Numerous recent retrospectives showed that, from 2000-2009, video games changed. But how did you change alongside the games of the 00’s? I’ve compiled My Gaming Decade. You go next. 2000: A year removed from grad school, I bought The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, which would prove to be my favorite game ever. 2001: I…
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Hrm, can’t quite put my finger on where I’ve seen this before. I’m pretty sure I’ve played something like this. Somewhere. Hrm. Besides a cover mechanic, an AI-controlled partner, dark and moody interiors, and big macho characters, Tecmo’s upcoming third-person-shooter Quantum Theory features a “shape-shifting battlefield” that changes form in real time. Will be released…
When the Nintendo Wii launched in 2006, it wasn’t only the motion controller that was revolutionary. The ability to make your own cute avatar called a Mii shook up console gaming. At a Nintendo seminar, company president Satoru Iwata revealed that between the United States and Japan, one hundred million players have their own Miis.…
Those Gran Turismo 5 screens didn’t come alone. Oh no. This trailer came along for the ride. Click to view
Creative Assembly Announced today that Napoleon: Total War, sequel of sorts to the amazing Empire: Total War, will be out next month. “Napoleon: Total War will be released on 23rd February 2010!”, a message says on the company’s Twitter account. No word on whether that’s just in Europe or worldwide, but with the game being…
To mark its 30th anniversary, Japanese tissue brand Elleair is collaborating with Nintendo’s Animal Crossing. Nothing says tissues quite like Animal Crossing. The tissues are limited edition and will go on sale from January 21 to March 31 in Japan. As children and families uses high number of tissues (kids are snotty!), cute character often…
Toyota’s FT-86 G concept sports car will feature in Gran Turismo 5, which handily explains why it’s the star of these new screenshots
Speaking with Japanese newspaper the Asahi Shimbun, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata was quoted about the DS handheld’s successor. Nintendo has since claimed that Iwata’s comments were “misinterpreted“. That newspaper has fired back, saying its reporting was indeed accurate. Nintendo took issue with the original reporting by the Asahi Shimbun, stating that the paper’s reporter ran…
Normally, despite the fact it’s often not as timely or as generous with content as its US counterpart, there’s always something to recommend on the PAL PlayStation Store. Not this week. No, a scan down the list of stuff available reveals that not only is this week’s update lacking in quantity, but also quality, with…
All the Mega Man Zero games in one place. On your Nintendo DS. Capcom has just announced the Mega Man Zero Collection, which is a compilation of all four Game Boy Advance games in the Zero series. Mega Man Zero was first released back in 2002 and praised for going back to the franchise’s original…
Sony today released a number of new screens for upcoming brawler God of War III. Swords and angry men feature prominently. The game, sure to be one of the biggest of the year on the PlayStation 3, will be out in March.
Capcom is releasing Resident Evil 5: Alternative Edition this coming spring, and the game will take advantage of the PS3’s new wand motion controls. Settings include the Spencer Estate mansion as well as Africa. Resident Evil: Alternative Edition will be available as downloadable content for both the Xbox 360 and the PS3. Characters Jill Valentine…
Rockstar Games has yet to respond publicly to allegations that staff working on Red Dead Redemption have suffered through poor work conditions, but this apparent internal email is the next best thing. Posted on Gamasutra, the supposed email to RSD employees goes to great lengths to distance the company from the accusations levelled against it…
Mari Yaguchi rocked to fame in the late 1990s as a member of idol group Morning Musume. (Check her out in the video for Morning Musume’s Jyosei Kashimashi Monogatari.) That was then, this is now. Now, Yaguchi records solo tracks and appears on popular program Quiz! Hexagon II. She is also a columnist for Famitsu,…
In case you don’t make it to the end of this clip, no, this is not what the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco is like. It should be, though. It really, really should be.
Hate in-flight movies? Didn’t bring a book? Like to game? A subsidiary of airline Korean Air, Jin Air, is here to help by renting PSPgo consoles to passengers. The PSPgo is available for rental for flights out of Incheon for 4,000 won (US$3.50) — way cheaper than the $6 that some airlines charge economy passengers…
Two games were notable by their absence yesterday from Ubisoft’s fiscal report. Those games were I Am Alive and Beyond Good & Evil 2. So what’s the deal, Ubisoft? Well, the Frenchmen at Gamekult spoke yesterday with Ubisoft’s Geoffroy Sardin, and asked him precisely that. His response? “Ils sont toujours en production tous les deux…”,…
While Beatle Ringo Starr might be a rock’n’roll icon, he is not a Rock Band game playing icon. But that’s okay. He’s Ringo Starr. “I’m absolutely crap at it,” Starr said in a television interview with talk show host Jimmy Fallon with asked about the Rock Band Beatles game. “We tried it when they were…
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