Three Words I Said To The Man I Defeated In Gears Of War That I'll Never Say Again 
New Doom 3 For Xbox 360 And PlayStation 3 Supports Head-Mounted Displays 
Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land 
Why Robin Makes Batman Better 
Resistance: Burning Skies: The Kotaku Review 
Harley Quinn's Revenge Is Batman: Arkham City's Bad New Ending Great, another unnecessary name change for a Nintendo game in Australia! Earlier this year, Advance Wars: Days of Ruin was renamed Advance Wars: Dark Conflict down under, for no reason. Now, Animal Crossing: City Folk is getting the same treatment! The game’s listing on the Office of Film & Literature Classification has it titled Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City. Maybe “City Folk” sounded too American for Nintendo Australia. Maybe it sounded too much like “City Fuck” for the trigger-happy classification board. Who knows. We certainly don’t.
OFLC [via Go Nintendo]
Back in August, we brought word of how tough beating Final Fantasy XI boss Pandemonium Warden was. Guild BeyondTheLimitation called it quits after 18 hours of combat against that boss. That was the only unnecessarily hard boss — Absolute Virtue has also been giving players headaches. Square Enix responded with a series of changes to the MMO “to prevent such battles from exceeding a certain predetermined length of time”. A group of players brandishing super rare Kraken Club took down Absolute Virtue, the other impossible boss that supposedly takes 18 hours to kill, in like a minute. Hit the jump for a clip of the take down, complete with Smashing Pumpkins.
Oh boy, Rock Revolution for the Wii. With Guitar Hero and Rock Band solidifying the upper echelon of music console gaming, and with Wii Music looking more like it’s geared toward a much younger audience, where does Konami’s new game fit? Well, right in the middle, in fact. But in this case, I’m not so sure that’s necessarily a good thing. There was a demo set up at Nintendo’s party on Friday. There were no Konami representatives on hand, and the game was tucked away behind a pillar of DS games. Is that a good sign?
Logan has left the building, and a spanking new Editor has yet to claim his seat. So for the next few weeks I’ll be manning the parapets with a little help from Tony Stark. Comic/movie version, not game version.
Some of you may remember me from another Allure blog. Or from the Courier Mail weekly games section last year (pre Logan). Or Hyper. Most of you probably don’t care — just bring the games noise!
It’ll just take a little work to get up to warp speed on the technical side of this beast, but I’ll be bringing you your usual feast of game goodness day in, day out, until your shiny new game freak hits the desk.
I never really took notice of Mushroom Men until I saw the announcement stating bassist Les Claypool would be providing music tracks for the game. I was intrigued to say the least, and I finally got a chance to get some hands-on time with it over the weekend. Lead Programmer James Clarendon of Red Fly Studios was also on hand to talk a bit about the development process. The main point he hammered home to me was how much this game was intent on bringing back the hardcore Wii audience.
EA Take-Two: The wedding’s off Hollywood couplings never turn out well. I hope the breakup sex was appropriately steamy.
‘Muslim Massacre’ creator tucks tail, apologises Considering how crass the game was, the apology is well considered and kind of classy.
Jenny McCarthy talking ‘Bout Tanya Jenny McCarthy talking ’bout anything… seriously, I’m in it for the talking.
Forbes: Spore Downloaded 35k Times Wed-Thurs I wonder how many illegal downloads are by people who paid up but wanted a DRM-free version.
The Resident Evil Activity Book for Kids A good laugh to start your week.
GTA IV Not Meeting Sales Expectations? You see, they’ve only sold a meagre 8.5 million units. So that’s another 5.91 billion people who don’t own it yet.
Some of these sound almost gratuitous — connect to two screens? Neah, never had a need for that. But TechRadar compiled a list of 10 tricks/hacks for you to extract more functionality out of your 360. Probably the most useful is No. 4 — how to play Xbox 360 games online for free, without any Live account at all. It involves setting up a free app that tricks the console into thinking the Internet is a LAN. It’s said to work, with some limitations. There’s also a hack that lets you use any HDMI cable you want, with a little work.
I had the distinct honour and pleasure of interviewing Mark-Paul Gosselaar at Nintendo’s party Friday night. Of course we talked a lot about video games, from his personal favs to what he’s looking forward to the most. He’s quite the gamer, if you didn’t know. Unsurprisingly, he’s a big fan of music games, but he dropped this shocking announcement. The former front man of the legendary band Zack Attack is looking for a singer to complete his Rock Band group. He’d prefer a female, but describes that possibility turning into a stressful situation.
Friend codes on the Wii are enough of a pain in the arse for casual titles that those anticipating the few multiplayer FPSes on the console — like, say, The Conduit — are positively dreading what they’d do to that online experience. Exchanging codes with one friend is bad enough. Sixteen? Oh, lawd.
Electronic Arts has ended its nearly seven month long bid to takeover Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive, the company announced today. The two have remained quiet on the potential acquisition by EA, agreeing to keep ongoing discussions private in August after EA was rebuffed as a buyer multiple times.
