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British Sales Charts: 1-1, Baby
The #1 game in the UK last week was a Nintendo title. No surprises there. But numbers two through four were not. Nor were they EA games, or even Activision titles. They were Codemasters games. Codemasters! With England in the grip of Ashes fever, Codies’ Ashes 2009 has sold like British hotcakes (hot scones?!), with…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Iwata Explains The Pitch For An Early Wii Vitality Sensor “Game”
You’ve had your laughs at the Wii Vitality Sensor, at least in part thanks to Nintendo’s utter inability to explain what the thing is actually for. Well, during a Q&A with analysts, Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata has shed a little light. The concept for the sensor came about a few years back, around the same time…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ever Wonder How Much Activision Honcho Made Last Year?
Last year, Activision had a good year. Activision boss Bobby Kotick had a very good year. According to your-source-for-other-people’s-salaries Forbes, his 2008 salary breaks down like this: Thrilling stuff. It must be hard to tell developers to make new Guitar Hero, Call of Duty and, now after the Blizzard merger, World of Warcraft games. We’re…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gran Turismo Car vs Real Car
While we can debate the merits of Gran Turismo as a game til the cows come home, nobody is going to argue against the fact it’s an excellent reference/shrine for car lovers. But just how good are Polyphony’s artists? Fansite GTPlanet has noticed that a recent batch of rendered art for the PSP version of…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Silent Hill, The Haunted House. For Real.
It’s the dead of summer. Halloween is months away. The folks behind the official Saw haunted attraction are planning to scare the bejeezus out of you with a new one based on Silent Hill. The maze is located in Orange County, CA and appears to have the Konami seal of approval. The maze is open…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Konami Re-Issuing Classic PS2 Titles (Metal Gear, ZOE, etc)
With no announcement and no fanfare, Konami Europe have begun slipping brand new copies of some of the company’s finest PS2 games back onto shelves in the United Kingdom “We’ve manufactured certain amounts depending on the title,” a Konami spokesperson has told Eurogamer, “and they’re being bought by wholesalers so will likely pop up in…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Better Look At No More Heroes 2 New Dual Beam Katana
Publisher Marvelous Entertainment has sent out “new” No More Heroes 2 screenshots. “New” because most of them showed up in a May issue of Japanese game mag Famitsu. May is not new — it’s an entire season ago. But those blurry magazine scans are blurry. The worst thing about blurry magazine scans? They’re blurry. Have…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Six Days In Fallujah Devs Closing Down
When Konami said nothankyou to its publishing deal for controversial title Six Days In Fallujah, it placed not just the future of the game, but future of the game’s develpment studio – Atomic Games – in jeopardy. With no publisher support for the game, Atomic were always going to be facing an uphill battle to…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
More Tales of Vesperia Anime Images
Popular Japanese role-playing-game Tales of Vesperia is coming to the big screen on October 3 as Tales of Vesperia ~ The First Strike ~. The film is set before Tales of Vesperia. Voice actors include Mamoru Miyano (who voiced Light in Death Note and Riku in Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II) as Flynn Scifo,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Civilization Revolutionises The iPhone
Just as we were wondering why Apple’s touch-screen platform is so lacking in strategy games comes the weekend release by 2K of an iPhone version of Civilization Revolution. From what we can tell (having only played a few rounds of the lite version), it’s pretty much the same game as appeared on consoles last year,…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Guitar Hero 5 Lets You Import Older Guitar Hero Songs
You liked it in Rock Band, now like it in Guitar Hero, as Activision have announced that the upcoming Guitar Hero 5 will let users import older songs from previous games for use in the new title. Songs from both World Tour and Smash Hits will be able to be carried over into GH5. Though…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ryu Ga Gotoku Bar Hostess Audition Trailer
You’ve seen the publicity stills. You’ve seen the finalist. You’ve seen just how brown Ryu Ga Gotoku (Yakuza) creator Toshihiro Nagoshi is. Now what the Ryu Ga Gotoku 4 audition trailer. Just look at Nagoshi examine those applications. This is serious stuff!
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
G.I. Joe Screenwriter On Halo, Spy Hunter Movies
Australian-born Hollywood scribe Stuart Beattie (G.I. Joe, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl) loves video games. He even loves writing movie script versions of them. While the Halo flick seemed dead in the water, Beattie went on about how Halo was “our generation’s Star Wars” and even wrote a spec screenplay…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Steven Spielberg To Produce Halo Movie?
According to sources speaking with film site IESB, talent agency CAA and “studio executives,” Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg is in talks to oversee the production of a new Halo movie. IESB say Spielberg has been “blown away” by Stuart Beattie’s screenplay, which as we know deals with a kid called John. Oh, and some aliens…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Step Into My Parlor
To: Luke From: Owen Re: What’s The Cheapest Game You’ve Bought? After a month in Oregon I can honestly say I’ve never seen any insect population as aggressive as the spiders up here. If whatever you have remains motionless for more than 12 hours, it’s getting webbed. And they work fast when necessary. This week,…
By Owen Good Published August 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Noby Noby Cat Toy
Do you have a kitty? Do you wuv your kitty? Do you wuv your Noby Noby Boy, too? Then you can knit together this Noby Noby Boy cat toy and enjoy games together. European PlayStation forum user Pudgeeagogo post instructions on how to make your own catnip-filled BOY, with yarn color recommendations, in case you…
By Owen Good Published August 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Philly Devs’ Ambition: Make Their City the Hollywood of Gaming
Video Game Growth Initiative Philadelphia, or VGI, grew out of IGDA’s Philly chapter, and it’s looking to make the City of Brotherly Love into an East Coast magnet for games development. Philadelphia City Paper spotlighted the five-man band – an audio engineer, an executive, a dev, a lawyer and a professor at Drexel University –…
By Owen Good Published August 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Iwata: Nintendo Doesn’t Think Its E3 Presser Went So Hot
In the company’s quarterly financial results briefing, Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata confessed that, yeah, internally no one believes that Nintendo’s E3 2009 briefing was anything to shout about, either. Says Iwata: As for the media briefing at E3, of course we had many internal discussions after that. Honestly speaking, none of us at Nintendo thought…
By Owen Good Published August 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
NHL 10 Coverboy Arrested Over 20 Cents
Who knows what Patrick Kane was paid to appear on the NHL 10 cover, but it was probably more than 20 cents. So it’s hard to fathom why a 20-year-old zillionaire athlete would deck a cabbie over two dimes. But that’s what Buffalo cops say Kane did when he caught a $13.80 cab ride last…
By Owen Good Published August 9, 2009