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Capcom Slashes Prices on Games, Clothes, Flummery
Capcom Store’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales includes 20 to 50 percent off a wide selection of dealios, thingamajigs and video games. Among the list: Dead Rising 2 Bobble Budd Sett for $15.96 Okami for the Wii for $13.99 Resident Evil 5 for the Xbox 360 for $10 Monster Hunter Freedom for the PSP…
By Brian Crecente Published November 26, 2010 -
Monster Hunter Portable 3rd’s Astounding Opening Movie
This won’t be what you see while playing the soon-to-hit-Japanese-PSP Monster Hunter Portable 3rd, but it sure sets the mood. Capcom told folks earlier this year that Monster Hunter 3rd would be arriving on the PSP this month.
By Brian Crecente Published November 26, 2010 -
Large Hadron Collider proves the universe was once a liquid
The world’s most powerful particle accelerator smashed together lead nuclei at the highest energies possible, creating dense sub-atomic particles that reach temperatures of over ten trillion degrees. Beyond being awesome, this achievement shows the early universe was actually a liquid. Normal matter can’t exist in any form at these sort of absurdly hot temperatures. Instead,…
By Alasdair Wilkins Published November 26, 2010 -
Gran Turismo’s Pursuit Of Visual Perfection, One Game At A Time
Gran Turismo is video game’s premiere iconic racing game series. Like Lara Croft, it has improved graphically. Take a look, at how good-looking it’s become, game by game, for over a decade. Gran Turismo (1998, PlayStation) The game doesn’t look bad until the 1:50 mark or so, when the cars start bouncing off each other…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 26, 2010 -
How to Buy an HDTV
If there’s one thing that actually sorta makes sense to buy on Black Friday, it’s an HDTV—many are crazy discounted. But picking out an HDTV can be a big ball of suck. That’s where this guide comes in. The 3DTV cheat Want to buy a set knowing that it’ll have excellent performance without having to…
By Matt buchanan Published November 26, 2010 -
Black Friday Deals Come To PlayStation Network & Xbox Live
If you’d (wisely) prefer to avoid the stampeding, budget-obsessed crowds sure to storm the Walmarts and Best Buys this Friday, why not stay home and get your video game savings digitally through Xbox Live and PlayStation Network? [More deals added] Sony and Microsoft are holding digital sales this week on a ton of games for…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 26, 2010 -
Dirty Dancing Meets Minecraft Via The Black Eyed Peas
What If The Black Eyed Peas made a music video in Minecraft or with 3D Dot Game Heroes? It wouldn’t look exactly like this, but I bet someone out there could make these pixelated people in either of those games. Beyond the video game aesthetic of the music video for The Time (Dirty Bit), which…
By Brian Crecente Published November 26, 2010 -
Assassin’s Creed 2011 Will Be A ‘Big’ Game
November 15’s ‘Something Around Assassin’s Coming In 2011’ appears to = today’s “next year we will have another big Assassin’s Creed game” from British gaming news outlet MCV. Both quotes come from top people at Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft.
By Stephen Totilo Published November 26, 2010 -
Trainz Simulator 2010 Engineers Edition Getting Multiplayer
You may never have heard of Trainz, but if you’re into train simulators it is the best, perhaps the only, game for you and now the million-copies-sold game is getting multiplayer. Starting this January Australian-developed Trainz Simulator 2010 is going into open beta with multiplayer, with plans to have the new feature go live by…
By Brian Crecente Published November 26, 2010 -
I Guess I Should Drink This
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Hope you had a good turkey day and ate lotsa, wait for it, turkey. Today is Black Friday, so I’m pretty sure everyone is out shopping, instead of sitting at home or work looking at their computer screen. I’m at home! (Hello everyone!) I have this bottle of Pepsi that I…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 26, 2010 -
Watch This Trailer One Million Times, Get Three Free Cars for Hot Pursuit
Criterion is delighted with the response to arcade racer Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, as they should be. So they’re giving away three new cars, but there’s a catch. The dev team put together a pack of three supercar convertibles that includes the Bentley Continental Supersports Convertible, the Lamborghini Murciélago LP 650-4 Roadster , and…
By Brian Crecente Published November 26, 2010 -
Have Some Music To Share On Your PSP?
Have a PSP? Sony’s latest firmware update adds music sharing support called Music Unlimited, which is powered by a cloud-based digital music service called “Qriocity”. Sharing is good! Firmware 6.35 adds a Qriocity logo to the PS’s XMB. The music service isn’t quite ready to launch, and this update prepares PSP owners for the forthcoming…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 26, 2010 -
This $100 Dream Club Figure Is A Nightmare
Dream Club, the bar hostess simulator, allows players to virtually get drunk. Whoever sculpted this android girl Airi statue must have been totally blotto. This is a prototype and not the final figure — the final color and shape might vary. Well, they’re going to need to vary a lot, because this Airi is slated…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 26, 2010 -
Otomedius Excellent Not Excellent Enough For 2010
Konami’s cute-’em-up Otomedius (think Gradius meets boobs) was supposed to be this year in The Land of the Rising Sun. Supposed to be, because it won’t. The game, instead, will be out next spring in Japan on the Xbox 360, reveals Konami. In 2008, Otomedius Gorgeous! was also delayed. Seems Konami has problems getting its…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 26, 2010 -
Dragon Ball Kamihamihas Arcades
Next February, a new Dragon Ball title will be shooting beams in to arcades across Japan. The game is called Dragon Ball Zenkai Battle Royale. It’s a four player networked game that seems similar to Dragon Ball Z: Tenkaichi Tag Team In Dragon Ball, Zenkai, as the Dragon Ball Wiki explains, is a genetic ability…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 26, 2010 -
A Link To The Past (And This Couple’s Future)
This couple, married on the 4th of July, found just about the sweetest way imaginable to commemorate their anniversary: with complementary Zelda tattoos. As seen on Fuck Yeah Tattoos Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
By Luke Plunkett Published November 26, 2010