Once was a day that if you were in the movies, games were something to be shunned, not sought out. And hey, for many actors, that’s still the case. But for composers, no.
Japanese musician Gackt in video games? Nothing new. Japanese musician Gackt making game music? New. For PS3 pachislot title Bounty Killer, out this past fall in Japan, Gackt did just that.
Wondering how physics puzzler Crayon Physics was going to fare once it made the jump to the iPhone? Please. Don’t wonder. Look.
Battle of the manga titans! Konami has announced a 3D PSP “action” fighting title featuring characters from Kodansha’s Shounen Magazine and Shogakukan’s Weekly Shounen Sunday.
Street Fighter IV’s able to whip up an internet shitstorm every time it announces one character. King of Fighters XII, meanwhile, likes to be a little more subtle, announcing its full, final roster quietly.
Gaming on a laptop? It’s hardly ideal. But that’s going off the hardware limitations of 2008! By the distant future, who knows what gaming on a laptop will be like. Might even be like this.
Do something long enough and you get better at it. Manufacture something long enough, and it gets cheaper. No surprise that Sony has cut the PS3′s component cost by 35 percent.
Boy, World of Warcraft can get pricey. You pay for the game, you pay a monthly stipend, you pay for expansion packs. So it’s nice to hear of a charity that’s giving away lifetime subscriptions.
Pure postal embarrassment. Members of erotic game maker AKABEi SOFT2′s fan club who ordered a set of boob-shaped mousepads got a surprised in the mailbox.
And at number eight in my personal picks for 2008 we find some old-school dungeon-crawling, courtesy of Atlus. I’m pretty sure this game got more play on my DS than every other handheld game combined…