Videogame News Thread

[Funky Fly]

I almost did that with SSF4. So furiating that game.

It's not the easiest shit to get into, as far as fighters go because you have to know about specific means of attack to get anywhere. Probably would have helped if you had someone experienced playing with you irl.

Try Tekken out. Easier series to get into. You got a PS3, yeah? D/l Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection. It's like $10. You'll be a hopeless button masher to start (and actually not be too bad, probably), but in a couple of hours you'll start figuring out moves with different guys and eventually learn the ins and outs. :y:

The only downside is the cheap ass boss, but that's more than made up for with the mode where you fight in different dojos.

[Kalyx triaD]

Probably not gonna get VF5 anytime soon, RoXy.

[RoXer]

you duckin

[Kalyx triaD]

Says the guy waiting for the new TV to face me in SSF4.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Surely there's some value we're missing. I just need a week or two with it to be sure. Maybe my past conclusions were overly harsh due to playing Tekken so much. I'm much more open to alternate gameplay now.

I promise.

Possibly. It's probably why I despise all Namco fighters, because of much VF playing.

Dunno why I could always switch between SNK and Capcom 2D fighters and loved them pretty equally.

[D Mac]

DJ Hero 2 demo is up. Can I play it without the turntables? Vocals maybe?

[Emperor Smeat]

Capcom's Dead Rising Case Zero sells over 300,000 copies since its release last week. The "demo's" price of $5 turned out to be very popular and now it is rumored other companies might start to do games that seem like demos but cost money (ex. Acitivision, EA).

The last paid "demo" that ended up successful was GT 5 Prologue which helped fund the last couple of years of development for the main game.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/09/500x_casezero.jpg

http://kotaku.com/5632494/dead-rising-2-prequel-sells-a-ton

[Xero]

lol paid demos.

[Kalyx triaD]

That's a whole game, right?

[Emperor Smeat]

Not really since its a prequel to Dead Rising 2 which is meant to tell what happened from the time of DR1 ending to the start of DR2 and what happened to Frank West.

You can play it without needing DR 1 or DR 2 but its very short and timed as a way to get multiple play-throughs.

The reason why it appears as a paid demo more than a regular demo is how you can save your stats and level (up to level 5) for Dead Rising 2. Capcom had a feeling people didn't want to pay much for a "demo" type game which is why it dropped from the initial $10 to $5 currently.

Its related more to GT 5 Prologue where its a demo in the sense you only get some of what the main game offers but you have to pay to play it.

[Drakul]

I played through the game and got an A rank/Ending and it never told me what happened to Frank.

[Kalyx triaD]

Dead or Alive Dimensions (3DS):

http://www.fightersgeneration.com/np6/doa3ds-famitsu.jpghttp://www.fightersgeneration.com/np6/doa3ds-famitsu2.jpg

Looks good so far. Wonder how Itagaki's absence will affect the game.

[Kane Knight]

Capcom's Dead Rising Case Zero sells over 300,000 copies since its release last week. The "demo's" price of $5 turned out to be very popular and now it is rumored other companies might start to do games that seem like demos but cost money (ex. Acitivision, EA).

The last paid "demo" that ended up successful was GT 5 Prologue which helped fund the last couple of years of development for the main game.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/09/500x_casezero.jpg

http://kotaku.com/5632494/dead-rising-2-prequel-sells-a-ton

I don't mind paying five dollars for a demo if it's got its own complete story. A two hour "demo" with a complete story, replay value, GS, etc? Works for me. I've never even played Dead Rising, but I'm tempted to buy this.

[D Mac]

DJ Hero 2 demo is up. Can I play it without the turntables? Vocals maybe?

Thanks for the answer assholes. :foc:

[D Mac]

I don't mind paying five dollars for a demo if it's got its own complete story. A two hour "demo" with a complete story, replay value, GS, etc? Works for me. I've never even played Dead Rising, but I'm tempted to buy this.

You should. It's pretty big for 5 bucks and you can have fun fucking around, building weapons and killing zombies.

[Funky Fly]

Thanks for the answer assholes. :foc:

How many people here have the first one do you think? Of those, how many do you think care about the second one? I have DJ Hero and don't give a fuck about 2.

[Kalyx triaD]

Pac-Man Championship Edition DX:

http://xboxlivemedia.ign.com/xboxlive/image/article/111/1119045/pacmandxinline_1283986028.jpg

- Smart Bomb attack sends all Ghosts home.
- Ghosts can multiply and even appear out of nowhere.
- Time will slow down before a possible Ghost attack to give you a chance to react.
- Choose sprites from past games to use.
- Still single player, no rumored port of GCN's multiplayer mode.

[Fignuts]

wtf ever happened to the new bomberman? Back when I got live for the first time, thats like all I played.

[Fignuts]

Played the demo of Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm, and it was freaking epic. Played more like a boss battle in a 3d platformer, than a fighting game. Visuals are of course, drool worthy. Very tempted to get this.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

lol paid demos.

You do realise that Case Zero has a demo that costs nothing and that all the content in Case Zero will not actually be in Dead Rising 2... Right?

[Kane Knight]

You should. It's pretty big for 5 bucks and you can have fun fucking around, building weapons and killing zombies.

You're just excited you can make the ultimate redneck weapon.

[D Mac]

Dual chainsaws ducked taped to each end of a rowboat paddle FTW.

[D Mac]

You do realise that Case Zero has a demo that costs nothing and that all the content in Case Zero will not actually be in Dead Rising 2... Right?

You can carry over your level and money to DR2.

[Xero]

You do realise that Case Zero has a demo that costs nothing and that all the content in Case Zero will not actually be in Dead Rising 2... Right?

I knew the latter, not the former.

I do have a problem with them putting out ONLY paid demos.

[Emperor Smeat]

Today Sony celebrates the 15th anniversary of the debut of the PS1. As a gift, Sony's PSN is giving discounts and free items for most of September.

It wasn't the 1st ever CD-based console but managed to end up as the 1st successful CD-based console, started the decline and eventual death of Sega, and started the drop of Nintendo from which lasted for over 10 years.

* Free downloadable PS3 & PSP static themes available for download on the PlayStation Store starting today
* Weekly discounts on select PS One titles within the PlayStation 15th anniversary collection page, available in all SCEA territories on PS3, PSP & Media Go Storefronts. In addition to a 50 percent sale on Super Rub A Dub (Super Rub A Dub offer good from Thursday, September 9, 2010 - through Monday, September 20, 2010).
* A PlayStation Home commemorative Original PlayStation® (PS One) ornament for personal spaces available starting today.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/09/500x_sony.jpg

http://kotaku.com/5633974/fifteen-years-of-playstation-domination?skyline=true&s=i

[OssMan]

Today is also the 11th anniversary of the Dreamcast.

9/9/99

[Fignuts]

I don't understand why people are calling case zero a demo, if it's all original content, seperate from the main game. Wouldn't that make it pre-release dlc? Not a demo?

[Funky Fly]

I don't understand why people are calling case zero a demo, if it's all original content, seperate from the main game. Wouldn't that make it pre-release dlc? Not a demo?

I agree with this statement.

[Kalyx triaD]

You don't expect people to actually read previews and such, do you?

[Kalyx triaD]

Updating arcade machines with servers:

http://media.eventhubs.com/images/2010/09/09_taitodownload.jpg

Could have used this about 8 years ago. Arc Systems and SNK Playmore signed on. Capcom and SEGA should jump on but it seems a bit late. This will save operators time and money, though.

[Kane Knight]

Sure, it's designed to demonstrate the game and act as a demo, but don't call it a demo, because it's original content.

FFS, games used to actually demo themselves without some stunted version of the first level, but don't let that stop you folks from complaining when it's called a demo.

[Kalyx triaD]

What other genres appeal to Arc? Is there room for Arc[Systems, Blazblue] creating a game that isn’t a beat-em-up or do you feel that developers should stick to what they know?

I would continue my work with 2D fighting but personally I’m also interested in 3D action game like Bayonetta & Devil May Cry or even Gears of War something with a 3rd person view. I would love to create a game like that in the future if I have an opportunity to do so. However my head is full of BlazBlue at the moment and I’m not planning to do anything else right now.

[Emperor Smeat]

Update to the News regarding Capcom's Dead Rising Case Zero and Frank West.

I'm using the spoiler tag mostly for those who haven't finished Case Zero or haven't played it yet and don't want one of the central plot-line spoiled.

Frank West confirmed to be in Dead Rising 2 after Capcom initially said he would be in Case Zero and would probably have been dead by the time the second game occurs. Case Zero was supposed to tell what happened to West while explaining why the new character is in the game.

Right now he's been confirmed to be a selectable character for the game's multiplayer.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/09/500x_frank.jpg

http://kotaku.com/5635181/frank-west-takes-a-trip-to-fortune-city-for-dead-rising-2

[Kalyx triaD]

The most played game on my XBL friendslist is Netflix.

[Kane Knight]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/103399-Police-Find-Meth-Lab-Searching-for-Stolen-Xbox

I didn't know Destor lived in Florida.

[Kane Knight]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/102316-Gold-Farmers-Mimic-Behavior-of-Drug-Dealers

In more "drug" related gaming news.

[Drakul]

Random little story for you.

Lionhead chieftain Peter Molyneux claims that his original vision of a "physically correct" creature for Black & White ended up with an artist threatening to pull a knife on him.

This can get filed under the header "Things I never thought I'd find myself writing":

While speaking on a podcast with IGN UK (via iTunes) during the Gamescom event in Germany last month, Peter Molyneux mentioned that the sausages in the recording booth - because those Germans have sausages everywhere or something - reminded him of his earlier game Black & White.

Specifically, they reminded him of the creature's penis.

Now, if you've played Black & White, you probably know that the creature didn't actually have a (visible) Sgt. Peppy. No, this monstrous wangerdoodle was only in an early prototype of the game: "I for some reason had this obsession to make them anatomically correct. So the first version of this giant ape had this sort of beautifully physically correct - I'm going to say the word - penis dangling between its legs."

