Tuesday, May 26, 2009

News

British Sales Charts: Nintendo Gets Caught In The Octagon

11:00PM Luke Plunkett | Get a load of this. New games on the British sales charts. New games everywhere. Pokemon, UFC, EA Sports Active… it’s like a breath of fresh air. More »
Culture

John Carmack: Criminal Mastermind (And Apple Fanboy)

10:30PM Luke Plunkett | They say you learn something new every day. For today? You learn that when he was only 14, id’s John Carmack broke into a school to steal some Apple II computers. Apple IIs! More »
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Evangelion Game Coming To PS3 (Does It Involve The Father Of PS?!)

10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | A Blu-ray disc version of mecha anime Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone includes a fold-in which what appears to be a new game announcement: an Evangelion title for the PS3. More »
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Now Square Enix Will Milk Eidos Properties To Death, Too!

9:30PM Luke Plunkett | Square Enix are notorious for bleeding their intellectual properties dry. You like Final Fantasy? Here’s 119 Final Fantasy games, etc etc. And now that Square owns Eidos, things are only going to get worse. More »
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David Jaffe: “We’re Not Showing Anything At E3″

9:00PM Brian Ashcraft | David Jaffe of developer Eat Sleep Play talks about the chances of him showing something at E3. And they are? More »
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PS3 “Soul Breeding” Game Gets Suggestive Pillow Case

8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | In two days, the sequel to “soul breeding” game Record of Agarest War ZERO is released in Japan. Let the merchandising begin! More »
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Activision Bosses Dump $60 Million In Activision Stock

7:30PM Luke Plunkett | Activision CEO Robert “What, Me Worry?” Kotick, and Activision co-chairman of the board Brian Kelly, last week sold off around $US60 million in Activision stocks. More »
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SNK’s April Fools Joke Is Real (Sorta)

7:00PM Brian Ashcraft | This past April 1 was, like the year before it and the year before that, April Fool’s Day. Osaka-based game company SNK joined in the fun and launched a website for faux retro shooter Star Radish. More »
Culture

The Nintendo DS Can Also Draw Amazing Pictures Of Cars

6:30PM Luke Plunkett | Christian Pearce works at special effects workshop WETA (Lord of the Rings, King Kong). Christian Pearce also enjoys drawing cars, which he does on his Nintendo DS. More »