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The Nintendo Download: Adventurous Islands, Bubbles Bobbling, And Clay Fighting

While those of us in the U.S. were sleeping in, Nintendo spent yesterday adding a fresh crop of titles to their downloadable lineup, with a healthy dose of old games made new and the odd clock. Five new games in total were released yesterday across WiiWare, DSiWare, and the Virtual Console, though since one of…

Majesco Flips At E3

Majesco is bending the very fabric of space to bring us Flip’s Twisted World, an upside-down platformer for the Nintendo Wii, which they’ll be showing off next week at E3 2009. While games that allow players to turn the world on end are far from a dime a dozen, level-twisting is a gimmick that’s been…

BattleForge Is Now Free

Real-time strategy title BattleForge is now free, Electronic Arts announced today. To download the Play 4 Free version of BattleForge you just need to visit www.battleforge.com and click Play 4 Free. The free version of the game, which was price dropped to $30 earlier this month, will include all of the community features, scenarios, the…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

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Daily Or Two Week? That Is The Question

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Big decision today: daily contact lenses or two week lenses. I talked to my eye doctor, and she said might as well try the two weeks ones. Thing is, now I’ve got to clean ’em everyday — this comes after years of using dailies. What you missed last night PixelJunk 1-4…

British Sales Charts: Nintendo Gets Caught In The Octagon

Get a load of this. New games on the British sales charts. New games everywhere. Pokemon, UFC, EA Sports Active…it’s like a breath of fresh air. I’m a bit surprised at the success of UFC, to be honest. Didn’t think it was that big, especially in Europe. Then again, I’ve also heard it’s an amazing…

John Carmack Stole Computers (And Gaming Needs More People Like Him)

They say you learn something new every day. For today? You learn that when he was only 14, id’s John Carmack broke into a school to steal some Apple II computers. Apple IIs! Badass. He was arrested, and sentenced to a year’s detention in a juvenile home. Now, we don’t point this out to somehow…

Evangelion Title Coming To PS3 (Does It Involve The Father of PlayStation?! Yes.)

A Blu-ray disc version of mecha anime Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone includes a fold-in which what appears to be a new game announcement: an Evangelion title for the PS3. The announcement reads, “The shape of a new report. Misato Katsuragi info plan. News will change with the PS3…” There’s a Namco Bandai Games…

Now Square Enix Will Milk Eidos Properties To Death, Too!

Square Enix are notorious for bleeding their intellectual properties dry. You like Final Fantasy? Here’s 119 Final fantasy games, etc etc. And now that Square owns Eidos, things are only going to get worse. Addressing shareholders following Square’s purchase of Eidos, Square Enix boss Yoichi “Imperial Hot” Wada told of the company’s success in creating…

David Jaffe: “We’re Not Showing Anything At E3”

David Jaffe of developer Eat Sleep Play talks about the chances of him showing something at E3. And they are? Jaffe, best known for creating hack-and-slash God of War and vehicular-combat Twisted Metal, said that he will be there on the show floor, but the project he is working on doesn’t seem as though it…

Someone Turned Those Classy Game Covers Into Classy Book Covers

To recap: few months back, members over at Something Awful came up with a glorious collection of game covers done in the style of classic novels. Now, someone has actually made them. At the Pixel Hail exhibition in Brighton, England last week, there was a gallery on-hand, part of which showcased some of the best…

PS3 “Soul Breeding” Game Gets Suggestive Pillow Case

In two days, the sequel to “soul breeding” game Record of Agarest War ZERO is released in Japan. Let the merchandising begin! Priced at ¥12,600 (US$133), this is a lycra Record of Agarest War ZERO “hug pillow” cover. Huge pillow covers are nothing new for anime or manga characters, but are largely lacking for PS3…

Activision Bosses Dump $60 Million In Activision Stock

Activision CEO Robert “What, Me Worry?” Kotick, and Activision co-chairman of the board Brian Kelly, last week sold off around $60 million in Activision stocks. Of that 60, Kelly sold $42 million worth, while Kotick “only” made $17 million from ditching some of his stocks. Stocks in the company he, and Kelly, run. Now, there…

SNK’s April Fools Joke Is Real (Sorta)

This past April 1 was, like the year before it and the year before that, April Fool’s Day. Osaka-based game company joined in the fun and launched a website for faux retro shooter Star Radish. The game really exists. Well, as an in-game game, that is. The game will be making an appearance in upcoming…

How To Get Real Cars For Combat Racing

Blur, the upcoming combat racer from Bizarre Creations, features licensed automobiles. How’d the Project Gotham Racing developer snag them? According to Bizarre, it’s choice of vehicles helped — meaning, there aren’t Ferraris or Lamborghinis. “If someone doesn’t want to do what we want to do then we just won’t put it in the game,” says…

Comic Con’s Video Game Figure Exclusives

San Diego Comic Con is just around the corner. There will be loads of toys there, and in 2009, that means loads of video game toys. Here’s a few of them. Toy company NECA will be offering a few video game figures that’ll be exclusive to attendees of the show (or savvy online purchasers). One…

PlayStation Famitsu Magazine Offers Few Kojima Production Hints

And the carrot-roping continues! The new issue of Famitsu‘s PlayStation imprint hints at the upcoming game announcement from Kojima Productions. The text reads, “The latest work from Metal Gear franchise maker Kojima Productions approaches.” But what is that latest work? Metal Gear Solid 5 or Zone of the Enders 3? Add your two cents in…

Robots We Love: Chibi-Robo

He’s 10cm-tall, has screws for eyes, a plug coming out of his butt and is so ready to please you. That’s right, he’s Chibi-Robo! The tiny bot first asked players to plug into adventure back in 2005 — but ended up plugging into our hearts while he scrubbed the house clean. Chibi-Robo is a service…

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Expansion Features “A Complete Set Of New Locations”

So, we’ve had S.T.A.L.K.E.R., we’ve had S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky, and now we’ve got S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat. Won’t running around the same palce for a third time seem a little, well, boring? Course it would. Which is why developers GSC have included a “complete set of new locations” for the upcoming expansion. GSC’s Oleg Yavorsky…

Where The Wild Thing Are Is On Some Game Adaptation

Hey! Did you hear? Spike Jonez, director of Being John Malkovich, made a movie based on the classic children’s book Where the Wild Things Are. And it looks amazing. And hey! Did you hear? They’re making a video game based on Where the Wild Things Are. And it looks… We don’t know how it looks.…