January 2009
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Edge reveals more Uncharted 2 details
The interwebs have been blessed with a post-Christmas miracle, namely scans of Edge’s latest cover story, which features the bruised and beaten mug of our favorite treasure-hunting, trash-talking protagonist Nathan Drake. The article itself retreads a lot of ground already covered in GameInformer’s Uncharted 2: Among Thieves cover story, but there are new quotes aplenty.
While the first game...
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Blind sets standard for all World of...
Even if you’ve only recently emerged from your sensory deprivation chamber, you’ve probably heard of Machinima, the art of creating miniature animated flicks from the nuts and bolts of existing gameworld graphics engines. This emergent genre of film is a testament to the ingenuity and creativity of gamers, but it’s also sometimes a testament to these same individuals’ inability to manipulate...
December 2008
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Dream a little Sackboy dream
LittleBigPlanet fansite LittleBigPlanetoid has spent the holidays hunched over their drawing board, dreaming up delightful Sackboy costumes. Their “Top 20 LittleBigPlanet Costume Predictions” run the gambit from definite (Final Fantasy’s Sephiroth) to possible (Devil May Cry’s Dante) to preposterous (Halo’s Master Chief).
Among our favorites are the 80’s inspired selections ripped right...
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GameTap’s tricky phonetics make me momentarily...
I practically lost my mind when I read that GameTap was adding adventure game Syberia to its subscription lineup. I definitely lost my eyesight, because that misplaced enthusiasm was actually meant to be reserved for adventure game Cyberia.
1994’s Cyberia follows cyber-hacker Zebulon “Zak” Pike, pardoned by Free World Alliance leader William Devlin in exchange for infiltrating...
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Nothing quenches your thirst like tentacle rape
Beverages have had a dubious relationship with gaming for a while now, with Mountain Dew’s Game Fuel courting the Halo 3 masses, Mana Energy Potion poisoning World of Warcraft players and Bawls powering many late-night/early-morning LAN sessions. But Mnemosyne’s new product is perhaps the most disturbing, and therefore awesome, collision between the two worlds. That’s because it is the first...
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Michael Phelps vs. Baby Hitler
You know, the more I think about it the more a Michael Phelps videogame in which you swim through time to kill baby Hitler sounds like an awesome idea. In fact, like a bubbly Beyonce tune I found the only way to be free of it was to spend half my day engaged in some photoshop trickery, time I hope you will find well spent. If you like it enough, maybe you can start an online petition, write your...
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Will Michael Phelps-inspired videogame prove to be...
The short answer, yes. The long answer is that even developer 505 Games suspects their upcoming videogame based on the exploits of human dolphin Michael Phelps is going to make the angels weep, but that’s not stopping them from trying to make it as entertaining and engaging as a Michael Phelps-inspired videogame can be. Ironically, this means less swimming.
“Swimming will be a part of it, but...
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Honey, I shrunk the Master Chief!
Don’t let Todd McFarlane near your dead horse, lest you want the tragedy of Sparkle Thunder’s sudden passing compounded by the indignity of being kicked.
Coming your way early next spring, the second series of miniature Halo helmets that NOBODY has been waiting for with baited breath. Though compatible with the company’s line of 12-inch Halo figures, each helmet includes a stand “for flat...
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Resident Evil: Degeneration surprisingly doesn’t...
Not that it is especially good, but Resident Evil: Degeneration surprises by not being especially bad. Unlike the live-action Milla Jovovich kung-fu fests, this computer generated flick feels like it actually belongs in Capcom’s Resident Evil universe, complete with all the charmingly clichéd plot points and cheesy voice acting we’ve come to expect from the series.
Anyone without an...
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Musical review of Okami
I’ve heard of haiku game reviews, but the musical game reviews of Rebecca Mayes really elevate the weird artistry of expressing one’s opinion via the interwebs to another level. After receiving more than 10,000 listens to her first song “Press A,” which catalogues the relationship-rending dangers of playing WiiSports with your boyfriend, Mayes has returned to lyrically lambaste our favorite...
