Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett calls Guitar Hero: Metallica calls the game collaboration a “no brainer” and a “match made in heaven.” We know Hammett has played the real guitar, but Guitar Hero? Once, he has played Guitar Hero once. The reason for this is that he was once “addicted to video games.” Hammett adds, “At…
As we’ve seen, fluctuations in exchange rates are messing with Nintendo’s bottom line in the UK. While this won’t affect consumers looking for a Wii, the DS might be another story. According to a “trusted source within the retail industry” (ie a British retailer), Go Nintendo are reporting that thanks to shrinking profit margins on…
When Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps is not winning gold medals, he is doing other things. Those recreational activities include playing video games among other things to help him chill out. The 14-career-gold-medal holder Twittered his favorite three NES games: Top 3 original NES games: 1. The Legend of Zelda 2. Super Mario Bros. 1 3.…
There it is. Somebody made a bong out of an Xbox 360. Not a PSP, not a DS, not a Wii, but a great, hulking 360. Let’s ignore the potential criminality of such a device and focus instead on the engineering. Something like this can’t have been easy. No, it’s taken planning, foresight, and a…
Being regular just got faster. Reader Lisa sends this, writing: my brother-in-law and i have a twisted sense of humor. For some reason my husband wasn’t nearly as amused as we were. We are TOTALLY amused. What’s going on? We’re giving away a copy of Xbox 360 game Race Pro. Racing stripes make race cars…
Ooohhh, the casual market this, the casual market that. Wii games, iPhone games, flash games, it’s all you ever here about these days. Well, THQ are having none of it. While every other major publisher on the planet, from Nintendo to Activision to EA are all clamouring to get a piece of this mythical, limitless…
If you are renting-to-own, you need to pay up. Or else. A Minnesota man is being charged with failing to make Nintendo Wii payments. He’s, however, not your typical Minnesota man. Brown has had run-ins with authorities before. He was put on probation in January after being convicted of check forgery and “theft by swindle”.…
Early on Wednesday morning, an arcade in Casablanca, Morocco exploded. Just…one minute it was there, the next minute, boom, it was gone. Police are reporting that a faulty gas canister is to blame, which resulted in an explosion so powerful it blew out every window within 40-feet of the blast and flipped a car that…
We’ve seen stranger marketing deals than this PSP-badged version of Citroen’s new C-Crosser sports utility vehicle. Not many, though. The French car manufacturers have teamed up with Sony to bring us a vehicle that is…well, it’s a French SUV that eschews the latest fad of installing in-built iPod support in favour of in-built PSP support.…
At approximately 9:20pm Pacific Daylight Time, folks on the Bungie.net forums began reporting that it was hard to get matches in Halo 3. Instead of finding players, it would just restart the search. Pictured is the status message everyone seemed to be getting. Whatever the problem is, it seems to have spread to LIVE (or…
It’s that time again, time for fascinating data. A group of Japanese people were questioned which video game consoles they owned and still used. Their answers might surprise you. They might not. On March 4 and 5, over one thousand members of the RealWorld RealResearch monitor pool answered questions about game consoles. Here’s the breakdown:…
The global economy is imploding. It’s so bad that even economic powerhouse Nintendo has revised its forecasts. Everyone is bleeding money. Everyone except Majesco. Majesco? Yes, Majesco. You know, the game publisher who brought you Cooking Mama, Cake Mania and some fitness game with Jillian Michaels (pictured). For the quarter ending January 31, 2009, Majesco’s…
Left 4 Dead and Empire: Total War have been patched in the past 24 hours. In Left 4 Dead’s case to tweak a few things, while for Empire, it’s an attempt to fix some horrendous bugs. LEFT 4 DEAD – The game’s VS Mode has been updated, mostly to fix a few issues concerning the…
Stranglehold, the collaboration between game company Midway and Hong Kong action director John Woo, is in early talks for a movie version. John Woo’s name is not being mentioned as the director. Instead, actor-writer-director Stephen Fung (Enter The Phoenix, House of Fury) is in negotiations to helm John Woo game. According to John Woo’s producing…
Haven’t you heard? It’s Monster Hunter’s fifth birthday. Happy birthday, Monster Hunter! To celebrate, you can become the first Wii game to charge a hefty monthly subscription fee, ala World of Warcraft. Yes, because Monster Hunter G on the Wii is an online game, and because it’s going to be insanely popular, Capcom will be…
Survival horror game Resident Evil 5 is already out in Japan. As players have pointed out, it’s possible to “purchase” new outfits by unlocking them. Hard work, but just might be worth it. Pictured is an unlockable outfit for RE5 character Sheva, who’s an agent of the West African branch of the BSAA. Her duds…
Still can’t run Crysis at full settings? You’re far from alone. You’re also about to be left in technology’s dust, as developers Crytek have announced a new game engine. The successor to the company’s current engine, CryENGINE 2 has been dubbed – wait for it – CryENGINE 3, and settles our questions over what that…
Nintendo has it hard. If it makes too many games, people complain. If it makes too few games, people complain. Nintendo cannot win. This year, Nintendo seems content with release Wii-controls versions of previously released GameCube games. On the horizon, we can see the already-released-in-Japan Rhythm Heaven and the eagerly awaited Punch Out! and… Nintendo’s…
With one Batman game consigned to the dustbin of history, it’s left to Batman: Arkham Asylum to cash in on people’s rediscovered love of the Dark Knight. Here’s the box art for the game, which looks both suitable rainy and predictably dark. Still a little unsure about those pointy ears, though. He’s Batman, not Foxman.
Finally! To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Gundam anime/manga/toy/video game franchise, an 18-meter-tall (59-foot-tall) “life size” Gundam statue will be built in Tokyo this July. Part of the “Mobile Suit Gundam 30th Anniversary Project,” the structure in Odaiba’s Shiokaze Park will stay up for only two months and be built from fiberglass-reinforced plastic over…
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