To: Fahey From: Bash RE: A PlayStation 3 Reborn
Oh nice! Good to get use out of the things you purchase.
Bright and early tomorrow, Indy IV is *finally* opening in Japan, and as I mentioned earlier, Mini-Bash and I are going to see it. Bracing myself for the worst! (Hoping for the best.) The one thing I really, really, really hate about Japan is that movies take donkey’s yonks to get here. Like man, I’d kinda like to see Iron Man or The Hulk.
At least they subtitle the movies here… Hate dubbing!
What you missed last night Standalone MGO? Real Niko Bellic Alone in the Dark review legal mess Game reviewers seven deadly sins BioShock PC’s DRM gone More Max Payne movie The Cliffster fixing up Gears of War 2
Earlier in the week, a massive pre-E3 leak sprung, flooding the internet with what seems like future Microsoft announcements. But apparently the company has more up its sleeve! According to Microsoft ladies man Aaron Greenberg:
We have not announced all of our line-up yet for 2008 but will provide more details at E3 next month… Xbox 360 will continue to be the home to blockbuster games and the most exclusives… By the end of the year we will have over 1,000 games available for Xbox 360, which will be 2-3 times more than any other platform.
Bet Greenberg says that to all the girls.
Microsoft Promises More New Games [GamePro via Videogamer]
We haven’t posted a Haruhi Suzumiya dance clip recently. For good reason, because we’ve already posted tons. Too many actually! Haruhi overload!! Because of that, the bar for Haruhi dance clips is high. Few things can effortlessly jump over that bar as Pikachu can. Quality stuff, this.
Though it’s been public knowledge for a while now, nobody has really seen or heard much about Multiwinia, the upcoming multiplayer edition of Introversion’s brilliant strategy title Darwinia. Have now! RPS’ Kieron Gillen has had a sit-down with the game, which can be best summed up with “It’s an RTS cut back to its core essentials – you can file it next to World in Conflict, but even pacier”. Works for me. Those interested in seeing how exactly the whole thing works – and how it looks – pop on over the Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
Capcom has announced two new characters for upcoming fighter Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes. The game will feature Batsu Ichimonji from Capcom 2-on-2 fighter Rival Schools. (Interesting side note: Batsu was slated to appear in canceled 3D arcade fighter Capcom Fighting All-Stars!) On the Tatsunoko side, space knight Tekkaman will be slicing and dicing. Looks hot!
New Tatsunoko vs. Capcom Fighters [Dengeki]
It’s happened far too many times for me to recount, or even try and dig out links to them, but it usually goes a little something like this: someone finds a rating on the ESRB’s website for a game nobody has heard of, and suddenly, its cover is blown. Developers are sad. PR types are making frowny faces. We’re left with an announcement, but no details or screens. It’s a common occurence, and also one about to be scrubbed out, as – at the behest of publishers – the ESRB are introducing a new means of submitting a game for rating, whereby publishers can request to have a title’s entry in their database kept hidden until a specified date (obviously until the PR team announces it themselves). Score one for the marketing guys!
ESRB Reins In Premature Game Leaks [Next-Gen]
According a new study (yet another!) there’s an age difference between the customers who purchase the Xbox 360 and the PS3. The study, from Experian Consumer Research, states that the Xbox 360 appeals most to gamers 35-44 years-old, while the PS3 appeals to folks 45 years-old and up. And the Wii? According to the study, that console appeals to those aged 18-24 years-old. The control group apparently was made up of “new media respondents” (bwah?) who were defined as those who spend more than an hour online each week. No real surprises in this data, huh.
Who Are The Customers [The Earth Times via PS3 Fanboy][Pic]
That didn’t take long! The team behind the Twilight Princess save-game exploit on the Wii – which Nintendo just “fixed” with their recent update to 3.3 – have already found a way to get past the fix. To be honest there’s a tonne of technical jibberish behind it that I just do not understand, but the gist seems to be that the update sought out exploited TP save files and nixed them, while these guys have found a way to tell the update to ignore exploited TP saves. That’s progress for ya.
June 16 Wii update [HackMii]
In Japan, lots of video games get turned into pachinko or pachislot machines. No biggie! SNK, Sega and Konami have all spun off selected titles into pachinko parlours across the country. So when a rumour popped up that Square Enix was doing the same for Final Fantasy XIII, it did seem possible that, yes, Japan would be getting a FFXIII pachinko machine. No way! says Square Enix. In an official statement, the company says:
That is completely false information. Regarding FF, our company works very hard every day so that everyone can enjoy it as a game. There is currently no development being made [to bring FF to pachinko/pachi-slot machines] .
Good, because Square Enix needs to focus on FFXIII and not other stuff.
『FFXIII』がパチンコ、パチスロに？” [Famitsu]
