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  Microsoft Pretties Up Games For Windows LIVE

  Microsoft is adding several new features to their Games for Windows LIVE service in order to make it more attractive to gamers and publishers and less attractive to pirates. Microsoft first attacks PC game piracy with the introduction of zero-day piracy protection and server-side authentication, requiring that consumers verify their products before participating in online…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 24, 2009
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  Tomorrow, I Watch BOTH Kids

  To: Fahey From: Bashcraft RE: Tell The Guards To Stop Aiming At Me AHOY DEAREST FAHEY! Wife has a pressing matter she must attend to tomorrow, leaving me in charge of watching the kids and working. Usually we split up the watching the kids part so I can do what I need to do and…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 24, 2009
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  Wolfenstein Released For iPhone, Doom Coming As Well [UPDATE]

  You can now get Wolfenstein on the iPhone. Not the Wolfenstein RPG, not a cheap Wolfenstein knock-off, the real deal, programmed and ported over by id’s own John Carmack. And best of all, it’s free. Yes, seeing as he worked on it as a pet project, Carmack has decided to release the game as a…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2009
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  Keep Your Hadoukens Crisp & Fresh With Tupperware Arcade Sticks

  Arcade sticks are a necessity for proper fighting action on a console, but you know what? Arcade sticks are expensive. Now Tupperware, it’s a lot easier to get your hands on some Tupperware. And once you’ve got hold of some, get hold of some arcade stick components (OK, that last bit’s probably a bit harder)…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2009
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  Tim Schafer: The Game

  Quick history lesson! Tim Schafer is making Brutal Legend. He also did Psychonauts. And, before that, Monkey Island. But this isn’t a game by Tim Schafer. It’s a game about Tim Schafer. Specifically, it’s about Schafer’s role as host of the Game Developers Choice awards, one of the industry’s night of nights. Poignantly, the 2009…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2009
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  British Sales Charts: Zombies Eat Madworld

  Resident Evil 5 broke some records last week. This week, it’s breaking hearts, as it hangs onto the top two spots in the charts at the expense of some fresher titles. Like Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the DS, which despite being a GTA game on the DS could only manage a debut in…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2009
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  Apple Putting The Squeeze On iPhone Developers [Updated]

  The iPhone is a slick looking machine. More and more developers are starting to make iPhone games, and the platform could give the PSP and the DS a run for its money. But, according to insiders, the phone itself might be developer friendly, but Apple is not. Apple is forcing a rather nasty contractual amendment…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 24, 2009
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  Need For Speed: Shift Is The Ghost Of Project Gotham Racing

  With developers Bizarre Creations now at Activision, the Project Gotham Racing series is dead in the water. But fans of the dormant franchise may want to take a look at Need for Speed: Shift. I know, I know. It feels as strange to type that as it must be for you to read it. But…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2009
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  The Favorite Racing Stripe Is…

  …a sad dog with masking tape by our count. The winner will receive a copy of Race Pro. Congrats and much love to all who entered. Speedydog owner, please shoot us an email at kotakucontestATgmailDOTcom.

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 24, 2009
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  What Do Developers Think Will Have The Biggest Impact On The Future Of Gaming?

  It’s a curly question. And an important one. And one that’s been asked, with VentureBeat polling the industry to find out just what it thinks will be kind of a big deal in the future. The answer? An overwhelming 66% of respondents to the survey’s questions (which looks to be many of the industry’s big…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2009
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  Over Two Million DSi Consoles Sold In Japan

  The Nintendo DSi, Nintendo’s latest DS iteration, has sold 2 million units in Japan. Earlier this month, three new DSi colors went on sale in The Land of the Rising Sun. The portable console went on sale on November 1, and as of December last year, the console had sold 1.28 million units in Japan.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 24, 2009
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  Aliens: Colonial Marines Teased

  SEGA confirmed that its Gearbox-developed Aliens: Colonial Marines is still alive and kicking. As of January, the game was slated for the April-June window. Last November, rumors swirled that Gearbox had dropped Aliens: Colonial Marines — which Gearbox president Randy Pitchford dismissed. In the late April issue of UK game magazine Powerstation, there’s a teaser…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 24, 2009
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  Dante’s Inferno (The Movie) Has A Writer

  Dante’s Inferno was a poem. Now it’s not only a game, but a movie as well, with the movie based not on the poem, but on the game based on the poem. Sigh. Anyway, this movie now has a writer. And that writer is…Mr. Dan Harris. Who aside from writing comics for both Marvel &…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2009
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  Sony Making PS3 Development Better And Cheaper

  The PS3 has been out for a couple years now. Developers are getting a better handle on how to make PS3 games. Sony has announced that developing for the system is getting easier. Sony Computer Entertainment introduced new developer tools this March in North America and Europe/PAL territories at US $2,000 and €1,700 respectively, and…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 24, 2009
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  See OnLive In Action

  .html Sure, there are some serious question marks over things like latency, but come on. It’d be a mean, mean person who wasn’t even a little excited by OnLive’s potential to change gaming. Cloud computing, transcending the need for a particular console? Playable on your TV, your PC, or even your Mac? It’s ground-breaking stuff.…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2009
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  Finish Chris Redfield

  Maximum Risky is equal opportunity — as long as it’s risky, it’s fair game. We’ve already posted posted Resident Evil 5‘s sexy secret Sheva costume. It’s only right and just that we bring you this. Over at NSFW site Humplex, there’s a Resident Evil 5 flash game that is short on the zombies and long…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 24, 2009
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  OnLive Makes PC Upgrades Extinct, Lets You Play Crysis On Your TV

  You may never buy a new video card ever again. Actually, the only PC gaming hardware you might ever need will cost you less than a Wii, should OnLive’s potential live up to its promise. OnLive is a new video games on demand service that may just change the way you play PC games. The…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 24, 2009
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  Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Looks Light On Bloody Violence

  The trailer for Xbox 360 title Ninja Gaiden II was a pure gore porn, complete with bloody slicing and dicing. The trailer of the PS3 reworking Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 seems, well, different. For starters, the action scenes don’t look like a butcher shop. In place of decapitation, the trailer shows innocuous red slashes and…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 24, 2009
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  Rolling Stone’s “Agents Of Change” List Full Of Game Developers

  Rolling Stone magazine have taken a little side-trip away from rock n’ roll, and done a more Time magazine-like list of the “100 People Who Are Changing America”. Four (well, five) are developers. First up is Will Wright, at #84. Sure, The Sims and Spore are big sellers, but they’re seen by Rolling Stone as…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2009
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  This Is How You Film A Super Robot Taisen K Commercial

  Previously we brought word of a new Super Robot Taisen ad from Japanese geek princess Shoko Nakagawa. From the making of pictures, we gathered there was saluting involved. We just didn’t know how much saluting. Watch the actual ad and making of in the above clip. The ad is super short. And the making of?…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 24, 2009