And in case the mental image in your head wasn't bad enough, said member "morphed depending on how excited your creature was."

That sort of thing would never fly in a game, of course, and Molyneux knows it. "I don't know what was going through my mind. I wasn't even on class A drugs! It was this bizarre thing," he says, and don't think we didn't notice that "class A drugs" qualifier, Peter. "It was this bizarre thing. Especially in America! Even if you show nipples they go insane, rating it under-the-counter product. It just goes to show you just how rubbish I am as a designer, really."

Nevertheless, Molyneux initially persisted, and the poor modelers working at Lionhead had to create the creature's morphable schlongalong. "The artist that modeled it ended up going completely insane. [He] threatened to knife me ... absolutely true story. He went on to found Media Molecule. Chap called Mark Healey."

Having never met Mr. Healey myself, I cannot say whether or not the founder of the LittleBigPlanet studio is likely to threaten to knife somebody (if only in jest). In all fairness, spending your work day painstakingly rendering a monster tallywhacker would probably drive most people insane, so it's hardly just him.

"Driven mad by making huge, sausage-like penises on apes - that's the sort of thing I get people to do at Lionhead."

Whether or not you believe Peter Molyneux's story here - because the only indication we have that this is the truth is the eccentric designer's word alone - I think we can all agree that it is, in fact, a story. A very interesting one. About a game artist going crazy from working on an animated giant monkey porker.

Source (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/103376-Black-White-Monster-Penis-Almost-Got-Peter-Molyneux-Knifed).

[Xero]

lol

[OssMan]

beat lime slime in secret of mana yesterday

[Kane Knight]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/103402-Colossi-Spotted-at-Wal-Mart-Heading-Towards-the-PS3

Shadow of the Colossus/Ico for PS3? HAWT.

[Drakul]

Paid £3 to download "The Simpsons Arcade" to my phone. I was misled. It wasn't the actual arcade game. It's a really simple and crappy game where you play as Homer trying to get a doughnut that Smithers ran off with.

Speaking of The Simpsons Arcade game, they should bring the real one to XBLA. 4 player online would be fun.
I only ever played it once when I was on holiday. Some American boy about my age at the time came across to the arcade machine and randomly joined in on my game. Didn't say his name or hang around afterwards. Could have used someone to play against on the other machines. Anyway, It was fun so I'd like to see it for download.

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[Xero]

Yeah, completely agree. I'm honestly very surprised it hasn't been released. The best time would have been to coincide with the movie, or even the 20th season.

Also don't understand why there was never a home port on SNES or Genesis.

Though it's a Konami game, and they still need to release Sunset Riders for XBLA/PSN. Fuck, I'd even take a Wii Ware release of the SNES or Genesis port.

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[#BROKEN Hasney]

EA and Konami would have to work of an agreement for it to come on XBLA/PSN. They did with UbiSoft with TMNT, but EA would probably drive a harder bargain.

Just like it couldn't come on consoles, because Acclaim had the home rights to Simpsosns games, so Konami and Acclaim would have had to agree.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Speaking of, The Simpsons home computer licenses was a mess. Konami published he PC and Commodore 64 ports of the Simpsons arcade, but Ocean then got the rights and just ported Acclaims Bart Vs. the Space Mutants to home computers.

[Fignuts]

I would want X-Men before The Simpsons, tbh.

[Funky Fly]

I would want X-Men before The Simpsons, tbh.

Yeah.

[Drakul]

Love Sunset Riders. That was another game I only ever played on holiday.

Mario turns 25 today.

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[Drakul]

Xbox 360 new dashboard in action:

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Nintendo need to bring this out in the UK/US:
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/09/500x_wiibox.jpg

Please, Nintendo, release the Mario 25th anniversary collection in the West. Not for the games, we've got those, thanks. Just for the box.

This fetching art adorns the special bundle for Nintendo's Mario 25th Anniversary bundle for the Wii, which includes Super Mario All Stars (a compilation of early Mario games first released on the Super Nintendo), a soundtrack CD and a DVD detailing the history of Nintendo's mascot.

It'll be out October 21 in Japan, and cost ¥2,500 (USD$30).

[Kane Knight]

Paid £3 to download "The Simpsons Arcade" to my phone. I was misled. It wasn't the actual arcade game. It's a really simple and crappy game where you play as Homer trying to get a doughnut that Smithers ran off with.

Speaking of The Simpsons Arcade game, they should bring the real one to XBLA. 4 player online would be fun.
I only ever played it once when I was on holiday. Some American boy about my age at the time came across to the arcade machine and randomly joined in on my game. Didn't say his name or hang around afterwards. Could have used someone to play against on the other machines. Anyway, It was fun so I'd like to see it for download.

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You didn't get cheated, you just didn't do research.

[Drakul]

I didn't say I was cheated. I said I was misled.
Each game, before you download, has a screenshot. The screenshot for the game I downloaded was Homer and Bart in a mansion level, fighting FBI agents. Homer had a large mallet weapon and I forget what Bart was doing.
The sprites were decent quality and everything.

What I got when I downloaded the game was tiny, badly drawn sprites, no weapons, no character select, no variation in the levels (all just seem to be generic streets) or enemies and bad midi music that doesn't loop.

[Xero]

Would easily buy that Mario collection if it were released here.

[Kane Knight]

Fine, you weren't misled.

[Kane Knight]

From Youtube alone, I can tell not all the missions are generic street missions.

[Emperor Smeat]

Would easily buy that Mario collection if it were released here.

They probably won't release it here until next year since that would be the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros in the US (March 1986).

[Xero]

They probably won't release it here until next year since that would be the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros in the US (March 1986).

Yeah, makes sense.

I'd like to see 3DS version of Mario All Stars. Honestly, that would probably sell me on the system.

[D Mac]

Action Arcade Wrestling is up on XBox live Indie Games.

[D Mac]

Not bad for a buck.

[Emperor Smeat]

THQ announces a few vague release dates for certain games for their 2011 schedule. The upcoming Red Faction Armageddon is set for a May 2011 release date while Saints Row 3 set to be released around the same time frame as the annual WWE Smackdown vs Raw game (Fall 2011).

Tthe next UFC game set for a Winter 2012 date but could also be the very last UFC game made by THQ. Their original deal with UFC only goes up to 2012 and might not be renewed due to THQ having huge financial losses this year and lower than expected sales for UFC 2010.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/09/500x_500x_0347a0d239bc2eea820677a96aa38f58.jpg

http://kotaku.com/5636955/red-faction-armageddon-hits-in-may-saints-row-3-next-fall

[Kane Knight]

Not bad for a buck.
Define "not bad."

[D Mac]

It feels like a cheap version of Fire Pro Wrestling. But that's not necessarily a bad thing.

[Kalyx triaD]

Resident Evil: Damnation, the sequel to the CGI movie Degeneration, is happening. This is awesome news.

[alvarado52]

i didnt like Degeneration...and this is coming from someone who is a die hard RE fan.

[Emperor Smeat]

Sony patents add-on device to play PS2 games on the non-PS2 compatible PS3 models. Originally Sony took out PS2 compatibility as a way to save money and now want to have consumers pay for the ability to play PS2 games for any PS3 model.

The device itself is basically a mini-PS2 and doesn't use the PS3 CPU and GPU to play PS2 games since it has its own decoders and processors.

http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/81998/sony-patents-possible-ps2-playback-device/

[alvarado52]

lol, or you can just keep your old ps2

[D Mac]

i didnt like Degeneration...and this is coming from someone who is a die hard RE fan.

[D Mac]

lol, or you can just keep your old ps2

Or buy a used one for like 20 - 30 bucks.

[Fignuts]

It feels like a cheap version of Fire Pro Wrestling. But that's not necessarily a bad thing.

lol no, it certainly does not. In fact, it might be the worstwrestling game I've ever played.

[D Mac]

Even worse then Tag Team Wrestling for the NES?

[Kalyx triaD]

Pieces are beginning to fall into place for a likely reveal of Devil May Cry 5 as Capcom registers the trademark mere days before the start of the Tokyo Game Show.

The news comes (via vg24/7) as Ninja Theory – the UK development team heavily rumoured to be behind the series reboot – tweets that its new game is to be revealed at the show this week.

Oh god I hope NT 'gets it'.

[Drakul]

Oh god I hope NT 'gets it'.

It's just been revealed. Trailer should be online soon.

[Emperor Smeat]

After promising Frank West's fate would be explained in Case Zero and then not occurring, Capcom announces a new DLC chapter called Dead Rising 2: Case West.

The DLC is 2 player co-op where West and Chuck are playable characters and might explain what happened to Frank West after the 1st game and how he met Chuck.

Case West as of now is exclusive to Xbox 360 but no date announced for release. Its assumed the pricing would be the same as Case Zero ($5 or 400 MS points).

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/09/500x_vegas.jpg

http://kotaku.com/5638549/frank-west-returns-in-new-dead-rising-title?skyline=true&s=i

[G]

I bet people still bitch and call it a paid demo of DR2.

[Xero]

Pretty bait and switch not to explain what happens to him. "Paid demo" or not, that's false advertising.

[Emperor Smeat]

Originally Capcom wanted Frank West to either be a cameo or explain what happened to him very early into Dead Rising 2.

Then they decided to hint at his story being in told in Case Zero and why Chuck is the new character.

Now it looks like he's going to be playable in Case West but no guarantee his story gets told in this DLC chapter.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

I don't understand. Capcom moving development out west has been a total failure so far and Konami haven't fared much better.

What the hell are they playing at?

[Kalyx triaD]

Oh god I hope NT 'gets it'.

Silly me, there is no god.

[Kane Knight]

lol, or you can just keep your old ps2

This does have some benefits, such as not needing to run a separate cable to your TV.

However, it best be damn cheap to make even those benefits worth the cost.

[Kane Knight]

lol no, it certainly does not. In fact, it might be the worstwrestling game I've ever played.

Yeah, I don't know what D Mac was thinking. This is worse than his Lars/Hetfield slashfic.

