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Whoops, Dev Releases Alpha Build On Steam By Mistake
Indie first-person shooter Merchants of Brooklyn was released over Steam earlier in the week. Which should have been good news, except, developers Paleo Entertainment released the wrong version of the game. Yup. Instead of releasing the finished, final product, somebody at Paleo clicked on “alpha build” by mistake before hitting “upload”. Naturally, everyone buying the…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2009 -
Valkyria Chronicles, The Art Book
In Japan, SEGA’s beautiful PS3 exclusive Valkyria Chronicles has an anime and saucy figurines. Next month, it gets an art book, too. The 300 page book is published by Enterbrain, the same company that publishes Japanese game mag Famitsu. Titled Valkyria Chronicles Development Artworks, it goes on sale at the end of April. Price is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 19, 2009 -
Team Fortress 2 Patch Goes Out To All The Multi-Core Users Out There
Does your PC have multiple cores? Mine does. And I just love it when a developer is able to release something that specifically takes advantage of them. So thanks, Valve! Team Fortress 2‘s latest patch – of which, you’re no doubt aware by now, there have been many – takes multicore rendering support out of…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2009 -
Raw Deal Capcom Pre-Paid Credit Card Policy Changed
When Capcom announced its pre-paid Visa debit card, folks got excited. Then they saw that the card carried exorbitant fees and got angry. CheapAssGamer’s goomba478 did what most would. He started complaining. Goomba478 detailed all the charges the laundry list of add-on charges to use the card: “Pay to activate the card, pay to call…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 19, 2009 -
Watch Pokemon In HD
The official site for Pokémon Diamond & Pearl announces some changes for next month. This April, the Sunday morning kiddy show Pokémon Sunday anime is going HD. The show is co-hosted by geek idol Shoko Nakagawa. The anime Pokémon Diamond & Pearl is getting a new end theme song sung by Shoko Nakagawa, and the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 18, 2009 -
Psst, Metal Gear Solid Touch Is Out
Forget that announcement saying it would be out on March 19. It’s not. It’s out today, and today is March 18, so if Metal Gear-themed Duck Hunt sounds appealing, get on it. It’s $8, it features characters and settings from Metal Gear Solid 4, and it clocks in at an impressive 90MB, so you’ll probably…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2009 -
Hideo Kojima Has A New Role At Konami
Creator of the Metal Gear Solid series, Hideo Kojima is responsible in large part for Konami’s success. His games do well, Konami does well. What does that mean? Fancy white collar job titles, that’s what. While “Chief Of I Can Do Whatever I Want” would have been an obvious choice, his new title starting April…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 18, 2009 -
Cities XL Takes Tycoon Fiends Online
Think of Cities XL as a sort of spiritual successor to Sim City Societies, but with less emphasis on the people-please and more emphasis on playing God. Now that Maxis has been swallowed by Spore and the guys who made Sim City Societies have moved onto bigger, better things Children of the Nile, indie developer…
By AJ Glasser Published March 18, 2009 -
Find The Snake On Germany’s Metal Gear Solid 4 Platinum Cover
We thought that our first glimpse of the “Platinum” budget version of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots was bad enough. Then we saw Germany’s take on Old Snake. Oh, sure. No one can deny the selling power of an endorsement from 4Players.de, and the Games-Hit thumbs up indicator is sure to move…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2009 -
Sony Freezing, Cutting Employee Wages
Sony have, for the first time in company history, “mothballed” employee wages and bonuses in an attempt to stem the company’s financial bleeding. This means there’ll be no wage increases over the next 12 months. For anyone, from the tea ladies all the way up to Sir Howard, and everyone (including the PlayStation folks) in…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2009 -
Sony And Namco Bandai Team Up To Create… Gundam Video On Demand Channel?
When Sony and Namco Bandai entered into the Cellius joint venture in early 2007, the companies didn’t say they’d just be working on games. No, Cellius would produce “interactive and ‘surprising’ contents.” They weren’t lying. Apparently, one of the first “contents” to come from the collective brain of Cellius is a video on demand-like service,…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2009 -
Cities XL Screens, Vids Tease Endless Possibilities
Cities XL is a game that has one purpose in life: to fill the void left by Maxis and Tilted Mill with a city-building sim worthy of its predecessors. To look at these screens and videos, you might almost think that they’ve done it – right down to the shiny top on the Chrysler Building.…
By AJ Glasser Published March 18, 2009 -
Unreal Tournament 3 Goes Titanic On PlayStation Store
After suffering a brief delay, Epic Games will bring the Unreal Tournament 3 Titan Pack to content hungry PlayStation 3 owners tomorrow. What does it bring to the table? A great many things. The free download adds two gameplay types (Greed and Betrayal), plus “the Titan mutator, 19 maps, the Link Station and X-Ray Field…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2009 -
Shooting Game Capsule Toys In Glorious Color
Toy maker Yujin gave us a sneak peek at the third round of Shooting Game Historica capsule toys way back in October. Today, we have a release date and eye-blistering color versions of each. With some of the bigger names out of the way in the first two series, games like R-Type, Fantasy Zone, Gradius,…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2009 -
Is This Artwork From Mistwalker’s Next Game?
The official Mistwalker web site features brand new artwork from character designer Kimihiko Fujisaka, artwork that may be an early look at the role-playing game developer’s newest project. We’ve got plenty of RPG staples here: ludicrously unwearable armor, gargantuan swords, dragons, presumably tormented male protagonist. What we don’t have: much of an inkling about what…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2009 -
Do Ghosts Believe in You?
To: Bash From: Crecente Re: Do You Believe In Ghosts? A nurse came to my home today to give me a physical for my life insurance. That is surely a sign of my age. I can’t imagine you’d need a physical to get Death Lottery, I mean life insurance. I’d like to believe in ghosts,…
By Brian Crecente Published March 18, 2009 -
Picross 3D Already Spawning Sick Cubic Filth
Rittai Picross has been out for just a week in Japan, but the Nintendo DS puzzle game is already responsible for vile, user-created content. Pigs and bunnies… together? What kind of world is this? Like the 2D version of Picross for the Nintendo DS, users can create their own puzzles for others to unlock. There…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2009 -
Ex-Nintendo Man Howard Phillips Finds A Seat At Chair
Howard Phillips, former “President” of the Nintendo Fun Club and Nintendo figurehead, has a new gig. He’s the new studio director at Chair Entertainment, the development house snatched up by Epic Games last year. Phillips other gigs include a stint as one half of the comic duo Howard and Nester, a long-running feature in Nintendo…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2009 -
More MadCatz Street Fighter Tourney Sticks Coming
It’s unclear where else the Street Fighter IV fight sticks will be showing up, but Capcom is saying that they’ve been told they will soon be getting more of the MadCatz controllers. Many of you have kept your orders in place trusting that we would do everything we could to get you the much sought-after…
By Brian Crecente Published March 18, 2009