Harley Quinn's Revenge Is Batman: Arkham City's Bad New Ending 
High Scores And Egos: There's Always A Bigger Doodle 
The Last Moments Of GAME 
How Bad User Interfaces Are Ruining Video Games And Other Wonderful Things 
She Tried To Make Good Video Games For Girls, Whatever That Meant 
The Story Of Doodle Jump: Brotherly Love And Digital Snacks So the loose ladies of Liberty City have six fingers. Six isn’t normal. Well, six is close to normal when you consider that Zoey, star of Left 4 Dead, has fifteen freakazoid fingers.
Pixel Hunt editor Dylan Burns flicked me a note to say the 5th issue of his 100% Australian and 100% free e-zine is now available for download. That’s the cover up there: it’s like a print magazine… but on the internet!
And why wouldn’t they be, with the 41,000 Wiis sold last week setting a new Australian record for the most consoles sold in a single week. Is Wii Sports about to overtake backyard cricket as Australia’s Christmas Day pastime of choice this year? We caught up with Nintendo’s Heather Murphy over email to look back on the last twelve months and take a quick peek into the future of the Wii and DS as well.
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 fans, tough luck. Square-Enix confirmed your title is delayed until an unspecified northern hemisphere Spring 2009 date. But that news dropped with some new details on the game. Which makes things better. Or worse.
About a week ago we showed you the two trailers Square-Enix finally made available from its DKΣ3713 event way back when. Smashpad scrounged up an Agito trailer, also narrated in Japanese, that missed that cut.
So EA crowed that it had 17 games scoring 80 or better on Metacritic (I love it; we’re officially into Wine Spectator-style rating snobbery with video game criticism). How’d other major publishers do?
Bob Pelloni’s 15,000 hours spent making a DS homebrew might sound somewhat extreme. Well, now he’s spending 100 days in a room, “locked and barricaded from the outside,” to protest Nintendo’s treatment of his project.
I swear, if there’s a Retail Packagers’ Association, its mission statement must be: “Forcing You to Use Something Other than Your Bare Hands, Preferably a Steak Knife, to Open the Shit You Just Bought.”
Yesterday we had a nice argument regarding Factor 5′s shutdown and whether the bad economy was to blame. Now, The Economist examines a “recession-proof” business and comes to a few conclusions of its own.
If you’re gaming on a smallish standard-def TV, or if you’re one of those people who subscribe to the large-print Reader’s Digest, good news: the patch enlarging Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts’ text is now out.