[thecc]

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/09/msft-tgs-live-0508.jpg

[Kalyx triaD]

During Microsoft's Tokyo Game Show press conference this morning, Capcom's Keiji Inafune took the stage to introduce the world to Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor for Kinect, a new interpretation of the classic game with the extremely expensive controller.

I can't believe McWhertor was right, but there it is in our E3 2010 predictions post: "Steel Battalion is revealed as Capcom's core Natal game." We all laughed and laughed, and now Capcom and From Software make the rest of us look silly with this new version of the mech game so complicated it required its own complicated and costly controller to play.

Capcom and From Software are collaborating on the new title, set in a 2082 without computers, which explains the gritty, World War II style. From the official press release:

"Manhattan, 2082: In a world where computers and almost all modern technology have been lost, the greatest nations of the world continue to battle for supremacy. The American army lands in New York to begin its first big offensive of a long ground war. Soldiers fire from the trenches as scorched bunkers belch black smoke. As comrades continually fall to the unrelenting crossfire of bullets, the Vertical Tanks make their relentless advance. Experience the battlefield as never before with Kinect for Xbox 360."

Inafune was light on the details, but since this is a Microsoft Kinect game, we're guessing that this time around you'll be taking on the role of the unwieldy, expensive controller.

LOL

[Kalyx triaD]

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/09/500x_ninja_gaiden_3.jpg

Team Ninja leader Yosuke Hayashi revealed at an event in Tokyo this evening the developer's next major projects, including a new Ninja Gaiden game for consoles and the revival of a game we know as Ni-Oh.

Hayashi said that the team responsible for the Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden series of games was already hard at work on the follow-up to Ninja Gaiden II—and its PlayStation 3 port, Ninja Gaiden 2 Sigma—showing off concept art for the game he referred to as Ninja Gaiden 3.

The concept image featured a close-up of a bloody Ryu Hayabusa, the reflection of a blank-looking face in the ninja's right eye.

That image was the extent of what the new, lean, Hayashi-lead Team Ninja was willing to show at a dinner in Ueno. No platforms or release dates were given. Hayashi said that we should expect to learn more about Ninja Gaiden 3 sometime next year.

After completing work on Metroid: Other M, Hayashi pointed to the team's next cross-company collaboration, this time sticking closer to home. Team Ninja will be finishing the development of a game called Ni-Oh, an action game originally being developed by Tecmo's corporate partner Koei.

Team Ninja Reveals Its Next Games: Ninja Gaiden 3, Ni-Oh

We've only seen Ni-Oh, a game announced in 2005 as a PlayStation 3 exclusive, in pre-rendered cinematic form. Hayashi told us that development of Ni-Oh had been put on hold at Koei, but that Team Ninja was now taking over, working with Koei founder Kou Shibusawa on the project, switching gears from ninja-based action to something more samurai-centric.

Team Ninja didn't show anything new related to Ni-Oh.

The developer is currently hard at work developing a stereoscopic 3D version of its Dead or Alive fighting game series for the NIntendo 3DS.

Good luck, fellas. Itagaki will be watching.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/09/500x_team_ninja_2.jpg

The new Team Ninja (not to be confused with Ninja Theory, who are currently making Itagaki laugh his ass off).

[Kalyx triaD]

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Looks nice. Not like Devil Made Me Cry.

[Emperor Smeat]

Going to end up being a weird but amazing game when its done since Suda is well known for crazy gameplay and storylines while Mikami is well known for horror style gameplay (RE series) and action (Devil May Cry series).

:lol: at Mikami response to why they are working with EA.
When asked why Suda and Mikami were working with EA on this game, Mikami jokingly replied, "Money."

[Kalyx triaD]

Better answer than some PR line about 'expanding audiences', 'unique opportunities', and other shit like that.

[Kane Knight]

Better answer than some PR line about 'expanding audiences', 'unique opportunities', and other shit like that.
Agreed. His candor is kind of refreshing.

[Drakul]

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/09/msft-tgs-live-0508.jpg

Japan's venerable wrasslin' series, Fire Pro-Wrestling, is back and now on the Xbox 360. And now with Xbox 360 Avatars as playable grapplers.

Spike, the developer of the Fire Pro-Wrestling series as of the year 2000, will be creating a new entry for Xbox Live Arcade for release in 2011. Fire Pro-Wrestling lets you customize your avatar wrestler from a selection of costumes, unlock new moves over the course of your career in the squared circle and compete online.

Fire Pro-Wrestling has always been known more for its deep gameplay and character customization, something we hoped continues in the newest iteration. Avatars, though. Hmmm.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/09/500x_fpwscreenshot3.jpg

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/09/500x_fpwscreenshot.jpg

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/09/500x_fpwscreenshot2.jpg

[Kalyx triaD]

Potentially fucking awesome.

[Verbose Minch]

Not gonna lie, that has really great potential.

[Drakul]

Microsoft have strict rules about what Avatars can and cannot do. I can't see us having exsplosive cage matches or jabbing forks in each others eyes. I can't see them allowing anything other than the basic one on one and tag matches.
Weapons and gimmick matches would be too violent for the Avatars. Not saying the game can't be fun but I can't see having as many options as other FPW games had. I only ever played one game in the series, in Japanese, so I didn't get far.

Player interacts with their avatar as if it's a separate character
A player's avatar does not have an autonomous personality or instinct. The avatar is under the control of the owning player. It can have idle animations and can respond appropriately to game events but it should not interact with the user as if it is separate from the player, try to get the player's attention in an annoying manner.

Violence which causes blood, gore, dismemberment, decapitation, maiming, or mutilation
Cartoon violence is allowed. Violence is allowed as long as there is no blood, gore, dismemberment, decapitation, maiming, or mutilation. An example of allowable injuries includes injuries that might befall an avatar in a sporting event such as American football. Avatars can die temporarily to depict failure.

Player's avatar talks
The player's avatar should not have their own voice. They are allowed to make individual sounds, such as laughing and crying but otherwise cannot use a voice.

Source (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=218002).

Would a steel chair count as cartoon violence?

[Fignuts]

OH FUCK OFF WITH THAT

[Fignuts]

Such a fucking tease. Best hope is that this is successful and leads to a real firepro game. After 6 years, I still play FPR a lot, but the lack of a lot of moves that have come out in the meantime, is starting to take it's toll.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Want to hit someone harder than I did after DmC.

It's not going to have the depth of moves or anything that makes Fire Pro good bar the grapple system and I have about 5 decent Fire Pro games for that.

[Drakul]

They could maybe try and say "Pro wrestling is a sport" as a loophole to get around the "no violence/maiming" thing. Sports are the only time Avatars can act hurt, after all.

Anyone that didn't checked XBLA out yesterday, Sonic Adventure is up for download.

[Kalyx triaD]

As well as a completely random King of Fighters game.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Which isn't as good as the Gamecube or PC version which you can pick up probably cheaper.

Much more content on those.

[Kalyx triaD]

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[D Mac]

Yeah, I don't know what D Mac was thinking. This is worse than his Lars/Hetfield slashfic.

It's one fucking dollar. Geez

[Drakul]

360 owners in the UK can get a years gold membership for £23.99 for a limited time. Considering it's getting jacked up to £50 in November, I think it's a good idea to take advantage of the sale. I did.

The offer should be on the dashboard somewhere. Seems to randomly appear.

[Kane Knight]

It's one fucking dollar. Geez
It's also shit. One dollar or not.

[Blitz]

Dynasty Warriors 7 announced as a PS3 exclusive.


FUCK

[Kane Knight]

Dynasty Warriors 7 announced as a PS3 exclusive.


FUCK

Actually announced? Because DW 6 was an "exclusive" as well. Not saying you're wrong, just wanting details.

[BigDaddyCool]

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/09/500x_fpwscreenshot3.jpg

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/09/500x_fpwscreenshot.jpg

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/09/500x_fpwscreenshot2.jpg

http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/bdcjacko/avatar-body.png<---Next Champion

[BigDaddyCool]

Hey...is he wereing a sweater with muscles airbrushed on it?

[Xero]

Don't know how I feel about the Fire Pro game. On one hand, I nearly crapped myself in excitement when I saw "Fire Pro Wrestling". And while I do trust Spike to put out something good, I can't see it being anywhere on par with traditional Fire Pro games. It looks more like it's geared for a more casual audience and will likely have an arcade feel to it.

That said, I'll buy it if only for the chance of another true Fire Pro or KOC game being released in the states. It's a good sign that they're making this, since they did say they would never make another wrestling game. Though that can be taken two ways. Either they're testing the waters again or it's not a true wrestling game, like Fire Pro or KOC.

[Blitz]

Actually announced? Because DW 6 was an "exclusive" as well. Not saying you're wrong, just wanting details.

http://www.destructoid.com/dynasty-warriors-7-announced-as-a-ps3-exclusive-184064.phtml

Tecmo Koei has today officially announced Dynasty Warriors 7, the latest in Omega Force's endless hack n' slash series. Curiously, the big news is that Dynasty Warriors 7 (known as Shin Sangokumusou 6 in Japan) won't be a multiplatform release, instead announced as a PS3 exclusive.

Whether it's just a PS3-only game in Japan remains to be seen, though it would be weird for Koei to leave out the Xbox 360 when it launches in the rest of the world. Either way, there will be much more information on the game on October 26, when Tecmo Koei holds a special press event.
All I have to say is, OH GOD YES! More Dynasty Warriors is fine by me, and screw anyone who thinks otherwise!

[LoDownM]

As long as they go back to the original movesets I'll be thrilled, can't stand the changes in the last 2-3 of them.

[Blitz]

5 was probably the best of the series (If you don't count Warriors Orochi 2). 6 was utter shit.

[OssMan]

Hate how the online games ruined the continuity of the Final Fantasy series. There are a million Final Fantasy spinoff series like Crystal Chronicles and Tactics, why couldn't they just call it "Final Fantasy Online" and "Final Fantasy Online 2" or something.

[LoDownM]

5 was probably the best of the series (If you don't count Warriors Orochi 2). 6 was utter shit.

