As we’ve seen, Capcom’s swine flu contingency plans are in full effect. Step 1 was stockpile hygeine kits. Step 2? Stop executives from travelling overseas. Mega Man creator and all-round Capcom pin-up boy Keiji Inafune was due to appear at the Nordic Game Conference in Malmö, Sweden this week. Was. Instead, his ticket has been…
Work has started on the “life-sized” Gundam. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the mecha anime/manga/toy/video game franchise, an 18-meter-tall (59-foot-tall) Gundam statue will be erected in Tokyo this July. Part of the “Mobile Suit Gundam 30th Anniversary Project,” the structure in Odaiba’s Shiokaze Park will stay up for only two months and be built…
Lunar: The Silver Star is getting another remake, and has been rebranded Lunar: Harmony of Silver Star. In addition to the new name, the game’s got a new look as well. These screens are, sadly, tiny, but should still give you an idea of how the updated visuals are shaping up.
Bethesda Softworks, the folks behind The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, is going to make a Wii game announcement this year — and a “really big Wii game” at that. In an interview with industry site GamesIndustry, Bethesda Europe’s Sean Brennan questioned whether there’s a market for 18-year-old-and-up Wii titles. “Is there space in the Wii…
Upskirts, nipples and compromising poses, Street Fighter IV does not shy away from suggestive content. 2D fighter The King of Fighters XII, on the other hand, is showing some restraint. Hooray? In KoFXII, character Athena Asamiya has returned to wearing the sailor uniform she first donned in Psycho Soldier. Her skirt is impenetrable — like…
They’re a passionate bunch, those Metal Gear fans. So when series creator Hideo Kojima throws up a simple flash page, you can bet they’ll go absolutely bananas. In the wake of the site being updated with a naught but a single countdown clock, the flashing of the number “5” (or the letters “S”!) and some…
It never rains J. It pours. Fresh from his honorary nod at Boston University, Dr. Allard has now been spotted as one of the inventors of a revolutionary new Microsoft “magic wand”. In a patent that surfaced last week (but was submitted in 2007), J Allard is listed as one of five inventors on an…
Yikes! Photographer Judith Stephens scares the crap outta us all with this truly frightening Silent Hill cosplay shoot. The costumes, the make-up and the photographer are all top quality stuff. More in Stephens’ Flickr set below — if you dare. Silent Hill [Flickr via GameSetWatch]
And you thought that it was only Team Fortress 2’s Scout that was moonlighting as a cleaning product salesman. Nun unh. The Heavy is too. And he’s just as enthusiastic.
This June, Square Enix is bringing a new Dragon Quest title to Nintendo’s DSiWare titled Dragon Quest Wars. The title has players select DQ monsters to duke it out on an anyone-can-play strategy board game. Intelligent Systems, best known for WarioWare and Fire Emblem, handled development duties. Dragon Quest Wars is priced at 500 DS…
As announced in the most recent Famitsu, Kojima Productions announced a URL that seemed like it would announce something else on May 18. Today is May 18. That teaser has updated with what could either be the number 5 or maybe a block capitalized letter “S”. The website has lighting and thunder and wind blowing…
To: Crecente From: Crecente Re: E3 Cometh Trish got up at 3 a.m. today to drive into Denver so she could run a half marathon. I, on the other hand, played InFamous until 1 a.m. and then struggled to get up at 7:30 a.m. so I could feed Tristan pastries and cut the grass. In…
Yesterday, tickets for BlizzCon 2009 sold out in record time, some say even before they officially went on sale. So color me surprised that today eBay is lousy with the tickets. Prices are all over the place, with the highest buy it now price for a set currently listed at $1,500. The highest bid as…
Reader Dean reminds us that Uwe Boll’s Tunnel Rats went on sale on Friday on Steam. The game, publishers by Boll AG and developed by Replay Studios, describes itself as a “dark and intense single-player shooter for PC that depicts the horrific realities of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a young…
Reader P4KO sent in a link to this clip of him rocking out the Punch Out!!! theme on electric guitar. I wonder if he takes requests?
Amazon’s digital games section is worth keeping an eye on. Now and then the retailers drops the price of digital download games below what you’d find on the console. CheapCollegeGamers.com points out that Amazon is running an Xbox Live Arcade sale right now, dropping the price on eight 80’s classics from $5 to $2.96 a…
E3 2009 is just weeks away and with the event once more open to models companies are starting to look for folks to distract gamers from their games. Superannuation took a quick dig through LA’s Craigslist to find a couple casting calls: One for bikini models, the other for a muscular man. Which do you…
It’s a pretty basic premise: You need to make sure the the dropping from parachutes land safely on the boat. But add some lightning, sharks, and spinning helicopter blades and you’ve got a keeper. No word yet on when Parachute Panic is set to hit the iphone or for how much.
The Nintendo World Store hosted a pre-launch Punch Out!!! party in New York this weekend, handing out free t-shirts, candy bars and one title. Reader TheMissing sent in this pic from the party showing off the free t-shirt he snagged and the Doc’s Remedy chocolate bar that was given out with a purchase of the…
So that headline’s probably stating the obvious. I would imagine there are lots of studios working on something besides what they’ve already announced. But with Realtime Worlds well into development of APB, and the original Crackdown under their belt you can’t help but wonder, are they hard at work on Crackdown 2? The recent interest…
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