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UK Gets Xbox 360 Price Cut And Price Hike
It’s not only the US that is seeing an Xbox 360 price drop, but the UK, too. Starting tomorrow, the Xbox 360 Elite 120GB will be priced at £199.99 (US$324). The new price is a £30 drop from the current retail price, and the the Xbox 360 Pro will be phased out in the United…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Limited Edition Pokemon World Champs DSi
The Pokemon World Championships held recently in San Diego were a source of laughter, yes, but for die-hard fans they’ll also have been a source of envy if this Pokemon DSi is any indication. Handed out in strictly limited quantities, it’s probably as visually pleasing an offspring of Pokemon and San Diego as you’re going…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gundam Large And In STONE
Another giant Gundam statue. Sure, it’s not as big as the 1/1 scale Gundam — this mobile suit is 4 meters and weighs 10 tons. Recently hitting the Japanese internet, this Gundam was created 2 years ago by a Japanese stone cutter in Yasu City, Saga Prefecture. See those stones in the background? Those are…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
Microsoft Confirms Xbox 360 Price Drop, Denies Slim 360 Rumors
Microsoft’s priciest version of the Xbox 360 is getting a $100 price drop this Friday, the publisher told Kotaku, and its top selling model of the console is being phased out. The 120GB Xbox 360 Elite will sell for $299.99, while the popular 60GB Xbox 360 Pro will be cut to $249.99. Despite being Microsoft’s…
By Brian Crecente Published August 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
Pro Evo 2010 Box Art Is Short, Beautiful
The thing about the football market having two flagship series as opposed to, say, the NFL’s one, is that there are always two box art rituals to sit through. We’ve seen FIFA’s, now let’s look at Pro Evo‘s. Appearing on the cover of this year’s edition are Barcelona’s pint-sized Argentinian Lionel Messi, who reprises his…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
Fez: New Footage!
Can’t say I watch G4’s Electric Playground that often. And by that, I mean never. Which explains why I missed this neat little segment on the neat-looking XBLA platformer Fez. There’s an interesting interview with the game’s shaggy developers, Polytron, along with a few minute’s worth of in-game footage. The clip below is the full…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
How Borderlands Will Handle Cheaters
There are cheaters. There are always cheaters. Borderlands developer Gearbox Software has a plan to get ’em. “We’re going to wait and see what the cheaters do, and then we’ll attack them,” says Gearbox honcho Randy Pitchford. “It’s the only way to fight them, they’ll be there no matter what we do. The console versions…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tearing The PSPgo To Pieces, Just To See What Its Insides Look Like
Another day, another ruthless dismembering of a Sony console, as following on from yesterday’s PS3 Slim teardown we now get a real good look at the PSPgo’s inside bits. Not knowing what the hell was going on, I just sat back, scrolled through the 12 pages of pics and pretended I could hear the PSPgo…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
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