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 
Why Robin Makes Batman Better 
Resistance: Burning Skies: The Kotaku Review 
Harley Quinn's Revenge Is Batman: Arkham City's Bad New Ending Preoders usually aren’t necessary. Even if a game does sell out on opening day (which is rare), you’re usually looking at no longer than 3-5 days til the resupplies start hitting. So save your money. You can wait. Oh, unless it’s Fallout 3. Because if you preorder it at GameStop, then you’ll get this fancy little soundtrack sampler. It may be a good listen, it may not be, who cares! It looks great.
When we typically see director Uwe Boll, diarrhea is running the mouth with him threatening to beat up internet nerds or trashing Hollywood filmmakers. Here, he’s at Starbucks and sitting in the park and *gasp* actually saying intelligent things. Nice interview.
Interview with Uwe Boll [LoadingReadyRun Thanks everyone for sending this in!]
Ah, Afrika. Lions, savannah, misspelled (well, for me) continent names, it’s all been a little interesting since first unveiled a few years back. It’s also been terribly ambiguous. Really, we know nothing about this game. If it even is a game. What’s it all about? Can we shoot the elephants? Can we ride the elephants? Who knows (though my money’s on it being an animal sim…you ARE the elephant, etc). We’ll hopefully know soon, though, as Sony wouldn’t go putting a website for the game together without having something to tell us, would they?
Afrika [Official Site]
Square Enix’s 2007 financial statement indicates that the company is going through a rough patch. How bad are things? Apparently, there has been an internal shakedown going on. According to several company insiders, things are getting heated. Word has it that a fierce meeting was held over a month ago where the Square Enix honcho threatened to start axing employees if they didn’t (and we’re paraphrasing) “stop making games that only they wanted to play.” Wada is supposedly worried that the company’s games have become more and more insular, alienating itself from the mainstream. Granted, this is purely a rumour, but there does seem to be a huge dichotomy within the company’s products. You’ve got very, very casual Japan-only DS titles on one hand, then largely an endless stream of Final Fantasy spin-offs and remakes. Not exactly a balanced portfolio! Sure, Dragon Quest IX and Final Fantasy XIII are going to be huge, but neither game has a firm release date. Putting all your eggs in one basket, no? That, or painting oneself in a corner.
Let’s take a break from Itagaki shooting his mouth off and get back to Ninja Gaiden II, eh? And we’ll get back to it by checking out not one, not two, not even three, but four new videos for the game. Above, Mr. Hayabusa painting (a mysteriously drab-looking) Times Square red, with the other three after the jump.
A milestone. In Japan, Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that a million PS3 users have signed up for PSN accounts since the PLAYSTATION Network went live in November 2006. Every month, approximately 400,000 players access the PSN’s PLAYSTATION Store. To celebrate, Sony is giving away one thousand ¥1,000 PLAYSTATION Network Tickets for use in the PLAYSTATION Store. That’s nice of Sony!
PSN A Million [Game Watch Impress]
Nothing says support your Japanese Olympic marathon runner like a giant robot! In Ise, Mie Prefecture, a 13-foot tall Gundam statue holding a banner that well-wishes Ise’s own Mizuki Noguchi, the 2004 Olympic Marathon champ. Erected at the Takayanagi shopping centre in Ise, the Gundam encourages Noguchi to repeat her 2004 win this summer in Beijing. Nothing like some Olympic non-sequitur what-the-fuck!
Gundam Supporter [Mainichi]
Yes, the proper Sega Rally 3, for arcades. Shown off to the press in the UK over the weekend, after being tested under the dummy name “Super Challenge” for the past few months, it’ll run on Sega’s new Europa-R board, run at 60fps/720p, share much of the same assets as the recent Sega Rally Revo (nothing wrong with that) and comes with a car seat that’s just downright classy. As a bonus, it’s even got the desert track from the original Sega Rally. Exciting. It should be turning up in European arcades as you read this (having been developed by Sega’s now-gone Racing Studio), with “the team hoping for international releases to follow”.
Sega Rally 3: Hands-on impressions [Arcade Heroes, via DemonCleaner @ NeoGAF]
Move over Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski. Rush Hour franchise helmer Brett Ratner wants to make movies based on video games, too! His interest seems piqued after working on a few ad-type spots for Activision’s Guitar Hero. According to Ratner:
The games business is much more exciting than the movie business right now. I will be doing movies that come from video games.
Cue line about Hollywood unable to make good game movies. Brett Ratner Bows Branding [Variety via Go Nintendo][Pic]
To: Ashcraft From: Ashcraft
Ah, yes, you just woke up. Sleep, isn’t it WUNDERFUL?! Over the weekend, you and Mini-Bash took your buddy from high school to Shinsekai in Osaka, watched old men rock the cup sake at 10am and ate some seriously good kushikatsu. Last night before you slept, you downloaded a Heatmiser album. You should listen to it. Today, even!
What you missed last night Game Boy from microwave hell $US 600,000 Gundam painting Square Enix lose money, need more greenbacks Final Fantasy Agito XIII cancelled? Gatorade, Windex compared. Talk of 3D action games
