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Meatball Subs
To: Bash From: Crecente Re: Passports, We Got New Passports You know what’s better than homemade bolognese sauce? Left over bolognese sauce with meatballs. That is all. What you missed: DJ Hero Gets Carrying Case, DJ Stand Aliens Vs. Predator: The Prey inFAMOUS Movie In The Works EVE Online: The Butterfly Effect Uncharted 2 Update:…
By Brian Crecente Published July 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
These Are Lips’ Number One Hits
Microsoft has confirmed the final lineup for Lips: Number One Hits, the sequel to the Inis-developed karaoke game that hit the Xbox 360 last year. You’ll be able to tap into your inner Lady Gaga and MC Hammer this October. As number one hits tend to be, the Lips sequel is filled with nothing but…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Atlus Really Wants You To Stop Importing Demon’s Souls, Expands Bribery
Demon’s Souls is coming stateside, thanks to publisher of all things niche Atlus. Therefore, it would really appreciate it if you’d stop importing the already translated Japanese version, now rather cheap. It’s doing so with many, many pre-order goodies. Today those offerings expand, as Atlus notes on the official PlayStation.blog that not only will Demon’s…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Square Enix Says Star Ocean PS3 Listing “An Error”
A listing for the PlayStation 3 version of Star Ocean: The Last Hope appeared on retailer Gamefly this week, an unannounced port of the Xbox 360 version. Square Enix reps now say that retailer listing was made in error. Sqaure Enix reps told Kotaku “We cannot comment on a PS3 release at this time.” However,…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
EA Signs Fedor Emelianenko For EA Sports MMA
EA Sports and Tiburon have signed one more fighter for its upcoming mixed martial arts title, adding Russian heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko to the list of brawlers mixing it up in EA Sports MMA. Emelianenko will be joined by Dutch-American Gegard Mousasi and Brazilian Renato Sobral, three fighters who join “a long list of fighters” that…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 29, 2009 - Reviews
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Review: Almost Half-Good
It’s a movie tie-in game for a film based on a blockbuster book series, so really, what did you expect of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince besides visual fan service? Originality? The Harry Potter movie games are pretty much interchangeable. Harry runs around Hogwarts in some abbreviated version of the film’s plot with a…
By AJ Glasser Published July 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Spread Your Own Brand of Happiness Like the Little King
We all just want to be happy, right? So does King Corobo. Tell us how you spread your special brand of happiness (forwarding Maru videos, perhaps?) and enter to win a copy of Little King’s Story, the new Wii RPG from Town Factory/Cing. Email us at [email protected] (subject line: Little King’s Contest) where the happiest…
By Chrissie Lamond Published July 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Stoked DC Assaults K2
Bongfish’s follow-up to the Xbox 360 snowboarder Stoked has players barreling down the perilous slops of K2, the second largest mountain in the world. For every four people who have reached the summit of K2, one has died trying. Luckily, climbing will be the farthest thing from your mind in Stoked DC, which turns the…
By Mike Fahey Published July 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Square Enix Has Gyromancer In Its Future
Fans of everything that Square Enix does should be on the look out for Gyromancer, a trademark recently filed by Square Enix for use in services such as “computer game software” and “video game software.” That’s typically a good sign that Square Enix will use Gyromancer for a computer game or video game. We’d go…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gears Of War 2 Gets Night Vision Goggle Booty In Japan
If it’s good enough for Modern Warfare 2, it’s good enough for Gears, apparently. Microsoft is holding a contest for Japanese Gears Of War 2 fans that could net them a pair of night vision binoculars and a BBQ set. Sure, Gears aficionados can also win a replica Lancer gun, but it’s the option to…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
World Of Warcraft’s U.S. Sales Numbers Are Massive
Between collectors editions and normal retail boxes, the core game and expansions, the NPD reports that World of Warcraft has pushed 8.6 million units in the U.S. to date. Following up on the news that EA’s The Sims 3 had sold 800,000 copies in its first month, Gamasutra decided to find out how well the…
By Mike Fahey Published July 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
CliffyB Makes Felicia’s Day
[Thanks DH]
By Brian Crecente Published July 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
R-Type Tactics Sequel Has A Bittersweet Subtitle
Atlus brought Irem’s R-Type Tactics to North American PSPs last year as R-Type Command, a turn-based strategic deviation from the side-scrolling shoot ’em up the series is known for. A sequel is planned, with an amazing subtitle. R-Type Tactics II: Operation Bitter Chocolate will be coming to Japan on October 29, according to a report…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Who Is The Mystery Darkside Chronicles Cover Character?
Capcom’s newly-released cover art for Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles contains a mysterious figure of mysterious mystery to puzzle players until it game comes out. While Leon, Claire, and Steve are clear enough of the cover of the next entry in the Resident Evil rail-shooter series for the Wii, who is that shadowy character in…
By Mike Fahey Published July 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Hard To Resist Flinging The PSPgo, For A Good Reason
I wielded a PSPGo again yesterday and, I must confess, only will power, professionalism, and the fear of the Pottery Barn rule kept me from tossing the machine in the air. If I did toss the PSPgo, I would not have tossed it in anger. I have nothing against the system, even though Sony does…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Doc Louis Will End You
He made you, and he can break you. Here’s four new shots of the officially-named Doc Louis’s Punch-Out!!!, one of the rewards you can choose for being a Platinum member of Club Nintendo. Nintendo passed along these new screens in order to help anyone still struggling with the choice between this downloadable game and the…
By Mike Fahey Published July 29, 2009 - Reviews
Streets of Rage Micro Review: Ragin’ Hard
Porting a console classic to modern times is a no-brainer when it’s an impulse buy where half the purchase decision is fueled by nostalgia. But is Sega’s Streets of Rage worth it on the iPhone? Loved All the Rage: This is a straight-up emulation of the Genesis original, so of course everything you love and…
By Owen Good Published July 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Uncharted 2 Update: Beta Lessons And Welcome Omissions
Uncharted 2 is four weeks from completion and, thanks to those of you who played the game’s June beta, the development team from Naughty Dog learned a couple of things. Adding a jet-ski level was not one of them. Sony was showing its full holiday line-up for PS3 and PSP in New York yesterday, including…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Oh Yeah, Resident Evil 4 iPhone Now Available
Sneaky parasitically-controlled humans! Capcom has officially released Resident Evil 4 for the iPhone, placing the power of Leon Kennedy at your fingertips. After a bit of a false start, Leon returns, laying waste to countless infected Spanish people in this iPhone version of the PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Nintendo Wii masterpiece. A virtual joystick controls…
By Mike Fahey Published July 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Look At Assassin’s Creed 2’s Comic-Con Outing
Ubisoft put together this montage of footage from their Assassin’s Creed 2 showing at Comic-Con in San Diego last weekend. The clip includes some gameplay, a few very short comments from the panel and a brief interview with the guy responsible for the Assassin’s Creed 2 film shorts being produced. The movies will be using…
By Brian Crecente Published July 29, 2009