Friday, January 23, 2009 - Page 2
News

Square Enix Bringing DS Puzzle Game To LIVE

Guess what? Another Square Enix title is making its way to Xbox LIVE in Japan. Let’s have a look.


News

Far Cry 2 Sells Well, But Is Prince Of Persia Really A Slow Starter?

Ubisoft released some sales figures today as part of their financial results reporting. Listed are the to-date numbers for Far Cry 2, Prince of Persia, Raving Rabbids TV Party & Shaun White Snowboarding.


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Taiko no Tatsujin DS Series Surpasses 1 Million Shipped

That’s a lot of drumming — and all on Japanese DSes. Namco Bandai has announced that the Taiko no Tatsujin DS series has hit the million mark.


In Real Life

EVE Online Banker Robs From The Rich, Gives To Himself

EVE Online has banks. Run by EVE Online players. And EVE Online players are as susceptible to embezzling over 80 billion ISK (the game’s currency) then doing a runner as any of us.


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Forbes Writer Stands By Calling Rock Band A ‘Shameless Knockoff’ Of Guitar Hero

Earlier this week, Forbes writer Peter C. Beller made a tit of himself when he swallowed some Activision PR and reprinted it in his article on Bobby Kotick. Today, surprisingly, he stands by it.


Flash Fridays: Grow Tower

Kotaku AU

The Grow series of games effortlessly taps into an often overlooked appeal of gaming: the idea of pressing a button or clicking on something just to see what happens. It’s all deceptively simple: you click on an object to add it to the world and then watch how everything interacts. The joy comes in the way the relationships between objects are expressed: one object may transform another, which in turn transforms another, which affects the originally placed object in a cascade of delightful animations.Grow Tower was released just two days ago, so give it a go. And if you’ve never played a Grow game before, check out the others as well.


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Yahoo! Auctions Japan Issues R4 Warning

Yahoo! Auctions Japan has a warning for those sellers putting R4 carts on the online auction blocks.


AU Diary: I Finally Bought A Wii

Kotaku AU

Satoru, you can stop looking at me like that. I’ve done what you asked. Like one million other Australians, I am now the owner of a Wii. And, well… it feels a little strange.


‘Bulk Of’ Microsoft’s 1400 Job Cuts To Strike Entertainment Division

According to sources speaking with ZDNet’s resident Microsoft blogger, Mary-Jo Foley, “the bulk of [Microsoft's]immediate 1,400-person cuts” are going to fall on the Entertainment & Devices Group. Which includes the Xbox team.


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India Gets First Indian Made 3D Game

Video games based on Hollywood movies are nothing new. Video games based on Bollywood movies are newer. Hit flick Ghajini is getting just that.