Saturday, November 8, 2008
Link vs Resident Evil IV
3:30PM Luke Plunkett | Saving Hyrule is easy. No guns in Hyrule. No flesh-eating, half-alien Spanish zombies, either, or mechanical statues fashioned in the form of a fiery Mediterranean midget. More »
So, How Long Do Sony And Microsoft’s Approvals Processes Take?
2:30PM Luke Plunkett | You’ll see it mentioned all the time when talk of game delays or patches comes up. “Oh, we’re just waiting on the approvals process”, or “we’re just waiting for the patch to be certified, then we’re good to go”. Those kind of excuses/explanations sound great from the developers end, but to us? It’s meaningless, because we have no idea how long those processes take. Or, we didn’t. We have at least some idea now, thanks to the always-helpful “Ask Capcom” letters section the company runs every week. More »
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GTA IV Keys To The City Are Surprisingly Fancy
1:40PM Luke Plunkett | If you got GTAIV on or just after its release, managed to rack up a 100% completion percentage and got one of those “return within seven days” emails, congratulations. You were one of the first people to “complete” the game, and earned yourself a prize. If you took the time to read that email, you’d have noticed that Rockstar warned it could take up to 120 days for your prize – a “key” to Liberty City – to arrive, depending on how many they had to make. Guess they had to make a ton of them, because they’re only now, in November, shipping out to the winners. Reader MastaKwaa was one of the lucky ones, and his just turned up in the mail. If you’re a fellow winner, yours will be there soon, and will look like this. If you weren’t a winner, here’s what you could have got yourself if you were a winner, and not a loser. More »
As Expected, Copyrighted Songs Are Disappearing From Guitar Hero: World Tour
1:20PM Luke Plunkett | Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Despite, well, warnings that they just wouldn’t stand for anybody creating then sharing real songs over Guitar Hero: World Tour’s song creation utility, people went ahead and did it anyway. During the game’s first week on sale, the GH Tunes “store” was littered with recreations of game tunes like the theme to Mario. And the theme to Zelda. You get the idea. Well, those are now gone. And the others that are still there – like tunes from Final Fantasy and Sonic – probably won’t be there much longer, either. Our advice? Get creative with those song titles. “Sonic Theme” is no good. But “Baby Stole My Heart And Stashed It In Green Hill Zone”? More subtle. Might get in under the radar. More »
Obama On All Your Base Are Belong To Us: ‘Bwah?’
1:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Out of all the things one could talk with President-Elect Obama, someone apparently brought up this: “All your base are belong to us.” That’s right, the funny English phrase from Zero Wing turned internet meme. In a one-of-us-one-of-us thread over at Scifi site Tor.com in which Obama’s geekatude is being discussed, one commenter recounted a story from a friend who claims to have interned for the Obama presidential campaign: More »
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Midway Loses Another, Chairwoman Steps Down
12:40PM Michael McWhertor | Shari Redstone, Midway chairwoman and daughter of CBS/Viacom billionaire Sumner Redstone, has left the building. The daughter Redstone joined Midway in 2004 — its last profitable year — and has been replaced by Peter C. Brown who steps up from regular ol’ board member to Mr. Chairman as of right now. Ms. Redstone has left the company to help out over at National Amusements, not over displeasure with The Joker’s toned-down fatality in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe.
Left 4 Dead Demo ‘Hacked’ To Allow Extra Fun Times
12:20PM Luke Plunkett | I’ve been playing the Left 4 Dead demo most of this week. Been having a blast with it, too. But the demo’s fairly limited in scope; only two maps, then you’re done. Fortunately, PC gamers are nothing if not industrious, and already have come up with a few ways to squeeze a little more variety from the demo. More »
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First Watchmen Details In December EGM
11:00AM Michael McWhertor | We know, as fellow fans of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen, how… trepidatious you may be about a video game based on the groundbreaking maxi-series. After all, it’s episodic in form, it’s a prequel to the original story, it’s downloadable, and it’s coming from a developer you’ve likely never heard of, Deadline Games. I mean, I went as Rorshach for Halloween when I was 13 years old, so I’m with you. But, unless you’re Alan Moore himself, you must be at least curious about the thing. More »
