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Another Game Canceled Due To Japan’s Earthquake
Disaster Report 4, a disaster survival game, was canceled shortly after the Tohoku Earthquake out of respect for victims. The upcoming Momotaro Dentetsu game is joining Disaster Report 4 in the canned bin. Momotaro Dentetsu is a series of dice-based video game board games which take players to different areas of Japan. The reason for…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Baraka Sure Is Ugly
But is he uglier than he was in the original, viral Mortal Kombat clip? For the Mortal Kombat: Legacy web series, the character’s make-up is getting reworked. He looks more troll and monstery and not nearly as unsettling as he did in the original clip. In that re-imagining, Baraka was an expert martial artist who…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
These Ladies Go Beyond A Fatal Attraction
This week’s cosplay round-up is dominated by the ladies, with not one Felicias but two, some Final Fantasy favourites and a pair of Zelda cosplayers. They’re far from the only standouts in seven days of people dressing up like fictitious video game characters, though, as Team Fortress 2, Final Fantasy XIII and, amazingly, Command &…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Even Team Fortress 2 Has Gone Portal Crazy
Team Fortress 2’s recent “hatless” update may not have had any hats, but this week there is a new, single accessory: a pin you can stick on your players. A Portal pin. You know, in case anyone hanging around Steam hadn’t seen too much about that game already. Anyone pre-ordering Portal 2 through Valve’s own…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Resident Evil Reborn As Social Networking Game
This June, Resident Evil: Outbreak Survive will hit Japan’s Gree social networking service. Set in Raccoon City, the game has players work together with friends, sharing healing items and putting together teams of rescued allies to complete missions.
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Imagining What Sony’s Next Controller (And Its Box) Will Look Like
My dork tendencies run a little…stranger than most. While I enjoy looking at things like mock-ups of new control pads, for example, I prefer looking at a mock-up of the packaging for said controller. Russian/American designer Ted Meltok figured he’d take a swing at Sony’s next (well, probably next) control pad, the Dualshock 4. Smartly…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Is This Game Ripping Off Final Fantasy?
Pandora’s Tower, an upcoming Nintendo-published role-playing game, looks great. It also looks a lot like Final Fantasy. Japanese netizens are quick to point out that images on the box art for Pandora’s Tower look incredibly similar to character art for Square Enix’s most recent role-playing games, Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Final Fantasy XIII. Pandora’s…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
New Metal Gear Solid Figures Sneak Out
Besides making Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, Square Enix also makes plastic figures under its Play Arts brand. And this summer, it’s releasing more Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Play Arts figurines. There’s Peace Walker character Kazuhira Miller as well as a Snake Battle Dress version. Each is ¥5,040 (US$61). If you do decide to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Get A Look At The Inside Of A Portal Gun
Seems the whole world has gone Portal mad this week. Artist Miles Donovan certainly has, coming up with these great schematic pieces showing how the guns actually work. Or, how he thinks they work. It’s not like Miles actually knows. Or he wouldn’t be selling paintings on Etsy (including this one), he’d be, I don’t…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
So How Was That Anonymous Sony Protest?
Over the weekend, Anonymous held in-person protests at Sony stores. The idea was for the Guy Fawkes mask-wearing members of the group to go into Sony’s shops and pass out fliers. How did it go? Well, the weekend came and went. According to online reports, Sony closed some of its retail shops in the UK…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
It’s Like Breakout Had A Sexy Baby Who Loved Zelda
Venerable arcade classic Breakout was a pretty simple game. You knock blocks away with a ball. Wizorb is kind of like Breakout, only it drops the game into a 16-bit fantasy landscape and adds in some adventuring. Oh, and it also features the work of Paul Robertson Former Ubisoft developer (and Ninja Senki creator) Jonathan…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2011 -
UncategorizedLet’s Watch A Persona 4 Anime Trailer Together
Just as previously hinted, role-playing game Persona 4 is getting an anime. This is it! The anime will be handled by studio Anime International Company and directed by Seiji Kishi, who’s most recently helmed Angel Beats! This isn’t Kishi’s first rodeo with a game anime. He also directed Ragnarok The Animation, based on the MMORPG…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 18, 2011 -
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Old Pop Singers Look Great When They’re In Professor Layton
They were young. Attractive. During the 1960s and 1970s, a conveyor belt of female pop idols hit the record charts in Japan, releasing forgettable single after forgettable single. They didn’t write their own music, and they didn’t have to. Their job was to be cute. Yumi Matsutoya wasn’t considered cute (she still isn’t), and she…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
The iPhone Game You Can Only Play Once
One Single Life is an iPhone game you can only play once. Not because it’s short, or because it’s crap, but because once you play it and die, the application never lets you play it again. Drastic! Yet it’s also nerve-racking. One Single Life is essentially Canabalt, sans the aliens, and comprises of ten levels.…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Consoles, Your Sucky Insides Are Holding PC Games Back
Patrick Bach, from DICE, the developers of the Battlefield series, certainly knows the way to a PC gamer’s heart: tell them that, for once, the PC version of a game won’t be a crummy port, but will be the glorious, lead platform. In an “interview” with Nvidia, Bach is asked – without any self interest…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallMeet The World’s First Flight Simulator
Depending on how old you are, if you’re a flight sim fan you probably cut your teeth on a series like Microsoft Flight Simulator, Falcon or Flight Unlimited. But did you know the world’s very first flight simulator was built all the way back in 1929? It was built by a man named Edwin Link,…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
On Time For The Launch
On Time For The Launch | A rebel fighter celebrates as his comrades fire a rocket barrage toward the positions of troops loyal to Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday. Rebels exchanged artillery and rocket fire with loyalist troops west of Ajdabiyah as the confict engulfing Libya continued. (Photo: Chris Hondros/Getty Images) MLB 2K11’s Pitching…
By Owen Good Published April 17, 2011