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To: Crecente From: Ashcraft RE: Come As You Are I’ve just been given a bottle of North Korean booze. I’ve never had North Korean booze…. What you missed last night Sony Cuts Nigeria Line From PS3 Slim Ad Sony: PS3 Sales Up 300% Gabe Newell Boycotting L4D Modder’s Campaign [Update] Torture In Video Games Brand…
Sony’s PSP Minis range was originally believed to be a way the PSPgo could compete with the iPhone’s successful App Store, but comments today from Sony Europe suggest they could go a little further than just the new PSP. SCEE’s Zeno Colaco has told Develop “The most successful Minis titles will probably transition to UMD”,…
Perhaps aware of criticism that Lucasarts only survives by milking Star Wars and Indiana Jones dry, the company has tonight unveiled on GTTV a brand new puzzler/platformer called Lucidity. Starring a young girl by the name of Sophie, Lucidity will be out on Xbox Live later this month, and is part 2D platformer, part 2D…
Sony is coming to TGS and bringing games with it. Some games you can play — that is, if you are going. But what games? What, what, what? These games. • PS3 1. FIFA 10 2. Lost Planet 2 3. Shin Sangoku Musou MULTI RAID Special 4. Pro Evo 2010 5. Final Fantasy XIII 6.…
The last couple of PAL PlayStation Store updates have been a little barren. Not to worry. They were obviously saving all the good stuff for this week’s update. Not only are there four playable demos, but they’re all great: FIFA 10, Katamari Forever, Fat Princess and LittleBigPlanet. Not to mention there’s a full-game download –…
Ninja Gaiden Σ 2 is coming to the PS3 — it is a PS3 exclusive! Here is the "final" trailer for the game. The beginning of the trailer is a very cool, comic book style clip. The rest of it is traditional game trailer stuff. More comic book stuff, please!
According to NPD analyst Anita Frazier – and really, she’d know – sales of music games in 2009 are, to date, down 46% from where they were last year. But it’s not all klaxons and panic stations for the likes of Rock Band, Guitar Hero and SingStar. “While sales of this genre are down 46%…
This year is the thirtieth anniversary of Gundam. Things ranging from an enormous Gundam statue to a PS3 Slim bundle have marked the occasion. But that’s not all, oh no, that’s not all. Rocker Andrew W.K. has recorded an album’s worth of Gundam songs in English. The album is called Gundam Rocks and is perhaps…
Poor Aaron Howe. The guy makes an honest living, tries hard to keep his kids happy, and what happens? Sony Computer Entertainment’s "Kevin Butler" goes and cuts Aaron’s grass. Creepy.
Snaaaaaaaaaaaaaake! Metal Gear Solid 4 is getting its own set of key chains, complete with character designs and voices. Characters include two versions of Old Snake, Raiden, Liquid Ocelot, Otacon and the exclamation mark. Voice samples include Old Snake saying “This is Snake. Can you hear me?” The exclamation mark, of course, makes the MGS…
Sega updated the Valkyria Chronicles 2 website yesterday with a couple of gameplay videos, showing that while there is indeed a grainy filter plastered over the game, it doesn’t make much difference once things start moving.
Just a heads up! This past Spring, paper mag Otaku USA surveyed foreign otaku for a Famitsu article. Otaku USA‘s otaku-in-chief Patrick Macias stated at the time, “We want all foreign otaku to rise forth and fill out our ‘Foreign Otaku’ survey below. The results will be published this summer in an issue of Weekly…
Completely pointless from a consumer standpoint, we know, but then, we also know this kind of stuff is cool regardless; witness one of AMD’s new DirectX 11 graphics cards running a game on six monitors. The technology is called “Eyefinity”, and allows users to combine several monitors and have the card output to them as…
The 1/1 scale Gundam statue in Tokyo’s Odaiba may be gone, but our memories live on and on and on — in statue form. This is not a life-sized statue you can own (crap!), but a 30cm, 4 kilogram model of the life-sized model. Relive the memories! Out Spring 2010, yours for ¥81,900 (US$893). That’s…
From Hitler moustaches to “sweat” in Mortal Kombat, Nintendo have a long history of over-reacting to violence in video games. So it shouldn’t surprise you that, in 2009, you’re still not allowed to call a Wii peripheral a “gun”. Speaking with Game Informer, Activision’s Jeff Muench has said that when branding and promoting the amazing…
The iPod Touch does not have a camera. Apple honcho Steve Jobs explains why — it’s a game machine. “Originally,” Jobs tells The New York Times, “we weren’t exactly sure how to market the Touch. Was it an iPhone without the phone? Was it a pocket computer? What happened was, what customers told us was,…
Microsoft announced today that Halo Waypoint – a section of Xbox Live devoted entirely to all things Halo – will be out in the first week of November. “Nov 5”, says the project’s official Twitter page. “Mark it on your calendar”. We won’t, thanks. We are, however, curious to see how the whole thing works,…
Sony’s original PS3 Slim price drop ad may have pleased gamers, but it pissed off the entire nation of Nigeria. As we reported, the ad was pulled, and now a reworked version has hit the airwaves. In the original ad, Sony’s fictional director of rumor confirmation stated, “You can’t believe everything you read on the…
While the August NPD numbers show Batman: Arkham Asylum had sold 593,000 copies, those numbers don’t include the two weeks of September we’ve had since then. Factor those in and the game’s sold almost two million copies. The figure was disclosed as part of an LA Times report on some restructuring going on at DC…
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