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Fallout 2 As A Live-Action RPG

Last month, at a remote disused air-defense base outside of Leningrad, upwards of 300 Russian Fallout fans recreated post-apocalyptic California in a live-action role-playing game based on Fallout 2. All of the information we have on the event is translated from Russian via Google, so it could be completely wrong. From we understand, a workshop…

LittleBigPlanet: Who Ya Gonna Call?

Media Molecule’s “Who You Gonna Call” teaser has updated with a look at what you’d be calling about. The obvious becomes even more obvious today, with the addition of one spooky little sackboy to MM’s teaser image, where once there was but words. This ghost sackboy, which is surely part of a set of Ghostbusters-themed…

Game Play, Used Game Sales Rocket During Recession

The number of hours that gamers play is at an all time high over the past few months, according to a new study from Nielsen. The Value Gamer: Play and Purchase Behavior in a Recession also shows that gamers have increased their purchase of used games to “record-breaking totals” since Nielsen began tracking used game…

Star Wars: The Old Republic Comic Heats Up In Act Two

With a clash of lightsabers and a smoking Sith corpse, BioWare and Dark Horse launch Act Two of their Star Wars: The Old Republic web comic, The Threat of Peace. As with any Star Wars series, the second act is always the most action-packed, and it looks like writer Rob Chestney is sticking to the…

The Nintendo Download: Bits, Busts, And Chariots Of WiiWare

Busting moves, tripping bits, and racing chariots are just some of the fun activities presented in this week’s downloadable games for the Nintendo Wii and DSi. It’s a promising week for The Nintendo Download, with an especially robust set of titles dropping for WiiWare. Kicking things off is the release of Aksys Games’ BIT.TRIP CORE…

My Pirate, My Friend

Piracy, the video game industry’s multi-billion dollar problem, may have met its match. The solution to the illegal copying of video games perhaps isn’t a law enforcement task force or volley of lawsuits, but the legitimization of the act itself. Last week news broke that The Pirate Bay, one of the largest websites in the…

NHL 10 Gets In Your Face

Producer David Littman takes us through some of the new features coming in EA Sports‘ latest trip to the most violent ice skating rink ever. Hockey is another one of those sports that I feel a strong pull towards but have never experienced outside of video games, so if EA isn’t delivering an extremely realistic…

Dirt 2 PC Delayed For DirectX 11

The PC version of Colin McRae: Dirt 2 is being driven to December in order to make sure the title supports the hardware tessellation, multi-threading and Shader Model 5.0 technology coming in DirectX 11. DirectX 11 already? Most games are still trying to catch up to DirectX 10 support, but Codemasters wants to make sure…

Demon Souls Dated And Bundled With Swag

While we were busy having cookouts and watching fireworks, Atlus spent July 4th telling everyone about the release date and bundle contents for the deluxe edition of their upcoming PlayStation 3 action RPG Demon Souls. I’m curious to see why Atlus decided to announce the release date for Demon Souls on the Fourth of July,…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

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These Bugs, So Creepy, No Biting

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Good thing living out of the city? It’s beautiful — jaw droppingly so. The mountains are great. Bad thing? The area’s native residents. There’s a spate of FLYING ANTS recently. I’ve seen flying ants before, but not like this. Gobs of them sticking to windows — delightful! Lots of creepy bugs,…

British Sales Charts

Still with the face-punching! Last time we checked, Fight Night Round 4 was dominating the British charts. This time around, little has changed. Sure, Wii Fit has squeezed back into second place, but Fight Night is still at #1 and #3. As for newcomers, Tiger Woods 10 had an impressive debut at 9, 10 &…

You Don’t Have As Many PS2 Games As This Guy

The PS2 has been out for a while now. Most of you probably have a few games for the system still lying around the house. Reader Syd doesn’t have a few. He has a lot. Syd – a collector who runs…The Personal Computer Museum– is on a bit of a PS2 bender at the moment,…

Spielberg Gets “Lots of Ideas” From Splinter Cell

Ever wonder where legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg (pictured, with friend) gets his inspiration? Gunga Din, Frank Capra and Samuel Fuller, among others. What about beyond that, like game-wise? While at E3, Ubisoft’s Maxime Bernard’s told Official Xbox 360 Magazine in a recently published article: “He [Spielberg] had an entourage… and he said to his friend…

Pre-Order Left 4 Dead 2, Get Demo Early

If you’re a sane, reasonable person who, of their own volition, chooses to pre-order Left 4 Dead 2, well, you’re in luck. Because early purchasers will get early access to the game’s demo. While a multiplayer demo will be released for everyone on both 360 and PC, anyone preordering the 360 version or pre-purchasing the…

Man. Bathtub. PSP. Game Over?

Official Sony Europe promotional image as seen on UK Resistance and complimenting this.

Waiter, There’s Final Fantasy In My Serbian Pop Music Video

This is Milan Stankovic. He’s a Serbian pop star. So dreamy! Anyway, he (or at least his production crew) may also be big Final Fantasy fans, judging by that looping animation in the background. [thanks Miodrag!]

Dragon Quest IX Is Gonna Be Hard, Yo

Just because Square Enix is releasing Dragon Quest IX on the DS, doesn’t mean they’re putting out an easy game. On the contrary, DQIX is going to be difficult says series creator Yuji Horii. We make the game to be quite hard. It’s harder than any of the previous titles, and the enemies are also…

Get Your Fingers Sweaty With A DDR Alarm Clock

This thing is wrong on so many levels. Your fingers shouldn’t have to work at 6:30am. J-pop should never be played at 6:30am. And there is nothing “perfect” about being woken up by an alarm clock. Course, that’s just my $0.02. If you’re a DDR fanatic and can see yourself enjoying this, rather than smashing…

This Is The Newest Monster Hunter 3 Trailer

On August 1, Wii title Monster Hunter 3 (-tri) will whip Japan into a frenzy when it hits retailers. The game was originally planned for the PS3, but announced as a Wii title.