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Tonight is pizza and Mr. Bean. That’s about it. (Have you see that recent Mr. Bean movie? Is it any good? We’re just watching the old TV shows.)
What you missed last night Kaz didn’t know Phil was leaving Samus in Marvel Ultimate Alliance Clone Wars DS, Wii SFIV online Kojima is ready for new things
Mmmmmmmmmmmm. Pizza! And not just any pizza, Pokémon pizza! This was ordered tonight for dinner, one regular mayonnaise covered pizza and one Pikachu pizza set. With the meal, we got a special Pokémon plastic divider and Pokémon stickers. Curious to see what the actually pies look like? That after the jump.
People of Stockton, California! Do not play Grand Theft Auto IV! Do not!! It’s turning local residents batty. According to the Stockton Record:
“My son Peter was never really aggressive, but once he got into video games, ‘GTA’ being one of them, he started to push, hit, talk back, and just become a different person,” said Stockton parent Greg Within, 46.
Stockton’s Mark Wellis, 19, said he was involved in an altercation a week after he purchased “Grand Theft Auto IV.” At the time he noticed that he had become less sensitive to violence.
Wellis doesn’t completely blame the game for his violence, but it did affect him.
This is the stuff of Pulitzers. GTAIV Criticized [Recordnet via GamePolitics]
Far Cry was developed by PC developer Crytek. Crytek made Crysis, and that game is very, very pretty. But Crytek isn’t doing Far Cry 2 — Ubisoft is! The photorealism of Crysis must be somewhat intimidating, even for Ubisoft. But the Far Cry 2 developer is going a different direction. Says the game’s art director Alex Amancio:
Very early on we knew that we wanted to go a completely different direction. Instead of going for the tropical island and trying to go for hyper realism, we changed the setting. First of all we wanted to have a really, really credible environment, but we didn’t want to replicate anybody’s vacation photos.
Probably smart. Who wants to play somebody’s vacation photos anyway?
Far Cry 2 Different [Ubisoft][Pic]
You may think there’s better things you can do with 15 minutes. Tidy your room, for example. Marinate tomorrow night’s steak dinner. Take a slightly-too-long dump while you finish a chapter in that book you’re reading. All good things, but come on, if you can spare the time for those, you can spare the time for a 15-minute walkthrough of Red Alert 3 gameplay. Construction, combat, the works.
[via Rock, Paper, Shotgun]
Seeing as the pair were running the show as far as the PlayStation brand was concerned, you’d think Kaz Hirai and Phil Harrison would have at least discussed Phil’s move to Infogrames, yes? No. Turns out big Phil’s move was as much a surprise to Kaz as it was the rest of us:
At the time, I didn’t know he was going to Atari. It was obviously a surprise when he told me he was going to move on. But, you know, it’s a small industry and he’s obviously remained in it and from his perspective, it was a great thing to move on to a new challenge.
Oh…oh Kaz. There, there. You’re still beautiful, OK? It was him, not you. Him.
Kaz Hirai interview…[Three Speech]
Some of you probably don’t care about the reviews and are going to play Metal Gear Solid 4. That’s fine. Others of you are interested in what the critics are saying. Hit the jump for selected soundbytes from Eurogamer’s impressions of the game:
Banpresto’s newest Super Robot Taisen game puts less emphasis on the the “robot taisen” and more, way more, on the “super” well… Above is the box suggestive box art for the Nintendo DS RPG Mugen no Frontier Super Robot Taisen OG Saga and an image from the in store demo. The game features lots of “boob shaking” scenes apparently and went on sale late the week. Want to see how the launch went? Hit the jump.
The PAL PlayStation Store update’s got more meat on its bone this week. While its lacking in videos, trailers and demos, it does manage three full games, which is nice. One of them, OK, it’s very, very late. Almost a year late. Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. The others are the original Rayman along with MediEvil: Resurrection, given a third lease of life as a downloadable title.
Games and Demos Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix Rayman MediEvil: Resurrection
Expansions And Add-Ons Army of Two: Veteran
Game Videos Metal Gear Solid 4: E3 2006 Trailer Overlord Raising Hell Super Stardust HD
Themes and Wallpapers Prince of Persia Prodigy Arabesque Wallpaper Prince of Persia Prodigy New Prince Wallpaper PixelJunk Monsters Wallpaper
Everything you wanted to know about Wii Fit! Well, almost. Game blog Wii Fanboy has been putting pretty much anyone on the Balance Board, trying to find out, well, we’re not quite sure, but they’ve been finding out all sorts of stuff. For example!
• Wii Fit cannot register anything smaller than ten pounds. • The shortest height you can enter is 50.8 centimetres. • The latest birth year you can enter is 2006.
The most interesting revolation? According to Wii Fanboy: “…The balance line continued to fluctuate even when a perfectly stationary object was standing on the board. This means that either the Balance Board is imprecise at such low weight, or that it’s really precise and picked up vibrations in the floor or something.” YOU DECIDE.
Wii Fit Measures My Apartment [Wii Fanboy via Joystiq]