When did they change the movesets, 6? I know 6, 6:Empires and Strikeforce all had the retarded, 6 unique movesets.

[Emperor Smeat]

Activision considering an experiment on making cutscenes in a game a pay to play feature. The idea is to treat cutscenes from a game like a movie and since you have to pay to watch a movie in theaters or on dvd, you would have to pay to access the media or else you get nothing.

The plan would be around $20 to $30 just for the cutscenes on top of the normal prices for a video game. Activision did hint that this plan wouldn't be a reality until at least another 4-5 years or next console generation.

If for some chance it becomes successful, it wouldn't take long for the other big companies to join on this new money making scheme.

http://kotaku.com/5639929/activision-considers-selling-video-game-cutscenes

[Funky Fly]

Ok, we all laughed at Cliff Blezinski when he suggested paying extra for game endings, and we ended up paying for online in used games...

I want to laugh so hard at the idea of paying for cutscenes since it's the one part of the game lots of people skip over anyway, but you never know. Especially since they're suggesting it for the next generation, which means they'd doubtlessly be near movie levels.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Don't know how I feel about the Fire Pro game. On one hand, I nearly crapped myself in excitement when I saw "Fire Pro Wrestling". And while I do trust Spike to put out something good, I can't see it being anywhere on par with traditional Fire Pro games. It looks more like it's geared for a more casual audience and will likely have an arcade feel to it.

That said, I'll buy it if only for the chance of another true Fire Pro or KOC game being released in the states. It's a good sign that they're making this, since they did say they would never make another wrestling game. Though that can be taken two ways. Either they're testing the waters again or it's not a true wrestling game, like Fire Pro or KOC.

The only reason it's coming out at all is because MS commissioned it. If it sells well, they'll probably pat themselves on the back and say it was due to avatars and commision a sequel.

That said, I wonder if it plays more like KOC than FPW just because it's 3D. They may have called it FPW because it's a better known brand than KOC but who knows.

It might not play like either of them and just be dumbed down crap, mind.

[LoDownM]

Activision considering an experiment on making cutscenes in a game a pay to play feature. The idea is to treat cutscenes from a game like a movie and since you have to pay to watch a movie in theaters or on dvd, you would have to pay to access the media or else you get nothing.

The plan would be around $20 to $30 just for the cutscenes on top of the normal prices for a video game. Activision did hint that this plan wouldn't be a reality until at least another 4-5 years or next console generation.

If for some chance it becomes successful, it wouldn't take long for the other big companies to join on this new money making scheme.

http://kotaku.com/5639929/activision-considers-selling-video-game-cutscenes

Fuck that. I disagree with making people pay 10 bucks to play used games online, I get why companies are doing it tho, but this is just utterly retarded.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Fuck that. I disagree with making people pay 10 bucks to play used games online, I get why companies are doing it tho, but this is just utterly retarded.

Totally. But, if they can screw for $10 now, they'll just keep edging up the price over the next 5 years so you won't even notice the fact the game is $90 in total so they get rich and still find a way to cry about piracy or used games or the fucking pope.

[Kane Knight]

5 was probably the best of the series (If you don't count Warriors Orochi 2). 6 was utter shit.

3's still a hallmark.

The only game with a significant change is 6, and I'm afraid theyll keep up that shit. I have a PS3, so I'll get it if they don't, but the shitty movesets, renbu system, etc., really killed that game for me.

[Kane Knight]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.232742-APB-Comes-to-a-Premature-End

APB is already dead. Holy fuck.

[Funky Fly]

Damn.

[Xero]

Was pretty close to buying that, lol.

They should just release the code under the GPL or something and let the community build it. No reason not to do that, really. Other than reusing the engine.

[OssMan]

Damn who saw the trailer for The Last Guardian. From the same team that made Shadow of the Colossus/ICO. Same art style and everything. Looks amazing

[Fignuts]

Yeah, pretty psyched for that.

[OssMan]

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[Drakul]

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[Fignuts]

GAY

[Emperor Smeat]

Only a rumor as of now but Epic Games is considering buying the rights to All Points Bulletin which failed after just 90 days and caused its developer to shut down it doors.

Apparently Realtime Worlds and Epic Games have some sort of connection where the boss of Realtime Worlds is a personal friend of the VP from Epic Games. Once Realtime Worlds collapsed as a studio, they contacted Epic Games to see if they were interested in buying the rights to the game before contacting other companies.

Most likely Epic Games wouldn't take over APB and restart the servers but it would give them the source code and pre-made engine/environment to build a future MMO if they were ever interested.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/09/500x_apb_01.jpg

http://kotaku.com/5640623/gears-of-war-studio-to-buy-failed-mmo

[OssMan]

might just play ICO all night, it turns out if you don't grab some fucking stick the game is impossible and you'll be stuck at the beginning for over a year

[Kane Knight]

I still don't get the avatar craze. You've always been able to make wrestlers in FPW. Who thought "You know what would be cool? If we took away years of customisation and tossed in shitty deformed versions of some loser's ideal self!"

[Xero]

I still don't get the avatar craze. You've always been able to make wrestlers in FPW. Who thought "You know what would be cool? If we took away years of customisation and tossed in shitty deformed versions of some loser's ideal self!"

It's huge with the casual crowd, so it makes sense. I'm really not surprised by their direction. This FPW will sell better than Fire Pro R did (in the US). I guarantee it.

[Fignuts]

Fire Pro is like the opposite of casual tho, so this has train wreck written all over it.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

It's huge with the casual crowd, so it makes sense. I'm really not surprised by their direction. This FPW will sell better than Fire Pro R did (in the US). I guarantee it.

Which would be a horribly unfair comparison. Comparing a full-price 2D cult game with zero marketing budget against an XBLA-priced 3D game with Microsofts money behind it.

If it sells, I don't think anyone can logically say that it had any tiny thing to do with avatars.

[Fignuts]

Yeah distribution of FPR was atrocious.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Even without understanding the language, Pokémon White is amazing.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a366/hollywoodh/57bf8453.jpg

Since it's not Professor Oak, I shall call her Prof. Whoreface.

[Kalyx triaD]

Harada (Tekken producer) announces "TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT 2" via Twitter!

[Kane Knight]

Which would be a horribly unfair comparison. Comparing a full-price 2D cult game with zero marketing budget against an XBLA-priced 3D game with Microsofts money behind it.

If it sells, I don't think anyone can logically say that it had any tiny thing to do with avatars.

Yeah, it was a retarded empty statement. It also neatly missed the point, w hich you and Fagnuts caught.

Come to think of it, it's only missing a kliq statement and a shitty unfunny photoshop to be the ultimate Xero post.

[Emperor Smeat]

Ape Escape Shake! Shake! for the PS3 Move to be an on-rails style shooter but replacing weapons and bullets with gadgets from the series.

Unlike other Ape Escape games, there is no actual exploration but instead the only thing done in levels is to catch monkeys on the screen while the camera guides the player in a linear path.

Rumored to have a release date of November 1 at a $40 retail price.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/09/500x_ape_escape_move.jpg

http://kotaku.com/5641392/ape-escape-for-playstation-move-is-an-on+rails-gadget-shooter

[Emperor Smeat]

Hideo Kojima doesn't rule out the possibility of making a Metal Gear Solid 5 game even though he previously said he was done with the series and that MGS 4 would be the last in the Solid storyline.

Original plan was to let another person take over the series but in a new direction or storyline while he would only give suggestions or help if the new team needed him (similar to Miyamoto being used as an adviser for Metroid Prime series).

http://kotaku.com/5641618/hideo-kojima-once-again-ponders-metal-gear-solid-5

[OssMan]

what is pokemon white

[Xero]

The next Pokemon game.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Yeah, White and Black.

[D Mac]

Hideo Kojima doesn't rule out the possibility of making a Metal Gear Solid 5 game even though he previously said he was done with the series and that MGS 4 would be the last in the Solid storyline.

Original plan was to let another person take over the series but in a new direction or storyline while he would only give suggestions or help if the new team needed him (similar to Miyamoto being used as an adviser for Metroid Prime series).

http://kotaku.com/5641618/hideo-kojima-once-again-ponders-metal-gear-solid-5

Hopefully it's not Raiden or whatever his name is. Don't like him.

[Kalyx triaD]

Raiden who's getting his own game? Probably not.

[D Mac]

Does Solid Snake have a son? Maybe it will be him.

Or if he has a daughter they could go that way...

[Kalyx triaD]

He can't has kids. Sunny, however, is the tech geek daughter of a mercenary raised by another soldier and an even bigger tech geek.

I'd totally like to see how she turned out.

[Kane Knight]

Hideo Kojima doesn't rule out the possibility of making a Metal Gear Solid 5 game even though he previously said he was done with the series and that MGS 4 would be the last in the Solid storyline.

Original plan was to let another person take over the series but in a new direction or storyline while he would only give suggestions or help if the new team needed him (similar to Miyamoto being used as an adviser for Metroid Prime series).

http://kotaku.com/5641618/hideo-kojima-once-again-ponders-metal-gear-solid-5

Oh look, Kojima's full of shit again.

[OssMan]

Secret of Mana getting really hard near the end what the fuck!

[Vietnamese Crippler]

It's a JRPG, of course it will.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Capcom have had their lowest profits since 2004.

To be fair, bar SSF4 which ha a lower margin anyway, they've not really done anything of note.

[Kalyx triaD]

Or maybe people are broke as fuck. Chips are fucking 35c now.

[Kane Knight]

Yeah, despite it not happening to other companies, that's it, Kal. :roll:

[Kalyx triaD]

Tougeki 2010 has come and gone. Here are the results for the world's most prestigious arcade fighting game event. (Missing results will be added as they are confirmed and sent in.)

