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Public Transit Ads Say Something About The Wii
So I’m on my way home from an evening with Ubisoft and I happen across these new Fly Oakland tourism ads on the Bay Area Rapid Transit. Each ad features an adult doing something silly — like a dude in a kufi Xeroxing his face — with the catch phrase “Fly Oakland… What You Do…
By AJ Glasser Published July 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2’s Momiji In Action
.html The PlayStation 3 version of Ninja Gaiden II, now with extra Sigma, will feature more than just a playable Ryu Hayabusa. You’ll also play as the anatomically impressive Rachel, a trashier looking Ayane, and the expectedly stacked Momiji. This is Momiji in action, looking far more detailed than her appearance in Ninja Gaiden Dragon…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Marvelous May Bring Its Wii Games To PS3, Xbox 360
Japanese publisher Marvelous Entertainment hasn’t seen the success on the Wii that it might have envisioned. Releases like No More Heroes, Muramasa: The Demon Blade and Arc Rise Fantasia haven’t captured the Wii audiences attention just yet. What to do? How about porting some of your Wii misses to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360,…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
New Astro Boy Game, New Screens, New Impressions
The Wii version of the next Astro Boy game showed up in New York a couple of weeks ago. As of July, we can cover it. Click the thumbnails. Look at the screens. Read my notes. All at once. (Really, click to expand. I’m trying something new here by doing a preview as a series…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Fez To Get Awesome On XBLA “Early 2010”
Polytron’s Fez is coming (finally!) to Xbox Live Arcade next year, the independent developer announced today. Yes, that will be a long wait on top of what seems like an already long wait for the gorgeous puzzle-platformer. Fez, which follows the platform hopping adventures of Gomez, “a 2D man on a voyage of discovery into…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Valve: Left 4 Dead DLC Announcements Coming Soon
Making good on its intentions to continue supporting the original Left 4 Dead, Valve says that the next batch of downloadable content for the Xbox 360 and PC game will be announced sometime this Summer. Excellent! But when will it ship? Announcements of announcements make gamers grumbly too. Whether that announcement of new… something for…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Wish I Had A Record Player
Unmarked package arrived today, continuing the BioShock 2 marketing campaign. Too bad my brother’s record players are inaccessible to me until the weekend. First they sent children’s drawings close to Father’s Day. Then they sent a record right before Independence Day. I assume 2K’s next BioShock 2 mailing will arrive, unmarked on…. Labor Day?
By Stephen Totilo Published July 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
PlayStation Store Update: Hope You Like The Punisher!
Because the adventures of Frank Castle, better known as The Punisher, is this week’s new playable addition to the PlayStation Store. Not a bad way to start the holiday weekend, but PSP owners get the better end of the deal. That’s because a trio of new downloadable PSP games have been added to the store:…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Insomniac Moons For Your Ratchet & Clank Pre-order
Insomniac is promising players the moon in exchange for their Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time pre-order, one of four different pre-order packages scattered across the universe of video game retail. Lombax fans who put their money down on Ratchet & Clank’s latest PlayStation 3 adventure at GameStop will gain exclusive access to the…
By Mike Fahey Published July 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Midway Sale To WB Clears Court, Staff At Two Studios Given Notice
Warner Brothers‘ bid to purchase much of game publisher Midway won court approval yesterday. The company updated Kotaku and clarified the status of some studios and licenses. The sale to Warner Brothers is expected to close in the next 10 days, according to Midway spokesperson Geoffrey Mogilner. That will put the Mortal Kombat license, the…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Namco Bandai Locks Down Dragon Ball License For America
If you live in the lovely continent of North America, expect all Dragon Ball games you buy (or your parents buy you) over the course of the next five years to have a Namco Bandai label on them. The publisher has secured exclusive rights to the franchise, it announced today, granting it the power to…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Frankenreview: The Conduit
High Voltage an Sega seek to take on the mantle of the Nintendo Wii’s signature first-person shooter with The Conduit. Have they succeeded? The Conduit has everything going for it. It’s an exclusive first-person shooter for a console that generally only sees second-rate ports. It features a compelling story of conspiracy, betrayal, and alien invasion…
By Mike Fahey Published July 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
How Many Hours People Play Each Wii Sonic Game, Music Games Too
Two new lists today: the hours logged by Wii users in each Wii Sonic game. And another showing play times for Rock Bands, Guitar Heroes and the like. (The following stats are pulled from the usage data shared by more than two million Wii users through the system’s Nintendo Channel. For more information about how…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Club Nintendo Elitists Score Prizes Later This Year
If you’ve been diligently registering your Nintendo DS and Wii games with Club Nintendo, enough to receive Gold or Platinum status, you’ll be getting a free gift from the company. When? Some time before January 1, 2010. North American Club Nintendo members of “Elite” standing, like myself, will be notified about the opportunity to claim…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Fallout 3 Falls 50% On Steam
Bethesda encourages gamers to show their patriotism by wandering the Capital Wastes this Independence Day in Fallout 3, now 50% off on Steam all weekend long. Bethesda’s take on the darkly humorous post-apocalyptic U.S. is only $24.99 from now until Sunday on Valve’s service, meaning that if you play your credit cards right you’ll be…
By Mike Fahey Published July 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Video Game Yearbook
When I graduated from High School I didn’t do anything worthy of compliment or insult, not true of our favorite video game characters. Game Daily has compiled a list of what moniker’s our favorite video game characters would have achieved had they all gone to what could only be the greatest high school ever. The…
By Brian Crecente Published July 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Wii Sports Resort Jet Skis Past The Competition In Japan
You may already know that Nintendo’s sequel to the best-selling game of all time, Wii Sports, is already on its way to being a blockbuster in Japan. It sold 360,000 copies week one, five times more than the competition. Fortunately for Nintendo, the competition is itself. Last week’s software champ, Tomodachi Collection for the Nintendo…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
DJ Hero Taps The Grandmaster
What kind of DJ game would DJ Hero be without Grandmaster Flash, the man responsible for millions of records scratched to hell and back by 80’s teens. The Grandmaster himself joins the cast of big-name DJs appearing in Activision’s forthcoming rhythm game, adding a pair of never-before-released mixes to the title for good measure. His…
By Mike Fahey Published July 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sink Or Swim? The Game Designer’s Conundrum
Swimming is something you and I can probably do — and will do more this summer. But swimming has long been an ability less common to video game characters than running, jumping or shooting shotguns. I asked top developers why. Mario can swim. Sonic would not. A jump in the water used to kill the…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Want To Countdown the Release of Dragon Quest IX?
On July 11, DQIX is finally going on sale. To mark the event, Square Enix is hosting a countdown ceremony at Shibuya retailer TSUTAYA. Besides the throngs of DQ fans expected, series creator Yuji Horii and DQIX producer Ryutaro Ichimura will be in attendance. The store opens at 6:40am on the 11th, and if you’re…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 2, 2009