To: Crecente From: Ashcraft RE: Destination PlayStation While walking from my car to my apartment building I dropped my car keys in the one and singular place in the entire parking lot that was occupied by a still warm dog turd. Yeah. Pretty sure I have never ever heard of anyone dropping keys in dog…
The new Playstation Portable won’t feature a UMD disc drive, according to Acclaim developer David Perry. “I hear Sony FINALLY has the PSP 2. And thank goodness, they’ve removed the stupid battery-sucking UMD disc drive. I’m excited!” Perry wrote on both his Twitter and Facebook accounts. It is unclear if he has seen the rumored…
We hear a lot about how digital downloads are the future. Games that come through the pipes, and not a disc. But just how many downloadable console games are we actually buying? It’s nowhere near as many as people playing/enjoying WipeOut HD, Street Fighter II HD and Braid would probably realise. In fact, according to…
Sometimes, if you’re quick enough, you can trade in an old console for something useful. Like money. But other times, you let them gather dust so long they’re nigh on worthless. Or more commonly, they break. So you throw them out. But throwing them out is a total waste, because those parts can be both…
Japan’s Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa showed up at the G7 meeting in Rome totally blotto earlier this month. This calls for a cell phone game. Cell phone start-up Liveware released a cell phone game in which the object is to keep Nakagawa awake during the press conference. Players must “poke” him with the 5 key…
Overnight, Nintendo announced three new DSi colours for the Japanese market. The picture accompanying the press release was, well, a bit rubbish, but subsequent pictures released by Nintendo are much more helpful. As you can see up close, the blue DSi is barely blue at all, while the pink one is, well, very pink.
You think Halo, you think…well, you don’t think designer clothing. But Microsoft Asia do, which explains why we’re now looking at a most unexpected (and unexpectedly tasteful) range of Halo Wars gear. Designed by giant ape specialists X-Large, the t-shirts will be available only at select Hong Kong stores between February 16 and March 15.…
Our earlier suspicions are correct — for the time being. Capcom today announces that upcoming action title Lost Planet 2 is being developed for the Xbox 360. From the official statement: “Capcom, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, today announced that Lost Planet 2 is being developed for the Xbox 360 video…
The latest in an endless string of Ryu Ga Gotoku 3 (Yakuza 3) game promotions: Japanese liquor. Seifuku Distillery has crafted Ryu Ga Gotoku alcohol. It comes in two types: Japanese sake with plums and Okinawa’s strong island sake awamori. Awamori is potent stuff and often sold at 60 proof. A bottle of the Ryu…
Not that we’re moving into either full-time coverage of 50 Cent or of rap beef, but this was too good to pass up. Speaking with MTV (in the vid below), Fiddy reveals that, as we already knew, he’s quite the Pac-Man fan. And that Eminem, who he regularly plays against, totally kicks his ass at…
The Japanese version of upcoming Blu-ray movie Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete is bundled with a demo for Final Fantasy XIII. Those wondering about the demo’s length and the game’s release, read on. The latest issue of Famitsu reveals more information about the demo. According to an interview with FFXIII director and writer Motomu…
Game characters are, by their very nature, unrealistic. But what if they were more real? Like, if Lara Croft was less athletic vixen, more, well, archaeologist? Let’s find out. Artist Tom Rhodes has come up with a series of paintings showing his own, personal take on many of the bigger names in gaming. We’ve got…
This month visual novel Chaos;Head is getting an Xbox 360 port caled Chaos;Head Noah. Slated for a February 26 release, the sci-fi thriller is getting a special Akibahara promotion, complete with soda pop. Maid cafe Curemaid Cafe is offering Chaos;Head themed drinks and food. Above are two drinks named after the game’s characters. Left is…
You may know/love Capcom for Street Fighter & Resident Evil, but in Japan, their #1 source of income is Monster Hunter. Being big in Japan, then, Capcom would like to see it big elsewhere. Addressing questions from analysts following their most recent financial earnings report, a company spokesperson said of the game: …we plan to…
Nintendo has just announced three new colors for its new Nintendo DSi handheld: Pink, Lime Green and Metallic Blue. All three colors will go on sale in Japan on March 20. They are each priced at ¥18,900 (US$195). The Nintendo DSi originally went on sale in Japan on November 1, 2008 and was available in…
There are two million PSN accounts in Japan, and there are over 20 million PSN accounts worldwide. Today, Sony announced this milestone, which comes 2 years and 3 years since the free-to-access PlayStation Network was first launched on November 11, 2006. PSN offers online features such as its Home service, which launched in December 2008…
We dove head-first into Hell with EA yesterday with that Dante’s Inferno trailer, so today, we’ll restrict ourselves to a quick visit, as we check out some accompanying screenshots and bits of concept art. Sure, the screens look rough – very rough – but we appreciate that. Game’s got a whiles to go, and we’d…
This year a World of Warcraft guild leader won an Oscar. Last year? Ditto. Last year, Bill Westenhofer (pictured), visual special effects supervisor at effects house Rhythm & Hues, won an Academy Award for The Golden Compass in 2008. “I have an 80 mage on Kil’Jadeen,” Westenhofer told Kotaku. “Been playing since the original alpha…
Lord of the Rings: Conquest should have been a hit. It’s an official LotR product, it’s easy to play, it’s modelled after the hugely-successful Battlefront series…but in the end, it all just kinda…fell apart. So upon seeing the rather substantial downloadable content pack announced today – which adds a number of the biggest/baddest heroes and…
Just because Actress Rose McGowan (Planet Terror) is not in the Terminator Salvation movie, that doesn’t mean she can’t be in the Terminator Salvation game. Playing a character exclusive to the game, McGowan is former elementary school teacher Angie Salter who must adjust to the horrors of the war against fictional computer system Skynet. The…
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