Saturday, February 14, 2009
Media
Ric Flair Wishes You A Happy, Strangely Violent Valentines Day
3:30PM Luke Plunkett | And again, the Red Alert 3 marketing team outdo themselves, somehow taking Ric Flair and his figure-four leglock and turning it into a heart-warming Command & Conquer-related Valentines Day message. More »
Culture
Halo Wars Figures Receive Reinforcements
2:30PM Luke Plunkett | Kicking the pre-release marketing for Halo Wars into top gear, a second series of Halo Wars action figures have today been announced by McFarlane and Microsoft. More »
News
This Is Why Midway Is Totally Screwed
1:30PM Luke Plunkett | Midway filed for bankruptcy yesterday. Grim news, but it’s also a bit… vague. It’s hard to tell from mere words just how badly the house of Mortal Kombat is faring. So let’s use numbers instead. More »
Culture
Bikini Samurai Minus Bikini
1:00PM Brian Ashcraft | When Playboy reviewed Wii title Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad, it asked publisher D3 for this: Exclusive naked pics. And exclusive naked pics it got. More »
News
Capcom Want A New Resident Evil On Wii
12:30PM Luke Plunkett | So far, the Wii is without its own Resident Evil. Umbrella Chronicles is a gun game, so doesn’t count. Resident Evil 0? Remake, doesn’t count either. We’re talking all new here, baby. More »
Culture
You’ve Got 48 Hours, Make A Game
12:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Website Boing Boing checked out the 2009 Global Game Jam, which has participants from all over the world churn out a game in 48 hours. More »
Media
Can Screenshots Help Explain What Noby Noby Boy Is?
11:20AM Mike Fahey | Can a set of new screenshots explain what exactly what is going on with Noby Noby Boy for the PlayStation Network where creator Keita Takahashi of Katamari Damacy fame failed? More »
News
Ex-Ensemble Staff Form New Studio
11:00AM Luke Plunkett | Ensemble Studios, developers of the Age of Empires series and Halo Wars, are dead. But the developers who comprised Ensemble? They’re still alive, and some of them have formed a new studio. More »
Culture
New Emulator to Play Any Game Ever Made — For Science!
10:40AM AJ Glasser | The European Union put up $5.2 million (€4.02m, £3.6m) to fund a project called Keeping Emulation Environments Portable (KEEP) — which will develop a software program that can archive digital objects to preserve them for posterity. More »
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