Remember that Pearl Jam “live” Rock Band projectmentioned about a year ago? MTV Games and Harmonix have been relatively quiet on the Pearl Jam front, having only up until this point released the band’s music as downloadable content for existingRock Bandproducts. Now, a Swedish retailerWebhallen seems to thinkthat there’s aPearl Jam: Rock Bandin the works. They even have some (not really that) fancy box art to go along with its listing....
Happy Friday, listeners. This week we finally recorded ourFinal Fantasy VIIepisode, as this season’s final installment of our Retro Limbo series. It’s a long show, and it’s packed full of talk about stuff like:
We heart Capcom. A lot. Chances are you do, too. Tonight we’ll be discussing just how awesome Capcom was, and still is. They’re responsible for many of our favorite games, and some of those were Disney games. Which means there will probably be singing. Hit the comments with your questions for us, or just to tell us about some of your own wonderful Capsule Computer memories. We’ll see you tomorrow....
WhenMega Man 9was released in 2008, the game freaked people out with its ability to emotionally transport thirty-something gamers back to the late 1980s. The game’s graphics, music, and design choices were all straight out of theMega Man 2playbook, a playbook that hadn’t been used much in the past 20 years. Experiencing this style of game effectively made me feel like a kid again. The design missteps ofMega Man 7and andMega Man 8were erased from my mind, and my love of Mega Man was back in full force....
I have always had a certain fondness for theTerminatorfilms, even though I struggle almost daily with the way time travel apparently worked in the series. Maybe they’re using some sort of non-linear model of time that I simply cannot grasp, but I don’t understand how it is that John Connor can send his own father back through time to impregnate Sarah Connor (thus bringing John into existence). Nevertheless, I have endured because the films have largely been fun romps....
Tis the season for Xmas cards and tis the season for PR and gaming companies to flood my snail mail box with their well wishes. I thought you all might like to see the holiday cheer that Rockstar has sent me and the chick-with-big-boobs-sitting-on-Santa’s-lap joy that Wild Tangent sent along. Happy holidays everybody!
So you may have noticed the severe lack of women in theGears of Waruniverse. There’s Dom’s wife, that other woman who keeps yelling at you over the intercom and I think I saw one running for her life at one point. Outside of that female appearances in theGearsgames are slim to none. Evidently mankind’s last stand can truly only be taken by men.Or can the ladies join in too? Speaking on an episode of1 vs....
When the PSP Minis prices werefinally revealed, I was amazed. This service, intended to do for the PSP what Apps did for the iPhone, was idiotic. Games started at $4.99 and went as high as ten bucks.Tetriswas $9.99, twice as much as its iPhone counterpart. Sony, however, hasdenied responsibilityfor the stupid prices, claiming that it’s up to the developer. “As far as pricing goes, the publisher of the title sets the pricing,” explains Sony’s Eric Lempel....
Sunday Rose Kidman Urban. No, that’s not just a random string of words we threw together to get hits. That’s whatproud parentsNicole Kidman and Keith Urban named their newborn baby girl. Squid Bennett Ryan Banana Farm Jackson Gonzalez Thursday Cantler. That will be the name of our office dog. Had we not spent a good portion of the day trawling local animal shelters for our new pet, we might have told you about these bits of videogame news:...
I know where all of you are. Out raving about how goodThe Dark Knight. Oh my stars and bars, was that a fantastic movie. But I’ll try not to turn this space into my own personal ranting area, for surely enough Chester will snatch the reins back from my hand and give me a good whipping for the insolence I’ve caused. What we’ve got here are a few interesting things of note, especially for our UK friends....
From time to time, those of us with way too much time on our hands like to peruse (see: troll) the ESRB’s Web site for whatever information we can find. This comes in the form of XBLA/PSN games being revealed early, plot spoilers, and the occasional hilarious rating summary. Scribblenautsfalls under that last one. For the full summary, which was spottedby GoNintendo, simplyclick here. Otherwise, here’s the simplified version: “If multiple words are entered in a sequence, different whimsical scenarios can be triggered: a bicycle can be used to jump over a baby; a bulldozer can clear away a shark; and cabbage can be fed to dinosaurs....
Update:Everyone calm down and carry on:Sony has confirmed that it’s fake. A few days agowe pointed you to a Japanese viral videothat teases at the PS4 and shows off some 3D gaming…er, side effects. Now it seems that Sony is at it again with a second video. This one has English subtitles, but looks to be taking place in the same lab that the first one did. The YouTube channel itself is calledSCElabs....
The group formerly known as The Creative Assembly Australia is now called SEGA Studios Australia. This group was originally founded back in July 2002, and you might know them from PC titleRome: Total WarandMedieval II: Total War.The group has since been focused on new hardware platforms. Sega says that they’re now working on an unnamed multiplatform title. Sega Studios Australia has also launched anew webpage. There we see that the new game will be a “sports title for the next generation systems....
