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To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Summer Daze What did I end up doing during the weekend? Micro-Bash got sick for the first time — he barfed at the doctor’s office, so much so that Mrs. Bashcraft had to go home and get me a new pair of clothes. Shirt, pants and even all the way…
The iPhone (and iPod Touch) are selling like hot scones! And they play games! Problem being, unlike the PSP and DS, there’s very little in the way of quality control on Apple’s platform. So we get a lot of games. You could even say we get too many games, because it’s been revealed that there…
While there were giant bugs in the first Lost Planet, all I remember are snowstorms and robot suits. Looking at these new screens of Lost Planet 2, it’s OK, Capcom, I get it: in the sequel, there are giant bugs.
SNK delayed 100 percent hand-drawn fighting game The King of Fighters XII. The game was originally slated for a July 16 launch, then moved to a vague “July release”. The new street date for the multi-platform game is July 30. The reason for the delay was so SNK could polish the title before finally releasing…
Earlier this year, a Nintendo patent came to light that described a function that would allow players to “skip” parts of the game they found difficult. This system eases the pain of completing a difficult game, without watering it down so much that it turns hardcore gamers off. The new system, described in a patent…
Japanese game company Jaleco has started a new poll regarding an upcoming project. Users are able to submit designs of non-playable-characters, and other folks can vote for their favorites. The most popular designs will be included in this upcoming title. Good idea, right? Right? Have a look at the top five favorite monsters. The poll…
Eurogamer’s Spanish outpost reckon they’re in possession of some specs for an all-new PlayStation Portable, currently in the planning stages at Sony HQ. This isn’t the PSPgo. It’s a true successor to the PSP. They claim that the new handheld could output games on the same level as the original Xbox, and is built around…
Via email, Valve mentioned that it was developing a new demo type format — for Team Fortress 2 or perhaps all Steam Games. This comes as players have been breaking demo files after downloading new updates. Tell us about that Robin Walker! The Valve developer explains, “It’s getting close to being releasable in a beta…
Remember this? Sure, you do! This image must have been burned into your brain. Erotic game Sengoku Hime is infamous for its crummy game art. That art has been re-drawn for the PS2/PSP ports. Compare the new art (below) with the original PC art (above). Have a preference? Sengoku Hime is out this September on…
Hey, there wasn’t a big Kid Icarus announcement at E3. Nintendo Power asked Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto about Kid Icarus and recently published his response: Wait, please. I’m really surprised how popular that is. But you are the first person to ask at this E3! The original Kid Icarus was released on the Nintendo Entertainment system…
This September, the PS3 version of former Xbox 360 exclusive RPG Tales of Vesperia will be released in Japan. The game features a new pirate girl character named Patty Fleur. The following month in October, Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike, an animated prequel to the PS3 version, hits Japanese movie theaters. Check out other…
From what we’ve seen of Katamari Forever, it’s looking good! But from what we’ve heard, it’s also sounding good, courtesy of its remixed soundtrack. As someone who owns the soundtracks to the first two games, I’ll be taking a good, long look at the soundtrack to this one (known as Katamari Tribute in Japan), which…
We thought WiiSpray – a Wii mod put together by a couple of German design students – was pretty neat. We’re not the only ones, as the judges of the iF Communication Design Awards are equally impressed. Held by German firm International Forum Design, WiiSpray was one of 377 finalists in the prestigious awards, from…
Fumito Ueda is an armchair critic. “I play a lot of games,” he says, “and I look from a very critical view of the games I play.” So what does he think about, say, Grand Theft Auto IV and Super Mario Galaxy? Meh! In an interview with LEVEL magazine, the Shadow of the Colossus designer…
Kudo-san works at PlatinumGames. What does he do? “When I introduce myself to people outside the industry,” he blogs, “I explain by keeping things simple, saying, ‘I add the fire and smoke, etc. inside a game.'” “However,” he adds, “it doesn’t seem like very many people ‘get it.'” To help illustrate the point, there are…
This is Gene Simpkins. Every day is a struggle for Gene, because he is one of only a handful of people in the world suffering from Moto-Nueral Demyelination. Otherwise known as Duke Nukem‘s Disease. [via Bitmob]
Media professor David Myers, from Loyola University, has been studying how people interact in online games. Of interest to us is his account of what happened when he started trolling people. Myers has been studying human interaction in City of Heroes since it first launched all the way back in 2004, and with his character…
Best thing about this video? It’s sort and too the point — that, and there’s kicker at the end. Be sure to stay after the credits! Created in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Donkey Kong was made from a pile of post-it notes. Real life stop motion Donkey Kong [I Heart Video Games] [I Heart Chaos…
While “free to play, pay to upgrade” is a payment structure more and more online games are adopting, the continued success of Blizzard’s World of Warcraft shows there’s still life in the old-fashioned model of paying a flat monthly subscription fee. That’s not to say, however, that Blizzard haven’t noticed the commercial appeal of microtransactions.…
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