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High Scores And Egos: There's Always A Bigger Doodle Ack! DSi guts!! Here’s a look at the DSi’s innards, which might very well explain the portable’s lacking battery life. When the specs of the DSi and the DS Lite were first compared, there was a noticeable drop off in juice power: between 1 and six hours.
That’s right, Grand Theft Auto IV was numero uno in Japan with a bullet. The PS3 version of the Rockstar developed title edged out LittleBigPlanet in its debut week. Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser talked to Variety about releasing the game in Japan, pointing out that there is a rabid GTA fan base.
Here’s a shout out to the rest of the Australian contingent who made it to Cologne for the world finals.
Guitar Hero 3 rep TwilightDawn, aka Joel Brooks (pictured enjoying some Rock Band on a side stage in Cologne), had a tough draw and failed to escape the group stage. Considering the two qualifiers from his group later met again in the Grand Final, this was one of many examples of a WCG system that needs a seeding system to ensure all players, particularly the best, get a fair chance to advance and face off at the appropriate stage in the tournament. In Project Gotham 4 we had cam_, aka James Davey, in the hot seat, but he failed to get into top gear in his qualifiers. Hopefully they made the most of their reward for winning the Australian titles — a trip to Europe!
Phoar. That Gears 2 comp we told you all about last Friday looks set to be a doosy. With weapon ideas ranging from marshmallow flame throwers to rabid crocodile rifles and, a disturbingly high amount of oddly-ingenious human excrement hurling artillery, it’ll be a tough one to win- not to mention judge.
So remember, for your chance to win one of five awesome limited edition Gears 2 pack, (worth over 300 bucks each), answer the following, via the comments section, in 25 words or less; What two weapons would you combine to top the Gears of War 2 Lancer?
Entries close 5pm (AEDT), November 14.
Australia wasn’t expected to do very well at all in Halo 3 at the World Cyber Games final, so when the lads from Encore.BBR (pictured hanging with some of the NZ crew) made light work of their group to advance to the quarter finals a few heads were turned. This was followed by a tight quarter final where the Australians again punched well above weight to knock out the home side over three maps. Suddenly the down underdogs were in medal contention!
A semi-final against France’s SSK. turned into a very exciting affair, with the Australian’s taking the first of three maps. Trailing for most of the period on the second, a late comeback saw a Grand Final berth so close at hand, only to fall a single kill short, 101-102, pushing the tie into a third map.
From here the wind was at France’s back, Australia again trailing throughout and while they were never far off the pace they just couldn’t recover from the early deficit. France through to the final, Australia into the Bronze medal play-off.
Australia faced the USA in the play-off and never quite found their earlier form, losing in straight sets though never by any great margins. This was a superb outing for the Australian Halo 3 team. With little opportunity to play top flight teams from overseas (almost all big competition in Halo is tied up in the North American MLG series) this was a show of pure talent taking on more experienced opponents. Some more time facing up to mature competition and who knows what is in store for these guys next year?
After Team Immunity turned heads with their upset progression beyond the group phase of Counter-Strike 1.6, the heat was on to see if they could roll on and take down another big name. This time it was highly rated Gameplay, from Finland, who had some recent top results on the international stage that ranked them as a podium contender.
The Aussies proved once again that they know how to cause a stir, with a win on the pistols round launching the team into a rousing chorus of cheers that pumped them up while deflating the very surprised Finns. On their favourite map, Immunity showed the world they are not to be taken lightly, running out to take a 1-0 lead in the best of three match. Gameplay were visibly shocked, heads in hands followed by a quick exit to recover and regroup. On return, some nasty exchanges in the game chat channel occurred, with the Finns showing some bad sportsmanship toward the dominant frag factor on the Australian team, Ben O’Reilly (BenoR).
Warcraft 3 stepped up to the plate on Day 2, with the unstoppable force of Australia, Andrew ‘GLaDe’ Pender, wearing the proverbial green and gold (he’s a member of Team Immunity, so he’s there in the midnight blue hoodie).
After an early loss to a Danish competitor GLaDe should have had the best of, things turned around dramatically with massive wins over WhO from South Korea and nEphBone, who ultimately finished second in the group from the Czech Republic. WhO finished 4th behind our Aussie RTS master, who could have moved through to knock out phase if not for the cheap early loss. But with two notable wins from the tournament, Pender still goes home with some tidy notches to add to his War belt.
No one would accuse Gears of War 2, or Gears of War for that matter, of being grounded anywhere close to reality. But Popular Mechanics has an interesting discussion with Unreal Games’ Matt Mike Capps, a breakdown of the capabilities of the Unreal engine, and concludes that the chaotic environment it is capable of rendering in real time can actually raise the bar for accuracy in military combat simulations.
A lawyer-mans in training who also writes a blog has been playing Fallout 3 instead of studying lately. The game’s tinny, cheerfully haunting soundtrack coming in over the Pip Boy has bored into his mind, and likely yours, too, if you’ve spent anywhere close to 10 hours with the game. Every time “Way Back Home” comes on, I imagine my grandmother cutting vegetables in her kitchen with her beat up transistor radio on the sill. And a mushroom cloud in the distance. Kidding.
Moods of Norway, a fashion design firm, is out to save the world from a fashion crisis. At least, that’s the point of the LittleBigPlanet level it designed in collaboration with a Norwegian PlayStation distributor. The level’s published and ready for you to play and, I assume, won’t be taken down because it references third party IP. Although it’d be hilarious if it did.
