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UncategorizedWhat Did I Do At 3pm Today?
On the dot, at that! What did you do? What you missed last night Why Halo’s Master Chief Is So Damn Empty It’s Like Angry Birds, Only With Balls How To Stop The Simplest Form Of Video Game Cheating Are Angry Fans Really Ruining Video Games? A New Super Mario Bros. Is Coming To Nintendo…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 2, 2011 - Uncategorized
In 2011, Your Mecha Better Be Ready For Battle
This year, Armored Core 5 will be released in Japan. And if you like mechas, you’ll be all over this game. More details about the game, which was first revealed last year, are in the latest issue of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu. As previously posted, the game’s concept is “mayhem” mechanical action. The game will…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 2, 2011 - Uncategorized
Ringo Starr Ready To Drum Out A Video Game?
Ringo Starr might be “absolutely crap” at Rock Band, but that isn’t going to stop him from trademarking the crap out of his name, Ringo. Rather, Ringo™. The famed drummer registered the trademark for “downloadable computer games via the internet and wireless devices” as well as “toys, namely toy vehicles, plush toys” and “pet toys”…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 2, 2011 - Uncategorized
Why Halo’s Master Chief Is So Damn Empty
Gaming has characters with memorable personalities. But Master Chief, the protagonist of the Halo series, is a total void. And there’s a reason for that. According to the studio’s lead writer Joseph Staten, “We left-out details to increase immersion; the less players knew about the Chief, we believed, the more they would feel like the…
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UncategorizedIt’s Like Angry Birds, Only With Balls
Bullistic is an Angry Birds clone. Only, I think I like it better. It’s the same premise as the Android and iPhone smash hit: you use a slingshot to vault animals across a stage so they break stuff, only instead of pigs, you’re now smashing vases and china. There’s a corny heavy guitar soundtrack, genitalia…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 2, 2011 - Uncategorized
Japan’s Most Controversial Voice Actress Coming To Final Fantasy
Aya Hirano, who pissed off Japanese nerds with the admission of her social life, is coming to upcoming Final Fantasy game Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy. Hirano will be lending her vocal talents to the game, voicing the character Prishe. Hirano started out as a voice actress, but is crossing into the mainstream in a way…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 2, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe 3DS Is 4D? 5D? Bwah?
When the Nintendo 3DS was first introduced, there was a trailer showing Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto shaking a dog’s paw that popped out of the 3DS, and Nintendo of America honcho Reggie Fils-Aime getting his faced burned off. Easy to understand! Since then, Nintendo’s enlisted the likes of popular boy band Arashi to make o-faces…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 2, 2011 - Uncategorized
Witness The Birth Of Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. was first released in 1985. Back then, games weren’t designed on computers, using fancy 3D models. They were designed on paper, by men who ate nails for breakfast and wrestled bears after supper. Nintendo has published a new interview on its website with the creative forces behind the classic NES game. To…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 2, 2011 - Uncategorized
It’s Dangerous For Your DS To Go Alone
Kotaku reader vidhagans had a problem. Her Nintendo DS, it was cold. Naked. Needed shelter. So she made these two cases, sporting Zelda themes, and now the thing is warm. And we are impressed One is based on Link getting his hands on the Triforce, the other on the scenery of SNES classic A Link…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 2, 2011 - Uncategorized
How To Stop The Simplest Form Of Video Game Cheating
While spit-screen gaming is the ideal means for two people to truly share a multiplayer experience, it’s not without its problems. Like cheating. A problem these two industrious souls have managed to overcome. Above, witness exhibit A, which we’ll call the “ghetto method”. It involves some tape and a blanket. And the second player, who…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 2, 2011 -
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Little Girl Gamer Melts StarCraft’s Heart
This isn’t the first time this pre-schooler’s been exposed to StarCraft. The 4-year-old commentated on a StarCraft 2 match with “shooties” a few month back. But, now, she’s playing In the latest video, “Stargirl” plays Protoss on easy A.I. She needs to make more guys and wants to click on big buildings. She likes to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 2, 2011 - Uncategorized
Skirts? Where This Game Is Going, It Doesn’t Need Skirts
For years, glimpses up skirts were used to titillate Japanese gamers. A new game’s done away with that entirely. It is moving beyond, to new realms of I-don’t-know-what. Many of the earliest computer games were adult titles, once again proving that pornography is often the killer app for early adaptors. In Japan particularly, upskirts, or…
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UncategorizedThe Game You’re Paying For Before It’s Even Out
Interstellar Marines is a video game unlike your standard sci-fi shooter. Instead of being backed by a publisher, its developers are instead taking money from fans now, who will get the game when it’s done. Zero Point Software, the indie developers behind the game, believe it’s the best way to go about getting a quality,…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 2, 2011 - Uncategorized
Um, Nice Pokéballs
There are people who have got Pokémon tattoos who may regret that decision in ten years time. And then there’s this guy, who will have many more regrets than that, and a whole lot sooner. He’s had his arm modified. Cut open at the elbow and small lumps inserted beneath the skin in what those…
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UncategorizedAre Angry Fans Really Ruining Video Games?
Josh Olin, Community Manager at Call of Duty: Black Ops developers Treyarch, thinks that “pundits” and “angry entitled fans” are ruining creativity in video games. They’re not. In an interview with NowGamer, Olin – who admittedly must wade knee-deep through stupid questions from assholes as part of his job – says the following: Personally, as…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 2, 2011
