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This Guilty Gear Statue Will Make You Dizzy
Don’t worry. Dizzy from fighter Guilty Gear XX Accent Core isn’t cold. She has thick skin. Thick plastic skin, that is. This is the Queen’s Gate version of Dizzy. Queen’s Gate is a spin-off of Queen’s Blade, a Lost Worlds style “combat picture book game” and has been published in Japan for the last couple…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
Company Of Heroes Online Replaces Germans With “Federation”
Like many Western games, Relic’s Company of Heroes is in line for some changes once it hits the Chinese market as Company of Heroes Online. The LA Times’ Charles Proctor reports that, amidst concerns surrounding China’s laws forbidding any reference to the Nazi party, THQ have rebranded the Germans in this new CoH title as…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Xbox 360 Controller In Tasty Bento Form
As seen on Hawty McBloggy.
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
360 Price Cuts Also Tipped For UK Market
British sites are reporting that, ahead of an expected announcement later this week, Microsoft are to copy the rumoured North American moves by implementing both a price cut and a lineup shuffle for their range of 360 consolse. MCV say that retailers across Britain are being told they can’t order any/many existing 360 consoles, while…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
Do You Know Who’s Doing The Japanese TV Theme For Bayonetta? We Do
Songstress MiChi will be lending her tune “Something” to the Bayonetta television campaign. She won’t actually be lending her song. We imagine she’ll get paid by SEGA — with money even! This is the first TV theme for MiChi, who was worried about which tune should be used to help match the mode of the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ghostbusters Now Looks Better On PS3
Ghostbusters on PS3 took some flak upon release for looking, well, worse than it did on 360. Significantly worse. So Terminal Reality went back to the drawing board, and have today released a patch that should bridge the gap. IGN say that fixes have been made to both single and multiplayer modes, most important of…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
How Accurate Are These TV Ladies’ In-Game Counterparts?
In Japan, female TV anchors are not just anchors, they are idols. Worship away! Adored by males for being classier and more grown-up than your typical pop star (they also know stuff about sports and other stuff), the most popular anchors transcend news-reading and can even become actresses and appear in countless commercials. Itching to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
These iDOLM@STER Figures Cannot Sing
That’s okay. They can stand very, very still. They are figurines, you know. That’s what figurines do. Here 15-year-old Chihaya Kisaragi and 14-year-old Iori Minase find themselves immortalized in PVC. They’re from figure maker Mega House and priced at around US$75 each in Japan. Geek heroin is expensive! Originally an arcade game, THE iDOLM@STER is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Problems Plague Pinnacle DLC
The Pinnacle Station DLC for Mass Effect went out the door today, and already BioWare’s user forums are reporting problems with the PC and console edition. The good news is for PC users. Bioware expects a reasonably fast fix for some CD key rejection issues. A BioWare QA lead said that an installer had been…
By Owen Good Published August 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
NCAA 10 Patch Resolves ‘Gay’ Filtering
Probably not the biggest gameplay issue NCAA 10 players are concerned about, but the “gay” filtering foofaraw has been cleared up as part of a massive patch, the second put out for this game in two months. You might remember, earlier this month, we reported the egg-on-face situation where auto-named rosters from NCAA 10’s Teambuilder…
By Owen Good Published August 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Wow, there really IS an Arkham Care Website
I know, I know — just one more thing about Batman: Arkham Asylum and I swear I’ll shut up. But there’s actually an Arkham Care website setup for the game. Warden Quincy Sharp welcomes you to the site and there’s an “Inside Arkham” video clip show that reminds me of the Kaiser Permanente health care…
By AJ Glasser Published August 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
This Week In Video Game Comics
Here’s a rundown of the new video game-based comics going on sale in comics shops in the U.S. this week, including Warcraft, Chun-Li and Sonic (always!). Click the thumbnails for more details. Sonic Universe #7 … Written by Ian Flynn. Drawn by Tracy Yardley. Summary Via Publisher Archie Comics: PART THREE OF THE EPIC “MOBIUS:…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Guy Busted for Stealing WiFi at NYC Library — to Play Halo
In a public library, a dude sitting at a monitor with his hands in his lap, covered by a newspaper, implicitly means bad things. Fear not, he’s only sneaked in an Xbox to steal the free WiFi and play Halo. The tumbelog teendrama picked this up – the writer’s pal spied the multiplayer shenanigans in…
By Owen Good Published August 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Turbine Rolls For Damages In Atari Lawsuit
Turbine slapped Atari with a $30 million lawsuit two weeks ahead of the launch date for Turbine’s free-to-play massively multiplayer online game, Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited. The suit, filed August 24 in the state of New York’s Supreme Court, alleges among other things that that Atari breached its contract with the developer to…
By AJ Glasser Published August 26, 2009 - Reviews
Wolfenstein Review: Occult Following
The battle against supernatural Nazis wages on in Wolfenstein, that latest chapter in epic saga of one man’s struggle against the occult-fueled Third Reich. Himmler’s Schutzstaffel is on the verge of harnessing a dark paranormal power that would mean the end of the free world as we knew it in 1943, and special agent B.J.…
By Mike Fahey Published August 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
New Slim Ads Roll Out Sony’s “Director of Rumor Confirmation”
Hot on the tail of official confirmation of the much-rumored Playstation 3 Slim and price drop, comes a new U.S. marketing strategy from Sony that employees much tongue in much cheek. The ads will be similar to the ones rolled out by Sony for MLB ’09 The Show with Red Sox’s Dustin Pedroia arguing with…
By Brian Crecente Published August 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Blizzcon, Gamescom: More Stories Than You Can Read
To: Ashcraft From: Crecente Re: This Meat Is So Raw, So Red And Oh So Meaty And that’s a wrap. It looks like we’ve finally run through all of the reporting, previews, impressions, pictures and videos from Gamescom and BlizzCon today. Though I think McWhertor told me he might have one more for Friday. If…
By Brian Crecente Published August 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Maxis Hit With Job Cuts, EA Confirms
Word from Electronic Arts today is that Maxis, the studio behind The Sims and Spore, suffered layoffs today. No word on how many people were affected. EA described the cuts as an attempt to “focus” the studio. “Often in the video game industry, the size of a studio fluctuates in response to business conditions,” an…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Decorate Your PlayStation Home In Early Hellghast
The Visari Throne Room personal space is just one of more than a hundred new pieces of PlayStation Home content flooding Sony’s virtual world with tomorrow’s update. Killzone 2 plays a big part in tomorrow’s PlayStation Home update, with the launch of the Visari Throne Room bringing with it a ton of new Killzone 2…
By Mike Fahey Published August 26, 2009