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Step Into My Parlor
To: Luke From: Owen Re: What’s The Cheapest Game You’ve Bought? After a month in Oregon I can honestly say I’ve never seen any insect population as aggressive as the spiders up here. If whatever you have remains motionless for more than 12 hours, it’s getting webbed. And they work fast when necessary. This week,…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Noby Noby Cat Toy
Do you have a kitty? Do you wuv your kitty? Do you wuv your Noby Noby Boy, too? Then you can knit together this Noby Noby Boy cat toy and enjoy games together. European PlayStation forum user Pudgeeagogo post instructions on how to make your own catnip-filled BOY, with yarn color recommendations, in case you…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Philly Devs’ Ambition: Make Their City the Hollywood of Gaming
Video Game Growth Initiative Philadelphia, or VGI, grew out of IGDA’s Philly chapter, and it’s looking to make the City of Brotherly Love into an East Coast magnet for games development. Philadelphia City Paper spotlighted the five-man band – an audio engineer, an executive, a dev, a lawyer and a professor at Drexel University –…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Iwata: Nintendo Doesn’t Think Its E3 Presser Went So Hot
In the company’s quarterly financial results briefing, Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata confessed that, yeah, internally no one believes that Nintendo’s E3 2009 briefing was anything to shout about, either. Says Iwata: As for the media briefing at E3, of course we had many internal discussions after that. Honestly speaking, none of us at Nintendo thought…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
NHL 10 Coverboy Arrested Over 20 Cents
Who knows what Patrick Kane was paid to appear on the NHL 10 cover, but it was probably more than 20 cents. So it’s hard to fathom why a 20-year-old zillionaire athlete would deck a cabbie over two dimes. But that’s what Buffalo cops say Kane did when he caught a $13.80 cab ride last…
By Owen Good - 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. • Seven Best-Selling Games that Totally Suck [Joystick Division] The writer vents his spleen at group of titles unworthy of the scads of money they…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Week in Games: Friday Night Lights
This is Madden Week, the 21st in the franchise’s lifespan, although it’s been a phenomenon for only about a decade. Friday, instead of a Tuesday, football fans will call in sick to pick up their copy and talk smack to friends. Other highlights: Marvel vs. Capcom 2 finds its way to the PS3 on Thursday.…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Today’s Punishment: Pick Your Poison
We realize that one gamer’s pain is another’s pleasure, so in an effort to diversify the punishment around here, today’s session will give you several choices. You may select from: • Five minutes of Shaq Fu gameplay: Needs no introduction. One of the worst game concepts of all time. • A Nine-Minute Minesweeper Tutorial: Really,…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Watch People Play Games on UK TV
Last weekend, the UK network Bravo – unrelated to the U.S. channel, BTW – launched something called “Game Face,” tilted toward casual gamers, presumably ones with wads of disposable income. Former MTV boss Peter Einstein is behind the show, and he thinks he knows why video game shows “have failed in the past.” From what…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Speechifyin’ Euro Gamers Can Get Into MAG Trailer
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has put out a call for battlefield speeches written by gamers, saying the best will be professionally recorded for use in an upcoming Massive Action Game trailer. Here are the catches: Looks like this is restricted to PSN account holders in Europe. Update: Specifically, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden and…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Brütal Legend Soundtrack Confirmed
The complete Brütal Legend soundtrack that we first reported yesterday, apparently going out early from an EA Denmark site, has been confirmed as authentic by Double Fine chief Tim Schafer. Schafer had this to say in a statement to GameDaily: This soundtrack took years to put together as we wanted to represent every genre of…
By Owen Good