Welcome back my lovelies. It’s that time once again where I recap for you all the fascinating forum news and happenings of the past month. We had some creativity, thread derailment and badges, and that’s just in the first few paragraphs. This month in forum land, Victor had the idea that we should have our owngameand M47R1X ran with the idea, creating the awesome header image above. In the heat of the forum love fest Mr....
Good fortune is with me yet again, as I have another App for you that’s actually pretty damn good.iStunt Reloadedis free for the day thanks toFreeAppADay, and you won’t be wasting your time by giving it a download. iStuntis pretty challenging, and plenty of fun. You help a little snowboarder get to his destination, jumping cliffs, avoiding hazards, and tilting the iPhone to perform stunts along the way. It can get pretty tricky, but there are well-placed checkpoints throughout....
Do your loins burn in anticipation? Perhaps you’ve got theIV! After bringing the Internet to its knees with the trailer forGrand Theft Auto IV, Rockstar has decided to once again giveGame Informerthe first exclusive look at their upcoming sure thing. Previously,Game Informersnagged exclusives for other games in the series, includingVice CityandSan Andreas. Perhaps mail carriers nationwide will be trampled upon delivery and EB Games/GameStop stores (whose employees mercilessly pimp the magazine at every given opportunity) will be mobbed when the word of the magazines arrival gets out....
Read the comments sections of many gaming blogs and you’d be inclined to believe that the gamer populace is morally opposed to in-game advertising with the fervent passion of a thousand fornicating chimpanzees. Anew study, however, indicates that 82% of gamers actually don’t care about in-game marketing, or at least accept it. “82 percent felt games were just as enjoyable with ads as without,” states the study, conducted by the Nielson company and in-game advertisers IGA Worldwide....
Yeah yeah, blah blah,Super Smash Bros. Brawl. You think I’m impressed? You think I care? So you’re American, you get to make Pikachu electrify Sonic the Hedgehog, big deal. In Britain, we getPeep Show, so we’re the real winners here. Yes … the real winners. Yes, Sunday’s almost a distant memory, and thank Christ, because it means the beginning of the end for the ridiculous, Nintendo-cultivatedSmashhype that has been on my Internet for far too long....
GameStop’s UFC Undisputed 2010 Ultimate Fighter Life should interest you because 1) It’s aboutUFC Undisputed 2010, a game that wouldn’t normally fit under my interests, butI ended up really enjoying, and 2) because there’s some really sweet prizes to win in their sweepstakes. You’ll want to head toGameStop’s pagefor the sweeps and enter now. One prize, the Ultimate Gaming Hook-Up, is either a PS3 or a PSP in a bundle, packed with an early copy of the game....
Brinkis the latest first-person shooter from developer Splash Damage and I was able to get an impromptu interview with CEO Paul Wedgwood. Paul and I spend some time talking aboutBrink’sinteresting new approach to the FPS genre, the strong art direction, customization and the massive eight player co-op. The latest build took both me and fellow BritToid editor Daniel Carneiro by surprise as previous looks atBrinkhad left us with a bitter taste in our mouths....
I’m not one to complain about free stuff, but what the f*ck? Really? A “Pikachu colored Pichu”? That’s a thing I can have? Aren’t all Pichus pretty much Pikachu colored already? Am I missing something here, or is this just more of that “different colored Pokemon are shiny and more special” wacky fun that we Poke-fans supposedly love so well? Want to know something even weirder? If you trade this slightly more jaundiced Pichu over to the yet unreleasedPokemon HearGold/SoulSilver, you can trigger an event to grab that bumpy eared Pichu on the left....
While you wait forGears of War 3, why not get your Transformers on? The upcomingTransformers: War for Cybertronlooks like it borrows more than a little from Epic’s popular third-person shooter, and that’s not an entirely bad thing. So if you’re already dedicated to yourWar for Cybertronpurchase, maybe you should reserve it at Best Buy. Doing so will get you an exclusive multiplayer character, Jazz. (Get the headline now? Get “jazzed”?Get it?...
Digital Rights Management is a thorny issue among gamers, one that’s likely not going away anytime soon. The chaps atGood Old Games, however, have long boasted of their DRM-free PC titles, and there’s a reason for it — the company doesn’t believe in its usefulness. “What I will say isn’t popular in the gaming industry, but in my opinion DRM drives people to pirate games rather than prevent them from doing that,” said PR and marketing manager Lukasz Kukawski....
Grand Theft Auto IIImade great use of popular music, but you had to buy CDs to get the soundtrack for yourself. This time around, Amazon and Rockstar Games have worked out a deal where gamers have easy access any song they hear inGrand Theft Auto IV. This really nifty idea for digital music distribution uses the game’s cell phone feature.Ars Technicasays that players can dial a number on the in-game cell phone at any time they hear something they like from the game’s soundtrack....
Microsoft’s latest attempt to combat Wii and PS3 sales this holiday season comes via Hotmail, that POP3 server people used to use. Somehow, I think this will be less effective than the deal they did with Amazon — $100 off > $30 off and free shipping. C’mon Microsoft, anybody still using Hotmail is obviously loyal to you (otherwise they would’ve jumped ship to something more useful and less awkward), so why not cut them a deal, eh?...
Imagine an alternate reality in which Nazis, vampires, zombies, and werewolves fought together in World War II. This is the basic plot line forOperation Darkness, a tactical RPG heading to the Xbox 360 this June from Atlus. The official Web site for the game has launched today, along with some new screens and videos, sohead on overwhen you get the chance. Trust me, you won’t want to miss out on seeing Hitler’s character profile....
