YouTube user Thelmperar claims to have maxed out Sim City 3000 with the creation of Magnasanti, a metropolis a few years in the making. Some facts about the city, from the video: -Magnasanti has zero abandoned buildings. -100% of all zoned structures are historical -Zero water pollution -Zero congestion -No crime -Utilities all done through…
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To: Totilo From: Bashcraft RE: Dy Nt It’s Friday, and I gotta know, are you with me? If you want to stay in Thursday. Fine, do it. I don’t care. But I’m all about Friday and I must know: Are you with me? What you missed last night Four Year-Old Gets Game, Finds Bag Of…
This really, really is. Yodobashi Camera is one of the largest retailers in Japan, and boy oh boy does it ever have a deal for you! This branch is offering The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks for ¥480 — that’s obviously less than one ¥500 coin (US$5.40). It’s a steal. Never really played that much…
Things are looking good for rock band No Doubt. Less so for game publisher Activision. Last fall, the group sued Activision over a breach of contract. Activision’s Guitar Hero allowed players to unlock No Doubt avatars and turn the band into “virtual karaoke players.” As Kotaku previously posted, No Doubt said in a statement last…
From Software’s brutal role-playing game Demon’s Souls, one of 2009’s real surprise packets, has only been available in Japan and the United States. From June, though, (as suspected) it’ll be available in PAL territories! That’s you, Europe and Australasia! To make up for the delay (and perhaps to entice those of you who imported the…
A four year-old boy in the United Kingdom was chuffed to bits when his dad bought him an Xbox 360 game. He wasn’t quite sure, though, what to do with the bag of weed he found inside. Riley Brown, from Littlehampton in West Sussex, England, was bought a copy of Fight Night Round 4 (which,…
Typically, there are two ways to bring media from one language to another language. One is to subtitle. The other is dubbing. Do you have a preference? Subtitling allows the original language (and in turn, mood) to remain in tact, while dubbing allows players to take in the visual elements without having to worry about…
This small child isn’t terribly interested in a green cup. She’s damn interested in that Xbox 360 controller, though. She’s not laughing at it. It’s not quite a scream, either. Or a cry. She’s just…freaking out, and won’t stop staring at the left analogue stick. Leaving us to wonder if that man created a baby…
Kinda like this. Japanese company Klab has developed a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator. Here it is running on a Kindle emulator. That’s…alot of emulating. Amazon’s e-book Kindle reader was first released in 2007. It now faces increased competition from Apple’s iPad. Super Mario Bros on Kindle Emulator [Hobby Blog]
Like waves crashing against a cliff face, video games are slowly eating away at the foundations of the English language. But is that such a bad thing? Let’s ask Andrew over on LittleBoBeep ‘Guys, I’ve done some preliminary calculations and, uhm, judging by the building angle and the estimated distance to heaven… we’re fucked.’ ‘Watchousayin’…
Video games aren’t just about the games, the story or the graphics. Oh, no. Music is so incredibly important. And often, long after you have finished playing, it sticks around, lingers in the back of your brain. Here are ten songs we sometimes find ourselves either humming or having a hankering for a listen. These…
Not with flowers, but with cake. As seen on Major Nelson’s Twitter
Stealth game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is a T-rated game in North America. The means it is suitable for kids 13-years-old-and-over. Japan, however, has a different rating system. Time to get out the scissors to cut things out. Peace Walker has a C-rating in Japan (15-years-old-and-up) and to prevent the game from getting a…
Steve Holcomb won America’s first gold medal in the bobsled in 62 years at the recent Vancouver Winter Olympics. For his troubles, he’s since had his Xbox 360 stolen, which has left the guy devastated. No, traumatised “It’s like a death in the family,” he told cnet, “at least for me being single with no…
If there were ever two things made for each other, that would be real-time strategy game and South Korea. They love each other so much it hurts. The game is hugely popular in South Korea — and has been for some time. Korean Air is sponsoring the OnGameNet StarCraft League this spring, and the date…
Thanks to a confusing set of press releases and an even more confusing name change, most people aren’t sure who to thank/blame for the development of the new XCOM game. So let’s set the record straight. I spoke with Martin Slater, studio director of the former 2K Australia office in Canberra this morning. The fact…
What do you get when you mix a washed up sumo wrestler, a cross-dressing fighter and a 14-year-old YouTube idol? You get a press conference for EA Sports’ FIFA soccer game. Yuichiro “Jienotsu” Nagashima, the cross-dressing kick boxer, showed up like he usually does — in a wig and wearing women’s clothes. Hey, relax, he’s…
How much you enjoy petty squabbles between large multinational companies will determine how much you enjoy the latest instalment of the increasingly public soap opera surrounding Activision, EA and Call of Duty developers Infinity Ward. Me? I enjoy them immensely Earlier today, Activision put out a press release boasting of the success of Modern Warfare…
An entirely new Pokémon series doesn’t just mean new Pokémon games, it also means something else. This fall the anime version of current Pokémon series Diamond and Pearl will conclude its run to make way for the totally new Pokémon Black and White franchise. The original Pokémon anime first ran in 1997, and the second…
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