Will it blend? OLD NEWS. So 2007. This year, it’s all about will it shred. That’s the question SSI are asking. SSI make commercial-grade shredders. These things don’t shred incriminating tax documents. They shred machines. Watch, then, as one of their units goes up against a genuine Asteroids arcade cabinet, in an effort to see which of the two will come out on top. Just…don’t put your money on Asteroids walking away from this one.
Watch a commercial shredder devour an Asteroids cabinet [Boing-Boing]
Microsoft does not have a handheld device, which, you know, probably is a good thing! Why? It can put games on the Nintendo DS and get its brands out to people who may not or may never own an Xbox 360. Take Viva Piñata, which is getting DS title Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise. Microsoft-owned developer Rare has been working on the title as well as other DS games like Diddy Kong Racing DS. Says Rare’s Joe Humfrey:
How do you improve on what’s probably the best game ever made? You make it bigger. Badder. More woman-slappier. Yes, Rose & Camellia is back, this time as Rose & Camellia 2, featuring all-new ladies, all new stages and all-new woman-slapping action. It’s great! So great there’s a catch: you’ve got to finish R&C1 first (the shockwave version, linked below) to gain access to it. A little harsh, perhaps, but the bigger the reward the tougher the toil.
Rose & Camellia 2 [Nigoro, via IndieGames]
Earlier this month, we reported that Jack Thompson walked out of his disciplinary hearing after saying the judge did not have the authority to hear his case. The Florida Bar is recommending that Thompson be disbarred for a minimum of ten years for professional misconduct. So! For those who was a blow-by-blow retelling of the fireworks, game site GamePolitics has the full court transcript. There’s this nuttiness:
Any of you use Google Reader for your RSS needs? I do. Mostly because I can access it from any PC, and it’s super-easy to use. Anyway, enough of the free advertising! Seems somebody at Google HQ is a fan of the ol’ Konami code, because it’s been found that if you open up your Google Reader and punch in the code on your keyboard (with arrow keys for direction), you’ll get a neat – if tough on the eyes – little treat.
Google hearts the Konami code [CrunchGear, via Boing Boing]
Metal Gear Solid 4 is a Sony product smorgasbord! The game has Snake using a SIXAXIS controller, Otacon talking up the power of Blu-ray. Not to mention the in-game Sony cell phone! Now, add the PSP to the list of Sony product cross promotion. Bet Sony thinks it’s a shame Kojima Productions chose to have MGS4 include an iPod and not a Walkman. (Bet Sony thinks it’s a shame nobody buys Walkmans!)
Hey, You Put A PSP [PSP Fanboy]
OK, that wooden, scrap-ey sound you hear? It’s the bottom of Metal Gear’s barrel being scraped. This fifth (and surely final) look back on the Metal Gear series deals with some of less noted, more (and this is a relative term) forgettable titles, like Portable Ops, card-battler AC!D and the Game Boy’s wacky Ghost Babel.
Ohhh. Infamous! For the PS3! It was announced a year ago, then promptly forgotten, because as much good will as I have towards Sucker Punch (Sly Cooper), the thought of another current-gen action game set in another current-gen world of ruins and muted colours just leaves me feeling…grey. Particularly when the story sounds like Ex Machina, only without the snappy business suits. Still, that’s me being terribly judgemental based on naught but a piece of art and some setting details: the full details on the game, to be revealed in the next Game Informer, may see me doing a complete 180 on the subject!
July Issue Revealed! [Game Informer]
More balls! More Dragon Balls! Cactuargal points out that these GLOWING Dragon Balls are see-thru and pretty true to the Earth size of a Dragon Ball. To bring everyone up to speed: Make a Dragon Ball. The best damn Dragon Ball you can! It cannot be drawn or virtual — it must be an actual three dimension Dragon Balls. Now! If you don’t know what Dragon Balls look like, you can click here. While the Dragon Balls you make should look like actual Dragon Balls, feel free to get creative with what you use to make them. The contest wraps up later this month. The finalists will win either the PS3 version or Xbox 360 version of Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit. Be sure to send entries to kotakucontestATgmailDOTcom and include a Kotaku sign. Losers get INTERNET FAME.
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Speaking at the Piper Jaffray Consumer Conference, the square-Jawed and wonderfully-named Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick let rip on EA Sports, choosing his fight, and his words, super-carefully:
When we go head-to-head with ‘Brand X’ we out-rate them significantly…We outsell them when we go head-to-head. It’s sort of an unheralded achievement. This is a tough business.
On one hand, he’s right! 2K’s basketball and hockey games are normally top-shelf, and they’ve got baseball to themselves. But the “head-to-head” bit…yeah, it’s dancing around that elephant in the room. 2K don’t have an NFL game in the US. They don’t have a football game in Europe/Asia. That’s like saying my 92 Corolla can take on a Ferrari head-to-head, so long as we’re going off the number of wheels and doors and not, you know. Racing.
2K Sports unheralded against EA Sports, says Zelnick [GI.biz]