Street Fighter 4 (Vanilla, Arcade)
1st - Kindevu (Rufus) / Momochi (Akuma) / RF (Sagat)
2nd - Daigo Umehara (Ryu) / TKD (El Fuerte) / Bonchan (Sagat)
3rd tie - Tokido (Akuma) / Mago (Sagat) / Nemo (Chun-Li) & Dashimaki Tamago (C. Viper) / Nen (Rufus) / Denpa (Sagat)

Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
1st - Kuroda (Ken) / Nitto (Yun) / MOV (Chun-Li)
2nd - Kokujin (Dudley) / Haitani (Makoto) / Nuki (Chun-Li)
3rd tie - KO (Yang) / Ochibi (Yun) / Tokido (Chun-Li) & Mester (Yun) / Raoh (Chun-Li) / Higa (Ibuki)

Super Street Fighter II X
1st - MAO (Claw) / Futachan (Ryu) / Ito (Dee Jay)
2nd - Abebin (E. Honda) / Sasori (Ryu) / Oonishi (Dictator)
3rd tie - Nuki (Chun-Li) / Muteki (Guile) / Shiki (Boxer) & Tsuji (Boxer) / Inro (O. Chun-Li) / Danjiri (Dhalsim)

Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core
1st - Shounen (Testament) / RF (Faust) / Ogawa (Eddie)
2nd - Inoue (Order Sol) / Machaboo (Testament) / FAB (Potemkin)
3rd tie - Isamu (Venom) / Roi (Sol) / LOX (Jam) & Ina (Millia) / Nage (Faust) / Mitsurugi (Zappa)

Melty Blood
1st - GO1 (Akiha) / Ieda (Kohaku)
2nd - Hato (V.Akiha) / Leo (Warc)
3rd tie - Kaimaato (Kouma) /Inoshi (V.Sion) & Tatsuya (Ciel) / X (Nero)

Blazblue: Continuum Shift
1st - Tsujikawa (Taokaka) / Chou (Litchi)
2nd - Satoshi (Bang) / Hiroshi (Jin)
3rd tie - Goro (Lambda) / Fumo (Arakune) & Dora (Bang) / Hima (Arakune)

KOF13
1st - Oeppu (K' / Mature / Raiden)
2nd - Jaian (K' / Mai / Iori)
3rd tie - Kyabetsu (Andy / K' / Kula) & Ho Kun Xian (Elisabeth / K' / Takuma)

Tekken 6
1st - sumairu X (Marduk) / nesuchan (Devil Jin) / tatatatatatatata-ku (Lars)
2nd - daipan (Steve) / pandamania (Panda) / pekosu (Bob)
3rd tie - Addung (Asuka) / Naengmyun Sungin (Roger) / Narakhof (Marduk) & seikingu (King) / ide (Bob) / agichi (Leo)

Virtua Figher 5: Final Showdown
1st - serori (Kage) / morimoto reota^do (Vanessa) / hiraganadeaoki (Jacky)
2nd - Jaga (Goh) / Kurobo~ (Lau) / Yoroshiko (Jeffry)
3rd tie - Gorgeous (Eileen) / Joseph (Akira) / Yuutenji (Lau) and ???

Arcana Heart 3
1st Kasumi LOVE (Akane) / Tono (Konoha)
2nd Shirogoma (Angelia) / Kyouken (Zenia)
3rd tie - Banbaban (Heart) / Andou (Catherine) & Buchi (Yoriko) / Ooen (Kira)
__________________________________________________________________________

Hey look, they don't give a fuck about MvC2. Hmmmm.....

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Or maybe people are broke as fuck. Chips are fucking 35c now.

People could be dropping gold bars when they shit and they still wouldn't buy Dark Void.

[Kalyx triaD]

Perhaps they should rethink the whole 'western influence/guest devs' thing. It's a huge cultural misunderstanding of the last three years.

[Emperor Smeat]

Did Capcom do the one time currency exchange similar to Nintendo and Sony ?

Not sure how bad the exchange hurt Sony but in Nintendo's case, they made a profit for the year/quarter but due to the strong Yen vs weak Dollar, they ended up posting a loss for the year/quarter.

[LoDownM]

Yo so, was Ninety Nine Nights 2 any good, or was it pretty terrible? Want a decent hack n slash game. Because I can't find Warriors Orochi 2 any where and the new DW have the craptastic move sets, I don't even wanna bother with them.

[Emperor Smeat]

Hi-Rez Studios trying to convert as many disgruntled All Point Bulletin MMO players by offering a 30% discount to former APB players for their own MMO called Global Agenda.

Discount is good until September 24, 2010 and available to anyone who wants to play their game. The game's price would be $20.99 after the discount is used.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/09/340x_global.jpg

http://kotaku.com/5642986/global-agenda-woos-distraught-apb-players

[Kane Knight]

A HALO MMO? Sweet.

[Emperor Smeat]

For those that like World of Warcraft and Plants vs Zombies, new expansion has a quest that is very similar to Plants vs Zombies in appearance and gameplay.

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http://kotaku.com/5643666/plants-vs-zombies-now-in-your-world-of-warcraft

[Kalyx triaD]

http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/images/9/2010/09/500x_pinkshock_01.jpg

Gotta love that the first bullet point is the vibration feature.

YEAH I WENT THERE

[Khuntry]

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[Drakul]

Rich Hall is hosting this years Golden Joystick Awards, which is the 28th GJA and will be taking place on the 29th of October. Wonder if it'll be online somewhere, eventually.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

gog.com only took it's site down and stopped people from downloading games they own for a publicity stunt.

I own 5 games from GOG... But they can fuck off now.

Seriously, I will take old games that cost twice the price of GOG and loaded with securrom before I ever, ever buy another game from GOG.

[OssMan]

what is gog

[Kalyx triaD]

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/mario25th/wallpaper/images/wp/B_1024_768.jpg

[Emperor Smeat]

Nintendo Power reveals Cave Story going to Nintendo DS with a TBA release date.

The game will be only for DSiWare for the time being but no details on a cart version for non-DSi users.

So far the game has been released on the PC (free) and WiiWare ($10).

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http://kotaku.com/5645202/nintendo-power-cave-story-going-portable

[Kane Knight]

gog.com only took it's site down and stopped people from downloading games they own for a publicity stunt.

I own 5 games from GOG... But they can fuck off now.

Seriously, I will take old games that cost twice the price of GOG and loaded with securrom before I ever, ever buy another game from GOG.

Sorta worked. A lot of people who had never heard of them know about them now.

Will they buy? Well, I probably won't. But the day I become mainstream, you should all be very, very scared.

[Emperor Smeat]

Super Meat Boy for Xbox Live Arcade is going to offer free DLC by including a special chapter in the game where the developers can upload as many chapters and DLC content for free even though Microsoft sets limits on free DLC allowed.

By using a chapter called "Teh Internets", they can go around the Microsoft requirement and give out as much DLC for free as they want.

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http://kotaku.com/5646314/super-meat-boy-creators-say-fuck-you-to-the-dlc-system-with-teh-internets

[Kalyx triaD]

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[Fignuts]

Unless his top priority is Half-Life 2: Episode 3, I don't care.

Honestly though, at this point they should just release Half-Life 3 instead.

[Emperor Smeat]

Pre-order Donkey Kong Country Returns at Gamestop and get a collectible banana pouch to store a Wiimote when it is not being used.

Deal is exclusive only at Gamestop and supposedly in very limited numbers.

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2010/09/donkey_kong_bananas.jpg

http://kotaku.com/5646405/donkey-kong-country-pre+order-bonuses-are-bananas

[Kane Knight]

Pre-order Donkey Kong Country Returns at Gamestop and get a collectible banana pouch to store a Wiimote when it is not being used.

Deal is exclusive only at Gamestop and supposedly in very limited numbers.

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2010/09/donkey_kong_bananas.jpg

http://kotaku.com/5646405/donkey-kong-country-pre+order-bonuses-are-bananas
Gay.

[OssMan]

Got a Turbo Grafx 16 today with three games Neutopia, R-Type, TV Sports Hockey.

[Kane Knight]

Can I subscribe to your twitter

[Kane Knight]

According to Gamespot (I think by way of IGN), You Don't Know Jack is returning.

[Emperor Smeat]

Newest PSN firmware update 3.50 manages to disable or kill off a good number of non-Sony brand or licensed PS3 controllers.

Mad Catz confirms most of the pre-2008 controllers now won't work on an updated PS3 while their fighting pads and arcade sticks are guaranteed to still be working. Logitec controllers are not affected by the update due to being considered officially licensed by Sony. Rock Band instrumental controllers also assumed to not be affected by the update.

This update comes at the same day Sony warns consumers to not buy counterfeit or non-licensed controllers since they could catch on fire or explode while playing.

http://kotaku.com/5647346/ps3-update-has-killed-three-old-mad-catz-controllers

http://kotaku.com/5646780/sony-blocks-fake-controllers-warns-of-explosions

[Kane Knight]

I saw the exploding controllers bit. LOL.

[Kane Knight]

I saw the exploding controllers shit.

LOL.

[Kane Knight]

It said it couldn't post the first one. :wtf:

[Kane Knight]

Postal 3's also coming evidently.

[Funky Fly]

Hasney got a thread with a bunch of videos. Looks like cheesey over the top violent shit straight out of the 90s, but worth a few laughs.

[Kane Knight]

For what? Postal 3?

[LoDownM]

Apparently I got into the Dead Space 2 multiplayer beta.

Edit, its "meh" imo

[OssMan]

Just beat Secret of Mana with my friend. Overall this game was fucking retarded and unintentionally hilarious. Only things I liked were the music (aside from the parts where it would cut out because sound effects took up the layers) and being able to upgrade weapons and stuff.

We started Seiken Densetsu 3 and 40 minutes in it is already way better than Secret of Mana.

[Kane Knight]

Anyone ever played the Sengoku Basara series? I'm not sure if I want to get SB3 or not. Looks like a more over the top Samurai Warriors, so it could be fun. I like crowd combat. It's certainly pretty and all, but I skipped the first one (In part because of the changes they made to the US version) and the second didn't make it to America as far as I know.

[Blitz]

I found Devil Kings fun, but only because I'm a sucker for over the top hack and slash. Wish I could get SB3.

