As you can see, the second day at PAX East brought about wild Pokemon women. They might be hard to capture, but you never know if one of the show-goers has the right tools to take one of these prizes home. Careful though, if you don’t approach the Pokemon women correctly, you’ll find [...]
Are you one of the few that have yet to explore the world of Rapture? Amazon is running a secret sale that lets you score both BioShock 1 and 2 for only $50 -- less than the cost of BioShock 2 alone. To take advantage of this deal, you'll need to add either the PS3 or Xbox 360 versions of both games into your shopping cart; the discount will appear there. (Sorry, the deal isn't applicable to the PC or Limited Edition versions.)
Starting with this combo bundle will give you the rare chance to play the entire BioShock saga in the correct canonical order. Remember to start with BioShock 2's multiplayer mode, then move onto the original BioShock, and finish with BioShock 2's story. That's the only way you'll get the real experience.
[Thanks, Waunel]Deal: BioShock 1 & 2 for $50 on Amazon
I’m ashamed to admit it, but I just can’t get any enjoyment from Nintendo’s varied lineup of Game & Watch games. I know that the game we’re discussing here is a special breed of that series, but I still don’t see it as ‘fun’. I can enjoy it a great deal as a [...]
Our friends at RIPT Apparel are going to offer the shirt design you see above for one day only. The sale doesn’t kick off until midnight tonight, but once that rolls around, you’ll have 24 hours to snatch it up. Make sure to keep tabs on the sale, as this shirt may never [...]
I never, ever see this magazine in any retailer. Where do people go to buy this one!? Also, is there still a big demand for cheat codes and all that? Don’t people just head online to GameFAQs for this sort of thing?
Did you know that Nintendo is offering two games for people to buy online? You can actually get download tickets for Super Mario Bros. 3 and Pokemon Rumble at the link below. I don’t know why anyone would do this over purchasing them right from the Shop Channel, but I guess there’s a [...]
We’ve all seen StarFox 2, through videos that have been leaked. I’m sure tons of you have actually played it as well. We can see that the game is pretty much all wrapped up, so how come it never officially saw the light of day? Dylan Cuthbert, developer on the project, reveals [...]
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In a culture so infused with irony, the appreciation of campy works - outrageous movies, terrible art, worse music - is absolutely mainstream. Does it apply to games? Can games strive to be campy? Or are they already so? More »
Farsighted Canadians who are jonesing to get their hands on Nintendo's embiggened handheld, the DSi XL, will have a pretty sweet offer waiting for them at Best Buy on March 28. Participating stores will be handing out DSi XLs in exchange for five game trade-ins -- provided the aforementioned games aren't too worthless.
Check out Best Buy Canada's site to get a full list of the titles eligible for the one-day promotion. No, you can't hand in five copies of Madden '97. Thought you had the system beat, didn't you?
In this week’s links, the 5th anniversary of the PSP gets writers feeling nostalgic, our East Coast swing results in more fresh PlayStation Move impressions, and yes, more praise heaped upon God of War III. Did we miss anything good? Please feel free to share your links with us in the comments below.
The PS Blog weekly reading list (Week of March 22, 2010)
Music fit for an Anti-Hero: The God of War III Soundtrack Album – G4tv.com
True 3D Dot Game Heroes Starts Here – Bitmob
PAX East 10: Hands-on the Move’s Sports Champions – Destructoid
All About Slider, The Escaping On An Office Chair PlayStation Move Game – Siliconera
Lunar: Silver Star Harmony for PlayStation Portable – G4tv.com
The Possibilities, Surprises And Limits of Playstation’s Move According to The Inventor – Kotaku
God of War 3 Review and Gameplay!!! – Zeitgeist Review
Review: MLB 10: The Show PSP – examiner.com
PSU’s Top Ten Greatest Music Tracks on PSone – PlayStation Universe
God of War III launch – electric playground
The Top Five PSP Games of the Past Five Years – IGN
The PSP’s Fifth Birthday Blowout – IGN
Top 30 funniest tweets by Kevin Butler – PS3 Attitude
Aliens vs. Predator coming to PlayStation Home March 25th! – SEGA America Blog
PAX East 10: Why the Move controller might break less TVs – Destructoid
Yakuza 3: The Best Japanese RPG You’re (Probably) Not Playing – Bitmob
Five Years, Ten Games: PSP Essentials – G4tv.com
PAX East 10: What the PS Move does differently, better – Destructoid
It’s Official: PS3 Has The Best Library Ever – 1up
The Engadget Show – 007: Nicholas Negroponte, PlayStation Move exclusive demos, Dr. Richard Marks, Joystiq’s Chris Grant, and more! — Engadget
Loco Roco Nursery – MachWerx
Heavy Rain’s Scott Shelby had a cameo in a real film – Destructoid
BAFTAs: Uncharted 2, Batman: AA win big – Destructoid
Review: MLB 10 The Show – Destructoid
ModNation Racers Has Four-Player Splitscreen Possibly Thanks To You – Kotaku
How to become a videogame VO Actor (Part 1 of 2) – Insomniac Games Blog
At Harmonix's PAX East 2010 panel, five Rock Band designers answered questions from the audience for "An Awkward Hour" with one major stipulation: No questions about Rock Band 3. However, when an audience member inquired whether Green Day: Rock Band songs would still have harmonies when imported into RB2, Harmonix Project Lead Chris Foster began listing off the games with harmony support. "We've said Rock Band 3 would have harmonies already, right?" Foster asked his fellow panelists, who responded with a booming, "No!"
