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Harley Quinn's Revenge Is Batman: Arkham City's Bad New Ending No. Before you start, no. Whatever it was you were thinking, or were going to ask, no. It’s not here. She’s not here. Instead, Gamasutra’s list of the top 20 women in gaming focuses on those with the biggest impact on the medium today, whether as developers, executives or even writers. The list is unranked (ie it doesn’t count down from 20 to 1), and while it contains some pleasant surprises (Valve’s Kim Swift, for example), there’s sadly no room for my favourite, Zoë Mode. I don’t care that she’s not a real woman. She’s still my favourite.
Women in Games: The Gamasutra 20 [Gamasutra][Pic: Game Informer]
Whether it’s creating CG liquid robots or making movies underwater, James Cameron hasn’t just pushed boundaries, he’s toppled them over and then stomped the crap outta them. His upcoming movie Avatar doesn’t sound any different! For those unfamiliar with the years off flick, the very gamey flick follows an ex-Marine’s struggle for survival on an alien planet. The title refers to the main character’s status as an avatar — human mind in an alien body. Besides creating oodles (yes, oodles) of CG alien characters to inhabit the flick, Cameron is also planning to screen the movie (and the movie based games!) in stereoscopic 3D. But what about the story? Says Cameron:
Speaking last week with Kikizo, Microsoft’s Shane Kim has been asked about the future of the Project Gotham Racing series, now that creator Bizarre have up and left. His response should help out any 360 racing fans who are yet to put 2+2 together:
…you know, we have a great internal racing studio in Turn 10, the creators of Forza Motorsport. And our goal is to roll the studio so that they can do more creative execution within the racing space. So you can imagine a future where they would develop a new version of Project Gotham Racing.
Think by this stage we’ve all stopped imagining it, and are just assuming it’s already happening.
Shane Kim Interview [Kikizo]
Japanese erotic games that feature underage characters could very well could be a thing of the past. The Japanese Diet will hear a petition for new legislation that would ban a large chunk of erotic games (and adult anime). The meat of the petition is cease the indecent portrayal of underage females. A translation of the petition reads:
Capcom have released a few news screens for Super Street Fighter II HD, showing resident angry-man Akuma as he kicks Ryu while he’s down, hulks out at a pink flamingo and gives Ken’s package a decidedly funny look. Which is a little odd, but hey, it’s the HD era now, we’ve got to put up with both the pros and cons the extra clarity affords us.
Albania-born Partizan Zejak, aged 28, and Nard Paloka, 29, have been convicted for stealing 1,440 PS3s last May from a PS3 distributor in Northampton, UK. Both Paloka and Zejak were previously employed by the distributor and now face prison sentences for the theft. Prosecuters stated that the pair were not the masterminds, but rather, used their knowlegde of the distributor’s warehouse and security. They were able to evade the security guard by telling him they were picking up a shipment. The theft was discovered later that same day. According to the Northampton Chronicle, the value of their score was £700,000, or roughly $US 1.3 million dollars. That’s alotta money! That’s alotta consoles!!
PS3s Stolen [Northampton Chronicle via PS3 Fanboy]
360 owners got a free Halo song, it’s only fair PS3 owners get a similar deal. And they are. An email just went out to PlayStation Underground members, announcing that on June 5, a “Free GoW song for Guitar Hero III” would be released. Surely this signals the beginning of a “free, exclusive track” arms race, which can only end when players are subjected to weekly updates like “The End Credits Music From Heavenly Sword” and “Bomberman Zero Main Menu: Ibiza Party Megamix”.
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Just saw a press release. For Beer Pong. On WiiWare. It’s real. Seems JV Games have determined that it’s “a game niche yet to be filled”, and that “the Wii is the perfect system to replicate the game”. There’ll be four-player multiplayer, including three-player “Speed Pong”, and there’ll be no buttons, you just swing with the Wii Remote. Best of all, Beer Pong is but the first in a series of games to be released by JV under the “Frat Party Games” label, meaning Frat Party Games: Stomach Pump and Frat Party Games: Date Rape shouldn’t be too far behind.
Wac-A-Bin-Laden! Creative Engineering, the folks behind Showbiz Pizza’s Rock-A-Fire Explosion, has created this one of a kind prototype. According to Creative Engineering:
We built one prototype of this unusual, politically motivated game in the tradition of “Wac-A-Mole”. While we have no plans to go into production, we will sell the prototype to a collector of unique games.
Besides the Bin Laden mole, the cabinet also features Hitler and Hussein moles. Shirtless man not included.
Wac-A-Bin-Ladin [Robots And Games via GameOfTheBlog]
For the week ending May 10, the top-selling, boxed-copy PC game in the US was…The Sims 2 Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff. The second best-seller? The Sims 2 Double Deluxe. You can see where this is going. Seven spots for Sims and Warcraft titles, leaving naught but scraps for the rest to fight over. Good news for 13 year-old girls and those coming late to the Warcraft party, kinda sad news for everyone else.
