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Leaving Second Grade

To: Ash From: Crecente Tristan’s last day in second grade was today and the class celebrated with a “crazy hair day.” Today was also the day that Tristan brought home his grades for the year and with them a startling note. In it it said that he was reading at nearly the fifth grade level…

Tetris Inspires Haute Headwear Fashion

Women’s knitwear designer Timothy James Andrews has a little geek in him, apparently, as his upcoming Fall collection is inspired by both Tetris and Transformers. We expect Alexey Pajitnov will see no royalties from this Tetris spin-off as well. It’s not the first gaming to fashion connection we’ve seen, but with Swedish label Odeur recently…

The Little Things Noticed At Our Nintendo Demos

All day, we’ve been bringing you new impressions of Nintendo’s big holiday games, but allow us to note some little things of possible importance from our time with those titles. Small things I observed: –MotionPlus Shouldn’t Stay Attached: Like the Nunchuck, Nintendo’s MotionPlus Wii Remote add-on can get in the way while playing some games.…

Brütal Legend Box Art Hits All The Right Notes

Double Fine Productions and Electronic Arts are still on for a planned Rocktober 13th release of the metal epic adventure Brütal Legend. To prove that the game will ultimately be reality, EA has released hard-rockin’ box art for the game. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 box art gets double badged with extremely metal Double…

Xbox Live Arcade Could Tell Tales of Monkey Island, Too

Telltale Games‘ is set to spin more Monkey Island yarns this Summer, when the episodic Tales of Monkey Island begins rolling out on WiiWare and PC. But it may also set sail for Xbox Live Arcade, should the stars align. Dave Grossman of Telltale tells Eurogamer that the developer “wouldn’t rule it out,” but would…

Why Guys Should Care About Girl-Game Style Savvy

Nintendo’s women’s-fashion-shop game for the DS was called “Girls Mode” in Japan, signal enough that it’s not for macho men or the gamers who want to play as one. But there are design ideas in Style Savvy any gamer should know about. Style Savvy is a fully localized upcoming Nintendo-published DS game that’s sure to…

Modern Warfare 2 Co-op Sweet Spot Is Exactly Two

Infinity Ward is sticking with good ol’ two-player cooperative action for its follow up to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, saying that attempts to expand upon the time tested buddy system resulted in the experience “becoming a clusterf**k.” The developer’s director of communications Robert Bowling tells Videogamer that Modern Warfare 2‘s co-op missions, dubbed…

The Latest Graphical Intel From Global Agenda

The latest batch of screenshots for Hi-Rez Studios‘ massively multiplayer online shooter Global Agenda show s off exactly how good you can look while being slaughtered by giant killer robots. It seems like every time I see Global Agenda it looks just a little more polished than before. The armor definitely looks polished, as do…

Feet-On With Wii Fit Plus’ Wacky New Balance Games

The fact that someone from Nintendo is currently in sole possession of a video of a Kotaku writer playing Birdseye Bullseye has nothing to do with our willingness to publish the following post. Almost as an afterthought I agreed to sample Wii Fit Plus last night during my visit with Nintendo reps in New York…

Dirt 2 Wii Looks Rather Clean

The second game in the Colin McRae Dirt racing franchise marks the debut of the series on the Nintendo Wii. Here’s an idea of what that will look like. The game actually doesn’t seem to have suffered too much from the transition. Sure, it’s nowhere near as detailed as its big brothers on the PlayStation…

New Max Payne 3 Screens Show Max Action

The newest Max Payne shoot ’em up features “drastic changes in setting and character design,” in Rockstar Games’ own words. We think these new screen shots of Max Payne 3 perfectly illustrate how drastic those changes are. If you’re a Game Informer subscriber, you’re more than likely already familiar with some of these shots, already…

Wii Sports Resort Preview: Motion Game Of The Year?

Nintendo’s sequel to a game nobody thought needed a sequel is out next month, is impressive and could be the best thing for hardcore gamers on the Wii since, what, Metroid? Away from the chaos of E3, we’ve gotten a chance to swing a MotionPlus-appended Wii Remote to control Wii Sports Resort, the showcase game…

Katamari Forever Tunes Get Chippy

Namco Bandai’s heading back to the Katamari mines this year for the PlayStation 3-only release of Katamari Forever—perhaps more aptly named Katamari Damacy Tribute in Japan. That “tribute” aspect is highlighted in its remixed, 8-bit influenced soundtrack. One of the musical artists tapped to contribute to the Katamari Forever soundtrack is Japanese chiptunes outfit YMCK.…

Reserve Assassin’s Creed II, Get The Palazzo Medici

Placing your money down on a copy of Assassin’s Creed II at your local GameStop not only reserves you a copy of the game, but also your very own Renaissance palace to romp through. The Palazzo Medici was designed by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo for Cosimo de’ Medici of the famous Medici family. Built between 1445…

Tiger Woods Accepts Jimmy Fallon’s Late Night Wii Golf Challenge

When Tiger Woods appears on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon later this week he will be facing off with the show’s host in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 on the Wii. On Monday, enthusiastic gamer Jimmy Fallon announced that Tiger Woods would be on his show this Thursday, saying he wanted to play him on…

Final Fantasy VII PSN Release Results In Over 100,000 New Aeris Deaths

Square Enix’s Final Fantasy VII has become the “fastest selling PS one title on PlayStation Network since the game launched” accumulating over 100,000 downloads for the PlayStation 3 and PSP following its addition to the North American PlayStation Store. Final Fantasy VII, originally released on the PlayStation in 1997, hit the PlayStation Store on June…

Fifty-Seven Flights Up With New Super Mario Bros. Wii

It was E3 in New York last night as Nintendo re-booked the highest floor we’ve ever played games in, to showcase a fall line-up headlined by New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Some observations from a four-player session. Crecente has already previewed Nintendo’s holiday-slated return of side-scrolling Mario to the Wii. He played it at E3…

Realtime Worlds Has Another MMO Up Their Sleeves

While Crackdown developer Realtime Worlds focus might be on getting APB out the door early next year, they’ve already got another massively multiplayer project in the pipeline. During his keynote presentation at this year’s GameHorizon conference, Realtime Worlds creative director David Jones told the crowd that the company’s next massively multiplayer online title, the first…

GamesCom Is Coming And We’re Going

With less than two months until Europe tries to transplant the tremendous success of the Leipzig Gamescon to the more centrally located Cologne Gamescom, the festival’s backers tell us things are looking good. The 2009 Gamescom already has 300 exhibitors registered from 25 countries with more than 40 percent of them coming from abroad. The…

Best Buy Testing Used Game Market Waters

Electronics retailer Best Buy is stepping on a few GameStop toes in Texas this week, using the state as a test bed for game trade-in kiosks and used game sales. Video game specialty chain GameStop may have the lion’s share of the used market currently, but the vultures are definitely circling. This week, several Best…