Thursday, April 17, 2008
Was There An Earthquake Last Night?
11:40PM Brian Ashcraft | To: Fahey From: Ashcraft RE: Too Much Cake So last night (after a panic attack, mind you), I woke up at around 3am and the entire apartment was shaking. Felt like an earthquake, — though I didn’t really see anything about it in the news. Then again, I didn’t check. I’ve only been in a few minor quakes here, and they were enough to give me quite the jolt. They always talk about the big one hitting… Well, bigger than the Great Hanshin Earthquake, and that one was pretty bad. What you missed last night Euro 360 sales double Club Nintendo SNES controller unboxed Trackmania Nations Forever Celebrity Miis XBLA Ikaruga is “horrible” GTAIV funnies More »
The Ghosbusters Box Art Doesn’t Surprise Us
11:20PM Brian Ashcraft | Have we seen this? I sure haven’t! Here’s what’s apparently the box art of the multi-platform Ghostbusters. It’s the Xbox 360 version, but all the other ones seem the same. The Ghostbusters logo — this is pretty much what we were expecting. And that’s what makes it so damn great. Ghostbusters Box Art [Spong] More »
Pro Gamers Carrying Olympic Torch
11:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Tim to carry the Olympic Torch. Who are you going to choose? Pro gamers! That’s right, famous pro Warcraft III gamers Jae Ho “Moon” Jang and Li “Sky” Xiaofeng will be carrying it and will be joined by StarCraft players Junchun “Pj” Sha and Lei “Leilei” Shen. No clue when these gamer luminaries will be carrying the torch, but probably sometime before it reaches Beijing. Is it me or is pro gaming is so 2007? Moon, Sky Carry [GGL Thanks, Craig!] More »
Cat Cuddling! Ear Cleaning! Boobs!
10:40PM Brian Ashcraft | Besides featuring SNK characters with big jubblies (old hat!), DS title and romance sim Days of Memories 2 offers things like EAR CLEANING and CAT CUDDLING scenes. Sure, Days of Memories 2 is a repackaging of previous Days cell phone games, but hey! There’s ear cleaning and cat cuddling, and even if there’re not mini-games (they’re not), stuff like that gives us a warm fuzzy feeling in our bellies. Days For DS [Game Watch Impress] More »
News
Pandemic Itchin’ To Start On Mercs 3
10:20PM Luke Plunkett | Pandemic are putting their shoulder to the wheel for Mercenaries 2. Don’t doubt that for a minute. But at the same time, they’re probably sick to death of all the palm trees and blue skies and threats from the Venezuelan government that have marked the game’s development. So it’s understandable they they just want to get it done and move onto the next Mercenaries, right?: More »
Behold! Carrot Plane Made of Carrot
10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | We’re speechless, so let reader filip fill us in: Here is my plane. This is the carrot plane,it is made of carrot. Yumm! We’re still speechless, so allow us to copy and paste: To bring everyone up to speed: Dress up as an aeroplane OR make a three dimensional aeroplane out of anything tangible, but paper. So you can’t make CGI planes! And you can’t draw them either! But, you can make them out of anything else as long as it’s not paper. Rocks, clay, toothpicks, whatever! And remember, that means make and not build a plastic plane model you bought in the store. Send entries to kotakucontestATgmailDOTcom by this Friday at midnight PST and, like all contests, don’t forget to add a “Kotaku” sign. Remember, we’re giving away two copies of Ace Comabt 6 and INTERNET FAME. One copy for the best plane cosplay, the other for the best crafted plane. In short, two separate contests. Those keen on seeing a plane cosplay, hit the jump for Sean’s entry. There’s a bucket involved! More »
Enterbrain Back Slowly Away From “New DS” Prediction
9:40PM Luke Plunkett | Earlier this week, according to Bloomberg, Enterbrain president Hirokazu Hamamura predicted a new DS would be unveiled at E3. You’d think he’d be the kind of guy – what with his company publishing Famitsu and all – to get that sort of thing right. But Nintendo quickly came out and, rather than say “no comment”, went so far as to say “no dice“. Now, Enterbrain themselves have felt the need to issue a statement, denying that Hamamura predicted any such thing. He did not…make a comment about the possibility of an announcement by Nintendo concerning a new model or successor to the Nintendo DS due to its current scarce product availability caused by its worldwide popularity. Maybe they’re right, maybe Bloomberg are right, but either way, who am I to stand in the way of a good old-fashioned corporate back-tracking expedition? Full statement’s after the jump if you’re interested. More »
CoD4 PS3 DLC DAT(ed)
9:20PM Luke Plunkett | Infinity Ward have sorted the PS3 version of Call of Duty 4’s downloadable content out, and have announced a pair of release dates for the new maps. North Americans can expect them next Thursday, April 24, while it’ll be turning up in Europe a little later, on May 1. PC owners…still nothing, I’m afraid. Maintain your vigils. PS3 Variety Map Pack Double XP Weekend Extravaganza [IAMfourzerotwo] More »
Iroha Ravaged
9:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Revealing! Taken advantage of! SNK has licensed out Samurai Spirits character Iroha for the Queen’s Gate art books. Titled On wo Kaseu Mono Iroha (Debt Replaying Iroha), the book is fully licensed by SNK and illustrated by Tasuku Iizuki. Queen’s Gate is a spin-off of Queen’s Blade, which is a Lost Worlds style “combat picture book game.” Though, Queen’s Blade is so MAXIMUM RISKY. Don’t believe us? Of course not! Not safe for work pics after the jump.
