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50 Cent Wants To Make A Game (That Doesn’t Feature 50 Cent)
Former “rapper” now “multimedia personality” Curtis James Jackson III has already been the star of two video games. But he wants to be involved in more! Just, not ones where he’s the star. Speaking with MTV, Fiddy says that he’s already had talks with publisher THQ about the possibility of some day being “a part…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
French Kid Beats 500,000 To Claim World FIFA Title
Madden is…serious, kinda, but EA Sports’ other tentpole sports game, FIFA, is really serious. Take the game’s “World Cup”, which saw an amazing 500,000 gamers enter for $20,000 cash and a new car. Yup. 500,000. Emerging victorious at the top of that mountain of broken dreams was 22 year-old Frenchman Bruce Grannec, who beat Mexico’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Psychonauts Art Will Make Tuesday Bearable
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By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dead Space: 1.4 Million Sold
There seems to be an impression amongst people that Dead Space under-performed. That such a fantastic game deserved “better” sales. I don’t know. 1.4 million copies sold sounds pretty good to me. The figure was disclosed by EA Redwood Shores’ Visceral’s Glen Schofield in an interview with GameSpot, and when you consider EA’s other “under-performing”…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
PC Sales Charts: Sales Screw Everything Up
They do! While the NPD charts are, grimly, business as usual, the Steam and Direct2Drive charts are a mess, courtesy of some weekend sales. HAWX? Assassin’s Creed? Far Cry 2? Great for the publishers and those gamers picking up some older games on the cheap, but for the hardcore PC sales charts enthusiast, it just…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Let’s Run A PS3 Through A Medical Scanner!
X-rays of consoles and controllers are neat and all, but for those after something a little more 21st-century, why not take a look at a controller and console run through a medical CT scanner. These game-related examples are just two of the items artist (and medical student) Satre Stuelke was able to pass through a…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009 -
UncategorizedRed Orchestra 2 Lets You Play As The Nazis
There’s long been a complaint that, aside from a select few strategy titles, gamers are never given the chance to play as the Germans in a Second World War game. For better or worse. But the upcoming sequel to Red Orchestra – Heroes of Stalingrad – will let you do just that. Developers Tripwire say…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
PlayStation Home Getting A Machinima Movie-Maker
Introducing SceneSet, the movie-making add-on for PlayStation Home that will finally allow users to create something exciting within the service. A small dev team by the name of Loot will be releasing the program later this month, and it will allow users to create short machinima videos using Home’s assets. Locations, characters and items, you…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Apple Eyeing Electronic Arts Takeover?
David Tong over at TheStreet (so, no, not some guy’s blog) notes that, over the past few days, there’s been a bit of chatter from financial types surrounding Apple taking over Electronic Arts. Wait, what? Adami noted that there is chatter that Apple (AAPL Quote) is eyeing Electronic Arts(ERTS Quote) as a takeover target. Nuts.…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
‘The Science of the Mushroom Kingdom’ Explores Super Flora
Designed for a Communication Design Fundamentals class, The Science of the Mushroom Kingdom offers a look at the flora and fungi of the Super Mario Bros. universe, a textbook designed for budding botanist bros. Reader and Carnegie Mellon University student Theyab forwarded us a copy of his creation, which explains the properties (and dangers) of…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
The GDC Text Adventure Gives Me Flashbacks
The folks over at GameSetWatch—the blog owned by the same company that run the Game Developers Conference—posted a text adventure/”interactive experiment” version of the conference today, put together by game creator Jim Munroe. Munroe is a Canadian Sci-Fi author who designs video games in his spare time. I’m not familiar with him, but anybody who…
By AJ Glasser Published May 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
First Red Steel 2 Trailer
As you’ll see from the “Destination PlayStation” (ie a retailer-only event) title card, this isn’t an official consumer trailer. Doesn’t mean you can’t watch it, though. The trailer comes courtesy of MSN Games Brazil, who say they obtained it via a source at Ubisoft. It shows just how different the sequel is to the first…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Namco Bandai Editors Day Round-Up
Namco Bandai Editors Day kicked off with the announcement of both Soulcalibur and Tekken games for the PSP – and it was all pretty much gravy from there. It was kind of a bummer not to see any Tales games whatsoever – not even screens of Vesperia for the PS3. But last year, Tales games…
By AJ Glasser Published May 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Where In Greater Los Angeles Is Brian Crecente?
To: Ashcraft From: McWhertor Re: Look What’s In My Living Room! Samurai Armor!! You may have noticed a lack of Crecente in today’s stack of posts. Well, he’s busy playing games, prepping for E3 and hanging out in posh hotels in the greater Los Angeles area. He doesn’t have time to post, let alone read…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ms. Pac-Man Gets Her Own Nikes
Nike isn’t shy about flirting with video game references for its Nike Skateboarding line of sneakers, having already released Dunks “inspired by” 720° and Skate or Die. And speaking of not shy… Ms. Pac-Man sneakers! You’d have to be pretty comfortable with that level of color on your feet, particularly since those colors—apparently lifted from…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Klonoa Wii Packaging Surprisingly Simple, Tasteful, Tasty
Namco Bandai‘s remake of Klonoa refreshingly stands out against many of its Wii peers, from a box art standpoint alone. It’s shockingly understated, with little more than protagonists Klonoa and Hewpoe clearly happy to represent. No attempts to re-brand Klonoa as some sort of party, no garish freak out utilizing every color in the spectrum.…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Star Trek D-A-C Trailer Is More Thrilling Than Your First Prune Juice
Don’t let those snippets of footage from J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot fool you. Star Trek D-A-C is a straight up space shooter for Xbox Live Arcade and (soon) PlayStation Network. And that’s probably for the best. Unless we’re dogfighting in space—whether that be in real-time or in some Starfleet Battles turn-based geek out—or hacking…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dead Space Devs Change Their Name To Visceral Games
Say goodbye to EA Redwood Shores. The once dryly named studio most recently responsible for Dead Space and the upcoming Dante’s Inferno and Dead Space: Extraction has a new, slightly more extreme name: Visceral Games. Sound familiar? That’s the trademark aimed squarely at the gut that Electronic Arts filed for in March, leading to some…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dragon Age To Be SecuROM-Free
BioWare’s spiritual successor to the Baldur’s Gate series, Dragon Age: Origins, will ship without the unpopular SecuROM digital rights management and copy protection software that has been attached to previous Electronic Arts games. Community manager Chris Priestly announced that the PC version of the role-playing game will use simpler, less intrusive methods to dissuade piracy…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Don’t Cross The Streams While Using Wolfenstein’s Particle Cannon
As true during World War II as it was in the 1980’s – if your weapon fires a particle beam, never, ever cross the streams. Hell, for all we know crossing the streams might be just fine, but from the look of the effect that the particle cannon is having on the enemies in Wolfenstein,…
By Mike Fahey Published May 4, 2009