To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Quick Links Nerve racking and sad what is going on in Korea. Thailand is having terrible unrest. Military base protests in Okinawa. Lots of things are coming to a head. 🙁 What you missed last night World of Warcraft “Has Not” Peaked FIFA’s Facebook Game Launches, Threatens Productivity Marvel vs…
What better way to capture the splendor of the leather-clad, hip shaking of Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta in Grease than with a game for the Wii? By making sure that the game forces you allows you to use two microphones and a Wii Balanace Board while playing it, that’s how! If only they could…
Square Enix’s Japanese-only portable game The Four Warriors of Light: A Final Fantasy Anecdote is coming to the U.S. with a less unwieldy name in October. Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light arrives on Oct. 5 for the DS
Popular Warcraft III spin-off League of Legends is coming to the Mac this summer. Players will be able to download the game for free once it hits.
Role playing game White Knight Chronicles 2 is the upcoming sequel to White Knight Chronicles 1. Here is the “opening trailer”. White Knight Chronicles: Awakening of Light and Darkness will be out on the PS3 in Japan this July.
This year, like every year, Greenpeace has given Nintendo the lowest marks out of the electronics companies it graded. “Nintendo remains in last place with a pitiful 0.8 points out of 10, scoring zero on all e-waste criteria,” Greenpeace wrote last year. Many of Nintendo’s low marks were the result of the company not divulging…
Kirk Ewing, from PlayStation Home developer Veemee (who make virtual spaces and items), reckons Sony’s underwhelming virtual network service will be emerging from its long-running beta at the end of this year. Having entered an “open beta” in December 2008, Home has been in that state ever since, despite appearing for all intents and purposes…
So, Lost fans, Lost is finished. What are you to do? What half-brained theories as to what it all means will you come up with in its wake? I don’t know, so…here’s an 8-bit NES game of the show. It’s by Adam Campbell, and would be great if it stopped at that single screenshot, but…
Oh really? In December 2008, massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft hit 11.5 million subscribers. However, the number of active players has not crossed that magic number since. Meaning? Well, meaning WoW, which launched in 2004, has peaked. And with the release of StarCraft II around the corner, the number of active players could…
We presume this is Keita Takahashi, creator of Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy, in disguise. Who else could make an otherwise creepy situation so charming? Here he is, dressed as one of the houses from Noby Noby Boy, showing an emerging demographic how the game’s iPhone app works. Wonderful. We’ve heard others describe it…
Okay, Mark Hamill isn’t just Luke Skywalker, star of Star Wars. He’s also Luke Skywalker, star of Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Video game Wing Commander, too! He’s also in World War II movie The Big Red One and 1970s comedy Corvette Summer. To be fair, the man has done a buncha…
Having only been revealed by EA a couple of weeks ago, Playfish’s FIFA Superstars game has gone live on Facebook. And I must say, it’s rather good. Not good in the way a real FIFA game is. But good in the way a Facebook game – built for football fans, not farming fans – should…
Miwa Shoda joined Squaresoft, now Square Enix, in 1995 and went on to write Japanese Legend of Mana and Final Fantasy XII. Those are big games with big stories — something that they apparently do not need. “I’ve worked all over the place and gained a great deal of valuable experience from all sorts of…
You’ve seen fighting game Marvel vs Capcom 3 in grainy trailers and even grainier magazine scans, but here for the first time is Marvel vs Capcom 3 as nature intended: in big screenshots, on the internet. There’s nothing sneaky nor fancy about them. No hidden references to unrevealed characters or anything like that. No, just…
In what seems to be a daily occurrence, another worker at the Foxconn Shenzhen plant has jumped to his death on late Wednesday. Moreover, Reuters reports that three Taiwan TV stations brought news of another person that had jumped on Wednesday. The jumper, a young woman, survived with serious injuries. This information is still unconfirmed,…
With 120 hours of spare time up his sleeve, YouTube user bornforthis43 set up a camera, got some crap from his garden and fridge, and made this delightful stop-motion homage to the games of the Nintendo Entertainment System. It may start a little shaky, but persevere: by the time you get to a Zelda populated…
Capcom’s action role-playing game Monster Hunter Frontier features plenty of opportunities for players to catch monsters and…take upskirt photos of female characters. Capcom’s latest title, Lost Planet 2, features… Plenty of opportunities to fight monsters and take upskirt photos of female characters. There seems to be a theme here. Monsters? カプコンのパンツへのこだわりは異常 『ロストプラネット2』パンツ画像集 [はちま起稿]
Online role-playing game Guild Wars, like any other game played over the internet, has its fair share of cheaters. How Guild Wars deals with them, though, sets them apart. Earlier this week, 3700 accounts were banned by the developers for “botting and match manipulation”, “botting” being the use of automated programs to run through the…
Your parents die. But your fate changes when a millionaire adopts you, and you move into her mansion with her and her daughters. Then…yeah That’s the basic plot for retro adult title Fatal Relations, which is finally getting a homebrew DS port from Digital Satin Productions. This, of course, is hardly the first homebrew adult…
Have you just been gaming for the past two hours? You just did the equivalent of a line of cocaine, says UK counselor and therapist Steve Pope in the Lancashire Evening Post. The title of the piece is “Gaming Addiction Grips Youngsters” and is about the horrors of being addicted to video games. “A lot…
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