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Harley Quinn's Revenge Is Batman: Arkham City's Bad New Ending R4 carts, you either love ‘em or hate ‘em. People who want to play pirated DS games, they love ‘em. Retailers in Akihabara, they love ‘em, because they sell a fuckton of them. But Nintendo? They hate ‘em. And may have started doing something about it. We knew that they’d begun to grow concerned over the carts late last year, but over the past week many specialist retailers in Akihabara have put up notices saying they’ll no longer be selling the R4, following threats made by Nintendo. Same goes for some Japanese online retailers. So is this the end for the naughty little cartridge? Eh, probably not. Nintendo may be able to strong-arm the little guy, but not the littler guys they don’t even know about. Or the internets. マジコンR4 もう入荷しないって [Akiba Blog]
This stop motion Mortal Kombat spoof comes from Michael Mouris, known for his brilliant gifs. He performs both roles in the above clip. He can’t really fly.
MM Animation [BBTV]
Does it matter if the Dragonball flick was pushed back from this summer to next spring? Does it matter that the movie looks like dookey? No! Apparently, Dragonball 2 could be shooting first quarter next year. Some of the movie’s sets are still in place where it was shoot in Mexico, waiting! It does matter how the flick does, though. Whew, that’s good. There is a God. Dragonball 2? [Movieland via Dragonball - The Movie via TokyoGraph via a geek by any other name]
VFDS poster L_A_Akira recently got home from Japan, where he was smitten by Sega’s latest Lindberg arcade cabinets. Guy – naturally – wanted one of his own. Deciding wisely that trying to import one was a bit silly, he instead took the road more awesome and built himself one, which will house his 360, PS3, PC and even a car amp. Above, the initial concept art. The finished product – after the clicky clicky – may surprise/delight you.
These days, all those Hollywood types so want to get into gaming. Next up to enter the fray? Movie studio Paramount Pictures! The studio is starting up its own interactive department to finance games and more directly oversee development. While the new upstart is keen on investing in all games, it’s especially interested in casual, handheld and mobile games because those types of titles cost only a few million — way cheaper than AAA Xbox 360 and PS3 games! More and more Hollywood types are starting to think that getting involved with games will help ensure quality game adaptation of their films. Says Paramount’s Sandi Isaacs:
Christophe Gans’ Onimusha movie is in a spot of bother. It’s been put on indefinite hold thanks to, of all things, the death of Heath Ledger, which impacted on the schedule of producer Samuel Hadida, who was due to work with Ledger on a new Terry Gilliam movie. Because that’s been stopped, Hadida had to delay the filming of Onimusha, which has now thrown out the calendars of the film’s Japanese cast, who are now all too busy working on other stuff to get started on Onimusha. Series fans not put off by either the prospect of an adaptation or the fact Gans was handling it will no doubt be crushed. If, you know. Those people exist. ONIMUSHA delayed? What’s Christophe Gans up to, then? [AICN]
Hope you rushed in and bought some of those indie gaming shirts while you could, because no sooner do we start heaping praise upon Target for selling them than we hear they’ve pulled the shirts. Because they weren’t selling. One of the developers whose game was featured has told Boing-Boing Gadgets:
Here’s the first trailer for Aerosmith’s upcoming Guitar Hero spinoff. Good news is they went with Sweet Emotion to sell us all on its merits, instead of, oh, I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing. Bad news is that even in flattering, cartoony form they still look far too old for this kind of business.
While others focused on Ubisoft producer Jade Raymond before Assassin’s Creed, we were always wonder what the game’s Creative Director Patric Desilets was doing, how his beard was and when he was going to accept our friend requests. In a recent interview with game site Game Daily, Ubisoft honcho Yves Guillemot says this about Patrice:
