Oh dear. Cute + Final Fantasy = a whole lot of win. Our ownSpiderpigdid a community blog post on these limited figures and I had to pass it along.Play-Asiasays they will be out this month, but you can place a pre-order now if you can’t wait to lay your paws on them. What struck me immediately about these is that they look a great deal like the recently popularPinky St.figures that come in themed special editions....
Like diehard football fans who love watchingthe draftjust as much as as the Superbowl, I love watching the release of high profile videogames to see how well they sell. Case in point:Super Mario 3D Land. Of course, it’s unlikely that it will totallybomb, but the fact that it’s a Mario game isn’t a guarantee that it’s going to be a huge hit either. The loyalty of Mario fans is a fickle thing....
Gallery 1988 receivedthree new paintings that will give nerds everywhere a raging clue. As you can see, the paintings fuse together one of the biggest movie franchises ever with one of the biggest game franchises ever. The acrylic paintings are on sale over at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles and they’re pretty pricey. The above image is going for $750 while the two other pieces are going for $1,400 each. Yikes....
Is your NES just sitting under your TV being so 1980s? Look at that little red light, and the lack of stereo sound and the fact that you have to get up to reset the thing. It’s been well over two decades, why won’t the thing start evolving?Raphnet.netis here to help with a plethora of mods that can bring your NES into the modern day and age that it so stubbornly refuses to join....
Today I had the rare honor of not only attending a Supreme Court argument, but also spending an hour and a half with Justice Scalia, the Court’s second most senior Associate Justice. Those of you who are familiar with American jurisprudence are probably familiar with Justice Scalia’s reputation as an extremely conservative justice who is a strict originalist when it comes to constitutional interpretation. For those that are unfamiliar with the different schools of thought in constitutional interpretation, originalist believe that the terms of the United States Constitution should be interpreted as they were intended at the time they were ratified....
Wednesday will see the release of two Live Arcade puzzlers,SwitchballandWord Puzzle. Each game will set you back by 800 Microsoft Points, should you deem them worthy of purchase. Switchballis one of those “get from point A to point B” games in which you guide a ball through a series of unnecessarily complex mazes. It features some fancy visuals and 2-player co-op in addition to 8-player competitive racing. Casual gamers andmanly menrejoice, asWord Puzzleis right up your alley....
So you’ve sold everything your grandmother owns (including your grandmother) to buy that shiny new HDTV, and now you’re probably on the look-out for somefinenative 1080p software to play on your new setup. Now what? If you own a 360, you’ve probably trained your sights on Sega’sVirtua Tennis 3and EA’sNBA Street Homecourtto best show off your new rig, but there’s a new contender waiting in the wings:Tetris Evolution, developed by THQ and set to hit the 360 in March....
What do you want from me? It’s Lumines, man. What do you want me to say? I’m kidding. Kind of. But it really is just Lumines, but now on the Vita. And that’s all we really wanted, right? The TGS demo for this sequel was really short, like 1.5 stages short. I got to refresh my block dropping skill on the first stage, a pink and grey colored throb-fest that looked fantastic on the Vita’s screen....
Wideload Games revealed all ten characters that will be playable inHail to the Chimp. All the characters will be battling it outPower Stonestyle as they all try and become the next President. The game will poke fun at all things that make politics lame and is promising to be very funny. Hail to the Chimp will be out Spring 2008 for the Xbox 360 and the PS3. Fronz and I playedthe game during EIEIOand we did enjoy it....
Today, Chad brought you the industry standard E3 prediction post. Except, it wasn’t quite so standard. Chad got hold of a real psychic in order to find out what the big three have planned and answered questions asked by the community about E3. It’s a very long article and definitelyworth checking out. Conrad got some interesting mail, Ben talked to Robert Siwiak aboutSection 8, the HipHopGamer interviewed Colette, we reviewedTerminator: Salvation,Beyond Good & Evil 2coming 2010 and plenty more happened on 05/27/09....
More than a few eyebrows were raised when it became known that Twisted Pixel’sThe Gunstringerwould be a retail gameinstead of a downloadable one. To make you feel better, the retail box will come with codes for Halfbrick’sFruit Ninja Kinectand The Wavy Tube Man Chronicles DLC. This DLC concerns the fight against Wavy Tube Man Jr., son of the first boss in the game, who steals a time machine to take revenge and has you battling classic western cowboys and futuristic warriors....
I love how these “making of” videos aren’t really insightful or helpful. As one of our readers pointed out, this is what happens when the marketing department gets their hand on the idea of a developer diary. Still, it’s flashy and has all sorts of dramatic camera angles, so there’s that.I’ve been playingKillzone 2for a multitude of hours recently, and have to say that I am most certainly impressed. The controls take some getting used to, especially the gimmicky Sixaxis nonsense, but otherwise this is as intense and indulgent a first-person shooter as you’re likely to get....
Last Tuesday, I had the pleasure of going to seeFinal Fantasy: Advent Children Completewith Japanator writer Jeff Chuang. The screening, held by New York Tokyo for various members of the press at Sony’s Wonder Technology Lab, provided a new look at this update ofAdvent Children. It’s been about 13 years now since we were first introduced to the universe ofFinal Fantasy VII, andAdvent Children Completeseems to be a capstone piece to the whole series, closing it off so that the people involved can finally be free from the project....
