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UncategorizedThis Is The Strategy Game Of My Dreams
Microsoft’s Surface device has already shown its worth for board games, but let’s not forget, it has a lot of potential for strategy games as well. Especially after you watch this video. This program, made by the University of Massachusetts’ Mark Micire, is actually intended for the real-world deployment and control of robots. But look…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
NSFW: Was Britney Spears Bamboozled Into Virtual Child Porn Protest Art?
Britney Spears is on the cover of British publication Pop Magazine. The images, the work of one of Japan’s most famous artists, feature Britney in a bathing suit and a wedding dress. If only it were that simple. It’s not. The photos were art directed by Takashi Murakami, who is often referred to as “The…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Blockbuster Filing For Bankruptcy
Beleaguered rental chain Blockbuster’s financial woes have gone from bad to really bad, with the LA Times reporting that the company will next month file for bankruptcy. According to “people who have been briefed on the matter”, Blockbuster has already begun meeting with Hollywood’s big movie studios to discuss the move, which its hoped will…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Let’s Look At Gran Turismo 5 Parts
GT5 designer Kazunori Yamauchi wasn’t kidding when he said there might be “too much” detail in the game. Just look at that engine! Detail out the whazoo. Here are some of the different parts you can purchase for your cars in GT5. 『グランツーリスモ5』が予想を遥かに上回るクオリティ！！！ [オレ的ゲーム速報＠刃]
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Call Of Duty Developers Have Had Enough Of The Second World War
Call of Duty developers Treyarch, a studio that made its name developing World War Two games, is done with World War Two. Phew. Having developed first Call of Duty 3 and then Call of Duty: World at War, the team behind the upcoming Black Ops has all but ruled out a return to the 20th…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Truly Logical Nintendo DS Charger
Pikachu is an “electric-type” Pocket Monster with a tail shaped like a lighting bolt. The perfect mascot for an electric charger! This DSi/DS XL “Pikachu Charge Stand” is priced at ¥3,980 (US$47) and will be out in Japan on September 18. Pika pika.
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
What Was Valve Working On Before Left 4 Dead?
Before Valve roped the gang at Turtle Rock to come on over and make Left 4 Dead, the Half-Life developer was working on something else. Something with…fairies. Yup. Not aliens, or cops, or super-soldiers, or valiant knights, or space marines. A game about fairies. Valve’s Erik Johnson tells PC Gamer that the game, a “weird…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Highly Questionable Source For the Nintendo 3DS’s Release Date
We do not know when Nintendo is releasing its 3D-glasses-free portable, the Nintendo 3DS. Nintendo has said sometime this financial year. A super shady seller of R4 cartridges, however, is more detailed. Retailer Magical Shanghai — a retailer that continues to ignore the court injunction against the R4 in Japan — is sporting a cardboard…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Reminder: Beta Test Kinect, You Will Be Silenced [Update]
If you’re one of the lucky ones receiving an invitation to Kinect’s beta testing program tonight, a word of caution before you accept: you’ll be losing some of your means of communicating over Xbox Live. Because of the 360’s improved voice chat tech – or, if you’re the tin-hat-wearing type, because Microsoft is crazy-paranoid about…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
New Yakuza Game Being Made Into TV Show
This fall, a spin-off installment of the popular “Yakuza” crime franchise will hit the PSP. That’s not all, though. The game is also getting turned into a Japanese television show. Dubbed “Ryu Ga Gotoku Shinshou Kurohyou” or “Yakuza: New Chapter Black Panther”, the game follows the adventures of young ruffian Tatsuya and his crazy hair.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Xbox 360 Voice Chat Being Upgraded
Xbox Live Studios boss Jerry Johnson has revealed that the Xbox 360’s voice chat feature is in for an upgrade, aimed at improving the quality of player-to-player communication over Xbox Live. “The codec we used when we first launched was a low bit rate codec and we stuck with that”, he said at the Edinburgh…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Rock Band’s PR Agency Slapped By Federal Trade Commission [Update]
The agency that handles PR for Harmonix, 505 Games and other developers will settle charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission that its employees posed as ordinary consumers to post positive game reviews on the iTunes App store. Reverb Communications, whose clients also include MTV Games, CDV Software Entertainment and Emergent Game Technologies, must remove…
By Owen Good Published August 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Modern Warfare 3: The Book Of Corinthians
Reader Ryan spotted this in a gas station in Texas.
By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Some New Club Nintendo Prizes For Japan
Live in Japan? Member of Club Nintendo? Then this post is for you. Japan’s Club Nintendo has shown off some new prizes that gamers can snag by redeeming Club Nintendo points that come with Nintendo games and hardware. There are New Super Mario Bros. Wii Nstraps and an Animal Crossing bag. The bag has a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Glamourous Life
The Internet has eliminated guys’ rite-of-passage shame of avoiding eye contact while a clerk takes his time ringing up a glossy magazine with impossibly shaped hot women on the cover. Unless it’s Glamour, in which I appear this month. From the 12 Naughty Sex Questions You’ve Been Dying To Ask to 29 Best Beauty Buys…
By Owen Good Published August 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Adorable Monster Hunter Cats You Can Pose
In the Monster Hunter universe, felynes are the cat-like characters. They’re cute, but these posable figurine versions of them are cuter Measuring in about 100mm, they are priced at ¥2,100 (US$25) each. They’re out this month in Japan. アイルーたちがアクションフィギュアに！メガハウス「モンスターハンター 動く！アイルー(アイルー/メラルー)」サンプルレビュー [Moeyo]
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Shank’s Cinematics Problems Blamed On Old 360s [Update]
Shank, the side-scrolling beat-and-slash-em-up out this week, runs like a dream on the PS3 but is having some stuttering issues with its cinematics on the Xbox 360. The game’s developer says older models of that console are the problem. “Older Xbox 360’s have slower disc access rates, so the opening cinematic chugs, and loading between…
By Owen Good Published August 26, 2010 -
UncategorizedKinect Hardware Prepped And Shipping To Beta Testers
Looks like our plentiful tipsters were right earlier this month when they told us that Microsoft was offering a “limited audience” of Xbox 360 owners an opportunity to beta test Kinect. New tipsters now tell us that those who were accepted into the beta program were contacted today and will soon be basking in motion…
By Brian Crecente Published August 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Super Columbine Massacre Pops Up in School Shooting Scare?
It looks like tempest in a teapot role-playing game Super Columbine Massacre RPG has reared its ugly head again this week, with Florida deputies looking into why the game may have popped up on the computer of a teen who vowed to blow up his high school and “break the record of Columbine and Virginia…
By Brian Crecente Published August 26, 2010
