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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 - Uncategorized
Phantasy Star Portable 2 Coming This Winter
Phantasy Star Portable was a big hit and one of the biggest selling PSP games in Japan last year. So what do you think of the chances for a sequel? Pretty good. According to this notice for “The Best” budget version of Phantasy Star Portable, a special UMD will be bundled that shows off Phantasy…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Anyone Want To Make A Heat Game?
Anyone out there keen to buy the rights to make a game based on Michael Mann’s 1995 classic Heat? Because Gearbox – who currently own said rights – don’t really want them anymore. The Borderlands and Brothers in Arms developers, who first announced that they’d be making a game based on the movie all the…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Milla Jovovich On Why They’re Making Another Resident Evil Movie
Hollywood has already churned out three Resident Evil films. Three films? That’s a trilogy. Now, director Paul W.S. Anderson and his star/fiancée Milla Jovovich are making a fourth. Why? Money. “The movie makes money,” says Jovovich. “If it makes more money than the last one, you’d think that people want to see another one, so…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
New Crimson Skies Game A Distinct Possibility
Jordan Weisman founded FASA. Which came up with Mechwarrior, Shadowrun and Crimson Skies. He now runs Smith & Tinker, owns the rights to FASA properties, and is keen on making new games out of them. One of these titles has already been announced: Piranha’s Mechwarrior reboot. But more might be on the way, with Weisman…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kill Bill’s Gogo Yubari Actress Not In Tekken Movie
Check Chiaki Kuriyama’s Internet Movie Database page. At the time of posting, it says right at the top that the actress will be appearing in the Tekken movie. This is incorrect, she says. She won’t. While I was interviewing Chiaki for an upcoming book I’m doing on Japanese schoolgirls (second book — hooray!), I brought…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Technical Difficulties
To: Luke From: Owen We had an unusually prolonged service disruption today; I know very little about what the problem was, or its cause, but I do know Gawker Media staff noticed it immediately and were working on it, late into the afternoon on a Sunday. Everyone’s frustrated by such problems, but I hope they…
By Owen Good Published August 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Casting Resident Evil: Afterlife
No secret that today’s been a tough one. We know lots of you had problems getting to the site. So let’s wind down with a game of what-if, casting the next Resident Evil film. The Bits, Bytes, Pixels and Sprites takes a look at who’d be best for the fourth installment of the franchise, which,…
By Owen Good Published August 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Miyamoto: Not Worshipping at DLC’s Altar
In an interview with the San Jose Mercury-News, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto downplayed the importance of digital distribution to the company’s future. Said Shiggy: Personally, I’m one of those guys who, even if I have all the songs from iTunes, I want the CD as well. I feel more reassured with that physical media. Entertainment is…
By Owen Good Published August 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Keeping a Promise to Joe
Earlier this year, EA Sports made an open call for names to add to its roster in NCAA Football 10. I put in for a guy to whom I felt I owed one. Joseph I. Hodas never really knew me, and never knew he was in a video game. He was a professional acquaintance of…
By Owen Good Published August 2, 2009 -
UncategorizedSex Scene of the Year Already Awarded
By Edge, anyway. They’re saying that an underworld Overlord II foursome takes the cake, precisely for what it does not show. Overlord II’s “foursome” scene is the best of the year. Yes, it’s a scene where you, the hero, have a foursome. And yes, it’s juvie wish fulfillment. But it’s also a smartly done and…
By Owen Good Published August 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
This Would Be My Deathbed
Some day, if you get rich enough, this can be yours – a hi-tech luxury bed that combines a giant pull-down hi-def screen with built in gaming consoles and lots of other amenities. This is the HiCan bed, which takes the IKEA design of “put all the essentials on as few square feet as possible”…
By Owen Good Published August 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Week in Games: The Mothership Lands
Fallout 3’s Mothership Zeta, expected to be the final DLC for the game, drops tomorrow. On Tuesday, G.I. Joe’s movie tie-in bravely goes up on five platforms against Daisy Fuentes and Hannah Montana. Those are the highlights I can see this week. The count: Six for Wii, four for PSP and 360, three for DS,…
By Owen Good Published August 2, 2009