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Checking Out The Xbox 360’s Take on Wii Bowling

Kinect Sports comes packed with more than half-a-dozen ways to play, but my limited time with the game only gave me a chance to check out one of them: Bowling. Nintendo’s Wii Sports proved just how popular bowling can be on a video game console. It may not be the sexiest game, but it was…

I Seem To Have An Invizimal Touch

Sony’s E3 2010 booth was filled with eagerly anticipated titles like Killzone 3 and God of War: Ghost of Sparta, yet I made a beeline for PSP augmented reality Pokémon clone Invizimals. Why? It’s quite simple. After four straight E3 shows (six in total,) I’ve seen plenty of games like God of War and Killzone.…

The Nintendo Download: Invasion Of The Square Bears

This week’s Nintendo Download features a pair of Square Enix WiiWare games originally released in Japan as Kumanage, which sounds a lot cooler than The Tales of Bearsworth Manor. North America cannot handle Kumanage, so we get The Tales of Bearsworth Manor, two 1,000 Wii point games featuring a similar pop-up storybook look and feel…

Unbelievable BeatBox Journey Through A Video Game

Wow, and I thought yesterday’s violin-rendition was amazing. Check out BeatBoxer Hikakin bipping his way through the first level of Super Mario Bros, seemingly with a borrowed voice or two. Thanks Stagueve!

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Up Close and Personal With The Most Important People in Gaming

Starting this month we’ll be running a series of profiles on some of the most important people in gaming. The semi-regular series kicked off the day before E3 officially started, last Monday, with our profile of Activision CEO, and all around hated-man, Bobby Kotick. You should check it out. Later today you’ll be reading our…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

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No Controller? No Glasses? No Problem

The big news popping out of this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo was more about what was missing than what was there. Microsoft’s motion-controlling Kinect add-on for the Xbox 360 turns your body into the controller for video games, making you the puppet master of your own virtual avatar in a slew of video game experiences.…

I’m (Not) Afraid of Americans

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Back from E3! And feeling recharged, actually. Getting to LA from Japan is a drag. It’s even more of a drag when your flight is delayed and you miss your site’s party. (I hope all your other people liked it!) But totally worth it, and I think we had a great…

Nintendo 3DS vs. PSP vs. iPhone

How does the upcoming Nintendo 3DS compare to the its current competitors, the Sony PSP, the iPhone 3GS? Let’s find out! The original Nintendo DS is thrown in for good measure. Via website HardCoreWare comes these assumptions on how the Nintendo 3DS stacks up: Graphics Processing Unit • Nintendo 3DS: DMP Pica 200 • Nintendo…

Queen’s Blade Cosplayers Look Like This

Blades-meets-boobs Queen’s Blade recreated by real live human beings in assorted outfits. Sometimes it’s the costume that sells the cosplay. Sometimes it’s the cosplayer. And sometimes it’s both. Not sure which ones these would fall under… Queen’s Blade is originally a Lost Worlds style “combat picture book game” and has been published in Japan for…

Prince Of Persia Figure Has Plastic Face, Jakey Chest

Intimidated by a $300 Prince of Persia statue? Try a $250 Prince of Persia action figure instead. This one even looks like Jake Gyllenhaal! While Sideshow’s premium statue looked like Clive Owen’s long-lost Persian twin, Hot Toys have got the chesty star’s look down pat, with smoky eyes and a beard so soft it makes…

Crackdown 2 Demo Out Later Today

Seems we’re getting a Crackdown 2 demo later today, which has accelerated levelling, 4-player co-op and even achievements.

Call Of Has A LOT Of Helicopters

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare’s most famous aerial sequence may involve an AC-130 Hercules, but as this clip shows, the real stars of the show are the game’s helicopters. All 147 of them. How do we know there are 147 helicopters? Because some guy has a blog called “Call of Helicopters“, in which every…

Tales Studio Is Not Doing So Well

Namco Tales Studio is the developer behind Tales of Phantasia, Tales of Eternia, Tales of Destiny and Tales of Vesperia. The studio has seen better days. A recent financial report has revealed that debt for the studio has piled up so that it has surpassed the studio’s total assets, making the developer insolvent. The Tails…

If Atari Was Apple, And Had Done It All In 1977…

Designer Alex Varanese had an idea: what if the technology of 2010 had been around in 1977? It’s an idea he illustrates in these pictures, showing an iPod, mobile phone, laptop and portable gaming system decked out in a very Atari-looking livery of red, orange, yellow and woodgrain. While the phone, laptop and iPod are…

Dead Or Alive Creator Meets Lakers Fans

Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki was in LA last week for E3. Was he also there for game seven of the NBA Finals? Who knows. Probably not, as at the ten-second mark of this surprise, random clip he looks like he’s making a hasty exit from this joint, which has been overrun by celebrating…

Sony Cat? Touchy-Feely

Sony mascot Kuro is struck with girl fever World Cup Fever. As seen on Akiba Blog

New Xbox 360 Warns You Of Possible Doom

The new smaller Xbox 360 will not flash the “Red Ring of Death” — the iconic symbol of catastrophic system failure. It’s new warning mark is the “red eye”. Sounds…ominous It’s not necessarily the red eye of death, though. This new 250GB unit is clearly displaying the red dot. That’s only half the story. Apparently,…

More Batman Figures For Your Top Shelf’s Nuthouse

Following on from DC Direct’s first line of Batman: Arkham Asylum figures, here’s a second series, this time featuring some villains that make more of a direct appearance in the game. While the inclusion of Scarface was a head-scratcher first time around, these four figures make much more sense, a new Batman joined by Zsasz,…