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Why Robin Makes Batman Better The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena might have been a purely single player affair, if not for the begging of a large, muscle-bound bald man.
Deep cuts have hit G4′s flagship show X-Play, sources tell us, and the five-day-a-week program has been cut back to three times a week.
A couple of weeks back, I climbed on a soapbox about the media frenzy surrounding video games in connection with real life violence or tragedy.
G4 got their hands on the first four minutes of Starbreeze’s Chronicles of Riddick follow-up, Assault on Dark Athena, featuring our favourite psychotic killer doing what he does best – lurking in shadows.
Why there aren’t more video game themed cereals escapes me. After seeing G4′s spoof on Gears of War‘s game-to-breakfast port—”Grains of War”—with an appearance by Lester “Augustus Cole” Speight, surely someone will step up.
Oh, the delicious shapes!
While we’re waiting to hear back from Microsoft on the VGChartz forum-sourced Xbox 360 “relaunch” rumour and speculation, one allegedly involved party has given us denial. G4 reps told us that the 5-hour special rumoured to air on the cable network is “fake”.
“We currently do not have anything planned in conjunction with Microsoft for September 25″, the rep added. “I cant speak for Microsoft but can say we do not have anything planned”.
Nothing planned, they say. Perhaps G4 is blissfully unaware of Microsoft’s plans to hijack its broadcast, as Weird Al Yankovic was notorious for doing to MTV in the mid 1980s. Damn you, Weird Al! If you do this one more time even with the aid of Microsoft, there will be hell to pay, free games or not!
It’s here, it’s here! It’s finally here! Tonight at 8PM Eastern time, X=Play presents G-Phoria 2008, the only video game awards show where the gamers vote for their favourite titles. Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb will be putting their personal opinions aside and let the viewers decide which games deserve the awards, from the lowly Best Downloadable Content to the possibly highly coveted Game of the Year. They’ve even got a Game Most Deserving of an Uwe Boll Movie Adaptation award! Hilarity ensues.
You can head over to the G-Phoria website to cast your vote, or they’ve got an option to vote via text message in case you don’t have access to the internet or just really enjoy typing with your thumb. Hit the jump for the full list of award categories.
If you thought The King of Kong was story of a desperate man out to protect his record, wait until you get a load of K2: The King, The Kong, and the Ugly, a G4 original production.
Sure it’s a bit stupid, childish, hokey, and inane. Most of the time it isn’t even particularly funny. What strikes me is how terrifying the thought of being chased around by Billy Mitchell with futuristic weapons actually is. I would be terrified, but practical, cutting off my own hands so the record could never come to pass. When a maniacal gaming hot sauce maker is ready to gun you down you have to think on your toes, people.
G4 and Microsoft are hooking up to make several of the tech entertainment network’s shows available on Xbox Live, the companies announced today. Episodes of “Code Monkeys” – including a “never-before seen” free episode – snowboarder reality show “The Block” and a weekly episode of “Attack of the Show” are already available for download on the service.
G4 said it’s the first outing for its programming on a gaming console. Incidentally, G4 also said it’s the “multi-media destination that feeds young guy’s addiction for the latest technology, web culture, animation and video games.” So, young guys, are you addicted?
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Ah the Wiimote. An elegant weapon, not as clumsy or as random like a blaster. Paired with the Nunchuk, it’s pretty awesome too, according to this video from G4, which got an exclusive hands-on with Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for the Wii’s duel mode. (Man that was a mouthful).
G4′s reporter went as Luke Skywalker, duking it out in a TIE Fighter bay with Asajj Ventress There’s saber-slashing and Force-choking galore, all arising from a pretty shrewd use of combinations and reverse moves in both controllers. It’s not all lightning bolts and throws, either. Check out that old-school kick to the grill Luke delivers at the end.