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LittleBigPlanet coming to the big screen, sorta
So this is is what it looks like when a SackBoy becomes a SackMan. Focus Feature’s upcoming post-apocalyptic computer animated film, 9, bears some striking similarities to Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet. Both feature sackcloth-and-zipper sporting protagonists. Both feature leaping and bounding about an otherwise unpopulated landscape. But coming from producers Tim Burton and Timbur...
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Mega Man vs. Hard Hat
Poor Mega Man. Capcom’s most endearing and enduring mascot just can’t catch a break. Having heroically abandoned his cushy job as a lab assistant, which came with great benefits by the way, to selflessly and tirelessly battle Dr. Wily and his ever-growing army of robots, you’d think he’d be entitled to a moment of peace. You’d also think he’d have no problem annihilating a hard had, but you’d...
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Velvet Assassin fights Nazis in her nightie
Replay Studios’ upcoming stealth-heavy World War II assassin game is based on the real life of Allied forces secret agent Violette Szabo.
Loosely based.
According to the developers description, Violette is a woman who has “lost everything dear to her and now has but one goal – to disrupt and destroy the Nazi regime.” Alone behind enemy lines, she must use everything at her...
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Suda talks No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
Goichi “Suda51″ Suda, creator of the critically-praised but commercially-panned No More Heroes, has opened up to GameSetWatch about the game’s upcoming sequel, No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle for the Nintendo Wii.
No More Heroes, while challenging the conventional notions of videogames with its stylized visuals and unique controls, often placed style before substance when it came to...
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New study says Everquest II has above-average...
These two brave women warriors celebrated their victory by, like, totally kissing on the lips! OMG!
A study by University of Delaware researcher Scott Caplan, which examined gender differences in 2,400 EverQuest 2 players, found that 40% of the gamers were female. Who had smoking hot bodies. And who might be into threesomes.
In addition to self-reported physiques that put the general...
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Arkham Asylum needs to rethink their therapy...
In light of recent events, the administration regrets to inform all patients that several of our elective therapy sessions have been canceled until further notice, including “Face Painting Your Feelings,” “Breaking Boundaries, Lifting Weights” and “Basic Firearm Training for the Criminally Insane.” While individually these therapeutic classes proved beneficial, it has come to our attention that...
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Joy to the world, the 8-bit album has come
Just in time for Christmas comes the completed version of 8-bit Jesus: Classic Christmas Songs In the Style of Classic NES Games, a slightly sacrilegious chip tunes album produced by Doctor Octoroc with artwork by Jude Buffum. The full release contains 18 tracks total, all retro remixes of popular Christmas songs with an 8-bit kick in the rein-derriere. You can download them for free, individually...
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Guitar Hero broke this dude’s knee, but not his...
In news sure to send Rock Band storming off to their bedroom to pout, Guitar Hero rocked this guy so hard his bones turned to dust! Actually, it wasn’t the game so much as his attempt to transition into the rock stance / guitar throw combo in the middle of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Texas Flood. An attempt that failed, epically.
“We were neck in neck in points…I had to do something special. I needed...
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You know how to play Lips, don’t you?
You just put your lips together and blow…into the microphone. Then sit back - you’re going to have to just to catch your breath between songs - and watch your gamerscore climb the charts. That’s the achievement-whoring technique pioneered by Destructoid’s Brad Nicholson, who originally bought Lips for his karaoke game-loving girlfriend. After she wracked up several hundred achievement points in...
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Chrono Trigger: The Musical
Ever thought that Chrono Trigger would make an awesome Broadway musical? Here’s hoping this short fan crafted clip can drum up some investor interest. The first in what we can only hope will become an animated series of Chrono Trigger-inspired musical numbers is all about our favorite humble and haunted amphibian warrior, Frog. With animation by Parker Simmons and lyrics by Brent Black, set...
