Three Words I Said To The Man I Defeated In Gears Of War That I'll Never Say Again 
New Doom 3 For Xbox 360 And PlayStation 3 Supports Head-Mounted Displays 
Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land 
Why Robin Makes Batman Better 
Resistance: Burning Skies: The Kotaku Review 
Harley Quinn's Revenge Is Batman: Arkham City's Bad New Ending We’ve seen scans, but they were small. And the colours looked a bit off, didn’t look very “steely”. Here, then, are some proper shots of the “Steel” edition of the PS3, which will be available as part of the Japanese Metal Gear Solid 4 bundle. Looks…well, like gun-metal, really. Highly appropriate. Console’s above, with a pic of the “Steel” DualShock 3 after the jump.
PlayStation 3 gamers who thought the joy of downloading updates for their first person shooter of choice was coming to an end can enjoy at least one more patch. Unreal Tournament 3 has been updated, announced Epic Games, bringing an exciting suite of fixes and feature updates to the console version. The full list of changes, thanks to Jim, is after the jump.
Hey, Iron Man fans, quit worrying about the voice-acting for Sega’s upcoming tie-in game, would you? Everything’s going to be OK. Nice and authentic. Sega have announced that the film’s three main stars – Robert Downey Junior, Terence Howard and Shaun Toub – will be reprising their roles for the game. If only I could go back to 1990 and place a bet that in 2008 I’d be playing as Robert Downey Junior in a superhero game made by Sega that’s appearing on no less than seven platforms…
newVideoPlayer("aocdev_gawker.flv", 463, 287,""); I’ve gotten two things from this developer diary for Funcom’s Age of Conan MMO. First off, it is open season on heads in AOC. If you have a head and plan on playing the game, I highly suggest you either reinforce it with a steel neckpiece of some sort, or perhaps pre-detach your head with some sort of velcro solution so it can easily be retrieved and reattached. Secondly, Funcom Senior System Designer Andrew Griffin has some amazing hair. You wouldn’t think a guy with such great hair would have anything to do with all of this rampant decapitation, but there you go.
The feud between Guitar Hero publisher Activision and guitar manufacturer Gibson raged on today, with Gibson responding to Activision’s statement from earlier today. Activision implied that Gibson cried patent violation only after the marketing agreement between the two fully dissolved, and that it believes “Gibson’s claims are disingenuous and lack any justification.”
Gibson publicly fired back this afternoon, saying that it filed suit reluctantly and “is required to protect its intellectual property and will continue to do so against any other person in accordance with the law and its rights.” The full statement about all this hubbub, from Gibson’s perspective is after the jump.
The battle for weekly first place hardware showings in Japan went back to Sony this week, with the PSP outselling the Wii one more time. With just a few thousand sales setting them apart, however, the contest is almost a dead heat. DS Fever seems to have cooled a bit over the past few weeks, with the handheld resting quietly in third, presumably waiting to strike back before the end of the year. Quiet times on the hardware front make us look forward to new marquee releases. Until then…
Following the news that Ubisoft has secured the rights to the Tom Clancy name, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot revealed in a follow up conference call plans to look into creating an MMO using the Tom Clancy name. No word on which Tom Clancy brand would be involved or what sort of gameplay would be involved, but Guillemot did mention the possible cost of such a venture – upwards of $50 million. That’s quite a chunk of change to spend on creating a persistent world filled with people hiding behind things and shooting each other. I cannot even begin to imagine how such a thing would work…unless perhaps they went with a game model similar to PlanetSide, with instanced combat zones for players to team up and take on. It would certainly be a fresh take on the MMO sector, one way or the other. Intriguing. We’ll keep you posted.
Ubisoft Locks Up All Tom Clancy Rights, Plans for MMO [Game Daily]
When EA released a new software update for the PlayStation 3 version of The Orange Box last night, it was annoyingly silent on what exactly had changed. Finally, the gang at has given up the info goods. But don’t expect too much in the way of excitement, because as you know, new maps like Badlands and Well (CTF) for Team Fortress 2 weren’t stashed within. It’s mostly bug fixing, memory leak plugging and server connection smoothing—and almost all TF2 related. The full list of changes is after this.
You may remember Posterchild’s previous video game to real world work, when the artist started throwing up Super Mario Bros.-style question blocks made of cardboard and wrapping paper that dangled from tree limbs and light posts. Posterchild has taken another iconic video game block, the Weighted Companion Cube from Portal and installed it (with matching portal) on Bloor Street in Toronto. There are much bigger and much better pics of this fantastically super awesomeness at Posterchild’s own blog, if you’re not in the area to eyeball them yourself.
Companion Cube [Posterchild's Blade Diary via Waxy.org]
Ubisoft continues to explore young women’s career options with the sixth game in their DS Imagine lineup, Imagine Rock Star. In stores this June, it sounds like a Rock Band wannabe with a fashion slant, as players dress up their characters and perform concerts in order to score a dream record contract. Players will be able to jam wirelessly with their friends, choosing from guitar, bass, drums, and – finally – piano.
