Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Damn, Japanese Beef Is Tasty

11:40PM Brian Ashcraft | To: Crecente From: Ashcraft I have been up since 4 this morning and am TOTALLY BLOTTO. But! Good new, I have steak tonight, Japanese beef. Big, fat steak. We all had steaks, and they were something like $AU 31.62 a steak. The in-laws came by today and had lunch. They brought meat. Delicious meat. What you missed last night FFXIII still PS3 only UT3 box talks Gears 2 exclusive stuff Rose and Camellia are back JT transcript Konami cancels Akihabara MGS4 event Microsoft 360 RPG screenshoot blowout Meat after the jump. More »

Capcom ‘Had No Choice’ But To Set RE5 In Africa. Apparently.

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Square Enix Event Confirms That, Yep, FFXIII’s Still PS3 Only

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Akihabara Killing To Cause Japanese Internet Regulation?

10:40PM Brian Ashcraft | It’s been several days since tragedy hit Akihabara. While the internet is having its own grinning nerd witch hunt, the Japanese media is having its own. Standard defaults are bandied about (video games, anime). Website Canned Dogs has a handy recap: More »

Xbox 360 Credit Card Rarer, Better Than Diner’s Club

10:20PM Luke Plunkett | Charge your MS points to this and watch time and space tear themselves apart. As part of their ongoing attempts to convince Indians to part with their cash and embrace the 360, Microsoft have teamed up with local bank ICICI to offer the Xbox 360 Visa card. Besides giving fanboys the chance to show their fanboy colours to…shop assistants and waiters, it actually seems a pretty sweet deal, since signing up for the card entitles you to 360-related discounts, like discounts on games and peripherals, including 10% off controllers and 15% off…Kameo. Xbox 360 Credit Card [Redington, via Siliconera] More »

Britain Gets Itself An Early Street Fighter IV Hands-On

8:30PM Luke Plunkett | Unless you’re a die-hard fighting game nut (and British), you probably weren’t planning on popping round to the Battle of Destiny fighting game tournament next month. Shame. Because by not attending you’re not only missing out on a chance to play Street Fighter II HD early, but you’re missing out on a chance to play the arcade version of Street Fighter IV early as well. Oh, so you’ve changed your mind? Fancy that. It’s on July 26 & 27, at the London Metropolitan Uni. The Battle Of Destiny [via Capcom] More »

Ninja Theory Thinks It Could Make Beowulf Cheaper, Way Cheaper

8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Film Beowulf was sure expensive to make! The CG-laden flick was budgeted around $AU 158.08 million — not exactly chump change. Heavenly Sword developer Ninja Theory thinks it could have done the flick cheaper. Twenty percent of the cost, actually! Oh ho ho ho. Let’s hear what Ninja Theory’s Tameem Antoniades has to say: We see an entirely different area of progress: a form of independent production based on real-time game engine technology. We reckon you could do something like Beowulf for 15-20 per cent of the cost… If you are already creating hi-res assets for a game, then sharing these can bring that cost down even further… We have a lot of experience in performance capture, animation, rendering and so on. We can compete in the same way that indie films can live alongside blockbusters. 20 percent of the cost is dandy and all, Ninja Theory, but would your film have Angelina Jolie? Well. Make Beowulf [Games Industry] More »