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Toy Fair 2009: Dante’s Inferno, Gears Of War & More

The New York Toy Fair kicked off over the weekend. And video games being big business and all, there were loads of new gaming figures on show. Loads. DANTE’S INFERNO – First up, though (and these are all courtesy of Toy News International), we’ll start with perhaps the most interesting figure of the weekend. Which…

“I Know I’m Young, But I Plan To Be A Good Dad”

That’s baby faced, 13-year-old father Alfie Patten, 15 year-old mother Chantelle Steadman, and their newborn baby Maisie. During the baby’s first days out of the hospital, Patten and Steadman spent their time caring for the baby and playing Saints Row II. From UK tabloid The Sun: The four-footer — who looks no more than eight…

Want To Quit Your Day Job? Develop A Successful iPhone Game

Ethan Nicholas used to work for Sun Microsystems. That was, until he whipped up a little iPhone game called iShoot in his spare time. Now, he doesn’t work for Sun anymore, because he’s filthy rich. Unlike other major platforms (ie anything run by Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo), Apple’s App Store for the iPhone (and iPod…

What Do Gran Turismo And THE iDOLM@STER Both Have In Common?

They both have remote controlled cars, that’s what. The above RC cars are connected to Namco’s pop singer franchise THE iDOLM@STER and already on Japanese store shelves. They’re both priced at US$49. They’re in boxes. Use your imagination. Sorry! The third car was spotted by Italian site Hobby Media at the Nuremberg Toy Fair. It’s…

Killzone 2 Demo Goes (Sort Of) Free In The US

Initially, American PS3 owners wanting the Killzone 2 demo had to preorder the game to get access. Didn’t go down very well. So now, you can get hold of the demo for free. Consider this a backtrack. Of sorts. Sony announced today that if you’re set up with a Home account, and pop into the…

Street Fighter IV’s Suggestive Content

Upskirts, thongs and erect nipples are nothing new to fighters. No surprises that all are prevalent in Street Fighter IV and neither is the game’s 12-and-up rating in Japan. But here they are. The suggestive content is largely comical and not too far off base from what one would find in a comic book aimed…

Super Mafia Bros. 2

Ever wonder what the Mario games would be like if they were less like Mario and more like The Sopranos? Then maybe you should check out Super Mafia Land, an adorable Mario 2 tribute. Both presentation and controls are excellent considering it’s a free flash title, and after recent Mario dalliances with paper airplanes and…

What Games Were Selling April – December 2008?

Square Enix has released sales data for the period beginning April 1, 2008 and ending on December 31, 2008. Let’s see how the new titles and remakes stacked up. Keep in mind that these are not all life-to-date totals, but merely totals for the given period. Life-to-date titles for many of the games released before…

These Might Be Two Projects Lionhead Is Working On [Update]

With Fable II out the door, Lionhead will be working on new stuff. But what, exactly, are they working on? Who knows! It may, however, be one (or both) of these projects. Found on the website of conceptual designers Leading Light – who have worked with Peter Molyneux‘s team before – is mention of two…

There Will Be Prince Of Persia LEGO

LEGO and video games are nothing new. We have have LEGO Star Wars. LEGO Indiana Jones. Even LEGO Batman. But Prince of Persia LEGO is something new, and altogether a little different. During the New York Toy Fair over the weekend, it was announced that, continuing with their recent fascination with recreating famous movie scenes/characters,…

Is Street Fighter IV Sold Out In Japan? Not Quite…

We’ve heard that Street Fighter IV has sold out in Japan. While we don’t doubt for a New York minute that the game is selling well, but sold out in Japan? Like all of Japan? Over the weekend, website CheapAssGamer did the detective work and discovered that the game is readily available at his local…

Man Destroys Wii, Threatens To Kill Wife, Burn Down House

Forty-six-year-old Edgar Montalvo of New Britain, Connecticut held his family hostage and threatened to torch his house. It all started with the Nintendo Wii. That, or the heroin. Yeah, probably the heroin. According to his wife, Montalvo got angry at his 14-year-old son for not pausing his Nintendo Wii quick enough when the father asked…

The Crappy $10,000 Famicom Game

A Famicom cartridge of Kinnikuman Muscle Tag Match: Championship Commemorative Gold Edition has sold for US$10,023 in an online auction. The “Gold” edition of Kinnikuman Muscle Tag Match (M.U.S.C.L.E. in the West) is exceedingly rare — only eight copies of it exist. During the mid-1980s, they were given out as prizes for a Kinnikuman Muscle…

Sports and Porn and the U.S. Marines

To: Bash From: Owen Re: Valentine’s Day Stories on Sunday were largely of a type: Sports or sexual deviance. Sometimes that’s how the news cycle coalesces. In other news, I had a weird dream last night, which probably describes, in boldface type, my subconscious anxiety of late: Dad, realizing I had no full-time job and…

Week in Games: Round Four — FIGHT!

North America readies for the first true Street Fighter sequel in nearly a decade. Gaming’s definitive fighter hits the PS3 and 360 this week. GTA: The Lost and Damned drops on XBLM the same day. The rest of the launch schedule: Five for the DS and Wii, four on the PC, three on the PS3,…

Gears of War Patched … and Patched … and Patched

Noticed the heavies in Gears of War all sport soul patches? (Flavor savers, as we call them back in Surry County, N.C.) Here’s a breakdown of the top liphair in the FPS third-person shooter genre. Game Intestine takes a look at the labia caesar (yep, that’s “hairy lips” in latin) of Gears of War. But…

Searching for Midway’s Mystery Investor

The Chicago Tribune went looking for the mystery investor whose $100,000 buy-up of 87 percent of Midway could reap a profit in the millions under Chapter 11 reorganization. They didn’t find much. “Mark Thomas” purchased Sumner Redstone’s interest in Midway last year for a hundred grand – fractions of pennies on the dollar – and…

w4m? m4w? … L4D …

After a lonely Valentine’s Day, let’s head over to the infamous Craigslist Casual Encounters, see if we can find some zombies to join some hot w4mmm action. I’m clean and real, you be too. As you can see, these ads were still active on the S.F. Bay craigslist as of 1 pm Crecente time. Here…

Rumor: Character List for Legends of Wrestlemania Revealed

A NeoGAFfer working from lists of previously confirmed characters, plus images he says will be released by IGN and WWE, has come up with at least 42 playable characters in Legends of Wrestlemania. If you grew up in the golden age of pro wrestling – what I consider it to be anyway – there are…

NBA Dunk Champ Shouts Out to Call of Duty

Couple weeks back the Knicks’ Nate Robinson saluted before a free throw to prove to another gamer he plays Call of Duty. En route to winning the dunk contest, he gave the game another shout-out. Here, after finishing off a bounce-pass windmill, Robinson throws up another salute and calls the game out by name. But…