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DSi Selling Faster Than DS, Faster Than DS Lite, Faster Than Wii
Because it’s still “just” a DS, there doesn’t seem to be as much buzz over the DSi as there was the last DS handheld revision, the DS Lite. Just because there’s no buzz, however, doesn’t mean the thing’s not selling. As we’ve told you the third iteration of the DS has already sold 6.86 million…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
“SEGA Is More Open To New RPGs Than Square Enix”
Japanese game maker tri-Ace is famous for its Square Enix published games. Titles like the Star Ocean series and the Valkyrie Profile games have cemented tri-Ace’s reputation. But tri-Ace’s upcoming role-playing-game End of Eternity (Resonance of Fate in the West) is being published by SEGA, not Square Enix. Explains tri-Ace developer and EoE director Takayuki…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Microsoft Responds To Crazy Games On Demand Pricing
Microsoft’s Games on Demand pricing isn’t exactly consistent across this orbiting ball of dirt we all call home. What costs $20 in one place costs $40 (or sometimes more) in another. So we asked Microsoft, why the discrepancy? Microsoft HQ said the pricing decisions outside the US were the responsibility of that particular territory. So,…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Let’s Compare PSP And PC Versions of Erotic Game
ToHeart2 on the go! The PC erotic game is coming to the PlayStation Portable — minus the underpants. Developed by Leaf, the game was originally released on the PlayStation 2. An adult 18-years-old-and-up version dubbed ToHeart2 XRATED was released in December 2005. ToHeart2 is arriving back on the PlayStation platform with ToHeart2 Portable. How do…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Least We Know 2K Boston Aren’t Working On A Wii Party Game
Normally, we wouldn’t care so deeply about merely the genre a developer was working on, but since the developer in question is 2K Boston – the team behind BioShock – yeah, we care. Because rumour has it – and has had it for a while now – that Ken Levine and crew are working on…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Bionic Commando Developers GRIN In Big, Big Trouble
Poor GRIN. For a little while there, people were excited with the games the Swedish devs were putting out! Then they went and released some awful, awful games. And now they’re on the brink of oblivion. In the wake of a round of layoffs earlier this year, it’s now being reported that the company have…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Valkyria In Bikinis, At The Beach, With Big Heads!
SEGA PlayStation platform title Valkyria Chronicles is set in a fictional Europe during the 1930s during a fictional war. Like many games in Japan, the title has spun off a manga and an anime. A DVD of the anime comes with a special bonus clip called “A Day at the Beach.” War gets old, and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Man Sets House On Fire Over Gundam
A 29-year-old factory worker has been arrested for burning down his house after an altercation with his mother over manga/anime/video game franchise Gundam. Living outside Kobe, Japan, Yoshifumi Takabe is accused of dousing his room in kerosene and lighting it ablaze with a lighter after his mother disposed of his “precious” Gundam plastic model figurines.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Games That Don’t Exist, But Should: Humping Robot
This is, officially, hump-a-Wii day. First up was the patented hobby-horse-humper to which we all just went o_O. Last night, Robot Chicken put out this – Humping Robot on the Wii. It doesn’t exist, but I’d rather play it. I just … lose it when the … oh I can’t spoil that. Seventeen seconds –…
By Owen Good Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
They Broke the Mold When They Made the Boomer
Valve forum user Phantasmapants says this is the beginnings of a 1/6th scale model of everyone’s fat friend in Left 4 Dead, the Boomer. Working on the assumption Boomer’s 6-foot-2, this casting is about a foot tall, and still has a ways to go before completion. Not that this stage of construction isn’t awesome, and…
By Owen Good Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Nintendo’s Shameful, Inflatable Horse-Riding Wii Controller
Read that headline one more time. Then look at this picture. And prepare yourself for the eventuality that no, this is not a joke, meaning yes, Nintendo actually patented an inflatable horse-riding peripheral for the Wii. It’s a small, inflatable cushion with a dock for the Wii Remote. So that when you rock/bounce the horse,…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Before Pink Spidey, There Was Shinobi’s Green Spidey
This weekend’s post about the Wii Virtual Console version of Revenge of Shinobi swapping a bubblegum pink “Spider-Man” for the copyright offending blue and red version in the Genesis original reminded me of the changes made to the XBLA Shinobi. The arcade original version of Sega’s Shinobi once featured a not-so-subtle homage to old webhead,…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Guitar Hero Devs Interested in Natal, MotionPlus
Neversoft’s Brian Bright announced at a Guitar Hero 5 event that the game is franchise compatible, confirming speculation that Activision’s plan for world domination continues unhindered by lawsuit settlements. Franchise compatible means no new band sets to replace your old ones and you can keep the music you’ve downloaded for World Tour as well. But…
By AJ Glasser Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Midway UK Office Sold for 86 Pence
Midway dollar-menuaire Martin Spiess picked up the old Newcastle office for one (1) euro – equal to 86 pence U.K. – according to documents filed in the publisher’s long, slow goodbye. Spiess, Midway’s managing director for Europe, actually picked up both the France and the U.K. office for €1, making the actual retail price of…
By Owen Good Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
THQ Happy Not To Be In EA’s MMA Position, Thank You
Publisher THQ may have had a rough 2008, but its 2009 is shaping up nicely, thanks in part to UFC 2009 Undisputed. That’s likely one of the reasons THQ’s Paul Pucino seems so pleased with its mixed martial arts position. Pucino, speaking at today’s Pacific Crest Securities Technology Leadership Forum, shrugged off worries about MMA…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Three Capcom 360 Platinum Hits, One Box
What would you do if Capcom bundled together Lost Planet, Devil May Cry 4, and Dead Rising into one release at a lower price? Capcom is hoping you’d buy it. Coming September 8th, the Platinum Hits Triple Pack takes the three Platinum Hits titles and squishes them together into one piece of confused game box…
By Mike Fahey Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dementium II Wins Most Frightening Box Art Of 2009
Renegade Kid‘s follow up to Dementium: The Ward is going to have a hard time getting people to pick up the box, especially the shoppers who browse the Nintendo DS section for Imagine Babyz and Pony Friends type fare. But the first-person survival horror adventure crowd is probably going to adore Dementium II‘s box art,…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Snakes? Frogs?
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Step Into My Parlor Tristan and I were walking the dogs early this morning when we got into the sort of hypothetical, nonsensical conversation that only a father and his young son can get into. Tristan pointed to the creek by the trail and noted that one of his forts…
By Brian Crecente Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Guitar Hero 5 Trailer Gives My Parents Four Good Reasons To Play
If Bob Dylan’s All Along The Watchtower, The Rolling Stone’s Sympathy for the Devil, Santana’s No One to Depend On and Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire can’t convince my hippie parents to play Guitar Hero 5, nothing will. This trailer also shows off Face to Face’s Disconnect, but I’m pretty sure my parents won’t care…
By AJ Glasser Published August 10, 2009