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SNK’s April Fools Joke Is Real (Sorta)
This past April 1 was, like the year before it and the year before that, April Fool’s Day. Osaka-based game company joined in the fun and launched a website for faux retro shooter Star Radish. The game really exists. Well, as an in-game game, that is. The game will be making an appearance in upcoming…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
How To Get Real Cars For Combat Racing
Blur, the upcoming combat racer from Bizarre Creations, features licensed automobiles. How’d the Project Gotham Racing developer snag them? According to Bizarre, it’s choice of vehicles helped — meaning, there aren’t Ferraris or Lamborghinis. “If someone doesn’t want to do what we want to do then we just won’t put it in the game,” says…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Comic Con’s Video Game Figure Exclusives
San Diego Comic Con is just around the corner. There will be loads of toys there, and in 2009, that means loads of video game toys. Here’s a few of them. Toy company NECA will be offering a few video game figures that’ll be exclusive to attendees of the show (or savvy online purchasers). One…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
PlayStation Famitsu Magazine Offers Few Kojima Production Hints
And the carrot-roping continues! The new issue of Famitsu‘s PlayStation imprint hints at the upcoming game announcement from Kojima Productions. The text reads, “The latest work from Metal Gear franchise maker Kojima Productions approaches.” But what is that latest work? Metal Gear Solid 5 or Zone of the Enders 3? Add your two cents in…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Robots We Love: Chibi-Robo
He’s 10cm-tall, has screws for eyes, a plug coming out of his butt and is so ready to please you. That’s right, he’s Chibi-Robo! The tiny bot first asked players to plug into adventure back in 2005 — but ended up plugging into our hearts while he scrubbed the house clean. Chibi-Robo is a service…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Expansion Features “A Complete Set Of New Locations”
So, we’ve had S.T.A.L.K.E.R., we’ve had S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky, and now we’ve got S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat. Won’t running around the same palce for a third time seem a little, well, boring? Course it would. Which is why developers GSC have included a “complete set of new locations” for the upcoming expansion. GSC’s Oleg Yavorsky…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Where The Wild Thing Are Is On Some Game Adaptation
Hey! Did you hear? Spike Jonez, director of Being John Malkovich, made a movie based on the classic children’s book Where the Wild Things Are. And it looks amazing. And hey! Did you hear? They’re making a video game based on Where the Wild Things Are. And it looks… We don’t know how it looks.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 26, 2009 -
UncategorizedStore, And Run, Your Wii Games On A Hard Drive
Of all the things people like to bitch and moan about the Wii, its lack of storage is right up there. This easy-to-follow tutorial, however, may render that argument a moot point. Using the Wii’s Homebrew Channel, a USB 2.0 hard drive and a few files, anyone feeling mildly adventurous (really, this doesn’t sound that…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 26, 2009 -
UncategorizedNothing Says Dream C Club Release Date Like Panty Flashing
Dream C Club from D3 Publisher is a hostess game that lets players get drunk in-game and watch dancing girls. Here is one of those dancing girls. So far, the game has only been announced for Japan, and it’s recently been given a release date: August 27. As we previously pointed out, Dream C Club…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tony Hawk: Ride Is Not Cheap
Tony Hawk: Ride is coming with an enormous plastic skateboard peripheral. If you were worried that would make it cost a bit more, you should know that it might make it cost a lot more. The game is now available for preorder on GameStop’s website, and while none of this information is 100% confirmed (including…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Conduit Developers Unveil New Roman Fighting Game
Conduit developers High Voltage mustn’t have got the memo. E3 is next week, not this week. Regardless, they’ve chosen today to announce their latest project, Gladiator AD. Described as a “hybrid between 3D Fighting games like Bushido Blade and Boxing games like Fight Night”, Gladiator is a 1v1 fighting game set in ancient Rome, where…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Grade School Suicide Leads To Mass Game Website Closings
Thai courts have order the closure of online gaming and gambling websites after a 12-year-old boy jumped to his death from a sixth-floor balcony after being banned from gaming by his father. Pongsathorn Wattanabenjasopha, a sixth grader student at the Sri Witthaya Paknam School, committed suicide on Thursday. According to The Bangkok Post, several factors…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
PixelJunk 1-4 Has A New, Proper Name
Despite the inherent goodness of their previous games, Q-Games’ upcoming PixelJunk 1-4 was never going to sell with a name that sounded like a Mario Stage. So it’s been changed to something more marketable. And that name is PixelJunk Shooter. The title was settled upon after users were allowed to nominate their own ideas for…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Studio Ghibli RPG Looking Good
Last we heard, Studio Ghibli were taking their sweet time providing the art and animation for Level 5’s RPG Ninokuni. One look at these new screens will have you understanding why. The stuff the anime maestros are coming up with for the game is real top-shelf stuff, and unless Level 5 completely drop the ball…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Turn Your iPhone Into a GameBoy
Infectious makes skins for everything from iPods to cars, but what interests me most over on their site right now is this slick iPhone skin. Monochrome is a set of stickers that makes your iPhone look like an old school handheld, perhaps even a Gameboy. The front features fake little red buttons and a D-pad…
By Brian Crecente Published May 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
How Square Enix Sees Its Future Sales
The build-up has been immense. These games have been years in the making. That’s right, Dragon Quest IX and Final Fantasy XIII But we’re expecting Dragon Quest IX this summer in Japan and later this year in North America. We’re expecting FFXIII in Japan this winter and in America next year. What is Square Enix…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
The D.I.Y. Katamari Damacy Controller
Out of all the games that got their own unique controllers, there’s one glaring omission: Katamari Damacy. Sure, maybe the game already took perfect advantage of the PlayStation 2’s dual analog thumb sticks, but that didn’t stop Esty product manager Do-it-yourself type Kellbot from churning out her own Katamari controller. “It uses an optical mouse…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
E3 ’08: Our Promise-Checking Round-Up
Big companies make big promises at big shows like E3. We recently rounded up the promises made by Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony from last year’s E3. Who can you trust going into E3 2009? Here are last year’s performances… Witness the future-predicting powers of Xbox 360 executives and game developers. Just ignore the 1 vs…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Take A Look At A DJ Hero Controller In The Wild
For those who haven’t seen the latest issue of Game Informer, in which the DJ Hero controller was finally revealed in all its glory, here’s a shot of Morgan Webb Amanda McKay cradling one. Uncomfortably. Because we’d already seen half the thing previously – and because, based on the latest issue of GI, we described…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 25, 2009