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A Room Full of Loot
This Thursday gamers, hopefully lots of gamers, will be gathering in Denver to help raise money for Child’s Play… and to empty out my guest bedroom. The silent auction items and door prizes have so packed the room next to my office that I can no longer close the door. And I’m told Totilo has…
By Brian Crecente Published November 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Mad Catz Ships Its Own Wireless-N Adapter
Mad Catz’s Wireless-N Gaming Adapter is not only $20 cheaper than Microsoft’s own Xbox 360 adapter; it works on the PlayStation 3 as well. Earlier this month, Microsoft released a Wireless-N network adapter for the Xbox 360, bringing faster speeds to users who’ve up until now been stuck with 802.11g. Now Mad Catz is shipping…
By Mike Fahey Published November 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Wii Fit And Wii Sports Exercise Weighed And Measured
A new study has determined which Wii Fit and Wii Sports activities actually qualify as moderate intensity exercise, as defined by the American Heart Association. Are you actually exercising? The Nintendo-funded study, led by the National Institute of Health and Nutrition in Tokyo, measured the metabolic equivalent values, or METs, generated by participating in Wii…
By Mike Fahey Published November 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Eidos Montreal Creating Square Enix’s First “Global Game”
The development studio working on Thief 4 and Deus Ex 3 has another major project on its hands, with Square Enix revealing that Eidos Montreal is hard at work on the company’s first “global game.” The news came today during a keynote speech from Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada at the Montreal Games Summit, where…
By Mike Fahey Published November 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Behind The Music: The Sims 3 World Adventures
There’s nothing quite as entertaining than watching accomplished recording artists like Nelly Furtado trying to sing their own songs after they’ve been translated into The Sims gibberish language. The Sims 3: World Adventures expansion pack drops this week, and EA celebrates for a look at how far celebrities will go to have their music featured…
By Mike Fahey Published November 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
iPhone Chart Toppers: Asphalt 5 Takes Second
It’s that time again. Time to look at the top grossing games on iTunes for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Bejewled 2, on the charts for a dozen weeks in a row now, finally hit the top spot, supplanting a lot of newer, fancier titles to grab first place. Which do you think should be…
By Brian Crecente Published November 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
It’s A Very Video Game Holiday Season
A survey conducted on behalf the Entertainment Software Association this month shows that 42% of American adults plan to give or hope to receive video games as presents this holiday season. Where do you stand? I’d probably fall into both categories had KRC Research, who surveyed 1,001 U.S. adults earlier this month, had bothered to…
By Mike Fahey Published November 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Nintendo Download: Let’s Get Ready To Pokémon Rumble
This week brings WiiWare demos of five popular titles, a new Art Style title for the DSi, and Pokémon’s answer to Gears of War Horde Mode, Pokémon Rumble. Demos, in my WiiWare? Preposterous! Yes, this week Nintendo is giving us a free taste of some of the more popular WiiWare titles, letting players who weren’t…
By Mike Fahey Published November 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
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