To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Summertime Summertime, indeed! You’ve got family in Texas, so maybe you’ve been there… My parents, Mrs. Bashcraft and Mini-Bash are touring through the Southwest at the moment. While in Amarillo, they stopped by the Big Texan, which has a 72 ounce steak (2kg!) that is free to those who can…
Ah, yes. Summer time. The beach. Watermelon. And money. With the sour economy not every Japanese company hands out summer bonuses to its employees, but this year the average bonus is up a slight 0.75 percent over the previous year. This is the first time in three years that the average summer bonus has increased…
Divorce has not yet been introduced in The Republic of Malta. Politicians and pundits have been debating the issue. A billboards has popped up protesting the divorce — and trying to sell video games. This protest sign was set up by a Catholic parish located in the hometown of pro-divorce politician. The politician in question,…
Most of the time, video games work like they’re supposed to. Most of the time. Sometimes, though, they don’t, and sometimes, the way they don’t can be horrifying These bugs and graphical errors on PC games go beyond the annoying or frustrating. They’re not the kind to just crash your game or freeze up your…
The Mario Brothers, not from Brooklyn, but from Hicktown. As seen on Worth1000, thanks Morris!
This summer, Cave’s bullet hell shooter DoDonPachi is coming to the iPhone and iPod Touch as “DoDonPachi Resurrection”. Bang, bang. The game is a sequel to 2002’s DoDonPachi Dai Ou Jou, the fourth arcade title in the DoDonPachi series. Price and date are forthcoming!
While these Mother figures aren’t as charming as those hand-made Mother 3 statues, they do have one advantage: they’re made by a toy company, so large numbers of people can actually buy them! Standing just under 5″ high, these figures from the first two games in the Mother series (known as Earthbound in the West)…
Remember those cartoons you watched as a kid? You know, the ones that were really thirty minute commercials. This year marks the 30th anniversary of Gundam plastic models, aka “Gunpla” in Japan. Bandai is commemorating the occasion with another 1/1 scale Gundam and a new show called “Mokei Senshi Gunpla Builders Beginning G”. The show…
While we wait for the proper Scott Pilgrim game, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad users can bide their time with Pilgrim’s Punch-Out, a quick little game that’s, well, Punch-Out. Only, with Scott Pilgrim. You’re fighting all seven of Ramona’s ex-boyfriends in classic 8-bit action, and while it’s hardly MUST-PLAY stuff, seeing as it’s an advertisement…
Keiji Inafune, creator of Dead Rising, has directed a movie version of Dead Rising, pegged for digital distribution. As seen on Game Watch Impress.
TV3 is a television network in New Zealand. Its latest ad seems very similar to this Sony PS3 spot. Sony has created a faux spokesperson named Kevin Butler to promote the PS3. TV3 also has a faux spokesperson — comedian Dai Hemwood. No big deal. There’s more. TV3’s latest ad not only seems to borrow…
So Epic’s Mark Rein interrupted a discussion last week at a conference, and got people upset. It made for good theatre at the time, but now the dust has settled, Rein has issued an honest apology. “I want to apologise,” Rein says in an email to Positech’s Cliff Harris, the man who last week called…
Final Fantasy XIV is now in beta, so people in the real world are playing it. And what do people in the real world do when playing video games? Yeah, they film it and upload it to YouTube. Here’s the game’s character creation suite, followed by a lengthy section that divides its time between cinematic…
Japanese manga Gantz is being made into a movie. Here is the trailer. You can watch it! The original manga debuted in 2000 and follows a pair of high school students, a mysterious black sphere and bionic body suits. Gantz was spun off into a successful anime series and into a 2005 third-person shooter video…
PC and PS3 owners, your Medal of Honor beta has been officially extended. 360 owners…sorry?
I don’t know about you, but for me, being Australian, summer means only one thing: the beach. Golden sands, clear blue skies, a blinding sun. And no game captures the essence of this better than the Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. The black sheep of the console Zelda family, and also my favourite video game…
It’s July. July in Japan means one thing: unbearable heat. It’s not exactly the weather for your typical full body costume. Then again, role-playing title EarthBound isn’t your typical game. At the Club Sega arcade in Akihabara, a staffer donned a “Mr. Saturn” costume and waddled out onto the street and out into the heat.…
The first Street Fighter movie was so bad it was kind of good. The second? Plain old bad. That’s not dissuading Capcom, however, who say that further live-action Street Fighter projects are currently in the pipeline. “I think you’ll see some clever live-action stuff that will excite our fans at some point in the future,…
Kotaku’s Top Five List of Top 10 Lists Comment by: Walking Eye!:The Business-Casual Ga Nominated by: Mike8813 Number 6: Calling yourself a “hardcore” gamer Call yourself something better. A wine aficionado understands the complexities of wine and has witty repartee at wine tastings. A hardcore wine drinker drinks Mad Dog and yells at parking signs…
You could point to any number of occasions in which Peter Molyneux, the man behind classics like Populous and Fable, jumped the proverbial shark. But when does Peter Molyneux think Peter Molyneux jumped the shark? “I’ve got a Fonz ‘shark moment’ – you know, where he’s jumped over a shark on his motorbike… and after…
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