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The Thing About Little Dogs
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Chocolate From Mommy, Pretty Haircut Lady And Sonic The Hedgehog I’ve never really owned little dogs before. I’ve had retrievers, shepard mixes, a Great Dane, a doberman, greyhound, a Border Collie, but never a tiny dog. Not until LittleFoot, Tristan’s long-haired Chihuahua mix. They’re cute, but man did they figure…
By Brian Crecente Published February 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Inevitable Left 4 Dead/Team Fortress 2 Crossover, Part II
What is it about these two games that seems to inspire such a flood of fan art? Not that we’re complaining, as this Left 4 Dead meets Team Fortress 2 fan art is fabulous. Better than the previous effort? We’re not here to judge. Okay, we are. I happen to like this classic TF2 line-up,…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Why Don’t We Have EarthBound On Virtual Console Yet?
Say, remember when the Entertainment Software Ratings Board re-rated classic Super Nintendo RPG EarthBound for the Wii’s Virtual Console? Remember how excited we all got? Well, there’s some bad news about that. According to the folks at Starmen.net, who might just know everything there is to know about EarthBound and the rest of the Mother…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Shirts and Stickers of The Lost and Damned
The Lost and Damned is due out tomorrow and to celebrate, Rockstar sent us a clutch of shirts sure to get you killed if ever worn in a biker bar. Well, I suppose you could get away with wearing the Alderney, Algonquin, Bohan, Broker & Dukes. shirt to the local chapter of the resident one…
By Brian Crecente Published February 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Burnout Paradise Thursday Car Update Will Be Legendary
Criterion Games has announced that the “Legendary Cars” pack, which features some of Hollywood’s most famous, fantastical vehicles, will be bustin’ to Burnout Paradise starting this Thursday. And bustin’ makes me feel good. So does the possibility of driving KITT from Knight Rider the Carson Nighthawk, the General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard the…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gameloft Moves 200 Million Mobile Games
Mobile gaming giant Gameloft proves just how giant they are today, announcing that they have sold more than 200 million mobile games since the company first launched back in 2003. While Gameloft is one of the world’s leading publisher of mobile phone games, they owe the majority of their 2008 sales to the Apple App…
By Mike Fahey Published February 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
KENKEN Coming to DS, iPhone
I mentioned Sudoku-replacement KENKEN last week. An astute reader today points out that Capcom and Nintendo both have logos on the official KENKEN site. There’s a reason for that. This April, Capcom plans to bring a KENKEN game to mobile phones, including the iPhone, according to the official KENKEN website. The website also mentions than…
By Brian Crecente Published February 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Will You Be Buying Commodore 64 Virtual Console Titles?
Nintendo’s very clever clues lead us to believe that Commodore 64 games are heading to the North American Virtual Console. Which titles, if any, are you looking forward to playing on your Wii? With over 18 Commodore 64 titles already released on the European Virtual Console, it’s a safe bet that we’ll get a good…
By Mike Fahey Published February 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Resident Evil 5 Used Real World Virtual Camera
Resident Evil 5’s camera angles were created with a virtual camera, one of only four in the world. It will be the first game to use the tech, according to Gamers Weekly. Fox News’ Gamers Weekly also talked to Reuben Langdon, motion actor for Chris Redfield; Karen Dyer, voice of Sheva Alomar, and Ken Lally,…
By Brian Crecente Published February 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dead To Rights To Return With Retribution
Namco Bandai is giving tough cop Jack Slate another chance to shoot lots of bad guys—or throw them down flights of stairs—in Dead To Rights: Retribution for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The next entry in the Dead To Rights series will, according to 1UP’s first details on the game, be an origin story,…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sacred 2: How German Metal Band Blind Guardian Got Involved
In this behind the scenes video for Ascaron’s Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, Blind Guardian vocalist Hansi Kürsch explains how a German heavy metal band gets into a video game. Apparently the answer is to give up hope altogether. Hansi reveals that Blind Guardian had been trying to get into a video game – any video…
By Mike Fahey Published February 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Watch The Watchmen Invade PlayStation Home
Paramount Pictures is readying a major marketing push into Sony’s PlayStation Home service for the upcoming film Watchmen, with exclusive footage, a filmmaker Q&A session, and of course, Watchmen costumes for your avatar. The film adaptation of Alan Moore’s classic comic book series The Watchmen is a major deal for Paramount, and no on is…
By Mike Fahey Published February 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
GTA IV: The Lost and Damned Also Adds Full Frontal Nudity
Spoiler alert! If you’re going to play Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned and find digitally rendered flaccid penises offensive, you may want to avert your sensitive eyes during one in-game cinematic. Rockstar Games, no stranger to controversy as marketing tool, will likely come under fire for its inclusion of completely uncensored, full…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Capcom Debit Cards Come With Gamer Perks
Not content to rock gamers in February and March with Street Fighter IV and Resident Evil 5, Capcom just signed a deal to slap their characters on debit cards. The co-branded Visa debit card is the first of its kind in North America. The cards will feature art from Street Fighter IV, Resident Evil 5…
By Brian Crecente Published February 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
This Week On Live Arcade: Death Tank
Old school gameplay gets an upgrade this week on Xbox Live Arcade, as Snowblind Studios releases Death Tank, a shiny new take on the classic tank-on-tank angle shooter. What’s an angle shooter, you ask? It’s any game that involves calculating the angle of projectiles based on terrain velocity in order to efficiently dispatch your foes.…
By Mike Fahey Published February 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Toy Fair 2009: LittleBigPlanet Toys In Captivity
Geekanerd has posted several Toy Fair 2009 pictures of the LittleBigPlanet action figures recently announced by Sony, showing that even dirty pirates deserve a little sackboy loving. As promised by the PlayStation blog, visitors to the 2009 International Toy Fair in New York over the weekend caught a first glimpse of the 2 inch action…
By Mike Fahey Published February 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Padres Reliever Credits Wii Fit For Weight Loss
Who says Wii Fit is a Fad? San Diego Padres reliever Heath Bell might want to have a word with you. Bell, in line to replace legendary closer Trevor Hoffman, says that Nintendo’s balance-board-sporting health game helped him lose 25 pounds. When the 6-foot-6, 270 pound Bell stepped on the Balance Board the first time,…
By Brian Crecente Published February 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
EA Sports Spawns Sports Toy Line
After more than two decades of encouraging us to sit on our asses playing sports video games, EA Sports and Toy Island team up for a line of sports toys that actually promote outdoor play. The new multi-year agreement between EA and Toy Island will produce a wide range of interactive sports toys bearing the…
By Mike Fahey Published February 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
See Movie Chun-Li Kick Generic Thug Ass
Witness as the Legend of Chun-Li from the upcoming feature film slowly grows, as star Kirsten Kreuk beats up some random guys you wouldn’t want to run into in a dark alley. Of course Chun-Li runs into them in a dark alley, but she apparently has the moves to make it in a dark alley,…
By Mike Fahey Published February 16, 2009