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Harley Quinn's Revenge Is Batman: Arkham City's Bad New Ending Gah! Man hands! That’s apparently the still-in-progress Chun-Li character image from the location test. Capcom’s still finishing up and tweaking the images, sure, but geez, what is up with her hand and her thumb? She get bitten by a bumblebee? Makes her thighs look totally normal.
A blurry version of the completed work is after the jump. Something sticks out like a sore thumb, though. Literally.
Stick a fork in it, this beta’s almost done. Konami have just issued a statement on the Metal Gear Online site, which reads: …we regret to inform you that due to extraordinary levels of traffic from all around the globe, we have been unable to run the service to the level we expected. As a temporary measure, we will be deferring the start of the US public beta test until we are able to stabilise our server. We would like to apologise for all inconveniences as well as confusion caused.
Here it is, feast your eyes, some human wearing a limited edition Wii Fit shirt with a fake Shigeru Miyamoto autograph on it. There are only one thousand of these, and they were only available for those who pre-ordered at the Nintendo World store in New York City. Nintendo really dropped the ball on promoting this shirt, though. Instead of playing up the fake Miyamoto autograph, it should’ve totally pumped up the fact that this shirt has a GREEN MIYAMOTO FACE on it. Hit the jump for that!
Hey, it’s Resident Evil’s Leon Kennedy! Whatcha doin, Leon? Leon? Hey. Wait a second. Is that really you, Leon? Your fringe…it looks coiffured, with a hint of emo. The real Leon’s fringe is stylish, with a hint of camp. You’re a phoney. An unlicensed, knock-off phoney! I’m telling Capcom. They probably don’t know about this! Actually, I don’t think anybody knows about this, since the rest of the poster so perfectly recreates the Resident Evil 4 experience. Right down to Leon’s…PEGA Shark Gun. Unofficial Resident Evil 4 art gives Leon unofficial Wii accessory [Siliconera]
Even cops can’t stop Arse Flasher. Tush thong lady Asuka Sawamoto hit Akihabara this week and hit it hard — two cheeks at a time. Previously, Sawamoto mooned all of nerdom, causing a mob scene of sweaty dorks with cameras and boners. The act hit Yahoo! News Japan. While the cops have been cracking down on Akihabara street performances to hopes of avoiding such shameful (and potentially dangerous) displays. The “singer” was back for the hat trick this Sunday, putting her arse out for the third time. This time TV crews were on hand to catch the cheeky act and butt in for a quick interview or two.
Hit the jump for a pic of the arse flashery madness! It’s somewhat safe for work. But creepy as hell.
Another week means one thing: More Metal Gear Online mess-ups! In today’s extra special clusterfuck, Konami errors persist. We’re getting word that even though the servers are live, but many are getting network errors up the whazoo or this message: “The GAME ID or password is incorrect. Unable to log into server.(0911:00000003).” Keep in mind, these folks are entering their correct user names and ids. Konami’s running regular updates on the Japanese Metal Gear Online homepage about how the servers are getting overloaded and how sorry it is for the hassle.
Another thing to keep in mind: The Beta starts today! Hooray!! For those unable to log in, here’s the online manual. You can read it and imagine the fun you’d be having. That is, if Konami hadn’t dropped the ball and then kicked it across the room. We’re sure Konami will figure out this internet thing sometime today, tomorrow or maybe even before the game goes on sale this June.
Thanks to all who sent this in.
To: Ashcraft From: Owen Re: Driving Myself Crazy
You need to know something about my brother, Fletch: He doesn’t usually get standing ovations. He’s a mild-mannered, happily married man who’s content to live his life as a graphic artist, vegetarian, University of North Carolina Tar Heels fan, outside the public eye, down in Texas. But when he does something that deserves a curtain call, I mean, it is epic. As it was on Saturday, with the Pac-Man crapping post.
Alright, not much to pick on here in TWiG’s April 20th installment. But Wild Earth: African Safari, well good thing that’s a kid title. Otherwise it looks about as interesting as watching old people fuck. Virtual photography? That’s a side mission in about four titles I already own.
I realise everyone here hates teh sports, but if I wasn’t moving I’d be at least renting NBA Ballers: Chosen One. I bought the first one during the 2004 playoffs and created my baller, Two-Car Fatal, as an homage to the scut work Crecente and I were doing on the night shift at the time. (I also created Ice Killus as an homage to the Greek playwright.) I’d happily revisit that series again.
Here’s what’s coming up, let us know if you’ll pick or pass. Thanks.
We’ll be two weeks from the release date as of Tuesday, so we’re starting a regular feature here, wrapping up what’s been going on in Grand Theft Auto IV in the previous week. It’s a warehouse for things you might have missed or, in case you see something rad and wonder if you discovered it first, checking in to see what is known, what is unknown, what’s rumoured and what is b.s.
Interestingly, I got a note from my best friend from back home, Richard, who mentions he bought a PS3 and “I’m looking forward to GTA IV as well, despite the fact that I got bored with San Andreas and hardly played at all.” I’m not sure we can be friends after that.
But we are bonding over Iron Man. (“It’s nice to have Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark. It would be so cool if a coked-out Iron Man stumbled into some random house and passed out in a kid’s bunk bed.”) We set our ringtones to the old 1966 theme.
OK, enough OT love for childhood chums. The week that was for GTA IV:
Alright, this post should make clear the provocation for yesterday’s digression into Pac-Man’s bathroom habits. While Fletch and I were pondering the question, we both came across this site, where programmer Don Hodges says he has fixed the glitch that caused Pac-Man’s split-screen bug at board No. 256.
