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Viral Happiness
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: It’s Monday And I’m Already Drained This is the first time I’ve seen this particular viral video, but I’m familiar with the concept. It sorta made me think. Wouldn’t it be cool if Obama, instead of dumping public works stimulus money into highways and buildings, he dump a little into…
By Brian Crecente Published April 13, 2009 -
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories – A Makeover, Not A Remake
Forgive the girly metaphor but a good makeover is what every game ported, remade or otherwise “re-imagined” on the Wii should be; and with any luck, it’s what Silent Hill: Shattered Memories will be. A good makeover doesn’t slap a layer of polish on an already finished product; it doesn’t cram a bunch of new…
By AJ Glasser Published April 13, 2009 -
GameStop Reviewing Their Sales Policy in Light of Kotaku Story
GameStop today confirmed that they are reviewing their lending and sales policy to see if it may be a violation of trade practices, GameStop officials told Kotaku today. “We are looking at a series of things,” said said Chris Olivera, vice president of corporate communications for GameStop. “We want to understand the assertions that were…
By Brian Crecente Published April 13, 2009 -
Super Mario Chess Takes Battle For Peach To Boards
Regular chess not mustachioed enough for you? We’d think that USAopoly’s Super Mario Chess—totally Nintendo authorized, by the way—will fit the bill. It features no less than two mustaches! Toy retailer Entertainment Earth is now accepting pre-orders for the “Collector’s Edition” chess board, which is dripping with Mushroom Kingdom characters. The “most popular” Super Mario…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 13, 2009 -
Halo 3 Players Rack Up 10,000,000,000 Covenant Kills
Xbox 360 owners have committed mass Covenant atrocities to the tune of 10 billion aliens killed in Halo 3‘s story driven campaign mode. Covenant-hating Halo fans reached that milestone this weekend, Bungie announced. That statistics comes not long after the announcement that Halo 3 fans have played one billion multiplayer games, another indication that Halo…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 13, 2009 -
PixelJunk Eden Gives Encore This Week
Loads of new stuff comes to Q-Games’ garden this week, with the release of the PixelJunk Eden Encore expansion pack. New games, new stages, and new music are just the tip of iceberg in the PixelJunk Eden Encore expansion, available on April 16th for $5.99 at a PlayStation Store near your PlayStation 3. Smart bombs,…
By Mike Fahey Published April 13, 2009 -
Konami Warns Of Zombie Apocalypse On XBLA, PSN
Konami’s dual-stick arcade-style shooter Zombie Apocalypse will be infecting Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network this quarter, the publisher has announced. No, they’re not re-announcing Burn Zombie Burn!, it just sounds like it. The Konami version of dual-stick, arcade-style undead shooting looks to be taken a bit more seriously—minus the teddy bear packed with C4…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 13, 2009 -
Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! In Space Released 17 Years Later
Just weeks before the release of Punch-Out!! for the Wii comes the unofficial release of the original NES game’s Nintendo-aborted sequel, Mike Tyson’s Intergalactic Power Punch. It’s Punch-Out!! plus aliens, minus quality. According to GameSetWatch’s quick primer on the Mike Tyson’s Intergalactic Power Punch, the game was originally planned to be a proper Punch-Out!! sequel,…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 13, 2009 -
Infamous Gets Pushed Up With Pre-Order Goodies
The PlayStation 3 free-roaming superhero game inFamous has been pushed up a month to May, with some impressive pre-order bonuses in store for those willing to put their money down. Originally scheduled for a release sometime in the month of June, developer Sucker Punch has apparently been working so hard on the game that Sony…
By Mike Fahey Published April 13, 2009 -
Can Games Handle History?
Human history is the greatest story ever told. It’s also, courtesy of the attached social, political and religious significance, the most dangerous. So what happens when games try and tell it? All kinds of things. See, games do history a little differently. Other mediums, such as film, books and even comics, are re-telling a story.…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 13, 2009 -
Rumor: Patapon 2 Retail Copies Won’t Ship On UMD
Sony may be taking a rather unusual step at retail with Patapon 2, making the PSP a digital download only, but still offering a boxed copy at retail. How would that work, exactly? According to Ars Technica‘s unnamed sources, Sony will release the Patapon sequel via the PlayStation Store as downloadable goods, bypassing a UMD…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 13, 2009 -
Movie Spyro Looking Rather Impressive
Spyro the Dragon is looking a bit more powerful than we remember him in the upcoming animated feature The Legend of Spyro 3D. A Spyro fansite (believe it or not) unearthed the teaser poster for the film at the official website of film sales company Velvet Octopus, showing a large, confident-looking version of everyone’s favorite…
By Mike Fahey Published April 13, 2009 -
Atlus Does Downloadable With Droplitz
Atlus USA is getting set to make their Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and iPhone debut with Droplitz, a fluid puzzle game from Blitz Arcade. Droplitz, also being released for the PC, is a puzzle game involving getting water from one end of a set of pipes to the other. The pipes are set into…
By Mike Fahey Published April 13, 2009 -
This Week On Live Arcade: OutRun Online Arcade
Get your motor running, head out on the highway, and possibly find a little adventure along with way in this week’s Xbox Live Arcade release, OutRun Online Arcade. Part of the Days of Arcade program, OutRun Online Arcade is the classic racer reborn in high definition for Xbox Live Arcade. Featuring 15 different courses and…
By Mike Fahey Published April 13, 2009 -
MySims Racing Preview: It’s What Mario Kart Wii Should Be
The MySims franchise generates more spinoffs than the Law & Order series, but Racing seems to be one of the good ones. The game features many recurring characters from the original cutesy life simulation on the Wii, such as Dr. F and Chef Gino. Like MySims and MySims Kingdom, Racing is organized around Sim towns…
By AJ Glasser Published April 13, 2009 -
Mariners Nintendo Fan Network Gets Upgraded
Nintendo and ESPN give Seattle Mariners fan DS owners an upgrade this year, adding sports news to the list of special features available on the handheld during home games. The Nintendo Fan Network kicked off in 2007, giving DS-holding visitors to Seattle’s Safeco field access to game stats, video, and remote food ordering during the…
By Mike Fahey Published April 13, 2009 -
Catch Microsoft Points With The Deadliest Catch
Microsoft has teamed up with Discovery to deliver 2 million Microsoft points via the Deadliest Catch Text to Win Sweepstakes. Microsoft is doing up Discovery’s crap-fishing television series big across all of its various networks, including MSN, MSN Mobile, Hotmail, and of course, Xbox Live. The promotion, which started on April 10th and ends tomorrow…
By Mike Fahey Published April 13, 2009 -
Saw Preview: Condemned or Dragon’s Lair?
There’s something terribly familiar about wandering around a dilapidated insane asylum with crazy people ahead of you and instant-death traps all around you. And I’m not just saying that because the Saw video game is based on the Saw movie franchise. Many of the major elements in the game – the setting, hunting down and…
By AJ Glasser Published April 13, 2009