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GameStop’s New Rewards System Could Be Your Ticket To E3
GameStop is currently surveying customers about a new points-based rewards system for customers that could be your ticket to the E3 Expo. In a survey sent out to customers who’ve signed up for the company newsletter (like myself,) GameStop is shopping around a new free customer rewards program that would see visitors earring points for…
By Mike Fahey Published August 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Visit Arkham Asylum This Friday
Players get an early chance to slip on the cape and cowl of the World’s Greatest Detective this Friday, when the Batman: Arkham Asylum demo drops for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. The Batman: Arkham Asylum demo gives players a taste of the opening scenes from the full game, with Batman and Commissioner…
By Mike Fahey Published August 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Netflix ABC Deal Means More Lost, Grey’s Anatomy for 360 Owners
You may have noticed that you can now watch the first five seasons of Lost on your Xbox 360 through Netflix. That’s because Netflix and Disney recently signed a deal to stream the first five seasons of Lost, seasons four and five of Desperate Housewives, season five of Grey’s Anatomy and seasons one and two…
By Brian Crecente Published August 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Third Eye Blind Re-Records For Rock Band
The band that no one could escape in the late 90’s is coming to Rock Band, with Third Eye Blind‘s drummer Brad Hargreaves tweeting about re-recording “old hits” for Harmonix’s rhythm game. Step back from that ledge, Third Eye Blind fans! According to the band’s drummer, six of the band’s older songs are heading to…
By Mike Fahey Published August 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Monster Hunter TRI Finally Goes West
Four-player online co-operative monster hunting is coming to the Wii in 2010, as Capcom finally stops teasing and officially announces Monster Hunter TRI for North America and Europe. Fans have been clamoring for the North American and European release of Monster Hunter TRI ever since the first gorgeous screens trickled over from Japan, and now…
By Mike Fahey Published August 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Download: Sexy Poker And Friends
This week’s Nintendo Download is dedicated to those of you who felt that the poker games already available for the Nintendo Wii just weren’t sexy enough. North America gets its first M-rated WiiWare title this week in Gameloft’s Sexy Poker (500 Wii points), which features six anime-flavored women stripping to their underwear if you’re good…
By Mike Fahey Published August 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Let The Sims 3 Expansions Begin
Travel around the simulated world this November, as EA announces The Sims 3 World Adventures, the globe-spanning first expansion to the top-selling threequel. The Sims 3 World Adventures introduces several exotic new locales for your little fake people to visit, all based off of real-world locations. China, France, and Egypt are represented in Shang Simla,…
By Mike Fahey Published August 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Don’t Interview Pretty Actresses When You Have A Runny Nose
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Been fighting off a cold. Mustered enough energy to jet up to Tokyo recently to interview Kill Bill actress Chiaki Kuriyama for a book I’m writing about Japanese schoolgirls — I guess it’s the follow up to Arcade Mania. She was a great person to talk to, honest, friendly and so…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Modern Warfare: Mobilized Coming to DS
The latest DS-version of Modern Warfare will include multiplayer and horde modes, Activision announced today. Modern Warfare: Mobilized is being developed by n-Space for a Nov. 10 release. Previous DS titles by n-Space include Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: World at War and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Mobilized will have…
By Brian Crecente Published August 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Start Sending Your DSi Pics to Facebook Tonight
The ability to upload photos to Facebook with your DSi hits North America tonight, Nintendo said. The free downloadable system update should be available after 5 p.m. Pacific, according to Nintendo. The update will allow DSi owners to tap on a Facebook icon while reviewing pictures in the portable to send them to the user’s…
By Brian Crecente Published August 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
British Sales Charts: Two Party System
Here’s what last week’s British sales charts look like: Nintendo, Nintendo, EA, EA, Nintendo, Nintendo, EA, EA, EA, Nintendo. That’s what it says in the “publisher” field next to the top ten games in the UK last week. Nintendo and EA. You have to get to #12 to find a game not published by one…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Making Of A Video Game Cover
You may think, by looking at the state of most of them, that making a video game cover is easy. It’s not! It’s hard, hard work, and is a process that results in a lot of unused artwork. Something Fluidesign, who did some work for Sega designing the box art for House of the Dead:…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dynasty Warriors PSP Game Coming To Xbox 360/PS3
PSP game Dynasty Warriors Multi Raid is coming to home consoles as Dynasty Warriors Multi Raid Special. Hitting the Xbox 360 and PS3 on October 1 in Japan, hack-and-slash Dynasty Warriors Multi Raid Special features improved graphics, full voice acting and a new co-op mode. There’s also a new character for consoles: “Moukaku.” Check out…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
No Friend Codes For Guitar Hero 5 On Wii
Vicarious Visions, developers of the Wii version of Guitar Hero, have some good news for Nintendo’s long-suffering online gamers: Guitar Hero 5 won’t be using Friend Codes. Nope! Not at all. Instead, it’ll tap right into your Wii address book and share those contacts, cutting out a lot of frustrating data entry. Of course, that’ll…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony Says Girlz Play Too
OMG! And they use the letter “z” at the end of their words, rather wordz. The website also lists PSP games, er gamez, for girlz, we mean girls. Those six games, gamez, are Patapon 2, LocoRoco 2, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Pangya, Hannah Montana and, wait for it, Petz. If those fine titles…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Fat Princess Problems Detailed, Fix Coming
Fat Princess is great fun, but also – at least at the moment – a pain to play over the PSN, courtesy of some choppy online performance. Developers Titan Studios hear your pain, however, and promise a fix is on the way. The cause of the issue is the game’s matchmaking, which is accidentally pairing…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Man Sentenced To 2.5 Years In Prison, Fined $96,000 For DS Downloads
The Kyoto District Court has ruled against 38 year-old company employee Yoshiaki Asagiri, who was put on trial for distributing DS games online without permission and breaking Japanese copyright law. Asagiri has been sentenced to 2 and half years in prison and fined approximately US$21,000, plus an additional fine of $75,000. Late last year, Asagiri…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Goodbye, Matrix Online
The Matrix Online never really caught on, did it? Didn’t help the second and third movies poisoned people’s interest in the franchise. And that it wasn’t World of Warcraft. Regardless, until last week, it was still around. But not any more. Over the weekend the long, pointy plug that had kept the game connected to…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Final Fantasy XIII Screenshots, You’ve Changed
Time passes, things change. Me, you and that guy over there. We all change. Even Final Fantasy XIII. Above is a screenshot Square Enix released in August 2008. Below looks like the same screen, but this was released in June 2009 along with the overseas version of Advent Children Complete. The biggest difference graphic-wise appears…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 3, 2009