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You don't have to be a nerd to propose like one,...
Popping the question via video game seems to be the nerdy romantic gesture du jour, but now you don’t even have to be a nerd to propose like one. Thanks to Multiple-Options Easy Proposal Maker, even emulation ingenues can confess their love, or deep dark secrets*, in the geekiest way imaginable.
All you have to do is type in your message, launch the tile matching game, and hope your...
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Prince of Coolness
I’ve never drunk the Persian Kool-ade, but the more I watch the Prince of Persia trailers, and the more I listen to the epic voiceover tell me about the battle between badness and light, well, let’s just say that my Amazon wishlist might be getting an addition soon!
- posted by jp
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Actual Noby Noby Boy gameplay footage will chill...
Sweet Lord save us, this gameplay footage from Noby Noby Boy, the upcoming game from Katamari Damacy director Keita Takahashi, is even more disturbing than previously feared. This creature knows no mercy, clotheslining a hapless business man in the middle of his morning commute, devouring a little girl filled with love despite her losing battle with cancer, and even eating the re re little...
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Noby Noby Boy will haunt haunt your dreams
The creators of the charmingly addictive Katamari Damacy are hoping you’ll get hooked on their upcoming game, Noby Noby Boy. The PlayStation 3 downloadable title, scheduled for release sometime in early 2009, will have you playing as a rainbow-colored creature who can stretch his monstrous body to terrifying lengths, devouring and discarding any and all objects in his path.
Tell me...
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Uncharted 2 screens leaked
If the newly released trailer for Uncharted 2: Among Thieves wasn’t enough to get you excited for more tough-talking, ass-kicking treasure hunting goodness, these prematurely released screen should do the trick. Courtesy of Dutch gaming site XGN, these 12 screenshots really show what a labor of love this series is for developer Naughty Dog, who seem to have perfected the realistic...
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Review / Naruto: The Broken Bond (Xbox 360)
You don’t have to be an anime-obsessed otaku to recognize the orange jumpsuited orphan turned ninja Naruto, as his TV show is currently among the most popular animated series in both the United States and Japan. But take it from Goku, fame can be a double-edged sword. It wasn’t too long ago that Naruto seemed destined follow in the footsteps of Dragon Ball Z, with the anime and manga enjoying...
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Watchmen: The End Is "Ehh"
Iconoclast Alan Moore has already expressed disapproval (translation: he’s compared Zack Snyder’s latest slo-mo masterpeice to regurgitated worms) for what seems to be a fairly faithful movie recreation of his seminal graphic novel, Watchmen. So I can only imagine how hella pissed he’s gonna be when he hears about Watchmen: The End Is Nigh, Deadline Games’ video game...
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Brütal Legend trailer
Fiiiiiiiiiinally. We cannot tell you how many sleepless nights we’ve spent tossing and turning in our Black Sabbath-branded footed jammies worrying about the fate of Tim Schafer’s epic rock n’ roll roadshow, Brütal Legend. But now that Electronic Arts has claimed it at their own, the marketing campaign can begin in earnest. Kicking off the festivities is this latest teaser...
There's no place like Home
While the Count Gameula Master had a uniquely “quincy-esque” experience playing the PS3’s new “home” 3D chat experience, my first foray into 3D chat descended into Planet of the Apes. Avatars were attempting to throw down left and right in Central Plaza - I thought I was beamed into the midst of the deliciously delusional MK vs. DC plot! Avatars were dance fighting,...
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Playstation Home and the art of “Quincying”
After countless network timeouts and connection errors, I finally logged in to PlayStation Home for the first time, but my excitement for exploring this new friend-making funhouse was quickly dampened by a saddening albeit not surprising discovery - if you’re a girl, you’re gonna get sexually harassed. Big time. Any and all attempts to make new bowling buddies quickly devolved into “Like your...
