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High Scores And Egos: There's Always A Bigger Doodle According to a report from newspaper La Vanguardia, by way of GamePolitics and Google’s Spanish to English translator, Spain’s cabbies are calling for a ban on Grand Theft Auto — Grand Theft Auto IV, we presume. After a Thai teenager was arrested on suspicion of murdering a taxi driver, claiming to have been inspired by GTA, the game was pulled from shelves in Thailand.
Now, Josep Maria Goñi, secretary general of the Catalan Taxi Federation, is asking the Spanish government to do the same, citing the Thai murder case.
We’re going to make an arse out of ourselves and assume that Mr. Goñi knows as much as the Grand Theft Auto series as just about everyone else in his position and hope that cabbie murder hysteria blows over before it gives the series a bad rap. We can’t have our games being scapegoated for society’s ills, now. What a horrible precedent that would set.
Spanish Cabbies Want GTA Banned in Wake of Thai Taxi Murder [Game Politics]
Two of Atlus’ best publishing efforts from the PlayStation 2 era are getting the Greatest Hits treatment, with Odin Sphere and Disgaea: Hour of Darkness. The latter of those two took an impressive five years and change to receive the coveted $US 19.99 price drop and dreaded red bar. We’re not complaining, as all PlayStation 2 owners should give these titles a whirl at these low, low prices. We’re just sort of shocked that someone at SCEA remembered Disgaea existed.
Both titles will have their box arts slightly shrunk and their street value hit rock bottom this September in North America. Congrats to both.
Call of Duty’s never really done co-op before. Which has been disappointing. Chin up though, kids! Call of Duty: World At War will feature co-op, and this trailer shows you how it’s all going to work. We’re promised this is all proper in-game footage as well, for those who care about such formalities.
Electronics Arts is going to represent big at the Leipzig Games Convention this year. It’s bringing something like three zillion titles to the event by our count, titles like Dragon Age, Dead Space and Mirror’s Edge to name but a few. While we’ve seen a good portion of these titles at E3 and pre-E3 events, we’re going to see two unannounced games, something we’re sure to learn more about at EA’s Games Convention press conference.
The better news is that, despite our previous hands-on time with games like Left 4 Dead and Crysis Warhead, we’re going to see all new areas and content. Plus we’re going to pester developers for nuggets of info and embarrassing quotes that will come back to haunt them.
We’re looking at you Gabe Newell. Hit the jump for the full list — minus two — of what EA’s bringing to Leipzig.
Atlantian knitter Cassie has committed to knitting more than just a scarf. She’s planning on knitting the entirety of Super Mario Bros. first level in yarn form, a project she’s documenting for all of the internet to see. According to a recent post, it looks like she’s a little over one-third of the way through — and it’s already bordering on ridiculous. We’ll continue to gawk just to see how big this thing gets as we learn about yarn colour discrepancies.
Gamecock checked in with us today to date Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball, the Blazing Lizard developed, Gamecock published game that some of us might have already thought was out. Obviously, it hasn’t been released, as it was delayed back in April, and is now due to hit Xbox Live Arcade on September 3.
In the meantime, the dev team has added new features, such as having up to five balls in play at once, an “old-school” dodgeball gameplay mode and an enhanced mode that follows traditional rules, but lets players — whether they be pirate, ninja, zombie or robot — use special moves.
You can check out our hands-on impressions of Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball to see the title sounds better or worse than the game’s current dodgeball competition.
I’ve been pouring over all of the games and applications pouring into the iPhone App Store since it launched. It’s actually a sort of OCD nightly ritual. I’m not sure why I’m so obsessed with them and I rarely buy any.
Since day one, one of the apps I’ve been on the look out for was the inevitable Xbox Live app. It only makes since that someone would throw together a little program that allows gamers to check out their Xbox Live friend’s list when they’re on the go. Today such an app popped up.
The good news is that for 99 cents iXboxLive allows you to check out your buddy list, see what they are doing, their gamer pic, score, reputation and location. You can even see a list of their recent games, including a breakdown of gamerscores and when they last played the title.
The bad news, well the bad news is pretty significant.
Well, this sucks. Atari says the company plans to “turn up the summer heat” at the Leipzig Games Convention this year. Unfortunate, because the Leipziger Messe can get sweaty, something Fahey and I aren’t going to appreciate when we’re perspiring pure Pilsner.
How’s Atari affecting climate change in Leipzig this year? Hot(t) games, of course! They’ll be showing lots of stuff, including What’s Cooking? with Jamie Oliver for Nintendo DS, My Horse and Me 2 for Wii and DS, The Witcher Enhanced Edition and Alone in the Dark for the PlayStation 3.
If that’s not already giving you pit stains, Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3 and Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit will also be there, increasing the spiked hair factor by 9000 percent. Hopefully, Phil Harrison will be there and we can creep him the fuck out one more time. For the full list, hit the press release, after the jump.
You want third party software sales data for the Wii? You got it. The always helpful, always ready with a sales charts folks at Nintendo have provided us with a handy line graph showing off the success that third parties have had on its console. It’s devoid of confusing first-party data, which mucks up the numbers, and “demonstrates that third parties on Wii are tracking ahead of both PS3 and 360″.
On display are the first nineteen months of each console’s lifecycle. That impressive upward tick on the blue line — the Wii line — starts its ascent right around the time that Guitar Hero III made its way to the Wii platform. Now who says third party games don’t sell on the Wii? Oh, everyone who’s not Activision? Well, zip it.
I just can’t tell about this game. Some of the elements, like chain lighting that actually moves between metal objects, and the free climbing, sound very intriguing. But watching it all play out, inFamous still looks like a third-person shooter with unusual weapons. I do like that you can revive people with a jolt, that’s a nice twist.
