To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Last week, we bought a bed. And yesterday, just like that, it arrived. Amazing how that works. For the last couple of years, we haven’t had a bed — our last apartment was so damn small that we had to sleep on mats in the living room! And since we moved…
Like the US, the 360 Elite is getting a hefty price cut in the UK. But unlike the US, the price of the Arcade 360 in the UK is about to go up. Hey, Microsoft, what’s the deal? Microsoft Europe’s Chris Lewis has told MCV “We are making modest increases on the Xbox 360 Arcade…
The latest Ratchet & Clank game from Insomniac – Ratchet & Clank: Future – has been given a release date by Sony, and will be out towards the end of October. October 27, if you need the exact day. Note that’s only the US release date; European dates are still to come. So far this…
How popular is Sengoku Basara (AKA Devil Kings in the West) in Japan? Popular enough to merit snack chips. Featuring characters of Sengoku Basara Battle Heroes, the crispy chips come in four flavors: Mustard miso, crab, seaweed and cow tongue. Tasty! They’re priced at ¥315 (US$3.30) for a bag and available from this month across…
Disillusioned by the way the recent GI Joe movie treated the 1980’s take on the franchise? You’re not the only one. Spare a thought for the plastic Joes themselves, who must now console themselves with endless games of Tempest. And Pac-Man, and Galaga, and Donkey Kong. The bleeps and bloops of decades-old arcade games are…
Hans Zimmer. Check the composer of big Hollywood films, and you’re bound to find his name. He’s scored movies as diverse as the smash hit The Lion King soundtrack and his Badlands inspired True Romance score. Most recently, Zimmer has scored Frost/Nixon and The Dark Knight. According to Zimmer’s agency, the Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, the composer…
Peggle Nights – the joyous expansion to the joyful Peggle – will soon be making the jump from personal computer to Xbox 360. It’ll hit the 360 in the form of downloadable content, and includes everything you’d find in the PC/Mac version of Peggle Nights. Which means 60 new MP levels, 60 new campaign levels…
It’s not only the US that is seeing an Xbox 360 price drop, but the UK, too. Starting tomorrow, the Xbox 360 Elite 120GB will be priced at £199.99 (US$324). The new price is a £30 drop from the current retail price, and the the Xbox 360 Pro will be phased out in the United…
The Pokemon World Championships held recently in San Diego were a source of laughter, yes, but for die-hard fans they’ll also have been a source of envy if this Pokemon DSi is any indication. Handed out in strictly limited quantities, it’s probably as visually pleasing an offspring of Pokemon and San Diego as you’re going…
Another giant Gundam statue. Sure, it’s not as big as the 1/1 scale Gundam — this mobile suit is 4 meters and weighs 10 tons. Recently hitting the Japanese internet, this Gundam was created 2 years ago by a Japanese stone cutter in Yasu City, Saga Prefecture. See those stones in the background? Those are…
Microsoft’s priciest version of the Xbox 360 is getting a $100 price drop this Friday, the publisher told Kotaku, and its top selling model of the console is being phased out. The 120GB Xbox 360 Elite will sell for $299.99, while the popular 60GB Xbox 360 Pro will be cut to $249.99. Despite being Microsoft’s…
The thing about the football market having two flagship series as opposed to, say, the NFL’s one, is that there are always two box art rituals to sit through. We’ve seen FIFA’s, now let’s look at Pro Evo‘s. Appearing on the cover of this year’s edition are Barcelona’s pint-sized Argentinian Lionel Messi, who reprises his…
Can’t say I watch G4’s Electric Playground that often. And by that, I mean never. Which explains why I missed this neat little segment on the neat-looking XBLA platformer Fez. There’s an interesting interview with the game’s shaggy developers, Polytron, along with a few minute’s worth of in-game footage. The clip below is the full…
There are cheaters. There are always cheaters. Borderlands developer Gearbox Software has a plan to get ’em. “We’re going to wait and see what the cheaters do, and then we’ll attack them,” says Gearbox honcho Randy Pitchford. “It’s the only way to fight them, they’ll be there no matter what we do. The console versions…
Another day, another ruthless dismembering of a Sony console, as following on from yesterday’s PS3 Slim teardown we now get a real good look at the PSPgo’s inside bits. Not knowing what the hell was going on, I just sat back, scrolled through the 12 pages of pics and pretended I could hear the PSPgo…
Don’t worry. Dizzy from fighter Guilty Gear XX Accent Core isn’t cold. She has thick skin. Thick plastic skin, that is. This is the Queen’s Gate version of Dizzy. Queen’s Gate is a spin-off of Queen’s Blade, a Lost Worlds style “combat picture book game” and has been published in Japan for the last couple…
Like many Western games, Relic’s Company of Heroes is in line for some changes once it hits the Chinese market as Company of Heroes Online. The LA Times’ Charles Proctor reports that, amidst concerns surrounding China’s laws forbidding any reference to the Nazi party, THQ have rebranded the Germans in this new CoH title as…
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British sites are reporting that, ahead of an expected announcement later this week, Microsoft are to copy the rumoured North American moves by implementing both a price cut and a lineup shuffle for their range of 360 consolse. MCV say that retailers across Britain are being told they can’t order any/many existing 360 consoles, while…
Songstress MiChi will be lending her tune “Something” to the Bayonetta television campaign. She won’t actually be lending her song. We imagine she’ll get paid by SEGA — with money even! This is the first TV theme for MiChi, who was worried about which tune should be used to help match the mode of the…
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