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 
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Resistance: Burning Skies: The Kotaku Review 
Harley Quinn's Revenge Is Batman: Arkham City's Bad New Ending That little HD DVD experiment was pricey! But when you are Microsoft, what are trivial things like money? Nothing! Just look how smug Xbox 360 UK boss Neil Thompson is. Think the death of HD-DVD keeps him up at night? No way. This guy sleeps like a baby. No, he sleeps like two babies. Says Thompson:
Mr. Driller? More like Mr. Broken. Players are reporting that the game’s online is bug infested. The character gets stuck or crushed instantly or stuck inside blocks. Ironic as the game’s called Mr. Driller Online! Over on the Xbox LIVE Forums, one commenter wrote: “This is the worst online I have ever seen. It’s even worse than ‘The Darkness’ and that was bad”. Ouch. Maybe Bandai Namco re-dub it Mr. Driller Offline? Yes, we think that would be best.
Hit the jump for clips. Bugginess abound!
Screen Play is reporting that our version of GTA IV was modified in advance to get it past the Office of Film and Literature Classification with an MA15+ rating. While this has been confirmed by Rockstar’s local presence, it was tight lipped about what it removed from the game.
Rockstar has plenty of experience with the OFLC, so I’m not surprised it took no chances and edited GTA IV ahead of the ratings process. Doesn’t stop us from feeling ripped off, especially considering the game’s inflated price.
To be fair, what’s a publisher to do in the face of an antiquated classification system?
UPDATE (10/4/2008): Rockstar has released a statement regarding the edited version, and the lack of an R18+ rating in Australia.
UPDATE (15/4/2008): New Zealand is getting the same version of GTA IV as Australia.
GTA IV edited for Australia [Screen Play, thanks Dom]
The gang at Polyphony Digital has been talking up—and failing to deliver—car damage in Gran Turismo for what seems like forever. We know it’s coming someday, it’s just that Kazunori Yamauchi told us it was coming with Gran Turismo 5 Prologue when we talked to him at Games Convention. Didn’t happen, though.
According to an interview with IGN, it may still be en route, via a software update. And it may be coming as soon as this spring. We will, of course, believe it when we see it.
A product listing over at local retailer Topshop shows an April 24 Oz release date and $99.95 price tag for the PS3′s new Dual Shock 3 controller. This factoid was spotted by the gents at PALGN.
Great news if it’s true… I guess. But a hundred bucks for a controller? I know the pricing on games is insane here, but now hardware as well? You should probably hit up Play-Asia and get it for $30 less.
Genuine Wireless Dualshock 3 Controller [Topshop via PALGN, thanks Shayne]
The Standing Committee of Attorneys-General recently announced that it would be asking the public for its opinion on an R18+ classification for video games. At the time this news came out, there was no word on how the SCAG would facilitate such a consultation.
That was then. Now, we have the notes from the March 28 meeting that includes all the details.
Our money was indeed on a full release of the episodic Sam And Max season one for the Wii, and now all we have to do is sit back and wait for our winnings to pour in, as Telltale tells GameSpot official tales of just such a release. Both European and North American Wii consoles will be graced with the first season of the dog and bunny-thing show this fall, with Dreamcatcher and The Adventure Company handing U.S. publishing and JoWood handling Europe’s version, which comes complete with German and French voiceovers plus Italian and Spanish subtitles. I almost want to import the Euro version, just to hear Max threatening people in the language of romance, or perhaps French.
Sam and Max report for Wii duty [GameSpot - Thanks Dathcha!]
Zounds! Based on the monstrous success of Capcom’s Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G, the PSP reached impressive hardware sales heights this week in Japan. It came very close to outselling every other piece of hardware combined, with nearly 130,000 units, some of which were bundled with the latest Monster Hunter expansion. Here’s how the hardware battle went down during March 24 to March 30.
Looks like warehouse club chain Sam’s Club had so much fun at their Super Smash Bros. Brawl midnight launch, they’ve decided to do another one, only this time for another game, because otherwise it would just be silly. Mario Kart Wii shall be the focus of this midnight launch, the second in Sam’s Club history, with players and parents of players able to line up at stores across the country on April 26th to await the stroke of midnight and assuage their driving ambition.
