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Bid For Michael Jackson’s Arcade Games [Update]
Back before Michael Jackson was accused of molesting children, before he started losing money and before his face started melting off, the King of Pop enjoyed the simpler things in life. Things like owning a SEGA R360 arcade cabinet. The R360 is an early 1990s air combat sim that rotates 360 degrees. The deluxe cabinet…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sega’s Biggest Arcade Games Get The Tiniest Treatment
Japan’s toy manufacturers are on a mission: take every real world object, recreate it in plastic, but smaller, then sell it to Japanese consumers. Next to be plasticized and shrunk: deluxe Sega arcade cabinets. Classic, deluxe Sega arcade cabinets, that is; the kind one blew extra quarters on for that realistic, sit-down experience. Toy maker…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 16, 2009 -
UncategorizedMass Effect 2 Carries Over Your Original Mass Effect Character?
Mass Effect’s two-disc Platinum Hits edition includes a nifty video documentary called “The Future of Mass Effect,” which talks about downloadable content and what we can expect from the sequel. The new DLC pack in development will add combat-oriented areas that the devs are comparing to “Fight Club” and Arena. More interestingly, though, the documentary…
By AJ Glasser Published February 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Black Mesa Mod Coming “Late 2009”
Is it wrong to be more excited about Half-Life remake Black Mesa than we are about most proper releases this year? Course it’s not. Thing looks amazing. But when’s it coming out? Last we heard, it was simply “2009”. Which isn’t very helpful. What, early 2009? The middle of 2009? Or, in a worst-case scenario,…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Where When I Need It
IndieGames’ freeware pick, Where, is exactly what I need to come down from the towering rage brought on by a traffic-y, wet Monday. The game consists of a series of mazes that you navigate using the directional keys to move and the mouse to look around. Unlike that old Microsoft Windows screensaver, these puzzles actually…
By AJ Glasser Published February 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Microsoft Says Xbox 360 Lead In Europe Now 1 Million
Europe Land has long been Sony country, with the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 dominating sales charts in their respective generations. But the PlayStation 3 had a tougher challenge—a head start from Microsoft’s Xbox 360. Now, says Microsoft, it has pulled ahead in the region, giving the Xbox 360 a lead over its PlayStation 3 competition…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
NXE Avatars Get Lost And Damned
Microsoft is going all out in its promotion of The Lost and Damned coming to the Xbox 360 version of Grand Theft Auto IV. And by “all out,” we mean new Avatar clothing options. Your New Xbox Experience Avatar now has the option to look one percent more bad-ass or—if your Avatar is female—twice as…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
What BottleRocket’s The Flash Might Have Looked Like…
When Brash Entertainment, the plague of a publisher that did serious harm to independent developers industry-wide, gave up the ghost, several projects went with it. That includes one based on DC Comics’ The Flash. In development at Bottlerocket Entertainment, the same of Splatterhouse infamy, The Flash was just one entry in a long list of…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
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