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Here comes the (heavy) rain again
David Cage, writer and director of Quantic Dream’s upcoming film noir thriller Heavy Rain, describes the game as a “Babylonian project,” and oh boy, he ‘aint just blowin’ sunshine up our collective game lovin’ asses - while most movie scripts clock in at around 120 pages, Heavy Rain’s is a staggering and hopefully stupendous 2,000 pages thanks to the multitude of branching paths the story can...
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Life-size Link hat and other Zelda papercraft...
This life-size Link hat, with optional Link hair, is but one of the many amazing, intricate and inktastic (this particular bit of video game inspired haberdashery will set you back 12 pages) designs available from the good gamers at Nintendo Papercraft.
Modeled after Twilight Princess’s Link, this Link hat and hair combo is completely wearable and also completely paintable, should you want to...
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Sony preparing to unleash flower power
Do potted plants dream? Damn straight they do, and in gorgeous high definition, as evidenced in That Game Company’s latest high-concept creation, Flower.
From the award-winning creators of flOw and Cloud, Flower looks to be an enthralling, enchanting title in which the environment serves as more than just pretty window dressing, becoming the central character. You play as a flower, depressed...
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Game inspired bento boxes look great, hard to make
There is an art to even the most basic bento - a single-portion, home-packed meal common in Japanese cuisine - let alone these gaming inspired masterpieces.
These artistically arranged meals by Anna The Red’s Bento Factory fall into the category of charaben, or character bento, which are elaborately arranged feasts for the eyes originally intended to get kids interested in that raw hunk of...
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Uncharted 2 details revealed
Want all the Drake-tastic details on Uncharted 2: Among Thieves but don’t want a subscription to the often-belated and overly-biased GameStop wank fest that is GameInformer? Some victims of the game giant’s controversial in-store brainwashing techniques have seen fit to circumvent those pesky terms of service by posting details from the January issue of the magazine, which features a 10-page...
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Rock Band Stage Kit fogs brains of reviewers
Wonder no longer what ridiculous gaming peripheral you must purchase this holiday season, for none can compare to the Rock Band Stage Kit, the all-in-one interactive light and smoke stage show for your Xbox 360.
The boys over at Bleep Bloop certainly seemed to enjoy it, maybe a little too much - what exactly is in that “fog juice?” Personally, I worry not just for the health of their lungs...
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Witcher confirms DLC for consoles, plans for world...
Seems CD Projekt, the Polish videogame publisher and distributor behind The Witcher and its upcoming console-friendly port The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf, aren’t content to simply be named “Entrepeneur’s of the Year” - no, they will stop at nothing short of global domination.
“Global domination is, of course, the only reason anyone would ever make a console game,” joked VP of marketing Tom...
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Brütal Legend teaser puts the “um” in umlatte
Oh, that was very, uh…nothing. Unless being disappointing and unfulfilling counts as something. And it doesn’t. Guess those motherless bastards at Spike are really going to make us tune in to their dumbed-down 2008 Video Game Awards - Sunday at 9:00 PM Eastern Time, only on Spike!
I don’t trust them to provide even remotely insightful, entertaining or exciting gaming industry coverage. I do...
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Resident Evil 5 first viral campaign trailer
The Capcom marketing machine is picking up steam, bringing us “The Ceremony,” the first in a series of slickly-produced, admirably-acted live-action clips that teach us why one should always undergo the recommended departmental psych evaluation before accepting invitations to any award ceremonies - methinks our boy Chris Redfeild is suffering some serious post traumatic stress...
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Your own, personal 8-bit Jesus
Time to spread the Christmas gaming good news with Doctor Octoroc’s new chip tunes masterpiece, which is chock full of enough retro 8-bit bleeps and blips to fuel your heart’s nostalgic fire all winter long. At no charge, you can download the first 9 songs, half of the yet to be completed album cleverly christened 8-Bit Jesus, either individually or in neatly wrapped RAR or ZIP...
