Mary Jane’s Stranglehold experience left us with two burning questions. One, what’s Stranglehold’s multiplayer actually like? And second, where the hell were the tequila shots? The first, we got nothing. The second, we’ve got a lead. Seems GamesRadar’s interns were let out of their cages for the night and proceeded to drink a little too much, proving firstly that interns need to be supervised at ALL TIMES, and secondly that poor writing doesn’t necessarily triumph over poor grammar. Lack of Multiplayer Causes Drunken Rampage [GamesRadar Forums] More »
Bathroom saves, nothing new! Dead Rising has ‘em. Silent Hill has ‘em. And now it looks like No More Heroes has water closet saves as well — with hot sitting on the throne action. Once again, leave it to game creator Goichi Suda to push the envelope further. Toilet saves are so the new black.
Let it never be said Famitsu are not in touch with the people of Japan. With the word on the street. They canvassed gamers a little while back and asked them what they thought were the 10 biggest news stories of the past few months. The answers? An enjoyable blend of spices, the expected (Wii things), unexpected (Peter Moore, big in Japan?) and a rich, creamy aroma:
1. Wii Fit 2. New PSP model 3. Gameplay demo of Metal Gear Solid 4 More »
Buncha Microsoft and Bungie types have been spotted playing something called Halo 3 Epsilon. Cue the internets abuzz with rampant speculation as to what it could mean. What it could be. Well…maybe not so much speculation, as the grim sense of envy that comes from knowing these men are playing what has to be a release build of Halo 3. [Thanks everyone!] More »
Word on the street was that Microsoft paid through the nose for GTA IV exclusive episodic content — to the tune of 50 million Americana bucks. What an investment! The game has now been delayed (due to rumoured PS3 programming probs) and won’t make this Christmas. So you’d think that Microsoft would be pissed. Not so! Microsoft is so rich that the company doesn’t care about silly things like selling games, right? Riiight. A Microsoft rep tell the NY Post‘s William Vitka that the delay will “allow gamers to focus on the other titles in this year’s holiday lineup.” But, glossy spin aside, Microsoft’s gotta be annoyed. At the company’s Xbox Holiday Press event earlier this week in New York, Vitka recalls this exchange he had: So, I asked.
The German equivalent of North America’s ESRB, the Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle, has issued some interesting new ratings on a trio of Konami titles due to be previewed at this month’s Leipzig Games Convention. You may remember the USK revealing the name of the next World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, issuing a rating on the then-officially untitled expansion pack. Today, the USK listed new ratings for three trailers scheduled to be shown at Leipzig: Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, Silent Hill Orphan, and Metal Gear Solid 4—all, strangely enough, for the PC. More »
We know Mario Galaxy is due for release on November 12 in the US. But what about everywhere else? What about Japan, when will they see it? What about Europe, will they get it at all? From the latest Famitsu, here’s what Miyamoto had to say regarding the game’s Japanese release date: Now, we’re making games with hopes of making a simultaneous worldwide release. But, as it’s Japanese people making the game, and we’re making it in Japanese…right? [laughs]
OK. Little nutty! But two things stand out. First, Nintendo making a game due for simultaneous worldwide release? Lies. Second, sounds like Japan might get it a bit early. And as a bonus third, if we choose to believe their LIES, a “simultaneous worldwide release” should mean Europe and Australia don’t get it too far behind. Maybe. More »
To: Ash and Flynn From: Crecente Re: My Face Friggin Hurts
We had our second Game Club discussion group meeting last night. The room filled up pretty quickly and people both took to a reader-run IRC and the site to keep abreast of the discussions about the indie game. It’s hard from my perspective, so close to the centre of this thing, to figure out if it’s working and if people like it. I’m a bit more worried about the first question than I am the second. I hope that the Game Club is getting people to think about video games, or at least this video game, differently than they have in the past. Not to say people haven’t long had thoughtful discussions about things they find interesting, including video games, but my hope is that that will become more the norm than an oddity. More »
Evangelical group Operation Straight Up (OSU) planned to ship copies of the PC real-time strategy game based on the Left Behind series of books, Left Behind: Eternal Forces, to U.S. troops stationed in Iraq. It appears those plans may have been changed, however, as the organisation may have pulled the controversial game from its so-called Freedom Packages. More »
