To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: T-Minus Three Days Tomorrow I’m going to a funeral — my second in Japan. One of my wife’s distant relatives. He was old, death is natural, still sad, always sad. The first one I went to was rather intense. I expect tomorrow’s to end up emotional as well. Often I…
Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kaz Hirai is on a mission. A mission to make money for Sony’s PlayStation division. “We need to quickly bring our PlayStation business on a break-even level and later to profitability,” Hirai said Thursday. Sony plans to do this through cost-cutting efforts and network service expansion. According to Hirai, Sony is…
Japanese 2D fighter BlazBlue – the spiritual successor to Guilty Gear – isn’t the most likely subject for an American fashion brand collabo, sure, but a fashion brand collabo is what the game is getting. These shirts are by Triumvir, who are continuing their run of game-related lines following last year’s Street Fighter II run.…
Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online will bring golf to PC and Mac web browsers when it launches this fall, but it will also replace the disc-based versions of the game. The game will be entirely streamed to computers and require an internet connection to play. A price has not yet been announced, but Electronic Arts…
Not a lot of great stuff on offer this week on the PAL PlayStation Store, though the addition of those 2000AD LittleBigPlanet characters should bring some smiles over the weekend. Aside from those, though, it’s slim pickings. There’s a couple of new games (Cellfactor: Psychokinetic Wars & Inferno Pool), the new Saints Row 2 DLC…
Just Cause 2 looks like it’s more than merely Bionic Commando set in some banana republic. There’s jet plane surfing! The game is slated to skydive in next year. Hopefully it won’t feel as rushed as the previous title.
Universal have put the planned BioShock movie on hold, citing difficulties with the film’s ever-expanding budget. But don’t you dare tell dreamboat actor Wentworth Miller that! He seems to think the movie is still all stations go, posting on his Twitter account “Prison Break may be ending, but I’ve got things in the works. Hint…one…
You now know that, in the right hands, the DS can draw some amazing pictures of fast cars. But did you also know that, in the right hands, it can do naked ladies as well? This clip highlights the other half of February’s Kiwi exhibition 99DS (which featured the fast cars), with this component, done…
Atari? Strong brand name. Infogrames? Um, yeah. No wonder Infogrames want to switch its corporate identity to the company Nolan Bushnell founded and made famous. “The Board agreed to change Infogrames Entertainment’s name to Atari,” the company announced today. “This decision will enable us to make the best use of the Atari brand, capitalizing on…
There are many specialties in medicine. Atlus knows this. Enter the latest entry in the Trauma Center series, Trauma Team. Players can play as a general surgeon, diagnostician, E.M.T., orthopedic surgeon, endoscope technician and medical examiner. The game is slated for Spring 2010, trailer at E3. Thanks, notMordecai!
According to the company’s fiscal results for the financial year ending March 31, Infogrames posted net losses to the tune of €226.1 million. During the previous fiscal year, the company only posted losses €51.1. However, the good news is that consolidated revenues were up 51 percent to €136.4 million in a sluggish global economy. US…
When City of Heroes developers Cryptic were bought by Atari last year, it was said they’d be working on a single, secret game due in 2011. Now it turns out they’re working on several games. Atari’s yearly fiscal report has revealed that Cryptic “is working on the development of a series of new games based…
Last year, in a major coup for the fledgling company, Atari managed to hire former Sony Worldwide Studios boss Phil Harrison to serve as President. Now? Now he’s no longer President. According to a statement made by Atari as part of the company’s fiscal year report: Because of a shift of business operations to the…
Don’t believe everything you see on television — even when it’s reported by a major Japanese television network — and especially when reported by TBS, it seems. Earlier, it was reported by TBS News that the Ethics Organization of Computer Software had voluntarily agreed to halt the sale and manufacture of “rape-type” games. Too bad…
Having first teased the game a few months ago, id’s John Carmack has provided a slew of details on the company’s upcoming iPhone port of their classic PC shooter Doom. Carmack goes into exhaustive detaill on how the game has been nipped and tucked to both work and look good on the handheld, but the…
Here’s the first trailer for DJ Hero. Until now, I’ve tried to keep an open mind about the whole thing. But after seeing this? Hrm.
If her looks don’t kill, then her superhuman strength or her melee morphing arms will. She’s KOS-MOS from Xenosaga, and we love her. But do you love her? Rally the troops, tally the troops! KOS-MOS has made it to the final round. She’s up against robot assassin HK-47. Stiff competition. He’s a drone, she’s got…
Need pictures to go with the words explaining how DJ Hero will actually work? These screenshots should do, showing it works…well, a lot like Guitar Hero, really. Which is what you’d expect. As for DJ Shadow, who features in all these screens…well, I’ve seen Shadow live a few times over the past decade, and never,…
We don’t know if Mass Effect‘s Shephard is dead or a Geth or what. But we do know this is a brand new Mass Effect 2 trailer. Right here. On your computer screen. Lovely.
A few days ago a trademark for “Brink” popped up from developer Bethesda. What is “Brink”? It’s a game, and this is its teaser trailer. Let’s see there’s a futuristic city scape, an eye ball and some blood, but no gameplay footage. The title is multi-platform and will be out “Spring 2010.” That’s next year,…
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