[Funky Fly]

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-00-3-xbox360_compatibility_guide-49-en.html

That might help if your games haven't come out stateside. I'm assuming you're using 360s for this, of course. I'm sure the PS3 has its equivalent guide.

[Drakul]

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[#BROKEN Hasney]

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-00-3-xbox360_compatibility_guide-49-en.html

That might help if your games haven't come out stateside. I'm assuming you're using 360s for this, of course. I'm sure the PS3 has its equivalent guide.

The similar guide for PS3 is that every single game is region free.

One of Sony's better moves.

[Kane Knight]

I found Devil Kings fun, but only because I'm a sucker for over the top hack and slash. Wish I could get SB3.

Don't have a Wii, I take it? I know already you don't have a PS3.

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-00-3-xbox360_compatibility_guide-49-en.html

That might help if your games haven't come out stateside. I'm assuming you're using 360s for this, of course. I'm sure the PS3 has its equivalent guide.

Well, this title's a PS3/Wii only game. Since it's two platforms, it's hard to call it exclusive. The prior ones were PS2 releases, but since I don't know about the series itself I wouldn't import SB2 anyway.

The similar guide for PS3 is that every single game is region free.

One of Sony's better moves.

Kinda ironic, since Sony were one of the people who pushed hardest for region locking and to block imports.

Occasionally they do something like this that has me thinking they've learned. Then they do something like pretend the PS3 is the best selling console in the world, and I /headdesk even harder.

[Kalyx triaD]

Ayane and Kasumi's new duds for 3DS' Dead or Alive game:

http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/184929-/lage-noscale.jpg

They're unusually overdressed.

[Kalyx triaD]

Tekken Producer Harada's Strange Tweet:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/large/168918734.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0ZRYP5X5F6FSMBCCSE82&Expires=1285615894&Signature=kGtv1qMLqneQrzPz3DMjfUBrrRE%3D

[Fignuts]

Fuck dead or alive.

[Kalyx triaD]

DOA > Virtua Fighter, at least. It has its moments.

[BigDaddyCool]

Ayane and Kasumi's new duds for 3DS' Dead or Alive game:

http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/184929-/lage-noscale.jpg

They're unusually overdressed.

Yet you managed to jerk off to them.

[LoDownM]

DOA > Virtua Fighter, at least. It has its moments.

Fuck DoA, all you gotta do is stand still and counter to win.

[Kalyx triaD]

Stop playing your little sister.

BTW, sick of extreme claims to a games difficulty/competitive level. And I understand how simplistic certain DOA mechanics are, but like hell you're gonna win pressing back+free. Get serious.

"Just use ultras in SF4 to win."
"No strategy in Smash, anybody can win."
"Tekken's a button masher."
"Soulcalibur's a button masher with scrub ringouts."
"Thermal's for noobs."
"Reach's bloom is for noobs."
"Stand still and counter to win in DOA."

And so fucking on. Almost always from people who spent all of 8mins with the game. And what gets me is what is actually brain-dead and scrub shit never gets called out or is in fact celebrated. Aim bloom in Reach; "scrub shit". Flag juggling in Halo 3; "being strategic". Mega Crash in TvC, "scrub shit". Spamming assists in MvC2, "being skillful".

Not a rant specifically at you LoDown but god damn.

[BigDaddyCool]

kalyx will back DOA because he jerks of too it.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

DOA > Virtua Fighter, at least. It has its moments.

Now you're just being silly.

I do prefer DOA4 to Tekken 6 or Soul Calibur 4 though.

[Kalyx triaD]

I can see that. Your tastes were made well and clear.

[Kane Knight]

Stop playing your little sister.

BTW, sick of extreme claims to a games difficulty/competitive level. And I understand how simplistic certain DOA mechanics are, but like hell you're gonna win pressing back+free. Get serious.

"Just use ultras in SF4 to win."
"No strategy in Smash, anybody can win."
"Tekken's a button masher."
"Soulcalibur's a button masher with scrub ringouts."
"Thermal's for noobs."
"Reach's bloom is for noobs."
"Stand still and counter to win in DOA."

And so fucking on. Almost always from people who spent all of 8mins with the game. And what gets me is what is actually brain-dead and scrub shit never gets called out or is in fact celebrated. Aim bloom in Reach; "scrub shit". Flag juggling in Halo 3; "being strategic". Mega Crash in TvC, "scrub shit". Spamming assists in MvC2, "being skillful".

Not a rant specifically at you LoDown but god damn.

Kalyx knows becayse he regularly beats hsi friend at tournaments.

[alvarado52]

Kalyx wants to fight each and every one of you guys.

[Emperor Smeat]

Texting of the Bread released for iPhone/iPod today with a version for Android arriving at a future date.

Game costs $1.99 on the Apple App Store.

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[Kalyx triaD]

BRING IT ON

ALL OR NOTHING

[BigDaddyCool]

Whatever

[Emperor Smeat]

Nintendo begins the process to fix the game crashing bug from Metroid: Other M by asking players who have a save file corrupted from the game to either mail the file on an SD card, the Wii if no card can be sent, or contact them for any other assistance.

Nintendo also confirms they will pay or reimburse for the postage paid to consumers mailing the card or Wii.

Nintendo also posted how the bug is produced and how it can be avoided on their game support website.

It is also assumed future batches of the game will have the fix already on disc or be part of the next Nintendo firmware patch.

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http://kotaku.com/5649086/nintendo-asks-players-bug-stuck-in-metroid-other-m-to-mail-them-their-save-files?skyline=true&s=i

http://kotaku.com/5648679/nintendo-taking-care-of-metroid-other-m-bug

[BigDaddyCool]

Nintendo begins the process to fix the game crashing bug from Metroid: Other M by asking players who have a save file corrupted from the game to either mail the file on an SD card, the Wii if no card can be sent, or contact them for any other assistance.

Nintendo also confirms they will pay or reimburse for the postage paid to consumers mailing the card or Wii.

Nintendo also posted how the bug is produced and how it can be avoided on their game support website.

It is also assumed future batches of the game will have the fix already on disc or be part of the next Nintendo firmware patch.

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2010/09/locked_01.jpg

http://kotaku.com/5649086/nintendo-asks-players-bug-stuck-in-metroid-other-m-to-mail-them-their-save-files?skyline=true&s=i

http://kotaku.com/5648679/nintendo-taking-care-of-metroid-other-m-bug

Will they send a new wii so you can play other games?

[LoDownM]

Stop playing your little sister.

BTW, sick of extreme claims to a games difficulty/competitive level. And I understand how simplistic certain DOA mechanics are, but like hell you're gonna win pressing back+free. Get serious.

"Just use ultras in SF4 to win."
"No strategy in Smash, anybody can win."
"Tekken's a button masher."
"Soulcalibur's a button masher with scrub ringouts."
"Thermal's for noobs."
"Reach's bloom is for noobs."
"Stand still and counter to win in DOA."

And so fucking on. Almost always from people who spent all of 8mins with the game. And what gets me is what is actually brain-dead and scrub shit never gets called out or is in fact celebrated. Aim bloom in Reach; "scrub shit". Flag juggling in Halo 3; "being strategic". Mega Crash in TvC, "scrub shit". Spamming assists in MvC2, "being skillful".

Not a rant specifically at you LoDown but god damn.

Right, playing my sister, either one of them are lucky to even figure out how to fire on a FPS let alone counter on a fighting game. I can beat just about everyone I used play DoA with regularly, except the one friend that has 95% of his button presses as counters. But if that and over exaggerated boob physics are your thing, then have at it.

[Emperor Smeat]

Will they send a new wii so you can play other games?

No since all they are fixing is the save file from the game if the system was mailed and not an SD card. Only way this would occur is if someone is unable to buy or get an SD card but wants the fix.

It hasn't been documented so far that the save file also corrupts the Wii but I would assume if it did occur then Nintendo would replace the Wii with a new one.

[BigDaddyCool]

I don't have that game because I never like Metroid.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Will laugh if a bunch of SD cards get mailed in with soft-mod software on it.

[BigDaddyCool]

what is that? cheating/hax?

[Kalyx triaD]

I can beat just about everyone I used play DoA with regularly, except the one friend that has 95% of his button presses as counters.

This is a DOA problem how?

Stop being predictable. Itagaki closed the counter window a few times over the course of DOA4 and made mid-counters two separate directions. If counter-spam beats you like that it ain't the mechanics doing you in, trust me.

Countering 95% of the time just wouldn't fly where I'm from. I don't think it would fly amongst a TPWW inv.

[Kane Knight]

With nerf axes, no less.

[Kane Knight]

Countering 95% of the time just wouldn't fly where I'm from.

Yeah, his mom declared it unfair, so it's banned from the basement.

[Blitz]

Don't have a Wii, I take it? I know already you don't have a PS3.
Yer. 360 only.

[Funky Fly]

This is a DOA problem how?

Stop being predictable. Itagaki closed the counter window a few times over the course of DOA4 and made mid-counters two separate directions. If counter-spam beats you like that it ain't the mechanics doing you in, trust me.

Countering 95% of the time just wouldn't fly where I'm from. I don't think it would fly amongst a TPWW inv.

I have to agree with this. Countering is a bitch in DOA4. Worse still if you want to do any of the high damage, complicated ones. Plus the game i too fast paced now to be able to stand there hitting counters all day. Plus you could just throw him.

And in general fighting games are plagued with elitists claiming everything is scrub shit. Is it my fault that you jump in to the position a person needs to be in to get hit by an anti-air ultra in SSF4? Oh well, scrub a dub dub, that's your ass in the tub.

[Emperor Smeat]

NBA Elite 11 vs NBA 2k11 ends with EA indefinitely delaying Elite 11. Bad reactions from the demo and realizing nobody wanted Elite but wanted NBA Jam contributed to the decision.

Previous free gimped version of NBA Jam for Xbox 360 and PS3 is now a paid stand alone title but no word on if its for XBLA/PSN or disc-based.

Basically EA goofed up badly since now there is no reason to pay $50 for the Wii version of NBA Jam with no online, NBA Jam for Xbox 360 and PS3 won't be free anymore with a price range between $15 - $60, and rebranding the Live series into the Elite series became a failure this year.

