#microsoft
The public relations war we sometimes call E3 has begun a few days early, it seems, with Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg taking to Twitter to fire a shot across Sony's bow in the leadup to the big trade show. More »
#humor
Not everyone loved the inclusion of a free version of Pac-Man on Google's home page. In fact, one old lady was so incensed she felt the need to call Google tech support. More »
Siliconera has some more insight on those Consumer Entertainment Software Association piracy figures, and while the "money lost" totals are still a little inflated (it's very hard to agree with the sentiment that all pirated software would otherwise have been purchased legitimately at full price if not for piracy), the actual downloads are pretty surprising. Dissidia: Final Fantasy is the big winner (loser?), with over 5.2 million illegal downloads onto Japanese PSPs.
Phantasy Star Portable 2 and Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce were also heavily pirated, with 4.6 and 2 million illegal copies downloaded, respectively. Fortunately, outside of a few major titles, downloads drop off pretty sharply -- by the end of the top 20 in sales, they're at a few thousand or 10 thousand downloads each, rather than millions. Piracy is definitely still an issue (and a growing one -- the first Phantasy Star Portable only saw just over half a million illegal downloads a few years ago), but in Japan it appears confined to a small group of extremely popular titles.
#psp
Remember the feature film version of D3's bikini-wearing cowgirl hack-and-slash game Onechanbara? No, not the first one. The sequel, Onechanbara The Movie VORTEx. More »
#wii
Is the bottom about to fall out of Nintendo's software market? Namco Bandai certainly thinks so, saying the market for games on both the Wii and DS has "collapsed". More »
#rockband
Rock Band 3 will, as expected, let you do something you've never been able to do in a Rock Band (or Guitar Hero) game before: play the keyboard. More »
- 91 tracks
- 4 discs
- Yoko Shimomura’s main theme song and Yasunori Mitsuda’s end theme, “Beyond the Sky” included
- also features music that didn’t make the game
- due out June 23rd in Japan
- ¥3,500.
- DS version in the works
- make your own characters
- improved character models
- view your band members hopping into their van to head to a show
- practice and perform
- band will be visible while you choose what songs you play
- everything you do earns achievements in the goal-based career mode
- hundreds of goals involving instruments, [...]
2000s
Combat Baby — Metric
Dead End Friends — Them Crooked Vultures
Get Free — The Vines
Lasso — Phoenix
Me Enamora — Juanes
Oh My God — Ida Maria
Portions of Foxes — Rilo Kiley
The Hardest Button to Button — The White Stripes
1990s
Been Caught Stealing — Jane’s Addiction
In the Meantime — Spacehog
Plush — Stone Temple Pilots
Walkin’ on the Sun — Smash [...]
#ps3
When role-playing game Final Fantasy XIII went on sale in Japan in December 2009, it was priced at ¥9,240 (US$101). Now, one retailer is offering the game for a discount. A huge one. More »
Did you pick up a copy of Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil for the Wii? If you wanted one, you better get on it right now. The game has just recently been discontinued, which means that any copies you find out there right now are of the very last batch shipped to retailers. [...]
#movies
Did you know Kevin Tancharoen, the man behind yesterday's amazing Mortal Kombat short, shot it in just two days? And that much of the work was done for free? You do now. More »
Oh, Mega64, is there any code you can't crack? First it was the mysterious Kojima teaser last year and now, the comedy troupe ponders on that mysterious new keyboard-like icon in the Rock Band 3 logo. They even find some similarities between Rock Band 3 and F3AR -- er, sorry, FEAR 3.
It's some very high-brow deductive reasoning, as indicated in the classy image above. Head past the break to check out the video courtesy of IGN -- "solved 4 good," indeed.
- drums, lead and bass guitar, keyboards, lead vocals and two harmony vocals
- “With the introduction of keyboards, we get to bring a ton of amazing new music onto the platform, which will help feed the appetite for music for years to come.” - Alex Rigopulos, CEO of Harmonix
- 83 new songs
- “it’s hard to [...]
A portion of a 1up review…
While the selection isn’t as substantial as you’d see in a full-size cookbook, this is balanced by the compact, interactive nature of the program. In other words, it’s not the sort of thing to replace old cookbook standbys like Better Homes & Gardens or Real Simple… but as a complement, [...]
#quickhit
Quick Hit Football, the free-to-play online football game, will bring NFL teams to its MMO-style team management simulation under one of the very few licenses the league's given to a video game of any type other than Madden. More »
- four-player co-op mode
- tons of pop culture references
- Blog has a robot sidekick named Pinky
- the game kicks off in Prisma City, where the townspeople seem quite upset
- Comrade Black has formed a religious cult named The Blank
- Comrade Black is convincing the townsfolk to give up their colorI
- 12 levels
- level [...]
Have you been keeping up with all the Xenoblade coverage that’s been circling the web? We’ve posted every little bit of footage, music, information and screen collections that we could find. Hell, we don’t even know when the game is going to make it to North America! Still, if you’re interested in [...]
