We knew something was missing from the game! And that appears to be this. Joining the new Jin Kazama outfit is another new Tekken 6 character costume for home consoles. Fighter Zafina gets a butterfly bra — it might be a halter top. What do we look like? Women’s clothing experts? She’s also in hot…
In this clip, Konami’s Aki Saito plays the part of “awkward tour guide” as we’re shipped around the developers of Pro Evo 2010 while they tell us what they think is so different about this latest version of the venerable football series. It’s a shame they couldn’t show any real gameplay footage. I mean, I…
The Japanese PlayStation Network is the latest home for the TurboGrafx-16 (PC Engine) games. Starting today, four retro Hudson games will be available for download as part of the “PC Engine Archives”: • Mega Bomberman • Adventure Island • Sengoku Mahjong • Devil Crash All of these titles are already available on Nintendo’s Virtual Console.…
In April, we showed you a mobile x-ray unit adorned with Pokemans, intended for Japanese hospitals. But would you believe it’s not the only Pokemon-branded x-ray machine on the market? No, there’s another one. It’s made by the same company – Shimadzu – and is the real deal, a “proper” x-ray unit, sacrificing mobility (and…
Seoul’s Metropolitan Police Agency have been targeting “screen golf” rooms that mix driving range golf with a virtual video-game-type screens. Some of these golf rooms sell alcohol and employ female entertainers in mini-skirts. The virtual golf rooms measure the distance the ball travels, and the newest golf rooms feature game systems that can reproduce famous…
While it appears car damage is finally on its way to the Gran Turismo series when GT5 is released, don’t expect the same attention to detail from the PSP version of the game. Answering fan questions on the official PlayStation blog, Polyphony’s Chris Hinojosa Miranda and Taku Imasaki have said in response to a fan…
Get rid of the term “casual”! Do it! Dave Thomson of Scottish games developer Denki wants the word gone, banished, erased, deleted. At the Develop Conference in Brighton, UK, Thomson gave a session titled “A Game is a Game is a Game”. He calls the term casual pejorative. “We may not find a particular type…
While most case mods are designed to improve the appearance of a games console – or at least tailor it to suit the whims of a more fickle owner – we don’t see many that will make small children cry. But, man, if I was four years old and saw this thing, it’d disturb me.…
The rule is this: convention t-shirts are awful, cheap things you see stuffed in swag bags then only again seen on large men at LAN parties. The exception to that rule is this Capcom shirt for Comic-Con. To be given away free to advertise Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, it appears at first glance to…
Amazon Japan may not love DS role-playing-game Dragon Quest IX. That’s a-okay. Know why? The country’s biggest game mag totally loves it. Famitsu has given DQIX a perfect 40/40 score. “This adventure is amazing!” Famitsu writes. “It’s so much fun.” The reviewers also praised the music and the multi-player, which Famitsu called “ground breaking”. The…
D3 Publisher’s upcoming Xbox 360 title Dream C Club lets players booze it up with maid-uniform-wearing night club hostesses. The game is text heavy, perfect fodder for a comic book. The October issue of manga Comic Rush, on sale August 26, will see the first manga version of Dream C Club, called Dream Club Destiny.…
Aliens vs Predator developers Rebellion have been picking through the remains of Vivendi’s old portfolio of intellectual property, discarded amidst the company’s merger with Activision, and have found a number of bargains. Among the unwanted, unloved IPs now obtained by the British developers (and 2000AD comics owners) are Ground Control, Evil Genius, Empire Earth, Lords…
Valkyria Chronicles was a PS3 game. Valkyria Chronicles 2 is not. It’s a PSP game, and here is its localized title: Valkyria Chronicles 2: The Gallia Royal Military Academy. Announced in the newest issue of Japanese game magazine Famitsu, the game is set in 1937, two years after the first game. Cadets from the Gallia…
Not content to have some middle-aged male exec in khakis talk gaming, Microsoft Taiwan is holding an open cattle call to find a model-type to represent the platform. Requirements: You must be a female, over 18 years old and play the Xbox 360 for at least 360 minutes per week. A panel of judges will…
While there’s a new Might & Magic game on the way for the DS, those looking for something more…substantial will be happy to hear that Ubisoft’s Shanghai studio are working on something called “Heroes of MM”. A listing for a job opening at the studio says that they’re developing “Heroes of MM”, which is described…
Nippon Ham Fighters ace baseball pitcher Yu Darvish got his Xbox 360 about a year ago. “I used it a little,” he blogs, “but then I ended up not using it at all.” Darvish, one of the country’s best ballplayers, has been practicing Street Fighter IV on the Microsoft console recently and asks his readers…
Any doubts over the commercial viability of reviving a classic Lucasarts adventure game series have been blown out of the water this week, with Telltale’s new Monkey Island game topping the Steam charts. It was also a good week for Capcom’s Street Fighter IV, with a strong performance on both charts repaying the company’s faith…
You can take the boobs out of million selling computer title The Witcher, but can you take The Witcher out of the boobs? Polish developer CDProjekt has announced The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director’s Cut for North American gamers as a free patch. This is basically the nudity-enhanced European version of the title. Back in March…
The high-profile court case against EA Sport’s “monopoly” in the NFL market took an interesting turn this week, with an economist brought in to show how much the demise of 2K’s competing NFL franchise has cost sports gamers. Despite admitting his report is based on incomplete data, University of Michigan economics professor Dr. Jeffrey Mackie-Mason…
The video game industry has longed enjoyed riding on the coattails of Hollywood, turning summer blockbuster films into what should be easily profitable video game adaptations. But things don’t always turn out as planned. One famously disastrous movie-to-video game adaptation was Atari’s hastily developed E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial based on the 1982 summer hit. Thrown together…
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