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UncategorizedThis Thursday Retro Game Master Takes On Clock Tower
This week on Retro Game Master The Kacho takes on survival horror game Clock Tower Clock Tower was released for the Super NES in 1995 and later as a port for the Playstation. Loosely based on Dario Argento’s movie Creepers, Clock Tower is a point-and-click game that has players controlling the movements of orphan Jennifer…
By Brian Crecente Published July 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
MapleStory: Thief Edition is a Two-Dimensional Adventure
MapleStory, the blockbuster Korean MMO game, has turned up on more platforms than just the PC. It’s on the Nintendo DS, for example! It’s also available on Apple’s iOS platforms. There are two MapleStory games on the iPhone, but today we’re looking at the original, MapleStory: Thief Edition. Why? Because I just picked it up…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
You’ve Got Modern Warfare 3 in My Turtle Beach Headsets
Just in time for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, peripheral maker Turtle Beach is releasing line of MW3 branded cans for the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. There are four different MW3 Ear Force headsets that range in price and features. At the top end, there’s the Ear Force Delta. It’s a Bluetooth-enabled, programmable…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
Did You Love the Karaoke Revolution? (GEDDIT?)
Sing It | LOS ANGELES, CA: Back in 2003, Jennifer Love Hewitt pitched a Konami game. (Photo: Frazer Harrison | Getty) What’s with All the Cancelled 3DS Games? Maybe it’s bad timing or just bad luck. But there’s a growing list of cancelled 3DS games. That’s not good. The Video Game Art of Christian Lorenz…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
Pokémon Rumble Blast Scrambles to America
This fall, Pokémon Rumble Blast lets players take control of wind-up Pocket Monsters and battle it out. The game will be released this month in Japan as Super Pokémon Scramble, and it’s a sequel to a WiiWare title. In Pokémon Rumble Blast, players can collect over 600 Pocket Monsters (including monsters from Pokémon Black and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
You Can Devour This Monster Hunter Bread!
In Japan, Pokémon has its own bread, so why the heck doesn’t Monster Hunter? Yamazaki Baking is offering two different types of Monster Hunter curry bread. If you’ve ever had Yamazaki bread, you’ll know it’s pretty good for something you get in a convenience store! The curry bread is in the image of Monster Hunter,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
A Letter to Disgruntled Gamers
Operation Rainfall is, among other things, a letter-writing campaign hoping to bring Japanese Wii games like The Last Story, Pandora’s Tower, and Xenoblade to the U.S. Nintendo already politely declined on its Facebook page. That’s not the only nice way it’s saying no. It’s also responding to letters, writing things like, “I can see why…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 19, 2011 - Culture
The Video Game Art of Christian Lorenz Scheurer
You probably don’t know him by name, but you’d know him by his work: Christian Lorenz Scheurer has provided concept art for movies like The Matrix, Titanic and The Fifth Element Which is all well and awesome, but we’re more interested in the work he’s done for video games. Scheurer has been involved in a…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 19, 2011 -
UncategorizedTeam Fortress 2 Looks Great as a Retro Arcade Game
You like Team Fortress 2? You like the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game? Watch this. It’s Team Fortress 2 as a side-scrolling, beat-em-up arcade game. If you’re wondering why the whole thing looks so awesome/authentic, that’s because it’s the product of Eric Ruth, who has already give us retro demakes of games like…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
ModernWarfare3.com’s Owner Revealed!?
Website ModernWarfare3.com used to redirect to Battlefield 3‘s website. Pretty funny! Modern Warfare 3 publisher Activision was not amused. Before that, the site hosted anti-Call of Duty rants like this: Modern Warfare is crap. On November 8, 2011, the most over-hyped first-person action series of all-time returns with the copy and paste sequel to the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 19, 2011 -
UncategorizedScience Is Teaching Kinect To Use a Lightsaber
A team of researchers at Stanford University are living the dream: they’ve used Kinect and a robot arm not to cure disease or solve the energy crisis, but to build something for lightsaber practice. The Kinect camera is able to track the movement and placement of a human opponent, with the arm programmed to respond…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
What’s with All the Cancelled 3DS Games?
Maybe it’s bad timing or just bad luck. But there’s a growing list of cancelled 3DS games. That’s not good. On the list of canned 3DS games, there’s My Garden, which was supposed to be a 3DS launch title. There’s also Saints Row: Drive-By, also apparently canned. Four Hudson games for the 3DS were canned,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Clothes These Clerks Must Shed
Nerd retailer Mandarake is a self-described “ruler of time”. Ruler of in-store promotions might be more accurate. To kick off summer, Tokyo’s Mandarake Complex held a one-off in-store cosplay event with six Mandarake staffers dressing up as characters in swimwear. Staffers dressed up as characters from Macross F, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and Tales of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 19, 2011 -
UncategorizedWhere Minecraft Meets Okami
Ever since it popped up this morning, people have been quick to say that Aaron Bishop’s Lords Of Uberdark looks a lot like Minecraft. The fact Minecraft’s creator helped spread the word may have contributed to that. While Lords Of Uberdark (which at the moment is little more than some alpha code and ideas) is…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
Brothers Arrested for Selling Modded Wiis
The Wii can do a lot. But some people may want their Wii to do more, like play pirated games. In Fukuoka, two men were recently arrested for violating Japanese trademark law and apparently selling modded Wiis. According to Fukuoka police, between November 2009 and last month, 32-year-old Tomonori Sato and his 28-year-old brother apparently…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
It’s Nearly Time for EVO 2011, Fighting Game Fans
EVO 2010 was a blast. So EVO 2011, the world’s biggest fighting game tournament, should also be a…blast? Kicking off on July 29, EVO 2011 is a three-day celebration of all things fighting, with the tournaments just one part of the draw. For those who just want to check out the latest games, there’ll be…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
Legendary Japanese Club Reborn with Trolling
If you were in Tokyo in the late 1990s and you liked to party, you went there. Towering over six floors and holding over 1,500 people, Velfarre was a legendary Roppongi club that claimed to be the biggest of its kind in Asia. Pumping out cheesy Eurobeat, the club fuelled techno dance trends and was…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 19, 2011 - Uncategorized
Did Farmville Steal Game Code from a Competitor?
Zynga, the big-hitting developers of games like FarmVille and CityVille, has found itself in court accused of not just ripping off another company’s idea, but literally stealing the code for it. Developer SocialApps claims that it entered into an agreement with Zynga back in 2009 to develop a farming game, based on its existing Facebook…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 19, 2011 -
UncategorizedWell, the World of Warcraft/StarCraft Theme Park Actually Opened
Joyland, a theme park in China built with massive (if unlicensed) tributes to the video games of Blizzard Entertainment, has actually opened its doors. People are going on the rides. And taking photos. In true Oh China fashion, the StarCraft section has been renamed Universe of Starship, while the World of Warcraft sections are even…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 19, 2011