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Confirmed: The Best Final Fantasy Is Coming To The PlayStation Network
After a couple of weeks’ worth of teasing, Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada confirmed during a brief Twitter video that the best Final Fantasy game ever created will soon be released on the PlayStation Network. Just in case any of you forgot which Final Fantasy was the best, it was of course, Final Fantasy IX…
By Mike Fahey Published April 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Iron Man Video Game Studio Sent To The Scrapheap By Sega
The video game version of Iron Man 2 ships alongside the movie next month. Sega Studios San Francisco, the team that developed that video game, is no more as of today. Sega is officially shutting down the developer of its two Iron Man games, the studio formerly known as Secret Level. The developer was best…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Time Readers: Penny Arcade Creators More Influential Than Obama, But Not Lady Gaga
In the race to determine Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, readers rank Penny Arcade’s Gabe and Tycho just above President Barack Obama, but they’ve got a ways to go before catching up to Lady Gaga. Every year, Time polls its readers on the artists, leaders, and innovators they believe are the…
By Mike Fahey Published April 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
I’ll be heading to Zack Island for a weekend getaway with the girls of Dead or Alive, right after I relocate my PSP battery charger. What are you playing this weekend? Playing any of this week’s newly released games? Or, like me, will you be dividing your time between new releases and games you haven’t…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Split/Second Tears The Hell Out Of Downtown
Can you imagine how much creating a television show set that looked like this would cost if Split/Second was a real reality television show? More than I have in my pocket right now, I’d daresay. And that’s being conservative. Say what you will about Disney’s Split/Second – it does one of the core things I…
By Mike Fahey Published April 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
PAX East Is Over, Time To Register For PAX West 2010
It seems like only five days ago that the inaugural PAX East came to a close, and now pre-registration for PAX…West? Just PAX? What the hell do we call it now? Anyway, you can buy tickets now. It looks like the official PAX website is referring to the Seattle branch of Penny Arcade’s annual convention…
By Mike Fahey Published April 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
iPad Games: The Ultimate Gamer’s Guide to Apple’s iPad [UPDATED]
Slim, sexy and packed with a library of games, the iPad is shaping up to be a powerful contender in the eyes and for the fingers of gamers. (We’ll be updating this daily, so bookmark it now) While I don’t quite buy Apple’s claims that the iPad is magical, everything we’ve learned about the device…
By Brian Crecente Published April 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Free Realms Reaches 10 Million Users, Gives Out Free Cash
Free Realms continues to be an unrelenting engine of family-friendly fun and frivolity, reaching the 10 million player mark just short of its first birthday, with Sony Online Entertainment doubling Station Cash purchases this weekend in celebration. We’ve established by now that people love mini-games and free things, and that’s pretty much the formula to…
By Mike Fahey Published April 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
iPad Gets Its First Real 3D Game (Glasses Not Included)
Flight Control HD will have an interesting twist when it hits the iPad tomorrow morning: A fully playable 3D version of the game. The 3D view uses the old red/cyan glasses to produce Anaglyph video for the game which will make it appear that the aircraft are floating about the iPad during the game, according…
By Brian Crecente Published April 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Blur Beta Set to Open To All (Xbox 360) Users, And Why It Won’t Come to the PS3
Because of the overwhelming demand for access to upcoming racer Blur’s multiplayer beta, the folks at Bizarre Creations have decided to open the beta to all Xbox 360 users next week. Speaking with Kotaku during our weekly Kotaku Talk Radio podcast, Bizarre Creations’ lead designer Gareth Wilson said the developer ran out of beta keys…
By Brian Crecente Published April 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Flying Hamster Shooting Beer – Is This The Best Game Ever Created?
The Game Atelier’s upcoming PSP shooter The Flying Hamster features a hamster shooting sunflower seeds, fire, eggs, bananas, bees, and beer at enemies like pistol-packing penguins and milk-shooting cows. Fall in love with the first gameplay videos here. To be honest here, I’m a fan of anything that contains hamsters. I love those little bastards,…
By Mike Fahey Published April 2, 2010 -
UncategorizedTop 5 Just Cause 2 Stunt Videos Are Here. Now, Vote
Thanks to all who submitted gameplay videos for the Just Cause 2 Stunt Contest. Your Top 5 await after the jump…vote for your favorite! Winner gets a PS3 and a copy of JC2; runners up will grab a copy as well. Entry 1: Entry 2: Entry 3: Entry 4: Entry 5: Vote below! You have…
By Gawkercreative Published April 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Blood Bowl Goes Legendary With Twelve New Teams
In case your favorite fantasy football team didn’t make it into the initial PC release of Cyanide Studio’s adaptation of the Games Workshop board game, chances are they’ll be showing up in Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition later this year. For better or worse, Blood Bowl is a faithful recreation of Games Workshops’ classic football strategy…
By Mike Fahey Published April 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Modern Warfare Stimulus Pack Price Offset By Free Avatar Goggles
So you’re upset that you have to pay $15 for five maps, two of which are old, and that the Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package launched broken. You know what’d cheer you up? Free night vision goggles for your avatar! What? Does this not appease you? Perhaps you didn’t understand what I was trying to…
By Mike Fahey Published April 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Episodic Gaming Invades the iPad with Sam & Max
We are, for the most part, limiting news of new games hitting the 700 and growing iPad gaming library to our enormous iPad guide. But Sam & Max deserve their own mention. Digging around in the iTunes story I stumped across a listing for Sam & Max Episode 1: The Penal Zone for the iPad…
By Brian Crecente Published April 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
How I Quit Smoking
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: A Fool’s Blessing Somebody asked me the name of the book I read that helped me quit smoking. I forget. Sorry! However, one thing that really stuck with me that was in the book was the very obvious notion that people who don’t smoke don’t crave cigarettes after they get…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Apple Admits Gaming is Hard On Their Devices, Patents Solution
Gamers complaining about the lack of buttons on the iPhone, iPod and iPad may see a solution in the near future through the help of a frame for the devices that will be packed with features, control pads and buttons. IntoMobile discovered a gaming accessory patent made public yesterday on the U.S. Patent and Trademark…
By Brian Crecente Published April 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Let’s Look At Stars With The Last Story
Not only does the upcoming Wii game The Last Story features boats that sail in water, it always features star gazing. This latest conceptual art shows the game’s “Star Gazing Tower”, joining Last Story art that features islands, cities and NPCs The Last Story is being designed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the game developer who created…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 2, 2010