for iOS. “Grand Theft Auto III showed us the potential of open world games,” said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 13, 2011 -
UncategorizedAssassin’s Creed Heavily Inspires Indian Movie. Blows Our Minds.
Indian films are famous for their dance numbers. Tamil super hero flick Velayudham has them in spades. It also has what looks either Ezio or Altair from the Assassin’s Creed gamesā€”make that, really looks. Velayudham follows Indian actor Vijay as a milkman who becomes a vigilante to wipe out corruption. The similarities have not been…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Ladies in Costumes Want To Sell You Images of Them…in Costumes
Cosgallery is “cosplay” meets “gallery”. But the works decorating the gallery are real, and they’re trying to sell you stuff. Recently held in Tokyo, Cosgallery let visitors wander two floors of cosplayer booths. The cosplayers offered their self-published ROMs or discs with photos on them. And they did that in costume. The reason why the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 13, 2011 - Culture
Calader’s Art Takes Star Wars to the Brink
Based in the UK, Georgi “Calader” Simeonov works at Splash Damage, meaning he had a hand in the lovely “nothing but blue skies” art design of multiplayer shooter Brink So we’ll be showing you some of that, but also some of his other stuff on titles like Sony’s MMO Star Wars Galaxies, along with something…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Crafty Man Builds Mass Effect Sniper Rifle
Prop builder Zander Brandt figured the world was short on replica M-29 Incisor rifles from Mass Effect 2. So he went and made one. The Incisor is one of the sniper rifles available in the game, and for most of it was my go-to weapon; it’s the one that fires three shots at once. Most…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 -
UncategorizedOh Man, Somebody is Making a Zelda: Total War Game
A team over at the Total War Center is making a mod for PC strategy classic Medieval 2: Total War that replaces the knights and pikemen of the vanilla game with the units and races from the universe of The Legend of Zelda It’s called Hyrule: Total War and brings twenty factions to the battlefield,…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Tekken’s Yoshimitsu is Cutting Heads and Taking Names
Yoshimitsu may be one of the stars of Tekken (and Soulcalibur!), but he’s not exactly a household name. Which should make Kotobukiya’s decision to make a big, expensive statue of him seem silly. That is, until you see it. Wearing his Tekken Tag Tournament 2 outfit, the detail in the figure and “gore” on the…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
One of Japan’s Weirdest Games Cosplayed Before Your Eyes
PlayStation 2 title Super Galdelic Hour is nuts. It features females dressed as animals on a game show playing whack-a-mole with giant suckers and throwing pies in each others’ faces. You cannot take enough acid to reproduce a game like this, let alone the color palette. Cosplayer Omi Gibson, of Metal Gear cosplay fame, dons…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
There’s a new Shadowrun Game!
Cliffhanger Productions, the team currently working on Jagged Alliance Online, are also working on a new Shadowrun game. Yes, a new Shadowrun game. And it’s not a shooter. Phew. The popular old role-playing franchise, which had great adaptations on the Genesis and SNES and a terrible one on the Xbox 360 and PC, will be…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
This Game of Battleship Will get you Hammered
Battleship? It’s for cowards. And small children. Grown ups play Battleshots, which substitutes plastic pegs for boats full of booze. Sure, it takes a bit longer to set up, and costs a lot more than the venerable old board game, but it looks a lot more fun. Dangerous too, but there’s fun in danger You…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Let’s Look *Inside* PlayStation Vita Game Cases
With the PS Vita due out Dec. 17, Japanese retail is starting to get mock-ups of PS Vita game cases. Mock-ups like this. The retail who uploaded the pics also stuffed in a memory card to show you what it would look like with a PS Vita cartridge in it, as well as wrapping a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
David Hasselhoff Wants To Develop a Video Game (No, Really)
David Hasselhoff, probably for no reason other than the fact he is David Hasselhoff, figures a lifetime spent acting and singing at Germans has adequately prepared him for the role of video game designer. Speaking with Reuters about Burnout Crash, the EA game which he’s recently been helping market, the 59 year-old said, “I’ve wanted…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
These Battlefield 3 Case Mods Look Explosively Hideous
Console case company Calibur11, who you may be familiar with, have teamed up with EA to release a pair of cases for upcoming shooter Battlefield 3, one each for the Xbox 360 and PS3. Calibur11 calls them “vaults”, and these feature a large Battlefield 3 logo, headphone rack, half a grenade and what looks like…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 -
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Meet the Queen of Akihabara. She Loves Nerds Like You.
Know what makes Halko Momoi so damn cool? It’s not only that she changed her first name’s spelling because of 2001‘s HAL 9000 and the Nintendo game maker, Hal. It’s not only that she does voice acting for a bunch of games and anime or that she records saccharine music. No, Halko Momoi is so…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Air Force Cyber Attack Caused by…Mafia Wars Malware?
Earlier this month, it became known that the US Air Force’s aerial drones had been infected with malware. It didn’t blow them up or anything, but it was embarrassing for the Air Force nonetheless. It’s even more embarrassing now. According to an “anonymous defense official” speaking with the Associated Press, via Wired, the type of…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
The PlayStation Vita has a 3G Download Cap in the US, too
Just like Japan, in the US there’ll be a 20MB download limit attached to the 3G version of the PlayStation Vita, Sony announced yesterday. The limit of course only applies to data being downloaded over a 3G network; if you’re downloading via wi-fi, on either the 3G or wi-fi-only models of the Vita, you can…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011