To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Cold Turkey So, I live-watch Lost. I like Lost. But I live in Japan. And so that I can watch Lost with Mrs. Bashcraft, I watch the show on DVD with Japanese subtitles. I’m watching Season 5. So……………….if people start gabbing on Twitter about recent episodes, it is spoiler central!…
Zangeki no REGINLEIV, the upcoming Wii action game from Japanese studio Sandlot, will be out on February 11. The game has been development for years. In an recent round table discussion with Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, Sandlot’s Takehiro Honma said, “Because the project got the OK sometime between summer and fall 2006, development has been…
A new spate of screens for the upcoming Hokuto Musou, featuring Juza, Fudoh, and Shin. Have a look. In March 2010, Tecmo Koei is bringing post-apocalyptic martial arts manga Fist of the North Star (Hokuto no Ken) to the PS3 and the Xbox 360 in Japan. The game has been titled Hokuto Musou, and is…
Reader BilliousB, a resident of Montreal, heard about a local artist that specialised in airbrush work. So he grabbed his PS3, tucked his love of Dead Space under his arm, and paid the man a visit. This is the end result, an amazing, one-of-a-kind PS3 that features the USG Ishimura – “star” of EA’s sci-fi…
Continuing a long tradition of MMO games based on established IP, publisher Atari has revealed that Star Trek Online has got off to a great start in life. The new massively-multiplayer game, which was only released earlier this week, has already attracted over one million fans, who have created accounts at the official website, a…
Not anyone can embrace, hump, whatever this Kentoushi: Gladiator Begins dakimakura (“hug pillow”). But maybe, you can! Japanese developer Acquire is holding a two-part tournament for its PSP title Gladiator Begins — the first leg is at their office in Akihabara on February 11, and the second part is on February 21 at the Nakano…
It’s entirely fair to say that, while once well-matched adversaries, the last fifteen years haven’t quite worked out for Sonic the way they have for Mario. Meetings of the two may not be quite this awful in real life, but in my mind, this is exactly how such a reunion would go down. Click to…
While at work, reader Mike got an email on his telephone from Xbox confirming his purchase of a LIVE Gold subscription. But Mike is an Xbox LIVE Silver Member. And he was out forty bucks. “I called home, and jokingly told my wife that she had some explaining to do,” says Mike. “She didn’t know…
Collaborating like they do in times of great need, market research companies The NPD Group (North America), GfK Chart-Track (PAL) and Enterbrain (Japan) have combined to bring us the five best-selling games in the “world” for 2009. Course, they don’t really mean the entire planet. Only the figures from the world’s three largest markets –…
Whoops! Enterbrain, the publisher behind Japanese game mag Famitsu, has apparently put next week’s cover online. Then, it seems, yanked it from the internet. The cover reveals two new titles: Love Plus Plus and BlazBlue: Continuum Shift. Love Plus Plus, it seems, is an unannounced sequel to the wildly popular dating sim game Love Plus.…
The PC charts were last week dominated by the likes of Mass Effect 2, Battlefield Bad Company 2 and Star Trek Online. No surprises there. So we’ll instead focus our admiration on Tim Schafer’s Psychonauts instead. The platformer was on sale for $2 during this time, and made it to #8 on the Steam charts.…
Konami has a handful of big franchises, but its biggest are Metal Gear Solid and Pro Evolution Soccer. Last year, a Pro Evo game was released, but other than an iPhone game, no MGS. How did that affect the company? The Tokyo-based game company has announced its consolidated results for the nine months ending on…
SEGA has announced Sonic 4: Episode I. It is, as GameSpot reports, a 2D downloadable game with 3D visuals. The announcement is part of the Project Needlemouse build up SEGA has been pushing since last September 2009. “Needlemouse” refers to Sonic’s codename when the game that would become Sonic The Hedgehog was initially being pitched.…
Sony just released its quarterly financial results, and said results are mixed for the company’s games division, an increase in PlayStation 3 sales set against a slide in sales of the PlayStation Portable. Between October and December 2009 (Q32009), Sony sold 6.5 million PlayStation 3s worldwide. In the same quarter last year, Sony sold 4.5…
I’ve been playing Mass Effect on a 50″ screen, and even I noticed that in some places the game has some tiny, tiny text. So spare a thought for people playing it on a standard-definition TV set. In the latest example of a developer building games for only half the market, it’s been revealed that…
BioShock was designed by Ken Levine and developed by 2K Boston. BioShock 2 is not. Levine is not working on the game. But should you be worried? The second entry in the BioShock franchise is being developed by 2K Marin and 2K Australia. The BioShock 2 trailer was recently released, and while it doesn’t show…
And with a former tennis pro! Shuzo Matsuoka appears in this Japanese ad for title Hot Shots Tennis in which players really get into a round of PSP tennis.
Valve’s Team Fortress 2 got a little more interesting today, with the addition of a new game mode called “Highlander”. Yeah, you can see where this is going. With the classic 1986 film still on the developer’s minds following the recent Demoman update, Highlander mode sees two teams of nine square off, with only one…
For a game that’s been delayed more times than we dare to recount, it’s nice to see Ubisoft has a sense of humour about Splinter Cell: Conviction, announcing today that a new release date has been set in stone. Literally. There’s your new, final release date for the game, as sent to IGN’s offices: April…
I just finished Mass Effect 2. Quite the ending! Well, it was for me, anyway. Judging by the number of times my 360 spun the disc, and the number of choices involved, I’d say yours may have been quite different. So please, share. It’ll be fun to see the number of different outcomes people wound…
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