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Harley Quinn's Revenge Is Batman: Arkham City's Bad New Ending Ack! That case mod is SCARY. Over at The Llamma’s Game Console Forums, member dfw monkie has created this gator box by hand-sculpting layers of putty and then painting it with a clear-coat for that just crawled out of the swamp look. The eye is especially frightening. Just image it when it’s switched on. Or worse, with RROD. Nightmares!
Hit the jump for gator eye pics.
EA weren’t the only company to release their financials today. Sony Corp did as well, and while these were results for the entire company, there were of course gaming-related numbers to be had amongst them. Overall sales for the PlayStation group were up 26% off the back of increased interest in the PS3, while the gaming division cut its losses from $US 232 million to $US 124 million (with forecasts it’ll have gone into the black by this time next year). But hey, unless you’re a Sony shareholder/raving-mad fanboy, that stuff’s of secondary importance. Most of you will probably just want to know how many PS3s, PSPs and PS2s the company shifted last year.
Xbox honcho Shane Kim is back with more talking! This time he goes on and on for something like four paragraphs talking about motion sensed. Does that confirm the rumoured Xbox 360 Wii-mote clone? “I’ve never heard of a motion sensing controller,” he replies. According to Kim:
I got Vista a few weeks back, and have found it nothing short of delightful. No compatibility issues, no performance downgrades, none of the complaints I’ve heard PC gamers cussing over for the past year or so. Then again…I’ve been playing Oblivion and the Battlestar Galactica mod for Homeworld 2, so I haven’t exactly been pushing the OS to its limits. If you’re playing things a little more current, and are finding things on Vista a little slower than they should be, chin up: some benchmarks run by ExtremeTech have compared Vista’s SP1 to XP’s new SP3, and found that over three games tested (World in Conflict, Supreme Commander and Crysis), Vista was just as fast as XP on two, and marginally faster on Crysis.
Gaming Performance: Windows Vista SP1 vs. XP SP3 [ExtremeTech]
That’s it, our Disgaea DVD competition is over! We’ve had a look at all the wonderful haikus that were sent in over the last week and, with great difficulty, selected five to receive a copy of the Disgaea Collection. Don’t feel bad if you missed out – the pack is available from today for $49.95.
Special props again to Madman, who made the competition possible. If your name appears after the jump, watch your inbox as we’ll be in touch soon to get your mailing address.
Now, for the winning entries!
Just because you appear in a gajillion dollar making video game doesn’t mean you get a gajillion dollars! Beer swinging Jason Zumwait was Roman Bellic in GTA IV and he hasn’t made a gajillion dollars. No wonder he’s offering to let folks “Rent Roman”, tongue planting firmly in cheek. “For a nominal fee, I’ll come over to your house,” says Zumwait, “sitdown on your goddamn couch and play that video game with you.” Rent Roman [Sand & Cotton via Dtoid]
Last year, Konami spent an insane amount of money on the Metal Gear 20th Anniversary Party. The swish event was at the Ritz Carlton in Tokyo Midtown. Throughout the event, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima kept mentioning that the fourth entry was the last game in the series. That this was it! But as Konami CEO Fumiaki Tanaka kept saying that he hoped Kojima would make more Metal Gear and others kept saying they hoped there would be more Metal Gear, Kojima was overheard at the end of the night saying that there would be more!
Ah, Eternal Darkness. Never really got into it myself, but I can still see why people dig it, and I appreciate that. There weren’t many games like it last generation, and there definitely weren’t many games like it on the GameCube. So what do Silicon Knights think about returning to the series, should they ever actually get the Too Human “trilogy” out the door? Surprisingly, SK boss Dennis Dyack sounds keen as beans: There is a chance; we love all the games we work on. We don’t want to be pigeon-holed [into a genre] , we want to be known for strong content…There’s a strong chance we’ll return to it, but there’s no announcements yet.
No, no announcements, but the intent’s there, and that’s good enough for today. Thanks.
Numerous times Sony has publicly stated numerous times that the PS3 will have a ten year life-span. What about the Xbox 360? How long will that last? According to Shane Kim, the Microsoft machine will last 7 years, which is twice as long as the original Xbox. According to Kim:
We said from the beginning that we expect the Xbox 360 to have a long tail. Clearly we didn’t do that with the original Xbox, which was a strategic decision we made. Admittedly, we don’t have any experience doing this, but we’re pretty confident 360 will have a long tail.
Continuing, he says:
Here’s something interesting. We know, EA lost some cash last year, and we know, they did so despite selling a gagillion games, but just where did those games go? Like, which systems did EA make the most money off? Let’s check their quarterly results and find out. Anyone hoping Q42008 would be the time a current-gen system (like the Xbox 360, for example) finally beat out last-gen had best look elsewhere, because yes, the PS2 still rules EA’s money-making roost. And the 360 came second? Nope.
No, that honour went – surprisingly – to the PS3. Check the chart below: last quarter, EA made $US 152 million off PS3 game sales, and “only” $US 128 million off sales of games on the 360.
