Friday, January 16, 2009
Culture
Samba Di Amigo: The iPod
10:30PM Luke Plunkett | Don’t you just love it when outdated consumer electronics and semi-obscure game characters meet? Hope you do. Because they sure as shit meet in this rare Samba Di Amigo iPod. More »
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Major Minor’s Majestic March Dated For Japan
10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | The folks that brought you PaRappa the Rapper and UmJammy Lammy (game designer Masaya Matsuura and Rodney Greenblat) have re-teamed for Wii title Major Minor’s Majestic March. Guess who’s releasing it in Japan?
Culture
The Bestest Arcade Piggy Bank
9:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Screw interest rates! Is there a better way to sock money away than this? No dear reader, there ain’t. More »
News
Here Is Your (New) Official Ace Attorney Image Character
8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | That’s Shota Matsuda. You may know him, you may not. But if you like Ridley Scott movies, you probably know his father. More »
PAL PlayStation Store Update
7:30PM Luke Plunkett | No GTA Club + for you, Europe, because…well, because you got it in December. No Ultimate Ghosts’ n’ Goblins, either, and still no SFIIHD. So what did you get? More »
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SEGA Currently Does Not Know Yakuza Franchise’s Future For North America
7:00PM Brian Ashcraft | SEGA’s Yakuza series has been successful in its native Japan. In the West, not so — blame poor localizations for that! Now, it looks like Yakuza 3’s North America release is undecided. Crud.
News
5:42PM David Wildgoose | Yikes! It’s been an interesting day for games not being banned. First GTA Chinatown Wars and now MadWorld. Australian Gamer sends word that Sega’s black-and-white-with-a-dash-of-red Wii brawler has evaded the Classification Board’s banhammer and will be shoving a street sign down your throat come March. Oh, and they note that – like GTA Chinatown Wars – no edits to the game were necessary to warrant an MA15+ rating.
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MadWorld Approved For Australian Release
5:42PM David Wildgoose | Yikes! It’s been an interesting day for games not being banned. First GTA Chinatown Wars and now MadWorld. Australian Gamer sends word that Sega’s black-and-white-with-a-dash-of-red Wii brawler has evaded the Classification Board’s banhammer and will be shoving a street sign down your throat come March. Oh, and they note that – like GTA Chinatown Wars – no edits to the game were necessary to warrant an MA15+ rating.
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You Are Standing In Front Of Guitar Hero West Of A White House…
5:30PM Luke Plunkett | Guitar Hero’s been played out. Colours pass in front of you, you mash a button, music plays, life goes on. If only there was a way to take the core mechanics and make them fresh. More »
Flash Fridays: Minotaur China Shop
5:06PM David Wildgoose | Another Friday afternoon means another browser-based game to amuse yourselves with. Today it’s the spectacularly literally-titled Minotaur China Shop. Yep, you play a minotaur. And you run a china shop. What makes it work is the ingenious combination of plausible physics and the rewarding ability to smash a lot of stuff. Enjoy!
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