Tuesday, December 7, 2010

In Real Life

Deus Ex’s Cyborg Future Is Oh So Pretty

11:30PM December 7, 2010 | Luke Plunkett

As part of the marketing campaign for the new Deus Ex title, publishers Square Enix have set up a “viral site” for some of the technology found in the game. And it’s gorgeous. More »

News

New Samurai Warriors Not Quite Ready For Battle

11:00PM December 7, 2010 | Brian Ashcraft

The upcoming Samurai Warriors 3Z won’t make its intended Japan January release. According to Koei Tecmo, the game was pushed back for added improvements. The delay is one month. More »

In Real Life

Super Meat Boy’s PC Version Has A Box, And It’s Well Done

10:00PM December 7, 2010 | Luke Plunkett

Super Meat Boy is getting a limited run of actual, physical boxed copies for the PC. To mark the occasion, artist Dave Rapoza handled the cover illustration, and made it appropriately epic.

In Real Life

Bikini Hug Pillows Make The Best T-Shirts

10:00PM December 7, 2010 | Brian Ashcraft

Japanese magazines are big on the “street snap” – pictures of fashion plates. Many of the street snaps are of regular people with “regular” being a relative term. More »

News

DJ Hero Parody Game Mashes Up Some Legal Action

9:30PM December 7, 2010 | Luke Plunkett

That’s what a lawyer representing Universal Music Publishing Group told the creator of 8-Bit DJ Hero, which resulted in one of the year’s best parody games being yanked off the internet. More »

News

Japan Devours Monstrous Amounts Of PSPs

9:00PM December 7, 2010 | Brian Ashcraft

Sony’s PSP handheld has recorded its biggest weekly hardware sales in Japan since its 2005 launch, thanks to a monster title from Capcom. More »

News

Gran Turismo 5 Gets A Damage Update (But There’s A Catch)

8:30PM December 7, 2010 | Luke Plunkett

Car damage, a feature that has confused many of the game’s owners since Gran Turismo 5′s release a couple of weeks ago, has just gotten a lot less confusing, courtesy of a 149MB update released overnight. More »

In Real Life

Video Game Cheats In The Real World

8:30PM December 7, 2010 | Luke Plunkett

How would video game cheats work in a real gunfight? Let’s see! More »

News

Retro Neo Geo Games Beat Up The PlayStation Network

8:00PM December 7, 2010 | Brian Ashcraft

Osaka-based game company SNK Playmore, best known for its fighting games, is unleashing a whole slew of titles on the PlayStation Network. More »

In Real Life

World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm Is Go

7:40PM December 7, 2010 | Mike Fahey

It’s after midnight Pacific time, and the Goblins and Worgen have begun flooding into Azeroth as World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm expansion goes live. I’ve made my new characters, have you? More »