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Mega Man Sneakers Are Mega Blue
More. Video game. Sneakers. Little different this time around, though, because they’re not Nikes. Not covered in any obvious logos or colour schemes, either. Then again, they don’t need to be. You can tell long before you read Puma’s desperate product description that these are Mega Man sneakers. That kind of electric blue isn’t going…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 30, 2009 -
The Top Spelunker Player In Japan Is A Pin-Up Model
…though, calling idol Haruna Anno simply a “pin-up model” isn’t entirely accurate. She’s a gaming idol and not by accident. Last month, Haruna posted her Street Fighter IV online stats. She had fought in 214 fights, won 178 of them and lost 36. Her winning percentage was an impressive 83.13 percent. Haruna is hardly a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 30, 2009 -
Operation Flashpoint 2 Gameplay Footage
Previous press for Operation Flashpoint 2 has been a little unrealistic. Lots of suspect-looking screenshots. But there’s no fibbing in this video, showing naught but the real thing. Operation Flashpoint 2 [Gamestar, via VG247]
By Luke Plunkett Published March 30, 2009 -
Former Troubled Tecmo Exec Can Find Work (Can You?)
Last summer, we broke that former Tecmo president Yoshimi Yasuda was at the center of not one Tecmo employee brouhaha, but two. The president eventually resigned, but he’s found another job. Good for him. Yasuda was the center of the Itagaki vs. Tecmo legal suit. Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki sued for unpaid DoA…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 30, 2009 -
Dante’s Inferno Getting Animated Movie
Like Dead Space before it, EA are serious enough about this “new intellectual property” thing with Dante’s Inferno to go making cartoons. So they’ve enlisted the assistance of Film Roman (the same team behind Dead Space’s Downfall) to oversee a Dante’s Inferno animated feature. All that’s known at this stage is that the film will…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 30, 2009 -
Man Breaks Woman’s Jaw Over Cell Phone Game
A 21-year-old computer programmer punched a 50-year-old women in the face several times after she told him to stop playing a cell phone game. He’s been arrested for assault. The woman’s jaw was broken. The women asked him to stop playing games with the reason being that Saikyo Line train was overcrowded. However, the man,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 30, 2009 -
Let’s Look At Final Fantasy XIII Battle Screens
While we’ve seen plenty of cutscenes, Square Enix has released a new batch of screens from upcoming role-playing-game Final Fantasy XIII. There’s in-game battle screens to boot! The game’s battle system allows players to control one character at a time and lets players release combos by stacking up three commands. The commands include standard RPG…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 30, 2009 -
Pick The Best Board Game Trash Talk
Okay, it took eons but we went through all your trash talk and pick our ten favorites. Now it’s your turn to pick the best trash talk quip. Here are the ten best trash talkers’ trash talk that incorporated classic board games (Battleship, Yahtzee, Scrabble, etc.). The grand prize winner will get a sofa (yes,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 30, 2009 -
Hey, What’s That on Owen’s Grandpa’s Bookshelf …
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Same Desk, Different Apartment Funny, you know, I’ve got that same thing in six parts on Betamax. Well, it was released under a different title. Some highlights from this weekend: GDC Design Challenge: A Game About Gettin’ Lucky Study Says Playing Shooters Improves Vision Leaked Footage Gives a Shaky Look…
By Owen Good Published March 29, 2009 -
Week in Games: Is This April Fool’s?
Guitar Hero: Metallica is this week’s big drop, coming out today. Anyone else find it funny Duke Nukem Trilogy is out on April Fool’s? Especially when you consider its E3 trailer. After Lars and Duke, I’m thinking Gardening Mama. Not sure what the hell “Burger Island” is. Maybe if they made “Bacon Island” I’d buy…
By Owen Good Published March 29, 2009 -
Four New Screens for Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings
Ordinarily I’d look at these Wii screenshots and think, it doesn’t look like much (get those spiders!) but it’ll probably look great on the core consoles. Then I remember it’s not being made for them. Coupled with the gameplay footage – I know this is a third person action game, but it looks like it…
By Owen Good Published March 29, 2009 -
Now, the Periodic Table of Controllers
So there was the Periodic Table of Game Characters, and that spawned numerous imitators and spinoffs. Now we’ve graduated to the Periodic Table of Controllers: Console peripherals on top, handheld controls at the bottom. Given my admittedly limited understanding of the actual periodic table, this arrangement would make the Sega Saturn the most reactive controller,…
By Owen Good Published March 29, 2009 -
YouTube Fan Tops Halo Song Spoof
Couple weeks back, Jude Kelley and Dan Amrich (he of OXM) recorded “Halo (All I Play-Oh),” a virtuoso spoof of “Snow (Hey-Oh)” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Now someone’s matched the lyrics to footage. That’s a ton of work, considering Usethefork (the YouTuber who created this) had no video output and was setting up…
By Owen Good Published March 29, 2009 -
Kick Ass with Shoebox Fight Sticks
A $300 tournament edition fightstick on the gray market? Screw that. Reader Rotundo made one for himself and another for his friends out of $40 in spare parts and two shoeboxes. Oh, and one’s wireless. He picked up a couple of Happ joysticks and 14 buttons for $35, then set about taking apart some Xbox…
By Owen Good Published March 29, 2009 -
iPhone Fart Apps Bring Out the Lawyer-Mans
With enough chutzpah to make a patent troll wolf-whistle, a Florida company has claimed the phrase “pull my finger” – used by a competing iPhone fart app, of course – infringes on its intellectual property. The two sides, Air-O-Matic, maker of “Pull My Finger,” and InfoMedia, developer of iFart are in negotiations to settle the…
By Owen Good Published March 29, 2009 -
Waiting on That Marvel MMO? Maybe It Gets Here in 2012
The tentative release date for the Marvel Comics MMO seems to be timed with the release of the Captain America and Avengers movies. That, or the end of the world according to the Mayan Calendar. Simon Phillips, who is Marvel’s president of worldwide consumer products, floated 2012 as a possible date to MTV’s Splash Page…
By Owen Good Published March 29, 2009 -
GDC Design Challenge: A Game About Gettin’ Lucky
Picking outfits, buying condoms, setting mood music – the sixth annual design challenge contest at GDC tasked panelists with thinking up a game about “your first time.” What didn’t win? “Zack & Miri Make a Portal.” The Game Design Challenge, a staple of the conference, brings in top designers to grapple with a quirky challenge…
By Owen Good Published March 29, 2009 -
Study Says Playing Shooters Improves Vision
How’s your “contrast sensitivity”? What’s that? Well it helps you see in the dark, and read, and it degrades in old age. But a study found it improves in gamers who play shooters. The research, reported in the latest edition of Nature Neuroscience, took a very deep look at how games affect vision. The results…
By Owen Good Published March 29, 2009 -
Games Get Huzzah in Parliament
MP Edward Vaizey last week introduced a motion recognizing (sigh, recognising) games recently honored (sigh, honoured) by BAFTA. He also used the motion to decry “the complete lack of support from Government” of the industry. Fable II (Lionhead Studios), Race Driver: GRID (Codemasters) and LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule) were all developed at UK studios, and all…
By Owen Good Published March 29, 2009