Sunday, October 4, 2009

News

Digital Rentals Built In To PSPgo?

12:00PM Owen Good | Screwing around with the sorting feature on the PSPgo, someone’s found there’s only one way to arrange games and folders — by their expiration date. Expiration? More »
Culture

Give Up Your Weapons…And Your Body Armour…

11:30AM Owen Good | He is one of the LCPD’s best. A cop torn between duty and instinct, justice and the law. In Liberty City, the law is supreme. No matter how many grenades you push across that table, you’re still free to go. More »
News

There’s Someone At The Door …

11:00AM Owen Good | Today, certain people—we’re trying to figure out why—were delivered telegrams by an old-school bicycle messenger. The cable comes from “Mark G Meltzer”, the loner searching for “something in the sea”, on BioShock 2’s hype Web site. More »
News

Eminem On DJ Hero Renegade: “The S—t Is Dope”

10:30AM Owen Good | Eminem, one of two big names on DJ Hero’s Renegade Edition, stopped by DJ Whoo Kid’s show to flack the limited series, and declare “the s—t is dope”. See, when the kids say “s—t”, they really mean “cool”. More »
News

Wait A Minute, LittleBigPlanet PSP Hadn’t Been Officially Dated?

10:00AM Owen Good | Weird. One of these pieces of news that would seem to be out by now, but PlayStation.Blog posted yesterday that November 17 is the North American release date for LittleBigPlanet PSP. The cover art also was finalised. More »
News

CrimeCraft Going Free-to-Play By Month’s End

9:30AM Owen Good | The FPS-MMO-WTFBBQ CrimeCraft offers a “free unlimited trial” by the end of October, according to publisher Vogster Entertainment, which will effectively move the game into three tiers — free, $US5 and $US10 subscriptions. More »
Hands On

NHL 2K10 Review: Thin-Ice Capades

9:00AM Owen Good | The National Hockey League dropped the puck on a new season Thursday night, turning sports fans’ thoughts to ice — and to hard hitting, fast-paced one-timer-from-the-slot action, qualities that 2K’s NHL title can certainly supply on a console. More »
News

Union Contracts Now Include “Vocally Stressful” Work

8:00AM Owen Good | Two major unions supplying voice actors for video games have both won pay raises under provisional new contracts, which also spell out terms for “vocally stressful” work and “atmospheric” roles in which one person voices multiple minor characters. More »
News

Scribblenauts’ Original Name Sounded Like A Gameshow

7:00AM Owen Good | Scribblenauts is People’s Exhibit No. 1 for giving a game a great name. It’s a unique word, hinting strongly at the quirky adventures you’ll have. Good thing, too, because the original name sounded like something Wink Martindale would host. More »
News

NBA Live Achievement Whores Need 1000 Online

6:20AM Owen Good | NBA Live 07—a game now three years old—currently has about 500 players on Xbox Live. And they need 500 more in the next half-hour for every one of them to collect an easy 100 Gamerscore. More »