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Harley Quinn's Revenge Is Batman: Arkham City's Bad New Ending During the 60th annual Emmy Awards, the writers of Saturday Night Live decided to use Mii versions of themselves during an Emmy presentation. Nifty!
SNL comedy writers appear as Nintendo Mii’s for the Emmys [Gaming Nexus via Go Nintendo]
Hey, it’s Ice-T! And if you can get through 2:40 of inane talk about “the game”, you’ll get to 2:41, the topic changes to Call of Duty 4, and he gets his shit talk on. He’ll tell you his gamertag. He’ll tell you he’s a Call of Duty 4 BEAST. Take him on. On 360. Just don’t hit the prestige button. Don’t hit the “play” button if you’re at work, either.
Ah, yes, Yuko Ogura. Currently the owner of a meat house chain, the bikini model was the former “face character” for SEGA Japan. She also claims to be from outer space and speaks with a phony high pitched voice! (Supposedly this is her real voice.)
A Japanese TV clip shows the customisation possibilities for PS3 exclusive White Knight Chronicles — that yes, it’s even possible to make a Yuko Ogura avatar. That, after the jump.
The future of Rock Band’s release in Australia has long been up in the air. We’ve heard that it was coming late, that it wasn’t coming at all, all kinds of things. Today, the wait/conjecture can finally be put to rest, with EA confirming that the game will indeed be seeing an official Australian release. And only a year after the American one! The game will be out on November 7, and – we’re guessing because EA are now shipping Rock Band 2 elsewhere and have some leftover bundles lying around – it’s going to be a lot cheaper than expected. While Europeans were kicked in the nuts, left with both outrageous pricing and quirky bundling options, Australia will be getting the all-in-one box for a “reasonable” AUD$250 (USD$208).
Also available will be a drums-and-game bundle for AUD$180 and a guitar-and-game bundle for AUD$140 (which matches Guitar Hero’s pricing). As for the standalone game, it’ll be AUD$100 on 360 and PS3, AUD$90 on Wii and AUD$70 on PS2. It’s claimed 200 songs will be ready for download when it does launch, so it looks like most – if not all – of the Rock Band Store will be making the jump down under as well.
Voting time! Our imagery Tales of Vesperia boxart contest has drawn to a close, and it’s now time to pick a winner. We got some many good entries and much love to all who entered. Click through the gallery of the twenty or so finalists. Click on the image you like best and write “I vote for this” in the comments under that specific pic — and not in the comment section below. You have 24 hours to vote only once.
The winner will receive a copy of the game as well as ENDLESS ADORATION.
You know, I’m not gonna try to guess the viral marketing policies or in-house/contractor authorizations of Electronic Arts to determine if this really does constitute EA taking potshots at Blizzard. But that is undeniably the actors J.K. Simmons (President Ackerman) and Jonathan Pryce (Field Marshall Bingham, on the jump) and they’re calling out other RTSes, specifically ones set in space, so, sounds to me like Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 is talking shit to StarCraft players, perhaps Star Trek: Online.
These are part of a series of videos (one above, two more on the jump that have been posted as replies to other videos on YouTube, in some cases unrelated, so there’s your viral aspect. The uploaders, RedWhiteBlueAlert and ThrowingStarz both joined in the past week, so, likely viral. And remember that Battlefield: Bad Company, also an EA title, took a few swings at its competition too.
Swear, I’m not turning Sundays on Kotaku into Pastor Owen’s Hour of Power. GamePolitics found a discussion on the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (Lutherans: no serpent handling, but one hell of a fish fry) that asks whether virtual killin’ — suicide included — is a sin in the eyes of God.
Answer: Not reeeeally. God’s more considered with you making a huge waste of the time He gave you on Earth.
The rights of ‘avatars’ — more to the point, the people who control them and their virtual assets — is an interesting and murky part of legal issues, EULAs, and player-company relations. Court cases have been tried over ‘illegal’ seizing of assets, and with the amount of time (and money) that people pour into their online characters and assets, we can expect to see more and more real-world legal problems related to virtual issues. But are companies on the ball?:
Both wear some of gaming’s most impractical outfits, according to GamesRadar. Actually, the news here is that vampy sex costumes account for only 2 of the 9 making the list, and women account for a total of four. Considering GamesRadar’s track record on the subject, this counts as enlightenment. They point out that Arthur in Ghosts ‘N Goblins goes scanty-pants more frequently and for more gratuitous reasons than Ivy of Soulcalibur, although I guess 8-bit graphics of the day couldn’t incorporate realistic ball-sway or pec jiggle to make this truly a case of gender-agnostic sexploitation. Anyway, there’s booby in this (including Kratos’ moobs), so I’ve done my job. (Sorry Maggie). But yeah, a plumber’s getup is absolutely not fit for the hostile vacuum of space.
Gaming’s Most Impractical Outfits [GamesRadar]
Among everything else going on at the Austin GDC, an interesting panel took place on the issue of changing business models in MMOs — Free To Play has an easy to read, to the point summation of the panel, which included Robert Ferrari of Turbine (LOTRO), Hilmar Veigar Petursson of CCP (EVE Online), Nicolay Nickelsen of Funcom (Age of Conan), and Min Kim of Nexon (MapleStory). Unsurprisingly, it included discussion of the revenue models — subscription versus free to play — as well as potential audiences:
