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Rumour: First Fallout Online "Project V13" Screen Shots
November 14th, 2009 at 3:46 PMYeah, it’s got the tiniest hint of a cartoony feel to it.
Nintendo President: Majority Of Video Games Digital In 20 Years
November 6th, 2009 at 5:31 PM20 years is way too long for the ‘majority’ of game purchases to go digital. I’d 20 years is a fair bet for how long physical copies of games will still be in stores.
Explore The Uncanny Valley With The Real-Life Ladies Of Dragon Age
October 22nd, 2009 at 4:45 PMYeah, if by ‘lent their curves’ you mean they used the game’s standard female model and created a head that kinda looked like the rl counterpart and stuck it on.
Hello, Giant Master Chief Bust
September 20th, 2009 at 3:45 PMwhat’s with the weird-arse texture on his armour?
New Okami Is Coming To The Nintendo DS
September 1st, 2009 at 8:48 PMDammit. I don’t own a DS…hopefully this’ll make enough money to encourage a ‘proper’ sequel, though.
Sit Awkwardly Through Kurt Cobain's Guitar Hero 5 Performance
August 29th, 2009 at 3:09 AMIf there’s one thing life does well, it’s intensely powerful irony.
7-Eleven: Next Famitsu Will Contain "Okamiden"
August 29th, 2009 at 3:04 AMWait what? 7-11 is suddenly a source of gaming news? What?
Am *I* baked? o_O
Okami As A Mobile Phone Strap
August 29th, 2009 at 3:02 AMOkami is an AAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMAAAAAAAZZZZZZZZZIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNGGGGGGGG game. Everyone everywhere needs to play it.
Sit Awkwardly Through Kurt Cobain's Guitar Hero 5 Performance
August 28th, 2009 at 3:38 PMWho authorised this? His estate I guess?
Johnny Cash is dead too, but his preview didn’t seem nearly as weird as this. Cobain’s got the uncanny valley up the ying yang.
Evony Devs Sound A Bit Iffy
August 26th, 2009 at 6:55 PMI love it how these ads started off with a drawing of a medieval-ish women with big jugs, then a 3D image of another medieval women with big jugs in a more sexual pose, and now we’ve got this chick in only border-line period clothing and slogans like ‘Come play, my Lord’.
Yeah, you’re really selling yourself as a trustworthy, quality title, and not at all as a bottom feeding glorified email-harvester.
StarCraft II Can Be Played Offline
August 25th, 2009 at 11:17 AMI’ll certainly be logging in regardless, but it looks a bit shit if you the *only* option for offline play is logging in as a guest.
No offline profiles? No offline achievements?** So if someone’s sharing the game with someone in their household (GOD FORBID) they both have to use the same account, saving around each other? Hrrmmm.
**err, this game has achievements, right? I can’t remember if I read it or not. These days I don’t see why it wouldn’t.
Ozzy At BlizzCon: F***ing Amazing
August 24th, 2009 at 2:54 PMwell, no. They’re what he’s known for, and he did WRITE all of them, after all.
Sega Park Opens In Dubai
August 22nd, 2009 at 6:39 PMErrgh. SegaWorld Sydney sucked and closed down after only three years.
Blizzard: You May Sell Your StarCraft 2 Maps...Eventually
August 22nd, 2009 at 6:19 PMWell if you throw money into the equation, you’re going to inspire the crap out of the community to pump out quality maps.
What I don’t understand is how they’re going to determine what a good map is – I mean you have play them to know, so will they be released free first, become popular then you’ve gotta pay $1 to download, leaving half the community with the map for free and the other half having to pay? Or are they just going to choose good mappers and go ‘hey you, make a good map and we’ll pay you for it’. But then you’re putting a price tag on something that may be no better than most of the crap swimming around in the freebies bin.
Yoko Ono "Gave The Designers Hell" On Beatles: Rock Band
August 15th, 2009 at 2:54 AMSounds like the kind of instruction that’s given not on merit but purely because you’re in a instruction giving position.
Snapshot: This Man Squishes Orcs For A Living
August 15th, 2009 at 1:54 AMPretty much everyone in Game Journalism in Australia has worked for Next Media at some point. Bastards are everywhere. Half the commenters around here are off the forums too :P
Also Taking Care of Business there has my shirt.
Speak Now, Or Forever Hold Your Na Nahh Na Na Na Na Nahh Na Nahhs
July 31st, 2009 at 1:33 AMAwesome.
Talk Amongst Yourselves
July 29th, 2009 at 2:15 AMHuh, I was just about to post a big post about this. Yeah, it’s annoying when you go in and noone’s commented, but you KNOW the Yanks have had plenty to say (they’ve got 15 times pop to pick gamers from), and if not that it’s just dumb that the link doesn’t work.
Rare Sighting: Pro-Marijuana Reference In A Video Game
July 24th, 2009 at 1:51 PMI was thinking about this the other day, watching the second Brutal Legend dev walkie. In a game so festooned with bad language and violence, and based on a culture where where drugs are almost as much a part of the image as anything else (name one old school rocker who *didn’t* have a lengthy personal history with drug abuse); it really stood out that there wasn’t a single drug reference on display, not even to weed. Okay, I know I’m basing this on watching forty-ish minutes of a game I haven’t even played yet, so, who knows, maybe there’s a whole part of the world run by the Cocaine Demon; but to have Ozzie Osbourne (!) on screen for all of *ten minutes* and not slip a single reference in really, really stood out for me.
Your First Look At South Park's XBLA Tower Defense Game
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:32 PMI like it because it looks god awful.
No LAN Play For Starcraft II
June 30th, 2009 at 6:43 PMMeh. It’s Blizzard. They know what they’re doing. I haven’t the foggiest what that could be, but I’m sure they do.
With today’s internet connections is this really a problem, anyway?