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Get 3 Months of XBox Live from Amazon for … $1,200!!!!
Reader Thomas M. sends along this steal – fuck, it’s a heist. Not only is it $1,200 for a 3-month XBL sub, it’s also a *used* card. And you still have to pay shipping. If you really look at it, though, that’s $400 a month for Xbox Live, and really, how much do you spend…
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Getting Paid at GameStop: Not as Simple as it Should Be
GameStop employees can’t get paper checks. True, most of the civilized world is on direct deposit by now. But for GameStoppers who aren’t, the only alternative is a cash card that nickel-and-dimes them. Consumerist talked about this in the past week. GameStop, as well as many retailers in the same market, offer direct deposit and…
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SNL Delivers Hardcore Content to Wii
In the annals of TV history, I think Alec Baldwin aggressively jerking off two Wiimotes and making every masturbation double entendre imaginable will be remembered as just groundbreaking as Edith Bunker’s menopause. You know why this is just good comedy writing? Because they make every frat house masturbation joke imaginable without once punning “Wii.” Ninty’s…
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The Games that Inspired Porn
Ah, Feb. 15. It’s the day for porn, shame and regret. So is Feb. 14 if you don’t have a girlfriend. (I do. It’s a picture of Olivia Munn). The -Minus World was feeling romantic and, noting porn’s long history of cribbing off of others’ IP (Field of Reams, Driving Miss Daisy Crazy) they found…
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MLB 2K9 Ads Pushing Toward Obnoxious
In-game advertisements in sports titles aren’t that conspicuous because, hell, real-life playing fields are littered with them. But screens in MLB 2K9 show publishers are comfortable with alterations of reality, if they turn a buck. PastaPadre, a dedicated sports video game blogger, took a look at 2K9’s screens of every stadium and noticed several inconsistencies.…
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Couple Plans In-Game LittleBigPlanet Wedding
Remember the guy who proposed to his girlfriend with a LittleBigPlanet level? They are in fact getting hitched – and are planning to do so in the game itself. Dimmujed, the groom-elect, uploaded that video yesterday, then went into the LittleBigWorkshop forums this morning to announce the happy news that he and his betrothed, Andrea,…
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10 Video Game Athletes Who Probably Roided
This past week, Alex Rodriguez copped to taking steroids and everyone went on TV and radio to bitch about it, including me. But is the world of video game sports any more pure? Pwn or Die compiled a list of 10 characters whose connections to performance-enhancing drugs go well beyond bloated physiques or cartooned numbers.…
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MadWorld Serves Up Blood and Cussin’
For your debauched, desensitized and depraved viewing pleasure, here’s uncut gameplay footage from Madworld. The stylized gorefest is entertaining – so is hearing John DiMaggio – more Bender than Fenix – say “Fuckin’ A!” DiMaggio is one of the announcers providing commentary during your black-and-white-and-red-all-over tour de brutality. In between F-bombs you can hear him…
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The PlayStation Store is Closing
After 10 years, Sony’s PlayStation Store in San Francisco’s Metreon shopping center – the only store of its kind – will close sometime this summer. The lease on the PlayStation store, home to many a launch-night lineup (the PlayStation 2, PS3, PSP, and pretty much any major title all had events there) runs out this…
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Here’s Your Resident Evil 5 Pre-Order Gift
Multiple anonymous tipsters have sent us word, and picture, of Game Crazy’s Resident Evil 5 preorder gift, which is to be announced by Capcom on Tuesday. It’s a snow sand globe of Chris and Sheva. That’s the best pic we got of the globe. Below is a cell pic of a screen showing it was…
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Rumor: Syphon Filter 5 in Development?
Alert reader ____ (yes, that’s really his handle) put two and two together, and the answer sounds like Sony Bend is cooking up a Syphon Filter 5. Here’s the reasoning. On Feb. 4, Sony’s Bend, Ore. studio posted this job, seeking a game tools programmer. They’re looking for someone with experience on the PS3 and…
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World of Goo Arrives on Linux
Linux gamers do in fact exist and, as promised by 2D Boy, they can now start playing acclaimed indie puzzler World of Goo. The developers have also talked about the challenge of Linux porting. The game is $20, DRM-free and supports 64-bit systems. A demo version featuring the game’s first chapter is available if you…
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A Collection of Killer Gaming Wallpapers
Yesterday our sister site Lifehacker posted a collection of eye-popping desktop wallpapers they found, and it is too good not to share over here. I’ve had the same picture of the Pyramid Peaks in Colorado on my desktop since 2003. If your background’s getting a little stale, too, certainly one of these will do the…
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DW-PSP Not (Yet) Outlawed in Honolulu
Remember the PSP-playing bus driver in Honolulu? The one who wasn’t fired? Now six months later, the mayor has vetoed a city bill that would have outlawed playing games while driving. Saying it is too specific and almost impossible to enforce, Mayor Mufi Hannemann struck down the measure that made it illegal to send text…
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Video Games’ Five Most Romantic Couples
It’s Valentine’s Day, the one day in the western world U.S. (sorry, forgot about you, Amsterdam) where it’s legal to pay for sex. So here’s a very NSFW video of gaming’s top five couples. Naturally, Mario and Peach (despite that affair with Sonic) are No. 1 – even if CitizenGame completely blew it by confusing…
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Guild Wars 2 Coming in 2010-2011
NCsoft saw increased sales but a 40 percent drop in profit this past year. Fallout from that includes the company’s announcement that Guild Wars 2 won’t arrive until 2010-2011. Gamasutra reported that while NCsoft’s sales were up 5 percent year-over-year, including a strong December quarter-over-quarter profit increase of 60 percent. But overall, the delayed launch…
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Kotaku Originals: You Take That Back Brian Crecente
The boss-mans learned a important lesson about other people’s feelings when he called Wii Fit a wee fad. Indignant Wii Fitters ultrabombed his inbox to say not everyone who “plays” it looks like this. That’s right, many of them were in much worse shape when they first stepped on the balance board. But now they’re…
By Owen Good