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UncategorizedDial C For DC Universe Online Character Creation
Future Lex Luthor’s ridiculous plan to seed humanity with super powers to avert a coming apocalypse culminates in this character creation trailer for DC Universe Online. Superman and Wonder Woman would have never allowed future Lex Luthor to seed the Earth’s atmosphere with tiny robots that give normal human beings super powers. Luckily for the…
By Mike Fahey Published October 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Original Secret Pokémon Returns
Pokémon and Nintendo celebrate the 10th anniversary of Pokémon Gold and Silver by releasing the original secret Pokémon into the wild for a limited time. Here’s what you need to do to score Mew. Game Freak programmer Shigeki Morimoto secretly programmed Mew into the Red and Blue versions of Pokémon prior to the release of…
By Mike Fahey Published October 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
How Would you Like This Left 4 Dead 2 Themed Zune HD?
This slick lime green 32GB Zune HD was smuggled to us from the good folks at Valve way back in the spring. The back of the Zune even has the Left 4 Dead 2 logo laser etched into it. How would you like to win this bad boy? This time around, to save my and…
By Brian Crecente Published October 12, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe Argument For Marvel Vs. Capcom 3’s Super-Simple Controls
Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 has an optional control scheme that might horrify hardcore fighting fans. But please, the company recently pleaded, give “simple” mode a chance. For those of you (me!) who struggle to throw fireballs in fighting games and who fear they will never master the combos needed to perform the most dramatic finishing…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
When You’re 7 And Have Pocket Change…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Tonight I Review So Mini-Bash’s hobby is going to fancy car dealerships. Over the weekend, I took him to an Aston Martin dealership because he wanted to look at a Vantage and a Rapide. When he entered the dealership, he walked up to the receptionist and he asked for an…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Thousand Cars, Covered In Otaku Stickers
A recent car show in Tokyo’s Odaiba featured approximately 1,000 automobiles. These are hardly your typical cars. Picking up where yesterday’s Lancia Stratos left off, these are sticker-covered “itasha” (painmobile). The stickers are usually anime, manga or video game related. In the greater Tokyo region alone, a thousand people or so decided they wanted to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 12, 2010 -
ReviewsReview: Medal of Honor
Based on real battles fought in Afghanistan in 2002, Medal of Honor has you taking on the role of rangers and other Tier 1 operators as they fight their way through enemy territory on the hunt for Taliban encampments. This Medal of Honor is very different than anything seen in the more than ten-year-old series.…
By Brian Crecente Published October 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
Ascension Of A Japanese Gaming Meme
Action game El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron might have a wordy title, but Japan is totally enamored with the game’s hero Enoch and his flowing locks. You could say Japan has a crush. Time for a meme! El Shaddai is inspired the Book of Enoch and features a pre-fall Lucifer who carries a cell…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
Former US Marine: Medal Of Honor Turns War Into “Participatory Cinema”
A former US Marine has delivered a thoughtful piece on many of the creative decisions surrounding the latest game in the Medal of Honor series. “I honestly don’t like that Medal of Honor depicts the war in Afghanistan right now, because – even as fiction – it equates the war with the leisure of games”…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
Mario Kart? No, Mario Celebrates A Race
As seen during the Malaysian Grand Prix by はちま起稿
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
Sonic’s Design Has Been Changed For Nintendo Fans
This is sure to bring out either chuckles or frowns from anyone old enough to remember the console wars of the 1990s: the design of Sonic’s recent titles has been altered to appeal to Nintendo fans. Sonic Team’s Takashi Iizuka tells IGN: “From a general game design perspective, in recent years we’ve been able to…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
Turmoil In The Land Where Your Consoles Are Made
This year, a rash of suicides at the factories of manufacturing giant Foxconn has focused attention on working conditions. Improvements were apparently made, but a recent report suggests otherwise. Foxconn assembles the Xbox 360, the PS3, the Nintendo Wii and the iPhone, among many other electronic devices. A recent report features interviews with over 1,700…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
Make Your Own Wii Hard Drive With This
It’s always fun seeing random Chinese hardware manufacturers with a sense of humour. Case in point: this hard drive case, shaped to look just like a Nintendo Wii. One of the Wii’s biggest drawbacks has long been its lack of internal storage space, so this would be a cute purchase for anyone who felt like…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 12, 2010 -
UncategorizedPokemon Animated With 3D Computer Graphics Looks Like This
The weekly Pocket Monsters anime program is typically a 2D affair. But the opening credits for the latest series, Pokemon: Best Wishes!, shows off some fancy computer-generated 3D graphics. For comparison’s sake, this is what the opening for the previous Pokemon series looked like. Below is the current opening for the new Pokemon: Best Wishes!…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Zerg Are Starcraft II’s Least Popular Race
Blizzard has released statistics showing how popular each of Starcraft II’s three races are amongst the game’s multiplayer users. And it’s the poor Zerg coming in last. Of course, that headline and intro could easily have said “Protoss are most popular!”, but I’ve never liked the Zerg, so felt like drawing attention to that instead.…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
How I Met Your Kinect
The most recent episode of American comedy program “How I Met Your Mother” featured not one, but two cameos. One of them was talk show host Maury Povich. The other? Microsoft’s forthcoming Kinect motion control system. The show is actually a series of flashbacks narrated by Bob Saget of Full House fame about how he…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 12, 2010 -
UncategorizedThis Is Why People Play Minecraft
Minecraft is a game that’s difficult to really sell with words. It’s something you have to play to get a feel for. Or watch, in this case, as people do inspiring things. This video runs for 3:23. It’s sped-up for convenience’s sake. For information in how the clip was made, as well as what upgrades…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
Dead Rising Producer Hates His Job, He Wants To Retire
In a recent interview, Capcom’s Keiji Inafune (of Dead Rising and Onimusha fame) talks about the impossible, doing the impossible and how that makes game developers grow as people. He also says he hates his job. After Inafune talks about challenges and daunting tasks, the interviewer says that the Dead Rising producer seems like he…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 12, 2010