New Zealand television network TV3’s recent ad seems incredibly similar to a PS3 commercial from earlier this year. No wonder it won’t be running again. According to the New Zealand, TV3 did not comment on the similarities between the commercials, but did reveal that its ad had been pulled. “After a great response to our…
DJ Qbert will be a playable character in Activision’s upcoming DJ Hero 2 music game. And he’s bringing two mixes with him, the publisher says.
Japanese game company Konami already has an online store called Konami Style. The worst part about online stores? You cannot go visit them. Konami is rectifying that with its first bricks-and-mortar store, the company stated today. Konami Style Tokyo Midtown Shop will have limited edition Konami goods for customers to buy as well as a…
This has nothing to do with Starcraft the game and everything to do with Starcraft the universe I like Starcraft! Both the game and the universe. The game is a robust real-time strategy classic, the universe one of the more enjoyable in video games, managing a science fiction setting with a dash of humour. But…
Kids today, with their FAQs and their very easy modes, they’ve got it made. Let’s see what they think of games from a time when boys were men, ate nails for breakfast and had hair on their backs. They’re…quite polite, actually. Though I think the finer points of Starfox elude them… Click to view See…
There will be 18 classes available to players when role-playing game Final Fantasy XIV launches this fall on PC. The classes are divided into four groups: Fighter, Sorcerer, Craftsman and Gatherer. More classes will be added once the game launches. These 18 should keep you busy until then, no? [Thanks for the info FFXIV Core!]
There are regular editions of games, sure, but there are also two kinds of fancy editions: the kind people pay extra money for, and the kind publishers send to the press. (For an example of what I’m talking about with regards to “press editions”, see the video below). James Glover works for Fluid Design, a…
Sega is working on another new Yakuza game. Know what that means? Time to audition more hostesses. As it did with past games in the franchise, Sega holds open auditions for young women hoping to appear in the game. Sega then selects finalists who are voted on. It’s a popularity contest, and the winners appear…
Hey, New Zealand TV, you can’t go ripping off a PlayStation ad and not expect Sony’s VP of Antipodean Beard Standards Kevin Butler to bring the thunder. The PlayStation mascot – or at least the guys who write the material for the actor who plays a PlayStation mascot – has responded to New Zealand’s TV3…
An employee at a Foxconn affiliate has fallen to his death at a company dormitory building, reports the Xinhua news agency. Foxconn manufactures electronics like the Wii, the PS3, the Xbox 360 and the iPhone. Its Shenzhen plant has suffered ten suicides this year, causing the company to ditch its suicide compensation and look into…
I’ve been playing a little Alien Swarm this week. It’s a pretty good game as is, but that’s not why it was provided free of charge. No, it was provided free of charge so you kids could mess with it. And we’re already seeing the fruits of these labours. Shrimpsess over on the Steam forums…
For its latest ad campaign, Sony created tie-wearing trash-talking exec Kevin Butler. Kevin Butler isn’t real, but fictional. That’s why Sony created him, you know! Jerry Lambert is the VP of bit parts on television. Not a bad thing, not a bad thing at all. The actor behind Kevin Butler is Jerry Lambert, a veteran…
Mortal Kombat’s fatalities are so…gruesome! Blood, bones, not meant for children. This? Mortal Kombat fatalities, for children! It’s from the same guy – Eric Power – who did that great Zelda-on-paper short we showed you the other day, only this time, we’ve got twice the videos! Below is the “main” one, Power’s take on Mortal…
Upcoming third-person shooter Vanquish is not an open world game. At one time, however, it was. “Vanquish was originally an open battlefield type of game, where the goal was to move around crushing enemy positions,” writes Vanquish game designer Shinji Mikami in a recent blog entry. “However, once we got started with development, we quickly…
It’s Comic-Con, so allow me to indulge in some toy coverage. Well, not that this is a toy. It’s more like a full-size replica of the alien assault rifle from District 9. Sculpted by special effects house WETA, the team behind Lord of the Rings and, uh, District 9, the rifle made its public debut…
You may think that the concept of a coherent timeline for the Legend of Zelda games is either a sick joke or a…joke, but Nintendo maintains there is one. And that the upcoming Skyward Sword fits neatly into it. In an interview with Official Nintendo Magazine, series overseer Eiji Aonuma says, “Yes there is a…
It’s not only the recently revealed Chun-Li, Doctor Doom, Super-Skrull, and Devil May Cry’s Trish who are joining the Marvel vs. Capcom fighting game fray. According to Marvel.com, there are apparently two more characters. The website for the venerated comic book publisher shows character art and in-game shots of both Thor and Okami’s Amaterasu. Neither…
Even pricing details are delayed down here, with Kinect’s rrp for the Aussie market only released today. The damage? AUD$199 for Kinect, AUD$449 for the 4GB Arcade/Kinect bundle.
Daigo Umehara could very well be the greatest Street Fighter player on this spinning blue orb we call “Earth”. There must be more to the man than that. There is. In an interview with Japan’s Sankei newspaper, Daigo talks about signing autographs and his English-language nickname, “The Beast”. Besides the money he earns from tournaments,…
Blacklight: Tango Down, a recently-released online shooter, hasn’t been released in Australia. Why? According to Xbox Australia, it’s because it’s an online shooter. It’s a strange situation for a game to find itself in, but that’s definitely the reason Blacklight isn’t available for Australian consumers; because the country’s Classification Board will not rate a game’s…
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