We know. You’re sitting there, all smug, thinking the extent of 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand’s story amounts to “WHEH MAH SKULL?”. Well, you’re wrong. There’s a rich tapestry at play here.
Those Wii-mote jackets? They’re good for more than cushiony shield protecting your TV (and face!) from flying Wii-motes.
Let’s recap: at the same time Ziff Davis were offloading the 1UP Network, lesser-known magazine Hardcore Gamer also went up for sale. On… eBay. And not a collection of mags. The magazine itself.
Last year, video games trumped the global combined sales of DVD and Blu-ray. Congrats, video games!
The ever-quotable Michael Ephraim, head of Sony Computer Entertainment in Australia, is never afraid to speak his own mind. But what happens when he gets called up by a reporter from tech tabloid Smarthouse? His mind explodes.
An individual with no connection to Square Enix or Final Fantasy XI (he’s never played it supposedly!) was being heavily spammed with FFXI re-registration emails. This individual got annoyed and took legal action.
I thought Wii games were meant to be casual and accessible? Because, frankly, Trauma Centre: New Blood (out last week) is anything but. With a host of different surgical tools to use and even more medical conditions to encounter, remembering which does what is hard enough. But to do so while the patient’s vitals are dropping at an alarming rate puts me into a state of panic I’ve rarely experienced in a game.I’ll even admit the Normal difficulty was too much for me. After losing the same patient a dozen times in succession, I felt no shame in knocking it down to Easy. Even then it took another six or so attempts to proceed. Hardcore gamers bemoaning the lack of challenging titles on the Wii would do well to check this out.
Yoshinori Yamagishi, Square Enix’s Star Ocean series producer, has confessed his desire to make erotic games.
Two Valve games, two cult followings, we’re amazed it’s taken you lot this long to whip something like this up. Called “Gravelpit”, it takes… well, you can see what it’s doing.