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Let’s Learn About Japan! (With Mega Man)
You know how when you were at school, you’d sometimes have to watch some boring, stuffy old video about foreign lands? This is one of those. Except it’s got Mega Man in it. So sit back, relax, and learn all about Japan (circa 1993) courtesy of the Blue Bomber, the NES 2/AV Famicom, Capcom and…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Wii Getting Another Resident Evil Shooting Game
The latest issue of Japanese game magazine Famitsu announces a new Resident Evil (AKA Biohazard in Japan) game for the Nintendo called Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles. The Wii light gun game is a continuation of Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles and set in the world of Resident Evil 2. Resident Evil 2 is set…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Elderly Actress Wants More Dragon Quest Before Death
We’ve been waiting for Dragon Quest IX for a long time. For most of us, we can wait a little longer for the game to come out, but not Japanese actress Keiko Awaji. For her, it’s a matter of life or death. Japanese film actress Keiko Awaji, now in her 70s, wants to play new…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Another Country Gets Club Nintendo
Congratulations, Australia. Your long, long, nigh-on-insufferable wait for a Club Nintendo of your very own is at an end. The redemption website launched today, offering a grand total of…five items. Yup. Five. Count ’em! One. Two. Three. Four. Five. There’s a couple of DS holder things, a Mario face towel, a Wii Remote box and…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Something(s) About The Valkyria Chronicles Anime Is Different, But What?
That’s 19 year-old heroine Alicia Melchiott from the Valkyria Chronicles PS3 version. We’ve seen her wielding a gun like this before. This is nothing out of the ordinary. Let’s compare with her anime version. Hrm. Still Alicia, and she’s still brandishing a weapon. Or should that be weapons? We don’t want to make mountains out…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rock Band’s 591 Songs By The Numbers
As you can see, there are 591 songs available for Harmonix’s Rock Band “platform”. But did you ever wonder how many are hard and how many easy? Or which genre is most represented? Pwn or Die did, so they sat down and started taking notes. At the end of it, we have not only statistics…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Closer Look At Monster Hunter CG Art Book
To mark the 5 year anniversary of Monster Hunter, Capcom has released Monster Hunter CG Art Works, a book about, well, the CG art in MH. The Japanese-language book has concept art, developer interviews and promotional materials. Even if you are not into Monster Hunter, this does look to be a beautiful book. It’s over…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Here Are Your BAFTA Winners
After a year off in 2008 to sort themselves out, the British Academy Video Games Awards are back. With proceedings in London now done and dusted, let’s see who took home a golden mask! Congratulations to Super Mario Galaxy, which took out best overall game. Other big winners were Call of Duty 4, which took…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
First Peek At EA’s Grand Slam Tennis For Wii
Electronic Arts has been pretty coy with deep details on its tennis effort for the Wii, giving us glimpses of character designs only. Today we get a good look at EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis. The Wii tennis game, which is slated to use Wii MotionPlus for more serious racket control, goes for a nice…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
No More Heroes Slumming It With Red Steel For New Wii Bundle
Say, Wii owner. Did you pass on No More Heroes? Well, shame on you! But if you have no taste, maybe you’d like to pick up Red Steel while you’re remedying that, thanks to Ubisoft. The French publisher is bundling both Wii titles in one package, a practice we’ve not seen much of this generation,…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
See Valkyria Chronicles Anime Early (If You Are Lucky)
The upcoming anime based on PS3 exclusive Valkyria Chronicles looks great. Those who live in Japan could win a chance to see it a few weeks early. On March 28, a “premium event” is being held for the anime in Tokyo. The first episode will be screened, and there will also be a talk with…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
BBC Talk Show Man Mentions Fable III
And the Twitter madness continues. Latest to let something slip? British television and radio presenter Jonathan Ross, who says he was just asked to do some voice work for a third Fable game. Or, as he puts it, “Goodnight all. Must go to bed. Got asked to do voice in Fable 3 tonight. Subarashi. Oyasuminasia.…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Grand Theft Auto Creators Just Hit Paydirt
The Houser brothers (and other top Rockstar personnel) are, no doubt, already rich. Filthy rich. But today it was announced they’ve all become a lot richer. You may remember in December 2008, Rockstar’s top talent (including Sam & Dan Houser, Leslie Benzies and “several other key members of the creative team”) signed a deal with…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Metal Gear Solid Touch Duck Hunts Itself A Release Date [UPDATE]
Really, Konami, the best you could manage for an iPhone Metal Gear game was a re-skinned Duck Hunt? How depressing. Still! There are enough Metal Gear tragics out there who just won’t care. For you, then, in the absence of help, comes information: the game will be out on Apple’s App Store next week, March…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Britain Jumps on Violent Video Game Tax Bandwagon
Britain’s top authority on knife crimes is telling his boss — Prime Minister Gordon Brown — to tax violent video games just after Pennsylvania legislators considered the same thing. It’s not clear that there is a connection between violent video games and knife crimes in Britain, but knife crime adviser Richard Taylor says that young…
By AJ Glasser Published March 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Black Knight Producer Explains Sword-Swinging Sonic: “Preposterous”
Sonic Team Producer Tetsu Katano is the man to blame if you’re not happy with Sonic and the Black Knight. It was his idea to slap a sword in the hands of a hedgehog. …after a sequence of sleepless nights that my boss came up to me and casually dropped on me the newss [sic]…
By AJ Glasser Published March 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Another Pretty Vic Viper For The Space Fleet
You can never be too thin, too rich or have too many Vic Viper spaceships from the Gradius series. That’s why it’s so easy to recommend the latest, a special Gradius II edition. Wait. Didn’t we already have a Gradius II Vic Viper? My video game space ship spreadsheet is almost never wrong! In fact,…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
PlayStation Store Gets A Booster Shot From NBC Universal
Sony’s PlayStation Store got a massive passive entertainment shot in the arm today, thanks to addition of NBC Universal goodies and the drying of contractual ink. Wanna watch Milk tonight? Warm up the PlayStation 3! The official PlayStation blog drops word today that NBCU has delivered movie and television programming to the PlayStation Network as…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Big Sis
To: Bash From: Crecente Re: Pretty Sure Anything Tastes Good Fried I was surprised to see that our Big Sister rumor was confirmed so soon after we published the story. Good thing we ran it Sunday and didn’t wait till next week, huh? I probably should post that other rumor I just heard, just in…
By Brian Crecente Published March 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Report: DS Will Soon Break 100 Million Lifetime Global Sales
According to Japanese economic newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the Nintendo DS will surpass an important milestone during the middle of this month. The DS will achieve 100 million in lifetime worldwide sales. As of December 31, 2008, the official global DS sales tally was 96.22 million. The Nintendo DS was first launched in North American…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 10, 2009