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Megatron Can Smell Your Xbox Live Avatar, Boy
Cover your hideous meat-face with a collection of attractive and stylish robot heads today, as Activision releases a set of Transformers gear onto the Xbox Live Avatar Marketplace. I’m not sure how I can tie this together with Thanksgiving Day, so we’ll just mutter incoherently about turkey or something and move on to the main…
By Mike Fahey Published November 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Xbox 360 Buyer’s Guide
New Halo, new downloadables for Mass Effect, Fallout 3, and Grand Theft Auto, new Forza. It was a pretty good year for Xbox 360 owners. Pick through the list to decide which games to give and get and leave a comment to point out any you would add that we didn’t review. And don’t forget,…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Happy Turkey Day!
To: Crecente From: Luke Happy thanksgiving! Not that I even really get what that means, but hey, any day where eating giant birds is a national holiday is cool with me. Here’s what you missed: Capcom Side-Scrollers Coming To Xbox Live, PSN Custom Bayonetta “Figure” Gets The Outfit Right New Afterburner Game Coming To Home…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
First Look At New Professor Layton Game
In the latest issue of Famitsu, Level-5 honcho Akihiro Hino reveals the first bits of info about upcoming Professor Layton game. Titled Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, the game features an overhaul of the game system. The “miracle mask” is connected somehow to the mask worn by bad guy Death Call in Professor Layton…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony: Physical Games Not Going Anywhere
Despite the release of the digital-only PSPgo and an increasing push towards the delivery of content over the PlayStation Network, Sony would like you all to know that traditional, boxed stuff is “not going away any time soon”. “Make no mistake”, SCEE boss Andrew House told GI.biz, “when you’re looking at PS3 games and you’re…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Napoleon: Total War Edition Shouldn’t Have Invaded Russia
For PC owners at least, Napoleon: Total War is going to be a pretty big deal. And a game can’t be a pretty big deal these days without a pretty big colletor’s edition, so, yeah. Here’s Napoleon’s. The “Imperial Edition” of the game will come with a copy of Napoleon: Total War, an “illustrated wallchart…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
So, When’s Modern Warfare 2’s DLC Due?
Needless to say, when a game sells as many copies as Modern Warfare 2 has, there’ll be millions of people hanging out for its first wave of its downloadable content. But, uh, when is it coming out? Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling has said “DLC is planned fir the wonderfully vauge timeframe of Spring.”. Drop a…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Turn Your Car Into Pac-Man
Waze is a free app for the iPhone that works like Wikipedia for street maps. And to encourage users to help the service grow, the owners have devised a cunning plan: get you playing Pac-Man with your car. Through Waze’s “Road Goodies” program, cherries will be scattered across the map for you to find, then…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Square Enix Cuts European Jobs
‘Tis the season to be…unemployed, sadly, with Square Enix announcing today that job cuts are on the way for the company’s London studio. That’s Beautiful Game Studios, the developers of the Championship Manager series. A Square Enix statement reads “Our current business model does not allow us to compete in a fast-changing industry with any…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
All Of EA’s PC Games, 30% Off
Thanksgiving sale alert: EA’s own online store will, until Monday, be selling every single PC game with a 30% discount. That’s every single game. Not just the crummy ones, or he old ones, or the crummy old ones, or the crummy new ones. All of them. So Dragon Age, Mass Effect, The Sims 3, Need…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Red Dead Redemption Moseys On Into April 2010
You can’t see, but if you could, you’d see that I just put down a red pen. I had been using it, over at my calendar, marking the entire month of April. Because that’s when Red Red Redemption is out. No idea when in April. If I’d known, I wouldn’t have had to circle the…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
New Afterburner Game Coming To Home Consoles?
Some classification board ratings – one in Australia, one in Korea – have revealed that Sega’s After Burner Climax is on its way to a video game console near you. Just which console is still up in the air. The Australian rating simply says “multiplatform”, while the Korean one was submitted by Sony Computer Entertainment.…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Custom Bayonetta “Figure” Gets The Outfit Right
The actual, offical Bayonetta figure is a little…off. Something’s not quite right about her proportions. This custom “doll”, though, looks set to make amends. Remember, it’s a one-off custom, so forget about buying it. Just look, try and find a way to describe it that doesn’t use the word “doll”, admire how creator “Zin” got…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Capcom Side-Scrollers Coming To Xbox Live, PSN
Capcom announced today that two of their classic side-scrollers will be making a comeback, with re-releases of Final Fight and Magic Sword set to appear on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network next year. Unlike recent Capcom re-releases like Marvel v Capcom 2 and SSFIIHD, these won’t be completely overhauled for the current generation of…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sync in Progress
Kit-bashed Sega MegaDrive iPod dock. As seen on Wired, via Gizmodo.
By Owen Good Published November 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Who Likes Glowy Eyes? We Like Glowy Eyes!
The life of a dragon slayer sounds pretty rough what with the slaying of dragons and all. But with glowing eyes and mind reading as side effect, it sounds like it could also be pretty nifty. Divinity II: Ego Draconis is a fantasy role-playing game where users start out in the shoes of a novice…
By AJ Glasser Published November 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Religious Criticism of Resident Evil Dignified With Response
Generally, when dealing with religious kooks who allege your product promotes sin, exalts evil and is generally ungodly, PR 101 calls for a no-comment. Instead, Capcom’s responded to two UK ministers after they called out Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles. Not sure who Bishop Bryant, Archdeacon Brian Smith or the Right Rev. (that’s right, Rev.)…
By Owen Good Published November 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Crackdown 2 Dev Wants Your Graffiti
Developer Ruffian Games is calling for user-made “awesome” graffiti to include in their upcoming game, Crackdown 2, because they’re too lazy to make it themselves. Ten years have passed in Pacific City since the end of the last game, and so things are supposed to look a lot sketchier than they did back when everything…
By AJ Glasser Published November 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Virus
To: Luke From: Crecente Trish’s almost new laptop was infected with a nasty virus this week called Security Tool. By the time I got involved it has deleted massive amounts of files, taken over the backups and had even started blocking other virus programs from running. I spent my down time yesterday and today manually…
By Brian Crecente Published November 25, 2009