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Resident Evil Retrospective
With the Resident Evil 5 preview embargo lifting today expect lots of funny tidbits about the game, and how it plays, to hit throughout the day. We’ll be posting our own impressions of the game a bit later in the day. To hold you over here’s part one of Gametrailer’s Resident Evil retrospective.
By Brian Crecente Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Bad Company 2 Hits This Winter, Battlefield 1943 This Summer
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is coming to the PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 this winter and Battlefield 1943 to PC, PSN and Live this summer, Electronic Arts confirmed this morning. In this Bad Company sequel, B company fight their way through snowy mountaintops, dense jungles and dusty villages. With a heavy arsenal of deadly…
By Brian Crecente Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Infinity Ward Tweets Modern Warfare 2 Deets
Infinity Ward PR man Robert Bowling, like the rest of the world these days, is all up in this Twitter business. And when he tweets about the next Call of Duty, we listen. Earlier today, Bowling posted the following, seemingly confirming a return to the present day with a second Call of Duty: Modern Warfare…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Time To Get Excited For Valentine’s Day!
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: More Sackings Is Mini-Bash excited about Valentine’s Day? Oh yeah. In Japan, girls give boys chocolates on Valentine’s Day. Boys do not. They instead return the favor a month later on White Day. After initially having a crush on a teacher, Mini-Bash now likes a little girl in his class.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Phil Harrison Originally Wanted To Found His Own Company
Phil Harrison, the game industry’s gentlest, most sharply-dressed giant, worked at Sony for 15 years. Then he left. While he ended up joining Atari, turns out the original plan was to start his own company. Speaking with Edge, Harrison says: This isn’t new information, but our original plan was to start our own company. It…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Iwata: Wii Music Didn’t Reach Potential
Wii Music didn’t become the breakout hit Nintendo was hoping for. It was a sales disappointment of sorts. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata thinks the software elicits one of two reactions. Nintendo Co., Ltd. just released a Q&A that was held during last week’s Nintendo Third Quarter Financial Results Briefing in Tokyo, where president Iwata conceded:…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Don’t Like The Resistance 2 Cover? Print Your Own
Last August, Sony asked you to vote for your favourite Resistance 2 cover. One option was the classy European cover, the other two, they looked like PS1 games. The classy one didn’t win. Today, perhaps realising their mistake in letting Joe Public in on artistic decisions, Sony have released all three covers as large, printable…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Telegraph, Brought To You By Nintendo DS Flash Carts
Interesting example of “different horses, different courses” at work here. While companies in Japan are trying to erase the very thought of the R4 flash cart, in Britain, the R4 can advertise on the Telegraph! You can see the proof above. The ad – proclaiming the device to be a “featured partner” of the paper’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Go Get Your Halo Wars Demo
It’s a Halo game without Bungie! It’s a real-time strategy game on a console! Halo Wars is all kinds of unexpected. So with a demo now out, feel to try before you buy/vomit opinions. It’s well over 1GB, and while at time of writing there were still a few kinks in downloading it (namely, despite…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Metal Gear And Pro Evolution Soccer Power Konami’s Sales
Even as the global economy craters, Konami is recording strong revenues during the nine month period ending December 31, 2008. Thank soccer title Pro Evolution Soccer 2009, stealth game Metal Gear Solid 4 and Metal Gear Online for that! Both revenues and income were up for Konami, who reports: We hereby announce that our consolidated…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Is SEGA Readying New Arcade Hardware?
SEGA is famous for its arcade system boards like the LINDBERGH and the NAOMI. These are the computer systems that run arcade games. If SEGA’s latest trademark filings are indication, the company might be ready to roll out new arcade boards. Three trademarks popped up for use with video game software, arcade game boards, stand…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony Exec: “We Need To Suffer A Little” (Killzone 2 Racks Up 1.1 Million Pre-Orders)
PS3 sales have dipped slightly. Sony as a whole is hurting. But don’t go counting Sony out. Sony’s a fighter. And more importantly, Sony’s Sony. “We simply have to suffer a little,” Sony Europe honcho David Reeves tells The Guardian, “go down in market share and mind-share. It’s like Ali vs. Foreman — go eight…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
What Dragon Quest Female Character Does Akihabara Want To…Ahem?
A recent street survey polled Akihabara folks about which female Dragon Quest character they wanted to get very close with. It doesn’t get more scientific than this. Here are the results: 10. Queen of Isis (Dragon Quest 3) 9. Gerda, AKA “Red” in English (DQ8) 8. Female Warrior (Dragon Quest 3) 7. Flora (Dragon Quest…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
How To Build A Wii Remote For Children, Others Of Short Stature
I like the feel of the Wii Remote. Not too big, not too small. But I’ve got man hands! If you’ve got smaller digits, you might want/need a smaller Wii Remote. Which is where the Mini-Mote comes in. Designed and built by DHREK – the same guy who made that hemp Remote & Nunchuk combo…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Netflix LIVE App. Downloaded And Activated By A Million LIVE Users
Netflix on Xbox 360 is big business. Today Microsoft announced that one million Xbox LIVE Gold members have downloaded and activated the Netflix LIVE application. This application was launched last November. Since then, 1.5 billion minutes of movies and TV have been watched by LIVE members. “Netflix continues to provide its 9.4 million subscribers unprecedented…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
LittleBigPlanet Celebrates Valentines Day In “Style”
As it appears we’ll see with every major (and minor) holiday the world over throughout 2009, Sony have announced that there will LittleBigPlanet downloadable content to help commemorate Valentine’s Day. On offer is a Valentines Day theme pack, which includes romantic stickers and decorations, and a Sackboy costume, unfortunately titled “McLovin Sackboy”. He’s a little…sparse,…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Capcom Posts Sluggish Console Game Sales
Osaka based game company Capcom has released its financial statement for the nine month period ending December 31, 2008. So, how’s Capcom doing? Net sales dipped 8.6 percent to ¥47,223 million, and net income dropped 95 percent to ¥179 million. Capcom explains that the reason for this performance is that the company’s flagship titles like…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
President Obama Clone Brings Chocolate Avatars To Street Fighter Online
They can’t do this. Yes they can, apparently! The latest update for Daletto‘s computer fighter Street Fighter Online: Mouse Generation brings a special Valentine update with DLC for sale. There are Valentine chocolate brown avatars (above, in the heart) available for purchase as well as a “Yes We Can!” avatar pack that includes, and we…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Bungie Says Goodbye To Halo 3
There’s a map pack for Halo 3 coming soon, and after that, there’s a singleplayer expansion, but after that? Is there anything more planned? Probably not, as Bungie are saying “goodbye” to the game. Chatting with IGN, Bungie’s Brian Jarrard says: Overall though, we are viewing the ODST campaign and the included multiplayer maps as…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
State of Texas Creates Video Game Day
What were you doing on February 3rd? Let us tell you what you should have been doing, you should have been celebrating Entertainment Software Day. Oh yes. The State of Texas has dubbed the day to recognize the impact of video games on the Texas economy. This is the first time the gaming has been…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 5, 2009