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Wii Fit Plus (And Other Nintendo Titles) Dated For Japan
Via Japanese Nintendo news website Rambling Man come a smattering of Nintendo release dates. Please keep in mind that these are unconfirmed at the moment. • August 6: Color Changing Tingle’s Love Balloon Trip • September 17: Forever Blue 2: The Call of the Sea • September 3: Sloan and MacHale’s Mysterious Story 2 •…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Hey Pirates, Beware of Fake Dragon Quest IX Hentai Boobies!
The “leaked” version of Dragon Quest IX is malware. The ROM was dumped early on to Japanese bulletin board 2chan and is actually a hentai slideshow show called “DS Owata”. Maybe download “Dragon Quest IX JPN DSi Enchanced NDS iND” if you’d like a hentai slideshow? Oh, this bricks your DS. Buying it legally does…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Cooking Mama, Cooking Zelda, Cooking Samus…
This is the cover to the latest issue of French mag IG. It features Cooking Mama. And Cooking Faith. Cooking Peach. Cooking Chun-Li (they even got the thighs right!). And, best of all, Cooking Mai. With Cooking Mai boobs. It’s an awesome pic, but also a curse, as the rest of my week will be…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kingdom Hearts Conceived With Chainsaws
That’s how Square Enix designer Tetsuya Nomura first pitched the game’s weapon to Disney. Square Enix wanted to make a game starring Mickey Mouse, he tells Japanese game mag Famitsu, and Disney wanted a game starring Donald Duck. “Meanwhile,” he says with a laugh, “I wanted neither.” What did Nomura want? “The first weapon I…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Champions Online Open Beta Kicks Off Next Month
Attention, comic book nerds and MMO fans! Champions Online, which has been in closed beta for a while now, will next month move into open beta. Meaning anyone can play it. The open beta will commence on August 17, and will run 24/7 until it closes. For those already in the closed beta, your “opening…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tales of Vesperia PS3 Demo Dated
Sure, you might have already played Tales of Vesperia on the Xbox 360. Maybe you own it, maybe you don’t. We dunno! The demo for the PS3 version of Tales of Vesperia has been dated for Japan: July 13. The demo will be available on the PlayStation Store. No word whether new character, pirate girl…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Hey, Resident Evil 5 Might Be Possible On Wii After All
Resident Evil 5, as we know it, just isn’t possible on the Wii. But that’s as we know it. Nothing stopping it turning up on the Wii in some other form. Capcom’s Masachika Kawata has told gamesTM: Hypothetically speaking, the Resident Evil 4 engine would work perfectly for replicating the gameplay but we would never…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 8, 2009 - Uncategorized
Report: 2 Million Dragon Quest IX Pre-Orders
Dragon Quest IX won’t go on sale until July 11, but it already looks poised to be a huge hit in its native Japan. According to the Nikkei Marketing Journal, various retailers are apparently reporting brisk pre-orders for the game — to the tune of 2 million total pre-orders. According to Media Create, however, DQIX…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 8, 2009 - Uncategorized
GameStop’s “Huge Sale” Does Indeed Seem Huge
As you know, GameStop have kicked off a big, big summer sale, with $100 Guitar Hero World Tour band kits just the start. Those looking for smaller boxes can also find a ton of great games, all for under $20. GameStop are advertising that there will be “thousands” of games for sale under $20, and…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 8, 2009 - Uncategorized
The 46-Foot Tall Paper Gundam Float
We’ve all seen the giant Gundam statue erected in Odaiba. It’s impressive! We’re impressed. Know what else is impressive? This paper Gundam float at the Tachi Neputa Festival. It’s nearly 46-feet tall and illuminated. To put things in perspective the 1/1 scale Gundam statue is 59-feet tall. See? Impressive! YouTuber RoninDave provides a nice introduction…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 8, 2009 - Uncategorized
Trials HD Looks Beautiful, Painful
Regrettably, I did not get to play RedLynx’s XBLA game Trials HD at E3 2009. But some of my close, E3-attending friends did, gushing about how addictive and exciting it was. They didn’t tell me how painful it looked. This Trials HD “Emotion” trailer helps to illustrate why I never ride my motorcycle near bombs,…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 8, 2009 - Uncategorized
Uh, Battlefield 1943, We Have A Problem
The good news: Battlefield 1943 is out, giving console owners a chance to blow each other up under blue skies and palm trees. The bad news: for a ton of people, it’s just not working. We’ve been hearing all day from readers who bought the game, fired it up, and couldn’t play it. At all.…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 8, 2009 - Uncategorized
New Tornado Outbreak Screens Touch Down
Konami and Loose Cannon Studios’ Tornado Outbreak lands this September, causing destruction on the Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. You might recall the game from its previous title, Zephyr: Rise of the Elementals. Or maybe you don’t. Regardless, the game obviously features terrible weather, which you’ll control, causing destruction amidst “humor filled missions and…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 8, 2009 - Uncategorized
Media Molecule Envisions LittleBigPlanet Backwards Compatibility For Possible Sequel
Should there ever be a LittleBigPlanet 2—and Media Molecule‘s Alex Evans isn’t saying, officially, that there is—don’t fret that those 2 million-plus levels created in the first will be immediately rendered useless. Evans, co-founder of the LittleBigPlanet developer, tells GamesIndustry.biz that, should Sony and Media Molecule issue a sequel to the DIY platformer, it could…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 8, 2009 - Uncategorized
Uncharted 2 Gets Frosty On This Week’s GameTrailers TV
Naughty Dog‘s upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive Uncharted 2: Among Thieves will be the focus of this week’s GameTrailers TV, offering up new footage, new levels and a look inside the developer’s studio. What are we going to see? According to host Geoff Keighley, plan on witnessing three minutes of Uncharted 2 cinematics and one new…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 8, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Number Nine
To: Bash From: Crecente Re: This is… Trish has now officially sold nine copies of her novel, Riding For a Fall, on Amazon’s Kindle. I told her that that makes her a novelist. She disagrees. So I asked her how much she needs to make before I can call her one. Apparently the magic number…
By Brian Crecente Published July 8, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Third Mortal Kombat Movie May Actually Be Happening
The third theater-bound Mortal Kombat flick may genuinely be underway, with filming unofficially planned to begin as early as this September, according to one of the film’s stars. Chris Casamassa, karate instructor and part-time on-screen Scorpion, tells the San Gabriel Valley Tribune that he’ll be reprising his role as the undead ninja in a third…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 8, 2009 - Uncategorized
This Week In Video Game Comics
Here’s a rundown of the new video game-based comics going on sale in comics shops in the U.S. this week, including a Street Fighter showdown with Final Fight. (Oh, and President Evil is out this week too.) Click the thumbnails for more details. Sonic The Hedgehog #202… Written by Ian Flynn; Art by Steven Butler…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 8, 2009 - Uncategorized
Activision Moves Singularity Out Of Modern Warfare 2’s Way
Raven Software‘s snazzy looking time-shifting first-person shooter Singularity won’t be arriving this Fall, as previously planned by publisher Activision. Why? Because Modern Warfare 2 is also coming out this Fall and Singularity would only get lost in the din. Activision has today opened a time portal for Singularity, moving it to Q1 2010, well out…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 8, 2009 - Reviews
Doom Resurrection Micro-Review: What In The Sam Hell
id Software and Escalation Studios have compacted the essence of Doom 3 into an iPhone app with Doom Resurrection, an on-rails first-person shooter that teleports the player from Mars to Hell and back. id’s Doom 3 side story puts players in the role of a Marine, aided by a flying ‘bot named Sam, as he…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 8, 2009