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elder scrolls IV: oblivion
Oblivion Shouts Out: Capt. Picard and Boromir
Bethesda Studios snatched up Patrick Stewart and Sean Bean along with Terrance Stamp and Wonder Woman herself, Lynda Carter to provide voices in the upcoming Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Stewart will voice the Emperor, and Bean his long lost son. What all of this means, we don't know as the details on the plot of Oblivion are sparse, but maybe some Shakespearean cross-family politicking will be at play. Who knows?
Announcement
Sponsor Zerg!
All week long we eat gingerly from their hands our sponsors. All of this taking, we really want to give back. What'll it be this weekend? Lavish dinners? Shopping sprees? You tell us what you want. More »
Best Buy's Ad Wizards
Look! Apparently you'll be able to play Rockstar's The Warriors for PlayStation 2 with a Mad Catz Xbox controller. Kudos, advertising masters.
Thanks to David for the find.
Look! Apparently you'll be able to play Rockstar's The Warriors for PlayStation 2 with a Mad Catz Xbox controller. Kudos, advertising masters.
Thanks to David for the find. 
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Baby, It's a Wild World: Animal Crossing WiFi Details
Infendo has some details from Nintendo about the WiFi functionality in the upcoming Animal Crossing: Wild World title for the Nintendo DS. Up to four players will be able to meet in a single town and do the day-to-day Animal Crossing chores, fishing, cutting down trees, picking weeds in addition to text messaging each other while in-town. Like the GameCube versions, players' resident animals may move to other players' towns. The WiFi mode and town-visiting is available to anyone in WiFi range. I forsee much griefing in Animal Crossing. Faithful readers, head into an unsuspecting town and cut down all of the trees. Report to us with the results and some screenshots. November can't get here fast enough! More »
Killer 7
Killer 7 Director Makes DS Cosplay Game
Gouichi Suda, the force behind Killer 7, is creating light entertainment for the Nintendo DS. Titled Contact, the yet released game follows a boy named Cherry that searches his planet for an alien professor's scattered power components. The kid also collects costumes, such as for a chef, pilot, fisherman or firefighter. Depending on what Cherry wears, his abilities change. I know exactly what that's like. If I'm not encased in a wetsuit, there's no way I'm up for SOCOM: Navy Seals. More »
Carmack
Ground Control to Major John
Doom designer John Carmack's spaceship will be shown at the X Prize Cup on Oct. 6. The nine companies showing their shuttles, including Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace, won't be heading into orbit just yet the event's altitude is restricted to "low." Carmack told Wired that his spacecraft could be in space as early as next year. The October event will mark the first time the 10-foot-tall spaceship has been seen by the public. Carmack could see a return on his $2.5 million investment in the project if the military contracts the design for use. Space shuttles are cool and all, but when will Carmack and the military strike a deal to make a real-life version of the BFG9000? More »
Xbox 360
Xbox 360 Economics
Thank you China for slave-labor wages. Workers in Southern China are making dollars a day to assemble 360's right as we speak. However, they won't be able to take out loans to buy the machines until 2006. As previously reported, America will get the console first, then Japan and finally China. More »
Console Wars
Analysts Confuse Journalists: Who's Winning the Console Wars?
GameSpot and 1up.com both have stories up about the Piper Jaffray financial predictions for the games' industry. The catch is that both sites have slightly conflicting information. More »
Anime
Production I.G. Game Anime
At the Tokyo Game Show, it was announced that SNK Playmore has teamed up with Production I.G. to create a short anime series for the small screen, which'll debut this December in Japan. The hugely influential animation studio Production I.G. (Ghost in the Shell and Kill Bill) will bring their edge to the popular King of Fighters series game. More »
Culture
Games and Movies Continue to Collide
The damage to video games and Hollywood has been done, according to a piece over at CBS News. An interview with GameSpot editor Jeff Gerstmann talks about the relationship between games and film. This isn't about the portrayal of games and film, however, but rather the actual translation of film license to game and vice versa. Taking the "rescue the princess" narrative (and I'm using that term extremely loosely) and turning into a two-hour movie isn't really going to work. Unless you're making Mortal Kombat, then you're all set. More »
Advertising
Truth in Advertising (Part 3)
Personally, I am all over the white portable and think it's a beautiful machine. Sony design at it's best. But, what is up with this measly four percent discount? Couldn't go the full five? Might as well not even offer it. More »
PSP
Another PSP Firmware Update Incoming
Sony is getting annoyed with the hackers who keep giving its PSP more utility than they did when they designed it. Earlier this week a working downgrade to the PSP firmware was released. Sony is back at work on another firmware upgrade to counter this most recent "hack." Why didn't Sony just give the PSP this utility from the beginning? Hackability worked wonders for the Xbox. More »
Mario
Pure Mario Music
There's been tons of Super Mario Bros. music sampling and live renditions. How about straight up Mario? To celebrate the plumber's 20th anniversary, the November issue of Nintendo Dream includes a 72 minute CD of pure Mario. More »
Xbox 360
Bach: Half of Xbox 360 Owners Will Use Live
Despite the fact that only 10 percent of Xbox owners currently use Xbox Live, Microsoft's Robbie Bach is confident that number will jump to at least 50 percent with the Xbox 360. The spin here is that the Silver Package (which comes with Xbox 360) won't actually let people play on Xbox Live, it simply lets users connect to the Live servers. In order to play on Live consumers must buy the Gold package. So people simply connect to the Silver edition of Live and not necessarily pay for it or play their games online. So this is all just more PR speak? More »
Tgs
Sony Exec Explains Absolutely Nothing
CEO Ken Kutaragi promised us playable PS3 games at the Tokyo Game Show. We got clips. Respected Japanese game mag Famitsu spoke with another Sony Computer Entertainment executive, who did his best at explaining why the TGS was such a letdown. More »
Toys
Buy a Capsule Toy, Win a PSP
Today, while cruising through Den-Den Town in Osaka, I came across these PSP and PS2 capsule toy machines. Put 1,000 yen (approx. $10) into this gacha gacha machine and out pops an black egg. Inside, there isn't an actual handheld or console, but a ticket telling you whether or not you've won. The showcase below was stacked full of units waiting to be claimed. More »
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