Archive for January, 2008

Electronic Arts Wants to Take Even More of Your Money

Tweet After seeing the huge sales of downloadable songs for Guitar Hero III and their very own Rock Band, Electronic Arts had this fantastic idea – offer downloadable soundtracks for all of their games. Read on for why we think this is tremendously stupid.

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Richard Diamant Interview Part 2: Art Style, Water, and the Advantages of Blu-ray

Tweet The second part of our interview with Richard Diamant, Naughty Dog’s Lead Character Artist, is upon us. In this part Richard talks about Uncharted’s art style, lighting, water, the advantages of Blu-ray, and the possibility of swimming underwater or crouching in the next game.

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PC Portal Cube Packs A Punch

Tweet What do you do in the space of a week? Get a higher rank on your favourite game? Build a Lego castle, or just laze around and do nothing. Well, Mr Magnuss Persson can build a custom PC and case from the ground up.

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EA’s New Endeavor: Battlefield Heroes

Tweet Image courtesy of Games for Windows Magazine Games for Windows Editor Shawn Elliott has been alluding to a game in the past few editions of the GFW Radio podcast, a game he stated may change PC gaming as we know it. The game he was referring to is a joint production between EA and [...]

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Exit DS Demo Online

Tweet Web-based DS demos are all the rage these days. No surprise then that a few levels of Taito’s spatial puzzler’s have found their way onto a browser near you.

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Disney Now Testing DS-Based Park Map

Tweet Why bother with the repeated folding and unfolding of a traditional paper map until the edges start to wear, when you can just flip open your portable? With the help of a special cartridge, Disney plans to give tech-savvy visitors a better way to get around their famous theme parks.

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Rumor – Two New Super Smash Bros. Brawl Characters Revealed

Tweet Last week, Smash Bros. DOJO!! revealed that stickers you collect in the single player campaign of Super Smash Bros. Brawl would act as power-ups when applied. However, the website may have inadvertently revealed something much, much bigger.

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New Final Fantasy XIII, Versus, Agito Scans

Tweet The latest issue of Jump featured screens from the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII and its seemingly obligatory spin-offs. They look good.

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Tetris + Guitar Hero + Wipeout = AudioSurf

Tweet AudioSurf takes the lessons of three classic games (I’m sure it’s safe to say Guitar Hero is a classic game formula now) and moulds them into one, culminating in a downloadable PC game that uses your own tracks to create sound gameplay.

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MGS4 Demo Actually on the Way? *Update*

Tweet Get in! Can it be? Can the words I read be true? Is a Metal Gear Solid 4 demo coming to the Playstation Network next month? I do not believe it.

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Pennsylvania Governor Defends Videogames and Supports the ESRB

Tweet Fight for your right to Mario Party! Unlike the vast majority of politicians, Pennsylvania State Governor Ed Rendell is not a self-righteous prick when it comes to videogames. In fact, he supports the ESRB’s rating system, and he’ll even go on TV to prove it.

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Surprisingly Good SNK Arcade Classics Compilation Announced

Tweet Compilation, you say? Yeah, I don’t like that word either. Game compilations tend to mean one or two good titles surrounded by three times as many bad ones. So I’m rather scared to admit that all the titles on SNK Arcade Classics: Volume 1 rock.

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Crysis Shark Attack

Tweet Here sharky sharky…What better way to stop players from going out of bounds and meeting game walls than getting them eaten by a shark. Crysis takes an engaging game world a step further with impressive animation and A.I. Perhaps Crysis doesn’t even have game walls, instead being an endless labyrinth of possibilities where you [...]

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Tetris Playing Robot Table

Tweet A video featuring a mechanical Tetris playing robot table has just hit the internet. In the video the rig features an NES style controller that adjusts the x and y axis of the blocks.

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Xbox 360 Is King Of The Consoles – Microsoft’s Spin On NPD Data

Tweet See, it’s not all doom and gloom for the 360 after all! According to the NPD Group’s data, Microsoft is leading the videogame industry in several areas. They had a big year overall – December hardware sales were on par with the Wii ,while 360 software sales took the lead with games like Call [...]

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