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Konami Sneaking Metal Gear Into Arcades?
Two new trademarks filed by Konami hint that the publisher might be bringing the Metal Gear franchise from consoles to arcades. What could Metal Gear: Tactical Online Action possibly be? While the two trademarks—Metal Gear and Tactical Online Action—were filed separately, their descriptions (and titles) complement each other. Both are for goods and services such…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
DJ Max Fever’s Extremely Limited, Ultra-Expensive Edition
Fans of Pentavision’s DJ Max series are a fiercely loyal bunch, but are they fiercely loyal enough to shell out $130 for the ultra-limited the crew edition of DJ Max Fever for the PSP? The series might be a bit obscure – I was the only person who pre-ordered a copy of DJ Max Fever…
By Mike Fahey Published April 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Japan’s Giant Robot Game Love Affair Continues
Giant robots hold fast in Japan, as Mobile Suit Gundam: Senjou no Kizuna Portable for the PSP remains the bestselling game in the nation. Yes, this week’s chart is that exciting! Only a handful of new debuts landed in the Media Create top thirty, including portable baseball game Pro Yakyuu Famista DS 2009 and horse…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Frankenreview: Nintendo DSi
The third iteration of the Nintendo DS is upon us, adding new functionality, more power, and an extra vowel. In 2004 Nintendo released the little dual-screen handheld that could, the Nintendo DS. Two years later they trimmed down the fat with the sleeker, shinier DS Lite. Now the third version of the handheld has made…
By Mike Fahey Published April 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Company Of Heroes Expands With Tales Of Valor
One of the highest-rated real-time strategy games of all-time gets a standalone expansion this week in Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor. Relic Entertainment’s real-time strategy World War II masterpiece gets a healthy dose of new content with the Men of Valor standalone expansion, now available at retail, on Steam, and any number of digital…
By Mike Fahey Published April 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Strong Bad Sales Double With Wii SD Card Support
Nintendo’s addition of SD memory card play to the Nintendo Wii has done amazing things for WiiWare developers, with Telltale announcing that sales of their Strong Bad series have doubled since the GDC announcement. Those looking for proof that a solution to Wii storage limits was sorely needed by both developers and customers need look…
By Mike Fahey Published April 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Blood Bowl Gets A Website, Beta Signups Begin
Cyanide Studios‘ video game version of the classic tabletop fantasy football game Blood Bowl has a brand new website chock full of game information, along with a sign-up page for the multiplayer PC beta test. Of course when I say fantasy football, I am talking real fantasy football based in the Warhammer universe, with dwarves,…
By Mike Fahey Published April 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
City Of Heroes Explodes With Player Created Content
City of Heroes becomes the first massively multiplayer online role-playing game to allow player created content, with the release Issue 14: Architect. This launch video for Issue 14 is an overview of the mission creation system, which we’ve gone over rather exhaustively in the past. Now that the system is live, it’s all up to…
By Mike Fahey Published April 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Eidos: Batman Is “As Close To Perfect As We’ve Ever Come”
Eidos kicks the hype engine for Batman: Arkham Asylum into overdrive, preparing a massive marketing campaign for what they are predicting will be one of the stand-out titles of the year. Eidos’ head of UK marketing Jon Brooke doesn’t mince words. Speaking to MCV, Brooke extolled Batman’s many virtues in a bombastic fashion sure to…
By Mike Fahey Published April 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack Deployed
Halo 3 fans now have three new places to kill each other, as the long-awaited Mythic Map Pack makes its way onto the Xbox Live Marketplace. The Xbox Live Marketplace flavor text is simply exquisite this time around, really evoking the atmosphere of these three new maps for Halo 3. If the flavor text doesn’t…
By Mike Fahey Published April 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Nielsen Drops the Ball on Console Usage Numbers
Remember that study of video gamer habits Nielsen released earlier this week showing the Wii in third place and the Playstation 3 in seventh, last even after the GameCube and original Xbox? It was wrong. Fast Company reports that they’ve been told that the graph was mislabeled. The real graph, which now appears in the…
By Brian Crecente Published April 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
D&D Co-Creator Dead At 61
Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons and one of the founding fathers of the role-playing genre, Dave Arneson has passed away at the age of 61. While the late Gary Gygax, who passed on a little more than a year ago, added fantasy elements to war gaming to create the basis for Dungeons & Dragons, it…
By Mike Fahey Published April 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Grand Slam Tennis Cover Features Tennis Star Triple Play
Instead of focusing on just one athlete for the cover of Grand Slam Tennis for the Wii, EA plasters three of the biggest names in tennis across the front of the box. In one fell swoop, EA has taken my cumulative knowledge of tennis and condensed it neatly into a game cover. John McEnroe, Roger…
By Mike Fahey Published April 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Play Crysis Wars For Free Starting Today
Starting today players can play all of Crysis Wars online for free, including each of the game’s three multiplayer modes and all 23 maps. The free trial runs until April 17. EA and Crytek plan to release Crysis Maximum Edition, a compilation of all three Crysis games, on May 5 for $40. “When Crysis Wars…
By Brian Crecente Published April 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
People’s Dork Pictures Are So Very Funny
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: The World is Shrinking You seen this site? It’s been a source of amusement today. Would totally submit one of my childhood dork pics, but sadly, all my dork pics are at my parent’s home in Texas. Do you have dork pics? Sure you do. Everyone has at least one…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
What Were Big Huge Games Working On (And Have They Found A Buyer)?
Big Huge Games used to be THQ’s baby. Now they’re on the chopping block. What got them to that stage? Maybe it was these two games, recently canned, that the company were working on. One was for the Wii, and was called God: The Game. Taking elements of Zelda, The Settlers and…Animal Crossing, it looked…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
OK, THIS Is A Racing Rig
Earlier in the week, we posted a rather nice-looking racing rig. Thought it was pretty swish. All that did, though, was prompt reader The Dude to email in, saying “You call that a racing rig?!” Well, yes, we did, but his exclamations were for a good reason. See, he pointed us towards I-Way. Which is,…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Monster Hunter Takes Over Fake Evening News
Capcom’s Monster Hunter series is huge in Japan, but not in the West. This faux news broadcast is very heavy on PR spin, but does explain the whole phenomenon. Or at least tries to. Monster Hunter Freedom Unite was originally released in Japan in 2008 and has sold over 2 million copies. This June, it’ll…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 9, 2009 -
UncategorizedBrave Little Publisher Bringing Japanese Indie Games To The US
Bless you and your big hearts, Rockin Android. The new company, based out of LA, exist for a sole purpose: to publish Japanese indie games on the PC in the United States. It’s a niche market they’re catering to, sure, but also one that’s sure to be appreciative of the effort. As of now there…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
This Akihabara Electronic Billboard Is For Gaming
YouTube users vs. cell phone owners, FIGHT! Recently in geek paradise Akihabara, electronics giant Toshiba tested an interactive billboard game. The game was played on an electronic display over the entrance of Akihabara electronics superstore Yodobashi Camera. Up to six players (cell phones and YouTube users) duked it out in a 90-second race to paint…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 9, 2009