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NHL 11 and the Canadian Hockey League Make It Official
A statement late this afternoon confirmed rumors of the past several weeks that the Canadian Hockey League, the top tier of Canada’s developmental junior hockey leagues, will have all of its teams – and players – represented in NHL 11 The CHL’s news release said that its three regional leagues – the Western Hockey League,…
By Owen Good Published May 21, 2010 -
UncategorizedI Refuse To Call It P3P, But The Trailer Is Nice
Atlus seems to think it needs more marketing for the PSP version of Persona 3 than simply telling people it’s Persona 3, in your hand. Here’s the full trailer for Persona 3 Portable. I hereby resolve never to refer to this game as P3P, even ironically. You can’t force your silly acronyms on me, marketing…
By Mike Fahey Published May 21, 2010 - Uncategorized
New Madden Screens Have Gettin’ Away From the Cops Speed
Gus Johnson, the new announcer for Madden NFL 11, singled out guys like the Titans’ Chris Johnson and Jacksonville’s Maurice Jones-Drew when asked to name the most electrifying performers he regularly sees. They highlight the game’s latest batch of screens. This is also a shameless plug for my terrible job as a color analyst, but…
By Owen Good Published May 21, 2010 -
UncategorizedMeet The Elements Stuck In My Brain
To: Crecente From: Fahey Between my relatively new daily science posts and my 20-plus years as a fan of the band They Might Be Giants, I cannot get the song “Meet the Elements” out of my head. It’s firmly embedded, and no amount of toothpick-ear poking will dislodge it. Yes, I’ve tried my car keys.…
By Mike Fahey Published May 21, 2010 - Uncategorized
New Patch Fixes MLB 10 The Show‘s Scoring Error
Runners no longer score on force-outs to end an inning thanks to a do-over patch Sony rolled to the PS3 earlier today for MLB 10 The Show The patch weighs in at almost the same size (361 MB) as the version on Tuesday that contained the glitch, so it looks like Sony just swapped out…
By Owen Good Published May 21, 2010 - Uncategorized
This Was A Bad Hint
In Japan, there have been a series of ads with the Xbox Mission Department. It is their job to secure new titles. Well, in the ads at least! At the end of a recent one, they gave a hint as to what title was next. The game is, as we now know, the new Virtual-On…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 21, 2010 - Reviews
Bit.Trip Runner Micro-Review: Running Down A Dream
Tired of rhythm games filled with glitz and glam, high-priced plastic instruments, and licensed music you may or may not enjoy? Commander Video comes to the rescue with Gaijin Games’ latest WiiWare title, Bit.Trip Runner. With its simple graphics and rhythm-based game play, Gaijin Games’ Bit.Trip series has charmed the pants off of countless Nintendo…
By Mike Fahey Published May 21, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Very Special Episode of Japanese Console Sales
After a bit of a shake up in Japan’s weekly hardware contest, things return to “normal,” with the PSP and PlayStation 3 sitting atop the charts, Nintendo proudly taking the middle and one platform veering closer to obscurity. This is the first week that the PSPgo managed to sell less than a thousand units in…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 21, 2010 - Uncategorized
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
It’s back to the grindstone this weekend for more Red Dead Redemption, as me and my bad-ass outlaw avatar John Marston take down some fluffy bunnies and pick pretty flowers. Red Dead Redemption’s side missions have me consumed with slaying the innocent wildlife of Cholla Springs and Gaptooth Ridge for fun and profit, a prospect…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 21, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Closer Look At The No More Heroes Lingerie Line
Following yesterday’s Daily Sport article on the first collection of video game inspired lingerie, Rising Star Games delivers a set of pictures giving us a much clearer, more colorful look at the No More Heroes 2 Collection. Now that we’re getting a chance to compare the Sylvia, Shinobu and Naomi outfits to renders of their…
By Mike Fahey Published May 21, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Very Special Cameo
Alpha Protocol is a spy game that SEGA is publishing. Know what I spy? A SEGA Saturn. The console, was released in the West in 1995 and discontinued there in 1998, struggled against the PlayStation and the Nintendo 64. But here it lives on! Alpha Protocol was originally slated for release last October. It will…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 21, 2010 -
UncategorizedStreet Fighter IV Played With A Guitar Sounds Horrible
Street Fighter IV? Great game. Guitar? Cool instrument. The sound of SFIV being played with a guitar? Pretty bad. This guy isn’t playing Street Fighter IV a guitar because of the way it sounds, he is doing it because he can. OpenChord.org creates an open source guitar control, but it’s meant for use with music…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 21, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe Second Age Of Airships Is Upon Us
The first age of airships died with the 36 people who perished in 1937’s Hindenburg disaster. More than 70 years later an Alabama-based company plans to launch the world’s largest inflatable craft. Is the age of airships returning? What does it take to be called the world’s largest inflatable craft? E-GreenTechnologies’ Bullet 580 is a…
By Mike Fahey Published May 21, 2010 - Uncategorized
5 Crazy Controllers That Never Should Have Seen the Light of Day
This article is reprinted with the permission of Bitmob.com Since the advent of the NES gamepad, console controller design has stayed pretty static. Sure, buttons have proliferated, analog sticks have been added, and even a bit of waggle incorporated here and there, but the tried-and-true gamepad remains the de-facto means for making Mario jump, Nathan…
By Lauren Orsini Published May 21, 2010 - Uncategorized
New DSi Game Makes The Real World An RPG
Spirit Hunters, a new game in development by Nnooo for the DSi and “future nintendo handhelds”, is an augmented reality title that promises to be, in the creator’s words, “a role playing game set in the real world”. Players use the DSi’s (and, presumably, 3DS’) camera to view the world on their handheld’s screen, upon…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 21, 2010 - Uncategorized
Why Can’t I Stop Buying DS Games?
Lately I’ve been buying Nintendo DS games at an alarming rate, with little or no regard to my own well-being. Could my new DS case be controlling my brain? First off, yes, it’s pink. I like the color pink, and my fiancée likes men who like the color pink, so we’ve sorted that out. Anyway!…
By Mike Fahey Published May 21, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Wintry Wampa Wonderland For Star Wars: The Old Republic
Just in time for the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, BioWare reveals the frozen wastes of Hoth as the next playable planet in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Hoth was the scene of the opening battle in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes back, in which the Imperial forces invade a hidden Rebel base,…
By Mike Fahey Published May 21, 2010