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Harley Quinn's Revenge Is Batman: Arkham City's Bad New Ending Naughty video actresses get excited by things other than sex and money! Take rising star Sasha Grey (who was grilled by Tyra Banks). She’s not only into things like punching and puking, but also Coleco Vision! In an interview with Hustler, Sasha says: Favorite purchase of the past year? A brand new Coleco Vision…it’s still in the box.
Hardcore! Pun intended! Hit the jump for the next two questions. If you are easily offended, best not to click over.
Denis Dyack is not happy about your run-of-the-mill video game plot line. Not at all! He wants better. He wants more. Says Dyack:
Mass Effect’s world was a great one. Thing is, if you weren’t plowing through the main story arc, the whole thing felt a little…empty. Especially the game’s cookie-cutter side-quests, of which I tried 3-4 before having to stop, for fear of death by acute boredom. But don’t be angry at BioWare! They had stuff needed doing for the first game, and it’s something they’ll have fixed for Mass Effect 2. At least according to BioWare GM Greg Zeschuk they will:
Kind of a prick-tease, I know, but it’s Warhammer, so I’ll play along. Next month’s issue of PC Gamer looks like it’ll be revealing the first real info on Relic’s Dawn of War sequel, which was first rumoured to be in development a couple of weeks ago. Course, it doesn’t out-and-out say it’s Dawn of War 2, but…yeah. That’s Dawn of War 2. [via Sinatar @ NeoGAF]
This summer, Hudson’s bringing Tetris to WiiWare. Hudson’s hooked up with Tetris Online to make the worldwide online WiiWare version possible, complete with up-to-six players. The game will also have Wii-mote specific controls as well, apparently. Hudson’s hoping that the game is a smash — to the tune of a million downloads. Yeah, we can see that, no problem.
The NPD group have released the American PC sales charts for the week Feb 24 – March 1, which is awful nice of them, since weekly sales data for the US market is a rare and precious thing. The weekly frequency of these charts is about the only surprise you’re going to get, however, as half the chart’s taken up by Sims and World of Warcraft titles.
It’s been a week and we’ve had loads of entries to our Game On ticket comp. Top props to the ACMI for supplying the goods. Now it’s time to pick out three winners to receive a free ticket to the exhibition. If you’d like to see who won, just hit the jump.
Don’t freak out if you submitted a story and it didn’t win. It’s automatically eligible for the second batch of three tickets.
If you haven’t sent in your tale of retro gaming woe/comedy/wrist-slashing depression, you have until this time next week to get something in. For all the relevant details, the original competition post is the place to go.
Winners after the jump!
More Guitar Hero lawsuits! Don’t make that face, you know you can’t get enough of them. This time around it’s series creator Harmonix on the legal warpath, who have (briefly) sued current franchise holders Activision over unpaid royalties. Seems the contract signed by Harmonix and Red Octane over the original Guitar Hero contained a clause that said Harmonix would earn one of two royalty payment schemes if they ever left the series. One, a lower figure, would be paid if another dev team took over the series and made fundamental changes to the game mechanics. The other, a higher figure, would be owed if another team took over and released a game that “incorporates, uses, or is derived from Harmonix property”. Guitar Hero III is definitely the latter, with minimal changes to the previous games, but Harmonix claim they’re only being paid the lower royalty scheme, and are owed around $US 14.5 million worth of Guitar Hero III’s profits.
Blizzard’s StarCraft II hype machine continues! Listen to lead designer Dustin Browder talk about the challenges of bringing from 2D to 3D and making sure the game engine can handle all the insane in-game moment. After the jump, the game’s art director Samwise Didier talk about the Zerg alien race.
