Saturday, March 22, 2008
The King of Fighters XII Screens, So Pretty
6:00PM Brian Ashcraft |
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The Syndicate Games That Never Were
4:30PM Luke Plunkett | Syndicate fans, this one’s for you. After posting a little something on former Bullfrog boss Peter Molyneux’s love of the series, we were contacted by a former Bullfrog and EA UK employee. This guy was nice enough to let us know that a new Syndicate game wouldn’t be anything new. Indeed, over the years he says there have been “quite a number of attempts to get a new Syndicate game into production”. More »A Week In Comments (Fahey’s Mum Edition)
4:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Where I Get My Lazy From Comment by: bgordon Nominated by: Pretty much everyone Well Mike, you little ingrate. Who brought you into the world, fed you, sent you to school (when I could find you)and paid for your ROTC Candy when you ate it all and didn’t have the money to pay for it yourself? Who plugged in the hole you drilled between the bedroom and the bathroom so you could spy on the cute babysitter while she was in the shower? Who just smiled with tears in her eyes when the one class you passed was the “wrong bowling course” and you didn’t get credit for it. Who spent half her time rescuing your cat from you and clearing all the moldy hot dogs out of your underwear drawer? Who went to all the trouble of hiding all your Christmas Presents under your own bed because she wanted you to be surprised on Christmas and knew the on place you would never look was under that bed? Does this sound like lazy to you? More »Mario Kart’s Intro
3:30PM Luke Plunkett | This is the intro to the Japanese version of Mario Kart Wii. Should be no different to the inro we get everywhere else. Love the uninterrupted gameplay footage towards the end, but what’s with the invisible karts and the bumping and the sidewards glances? Awfully suggestive of you, Nintendo. More »
Duel Love Review: Hard Bodies, Limp Game
3:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Bandai Namco’s Duel Love takes players into the underbelly of prep school fighting. That doesn’t mean the game is only about fighting. At its core, Duel Love is a Japanese “renai game” (”romantic game”) where the goal is to get the game’s exceedingly male metrosexuals to fall head over heels in love with you. This is standard dating sim stuff, but Bandai Namco tries to spruce up the formula with touch pen touching. More »
Indie Gaming’s New Best Friend Is…Target
2:40PM Luke Plunkett | Totally unexpected news, this, but welcome news nonetheless! Seems Target stores in the US are stocking shirts featuring characters and designs from small-time, independent games. And not rubbish ones, either, awesome ones like Tower of Goo. That’s not even the best part: if you buy the shirt, you get a snazzy physical copy of the game as well. All for just $US 12. If you’re looking for somebody to congratulate for such a brilliant idea, look no further than EGP Apparel, an offshoot of the Experimental Gameplay Project. Kevin J Allen [via Boing-Boing] More »
RedOctane Making Up For GHIII Wii Problems With Freebies
2:20PM Luke Plunkett | Anyone who picked up Guitar Hero III on the Wii, you’ve had problems. Multiple problems. Our hearts go out to you. And while nothing anybody can ever say or do will give back to you the hours spent playing a game with 20th-century sound output or weeks spent waiting for replacement discs to arrive, RedOctane sure would like to try. Seems users who sent their “busted” GHIII discs back to Activision, then were forced to endure the long wait for Pro Logic discs to be shipped back, are being sent guitar faceplates. Rather snappy fire-and-phoenix-ones, too, may I add. How poignant. More »
Halo 3 Heroic Maps Set Free On Tuesday
1:40PM Michael McWhertor | Today’s Bungie Weekly Update features a handy reminder for the frugal. Next Tuesday, March 25 at 2 AM PDT, the Heroic Map Pack for Halo 3 will become a free download on Xbox Live. Good things come to those who wait (and reject microtransactions). That will coincide with the reveal of the third map from the soon to be released Legendary Map Pack, which, if you’re getting greedy, has no current plans for becoming an eventual freebie. Who knows if that may change. God and The Shadow, probably. Maybe Luke Smith. Bungie Weekly Update: 3/21/08 [Bungie] More »
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Harmonix Respond To Sue Happy Gibson
1:20PM Luke Plunkett | Gibson’s first lawsuit against Activision was stupid enough, but subsequent filings against retailers and now Harmonix and MTV show they’re clearly suffering from a particularly acute case of STUPID LAWSUIT FEVER. Harmonix are having none of it, and have issued a statement claiming Gibson’s suit is “completely without merit”. More »
