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Sony’s motion-sensing Playstation Move hits stores next month, but that doesn’t mean you’re going to have to wait a bit more than a month to check it out. Sony Computer Entertainment of America confirmed to Kotaku that they are gearing up for quite a marketing push, bringing the controller add-on for the Playstation 3 to…
To: Totilo From: Bash RE: What Is A Day Note? It’s Obon in Japan, and pretty much the entire country is off. On Friday, we’ll be cleaning the family grave, which is what you are supposed to do during Obon. Many people take insanely crowded trains or highways and go on vacation. If you want…
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Microsoft’s Kinect will not go on sale in China. The fact that video game consoles are banned (yet, still widely available through the gray market) means that Microsoft isn’t able to give the controller-free peripheral an official launch. That’s okay. According to a report on website chinagame.178.com, company Bejing eedoo is planning on revealing a…
A lot has been made about the potential for the PlayStation Move’s motion controls, but let’s not forget that the PS3’s humble little PlayStation Eye camera can do motion control of its own, no plastic wands required. Kung-Fu LIVE is to the PlayStation Eye what Kung Foo was to the EyeToy; players stand in front…
There’s cosplay, where kids coble together their own outfits using stitches, fabric and rubber, and then there’s cosplay, where an official costume from a game is made commercially available. Like this one, for American McGee’s Alice! Available from Party City, it’ll cost you (or that special, role-playing someone in your life) $60. For that, you’ll…
Heroine Aya Brea returns in PSP game The 3rd Birthday, the latest installment in the Parasite Eve franchise. And it has some fantastic jean damage. These recent images show how her blue jeans become increasingly worn down during battle. The Third Birthday, which was originally planned for Japanese cell phones, follows Aya as she dukes…
For all the fond memories American kids have of educational game The Oregon Trail, the fact is the game itself stinks. What it needed was to be more like ExciteBike. That’s the idea behind So Long, Oregon!, which transforms the dusty old classic into a side-scrolling stunt game, like ExciteBike or, for the younger kids,…
Paris is truly a world class city. The French are wonderful people. Know what else is wonderful? Cosplay. A new book “Cosplay in Paris” chronicles some of the cosplayers at the annual Japan Expo culture festival in Paris. The 2010 Japan Expo was held from July 1 to the 4 at the Paris-Nord Villepinte. Guests…
Microsoft makes games for the Xbox 360. Microsoft makes games for the PC. Now Microsoft will be making games for mobile phones! A job posting over on Microsoft’s web site reveals the formation of a new division of the company’s internal development force, called MGS Mobile Gaming, which will be “focused on bringing games and…
Carrianne Howard studied game design. As Bloomberg previously reported, she ponied up US$70,000 for a “worthless” degree from a for-profit college. But Howard not only lost $70,000 on that degree, she also lost her love of video games. Her degree was financed by her parents’ credit card, something that ultimately became a burden for her…
The talented kids at video game art forum Polycount are again working their magic on Valve’s Team Fortress 2, giving us a glimpse at what Red v Blue would have looked like in the age of steamships and cowboys. Taking Valve’s own recent Engineer comic as inspiration, they’re modelling a range of the game’s characters…
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That Star Ruler game we showed you earlier in the week? Its soundtrack is now out, and it’s pretty good
Ubisoft’s digital rights management system for its PC games has been wildly unpopular since first adopted. And that’s putting it mildly. Which might explain why the company’s next PC game is ditching it. RUSE, a real-time strategy game, will not be using Ubisoft’s maligned system, instead opting for the far more publicly acceptable Steamworks method,…
Roger Avary of Pulp Fiction and Killing Zoe fame wrote the first Silent Hill movie. He was slated to write the second one. Then, the unthinkable happened. In 2008, an intoxicated Avary was involved in a car accident that left a close friend of his dead, 34-year-old Andreas Zini, and put his wife in the…
Inazuma Eleven is a soccer role-playing game from Level-5, the Fukuoka-based studio behind the Professor Layton series and White Knight Chronicles. The soccer RPG games are very popular and have even spawned a manga and anime. You know what is missing? A stage version. Yes, a stage version Well, come this September Inazuma Eleven is…
As the gaming press becomes ever more focused on the internet, the printed word is becoming a dying medium. And as with anything on the decline, rarity can at times go hand-in-hand with value. Kevin Gifford, of Mag Weasling fame, has written a handy guide to the value of old gaming mags over on Gamasutra,…
Sony and Google’s rumoured partnership may be the gaming phone news of today, but sources speaking with Pocket Gamer reckon that a few years back, Nintendo was in bed with a phone company too. That company was Nokia, and during the early 2000s the Finnish phone giant and Nintendo had plans to release a portable…
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