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Molyneux Deems LittleBigPlanet “Most Important Creative Innovation” Of ’08
Lionhead Studios main man, Peter Molyneux, has gushed once again about Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet. He’s nominated the PlayStation 3 game as “the most important creative innovation of the last twelve months.” (We agree.) Sir Molyneux has lauded the creative platformer before, telling the BBC the game was a product of “superb artistry and a fantastic…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
January Lips DLC Finds That Lovin’ Feelin’
With nine new songs from the likes of Fallout Boy, The Pussycat Dolls, and The Righteous Brothers due out in January, the Lips song catalog should exceed 70 songs by month’s end. Nine new songs are headed to Lips this month, beginning on January 16th when we’ll finally be able to recreate the bar scene…
By Mike Fahey Published January 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Leaked Battlefront 3 Vid Reveals Surprising Plot Twist?
Looking through that beautiful footage of Star Wars Battlefront III again and again and again this morning, I couldn’t help but notice something: It sounds like a Sith, perhaps even a hoodless Palpatine, is telling “Kenobi” to “stick to the plan” about four minutes and 55 seconds into the video. The actual quote is “Stick…
By Brian Crecente Published January 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dissidia, Monster Hunter Top Japan’s No-Release Week
With virtually nothing hitting Japanese retail shelves this past week, 2008’s biggest releases got another chance to shine, sales-wise. That keeps Square-Enix’s Dissidia: Final Fantasy at the number one spot for one more week. Somewhat surprisingly, Capcom’s mega-hit Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G rockets up to the second place spot. That’s the budget version, the…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Godfather II Teaches Us About Extortion
Not to be outdone by that other free-roaming mobster game, EA has released a new video for February’s Godfather II, which discusses the ins and outs of extortion. Extortion is the act of unlawfully taking money from someone using coercion – threatening psychical violence, destroying property, or setting pets on fire are a few of…
By Mike Fahey Published January 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Ugliest Consoles Ever
The Sega Saturn was pretty unattractive. The NES was pretty much just a box. Compared to some of the consoles found on Pointless Banter’s list of the 10 Ugliest Gaming Consoles, they’re gorgeous. Take the Rollet Videocolor here. With it’s lovely bright yellow with blue accents, it’s the only video game console visible from space.…
By Mike Fahey Published January 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Finally A DS Game About Puffins
Just when we figured that we were doomed to live life without a game about Puffins, Majesco swoops in like a mighty seabird to announce Puffins: Island Adventure for the Nintendo DS. Puffins: Adventure Island (P: IA to the cool kids) turns you into one of pelagic seabirds, learning to dive, fly, swim, and play…
By Mike Fahey Published January 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
My SAT Coach Barbershop Quartet Invades CES
Ubisoft’s My SAT Coach made a musical appearance at CES last week, thanks to the singing of Princeton Review’s Pedagogic Troubadour. The Vocab Minute podcast author sang this song about the game three times a day during the show. Kinda catchy. Now do Iron Man, ala quartet. (Click on the pic to play)
By Brian Crecente Published January 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
GTi Club+ Speeds Onto PSN
Konami proudly announces that the HD remake of the beloved 1996 arcade racer GTi Club will be available today for purchase on the PlayStation Network in the form of GTi Club+. GTi Club+ is a nifty little arcade-style racer that sees you and your opponents making your way through the tight city streets and winding…
By Mike Fahey Published January 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sumthing Else Releasing Halo Wars Soundtrack
Sumthing Else Music Works continues to release music for every big game Microsoft releases, with the announcement that the Halo Wars Soundtrack by Stephen Rippy will be available for purchase on February 17th. The entire Halo Wars soundtrack, composed by Stephen Rippy and performed by FILMharmonic Orchestra and Choir Prague is represented in the upcoming…
By Mike Fahey Published January 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Nintendo’s Successes Spreads to Support Companies
How successful is Nintendo? So successful that even the cottage industry that supports the shipping, printing and manufacturing of their products are rolling in the dough. Duplium Corporation, the company North America’s largest Nintendo Certified packaging and printing facility, is doing so well that they’re planning on expanding into a number of new major North…
By Brian Crecente Published January 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
EA Partners To Distribute Wheel Of Time Games
Red Eagle Games have signed a worldwide distribution deal with EA Partners to distribute games based on Robert Jordan’s epic Wheel of Time series of fantasy novels. Red Eagle first revealed plans for games based on the movie adaptations of Jordan’s books back in November, when they also revealed plans to create a massively multiplayer…
By Mike Fahey Published January 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Extended Mafia II Trailer, Now With Commentary
Remember the Mafia II trailer that was release during last year’s Spike VGA Awards? Now it’s back, with an extended anding and a written commentary from 2K Czech’s lead animator, Tomas Hrebicek. Having received many questions regarding whether or not the Mafia II trailer was a real-time, in-game movie, Hrebicek clears the air in the…
By Mike Fahey Published January 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Coraline Movie Game Features Coraline Movie Talent
D3Publisher is proud to announce that the main voice talent from the upcoming animated film adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline will be reprising their roles in the video game adaptation. Dakota Fanning, Keith David, and Robert Bailey Jr will be voicing their characters from the film in the video game version, which is due out…
By Mike Fahey Published January 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
New Operation: Anchorage Screens Refuse To Give Way To Commie Bastards
There’s no way in hell General Chase is going to let those commie bastards cross Canada into the mainland, and we’ve got the Operation: Anchorage screenshots to prove it! Once again Bethesda gives us three teasing screenshots of the Operation: Anchorage DLC for Fallout 3, coming out January 27th for the Xbox 360 and PC.…
By Mike Fahey Published January 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Leaked Star Wars Battlefront 3 Gameplay Footage
More leaks springing from the now dead in the water Free Radical, it seems. We’ve already caught a glimpse at some pretty impressive TimeSplitter 4 and Star Wars Battlefront 3 art. Now we’ve got what is supposed to be early footage of Star Wars Battlefront 3. The footage, we’re told, was taken at an internal…
By Brian Crecente Published January 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Welcome To the Family: A Letter From Playstation’s Peter Dille
Welcome to the Family is a series of three letters that will run this week from the heads of Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. We asked each of the companies to write up a welcome letter to new owners of their consoles. They did the rest. We are running them in the order they were received.…
By Brian Crecente Published January 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Being An Only Child…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: How IS the baby? Hrm, yeah, having a second child is a ton of work, but five years separates Mini and Micro. We’re at the point where we can have Mini-Bash help out — save for when he runs away from the diaper changing. He will so not help out…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Some Moody, Moody Heavy Rain Concept Art [Update]
People are really looking forward to Heavy Rain. And with good cause! Problem is, developers Quantic Dream aren’t exactly big on releasing assets for the game. So we’ll settle for concept art! These pics (via Superannuation) come from the portfolio of Morgan Yon, a concept artist who used to work for Quantic Dream between 2006-2008.…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dr McNinja’s Super Mario Bros. T-Shirt
Chris Hastings is the man behind the internet’s premier medical/ninjitsu soap opera, Dr McNinja. And you know what? He’s also the man behind this reasonably badass Mario Bros. shirt. It’s called Warrior Plumbers, and…well…you see what it does. It’s $19.75 plus shipping, but by the time you read this, they’ll probably all be gone. Sorry!…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 15, 2009