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Nintendo Getting New Digs To Make Games
Starting January 1, 2012, groundbreaking will commence on a new Nintendo R&D center in Kyoto. Nintendo is pouring over USD$15 million into the new facility that will house over 1,500 employees. The site is adjacent to Nintendo’s current headquarters (pictured) and previously housed a golf center, which Nintendo had bulldozed in 2008. The goal is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 30, 2011 -
UncategorizedResident Evil Is Still Looking Good On The 3DS
Resident Evil: Mercenaries 3D may not be the most original game on the 3DS, but it’s certainly shaping up as one of the best-looking. And yes, what you see there is a Resident Evil game letting the player move around while aiming their weapon. It seems to slow you down when you do it, but…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 30, 2011 - Uncategorized
Xbox 360’s “New Disc Format” Is A 1GB Storage Boost
So, Microsoft is testing a “new disc format”. The more fanciful of you are thinking that means “Blu-Ray”. The more sensible and well-connected are thinking it’s something a little more realistic. Tech gurus Digital Foundry claim that, according to “a highly placed development source”, this new disc format is simply the same old Xbox 360…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 30, 2011 - Uncategorized
Crysis 2 On PC Has Reduced BSR, VSM Downscaling And A 32% Color Downturn
The first Crysis was, and remains, something of a benchmark for PC hardware nerds. Because the second Crysis was also made for consoles, though, some of those aforementioned nerds are angry. And justifiably so! I mean, look at these numbers, put together by PC specialists Rock, Paper, Shotgun. They clearly show that, because this game…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 30, 2011 - Uncategorized
Final Fantasy Gets Its Own Holy Shit Moment
While AR Games might be the 3DS’s holy shit moment, there are plenty of holy shit moments to go around. Final Fantasy has its own on the iPhone. New app Dissidia Duodecim Final Fantasy AR allows folks to downloaded AR models of Final Fantasy XIII’s Lightning, Final Fantasy VII’s Cloud, Warrior of Light from the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 30, 2011 - Uncategorized
Retailer Buys 3DS Units From Competitor, Then Marks Up The Price
Console launches are normally times for absurdity, but this report coming in from the UK – of GAME staff popping down to their local supermarket to buy 3DS units – is something else. Eurogamer has got hold of documentation sent to employees of GAME, a major specialist retailer in Europe (and Australasia) at the time…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 30, 2011 - Uncategorized
Padded Bikinis Finally Come To Video Games
Large breasts and video games are not strangers. But apparently, sometimes breasts are not large enough? Sometimes they need a little help? The latest downloadable content for Xbox 360 game The Dream Club Zero is doing just that. The newly released DLC offers players an array of costumes like a “Fox Mask” or a “Samba…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 30, 2011 - Uncategorized
Xbox Live Indie Games Hit By Ratings Manipulation
Now this isn’t fair. It’s hard enough for Indie games on the Xbox 360 to be noticed as it is, let alone when crazy gamers are knocking out their only real way of getting in the spotlight: a game’s ratings. Microsoft is currently “investigating a possible misuse of ratings” affecting a number of titles on…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 30, 2011 - Uncategorized
Is Disaster Report‘s Developer Okay?
After Irem outright canceled Disaster Report 4, rumors swirled that the studio would no longer be releasing new copies of previous Disaster Report games. Disaster Report 4 was to be Irem’s first PS3 game. The fate of the studio’s second PS3 game seems equally grim. Steambot Chronicles 2 (aka Poncotsu Roman Daikatsugeki Bumpy Trot 2),…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 30, 2011 - Uncategorized
Will Wright’s New Company Not Recognized By E3?
According to Will Wright (SimCity, The Sims, etc.), his new company, Stupid Fun Club, doesn’t seem to be recognized by the E3 game expo. Wright tweets, “So apparently the E3 folks decided my new company (The Stupid Fun Club) isn’t in the electronic entertainment industry….” Wright says E3 is refusing to let his art director…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 30, 2011 -
UncategorizedThere’s A New Mike Tyson Boxing Game, And Nintendo Isn’t Invited
In 1987, Mike Tyson starred in Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!, a Nintendo boxing game that featured over-the-shoulder pugilism. Now, in 2011, Mike Tyson stars in Mike Tyson – Main Event, a boxing game that features over-the-shoulder pugilism. Only now, there’s no Nintendo. This new game is made by RockLive, and is, yes, a Punch-Out clone for…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 30, 2011 - Uncategorized
Give Blood Like You’re In An 80s Sci-Fi Comic
In the days following the Tohoku Earthquake, Japanese people across the country began doing what they could for the relief efforts by rolling up their sleeves and giving blood. Just days after the quake hit, the Japanese Red Cross blood donation centers were running at a surplus. “People seem to feel the need to do…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 30, 2011 - Uncategorized
Fez Developer Tells WiiWare To Fuck Off
Phil Fish, co-creator of upcoming indie game Fez, will be releasing his game on Xbox Live Arcade. And maybe the PC and PlayStation 3 as well. But the Wii? Um… “Right now we’re only concentrating on XBLA, which makes the most sense for us at the time”, Fish tells Destructoid. “PC and PSN would also…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 30, 2011 - Uncategorized
Don’t Count On Nintendo’s Next Console Using 3D Technology
Displaying content in 3D is the main draw for the new Nintendo 3DS. So will Nintendo’s next home console follow suit? Don’t hold your breath. “I think at Nintendo, we realize that any sort of goggle-type 3-D technology was not going to work,” Nintendo’s Hideki Konno told CNN. “In order to make 3-D technology viable…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 30, 2011 - Esports
An English Voice For Korea’s StarCraft Madness
Korea is bonkers for StarCraft. So bonkers that we often quarantine the country’s love for the game as something to be avoided and/or ridiculed. Yet little by little, the Korean StarCraft scene is getting its dues overseas. Part of that is thanks to dedicated websites like Team Liquid, who cover the scene religiously, but part…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 30, 2011 - Uncategorized
Rumor: Mortal Kombat Demands ‘Online Pass’ To Play
Mortal Kombat publisher Warner Bros. wants to encourage fighting game fans to buy new (or pay to play online) by implementing an “online pass” scheme for the upcoming PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game. That’s according to a report from Joystiq, which says that Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment will borrow a page from EA and…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 29, 2011 - Uncategorized
Resistance 3 Gets PlayStation Move and 3D Support, New Demo Shown To Community
PlayStation 3 shooter Resistance 3 will support Sony’s PlayStation Move motion controller and the Sharpshooter gun controller, Insomniac Games announced today at its Hollywood community event. It also confirmed stereoscopic 3D support, following in the footsteps of the recently released Killzone 3. For those PS3 owners without a 3D-ready television and active shutter lenses, it…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 29, 2011 - Uncategorized
It’s Not A Real Adventuring Party Until The Cover Bard Shows Up
In Dorkly’s latest Final Fantasy-inspired short, the oft-maligned bard is oft-maligned once again, and Sugar Ray is sung with great gusto. When I first started playing Dungeons & Dragons way back in the day, bards were the laughingstock of our adventuring group. Back then, being a bard took a tremendous amount of hard work and…
By Mike Fahey Published March 29, 2011
