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No More Heroes Developer Gets More Heroes
Earlier this year, Tokyo-based Grasshopper Manufacture snagged Akira Yamaoka of Silent Hill fame from Konami. This month, it also signed two more “name” developers. Yasuhiro Wada, creator of farming sim Harvest Moon, has joined Grasshopper as the company’s new Chief Operating Officer. Yoshiro Kimura, who designed the role-playing game Little King’s Story, will be Grasshopper’s…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 14, 2010 -
UncategorizedPlay As A Panda, Kill All The Humans
As a kid, I loved pandas. My teddy bear was a panda. I thought they were adorable. It’s not until I got older that I found out they can be mean Panda Rampage plays to that fact, putting you in control of China’s fearsome killing machine as it goes on a rampage through London’s Hyde…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
Hollywood And Video Games Should Break Up Pronto
In July 1937, author F. Scott Fitzgerald arrived in Hollywood, California. Fitzgerald was at the tail-end of his writing career and hoped to pick up some extra scratch penning screenplays. He didn’t exactly set the town on fire. He wrote a few original scripts and did a re-write on Gone With The Wind, but only…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
The 24-Hour Gran Turismo Race
Toyota’s stand at this year’s Australian International Motor Show in Sydney will be playing host to a 24-hour race of Gran Turismo 5, beginning at 3pm next Tuesday, October 19, and running until 3pm the following day. Sadly, while the race will be taking place on GT5’s rendition of Germany’s famous Nürburgring Nordschleife, that’s about…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
Pokemon Black And White Rampage Continues In Japan
On September 18, Pokemon: Black and White went on sale in Japan. Even in October, the game continues to barrel through the sales charts. Hot cakes, folks, hot cakes! In the past four weeks, the game has sold over 4 million copies in The Land of the Rising Sun. This is the fastest-selling Pocket Monster…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
Awesome Things I Learned How To Do From Playing Video Games
Most video games, even the craziest ones, are about very real things. Driving. Shooting. Flying. And the more you play these games, you more you learn about those things. I’ve been playing games for 26 years now, and in that time, have flown countless aircraft, countless spacecraft, fired off millions upon millions of rounds of…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 14, 2010 -
UncategorizedNSFW: This Humping Peripheral Is So Laggy
Motion-sensing peripherals are all the rage. This year, both Microsoft and Sony are releasing new motion-sensing devices that put players in the game. But what about when the game is an erotic game? Japanese adult game maker Illusion Soft is working on tech that puts players in the game by having them stick their wang…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
Duke Nukem Remake Receives Official Blessing From Duke’s Developers
Duke Nukem: Next-Gen, that ambitious attempt to remake the original Duke Nukem 3D using the Unreal Engine, has been granted a “personal non-commercial license” by Gearbox Studios. Meaning it may actually be released. The license means it’s completely cool for the project to not only remake the original game, but to use the Duke Nukem…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
Gran Turismo Creator Explains Delay
Driving simulator Gran Turismo 5 was penciled in for a November 2 release. Good thing that was pencil. The game has been delayed, and its creator has taken to Twitter to explain why. “Apologies for the delay,” Yamauchi tweeted. “It’s because time and labor were spent ironing the kinks out of [the game’s] complex system.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Prince Of Persia Movie Could Have Been Like This
The Prince of Persia movie, which was great by virtue of not sucking, could have been a little better had the production team stuck to the original script handed in by the game’s original creator, Jordan Mechner. Mechner has posted what he calls his “final draft” of the screenplay, which he pitched to Disney and…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
Drug Dealer Gets Three Years In Wii Bowling Case
A Florida man whose home was notoriously raided by undercover detectives who stopped to play Wii bowling has agreed to a plea bargain that will send him to prison for three years. Michael Difalco, of Lakeland, Fla. was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in the state pen and surrendered a ton of property under…
By Owen Good Published October 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
Big Fixes Coming For Civilization V
I thoroughly enjoyed my time with Civilization V, but like any game, it wasn’t perfect. It was a little buggy, and there were some AI missteps. Hopefully, those two issues will be fixed in the game’s first major patch. A “laundry list” of tweaks, additions, fixes and upgrades has been posted online by developers Firaxis,…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
Steam To Introduce Digital Trade-Ins? [Update]
Right now, if you buy a game from Steam, finish it and don’t want it, well, you can…delete it. You can’t go trade it in. But there are whispers that the digital purchase giant is considering implementing such a scheme. Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter, taking a break from wildly speculating about the future of…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Children’s Treasury of Chiléan Mine-Rescue Memes
The last of the 33 Chiléan miners trapped underground for more than two months has emerged safe and sound. The Internet celebrated as it typically does, with video-game themed ‘Shops. [Thanks Alejandro C.]
By Owen Good Published October 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
This Week’s Madden Moments Also Are Free [Updated]
Last week’s sponsorship with Verizon Wireless carries over to this week, meaning the three latest “Madden Moments Live” for Week Four of the NFL are free. Ordinarily they’re redeemed with Madden Coins, earned in online play or purchasable outright. All three this week apply the rewrite-history mode to nailbiters from the NFL’s Week Five. They’re…
By Owen Good Published October 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Here’s Your Call Of Duty Jeep
At last, the first picture of the Call of Duty: Black Ops-themed Jeep Rubicon. Black Ops decals replace the Wrangler and Rubicon decals and the “Trail Rated” badge. You can get it in any color, as long as it’s black.
By Owen Good Published October 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Ousted Tampa Bay Rays Can Get Back To We Farm Now
Yesterday, the Tampa Bay Rays succumbed to the Texas Rangers in the playoffs. We’re not blaming iPad Farmville clone “We Farm,” but David Price, who made a costly fielding misjudgment in that game, is a big fan of the game. So are fellow starting pitchers James Shields and Matt Garza, who with Price were a…
By Owen Good Published October 13, 2010 -
UncategorizedMr. Campbell, Mr. Inafune; Inafune-San, Campbell-San
At last, a meeting of masterminds at Comic-Con New York. That’s Keiji Inafune, creator of Capcom’s Dead Rising series, and none other than Bruce Campbell, the iconic actor of The Evil Dead and other pillars of the zombie-film genre.
By Owen Good Published October 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Video Game Tech Solves The Mystery Of The Sunken Chest
Pectus excavatum, better known as sunken chest, was once believed to a purely cosmetic abnormality. Why would patients suffering from a cosmetic problem complain of shortness of breath? A little applied video game technology solves the mystery. Sunken chest is the most common congenital deformity. occurring in one out of every 1,000 children. It is…
By Mike Fahey Published October 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Redbox Takes Video Game Rentals Nationwide
Redbox, the kiosk rental service offering DVDs at grocery stores, drugstores, convenience stores and store stores, will expand its pilot offering of video game rentals to locations nationwide. An email sent this week to customers says games are coming in “late October.” The rentals will be $2 a day; DVDs are a dollar-a-day. Redbox’s site…
By Owen Good Published October 13, 2010