Friday, August 17, 2007
Does Lost In Translation Suck Eggs?
11:40PM Brian Ashcraft | To: Crecente From: Bash I spent exactly one hour and thirty minutes at McDonalds today. Since Mrs. Bashcraft was out watching some TV show being filmed with her friend, I took the kid out for lunch. On the show she saw, Takashi Fuji was the guest. She really thinks he’s annoying. He is, but he amuses me. Here’s a clip of one of his songs. He was in Lost in Translation as “Matthew,” a Paul Smith suit wearing, blonde-haired character he created. Quite like Matthew! And watch him a lot on TV when I first came to Japan. Think he’s in a scene with Bill Murray in Lost in Translation. I’ve never seen Lost in Translation. Have you? Is it any good? What you missed last night Bandai “Not Aware” of PS3 Eternal Sonata More Tomb Raider DQ Swords all naughty Lots of Sigmas Gonna go fishing this weekend. Friggin hot and looking forward to sunstroke. More »
SCEE Announce Loads Of Euro PS3 Release Dates
11:20PM Luke Plunkett | Courtesy of SCEE mouthpiece Three Speech comes news of a buncha release dates for upcoming PS3 games in Europe. Warhawk SHOULD (though this isn’t confirmed) be up on the PS Store on August 28. Heavenly Sword is due on September 14. Folklore again, they can’t confirm, but should be October 12, while Lair, again unconfirmed (got to maintain appearances that they’re not being fed the information directly, you see) “should” be October 26. Finally, they “reckon” SingStar should be out in October. RELEASE DATES [Three Speech] More »
EA “Responds” To Wiki Complaints
10:20PM Luke Plunkett | EA’s Wiki “tidying”? Not cool! Just as uncool is their “response” to the issue, which is less of a response as it is a…load of old hogswallop. An EA rep contacted Gamesindustry, and told them: EA sometimes updates websites with info about the company, games and employees. For example, EA has sent a correction to Yahoo Finance when they had misspelled the name of an EA executive. Many companies routinely post updates on websites like Wikipedia to ensure accuracy of their own corporate information. Remember, kids, corporate information is only accurate if the corporation likes what it’s reading. EA responds to Wikipedia revision controversy [Gamesindustry.biz] More »
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Hard Proof Canadians Like Postal (Shocker!)
10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Maybe Canadians have funny taste in movies. Maybe Postal is actually a decent flick. Here’s Uwe Boll chatting it up in a Batman shirt after the Postal premiere in Canada. The clip sheds some light into why the director went fucking batshit insane on Wired’s Chris Kohler. The reason? He says that there isn’t a huge ad campaign backing the Postal film and that everything hinges on good reviews and good of mouth. Apparently, there’s a conspiracy out to shut the movie down and not get it shown in theatres! In the above clip, Actor Zack Ward ask the crowd if they liked the flick, and the audience really seems to dig it. They even clapped and make “wooooooo” noises. No, really. Thanks, Trencher! More »
Brother And Sister Caught Hunting Akihabara Nerds
9:00PM Brian Ashcraft | As we’ve before, Akihabara is a hotspot for crime. And not just any crime, but a very specific crime called “otaku gari” (”otaku hunting”). Japanese news are reporting yet another case of nerd crime. This time around, the otaku hunters weren’t a gang, but a twenty-year-old brother and sister pair. Here’s how it would work: She’d bump into the target, and her brother would demand that the dork hand over “apology money.” When the duo were finally nabbed, they confessed that “otaku are weak, and they’ve got big money so we went after them.” Tokyo-based game localiser and author Matt Alt points out: Akiba has been losing some of its nerd-luster lately. Which isn’t particularly surprising given how much attention it’s received from visitors, press, and the industry in recent years. In fact, the word going around Wonderfest last weekend was that Akiba has become “a wasteland” (in the words of one longtime visitor) due to hordes of foreign toy-dealers scouring the shops for booty to take back to their homelands and sell at a profit. Say it ain’t so! Afraid so, afraid it’s really so. Otaku Gari [AltJapan] More »A Good Look At The Black/Red DS Lite
8:30PM Luke Plunkett |Fake Wii-mote Plays LED Football
8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Following hot on the heals of the Mexican X-Game 360, comes this: an LED football game on what looks like a Wii-mote. (How the hell do you play that?) Found over at game site 4CR, they say its the first Wii-mote knock off thingy they’ve seen. I gotta agree! Don’t remember seeing any faux Wii-mote doohickeys until this. And I’m thinking this won’t be the last one, either. Wii Fake [4CR] More »
Fallout 3 Trying To Avoid Silliness
7:30PM Luke Plunkett | There’s serious adult content, and there’s silly adult content. There’s funny violence, and there’s silly comic violence. It can often be a fine line between the two, in both cases, and it’s one Bethesda are well aware of during development of Fallout 3. Lead designer Emil Pagliarulo: There are some people who say that making an 18-rated game, and especially making a Fallout one, should be about sleeping with the hooker, then waking up with the venereal disease. A lot of that stuff personally, to me, veers into being a 12-year old dungeon master. Some of it feels right and some of it feels wrong. We’re appealing to an adult audience and it’s a tough call. I mean, once you have groin shots you’re approaching a level of silliness that, if you’re not careful, can pervade the whole game. Hope it’s not too serious. Those post-apocalyptic wastelands can be bleak. It’s going to need something to lighten the mood. More »
