Peripheral company CTA Digital announced two new accessories for the PlayStation Move, meant to enhance different aspects of the experience. For those of you who want to pay even more to play The Fight: Lights Out, CTA offers the Ultimate Boxing Gloves -- a set of fingerless gloves into which you can secure the Move controllers. The Wii has the wrist strap, but thanks to CTA, Move has the elusive palm strap.
The other new accessory is actually pretty slick-looking, and even practical: it's a charge cradle designed for one Move controller, one Navigation Controller, and one Dual Shock 3. For the one-Move household, this actually appears to be an ideal charging setup. The company also offers two other configurations for Move charging: one for just the Move and the Navigation Controller, and one for two Moves and two Navigation Controllers.
#screens
Some screenshots for the new Mortal Kombat game, previously only available in Game Informer magazine, have now been posted online for the millions of you who gave up on paper long ago. More »
Developer NaturalMotion has signed a deal with restaurant chain KFC to brand the free "lite" version of its Backbreaker Football game for the iPhone. For a month, the sponsored title will offer up 10 new waves to play through, as well as a special "Chicken Dance" touchdown celebration, all courtesy of the Colonel's own marketing budget.
The full version of the game (which contains more gameplay modes and the chance to customize your characters) is also on sale for 99 cents on the App Store. So, whether you just try a bite or go all-in, you can start hitting torsos even harder than the Double Down does.
#pc
I'd imagine most people picking up Civilization V will know exactly what they're getting themselves into, but just in case you don't, you can always check out the demo that will be released in September ahead of the game's release. More »
#top
Upcoming online game Gate has players create portals, here called "gates", to warp themselves to different areas in the game world. Hrm, that sounds familiar! More »
It's rare that playing a video game will actually bring you closer to performing those in-game activities in the real world. A successful Madden career won't earn you a spot on the Bengals' bench. Skills in Final Fantasy won't make hoisting comically large swords above your head any easier. However, Activision's offering folks who download and play the Blur demo from the European PlayStation Store a chance to drive a fast car for driving fast cars.
The fast car in question is a BMW 125i coupé, which Activision and Sony will reward to one random player who downloads the European demo and reaches the rank of level 5. Three runners-up will receive copies of Blur, which is ... roughly the same, right? Yeah, not much disparity there. For full rules and regulations for the contest, check out PlayStation Blog.
#comics
24 Hours Marston is a comic by Eric "Kafka" Feurstein, depicting the kind of things Red Dead hero John Marston gets up to in a day on the frontier. More »
A portion of a WiisWorld review…
Happies
Feels natural to use, less bulbous than standard remote.
Easier for kids to hold onto.
Compatible with MotionPlus.
Sads
Can’t use battery packs from Wii charger accessories.
Only $10 cheaper than Nintendo remote + nunchuk.
Team17 has announced that its extraterrestrial murder sim, Alien Breed: Impact, is now available for fifty percent off on Steam. The title has been reduced to a mere $7.49. You can also grab a co-op friendly 2-pack for just $11.24. Grab it quick though -- the deal ends on Thursday.
#screengrab
Team Ninja's Metroid: Other M is a new look for Metroid's gameplay, but Samus? She's largely the same, leaving a new look for her character to come from fans. As seen on UOL, via 4CR. More »
Namco Bandai previously announced its intentions to publish From Software's punishing dungeon crawler, Demon's Souls abroad and the verdict is in: it's apparently been a big hit. The publisher told Eurogamer the initial run -- a "Black Phantom Edition" priced at £44.99 (€42), which includes the game, soundtrack, art book and strategy guide -- has sold out.
"I can't give you a number, but what I mean by an 'amazing success' is that all the stock we built of the Black Phantom Edition has sold out (apart from dribs and drabs)," said Lee Kirton, marketing and PR manager for Namco Bandai Partners UK. "For a game that's been out a long time overseas we believe it to be a success. Reviews scores and coverage have been amazing." He then added that Namco Bandai hasn't sold "hundreds of thousands of units, but we've been pleased."
On Friday, Namco Bandai will launch a standard edition of the game in the UK for a bargain price of £34.99 (€54), five pounds cheaper than the launch price of most new games.
The conflict between New Zealand's TV3 and Sony could have gone much differently than it did. Instead of suing TV3 into oblivion when it found out that the broadcaster had produced a commercial directly copying the PlayStation 3's "Montage" ad, Sony used the Kevin Butler persona to publicly absolve (and mock) TV3. In a PlayStation Blog post, Butler offered permission to copy all PS3 ads in exchange for "TV3's support in making the PS3 the OFFICIAL GAME CONSOLE OF NEW ZEALAND." And a Flight of the Conchords box set.
As if this whole story weren't cute enough, TV3 sent Sony a package containing not only the Conchords set, but other local treats -- and a plaque proclaiming PS3 the "official game console of Aotearoa." We'd never have believed it if we hadn't seen it ourselves: two media companies settling a dispute in a friendly, joking manner instead of litigation. Maybe every company should bring in a few fictional executives.
#retail
Digital download sales might be the future of gaming, but they're certainly not the present, with a recent study finding that between 80-90% of games bought are still those that come on a disc and are sold in a store. More »
#science
The kids (and grown-ups) at Waterloo Labs in Austin, Texas have come up with a way for us to play video games with nothing but our eyes. More »
#buzzwords
Do you want the video games you play to be "immersive"? Just like The Matrix someday? Writer Oliver Hargrave pens his objection to the concept in an article we're proud to republish here. More »
In a fairly cheeky Japanese advertisement for its upcoming open-world action-RPG, Fallout: New Vegas, Bethesda Softworks assembled a group of mock protesters who have some mock concerns with a few JRPG tropes. Andriasang provided translations to some of their crudely-fashioned signs, which display such complaints as "when did games become something that you watch," "what's the point of playing again if there's no change to the story," and "I think it would be nice if the main character had a mission aside from just wiping out evil."
It's a pretty clever advertisement, but we wonder if Bethesda has considered the possible repercussions. Like, for instance, Square Enix could run a similar advertisement where like, five million Dragon Quest IX players hold up signs which simply say, "yeah, so what?"
#rumor
A preorder premium for NBA Elite 11 offered by GameStop tips off a new mode in NBA Elite 11, something called "Become Legendary." The smart money's on this being a singleplayer career along the lines of FIFA's "Be a Pro." More »
