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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Harley Quinn's Revenge Is Batman: Arkham City's Bad New Ending And the shameful Dead or Alive toys continue! This Tina figure is totally bra swimming. But look at her face. She could be waiting for a bus for all we know. And what about her hair? That’s not swimming hair. We are disappointed to say that this Tina figure just isn’t very realistic.
More pics of this Tina sample over at Akiba Hobby if you like. Venus on the Beach! [Akiba Hobby]
As the title says. It’s a (mostly) new Metal Gear Solid 4 trailer. Lots of new footage of Metal Gears and lady-robots with tentacles, lots of footage of men being whacked over the noggin with guns, only some footage of monkeys wearing pants. I must say, while the graveyard scenes were brief, it’s awful nice seeing green grass and flowers in a MGS4 trailer. That desert town was getting boring. [Thanks everyone!]
PS3 sound novel Imabikisou is getting a Wii port. Not quite sure why as sound novels are pretty much choose your own adventure style films told through sound, text and images. For the PS3 version, the visual effects were handled by the team behind Siren 2. So we guess this will be Imabikisou plus waggle? Scary. Imabikisou Gets Wii Version [Canned Dogs][Pic]
48 hours? You’re not giving yourselves enough credit. Less than a day after the PAL copy of the game was leaked, NTSC copies of Grand Theft Auto IV have begun popping up on torrent sites, courtesy of a group calling themselves 101. We’re still unable to verify whether this is the real thing or not, but regardless, the files are already pushing 20,000 leechers. Shame. We’re still waiting on Rockstar for comment.
Time for another installment of “Games Are Evil.” In today’s episode, British tabloid Daily Mail points out they prevent children from falling out of trees, making the “Xbox Generation” weaker than, we assume, the “NES Generation” or the “Atari 2600 Generation”. According to recent, hard hitting data:
Unreal Tournament III on PS3 is mod-heaven. People are going bananas! But what about the Xbox 360? Microsoft previously stated it wasn’t up for allowing mods. Where do they stand now, pre-release? Let’s ask Mark Rein. Mark?
So the rumour’s been SMASHED. Activision Underground, who were supposedly working on a third-person Call of Duty game, weren’t closed down because of a non-existent “exclusivity” deal Infinity Ward signed with Activision. And yet, closed down they were. Why? Maybe for reasons a little less eye-catching. Somebody “close” to Activision Underground has got in touch with us, and let us know that the studio was indeed at work on a third-person action-adventure CoD, which would have been based on special ops forces and would feature “very different kinds of gameplay”. Only problem was, the game turned out to be, well, a big ol’ pile of crap.
If you’re looking for someone to thank, don’t look at us. Send your cakes to Anthony over at the Economical Gamer.
Get Mario Kart Wii for $50: This is a some what risky and unethical approach, but Rayman: Raving Rabbids and Surf’s Up are both a part of EB Games’ 2 for $50 sale but not JB Hi-Fi’s exclusion list. So it might be possible to buy those two for $50 at EB and then trade them for Mario Kart Wii at JB. It is risky though because JBs exclusion list quotes “This list is subject to change at any time at JB Hi-Fi’s discretion” and they may have already anticipated the abuse.
Anthony recommends you tell the JB salesperson you speak to up front what you plan on doing to avoid disappointment.
The full tip is included after the jump, and includes stores where Mario Kart Wii is being sold below its RRP.
Please don’t comment below saying “OMG no digital downloads list = fail” or something. You’ll look like an idiot. We know these charts aren’t the truest indication of what PC gamers actually paid money for a couple weeks back. But they’re all we’ve got. And hey, you might even enjoy these ones, since for once they’re dominated by real, proper PC games!
The Australian GTA IV not the full deal? Neither is the NZ version? Why not just import it then?
Looks like Rockstar thought of that. According to an email many readers have received from Rockstar in the States, the game is “region locked for [its]specific territories”. Which consoles this includes and whether it applies to the multiplayer we’re not sure.
The email goes on to reinforce Rockstar Oz’s earlier statement regarding the changes to our version of the game being minor. Kotaku AU’s attempts to get an answer from Rockstar Oz regarding the region locking have been met with failure, but this looks official to me.
[Thanks everyone!]