Foster clammed up without revealing more details about Rock Band 3's harmonies (or even answering the attendee's original question), only mentioning, "It's been nice working at Harmonix." (We think he was joking about that last part.)
I love Westerns: Shane, Stagecoach, The Searchers, Rio Bravo, Unforgiven, Open Range. These are the immersive stories that I've always wanted to play in games. There have been some decent efforts, like Dead Man's Hand, Gun, Call of Juarez, and even Red Dead Revolver, but they all confine the player to narrow paths. What happened to the wide-open Wild West? Enter: Red Dead Redemption.
This is the largest world Rockstar has ever created. Can you quantify that? "It's big," a representative assured me.
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Jacob Minkoff, game designer at Uncharted 2 development studio Naughty Dog and one of the main people behind the game's train sequence, sports the company logo on his back. More »
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When last I left Shank, it was PAX West 2009. Six months later I got my hands on a whole new, platform-heavy level and word from Klei Entertainment's Jamie Cheng on quality versus quantity. More »
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Kotaku previewed new Xbox Live Arcade exclusive Hydrophobia this weekend. The game has some rough spots, but to help you understand this game's potential check out its water effects in this official trailer. More »
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Our week began with a nightmarish image, even in x-ray - a giant butcher knife plunged through some unlucky wallhacker's cranium. Sensitive bastards people that we are, this is great fodder for the latest Kotaku 'Shop Contest. More »
Naughty Dog's panel at PAX East 2010 offered attendees a fairly in-depth look at how the studio created each level in Uncharted and Uncharted 2. One important aspect of the series' level design is, of course, coming up with a clever name for each chapter -- a task assigned to lead designer Richard Lemarchand.
Unfortunately, "the Man" occasionally prevents Lemarchand from putting certain chapter titles in the game, keeping Uncharted 2's original train segment title card (pictured above) out of the final version. Curse you, unseen managerial powers-that-be!
I think I’m losing my mind here. I could have sworn that most devs call the camera in Super Mario 64 one of the best cameras in a game. I know it has its quirks, but I also believe it to be a major landmark in 3d camera control. It’s just one [...]
For some strange reason, GameFly has re-upped their listing for Project H.A.M.M.E.R. yet again. Not only have they bumped the listing for the title up once again, they’ve also included it in their ‘Coming Soon’ section. Is this just a continuing computer error that GameFly is yet to catch, or is someone on [...]
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You may not be here with us in person, dearest Joystiq reader, but you're with us in our hearts. We're just as sad as you that you couldn't make it all the way to Boston's first ever PAX East, but we've got a whole bunch of pictures of the Joystiq Podcast trio (and the hundreds of people who showed up to the Manticore Theater this evening) for you right now ... live! No, seriously, we're sitting here in the front row. No, we can't stop working. But lookie! Pictures!
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We promised you more cosplay for the second day of PAX East, and we have delivered! Check out today's gallery for more Pokémon, Mario, Final Fantasy XIII, Fallout, The World Ends With You, and this uncanny Jerry Holkins cosplay. More »
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Dead Space's strategic dismemberment system was a lot of fun, but ultimately a waste of perfectly good limbs. Executive producer Steve Papoutsis tells Kotaku one way the sequel will keep the fun going even after someone loses an arm. More »
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Just because you don't live in the Northeast (or couldn't afford to hop on a bus/train/plane/cattle cart to PAX East 2010) doesn't mean that you can't tour Microsoft's New England Research & Development Center with us. Sure, you might not be here in the physical sense, but our hi-res gallery below should assist you in achieving a semblance of the zeitgeist in Cambridge yesterday morning.
Xbox's Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb, Stephen "Stepto" Toulouse, Laura "Lollipop" Massey, and Eric "E" Neustadter ate breakfast with us (and two or three hundred of their closest friends), handed out some prizes, and even gave everyone a chance to check out a Surface. If you're so inclined, flip through the gallery below and tour N.E.R.D. with us, won't you?
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The soundtrack composer for the upcoming Scott Pilgrim adaptation (of the upcoming Scott Pilgrim movie) debuted one of the game's songs at PAX East, and screengrabs taken from that video give a glimpse of what to expect in the game. More »
So, it's like, the art style is exactly what I want from this game but WHAT THE *CRAG* DO YOU DO IN THE MOTHER *CRAG*ING GAME
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Giant Bomb's Jeff Gertsmann, long-time reviewer of games, has a less than cheerful history with the first Kane & Lynch game. But at PAX East, all is well with Jeff, Kane and Lynch. (The fans here made him do it!) More »
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