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Nintendo’s Nutso Football Controller Patent
I’m just about at my breaking point with these wacky controller patents, but this one’s so wacky – a football you stick your Wii Remote into – that it’s worth a closer look. It’s essentially a soft (rubber? foam?) football with holes in it, that you stick the Wii Remote and Wii Nunchuk into. For…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Modern Warfare 2 Doubles Your Shooting Pleasure
In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, players can use one gun at a time. Modern Warfare 2 is letting players wield two guns at a time. Two in two — geddit? Infinity Ward blogger FourZeroTwo showed off the feature at a GameCrazy convention, blogging: I was presenting a singleplayer mission at the GameCrazy show this…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sega Iffy On Colonial Marines Release Date
You’d think that with Gearbox working on it, and with it being based on one of the most popular sci-fi films of all-time, that Aliens: Colonial Marine would be top-billing on Sega’s release schedule. But it’s not. It’s not even top-billing on Sega’s Aliens tie-in release schedule! Sega’s Mike Hayes has told G4 that the…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Last Major PS3 Firmware Update This Year Is….
PS3 firmware 3.0, apparently. That’s what PlayStation Network operations director Eric Lempel said, and he should know. He is the PlayStation Network operations director. “You know, I wouldn’t say that or sure just yet because we are working on some things,” Lempel told G4. “But this is a big and significant update, so you would…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Diablo III: Some Versions Will Be Edited
The world is a big place. And what’s cool for one part of it may not be so cool for another. Take Diablo III, for example, which will have its violent content edited when it’s released in certain markets. In Australia and Germany, two markets where classification authorities (for varying reasons) run a tight ship,…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Resident Evil Movie Director Marries Resident Evil Actress
British film director Paul W.S. Anderson first met 33-year-old actress Milla Jovovich during the filming of Resident Evil. A trilogy of RE films and one baby girl later, the duo have tied the knot. The director and Jovovich were wed at their Beverly Hills abode in an outdoor ceremony, attending by friends and family. This…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Final Fantasy Artist Doing ASCII Art
Famous for his elegant Final Fantasy and Vampire Hunter D, artist Yoshitaka Amano will be drawing Japanese-style ASCII art. Folks will vote on which one of the four 2ch characters they want the famed illustrator to do his own interpretation of. The drawing will be shown live on Nico Nico Douga tomorrow from 8:00 to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Wii Sports Resort Sells A Million In Japan
Nintendo has announced that Wii Sports Resort has reached the million seller milestone. The game launched on June 25 in The Land of The Rising Sun and was met with brisk sales. The second week was a sharp drop off, but as the chart below points out, the title has recently seen an upswing in…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gran Turismo 5: Q4 2009?
So says this pamphlet for the game, which was passed around last week at Gamescom. You don’t need to be a German (or Austrian!) to make out what “4. Quartal 2009” means. Before you ask, yes, it means Q4 2009. And before you ask, yes, it’s a real Sony pamphlet, not a work of Photoshop…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Why Sony Ditched The Spider-Man PS3 Font
Since the console launched in 2006 until the official announcement of the new, slimmer machine, the PS3 has been written in the same font used for Sony’s Spider-Man 3 movie. What’s more, the official way to type out the name was in ALL CAPS. The new console iteration ditches both in favor of either the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
PSN Going Down For More “Maintenance”
Never mind the fact that last week, in the lead-up to Sony’s Gamescom press conference, the PlayStation Network went down for maintenance. This week, it’s going down again! At 2:15pm (PST) tomorrow, August 25 (which is 9:15pm GMT), and running for around four hours, nobody will be able to sign into the PlayStation Network to…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Will Final Fantasy XIII Be Playable At Tokyo Game Show?
A playable demo for upcoming role-playing-game Final Fantasy XIII has already been released in Japan. Bundled with Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete, it came out earlier this spring. And with the Japanese PS3 version being something like 90 percent finished, you’d think that the game would be in playable form at this year’s Tokyo…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony Losing Money on PS3 Slim
The hardware business is not a profitable business. Don’t believe us, just ask Sony. When the original PS3 launched, Sony bled money on each PS3 sold. But the manufacturing process improved, and Sony was able to close the gap. Just as that started to happen, the company is now launching a new hardware iteration. New…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
EA Germany Exec Accuses Gov’t of Game Censorship
Wracked by a mass shooting partially blamed on games, the government considering a ban on “killerspiele” and developer Crytek threatening to leave, Germany’s firsthand experience in the violent games debate is like no other country’s right now. Electronic Arts‘ top many in Germany, Gerhard Florin (pictured) says enough is enough. In an interview last week…
By Owen Good Published August 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony’s Motion Controller Will Be Out Spring 2010
Sony’s motion controller has neither a name nor a finalised form. Which means, yeah, it’s still a work in progress. And that means it won’t be out until, oh, Spring 2010. PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai has told The Times “we are slating it for spring of next year”. “It” being the motion controller. “One of…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kid Napped in PSP Deal Gone Bad
What’s it they say, “You never hear about a drug deal gone good?” Same for selling games. In this case, an unhappy customer took a Utah teen for a ride when the PSP that changed hands didn’t work as advertised. The suspect’s now in custody, so, this ends well. But it began badly, on Saturday,…
By Owen Good Published August 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Elemental: War of Magic Impressions: There’s More To Might Than Magic
Elemental: War of Magic is a PC turn-based strategy game with a sweet map and a marriage alliance system that sounds like something from George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. That’s no accident because developer Stardock’s CEO & President, Brad Wardell is way into A Song of Ice and Fire –…
By AJ Glasser Published August 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
iPhone Madden to Arrive by Opening Day
Well, well. Now we know why Gameloft was in such a hurry to get NFL 2010 for the iPhone out the door this month. EA Mobile says Madden NFL 10 will release to the iTunes store by opening day. Although the news release says only “September 2009,” (October ’09 in the rest of the world),…
By Owen Good Published August 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Stardock Updating Impulse, Rolling Out Ready-to-Play
Even if you’re a Steam loyalist, PC gamers, you’ve got to admit it’s nice to have options. But Stardock’s digital distribution service, Impulse, and its latest update aim to provide more than just competition. Phase IV of Impulse rolls out a new service called Ready-to-Play that functions as a sort of Facebook for PC gamers.…
By AJ Glasser Published August 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Red Steel 2 Hands On: Now With Ninjas!
Ubisoft had a newly playable copy of Red Steel 2 at Gamescom, its cowboy-samurai western now full of ninja and 360-degree Wii MotionPlus-powered sword swingin’. And I nearly had my delicate wrist snapped off playing the thing. After getting a brief overview of what’s new in Red Steel 2—including ninja, some fancy new moves like…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 24, 2009