Numbers time! Japanese game site Dengeki Online is running results of a poll that was composed of 86.3 percent men and 13.7 percent women with an average age of 25.46 years old. Questions included things like “Have you cried during gaming?” or “What game are you looking forward to?” In the poll, three of the games that made Japanese gamers cry are “adult visual novels” — two of them are erotic game ports and one is a straight up PC erotic game. That’s not that surprising as many Japanese gamers do play erotic games for the story. No, really.
Today the new PSP-3000 went on sale in Japan. Website PC Watch got its hands on one and instead of using it to play video games (been there, done that), it ripped it up into iddy-biddy pieces (neato). Click through the gallery to check out the hardware porn — rather, dissected hardware porn. PSP-3000ハードウェアレビュー [Game Watch Impress]
For the past, oh, year or two, EA have been trying to change. Trying to shed that nasty image of the ruthless, money-hungry publishing giant. And they’re slowly, oh so slowly, succeeding! Sure, that has a lot to do with Activision emerging as an even more evil company, but it also has to do with EA’s new focus on internal IP, which is bringing us games like Army of Two, Dead Space and Mirror’s Edge. Part of that new focus is in the area of quality control, boss John Riccitiello telling Gamasutra:
In early September, Tecmo rejected Square Enix’s “friendly takeover” over. Tecmo is currently in the process of merging with Japanese game maker Koei. Kenji Matsubara, Koei president, described how the merger between his company and Tecmo was initiated:
The XBLA version of Portal – Portal: Still Alive – will be with us soon. In an attempt to drum up support for a game that most of you already own in some form or another, the XBLA version will feature new achievements. Twelve of them (it’s a little unclear whether these are all of them or just some) have been revealed by Microsoft, and they run from the easy (“Dissolve a Turret”) to the not-so-easy (“Complete the game without ever taking a bullet”). If you’re interested in seeing whether these will get you to buy the game again, the full list is after the jump.
Xbox 360 title Lips isn’t just a singing game. It’s much more. Keiichi Yano (pictured), co-founder of Lips developer iNiS, points out that the game is interactive in a way singing games haven’t been previously. Yanno explains:
Hear that chime? It’s the box art clock. And it just struck box art o’clock. On offer today is the art for the Uncharted PS3 bundle, which will see one of the console’s finest titles stuffed in with a 160GB PS3, a DualShock 3 and a voucher for PSN title PAIN. It’ll be out next month, will cost you $US500, and if you like fun and think you’ll be downloading movies on the PS3, there are plenty worse ways to be introduced to the console.
Excited about the Max Payne movie? Don’t be says Australian writer Latauro at movie site Ain’t It Cool News. While the film’s stars, such as actor Mark Wahlberg, have praised the script, the early buzz around the film is anything but praiseworthy. From the AICN review:
Because the kids can’t get enough miniature plastic replicas of replica rock stars from a replica rock n’ roll game. Due in stores next February, McFarlane’s line of “Guitar Hero Rockers” are 2-inch, stylised versions of the game’s main characters, and will be bundled in pairs. If your quarterly quota of McFarlane/Guitar Hero plastic merchandise hasn’t been filled by February, they should cost you around $US7. Check ‘em out here
