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A Winner is Akuma in NES’ Pro Wrestling
Answering the bell in the NES classic Pro Wrestling is Street Fighter’s Akuma, who deploys the dreaded Shun Goku Satsu instead of a fork to the face like The Amazon. More images at the link, showing Akuma in-ring and his badass victory pose. Akuma: Pro Wrestler [pseudoroom design]
By Owen Good Published April 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Naming Rights
Don’t know about you, but when I see a name on a building, I usually think either that person or business built it, paid a lot to build it, or that person was dead at the time it was built. Otherwise, there’s really no prestige in having a building named for you. Today, Oakland-Alameda County…
By Owen Good Published April 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Catherine‘s Cover Art Too Hot For Some ‘Sensitive’ American Gamers
Atlus will bring the erotic horror puzzle platformer adventure Catherine to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 this summer in North America. And it will do so with just one small change for one particular demographic: “more sensitive shoppers.” After spotting some unexpected alternate cover art for the PS3 and Xbox 360 game, artwork that…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Nine-Year-Old Creates iPhone Game as PopCap Grants a Wish
We’re all familiar with the Make-a-Wish Foundation, who it supports, and why. With that out of the way, PopCap Games today announced that Allied Star Police, by the Seattle-area games designer Owain Weinert (pictured) will soon release for all iOS devices on the iTunes App Store. Weinert, a newcomer to the games development scene, is…
By Owen Good Published April 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Sony Reveals More Details On PlayStation Network Hack and Its Plans To Fix What Went Wrong
Sony Computer Entertainment has issued an update on last week’s “external intrusion” on its PlayStation Network, an attack that forced the network offline and may have exposed the personal information of millions of members. On the company’s PlayStation.blog, senior director of corporate communications Patrick Seybold writes that the PlayStation maker will be “taking steps to…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Madden Gets in Trouble for Outing a Team’s New Uniform
EA Sports recently uploaded – then quickly yanked – a YouTube video teasing Madden NFL 12. Madden junkies love to pick these things apart for clues about this year’s new features. In so doing, they also found the Buffalo Bills’ new uniforms – a design not yet announced. You can see it in that image,…
By Owen Good Published April 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Infamous is cool, but 900 Issues of Action Comics is Extraordinary
Wednesdays are new comics days at comics shops in North America. Every week, I recommend some of the new comics to get at the shop or on an iPad. This week is huge for Superman and general DC Comics fans, not so huge for fans of video game comics. Comics You Should Consider Buying (from…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
F.E.A.R. 3 Delayed A.G.A.I.N. [Corrected]
F.E.A.R. 3 (F.3.A.R. if you’re a dick) was originally planned for a winter 2010 release, then pushed to March, then pushed to May. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is pushing the PS3/PC/360 release yet again, to June 21 in North America, June 22 in Australia and June 24 in Europe.)
By Owen Good Published April 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Ganon, You’re Such A Boar!
The evil Ganon takes on his boar form in Hanzo Steinbach’s excellent “Hyrule’s Most Wanted” entry for IGN.com You can see more IGN / Zelda submissions HERE Related Rampages: Metal Gear Moogle | He-Man Zelda-Beast Ganon by Hanzo Steinbach / MetalHanzo (Facebook) Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Big Nose
Tapir | Today was world Tapir day. Hug a herbivore. (TapirDay.Org) Battle of the Overclocked Radeon IceQ Graphic Cards: 6850 VS 6870 The GeForce GTX 460 saved Nvidia’s hind last year when it hit the market at $200 (currently $150 for the 768MB version) beating the existing Radeon HD 5830, while simultaneously threatening the more…
By Brian Crecente Published April 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
And the PSN Outage’s First Class-Action Lawsuit is Already Filed
If the Great PlayStation Network Blackout is going to cost Sony $24 billion, as some estimate, you bet some hunk of that is going to be paid to lawyers, and already they are lining up. A California law firm today filed a lawsuit that seeks class action status, alleging Sony didn’t follow industry practices to…
By Owen Good Published April 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Pikachu Teaching Typing Is What’s Big In Japan
Japanese video game fans caught a new strain of Pokemon fever this week with the release of the unlikely Nintendo DS game, Battle & Get! Pokemon Typing DS. The Nintendo game that comes bundled with a keyboard for the DS was Japan’s bestselling game. Take that, Mavis Beacon! On the software side, it was a…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Don’t Call This New York Arcade an Art Exhibit
Is it art, or is at an arcade? Kunal Gupta, the co-creator of New York City’s underground indie games exhibition explains why Babycastles is more arcade than art. Stephen Totilo visited Babycastles back in October of last year, providing us with a brightly lit view of the exotic arcade cabinets created to showcase indie game…
By Mike Fahey Published April 27, 2011 -
UncategorizedIt Was a Foggy Night, and I Was Trying To Get to the Bottom of L.A. Noire
The audience laughed loudly once during the first film festival screening I’ve ever seen of a video game. There hadn’t been much comedy and, even more importantly, not much awkwardness. The video game had masqueraded successfully as a movie, drawing its viewers in to its world rather than repelling them for any of the clumsy…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Peyton Hillis is Madden NFL 12‘s Cover Star
Fans selected Peyton Hillis, the Cleveland Browns running back, to grace the cover of Madden NFL 12. Hillis prevailed in a five-week, tournament style vote-off that drew nearly 13 million votes, and was a landslide winner over Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick in the final round, 66 percent to 34, with more than a million…
By Owen Good Published April 27, 2011 -
UncategorizedNew Call of Juarez: The Cartel Trailer Gives You Sex, Violence and Modern Drug Wars
Ubisoft’s new Call of Juarez game, the one that features modern day cowboys and a Mexican drug war, has a new trailer, full of adult language, graphic violence, strip clubs, cockblocks and other things that may render it NSFW. But this new preview for Call of Juarez: The Cartel will get you up to speed…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
PlayStation Network Breach Could Carry A $24 Billion Price Tag (In Some Crazy Fantasy World)
While the financial ramifications of the PlayStation Network’s “external intrustion” on Sony, PlayStation developers and consumers likely won’t be known for many moons, a data-security research firm and the mathematicians at Forbes have put a worst-case scenario price tag on the breach: $24 billion USD. That gargantuan figure was derived by multiplying the number of…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Telltale Plans More Episodic Adventure on the Xbox 360
Aside from the first two Sam and Max seasons and its CSI games, Xbox 360 adventure game fans have been missing out on Telltale’s particular brand of episodic fun. No longer! Today Telltale reveals that it has signed an Xbox 360 publisher licensing agreement with Microsoft, collecting the final piece of a set that already…
By Mike Fahey Published April 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Is Zynga Now a Video Game Company?
Certainly. Zynga’s as much a video game company as any of the interactive entertainment field’s brightest lights. Of course, given the firm’s primarily business-focused approach to design, it’s also the devil incarnate to some. But the real irony that many people miss is that the outfit may inadvertently be one of the best things to…
Scott Steinberg, games industry analyst Published April 27, 2011