Sunday, April 12, 2009

In Real Life

Play the Piano with Your DSi

11:00PM April 12, 2009 | Owen Good

Who knew the photo-graffiti mode of the DSi could turn into a poor man’s KORG DS-10? Dover, from the site/webcomic Monday Night Crew, found a genius way to compose piano tunes. Watch.

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What Have You Been Playing This Weekend?

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6:00PM April 12, 2009 | David Wildgoose

The long weekend’s a good time to dive into those epic games you rarely have the time to play. It’s also a good way to escape the relatives.

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Sunday Supplement: “Merging the electronic and the edible”

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6:00PM April 12, 2009 | David Wildgoose

In Real Life

Presenting: Jim Henson’s Resident Evil 5

8:00AM April 12, 2009 | Owen Good

Severed Ernie head, bloodied Cookie Monster corpse and, best of all, Beaker as Wesker. This extraordinarily nonauthorised and noncanonical trailer looks more like a prequel to the RE5 story.

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Gameplay from Killzone 2′s DLC

7:00AM April 12, 2009 | Owen Good

Two multiplayer maps – Wasteland Bullet and Vekta Cruiser – form the first package of downloadable content for Killzone 2. Gametrailers featured the maps on its supa-special Gametrailers TV Thursday night. Here they are broken out:

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News

A Sampling of Soldiers’ Reaction to ‘Fallujah’

6:00AM April 12, 2009 | Owen Good

By the title alone, you knew Six Days in Fallujah, Konami’s planned “documentary-style” combat game about Iraq, would create an uproar. Unlike historical or generic conflict, this covers recent and real, about a polarising war.

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Spring has Sprung in Fallout 3

5:00AM April 12, 2009 | Owen Good

Who says post-apocalyptic equals monochromatic? The “Greenworld” mod for Fallout 3 lets you spruce up your blighted surroundings just in time for the rebirth of spring.

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In Real Life

Lawyer-Mans of Dune Smack Down Second Life Arrakis

4:00AM April 12, 2009 | Owen Good

The lord high executioners of Frank Herbert’s estate have demanded that all Second Life areas (inhabited by all of 130 people) remove all references to Dune IP. Drat. There goes my 36-inch sandworm cock.

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In Real Life

Some Guy’s Mum Painted This

3:30AM April 12, 2009 | Owen Good

A Danish mother has at last paid back years of refrigerator finger-paintings of her as a stick figure with circle boobies and a triangle skirt. Nothing says motherly love like a Riddick box cover painting.

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News

Capcom: RE5 Versus Code is Not on Disc

2:00AM April 12, 2009 | Owen Good

Capcom exec Christian Svensson got called out by his customers to explain the puny size of the RE5 DLC, which some took to mean it simply unlocked code already on the disc. He responded.

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