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Is This Game Ripping Off Final Fantasy?
Pandora’s Tower, an upcoming Nintendo-published role-playing game, looks great. It also looks a lot like Final Fantasy. Japanese netizens are quick to point out that images on the box art for Pandora’s Tower look incredibly similar to character art for Square Enix’s most recent role-playing games, Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Final Fantasy XIII. Pandora’s…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 18, 2011 -
New Metal Gear Solid Figures Sneak Out
Besides making Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, Square Enix also makes plastic figures under its Play Arts brand. And this summer, it’s releasing more Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Play Arts figurines. There’s Peace Walker character Kazuhira Miller as well as a Snake Battle Dress version. Each is ¥5,040 (US$61). If you do decide to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 18, 2011 -
Get A Look At The Inside Of A Portal Gun
Seems the whole world has gone Portal mad this week. Artist Miles Donovan certainly has, coming up with these great schematic pieces showing how the guns actually work. Or, how he thinks they work. It’s not like Miles actually knows. Or he wouldn’t be selling paintings on Etsy (including this one), he’d be, I don’t…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2011 -
So How Was That Anonymous Sony Protest?
Over the weekend, Anonymous held in-person protests at Sony stores. The idea was for the Guy Fawkes mask-wearing members of the group to go into Sony’s shops and pass out fliers. How did it go? Well, the weekend came and went. According to online reports, Sony closed some of its retail shops in the UK…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 18, 2011 -
It’s Like Breakout Had A Sexy Baby Who Loved Zelda
Venerable arcade classic Breakout was a pretty simple game. You knock blocks away with a ball. Wizorb is kind of like Breakout, only it drops the game into a 16-bit fantasy landscape and adds in some adventuring. Oh, and it also features the work of Paul Robertson Former Ubisoft developer (and Ninja Senki creator) Jonathan…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2011 -
Let’s Watch A Persona 4 Anime Trailer Together
Just as previously hinted, role-playing game Persona 4 is getting an anime. This is it! The anime will be handled by studio Anime International Company and directed by Seiji Kishi, who’s most recently helmed Angel Beats! This isn’t Kishi’s first rodeo with a game anime. He also directed Ragnarok The Animation, based on the MMORPG…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 18, 2011 -
Old Pop Singers Look Great When They’re In Professor Layton
They were young. Attractive. During the 1960s and 1970s, a conveyor belt of female pop idols hit the record charts in Japan, releasing forgettable single after forgettable single. They didn’t write their own music, and they didn’t have to. Their job was to be cute. Yumi Matsutoya wasn’t considered cute (she still isn’t), and she…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 18, 2011 -
The iPhone Game You Can Only Play Once
One Single Life is an iPhone game you can only play once. Not because it’s short, or because it’s crap, but because once you play it and die, the application never lets you play it again. Drastic! Yet it’s also nerve-racking. One Single Life is essentially Canabalt, sans the aliens, and comprises of ten levels.…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2011 -
Consoles, Your Sucky Insides Are Holding PC Games Back
Patrick Bach, from DICE, the developers of the Battlefield series, certainly knows the way to a PC gamer’s heart: tell them that, for once, the PC version of a game won’t be a crummy port, but will be the glorious, lead platform. In an “interview” with Nvidia, Bach is asked – without any self interest…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2011 -
On Time For The Launch
On Time For The Launch | A rebel fighter celebrates as his comrades fire a rocket barrage toward the positions of troops loyal to Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday. Rebels exchanged artillery and rocket fire with loyalist troops west of Ajdabiyah as the confict engulfing Libya continued. (Photo: Chris Hondros/Getty Images) MLB 2K11’s Pitching…
By Owen Good Published April 17, 2011 -
MLB 2K11‘s Pitching Perfectionists Want It Done Right
About two weeks ago, someone uploaded a video purporting to show the final inning of a successful perfect game in MLB 2K11 which, if legitimate, will claim a $1 million prize offered by 2K Sports. In it, the player throws nothing but high curveballs, a strategy that wouldn’t get you out of the first inning…
By Owen Good Published April 17, 2011 -
The Date Is Not A Lie
There’s some game due to release by Tuesday, its name is on the tip of my tongue. Something about potatoes. Eh, it’ll come to me. If not, Mortal Kombat, SOCOM 4 and Conduit 2 are all A-list drops arriving on the same day. Monday Remington Super Slam Hunting: Alaska (Wii) Tuesday Portal 2 (Mac, PS3,…
By Owen Good Published April 17, 2011 -
Of Course Crytek Wants 16 Times More RAM In The Next Console Generation
Crytek took it in the shorts from PC loyalists who felt Crysis 2 was handled in a way that catered more to console users than to PC gamers. In an interview, the studio’s graphics engineer said Microsoft and Sony have way underweight RAM configurations, and whatever they build next needs 8 GB of RAM, minimum.…
By Owen Good Published April 17, 2011 -
Top 5 of 10: Marketing Geniuses
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Top 10 Embarrassingly Bad Moments In Video Game Marketing [Calm Down Tom] I thought for sure EA’s mailing of brass knuckles for The Godfather Part…
By Owen Good Published April 17, 2011 -
Presenting Ace of Spades, the “Minecraft FPS”
“Minecraft with rifles,” is how many describe Ace of Spades, and not just because of the low-res visual motif. Or the fact it, too, is in beta. The team-based multiplayer CTF setup also allows players to build bunkers, dig tunnels and erect fortifications. The objective in Ace of Spades is an intel briefcase, stolen from…
By Owen Good Published April 17, 2011 -
How To Stuff A 3DS Inside A Game Boy
Let’s say you have a loved one sent to a prison, and you need to smuggle them a 3DS inside a Game Boy. (Look, just go with it). Goteking, who gave us the iPod-in-a-Dreamcast-VMU, now supplies a 3DS case made from a Game Boy It’s like the turducken of gaming handhelds. Goteking supplies a fake…
By Owen Good Published April 17, 2011 -
The Crowd-Sourced Wii 2
Alright, gang, you had to know this one was coming. I had a couple other ideas this week, but in light of rumors that Nintendo will unveil a Wii successor at E3, and the thing will have iPads for controllers, we have to make sense of it all and help the Internet understand what this…
By Owen Good Published April 17, 2011 -
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
We’ve cut a deal with Valve, if everyone ‘shops up a TAYpic today then we promise Portal 2 will unlock by at least 7 a.m. on Tuesday. Thanks to Mythos for today’s image. Submit your image to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on how to do a TAYpic.)
By Owen Good Published April 17, 2011