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All Out War (Games)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 isn’t just the biggest video game launch in history, it’s the biggest launch across all forms of entertainment, beating out the likes of Harry Potter books, The Dark Knight and band ‘N Sync. But at least one other military video game has their sights set on the popular first-person…
By Brian Crecente Published November 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Of Cars & Loans
To: Crecente From: Luke So, today, I went in and got a car loan. Having just got a home loan. I must be out of my god-damned mind. Funniest/saddest part? I’ve never got a car loan before. And figured if I ever did, it’d be for something special. Something fast. Instead? It’s for a new…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
How 2010 Is Actually Christmas 2009 (In Disguise)
Remember how Christmas used to be a time of too many games, not enough time? Yeah, well, not this year. This year is a little off. Christmas 2009 will actually be taking place in early 2010. With last week’s announcement that Final Fantasy XIII would be out in March, it quickly became the centrepiece of…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Entire Live-Action Assassin’s Creed II Movie
Over the past few weeks, Ubisoft have been releasing episodes of their live-action Assassin’s Creed flick, Lineage. Screw that. We don’t have the patience for episodes. Which is why we’re glad the whole thing is now available in one film. Click to view
By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
DSi Now Comes With Pre-Installed Software
Best Buy’s Black Friday catalogue has popped up online, and amidst the bargains is an interesting offer from Nintendo: a DSi console that comes with downloadable DSiWare pre-installed on the machine. There will be two bundles available, each with five games included on the system. One includes a white DSi with three Brain Age Express…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Decline Of The Video Game Business, In Picture Form
For some reason, bad news is often made worse when delivered via picture. There’s something about a steep decline on a chart that’s worse than any collection of words a writer can manage. Take this one, for example. It’s been put together by The Business Insider, and charts the decline in video game sales since…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Here Are Your DirectX 11 Games
Curious to see which games will support the latest in PC graphics wizardry, DirectX 11? There’s no better place to look than this list provided by AMD. Most are games (including Battlefield: Bad Company 2), but as you can see, a few towards the end are just for engines, meaning we can expect future games…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Call Of Duty Does Private Ryan
Watch, as British people do a fairly realistic rendition of Xbox Livers playing through the opening sequence of Saving Private Ryan. Oh, and warning: being an Xbox Live re-enactment, there’s objectionable language throughout. Click to view Call of Duty: Secret Spielberg Level Unlocked – watch more funny videos
By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rumor: New DS Is Better Than The Zune
Having heard from “credible sources from within the mobile graphics industry”, Digital Foundry have done a little digging and come up with probable hardware guesstimates for Nintendo’s alleged next generation of handheld hardware. They reckon that, with the rumoured mahine due to launch late next year, it’s going to be powered by the second iteration…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Cat Loaf
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Modern Mario Bear, my cat, has been behaving a little weird lately. I think the crap weather here in Oregon is getting to her, because it’s darker than California and the wet weather means she’s indoors more often. Bear usually would hang out in a kitty bed behind the TV,…
By Owen Good Published November 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
PS3: It Only Catches a Predator
Federal agents typically used $1,100 computers to crack passwords to the seized hard drives of suspected child pornographers. Now they’re using $300 PlayStation 3s to pull off the same task. “Bad guys are encrypting their stuff now, so we need a methodology of hacking on that to try to break passwords,” Claude E. Davenport, an…
By Owen Good Published November 15, 2009 -
UncategorizedA Look at the Zombie Island of Dr. Ned
Borderlands’ first DLC add-on “The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned,” releases Nov. 24, promising to add another six to 10 hours of gameplay. Here are the foes you’ll face, in their natural habitat. These shambling, staggering, crawling bastards look like outstanding cannon fodder, and I’ve got just the toolset for dealing with them – level…
By Owen Good Published November 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Paparazzi Punch-Out: Dance Like a Has-Been, Bite Like a Felon
Mike Tyson got in trouble this week for, as he is wont to do, smacking someone upside the head. Jimmy Kimmel‘s writers jumped on the case and produced this new game. I’m not sure why I chortled at this. Maybe it’s because I know that lightning-flash punch is coming. Maybe it’s because anything is funnier…
By Owen Good Published November 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Activision Exec: ‘Expect’ Additional, Paid Online Modes
Whoops. Kinda sorta missed this, another pearl of wisdom from this week’s BMO Capital Markets forum. Activision’s CFO told conferees that extracting more dough out of players, via charging for certain online play or features, is something we should expect. Here’s what Tom Tippl told the gathering: It’s definitely an aspiration that we see potential…
By Owen Good Published November 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Voice Actor Says MW2’s Ghost Might Get a Game
At the game’s UK launch event, Craig Fairbrass, the voice actor for Ghost in Modern Warfare 2, said the character will get a spinoff comic and possibly a game of his own, although what exactly is not clear. Here’s the quote, which That VideoGame Blog attributes to audio of the event: I did in the…
By Owen Good Published November 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Leaked Survey Tips Off MLB 2K10 Cover Athlete – 2nd Update
A tipster taking a marketing survey was asked to judge four potential covers for next year’s MLB 2K10. The Tampa Bay Rays’ third baseman Evan Longoria is on all of them. In that image you can see the four different designs survey takers were asked to consider. All have the 2K Sports 10th Anniversary branding…
By Owen Good Published November 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Week in Games: Out With a Blast
The final full week before Thanksgiving in the U.S. marks the final big week of releases in the fall sales window. This one sees Assassin’s Creed II, Left 4 Dead 2, Tony Hawk Ride and New Super Mario Bros. Wii. And the God of War Collection. And Lego Indiana Jones 2 on four platforms plus…
By Owen Good Published November 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Top 7 Tasteful Game Heroines [GamesRadar] Faith (Mirror’s Edge) and Zoey (Left 4 Dead) are the newcomers; Alyx Vance (Half Life 2) and Cate Archer…
By Owen Good Published November 15, 2009