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Mystery Mailings Point To Radioactive TV Channel, Call of Duty Clues?
A mysterious USB card loaded with strange sounds, a brown envelope sent with no return address, a simple text file: That’s right, it’s time for another marketing push in the guise of a alternative reality game. Yesterday we received a plain black USB drive tucked away in a envelope. On the drive was this sound…
By Brian Crecente Published April 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Net Neutrality Dealt A Severe Blow As Comcast Wins FCC Appeal
Comcast customers have reason to be nervous today, as a federal appeals court rules that the Federal Communications Commission doesn’t have the authority to enforce Net Neutrality on internet providers. The FCC wants everyone to have a similar internet experience, without having access to legal content blocked by internet access providers. This is the basis…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Is This The Best Nintendo 3DS Mockup We’ve Seen, Or The Real Thing?
If this wonderful little piece of machinery isn’t Nintendo’s 3DS, slated to be revealed at E3 later this year, then we damn sure wish it was. Check out the sliding, twisting marvel in all its glory. The pictures come from a Japanese website called, as Google’s translator indicates, Munch Blog, a site about anime, manga,…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Glimpse At Canned Mercenaries and Legends Games
There’s a really good chance that neither of these games will ever see the light of day. The never fully titled Mercenaries game was in development by Pandemic Studio when Electronic Arts shut the studio down. Legends, it appears, was canceled back in 2008. Artist Dorian J. Compo, who also worked on Lord of the…
By Brian Crecente Published April 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Final Fantasy XIV Doesn’t Have Dark Elves, It Has Duskwight Elezen
The North American Final Fantasy XIV website has updated with listings for the race-splitting clans, revealing that the English name for Dark Elves is Duskwight Elezen. We’ve seen the pictures from the Japanese website, but now we’ve got text from the North American one, and I’ll be damned if there won’t be a server filled…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Skate Scenic Port Carverton Next Week
The new city of Port Carverton opens its doors to careful skaters next week, when EA drops a single and multiplayer demo for Skate 3 onto Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network. Skate 3 hits North American retailers on May 11, but skateboarding fans can get an early taste on April 15, when EA open…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2010 -
UncategorizedLove of the Pixel Leads to Endearing Game With a Twist
Shaun Inman loves his pixels, the little bits of color that combine to make up video games. “Good pixel art strikes the perfect balance between appreciable craftsmanship and the gestalt,” Inman writes on his site, devoted to his game creations. “A single pixel out of place, one too few or too many, ruins the illusion.…
By Brian Crecente Published April 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Twenty-Eight-Year-Old Video Game High Score Crushed
It stood for 28 years and took 58 hours and one quarter to beat Last night at 10:18 p.m. Pacific, Seattle locksmith John McAllister toppled the 1982 world record for Asteroids, racking up an amazing 41,338,740 points on the 1979 Atari classic arcade machine. He tapped in the letters E L F next to his…
By Brian Crecente Published April 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Grade School Is So Long
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Bogu Oh yeah, I totally want to give kendo a whirl. An old lady who lives near us said there is a kendo club where she works out. So I might go check it out! For exercise, I’ve been either hiking in the mountains near my house or playing soccer…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Why Is Jake Gyllenhaal In Prince of Persia?
There must be a reason why the Oscar-nominated actor decided to be in the video game film. Turns out, there are several. Granted, they’re not the most spectacular reasons, but they are reasons. “There are a lot of things,” Gyllenhaal tells website Geek Sugar. “One was the character, ’cause for me, whenever I choose a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Blu-ray Discs Getting Bigger
Blu-ray discs are 25 to 50 GB for single-layer discs and 50 to 100 GB for dual-layer discs. They’re about to get bigger. As sister site Gizmodo points out, the Blu-ray Disc Association has kicked off 128GB discs for new specs, BDXL. These high capacity recordable and rewritable discs are currently for commercial usage. Meaning?…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Final Fantasy, Now Available In…Latin
You know, I was playing Final Fantasy the other day, and thought to myself, wouldn’t it be great if I could play this not in English, but in Latin? What. I’m a sucker for the classics. Hacker Abw, who you may remember from his work doing the exact same thing for Zelda, has also released…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Complete Pictorial History Of The Nintendo DS
With the recent reveal (of sorts) of the Nintendo 3DS, the writing is finally on the wall for the company’s venerable line of DS handhelds. With most eyes on the future, then, we thought now would be a good time to look to the past Saving the teary-eyed farewells for a later date – one…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Will The Gears of War Movie Actually Happen?
In 2008, the Hollywood film version of third-person shoot Gears of War had a director and a 2010 release. It’s 2010, and the movie hasn’t even started filming yet. And it might no longer have a director. Live Free or Die Hard director Len Wiseman was attached to the project, but the Los Angeles Times…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Playing Retro PC Games Just Got Easier
If you want to play old PC games on your new PC, the go-to option is a thing called DOSBox. It gets the job done, but it can be a little fiddly. D-Fend Reloaded, on the other hand, is a breeze. It’s the latest release of a popular front-end for DOSBox, taking the trusty old…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Short Guide To Japan Bashing
In the wake of the controversy surrounding CNN’s reporting of Japanese video games, several on the Japanese internet pointed out the same thing: This is just another example of “Japan Bashing”. The last year or so has been particularly rough for The Land of the Rising Sun. Whether it be the Western media’s handling of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Xbox 360 Consoles Now Have USB Memory Support
The calendar says April 6, and that means, as promised, your Xbox 360 consoles now have a little upgrade waiting for you: the ability to save data to removable USB memory drives. While Microsoft’s own first-party USB sticks, due next month, are pricey, it’s important to remember that you don’t need to use them. You…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
An RPG, Only This Time, Without The Fluff
Role-playing games, Japanese ones especially, can be such long-winded things. They’re far more digestible when you cut out all the fluff and break them down into five-second minigames. Just think! No more exploring, no more chit-chat about how evil the new evil oppressors are, no flashbacks to your childhood, where you were raised as an…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Resident Evil Movie Producer Wants To Unite With Games
There are Resident Evil games. There are Resident Evil movies. What if one day they merged? When asked if the upcoming film Resident Evil: Afterlife will be the final chapter in the film series, producer Jeremy Bolt replied that if there is enough demand, they will make another. “We’re not presumptuous enough to think it…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 6, 2010