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Because Monday Needs Muramasa T&A
Time for some fan art! Fan art featuring Momohime, star of the upcoming (and gorgeous) Wii exclusive Muramasa: The Demon Blade. Fan art featuring Momohime’s butt. Potentially crass, yes, but then it’s done in the same vibrant art style we’re expecting from the game, so in the end, it just comes off as a little…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
What Is Capcom’s “13th” Title?
In a follow-up to their fiscal reports, Capcom have released a table showing not only how many games they released last year, but how many they’ll release this year. And the numbers don’t add up! Look at those PS3 numbers. It’s projected that Capcom will release 13 games on the PS3 over the next 12…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
PS3 To Become “A Platform For Web Services”, PSN Coming To Other Devices
Looks like Sony’s move away from physical media isn’t just being confined to the PSP, with Sony boss Sir Howard Stringer indicating that the PlayStation 3 is also moving towards online delivery. Of course, you can already buy games and other content online via the PlayStation Network – and have been able to do so…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
How Should I Organize These Console Cords And Cables?
Getting settled in my new house and am trying to streamline my console step up. I’ve reduced consoles to current gen only. But still am facing a mass of cords. You’re staring at cords and cables for a Japanese Wii, a 60GB PS3 (with backwards compat), a Japanese Xbox 360 and an American Xbox 360.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Shoko Nakagawa Now Owns A PS3
Very important update! Last we heard, Xbox 360 owner, popstar and nerd hero Shoko Nakagawa was thinking about buying a PS3. She didn’t. But her buddies did! Hipster musician Meg Rock and transgender fashion model Ayana Tsubaki bought surprised Shokotan with a “Cloud Black” PS3 bundle. Those two surprised me!! …They secretly got me a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
The King of Fighters XII Getting Two Sticks
What would The King of Fighters XII be without fighting sticks? When the multi-platform game is released this July, KOFXII will be getting the not one fight stick, but two Japanese peripheral maker Exar is releasing a six button fight stick with official KOF art as well as the very cool, very traditional four-button NEOGEO…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ogle Chesty Jake In This Prince Of Persia Movie Footage
Fresh from the weekend’s TV comes this first good look at the upcoming Prince of Persia movie in action. Whaddya think? Regardless of how great/terrible the movie ends up, it’s nice seeing somebody go to the trouble of building a ginormous, real set. Just a shame that kind of budgetary excess couldn’t extend to putting…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
How to Dismantle an Atomic Weapon
To: Luke From: Owen Re: LA EX As I surmised, Granddad’s interest in “visual games” (he’s started calling them that, I guess it sounds more legitimate to him) has only increased during my visit. It still feels weird playing games in his house though, so I pretended this week that I had to review Fallout…
By Owen Good Published May 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Week in Games: All Hands on Deck
Sacred 2: Fallen Angel and Battlestations: Pacific headline the week. Wii owners may opt for dodgeball featuring ninjas vs. pirates, if the latter are not too occupied in the City of Abandoned Ships. The week’s rundown: Six for DS, five for PC, four for Wii, three for 360, three for PS3, two for PS2, zero…
By Owen Good Published May 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Halo 3 Box Art De-Make
The original Mega Man must represent the widest disparity in game greatness and box art awfulness. It could only be eclipsed by, say, another groundbreaking title done in exactly the same hideous style. Agent B and B Miggs are back on the case, whipping up this first class homage to sixth-rate design. It looks like…
By Owen Good Published May 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Prototype Opening Cinematic Seems Vaguely Familiar
.html Here’s the rundown for the opening cinematic to Prototype: Zombies, check; faceless soldiers that look like combine/Helghast, check; antihero in a hood who poses like Altair, check; gratuitous babe in garters and stockings, check. Here again, we bitch about sequels, and then snark the new IP. But of the motifs in this thing, it’s…
By Owen Good Published May 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Another Rushmore — Console Only
About a month back everyone argued the concept of a theoretical gaming Mt. Rushmore. A man who ran a store in Battle Creek, Mich., soon wrote me to say he’d commissioned just such a work. NewAge Arcade (a gaming store, but no longer operational) had this mural, depicting four characters singularly identifiable with each of…
By Owen Good Published May 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Punch-Out!! Documentary Ad Walks the Dog
Mac is back, sweeping up smack packs in this documentary-style ad that may seem inspired, but is definitely brilliant. Doc’s aphorisms aren’t any more decipherable in live action, sorry to say. He also mispronounces correctly pronounces the hell out of Pissin’ Hurricane Piston Hondo. I missed the memo on that one. But is anyone else…
By Owen Good Published May 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
One Week Left Get in to Uncharted Beta, Cheaply
So, pre-ordering inFamous gets you in the Uncharted: Among Thieves multiplayer beta. Don’t want to do that? Be a Qore subscriber, or sign up before Friday. A few readers sent us a note that SCEA sent out recently, congratulating them on signing up for Qore and giving them their multiplayer beta code (which is good…
By Owen Good Published May 10, 2009 -
UncategorizedPokémon Gold, Silver Debut Footage from Japan
Full disclosure: I do not speak or read Japanese, and I don’t know a thing about Pokémon. Commenters, I’m looking to you to provide context. Here is 16 seconds of gameplay from Heart Gold and Soul Silver which, if you are in my position, is two characters in a top-down adventure game walking in a…
By Owen Good Published May 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Just What You’ve Always Wanted: a Playboy MMO
Actually, “Playboy Manager” wants to be called a MCOG (Massively Casual Online Game). I’ll call it a FaPS. It arrives this summer and is free and browser-based, so you can play it one-handed. In Playboy Manager, you’ll play a talent agent managing the careers of Playboy’s hottest (and nudest) up and coming models. The objective…
By Owen Good Published May 10, 2009 -
UncategorizedDragon Age Origins is, Apparently, the ‘New Shit’
BioWare’s official Dragon Age twitter announced this new trailer – “Violence” – which sets all sorts of slashing and steeling and sexing to the sonorous crooning of Marilyn Manson’s “This is the New Shit.” Doesn’t look like much, if any gameplay in the trailer – and the dialogue doesn’t seem matched in the closeups. BioWare’s…
By Owen Good Published May 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
LinkedIn Profile Says Dead Space 2 Underway?
Pratik Patel, technical director for Electronic Arts updated his page on LinkedIn (like Facebook, just more corporate!) to include “Dead Space 2/Project ETA.” A sequel’s hardly surprising, but the fact it’s underway might be news. Superannuation (or Superogatory, its tumblr URL), which devotes itself to monitoring this sort of thing, found the update and noted…
By Owen Good Published May 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Army Game Protester Did It for the Kids
Last week, GamePolitics brought you the live coverage of a demonstration against the Army Experience Center, a video game recruiting expo in Philadelphia. Seven were arrested. One has now written about it, and why. Elaine Brower breaks down the group’s disagreement and explains the march. Its intent was to deliver a “private criminal complaint,” to…
By Owen Good Published May 10, 2009