Saturday, April 4, 2009 - Page 2
In Real Life

Bay Area Game Jam Rocks My Weekend

This weekend, Wild Pockets, Crispy Gamer and Microsoft are teaming up to host Bay Area Game Jam – a 24-hour game development competition at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus in Mountain View, California.


Not As Shocking New G.I. Joe Screens

After the last batch of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra screens, I was seriously hoping to see more of Cobra — specifically Destro and Baroness — doing their thing.


GameTrailers TV Gets Earlier, Much Earlier Time Slot

Spike TV’s video game exclusive packed weekly video game show, GameTrailers TV, is getting a slightly more sane time slot and giving you some weekly Geoff Keighley face time an entire day earlier.


News

Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits Is Now Guitar Hero: Smash Hits

When Activision ships its “best of” Guitar Hero compilation this summer, it will be called Guitar Hero: Smash Hits, not Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits, as previously announced. Why? You got me.


News

The Dishwasher Rewards You For Peter Moore-ing

This week’s Xbox Live Arcade addition The Dishwasher features a great shout out to EA Sports bossman Peter Moore, formerly of Microsoft and Rock Band flub infamy. How does one get “The Peter Moore Achievement”?


News

PlayStation 3 Outsells Wii In Japan For Second Month In A Row

Last year, the Wii made headlines for its trouncing of the PlayStation 3, when Nintendo’s console was outselling its current-gen competition from Sony in Japan. But 2009 has started to work out a little differently.


In Real Life

This LEGO Nintendo DSi Could Crush You

Built from over 50,000 LEGO bricks and weighing at 250 pounds, this nearly seven foot wide Nintendo DSi could do some serious damage should gravity have its way with it.


What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Kotaku AU

Wanted: Weapons of Fate (pictured) and Resistance: Retribution are two games I typically wouldn’t give a second look. But for some reason I’ve decided to give them both a go this weekend.


News

Atari Busts Hopes Of Ghostbusters For PSP

Normally, the ESRB is a great resource for leaked information, such as the unannounced PSP version of Atari’s Ghostbusters: The Videogame it rated the other day. Sometimes it’s not such a great resource.


Alpha Protocol: Obsidian Evolves

The team at Obsidian talk about how they’ve evolved over the years leading up to the development of the real-world espionage role-playing game Alpha Protocol.