To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: PAX Road Trip: The Washington Edition
Live in LA? Drive an automobile? Call it gas, and not petroleum? Oh boy is this your lucky day. Starting at 6am today (so SOON), the Mobil at 8489 Beverly Blvd will be taken over by EA. They’ll be there to shill Mercenaries 2. There’ll be attendants dressed up as mercenaries, there’ll probably be all kinds of various promotion materiel lying around, but most important of all: there’ll be free gas. Yup. Free. Gas. There’s a statement to be had about gas, American consumer culture and the resource-driven conflict that drives Mercenaries 2′s storyline somewhere in all this, but really, it’ll be lost amidst the fact EA are practically giving away money.
Cooking Mama sure can cook. Might want to get her to cook your books, Majesco, as the company today received a formal warning notice from the NASDAQ Stock Exchange. The exchange has rules, and one of those rules is that shares in a company can’t trade at under $1.00 for 30 days in a row. Majesco’s have been trading at under $1.00 for 30 days now, so they’ve got this warning, along with a condition that if they can’t get it back over $1.00 by February 2009, they might get themselves delisted from the stock exchange. A fate which is probably a lot more awful than it sounds.
That’s a screen from DS title Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword. Maybe you’ve seen it, maybe not. It refers to a book on monsters called Yokai Attack!. That’s a real book! Look, it exists right here — they wrote it. See, when ninjy translators Matt Alt (a “robot otaku”) and Hiroko Yoda (a Facebook revolutionary) localised the game, they translated the original Japanese text and an “encyclopedia of yokai”. But, when they saw the final product, they noticed that the game’s localisation director Andrew Szymanski had changed it to Yokai Attack in honour of Alt and Yoda’s book.
Whoah, little late on the post-E3 navel-gazing aren’t we, Will? That’s OK. Spore’s probably been keeping you very busy. Anyway, Wright’s message is a little different from the usual “love it/hate it” thing. He’s just sad that it’s dead and doesn’t know it.
Yesterday saw the release of To LOVEru, which follows he adventures of a high school boy and an alien girl named Lala who one days appears out in his home of nowhere buck naked. Besides the been-there-touched-that mini-games, the DS title also features a milk squirting mini-game. Players must squirt condensed milk on a strawberry Lala is holding.
Earlier today, we first broke the news that Square Enix had plans to takeover beleaguered game company Tecmo. At the ensuing press conference, Square Enix president Yoichi Wada revealed that this friendly takeover offer wasn’t as sudden as it appears.
Those who have finished Metal Gear Solid 4 know: Complete the game and you get access to a screen where you can enter passwords. We’ve shown you some of these before (here and here). Enter skynytktjp and get Mk.II scanning plug. Enter mgo2play and get SUBSISTENCE ACTION for the in-game iPod. So there you go.
Look at the North American PlayStation Store update. Go on, take a good look at it. Now look at this European one. Aside from the obligatory absence of timely Rock Band content, can you see much of a difference? At least in the important stuff? Don’t bother, there isn’t one. The Last Guy is there. The Warhawk pack is there. Heck, the PAL store even gets a few extras, like Medal of Honour Heroes 2 on PSP. Not often you see this kind of parity between the stores, PAL users, so be sure to make the most of it!
So there’s a new Indiana Jones game hitting the DS and the PSP called Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings. While the PEGI rating for the game was vague, we have learned more details about the yet unannounced game.
