The end time, a doomsday described in many different religions, isn’t a subject typically explored by massively multiplayer online games, which is a bit surprising. Depending on which religion you look to for inspiration, a game based on the end of the world could include zombies, demons, supernatural phenomenon and could even take place in…
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To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: They’re Not Kidding When They Say XL Fatty tuna? It’s expensive! The other day when we were at a family friend’s house, this recipe for phony fatty tuna was discussed: You take chilled avocado and slice it into bite-sized pieces. Then, put soy sauce in a separate dish. (Be sure…
Do you know? Do you? According to Famitsu publisher Enterbrain, there have been over 30 million Nintendo DS consoles sold in Japan between December 2, 2004 and March 21, 2010. The top three selling Nintendo DS titles are New Super Mario Bros. (5,767,262 copies), Pokémon Diamond Pearl (5,766,571 copies) and Animal Crossing: Wild World (5,133,862…
Sega’s Yakuza gangster game series is not in 8-bit. But if it was, what would it look like? Site 8Bit Maniacs is offering cellphone wallpaper as well as other Yakuza cell phone content. 8-bit yakuza crooks are kinda cute!
Overnight, Nintendo made the surprising decision to reveal a new piece of hardware months outside of E3. Well, “reveal” might be too strong a word. “Barely mention” might be more appropriate, leaving us to fill in the gaps ourselves. With curiosity being a driving human instinct, and Nintendo doing little to satisfy our need for…
Prepare for an eery sense of deja vu, Heavy Rain fans, as you watch actor Sam Douglas – the face and voice of Heavy Rain’s Scott Shelby – play exactly the same role in a real movie. Trenchcoat and all. The scene is from Derailed, a 2005 film starring Clive Owen (Children of Men) and…
Beverage Mountain Dew has been doing the game collaboration for years — like Halo 3 or World of Warcraft. Who’s next? Upcoming PSP game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker appears to be the latest game doin’ the dew tie-up thing. Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima posted the following images on his Twitter account. Peace Walker…
BioShock and Batman. Apart from the “B” thing, you wouldn’t think the two had a thing in common. But then, you’d only say that if you hadn’t seen a 1994 episode of the Batman animated series, called “Deep Freeze”. In this episode, an intelligent, if slightly deranged man builds a city in the middle of…
More often than not, when politicians utter “video game” in a sentence, it is usually in a pejorative fashion. Here is one occasion when it wasn’t. The United States does not have high speed rail like, say, Japan does. So when U.S. law makers were discussing how advanced Japanese rail is, they did not hesitate…
Last year, a patent was uncovered for a Wii football. It had been designed by Nintendo, and yet, it was stupid. Well, looks like somebody else has beat the Big N to the market. CTA Digital, manufacturers of cheap gaming peripherals and accessories, has released the “Soft-football for Wii”, a product so stupid it couldn’t…
Whether it be the DS Lite or the DSi, Nintendo has released a spate of Nintendo DS hardware spin-offs in the last few years. The Nintendo 3DS is not a spin-off. It’s worth pointing out, you know. Nintendo released its Game And Watch series of handhelds in the early 1980s. Following that, the company released…
So, there’s new Nintendo hardware on the way. It’s a 3D handheld system. How, though, will that 3D work? Maybe a recent obscure DSi release offers some clues. Since we know absolutely nothing about the new handheld other than the fact it will employ 3D and won’t need glasses, all we’ve left on how it…
At E3, Nintendo will be introducing new hardware, the Nintendo 3DS. In an official release, Nintendo describes the portable as allowing games to be “enjoyed with 3D effects without the need for any special glasses”. It is not yet known how the 3D effects will work, but it is possible that it could work like…
Bleach follows Ichigo Kurosaki, a dude with a sword fighting evil spirits. He has powers of the Soul Reaper (think Grim Reaper). Bleach debuted as a manga in 2001 and has since been adapted into an anime. Hollywood has optioned Bleach for a feature film. Warner Bros. is developing the project, which will be produced…
While Portal’s clean white rooms were the visual star of the first game, Chell, the player’s character in the game, was also memorable. For Portal 2, however, that trademark orange jumpsuit has gone straight out the window. A feature over on Game Informer has revealed a number of pieces of concept art for the game…
Not the device itself. The Natal peripheral is a small, slender add-on. But Microsoft has apparently told a group of journalists, including Techflash.com, that some space is required to use the motion controls. To quote Techflash: To be precise, you’ll want to clear an area extending at least 4 meters (a little more than 13…
Steampunk may be growing a little long in the tooth as far as internet crazes go, but that doesn’t mean we turn our backs on it completely. Fancy steampunk Game Boys, for example, are worth a second look. Designed by Game Boy modder Thretris, it’s an original 1989 model, and comes with not just a…
Nintendo DSi XL Delivery Comes With a Five-Foot Surprise Comment by: Nobuyuki Nominated by: Slatz_Grobnik Look at that sandwich. All that lettuce and tomato, not a single jalapeno or slice of salami. I’ve been eating sandwiches for 20 years and now Nintendo is pumping out this crap to appeal to people who used to ignore…
A new service launches tomorrow, called GameCrush, where men can pay money to play over Xbox Live with an “attractive girl” (Warning: NSFW) Yes, this is real Interested, lonely men (or cashed up pranksters) can sign up to the site, and once there, choose from two options: play a simple Flash game (checkers, etc) against…
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