Only good news is NBA Live 10 to get an extra year or roster updates and Dynamic DNA mode for free.

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http://kotaku.com/5649371/nba-elite-11-delayed-nba-jam-to-ship-separately-by-holidays?skyline=true&s=i

[Kalyx triaD]

LOL

[#BROKEN Hasney]

If the 360 and PS3 versions have no offline multiplayer still, I'm getting the Wii one.

Good move by EA to delay a game that isn't up to scratch. I applaud them for that.

[RoXer]

Gunna put this in the 2K thread since Elite doesn't really deserve it's own thread.

The demo for Elite came out today and I tried and didn't like it but loved...the idea of it. I guess.

The presentation is ESPN style so that will blow 2K out of the water, no doubt. Wish 2K could cut a deal with TNT but I think that other shitty game has a deal with them. Anyway, I always love TV-Style broadcasts in games and it looks like Elite will have the leg up on 2K. No biggie.

The controls... are different. Obviously. I think I love it but I dunno. I was a big MLL (Lacrosse...lol) fan a few years back when Arizona actually had a team. Tickets were on the cheap and our team was actually good and the games were fun to go to. I always wondered what a true game would be like and to have movement of the player with the LS and movement of the stick with the RS. This seemed so simple and a no brainer. Basically, what the NHL franchise has done the past couple of years. There is an indy LAX game, but it's pretty terrible. I'm getting off the point.

I loved the idea of controlling the player with two thumbsticks rather than buttons. So I was really psyched to try this out. But for me, it doesn't work. Not the controls themselves, but the presentation of the game. I think if you take away the sideline camera angle you lose a lot of feel to the game.

I think it was an extremely ballsy move by EA to go to a drop down camera and thumbstick controls. Really ballsy. There will be a lot of backlash (mostly from black people whose screen names are YoUnGjEeZy, GhostKillllA, oOX smoke XOo, etc) and it will be interesting to see how this is played out.

So, I'm giving a lot of credit to EA for doing this, but I don't think it will work. And besides, even if they did switch back to buttons, they STILL have the inferior game. I'm not bagging on the controls. I love them and can't wait to see how EA can expand with them. But it's still not as good as 2K


It takes some extreme balls to completely rehaul a sports like they did. Especially without any feedback from the community first.

[Drakul]

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/100926.jpg

[#BROKEN Hasney]

The guy who voiced Big The Cat in Sonic Adventure is the same voice actor as Duke Nukem.

Mind... Fucking... Blown...

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Bobby Kotick, always good to laugh at. Here's what he's been talking out his arse about this week so far.

On ex-Inifinty Ward staff

"It shook my belief in two specific people, who were my friends," says Kotick, who says the IW founders used Activision for personal gain. "The frustrating thing about that is, the stuff that these guys did, I never would have expected them to do. We're a public company, we've got ethics obligations, and the things they did were ... I would go to jail if I did them.

"You can't use the company and the company's assets for your own personal benefit, and you can't use the leverage that you might have for personal benefit -- you're not allowed to do that! And so we didn't have any choice ...*That's one of those really difficult decisions as the CEO of a company, where you step back and say, 'No good is going to come of this. They're going to leave and probably have a really hard time ever being productive or successful ever again, and we're going to lose some talented people, and there's nothing we can do about it.' And there wasn't."

It is unfortunate that the laws of the land don't apply to ex-IW staff, but would be used harshly against Kotick. I'd put him on prison if I were a lawmaker.

Pretty sure that a Respawn game published by EA will be successful anyway. Speaking of EA:

"Look, EA has a lot of resources, it’s a big company that’s been in business for a long time, maybe it’ll figure it out eventually," says the fire-kissed despair merchant. "But it’s been struggling for a really long time. The most difficult challenge it faces today is: great people don’t really want to work there.

"It’s like, if you have no other option, you might consider them ... But we have no shortage of opportunity to recruit out of EA -- that’s their biggest challenge: its stock options have no value. It’s lost its way. And until it has success, and hits, and gets that enthusiasm back for the company, it’s going to have a struggle getting really talented people, which is going to translate into less-than-great games."

What? Yeah, EA are the last resort when Activision has looked at your idea and pissed all over it. Isn't that how Brutal Legend got published by EA? Tim Schafer did call Kotick a prick ages ago. Koticks rebuttal?

"Tim Schafer. The guy comes out and says I'm a prick. I've never met him in my life -- I've never had anything to do with him," explains the nefarious businessman.*"I never had any involvement in the Vivendi project that they were doing, Brütal Legend, other than I was in one meeting where the guys looked at it and said, 'He's late, he's missed every milestone, he's overspent the budget and it doesn't seem like a good game. We're going to cancel it.

"And do you know what? That seemed like a sensible thing to do. And it turns out, he was late, he missed every milestone, the game was not a particularly good game ..."

He does have a point on that one, but he did also prove Schafer right by answering him like a prick. So, anything positive? He does seem keen on motion control. Hooray?

Kotick told Edge: "So as long as we think a peripheral is going to deliver something that’s compelling and interesting and innovative we’ll support it." He feels that both Move and Kinect are "superb" for dance games, and has been impressed with both motion controllers.

That said, Kotick still feels the need for specific types of physical interfacing for their games, and it sounds like they have a few more up their sleeves. He says that "we’re going to keep making physical interface products if we think that’s going to enhance the experience - and we have some really cool ones for next year."

As enthusiastic as he sounds about Sony and Microsoft's newest offerings, he does have one beef with Kinect: the price. Kotick told Edge in issue 220, "With Kinect… I love it as an idea, but [Microsoft has] got to get the price down."

Hmm, shouldn't have ended on such a sane note.

[Emperor Smeat]

New details and screens released for Resistance 3.

Based on screens and video, most of the enemy and character models have been changed but not as drastic as was first expected when the studio said they were rehauling the visuals for the franchise.

And what of the new protagonist? The screenshots call him Capelli, which makes him Joseph Evan Capelli, Nathan Hale's squadmate and helper of sorts from Resistance 2. It looks like Capelli will be taking up the fight where Nathan left off at the end of the last game.

The game is still set for a late 2011 release date.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/09/500x_ravager.jpg

http://kotaku.com/5650133/first-resistance-3-screens-paint-a-grim-picture?skyline=true&s=i

[Emperor Smeat]

More bad news for NBA Elite since analysts were only predicting about 1.5 million copies sold combined between Xbox 360, PSP, and PS3 with about a third of the sales comming due to the NBA Jam bonus and not the game itself.

To put that number in perspective, the NBA 2k series sells about twice the amount per console than NBA Live does and last year's 2k10 sales alone on the Xbox 360 was more than what NBA Elite combined sales were being predicted.

EA also goofed up badly by not making NBA Live 10 for the Wii since NBA 2k10 managed to sell 3x more than NBA Live 09 did and it was the 1st time the 2k series went on the Wii.

Further, NCAA Basketball 10 had no direct competitor, unlike NBA Elite. "Once somebody switches over to NBA 2K, they are less likely to switch back, and EA risks losing them forever," Pachter noted. Wedbush Securities predicted sales of 1.1 million units for NBA Elite between now and the end of December, and another 550,000 between January and March 31. All of that could be wiped out by a delay or cancellation.

[D Mac]

Kalyx, you took me off your Xbox 360 friends list. Why?

[Kalyx triaD]

Did I?

[Kalyx triaD]

...You're not there, can't remember or imagine why.

[D Mac]

I thought I angered you or something.

[Kalyx triaD]

Or you simply canned me.

[Kane Knight]

Kalyx, you took me off your Xbox 360 friends list. Why?

And that's...Bad?

[Xero]

http://www.1up.com/media/03/8/4/6/sm/819.jpg
At the Nintendo press conference in Tokyo today, before turning things towards the new 3DS handheld console, company president Satoru Iwata took time out to mention the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros.

While we already knew there would be a special Super Mario Collection coming to the Wii on October 21, Iwata also announced a new DSi LL (known as the DSi XL outside Japan) would be released to futher commemorate all things Mario.

As seen above via Nintendo's offical website, the new model is a deep red and includes images of a Super Mushroom, a Fire Flower and a Starman but not Mario himself.

The new "Super Mario Bros. 25th Anniversary" version will go sale in Japan on October 28th for 18,000 Yen, $214 at current exchange rates and the standard price for the Nintendo DSi LL.

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If they released this here and it came with a Super Mario All-Stars cart, I'd buy it.

[Kalyx triaD]

Harada tweets another shot of his teammate with a mention of Soulcalibur:

http://p.twipple.jp/data/t/3/L/C/b_m.jpg

That's the second in so much time. I previously assumed that a new Soulcalibur would be prioritized after Harada's two Tekken games but I'm starting to believe something is brewing with the Tale of Souls and Swords.

[Drakul]

Ubisoft has announced plans to re-release an upgraded version of Beyond Good & Evil on Xbox Live and the PSN.

According to IGN, the re-release will feature 1080p visuals, revamped character models and textures, and a re-mastered soundtrack.

Ubisoft will also include online leaderboards as well as achievement and trophy support when it is released on Xbox Live and the PSN in 2011.

Beyond Good & Evil was originally released in 2003 to critical acclaim for its conspiracy-laden plot and Zelda-inspired gameplay.

Source (http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/news/a279504/beyond-good--evil-coming-to-xbla--psn.html).

[Funky Fly]

SON OF A BITCH

I picked that up for like $10 2 months ago and now it's coming to Live all souped up for probably the same price. :mad:

[Kane Knight]

SON OF A BITCH

I picked that up for like $10 2 months ago and now it's coming to Live all souped up for probably the same price. :mad:
OWNED

[Fignuts]

Wooooo My copy of Street Fighter III arrived. Gonna hit up yun and yang in prep for the dlc. Also, I hope Alex makes it in, cause he's a fucking beast.

[OssMan]

Might buy Resonance of Fate but won't play it for a while :mad:

[#BROKEN Hasney]

It's alright Mr. Fly, I doubt they'll upgrade it too much.

http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/185287-headerbge.jpg

Oh...

