Saturday, June 20, 2009

Saturday, June 20, 2009
News

PlayStation Home Has Finally Lost The Plot

3:30PM Luke Plunkett | But in a good way. See, my biggest criticism of PlayStation Home is that it’s sterile. Boring. But this Saturday night, that sterility will be temporarily relieved. By this… dance-off… thing. More »
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Lord Of The Rings Subscriber Base Actually Growing

2:30PM Luke Plunkett | Ever since World of Warcraft launched, subsequent MMOs usually (EVE aside) go a little something like this: they launch, they do OK, then numbers slide, then they disappear. Not so for Lord of the Rings Online. More »
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GameStop Have Head In Sand Over Digital Downloads

1:30PM Luke Plunkett | The future of games distribution is digital. Whether that’s in 5 or 15 years’ time, that’s what’s going to happen. Your grandkids won’t be buying games in boxes. But don’t tell GameStop that! More »
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Left 4 Dead Creation Tools Coming Next Week

12:30PM Luke Plunkett | While the campaigns that shipped with Left 4 Dead were all pretty good, you do get sick of them after a while. Which is where custom, user-generated campaigns come in. More »
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Developer Copied Source Code For Buggy Xbox 360 Shooter

12:00PM Brian Ashcraft | As far as troubled Xbox 360 maniac shooter ports go, they don’t get more troubled than DoDonPachi Dai Ou Jou Black Lable EXTRA. More »
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Media

Tales Of VS. Versus A Trailer

11:40AM Brian Ashcraft | Tales of VS. (versus — all caps) is Namco Bandai’s PSP fighter, populated with characters from its Tales franchise. More »
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Culture

Crazy (Good) Super Mario Brothers Artwork

11:20AM AJ Glasser | I hate Twitter, but I should be grateful to it for exposing these 45 completely amazing stylised portraits of Mario and Luigi. More »
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Fat Princess Won’t Be Out This Month

11:00AM Luke Plunkett | Sony’s super-enjoyable Fat Princess was originally slated to be released in June. That’s this month! Now, sadly, it turns out it won’t be out this month. More »
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Culture

A Not So Brief History Of Video Game Names

10:40AM Michael McWhertor | How did Mario get his name? You may be familiar with the official story, that it was based on Nintendo of America landlord Mario Segale, but that may not be the whole story. It’s just the easy version. More »
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