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15 Second Schoolgirl Spot Gets 3 Minute Making-Of Documentary
Seventeen year-old idol Karin Aiba is promoting PSP game Dangan-Ronpa in 15 second TV ads. The making-of documentary is way longer and has added curry eating. Mmm curry! Dangan-Ronpa, which means “winning an argument with bullets”, is like Battle Royale, but with a psychotic teddy bear instead of a psychotic Beat Takeshi. The upcoming PSP…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 5, 2010 -
New Battlefield Game Lets You Blow Up Crap For Free
As expected, EA today revealed a new game in the Battlefield series, and as expected, it’s part of the publishers Play4Free line of PC games that let you, well, play for free. Battlefield Play4Free pits the forces of the United States and Russia against each other in a 32-player online combat game for the PC…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010 -
The Fire-Breathing Tanks of Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam
This look at the Vietnam-themed download expansion back for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 gives us a good look at the fight for hill 137 where GI recon have discovered NVA regulars defending an outpost. Oh, it also shows us how amazing the fire looks in the game, in particular when it’s spewing out of a…
By Brian Crecente Published November 5, 2010 -
Lame iPhone Joke Turned Into Actual Video Game
Back in August, obnoxious PSP spokesboy Marcus Rivers went to town on iPhone gaming, the ad team mocking up a crummy mobile game called “Lame Castle”. It’s no longer a mock-up. Bradley Johnson, formerly of Crystal Dynamics, tells Gamasutra “my buddy sent me an e-mail with a link to a PSP ad and wrote, ‘We…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010 -
Which Part Of Japan Is Bonkers For Xbox 360?
And prefecture part is keen for the Wii? And what regions heart the PS3? All three consoles were put through Google Insights for Search to get the tally for the console searches with the most buzz The results are for this year, are broken down by prefecture and do not necessarily translate into console sales…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 5, 2010 -
Conquer World Of Warcraft With Tanks And Spearmen
We’re surprised it’s taken this long, but somebody has finally gotten around to recreating World of Warcraft’s land of Azeroth in PC strategy game Civilization V. It’s not some kind of fancy total conversion of the game or anything, so don’t expect new units or rules customised for World of Warcraft players. Considering Civilization V…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010 -
Hollywood, Not Playing Video Games Is So “Disrespectful”
When filmmaker Mike Newell was promoting the Prince of Persia flick, he readily admitted that he didn’t play the game. No wonder, says Resident Evil: Afterlife director Paul W.S. Anderson, the movie didn’t live up to expectations. “And for me, that’s like adapting a book without reading the book or adapting a stage play and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 5, 2010 -
Halo’s Spartans Are Not Made, They Are…OK, They’re Made
Popular Halo web series Red vs Blue just got a little more real, with this veritable army of real-life Spartan suits built to honour the machinima Back in 2007, Shawn Thorsson and his friends thought it’d be a hoot if thy could go trick-or-treating dressed as the characters from Red vs Blue. Now, in 2010,…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010 -
Faith In Final Fantasy XIV Needs Resurrecting
Players aren’t happy with online game Final Fantasy XIV. Square Enix, the company behind the title, knows this and wants to make things better. “Currently, the service isn’t satisfactory,” says Square Enix boss Yoichi Wada. He’s right. It isn’t. “We’re in the middle of quickly improving it,” Wada told a group of investors. “We want…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 5, 2010 -
Half-Life Fan Movie: Pretty Kids, Explosions Aplenty
Here’s a new trailer for Beyond Black Mesa, a fan-made Half-Life movie that makes up in enthusiasm and polish what it lacks in subtlety and Gordon Freeman. There’s a little too much kung fu and pretty young people running around for it to feel truly authentic. Half-Life 2’s world is a bleak, decaying one, after…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010 -
Japan’s Dumbest PSP Thief Got Himself Arrested
Stealing is a crime. It’s wrong. But, if you plan on breaking into a car and stealing someone’s PSP, be sure that you don’t accidentally sell it back to its owner. You’ll end up so arrested. Just ask Masashi Osawa. Earlier this month, the 25-year-old spotted a PSP and a couple of CDs in a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 5, 2010 -
New Batman Comic Influenced By Batman Video Game
Comics God Grant Morrison’s latest work is Batman, Inc, a future-corporate re-imagining of Gotham’s Dark Knight. One of his key inspirations for the series? Last year’s Batman: Arkham Asylum video game. While Morrison’s respect for the medium – and even its role in getting Batman, Inc off the ground – are well-known, it’s still a…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010 -
Turn A NES Cart Into A Wireless Router
Got an old copy of Gumshoe or 3-D WorldRunner? Got a soldering iron and a Dremel? Turn a NES cartridge into a wireless router in just a few steps, thanks to Unconventional Hacker’s step-by-step plan, seen on Instructables.
By Owen Good Published November 5, 2010 -
Why Gran Turismo Games Are Always Late
Gran Turismo 4 was meant to be out in 2004. Wasn’t out until 2005. Gran Turismo 5 has been delayed twice now. Why, then, can’t developers Polyphony Digital get a game out the door on time? It comes down to past experience, when a game shipped last millennium as “finished” scarred series creator Kazunori Yamauchi…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010 -
Hack Kinect, Win $2000
DIY hardware champions adafruit industries want somebody to come up with a set of open source drivers for Microsoft’s Kinect, so anyone can run the thing on all kinds of different computer systems. There’s a reward. Of $2000. Here’s the challenge, as thrown down on adafruit’s website: What do we (all) want? Open source drivers…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010 -
NBA Elite 11 Available Now!
Have we done this joke? We have? We have. Alas. Well, Kevin Durant can tell Dwight Howard that he did in fact star on the cover of this game, even if it’s on the iPhone and not a console. And Mike Breen can tell his friends he’s still in a video game this year, too.…
By Owen Good Published November 4, 2010 -
Must Z TV
We’re just one day away from another work week (or school week) ending. I think I’m going to make it. You? Want to talk about it in our nightly open thread? Then get in here! I’m going to spend the rest of my Thursday either watching The Walking Dead, playing James Bond Blood Stone—which isn’t…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 4, 2010 -
MAG DLC Escalates With 200 Percent XP Bonus
“Escalation,” the three-way battle among all the factions of MAG, is available now on the PlayStation Network and comes at a discount for those who bought the previous DLC installment, “Interdiction” before Oct. 28. Escalation is $9.99 to all, but $7.99 if you picked up Interdiction – again, before Oct. 28. The pack delivers three…
By Owen Good Published November 4, 2010 -
What’s Inside A Kinect?
If the sight of bare printed circuit boards, tangles of wires and exposed chips makes you queasy, best look away from iFixit’s new Kinect dissection. But if you want to know exactly whats inside that new hands-free controller, read on. iFixit dives into the electronic guts of Kinect’s sensor and microphone arrays, finding it full…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 4, 2010 -
Cliffy B: Heavy Rain Missed Its Chance With The Ladies
Joking that women “love two things in life, queso dip and true crime,” Epic Games’ Cliff Bleszinski told a podcast that he felt Heavy Rain missed out on bigger sales by not marketing itself more to the fairer sex. “It feels like such a great game for a girl who wouldn’t normally play games,” Bleszinski…
By Owen Good Published November 4, 2010