[Funky Fly]

Suck a nut, Hansey. :'(

[Blitz]

Wooooo My copy of Street Fighter III arrived. Gonna hit up yun and yang in prep for the dlc. Also, I hope Alex makes it in, cause he's a fucking beast.
I wanna break out my Dreamcast and start playing again, but goddamn that controller. Need the updated XBLA version ASAP.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Get MAME, throw in a 360 controller and get arcade perfection right now :heart:

[Emperor Smeat]

Apple holding a big sale on iPhone games today with ESPN ScoreCenter XL being given away for free for now.


Not all the iPhone games on sale are on sale for iPad users and the link to the store has more items for sale than listed above. No details on how long the sale will last though.

For only $0.99, you can pick up
• Classic titles Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition and Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge
• The incredibly addictive Peggle
• Wonderful puzzler Osmos
• Doom II RPG
• Civilization Revolution
• Geometry Wars: Touch
• And for sports fans, Tiger Woods PGA Tour
• Star Wars: Cantina

There are some good steals to be had in the $1.99 column as well:
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert
• Doom Resurrection
• Myst
• Phantasy Star II
• Star Wars: Trench Run
• NCAA Football
• Risk: The Official Game
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
• Mirror's Edge

$2.99:
• Real Racing

$3.99:
• Final Fantasy I
• Final Fantasy II

http://gizmodo.com/5652370/everything-must-go-tons-of-great-ios-games-on-sale-today

[V]

seriously getting tired of IGN

now that this thread has killed the VG forums for me, can anyone tell me a site better than IGN for gaming news? I'm not too fond of gamespot either.

[Kane Knight]

So Valve is adding Microtransactions to TF2.

Normally, this would be bad, but Valve is awesome, so charging as much as the game for in-game unlocks can't possibly be bad.

[Kane Knight]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/103899-Blizzard-Finally-Lets-People-Turn-Off-RealID-Completely

Real ID to be disable-able.

[RoXer]

So Valve is adding Microtransactions to TF2.

Normally, this would be bad, but Valve is awesome, so charging as much as the game for in-game unlocks can't possibly be bad.

For PC?

[G]

when have they done ANYTHING to the 360?

[Xero]

From Kotaku:

The Next Smart Video Game Only Lets You Kill Once

The Next Smart Video Game Only Lets You Kill OnceSeldom in life does someone cackle in front of you like a James Bond villain, explaining how they will deliver your demise. When game designer Chris Hecker did this to me in San Francisco recently, I knew I had him.

See, Chris Hecker thought he was clever. And the truth is that Chris Hecker is clever. A former developer of Spore and a well-respected game designer, he is now developing one of the most interesting multiplayer games I have ever played.

The game is called Spy Party, a game that pits one player as a spy at a fancy party and another as the sniper across the street. It features just one death, triggered when the sniper player believes they have finally figured out which character in the party is the other player and squeezes the trigger.

The game might not be out for two more years, because Hecker has a notebook full of ideas, determination to polish this game until it sparkles and a desire to let no company mess with his ideas. "I want to make a game that is different," he told me when we hung out in his hotel room in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago and played his game. "I can't do this for someone who needs to have a 'return on investment.'"

Chris Hecker sure does talk a good talk about the noble art of game development, which helps when his opponent — me — is figuring out how to wriggle out of the knots suspending me over a proverbial shark tank. Hecker had told me I had no chance playing against him, because the game is not yet tuned to accommodate players of different skill levels. He also said all sorts of beautiful things that an ambitious and talented person would say about making their next video game on their own terms.

The Next Smart Video Game Only Lets You Kill OnceHecker and I sat across from each other, in front of two laptops wired to Xbox 360 controllers. He explained both playable roles for me, apologizing repeatedly that, really, this game is best played right now by two people of equal skill level, meaning not me vs. him. The sniper role would be simple, at least. The party, in the game's prototype form, is held in a single, minimally furnished room that has windows on three sides. Everyone in the party talks, walks around, looks at some statues in the corner, wanders over to the book case, laughs and so on. The spy is among them, but the sniper just watches. The sniper player can move their camera view to any windowed side of the room and zoom in for inspection. They can highlight characters they are suspicious of and darken those who they are sure are genuine. A laser sight from their gun exposes the sniper's viewing angle to the spy and they only get one shot. The sniper player may lock onto the shadiest character and fire a can't-miss bullet. They better hope they murdered the right person.

I asked Hecker to play well and then to play badly. When he played well, I was paranoid. Was that swipe of the hand from one character to the other something the computer did? Or was that Chris planting a bug on the ambassador, which is one of the spy's four goals in the prototype Hecker was showing? I fired. I shot the wrong guy.

Hecker told me that Spy Party emerged from his desire to make "an asymmetrical multiplayer game about subtle human behavior." Naturally, because it's a video game, I pointed out, this subtle game's got to have killing. Hecker laughed, though he wasn't yet doing his Bond villain cackle. Subtlety is his unusual game design goal. He wants a game that you pore over, that you study and observe. If you are the sniper he wants you to have to spot the tiniest clues. As the spy, he wants you to be able to make the slickest super-spy gestures. In this prototype, for example, one of the four goals for the spy is to move a book from a bookshelf at one end of the room to the other. Doing this correctly involves standing in front of the bookcase, taking a book from the shelf to read and then either putting it back for real or doing a slick move — triggered by a different button press — that slips the book under one's jacket while still reaching a hand to the bookcase, as if the book was being put back on the shelf. Even when Hecker showed me the animation I was two blinks away from missing it.

Spy Party has already proven to provoke devious actions. Hecker said that some of his spy-side game testers have taken to tapping on buttons that the 360 controller doesn't use, in order to make the sniper player think that a spy action is being committed. If they hear come clicking then they'll assume, perhaps, that one of the statue idols is being replaced? That's another of the spy's four goals, by the way. It may have been Hecker's description of such deviousness that made me realize how I was going to beat him at his own game. As he continued talking about all the bright ideas he had for Spy Party, I concocted my master plan.

The Next Smart Video Game Only Lets You Kill OncePart of what is so exciting about Spy Party is the stuff that happens around the game. Hecker has seen the game trigger strong emotional responses. I even felt it... guilt of all things. I've killed thousands — millions? — of enemy characters and even some friendly characters in video games with none of the pangs of consequence. I shot one innocent partygoer in Spy Party after tracking them for a few minutes, after being sure they were Chris Hecker's avatar and up to no good, and then, as they lay dead on the floor I realized I was wrong. I felt bad. Apparently Hecker's friend, Chaim Gingold, a fellow ex-Spore designer (he made the game's terrific creature editor) has been wracked by the same guilt when play-testing the game. Another Hecker friend, Spore visionary Will Wright, was less bothered. "Will doesn't care," Hecker said. The legendary game designer sees the characters for the digital constructs they are and moves on to the next session, ready to try to figure out who the spy is and shoot again.

I knew my time as the spy would be tough. As I tried this side of the game Hecker even checked whether I wanted him to be playing well or with sympathy. It was a clear sign that he'd already figured me out.

I would move my spy character through the party, watching Hecker's laser pointer find me and knowing the bullet was coming. There were times when I moved my character with a stutter, making the kind of awkward stop-and-turn move that a computer character would never make. Hecker sniped me, then explained that he is going to program the computer to sometimes make those kinds of bad moves too. Add that to his ideas list: He also wants these parties to be set in multi-room mansions with multiple players as spies who may or may not know about each other, and with snipers waiting outside. He wants there to be events at the party, like the singer drawing people to the piano so she can belt out a tune, giving the spy an opportunity to slip away. He wants to let the paparazzi character take photos, making a flash that temporarily blinds the sniper. He wants personalities in his characters, so that the lecherous partygoer hits on the ingenue. Spy players could choose any of these characters and role-play them as best they can while trying to accomplish their spy goals.

After each time that Hecker sniped me we were able to restart the room. I kept playing as the spy, but I had the option to select the four spy goals and my spy character. I don't remember which character I chose when I decided it was time to hatch my plan. It may have been the man in the plaid blazer. Maybe it was the general. Whoever it was, I do recall that I walked my guy over to the statues. I was going to do the first goal: idol swap.

As my character stood there, Hecker's laser-pointer found me. That's when Chris Hecker threw his head back and laughed. He'd found me out again. Really, he said, this wasn't a fair match.

No, it wasn't fair. Hecker hadn't shot me yet.

It would have been better if I'd played with someone at my skill level, he had continuously suggested. No, this was better.

I made my character walk toward his next goal. Hecker's laser followed. At any moment he could pull the trigger.

Or, actually, he couldn't. He only had a few seconds left, because unbeknownst to Hecker I had changed the rules of the game. I had ignored the mandate to select all four of the game's spy goals during our matchmaking preparation. I had set up the match so that my spy had only one task: swap the idols. A timer was counting down on my screen, as it would on the screen of any player who has completed all of their assigned spy goals.

The countdown timer finished. The game pronounced me the winner. Hecker, realizing what I'd done, made a different kind of cackle. He'd made a liar out of me and I'd tricked him.

Well-played, he told me. Yes, Hecker, and to you, well-made. Spy Party is one of the most psychologically interesting games I've played. Remember its name and follow its progress (on the official Spy Party site, if you'd like). Two years from completion, it could be worth the wait. It's a promising game in the making, with just one kill.

(Screenshots from Spy Party are from the game's current prototype and do not reflect the aesthetic and quality Hecker hopes to achieve with the finished product.)

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/03/500x_spyparty-20100312-2.jpg
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/03/500x_spyparty-20100312-3.jpg
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/03/500x_spyparty-20100312-1.jpg

[#BROKEN Hasney]

seriously getting tired of IGN

now that this thread has killed the VG forums for me, can anyone tell me a site better than IGN for gaming news? I'm not too fond of gamespot either.

This thread.

[Xero]

The game sounds pretty amazing, honestly. Gonna be something I follow for sure. I'm guessing it'll be an XBLA/PSN title.