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UncategorizedThe Idol Game Metroid’s Co-Creator Made With Final Fantasy’s Creator
Hironobu Sakaguchi created Final Fantasy. Yoshio Sakamoto co-created Metroid. And in 1987, both worked together on a game with this lady, Miho Nakayma. Game company Square was interested in doing an adventure game. But not any old adventure game, but one that used the telephone. Square was gung-ho for Nintendo’s Famicom Disk System console, which…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Let’s Put Gran Turismo 5 Into Perspective
1987’s Test Drive had five cars. 2009’s Need for Speed: Shift had more. And at the other end of the spectrum, we have GT5 and its 200 “premium” cars and its 800 standard cars. As seen on Pixel Counterrr
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe Rock Band Of The Future
Most signs point towards the future being a place free of clumsy plastic instruments with our video games. On the off chance they are still around, though, we hope Rock Band plays a little like this concept clip by Freddiew. Only a little. Because while the mechanics look workable, if there was going to be…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Origin Of The Species
As seen on Ript
By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kill It With Fire? It Might Already Be Dead
This ToHeart2 figure looks like the work of the devil. Relax, because the company that released it apparently isn’t around anymore to frighten you. Japanese figure maker Taki Corporation has gone under it seems. While Taki had secured the rights to make figures for big properties like Dr. Slump and Dragonball, quality had been slipping…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Bible Is Now An MMO
I’m willing to give this game a chance, because when you put the whole religious side of things in a box, the Old Testament – with its plagues and pestilence and pillars of salt – is pretty badass. The Bible Online is a new massively-multiplayer online game from German outfit FiAA, and will – over…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
The PS4 Doesn’t Sound Like It’ll Be Download Only
The PlayStation 3 was released in 2006. Sony has famously said the console will have a ten year console life. By that math, we can expect the PlayStation 4 sometime after 2016. But can we expect a digital-download-only console? Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kaz Hirai discussed digital downloads and their future in Sony consoles. “We…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
BioShock Loses Court Case Over Its Internet Home
You’d think that the URL www.bioshock.com would take you to the official site for 2K’s BioShock series, but no, it does not. And after the publisher lost a recent court ruling, it probably never will. The domain is currently owned by Name Administration Inc., a company that specialises in…purchasing domain names then sitting on them.…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Hey, It’s Milla Jovovich Landing A Plane In Resident Evil
Milla Jovovich returns this fall as Alice in the latest installment in the Resident Evil film series, Resident Evil: Afterlife. She’ll be landing a plane, it seems. Good for her. Afterlife will be shown in 3D. This clip isn’t in 3D, it’s in 2D. So you’ll just have to imagine the 3D bits. Sorry! Here…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe Games That Made Me
In this line of work, I’m continually reminded of how big a part games like Castlevania, Mega Man and Contra played in raising a generation of gamers. Which is funny, because I never played any of them. Being raised in Australia, where the NES never really played as dominant a role as it did in…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Giant Gundam And No Official Parking
Over 500,000 people have visited the 1-to-1 scale Gundam near Bandai Namco’s Gundam figurine factory in Shizuoka, Japan. And there is no official on site parking. Street parking is out, too. What to do? Japanese website Byoukan Sunday has couple possible workarounds for motorists who want to visit the site — and not take public…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2010 -
UncategorizedFirst Mega Man Online Trailer Isn’t Screwing Around
And here we were thinking Mega Man Online, the Korean MMO being worked on by Capcom and Neowiz, would be a pedestrian affair. Seems the pair have something a little more epic in mind. At least, they do in this teaser trailer for the game, which owes as as much to something like Akira as…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Sega Offers Larger Robot Chest Code
This December, mecha game Cyber Troopers Virtual-On: Force is coming to the Xbox 360 in Japan. Sega is keeping the world abreast of its pre-order present. Those who reserve the game will get “Fetish Unlock Code” from Sega that enables players to select the chest size of Virtuaroid robots Fei Yen and her sister Angelan.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
What Do The Buttons On The PlayStation Controller Mean?
The buttons on PlayStation controllers have always been a bit of a mystery. Why those weird colours? Why those wacky shapes? PlayStation designer Teiyu Goto explains. Goto, who designed not only the PlayStation but the PS2 and PS3 as well, has told Japanese magazine Famitsu that it was all about keeping it simple. “That was…pretty…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
The 288,945 Most Popular Websites On The Internet
Earlier this year, Alexa sat down and compiled a list of the top 1,000,000 websites in the world. Listing those sites would be good reading, but looking at a picture of the most popular ones is much cooler. Nmap have run a script that gathered the 288,945 most popular websites from that list, stuck their…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
When Will Final Fantasy Versus XIII Be Out? One Day
Role-playing game Final Fantasy Versus XIII was first shown in 2006 at the E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles. It’s now 2010, and the game is not out. And don’t expect the game to be out in 2011. “We have no release date information to update,” Square Enix’s Yoshinori Kitase told website Gaming Union. “Unfortunately…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Playboy Gets Into The Online Gaming Business
Playboy has had enough of letting people simply license games based on the magazine and its bunnies, today revealing a deal with online developer Bigpoint to host games on the magazine’s website. The first of these games, due out later this year, is called Poisonville, which as you can see by the trailer is a…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Could You Play Modern Warfare 2 Without Killing Anyone?
And I don’t mean in singleplayer. I mean multiplayer. Because Glen McCracken is doing just that, trying to reach the maximum level 70 in multiplayer without killing a soul. How the hell is he going to do that? He uses a riot shield, and gets his XP from grabbing flags in the game’s Domination mode.…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010