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  Game Promotion Done Right… Until The Cops Show Up

  Wanna know how to promote your game? With a bus. A giant bus. A giant bus with images of your game plastered all over it. And not just any bus, a Mercedes bus. A Mercedes bus with TV monitors looping your game’s trailer over and over and over again. Upcoming Xbox 360 title Chaos;Head Noah…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 30, 2008
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  Punch-Out Hoodie Borders On Punch-Out Cosplay

  I’ve been a little down on King of Games lately. Not enough new shirts, not enough good shirts. But this Punch-Out hoodie may well be a return to form for the team. Not necessarily for the print itself, but because it captures the spirit of the game. You get a cityscape, boxing gloves and game…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 30, 2008
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  Four Titles Most Likely To Make You Throw Your Controller

  It’s that time of the year. Time for lists. Website Bits, Bytes, Pixels & Sprites has a list of this year’s most frustrating titles. They are: HOME: “Having to wait for an arcade game to be unoccupied in order to play it was the final straw, and I quickly logged out before winging my controller…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 30, 2008
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  Hollywood Composers Finding Work (And Money) In Games

  Once was a day that if you were in the movies, games were something to be shunned, not sought out. And hey, for many actors, that’s still the case. But for composers, no. The Seattle Times have a great piece up on how many Hollywood and TV composers are now flexing their creative muscles in…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 30, 2008
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  Gackt, Your New Favorite Pachislot PS3 Game Sound Producer

  Japanese musician Gackt in video games? Nothing new. Japanese musician Gackt making game music? New. For PS3 pachislot title Bounty Killer, out this past fall in Japan, Gackt did just that. The former Malice Mizer singer lent his likeness and music to the pachislot title. Check out the Bounty Killer tune called “Justified.” You can…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 30, 2008
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  This Is How Crayon Physics Works On The iPhone

  Wondering how physics puzzler Crayon Physics was going to fare once it made the jump to the iPhone? Please. Don’t wonder. Look.

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 30, 2008
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  Konami’s PSP Shounen Fighter

  Battle of the manga titans! Konami has announced a 3D PSP “action” fighting title featuring characters from Kodansha’s Shounen Magazine and Shogakukan’s Weekly Shounen Sunday. Both manga magazines were founded in 1959 and released a combined anniversary issue together — a PSP mash-up does not seem out of the blue. Here’s who is currently announced…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 30, 2008
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  Here’s Your King Of Fighters XII Roster

  Street Fighter IV’s able to whip up an internet shitstorm every time it announces one character. King of Fighters XII, meanwhile, likes to be a little more subtle, announcing its full, seemingly final roster quietly. Those residing on the pointiest end of the KoF fanbase may already have pieced together most of this from trailers…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 30, 2008
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  The Gaming Laptop Of A Wealthy, Wasteful Future

  Gaming on a laptop? It’s hardly ideal. But that’s going off the hardware limitations of 2008! By the distant future, who knows what gaming on a laptop will be like. Might even be like this. Kyle Cherry is the man behind this gaming laptop concept, and we like it because it just does not fuck…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 30, 2008
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  PS3 Production Costs Have Dropped By 35 Percent

  Do something long enough and you get better at it. Manufacture something long enough, and it gets cheaper. No surprise that Sony has cut the PS3’s component cost by 35 percent. According to research firm iSuppli, the first generation PS3 cost a hefty US$690.23, based on mid-2007 component prices. What about late 2008? Based on…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 30, 2008
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  Play World Of Warcraft Free For The Rest Of Your/Its Life

  Boy, World of Warcraft can get pricey. You pay for the game, you pay a monthly stipend, you pay for expansion packs. So it’s nice to hear of a charity that’s giving away a lifetime subscription. If you donate $25 or more to the Leukaemia and Lymphoma Society, you’ll be in the running to score…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 30, 2008
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  “We Are Sorry About The Lots of Boobs Set”

  Pure postal embarrassment. Members of erotic game maker AKABEi SOFT2’s fan club who ordered a set of boob-shaped mousepads got a surprised in the mailbox. The brown box the ¥15,000 (US$166) set of boob mousepads were packaged in was hardly discreet: The outside read, “Oppai ga ippai set” or “Lots of boobs set” in English.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 30, 2008
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  Gary Busey Would Approve Of These Saints Row 2 PC Specs

  While THQ’s budget sadly doesn’t extend to having Gary Busey endorse Saints Row 2’s PC requirements, we can make believe. Just imagine crazy eyes, some enormous teeth and two thumbs up. Posted on the game’s official boards, here are both the minimum requirements and the recommended requirements: Minimum Requirements: – Windows XP / Vista –…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2008
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  We Can Only Hope 2009 Brings Us These Sackboys

  Looks like LittleBigPlanet fansite LittleBigPlanetoid got a copy of Photoshop for Christmas, because they’ve been busy dreaming up, then drawing up, a wish list for celebrity gaming sackboys for the new year. Some appear feasible (Dante), some appear possible (Vader), some appear impossible (Master Chief). All, however, are adorable. Oh, and before you start bitching…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2008
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  Alone In The Dark With Added Crecente Creepy

  Burno sends along this entry. It is TOTALLY UNSETTLING. Adds Burno, “It’s AO, so you better get that trenchcoat and Fedora if you plan on picking this one up.” We’re giving away a copy of Alone in the Dark to one of you reader people. Here’s the contest: Make your own Alone in the Dark…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 29, 2008
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  ESRB Denies Working With Iran

  A report from last week claimed Iran had ‘joined’ the Entertainment Software Rating Board. The ESRB, meanwhile, has no idea where that came from. “We have not had any discussions with Iran about adopting our rating system,” said Eliot Mizrachi, Assistant Director, Communications at the ESRB. More questions were raised, however, when a second report…

  By Jim Reilly Published December 29, 2008
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  Call Of Duty Series: 35 Million Sold

  Ever stop and wonder just why it is Activision have two development teams working on Call of Duty? It’s not for the hell of it. Or even, mm mmm mmmm, for the smell of it. It’s because people can’t seem to stop buying the various iterations of the franchise. An innocent little Reuters story from…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2008
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  “Sony Is Doomed!” Ray Redirected Toward PSP

  It’s been a rough couple of months for Sony and the PlayStation 3, particularly in the mainstream press. Now that the two year old console has been sufficiently thrashed, we think the PSP is due. And so does Yahoo! Games, who paints a very bleak picture of the PSP’s current performance and its future. Clearly,…

  By Michael McWhertor Published December 29, 2008
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  Wii Fit Moves Out Of Electronics, Into Women’s Clothing Department

  Attention, Wal-Mart shoppers: the mega retailer is currently doing massive reductions on women’s self-esteem, moving the Wii Fit advertising kiosks from the electronics department to women’s clothing. A diabolical tactic! Yes, that’s a full length body mirror adjacent to the Wii Fit kiosk, a deviously placed hint that’s not so subtly telling Wal-Mart shoppers “Hey,…

  By Michael McWhertor Published December 29, 2008
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  Yuji Naka Explains Why He Left Sega, Created Let’s Tap

  When Sonic the Hedgehog programmer and Nights creator Yuji Naka left Sega, we expected big things from his Prope studio. We got Let’s Tap instead. So why’d you leave Sega again, Mr. Naka? In a nutshell, Naka wanted to get back to real game development, away from that high level managerial nonsense. He tells Gamasutra…

  By Michael McWhertor Published December 29, 2008