Friday, October 30, 2009
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Nintendo President: “There Was A Miscalculation”
11:30PM Brian Ashcraft | Today at an investors’ event in Tokyo, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata was once again frank, admitting a “miscalculation” was made about the game market. More »
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Katamari Designer Has An FPS Idea (It’s Kooky!)
10:30PM Brian Ashcraft | Keita Takahashi, the guy behind Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy, is a wacky guy — he makes wacky games! But he has plans for more wacky games he hasn’t even started making yet. There’s this FPS he’s got… More »
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Record Sales For Scary Games, Reuters Dates Dead Space 2
10:00PM AJ Glasser | News source Reuters says scary video games are having “a record year as zombies, monsters, demons, and chain-sawing wielding psychos fight against the consoles, making video games the new home of horror for some”. More »
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So, Shigeru Miyamoto Now Has A Cat
9:30PM Brian Ashcraft | Remember when Shigeru Miyamoto started weighing himself everyday? We got Wii Fit. And before that, he had a dog. We got Nintendogs. And even before that, he took up gardening. We got Pikmin. Now, Miyamoto has a cat. More »
Culture
Saucy Shower Poster, So Revealing! [NSFW]
9:00PM Brian Ashcraft | For those of you who take showers with characters from erotic PC games, listen up! More »
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Dennis Hopper Has Cancer
8:30PM AJ Glasser | The actor who voiced Steve Scott in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and played King Koopa in that ill-conceived Super Mario Bros. movie has prostate cancer, the Associated Press reports. More »
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PS3 Sales Up, PSP/PS2 Sales Down
8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Sony’s Networked Products & Services Division (the PlayStation and VAIO businesses) is reporting a 24.2 per cent decrease in sales during the financial period ending September 2009 when compared to the same period in 2008. More »
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Wii And DS Games From Non-Nintendo Companies
7:30PM Brian Ashcraft | Third parties! You know, those companies that don’t hold the hardware platform. Well, Nintendo has announced the upcoming releases from third party developers for Japan, the US and Europe. More »
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Have We Seen This Mysterious GTA Ad Before?
7:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Yes, yes we have. Reader Bo (thanks Bo!) alerted us to this image on page 17 of the Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, wondering if it was a hint for GTA 5’s location. More »
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