Sunday, November 18, 2007

Get Level 5 In PotBS Stress Test, Get In Beta

2:40PM Mike Fahey | Here’s some cool news for fans of all things piratey! If you head over to FilePlanet right now you can join the Pirates of the Burning Sea stress test weekend! It is open to all, and Flying Lab has announced that everyone who gets to level 5 in the stress test gets a spot in the real beta for the game! The catch? The stress test is a 4.57GB download, and it ends tomorrow. Could we have gotten you this news faster? Possibly, but we were busy listening to the Portal song over and over again while petting our cat in one of those rare moments when he isn’t trying to eat our hands. Enough reading, there’s no time to lose! Hit the link below to join the stress test, and then sleep and hope to god your bandwidth is strong enough to make it! Pirates of the Burning Sea Stress Test [FilePlanet] More »

Arcade Flyer Art Saturday: Devastators

11:00AM Flynn De Marco | Konami released Devastators into wide release in 1988. Capitalising on the popularity of Contra, Devastators took on the similar plot device of two guys taking on hordes of enemies. It was set in the far flung future of 1989 and involved a Middle Eastern dictator who had taken over a small country. The country in turn hires the two main characters to save them and according to the flyer, these badasses were “the best, most efficient, ruthless, disciplined and most expensive 2-man team of freedom fighters in the world.” Man, that’s a whole lot of adjectives. More »

Infinity Ward Planning COD4 360 Update

9:00AM Flynn De Marco | Over on the Infinity Ward forums the news is out that an update for the 360 version of Call of Duty 4 is currently in the works. The update will address the oft complained about host selection and matchmaking issues as well as some new features. Community Relations Manager fourzerotwo states that there is no date set for when this update will be implemented, but it is on the way. One commenter asked if this will fix the “Game Lobby Closed” and “Player Kicked” issues some people have been having since launch to which fourzerotwo replied that it would be coming in a separate update. Make the jump for the full list of added features. [via: Xbox 360 Fanboy] More »

No More Heroes Site Adds Wallpapers, New Videos

8:00AM Flynn De Marco | Marvelous Entertainment and Grasshopper Manufacture lare oading up the No More Heroes site with new game clips weekly and now they’ve added wallpapers to the mix as well. Currently there are two wallpapers available with seven more coming in the next four weeks. As for the videos, they are advertising that there will be a total of fifty-one with thirty-five available at this time. So, if you want to deck out your computer in the latest No More Heroes fashion, head on over to the NMH website. No More Heroes Website [Thanks, Luis] More »

King of Kong Coming To DVD

7:00AM Flynn De Marco | GoNintendo is reporting that King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is heading for DVD. So, if you missed it in the theaters, now is your chance to see grown men acting like bratty children over who has the highest game score in the comfort of your own living room. The DVD, put out by New Line Cinema, will sell for $US 19.98 and will have an anamorphic widescreen transfer and commentary from director Seth Gordon and producer Ed Cunningham and a the obligatory extra features. Provided all goes as planned, the disc should be hitting shelves January 29, 2008. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters tentative DVD release [GoNintendo] More »

Get Hip-Hoppin’ with Super Barrio Bros.

6:00AM Flynn De Marco | Looking for a little hip-hop with your classic gaming? Then Project Blowed’s Dumbfoundead and producer 8-Bit Bandit have a treat for you. Described by Kotakuite Jed as “Almost all NES music with PHAT BEATS! over it!”, Super Barrio Bros. sells for $US 9 and features fourteen tracks including such hits as Mash and Smash, Bad Villain, Strategy Guide and the classic Game Over. Here’s a little sample of the lyrics courtesy Jed: Mash, mash, on these buttons, smash, smash on these buttons causing concussions. Gaming groupies giving bubble bobble blue balls, double dragon roll on. Face it you lost, shedding tears, their ain’t no wedding here. This is Metal Gear, there is no DDR Dance-off Here. Unfortunately there are no mp3 samples of the songs on the site so you can hear exactly how PHAT the beats are for yourself, so you’ll just have to takes your chances. Make the jump for the full listing of tracks. Super Barrio Bros. [AccessHipHop] More »

Japanese Club Nintendo Members Get Even More Cool Swag

5:00AM Flynn De Marco | We all know by now that Nintendo of Japan offers its Club Nintendo members way better swag than we will ever see here in the States. But in case you needed more proof, here it is. Currently, Club members are being offered a choice between three gifts that range from so-so to totally awesome. First there’s the so-so Nintendo desk calendar followed by two much better choices: a two-disc Super Mario Galaxy Soundtrack and a Wii classic controller shaped like a SNES pad. Something tells me Nintendo is going to end up with a lot of calendars sitting in a warehouse somewhere. [via: Digital Battle] More »

Mysterious Mass Effect Experience Site Surfaces

4:00AM Flynn De Marco | Kotakuite A.W. sends word that a Mass Effect Experience site has gone live on the Xbox website. Upon reaching the site, you are presented with a keycode lock which asks you to fill in a date, presumably to access the site. I tried the obvious route and entered the release date of the game, but to no avail. My guess is that the date is something to significant to the game’s story, but not being fortunate enough to have made it to the right K-mart last weekend or received a review copy, I’m not sure what this date could be. perhaps someone who has been playing the game for a week now could enlighten us? Update: Well, now that you’ve all had a hilarious laugh at my expense, I will at least defend myself by saying I didn’t see anything that said enter birth date since I opened the site in another tab and immediately went back to other work while it was loading. I guess I was hoping there was something more interesting to it than an age gate. I suppose that’s what one gets for over thinking. More »