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UncategorizedCan You Play Two DS Games At Once?
Ten seconds into this trailer for upcoming DS title Fractured Soul, it doesn’t look like much. Then the action pans back, and you see both screens, and suddenly things get interesting. A hybrid platformer/shooter from Australian studio Endgame, Fractured Soul takes the light/dark mechanic found in so many games and makes it a little more…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
Cyber Bullying Blamed For Akihabara Stabbing Rampage
In June 2008, Tomohiro Kato drove a rented truck into Tokyo’s crowded geek district Akihabara, killing seven and injuring ten more innocent pedestrians. The Japanese media tried to make a connection between either anime or role-playing games. Even writing a notebook full of English was viewed with suspicion. At the time, Kato told police, “I…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
Dress Like A Murloc In This WoW-Inspired Hoodie
The guys at Dinohoodies build custom hoodies. Dinosaur hoodies. To your specifications. And some people’s specifications are “screw dinosaurs, make mine a Murloc”. Based in London, Dinohoodies’ Charlotte and Paul have made at least three hoodies based on World of Warcraft’s most famous lizards, and they’re really something else. Not content with simply printing Murloc…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
Street Fighter Gets Its Face Punched Off By Tekken
Street Fighter and Tekken, together across two games. Sounds like a dream (or a nightmare!), but it’s real. So real, in fact, we’ve got ten more screens from the game to share. Capcom’s version of the game looks as you’d expect; like a Tekken-themed expansion pack for Street Fighter IV. If that’s something you feel…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
250 Foxconn Employees Poisoned By Pesticide
This time it isn’t an employee falling off a roof or out of a window. This time, it’s pesticide. Foxconn, the world’s largest manufacturer of electronics, is responsible for assembling the Xbox 360, the PS3, the Wii, the iPhone and more. After 250 workers at the company’s Chennai, India plant were hospitalized, Foxconn had no…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
Left 4 Dead Gets A Large, Heavy Statue
To go with Team Fortress 2’s Heavy, due out later this year, collectible company Gamingheads will be relasing another Valve-inspired statue. Only this one’s a zombie. It’s Left 4 Dead 2’s formidable Tank, and while you can’t make much out in this frustratingly blurry teaser shot, what you can see looks suitably detailed (and decomposed).…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
While You Are Looking At The Giant Gundam…
Bandai Namco has brought its 1/1 scale Gundam statue back to life. It previously overlooked Tokyo’s Odaiba, but has now been resurrected near the Gundam figure factory in Shizuoka, Japan. All this plastic mecha talk makes my tummy rumble! Not only is there a 1/1 scale Gundam in Shizuoka, there is also a take-away stall…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 28, 2010 -
UncategorizedIs This Zombie TV Show Tipping Its Hat To Dead Rising?
At Comic-Con, a trailer was shown for the upcoming TV adaptation of the brilliant comic series The Walking Dead. Nearly every scene shown is lifted directly from the comics. Except for one, though it still looks familiar. You’ll see it come at around 4:10 into the clip. It’s from early in the comic series, when…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 28, 2010 -
UncategorizedPS3 Vs. Green Onions
Why compare your console to the competition when you can compare it to vegetables? The latest Japanese PS3 commercial does just that, putting the PS3 in a “talk” with green onions. Tongue planted firmly in cheek, the oddly humorous ad shows all the things the PS3 can do as well as the variety of dishes…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 28, 2010 -
UncategorizedMetroid: Other M Trailer Goes Shooting, Gets Chatty
This is a “story” trailer for Metroid: Other M, the upcoming franchise reinterpretation from Team Ninja. You won’t get much story out of it if you don’t speak Japanese, but it’s still awfully pretty to look at. Highlights include a David Beckham cameo at 55 seconds, as well as an absolute wealth of gameplay footage,…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Bugs & Issues Of Starcraft 2
For such a big game on such an unpredictable platform as the home computer, Starcraft 2’s launch seems to have gone rather smoothly! That doesn’t mean it’s been perfect, though. A number of niggling bugs and issues have popped up over the course of the past 24 hours, some of them with fixes, some of…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 28, 2010 - Uncategorized
PlayStation Store Update: Kane & Lynch For Everyone
Remember last week’s PlayStation Store update, when the Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days demo was for PlayStation Plus subscribers only? Yeah, screw that noise. Now it’s for everyone. Fight the power! The online might be free, but PlayStation demos are getting awfully Xbox Live Gold/Silver lately, aren’t they? Why should non-paying customers have to…
By Mike Fahey Published July 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
THQ Plans Involve A Fourth Rasslin’ Game
THQ will add a fourth wrestling title to its WWE lineup next year, the publisher’s core games chief told CVG. It’s not a western release of the Smackdown! vs. Raw Online currently available only in Asia, but something completely new. To avoid cannibalizing sales of its flagship game, Bilson said the new title would be…
By Owen Good Published July 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Ty The Tasmanian Tiger Is On Facebook In His Underwear
After a five-year absence from the gaming scene, Krome Studios wants to bring Ty the Tasmanian Tiger back into the limelight, and they’re not afraid to show you his underwear to do it. Krome has launched Bush Rescue HQ on Facebook, calling it “the social hub of the Ty universe,” which is funny, because I…
By Mike Fahey Published July 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
My Money’s On The Guy In Purple Pants
Donkey Kong vs. the Hulk, by artist David Stonecipher – who’s done video game takes on gender switches and “Lost” before. See Mario and Superman, Solid Snake and Batman, and Spider-Man and Just Cause’s Rico Rodriguez at this link.
By Owen Good Published July 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
I Would Hurt A Flea
Yesterday I scheduled a vet visit to clear up a nasty flea infestation on my cat, Bear, and buy some weapons-grade chemicals to annihilate their existence. After $250, you better believe I have a genocidal hatred of fleas. Fleas are like the crabs except they’re harder to get rid of, and and you didn’t even…
By Owen Good Published July 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Madden Diehards Pan Its New ‘Pad’
A major change to a technical – but essential – component of calling plays had hardcore Madden gamers howling with complaints within hours of the demo version’s release on Tuesday. But the new “Strategy Pad” controls are here to stay, like it or not. At issue is the new method of pre-snap adjustments. EA Sports…
By Owen Good Published July 27, 2010 -
UncategorizedStarCraft Recreated With Lego Bricks
No need to prototype a Lego StarCraft video game. We now know what it would look like. Great work, Kooberz Studios. We like your Lego Terran Barracks how-to video as well. [Lego Starcraft: Brick Rush, thanks smi1ey!]
By Stephen Totilo Published July 27, 2010