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No More Joker For Luke Skywalker?
Okay, Mark Hamill isn’t just Luke Skywalker, star of Star Wars. He’s also Luke Skywalker, star of Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Video game Wing Commander, too! He’s also in World War II movie The Big Red One and 1970s comedy Corvette Summer. To be fair, the man has done a buncha…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
FIFA’s Facebook Game Launches, Threatens Productivity
Having only been revealed by EA a couple of weeks ago, Playfish’s FIFA Superstars game has gone live on Facebook. And I must say, it’s rather good. Not good in the way a real FIFA game is. But good in the way a Facebook game – built for football fans, not farming fans – should…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Is Story Important For Japanese Role Playing Games? Ask This Lady
Miwa Shoda joined Squaresoft, now Square Enix, in 1995 and went on to write Japanese Legend of Mana and Final Fantasy XII. Those are big games with big stories — something that they apparently do not need. “I’ve worked all over the place and gained a great deal of valuable experience from all sorts of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Marvel vs Capcom 3 Screenshots Will Kick Your Canon In The Face
You’ve seen fighting game Marvel vs Capcom 3 in grainy trailers and even grainier magazine scans, but here for the first time is Marvel vs Capcom 3 as nature intended: in big screenshots, on the internet. There’s nothing sneaky nor fancy about them. No hidden references to unrevealed characters or anything like that. No, just…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Yet Another Death
In what seems to be a daily occurrence, another worker at the Foxconn Shenzhen plant has jumped to his death on late Wednesday. Moreover, Reuters reports that three Taiwan TV stations brought news of another person that had jumped on Wednesday. The jumper, a young woman, survived with serious injuries. This information is still unconfirmed,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 27, 2010 -
UncategorizedStop-Motion NES Video Will Make You Nostalgic (And Hungry)
With 120 hours of spare time up his sleeve, YouTube user bornforthis43 set up a camera, got some crap from his garden and fridge, and made this delightful stop-motion homage to the games of the Nintendo Entertainment System. It may start a little shaky, but persevere: by the time you get to a Zelda populated…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
How Are Monster Hunter Frontier And Lost Planet 2 Similar?
Capcom’s action role-playing game Monster Hunter Frontier features plenty of opportunities for players to catch monsters and…take upskirt photos of female characters. Capcom’s latest title, Lost Planet 2, features… Plenty of opportunities to fight monsters and take upskirt photos of female characters. There seems to be a theme here. Monsters? カプコンのパンツへのこだわりは異常 『ロストプラネット2』パンツ画像集 [はちま起稿]
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 27, 2010 -
UncategorizedDon’t Cheat In Guild Wars, You Will Be Killed
Online role-playing game Guild Wars, like any other game played over the internet, has its fair share of cheaters. How Guild Wars deals with them, though, sets them apart. Earlier this week, 3700 accounts were banned by the developers for “botting and match manipulation”, “botting” being the use of automated programs to run through the…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Thanks Homebrew, For the Adult Nintendo DS Games
Your parents die. But your fate changes when a millionaire adopts you, and you move into her mansion with her and her daughters. Then…yeah That’s the basic plot for retro adult title Fatal Relations, which is finally getting a homebrew DS port from Digital Satin Productions. This, of course, is hardly the first homebrew adult…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
How Much Cocaine Is Two Hours of Gaming Worth?
Have you just been gaming for the past two hours? You just did the equivalent of a line of cocaine, says UK counselor and therapist Steve Pope in the Lancashire Evening Post. The title of the piece is “Gaming Addiction Grips Youngsters” and is about the horrors of being addicted to video games. “A lot…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 27, 2010 -
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Watch The Prince Of Persia Play With An 18″ Replica Of Himself
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time star Jake Gyllenhaal was on Jimmy Kimmel last night. They talked about stuff, but it’s the adoration of a giant plastic Jake that was the highlight. Watch below, as Kimmel whips out an 18″ version of Gyllenhaal’s LEGO minifig, then starts rubbing it the same way we would. If…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Red Dead Redemption “Short Film” Looks A Lot Like A “Trailer”
Here’s a trailer for this weekend’s Red Dead Redemption “short film”, which believe it or not has been done by John Hillcoat, director of The Road and, more importantly, The Proposition. I say “believe it or not” because it doesn’t look any different to the regular trailers for the game. Whether that’s a limitation of…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Report: Goodbye, “Project Natal”
Project Natal is, if you hadn’t worked it out by the whole “project” bit, simply a working title for Microsoft’s upcoming motion sensing peripheral. What’s its actual name? We don’t know, but we’re about to find out. A report on Edge says that Natal’s final, actual name will be revealed as part of Microsoft’s E3…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Thrustmaster’s Ultimate Cockpit
Not one to be outdone, well by no one at this point, peripheral kings Thrustmaster will start selling a $250 replica of a Ferrarri 430 Scuderia in June for use with PC and PS3 games. The only thing that the fold-up cockpit is missing is the… cockpit. But hey, nice wheel and pedals.
By Brian Crecente Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Eve Online Now Lets You Plunder Planets
Lucky expansion number 13 for EVE Online brings with it the ability to descend to planets, construct colonies and harvest what they find. EVE Online: Tyrannis also includes a new website and social networking platform for the popular, player-drive, space-based PC game.
By Brian Crecente Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Killzone 3 Eyes-On: Chance of Flurries & Brutal Melee
We just got our first look at Killzone 3, Guerrilla Games next dark, bloody and frosty looking first person shooter. For our hands-off, eyes-on impressions, read on. Many Helghast died to bring you this information. Guerrilla’s Hermen Hulst showed off video of a section of the fourth level of the game’s single player campaign. It…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
NCAA Hockey Might Join EA’s NHL Title?
The director of the NCAA’s hockey marketing operation told a Canadian radio station that his organization has been in talks with EA Sports about bringing collegiate teams to EA’s NHL title. Paul Kelly, the executive director of College Hockey, Inc., the marketing initiative begun by NCAA’s Division I ice hockey commissioners, told CFRN-AM 1260’s “The…
By Owen Good Published May 26, 2010 -
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Two Worlds II: Two Harder Debut Trailer
Okay, Two Worlds II isn’t subtitled ‘Two Harder,’ but wouldn’t it be glorious if it was? I’d get confused and buy four copies. Check out the debut trailer for SouthPeak’s sequel for the Xbox 360, PC, and PlayStation 3. I’m not quite sure what to think about Two Worlds II: Not Two Harder. I wasn’t…
By Mike Fahey Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
iPad Up, PCs Down
The New York Times called it: Microsoft is no longer the most valuable tech company in the world, Apple is. “The most important technology product no longer sits on your desk but rather fits in your hand.” It’s good to see that hyperbole will always have a cozy home at the Gray Lady.
By Brian Crecente Published May 26, 2010