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The Japanese Heavy Rain Box Art Stinks
Europe gets a striking origami cover for upcoming thriller Heavy Rain. America gets wet boobs. Japan? Japan gets a nose. A wet nose. Let’s review: Europe, origami; America, wet boobs; Japan, wet nose. Somehow this all seems mixed up. And you thought Japanese box art was always better. Ha! PS3『ヘビーレイン -心の軋むとき-』の日本版のパッケージデザインがあまりにも酷い [はちま起稿]
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Some WiiWare Developers Not Exactly Thrilled With Nintendo
Of all the major platforms and services out there, Nintendo’s WiiWare is probably the most under-promoted and under-utilised (PSP mini’s aside). Something developers are not happy about. “We feel that Nintendo is not doing enough to promote the service at all,” JV Games’ Jag Jaege (Pong Toss) tells GI.biz. “We feel that the vast majority…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Yup, Crackdown 2 Will Have A Demo
The first Crackdown had one of the best demos of all time. So it stands to reason that its sequel will also let players get their hands on it prior to the full game’s release. “You can definitely expect a demo to hit Live before the game is out but I can’t say when that…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Rumor: “Leaked” Halo: Reach Beta Boot-Up Clip Introduces “Murder Mode” [Update]
Halo: Reach is forthcoming. It will be out later this year. One individual is already leaking beta footage onto the internet. The footage is of the game booting up. There is no game play footage. The screen carries a message which reads: Welcome to the Halo: Reach Public Beta, the experience you are about to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Please Silent Hill Cosplayer, Don’t Kill The Vacuum Cleaner
As seen on Hawty McBloggy.
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Heavy Rain Stars In European Console Bundle
Looks like Europe isn’t just getting a collector’s edition of PS3 adventure Heavy Rain; the Old World will also be seeing some hardware bundles, in which the game is packed in with a 250GB PlayStation 3 console. A listing, complete with box art, has appeared on Amazon’s French portal. That pic up there is it.…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Let’s Check Out These Blurry DoA Bathing Suits
Dead or Alive is laying off the fighting and heading back to the beach for upcoming PSP game Dead or Alive Paradise. Like previous Dead or Alive poolside titles, Paradise focuses on volleyball, gambling, ridiculous swimsuits and taking pictures of girls wearing said ridiculous swimsuits. Besides Kasumi, characters Risa, Hitomi, Rio and their breasts will…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Number Of New Intellectual Properties On The Rise
According to a study performed by Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDAR), more and more publishers are betting their cash on new intellectual property. Since 2006, the percentage of games hitting the market based on new, original IP (so not a sequel or a licensed game) has grown from 16% to 22%. Which is…nice, but…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Best-Selling Games In Australia For 2009 Were…
While we’re still up to our armpits in 2009 flashbacks, we may as well take a look down under, and see what the twenty best-selling games in Australia were last year. These figures were released today by chart trackers GfK, who sadly do not provide individual unit sales. Warning: prepare for Nintendomania. 1. Wii Fit…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Some Halo: Reach Screen Shots
Game retailer EB Games has uploaded the first direct feed Halo: Reach screens onto the game’s product page. Anyone with the most recent issue of Game Informer magazine has seen these screens — not everyone has the latest GI, though! That, and these are some of the first proper screens for the game. Halo: Reach…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
MGS: Peace Walker Voice Actress Tops The Japanese Single Charts
Nana Mizuki, who voices Costa Rican girl Paz Ortega Andrade in the upcoming Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, has become the first Japanese voice actress to reach number one on the Japanese pop single charts. Her latest single “Phantom Minds” moved 54,000 copies last week during its first week on sale. This is the first…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Yakuza 3 Gets A New Box For Its Trip Stateside
As you’re no doubt aware, American publishers sometimes like to mess around with a foreign game’s box art before releasing it in the US. Yakuza 3 is the latest target of this practice. Gone is the stark white background of the Japanese cover, perhaps because – since it’s a trademark of a series people in…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Report: Final Fantasy XIII Composer Leaves Square Enix
Masashi Hamauzu, FFXIII composer, has left game company Square Enix, reports website Square Enix Music Online. He was an employee at Square Enix for the past 15 year. During that time, Hamauzu worked on titles such as SaGa Frontier II, Unlimited SaGa, Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy XIII. The official FFXIII soundtrack will be…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Retailer Leaks Final Fantasy XIII Collector’s Edition Contents?
It would appear that GameStop’s Italian portal has jumped the gun and revealed the contents of Final Fantasy XIII’s hitherto-mysterious collector’s edition. Available now for pre-order at the price of € 80 ($110), the retailer says the pack includes a soundtrack, art book, prequel story, comic book and collection of art cards. While the game…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Getting PSP Bundle
When the last Metal Gear Solid game, Portable Ops, was released on the PSP in Japan, it got a premium pack with a camo PSP. Another MGS game is coming to the PSP and guess what? Upcoming title Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker will be getting a special camouflage PSP when the game is released…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Sony Delays Launch Of PS3 Motion Controller
Sony has just announced that its motion control peripheral for the PlayStation 3 will not, as originally planned, be shipping in Spring 2010. “We have decided to release the Motion Controller in fall 2010 when we will be able to offer an exciting and varied line-up of software titles that will deliver the new entertainment…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
These Days, Peter Jackson Enjoying Video Games More Than Movies
With The Lovely Bones out in theaters, filmmaker Peter Jackson might seems like his schedule has opened up. Not so, the director will be acting as producer on Steven Spielberg Tintin movie. There’s there The Hobbit. Video games, too. Jackson has been spending his free time playing through Modern Warfare 2. “I’m enjoying these games…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Even Activision’s CEO Knows Spider-Man Games Suck
We give Activision boss Bobby Kotick a ton of stick around here, mostly because he often says some pretty silly things. His latest comments on the Spider-Man series, however, ring as true as truth can ring. “Our Spider-Man games have sucked for the last five years”, he told Game Informer. “They are bad games. They…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
In 2010, We Will Learn What Ken Levine Has Been Working On
Ever since production wrapped on BioShock, people have been keen to know what Ken Levine‘s next project would be. Seems we’re finally, years after his last game shipped, going to find out. With a “new” studio under his belt and rumours of an X-Com revival still hanging in the air, BioShock’s director feels the time…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Skate And Some Other Game Join Xbox 360 Games On Demand
The library of Xbox 360 games available “on demand” has expanded by two today with the addition of EA’s original Skate and Brave? Brave: A Warrior’s Tale? Something like that. Pricing on Skate (aka skate.), as I see it in U.S. dollars is $19.99. In line with budget pricing for Xbox 360 games, it seems,…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 19, 2010