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From Erotic Games to Mainstream Games

6:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Upcoming Platinum Games’ DS game Infinite Line is being co-developed by Tokyo developer Nude Maker and directed by Nude Maker’s Hifumi Kouno. Nude Maker? That’s an interesting name! And meaningful. The company spent a few years, cutting its teeth on erotic PC games. Says Kouno: More »

Game Controllers Make the Best Movie Props

9:00PM Brian Ashcraft | We’ve never seen Earthstorm. Thankfully, commenter Scazza has! And on his new TV at that. While watching it, he noticed something very, very familiar. He writes: just watching this horrid B-movie about the moon getting hit by an asteroid when I spotted something fun filling in as some sort of control console in a NASA command-like room. I probably would not have noticed it if I had not have JUST got an HD-PVR today for my 3 day old 1080p Bravia. Anyway, its pretty funny how out of place this Steel Battalion controller looks, but then again, this movie is supposed to be a disaster movie but its filled with some of the worst CGI I have seen in awhile. It doesn’t help that Steven Baldwin is one of the leads. And look at that, Scazza’s even provided a handy comparison! Let’s hope the Earthstorm producers work the Power Glove into the sequel. That would be so bad. More »