Enormous Gundam is DONE

Just when we were getting used to giant Gundam crotch, the rest of the life-sized statue has appeared. That’s right, the mecha monument is just about done. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the mecha anime/manga/toy/video game franchise, this 18-meter-tall (59-foot-tall) RX-78 has been erected. Part of the “Mobile Suit Gundam 30th Anniversary Project,” the…

Xbox Live Will Be Down Next Tuesday, Maybe For The Whole Day

Microsoft sent word earlier today that Xbox Live is in line for some scheduled maintenance. It’ll take place next Tuesday, and could leave the service down for up to 24 hours. The servicing will commence at 12:01 PST, and will leave Xbox-related online services down (including everything to do with Xbox Live) save for the…

Ghostbusters For Xbox 360 Is Region Free

European and sundry other PAL region Ghostbusters fans sent into a Walter Peck-style rage over the game’s PlayStation exclusivity will be pleased to learn that the North American version of the Xbox 360 game is not region locked. That’s right. According to Destructoid, Atari has set free Ghostbusters: The Video Game from its region-specific encoding,…

Let’s Compare Final Fantasy XIII Dubs

Let’s. Because, honestly, language matters! And when you’re watching a Final Fantasy XIII cutscene in English or Japanese, it can totally change the mood. This YouTube clip compares the Japanese and English language tracks. Which do you prefer? Thanks, Darryl!

Things Dying In Starcraft II

For some of us, playing StarCraft competitively is a beautiful ballet of dying over and over again, so it’s good that Blizzard is working hard on making death interesting in StarCraft II. The latest update to the Developer’s Corner section of the official StarCraft II web page showcases this video, kicking off with a Protoss…

The Princess And The Frog Screens Look Like All Other Disney Games

The Princess and the Frog is the first Disney feature animated film with a black princess, which has a lot of people in a snit over racial stereotypes and social equality. The game, though, looks just like every other Disney Princess video game even if the one in the ball gown is black. The Wii…

Crackdown 2 To Feature 4-Player Co-Op

Crackdown 2‘s product page on Xbox.com has a few more details on the game not disclosed when it was first unveiled at Microsoft’s E3 press conference. Exciting details. Apparently the game will allow for up to 16 players in multiplayer, which is nice, but it will also feature 4-player co-op. Which is nicer. Of course,…

Guitar Hero, Rock Band Go Cheap At Gamestop

GameStop is slashing prices on Rock Band, Rock Band 2, Guitar Hero World Tour, Guitar Hero Aerosmith and more, likely in anticipation of this year’s new music games bearing the Rock Band and Guitar Hero names. That means big savings. “What kind of savings?,” you ask. How about the full Rock Band package, guitar, drums…

Virtual Jihad Game Sparks New York Civil Liberties Union Lawsuit

The New York Civil Liberties Union is suing the city of Troy, New York and its Public Works Commissioner, Robert Mirch, over shutting down controversial video game exhibition, Virtual Jihadi. Virtual Jihadi is actually a PC mod of a mod of a low-budget first-person shooter that came out in 2003. In the original game, Quest…

Final Fantasy XIV Online Screens Are Online

Final Fantasy fans were shocked and/or delighted to see the fourteenth entry in the series officially announced at Sony’s E3 2009 media briefing. Final Fantasy XIV is taking the series back online, a PlayStation 3 and PC “exclusive” MMO. And it looks rather sharp, as seen in new-ish screens of the massively multiplayer online game,…

What are your views on digital content? I for one am all for it, it’s convenient for sure but I hate not being able to trade in games when I’m done with them.

Go Speed Racer, Gooo!

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Wearing Coke Bottles I keep watching that Forza video over and over again. It’s great stuff. Sure, it doesn’t show off realistic physics or car performance, but it’s not meant to. It’s meant to draw people like me in, and it’s succeeding. I’ll be posting my interview with the Turn…

New H2Overdrive Trailer Full Of Raw Thrills

Developer Specular Interactive‘s spiritual sequel to Hydro Thunder, known as H2Overdrive, looks to offer everything you’d want from a proper sequel to Midway’s high-speed, big jump-filled boat racing game. Specifically, that’s just more Hydro Thunder. It may not have the name, but after viewing the new trailer for the Raw Thrills‘ arcade game, H2Overdrive appears…

Shadow Complex Preview: Where’s The Morph Ball?

Does Xbox Live Arcade need a game inspired by 2D Metroid? Sure, unless Microsoft plans on buying Nintendo. Shadow Complex is the third exclusive game from Epic for the Xbox 360, a dramatic stylistic shift from two Gears of Wars. This one’s a just-about-modern-day side-scrolling adventure for Xbox Live Arcade primarily designed by Epic’s newly-acquired…

Max Payne 3 Inflicted Upon New Game Informer

Rockstar Games’ Max Payne 3 is apparently getting Game Informer cover treatment this month, as early issues of the magazine appear to be already in subscriber’s hands. So, what’s going on with Max Payne these days? According to early, still rumored details from the mag, Max Payne 3 will move the series to Sao Paulo,…

The Sims 3 Sells 1.4 Million During Week One

Was there ever any doubt that The Sims 3 would be a smashing success? If so, sweep away those doubts, because the Electronic Arts published game is now “the best-selling PC launch in EA’s history.” According to official word from EA, The Sims 3 has already moved 1.4 million copies of the PC and Mac…

Fat Princess: A Fistful of Cake Preview: Fatter

The downloadable PlayStation 3 version of lady-stealing, cake-eating Fat Princess isn’t out until mid-summer, but Sony’s already showing its PSP spin-off, which might become the beefier version, to mix food metaphors. What Is It? Fat Princess: Fistful of Cake is a the PSP spin-off of Titan Studio’s mid-summer-scheduled PlayStation Network game Fat Princess. The multiplayer-centric…

Gran Turismo Creator Explains PSP Delays, Talks Controls & Online Play

Prior to E3 2009, Gran Turismo for the PSP was largely considered vaporware, a driving simulation that felt like little more than a five-year-old announcement. But Gran Turismo is real—and it’s coming to the PlayStation Portable this October. Why the long wait? Kazunori Yamauchi, president of developer Polyphony Digital, says it was just a matter…

EA Considered Doing Its Own Natal, Backs Sensible Motion Gaming

In an interview with Kotaku, the head of EA disclosed some of his company’s experience and ideas involving Microsoft and Sony’s motion tech, predicting that half of the market will eventually go to motion-control games. On the final morning of E3, I sat at a closed bar with EA CEO John Riccitiello and learned that…

Eduardo Toasts WiiWare This Monday

The long wait is over, as Semnat Studios announces Eduardo the Samurai Toaster is coming to WiIWare on Monday, June 15th. Let us celebrate with screens, as a toast would be in poor taste.