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Soulja Boy ushers in the end of days
“After I put the Xbox 360 challenge up on the Internet, it was over all these video game sites. And a couple video game companies hit me up on my email because I put the email on there too. And hit me up like, “Blah, blah, blah, blah.” So I was like, “Oh snaps!” So I forwarded to my management, and they forwarded to my label. And now we’re doing the video game. It was the same way I got signed...
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Atlus jokes about ESRB leaks
After Atlus-loving game site Siliconera stumbled upon three of their upcoming titles - My World My Way, Steal Princess, and The Dark Spire - on the Entertainment Software Ratings Board’s website before they had a chance to officially announce them, the company responded with a revolutionary new strategy for revealing games.
While Siliconera was prepared to brave the storm of corporate...
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Gears of War: All your money are belong to us
Epic Games’ grunt-tastic Gears of War 2 has declared all out war on your dwindling savings account. Now that life-size lancers, cog-branded Zunes and Locust Drone busts have weakened your meager defenses, it’s time to finish any straggling survivors - your fifty states quarter collection fought a brave but futile battle - with this heavy duty trifecta of limited edition statues. And we do mean...
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New Arkham Asylum teaser trailer, now with more...
The newest teaser trailer for Batman: Arkham Asylum offers more than just insight into how the Gotham Bureau of Health conducts their annual audit of this high-profile sanitarium for the criminally insane. In addition to the creepy crawly environments, the very picture of a first rate mental health facility, we now get to see some of the classic series’ super villains in action, albeit...
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Mario Kart in real life
To hear them tell it, the French pretty much invented wit. Nothing was more valued among the powdered wig set than a razor wit and an acid tongue, which served as social currency in the Royal court. In fact, the concept of wit is so ingrained into the French culture that their language actually distinguishes between the bon mot, the witty remark you said, and the espirit d’escalier, the witty...
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Professor Layton and the Global Domination...
It’s holiday shopping season in Japan right now, and the number one seller is Professor Layton and The Final Time Journey, the last installment in Level-5’s trilogy of fabulous and frustrating puzzle adventures. According to Gamasutra, the new Nintendo DS game sold 347,000 units, which is 42,000 more units than Animal Crossing: Where My N—a’s At? managed moving in its debut week.
We here at...
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Ghostbusters trailer dares to cross the streams
Mere moments after confirming Ghostbusters for a June of 2009 multiplatform release, Atari has dared to cross the streams of pure awesomeness by treating us to a trailer for the upcoming title, which appears to be brimming with ghostly goodness.
Spooktacular screenshots of the game, which have been haunting the interwebs ever since the title was still under development at now-deceased...
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The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf coming to...
The obscure but excellent Eastern European RPG from Atari and CD Projekt is coming to consoles, redubbed The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf. Though the story, which revolves around the adventures of sword-swinging, monster-hunting, power-manifesting badass Geralt, will remain the same as in the PC version, the PS3 and Xbox 360 will be getting completely streamlined controls, built from...
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MK vs. DCU, now with more BOW-CHIKA-BOW-WOW!
“You know that game you play with the fortune cookies when you’re out for Chinese and need a sexual tension breaker? The one where you append ‘…in bed!’ to the end of everyone’s fortune,” says Joe McNeilly, Senior Editor for Games Radar. “That’s more or less how this video got started.”
The story mode for Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe is as heroically epic as it is horrendously silly,...
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Uncharted 2: The Seach For Santa's Gold
Actually, this 30-second teaser trailer for Uncharted 2: Among Thieves does not necessarily take place in the North Pole, nor does it necessarily feature a fight to the death with a mystic artifact-enhanced “Super Santa,” but we are no less excited. Okay, maybe a little, but not much. Developer Naughty Dog’s sequel to one of my favorite games for the PS3, Uncharted:...