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In Brief
Quake Wars Release Date Gets Closer
Activision has just released their results for the last fiscal year. Amidst the numbers (they lost $14.4 million) was news that Enemy Territory: Quake Wars' window of release just got a little smaller.
The company also announced that it would move the release of Enemy Territory(TM): Quake Wars into the second quarter.
Neither iD nor developer Splash Damage have set a solid, concrete a release date, but that has it pegged for a release between July-September. Right when we'll be up to our eyeballs in a ton of other games. I'm sobbing gently to myself with despair as I come to the realisation there is no way in hell I'm going to find time to play every big game that's coming between now and the end of the year. I haven't even finished Final Fantasy XII yet! More »
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Touch Little Boys On Your DS
SNK covers all bases, all tastes. Doki Doki Majo Shinpan is not just a little girl witch touching DS game. Oh, no, no, no. It's also a little boy witching touching DS game! A new screenshot shows that players will have to determine whether this "underage boy" is in fact a witch. As with all suspected witches in-game, touching them causes their heart rate to increase, revealing a "witch mark" on their body identifying them. Chances of this boy being a witch? Forty percent, actually. Chances of this 15 years-old-and-up rated game being a huge otaku hit? 100 percent. More »
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Rumour: Nintendo Announcing Mario Kart Wii, New Hardware At E3?
Adorable Frenchmen Jeux France have run what they reckon is a "credible" rumour. Well, rumours, because there's a few, and they all involve Nintendo. Seems at this year's E3 we'll not only get firm release dates for Smash Bros and Mario Galaxy, we'll also get a "grosse révélation au niveau Hardware" [big hardware news] as well as a look at Mario Kart for the Wii. More »
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Simple 2000: The Japanese Hardware Chart
New Media Create hardware numbers are in and it's nothing but good news! Even the Xbox 360 is up a whopping 18 additional units from the previous week. I'll wait for your mind to stop reeling before I continue. More »
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Tomb Raider vs. Tomb Raider: Anniversary
To say that I'm somewhat excited for Tomb Raider: Anniversary would be an understatement and an insult to your ability to read my posts over the past few weeks. While I'm not some dyed in the wool uber fan, I've got a soft spot for the original, so a chance to revisit the game with tolerable graphics is just my speed. Anyway, GameTrailers put together this spiffy clip comparing the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 versions showing just how far we've come graphically (even with a last-gen visual handicap) since the original. Lever switching and wolf slaughtering never looked so good.
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CBS To Air World Series Of Video Games
The wide world of "eSports" is coming to a television near you. CBS and the World Series of Video Games have announced that they've partnered to bring four hour-long recaps of WSVG events to television airwaves starting this summer. Competitive gamers will challenge eachother in titles such as World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, Guitar Hero II and Fight Night Round 3, among others. More »
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Activision Calls Rock Band A Guitar Hero "Imitator"
Apparently, Activision execs aren't quite clear on who was responsible for the runaway console hit Guitar Hero. According to Gamasutra, during a conference call today, Activision suits took a swipe at MTV and Harmonix's upcoming Rock Band claiming it "wasn't surprising that [Guitar Hero] has attracted imitators." Wuzzat? More »
Zenke delivers massive damage
Massive Update's Massive Depth
Slashdot's Michael Zenke mentioned to me earlier this month that he was now penning a regular column for 1Up about massively multiplayer games. More »
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PlayStation Store Update: Revenge of RR7
Sony has heard your cries, PLAYSTATION 3 owners. This week's PlayStation Store update finally addresses your complaints about a lack of downloadable videos for MLB 07: The Show. Sony has added a handful of new videos for the title today, a series of tutorials to get folks up to speed on how video-riffic the first-party baseball game is in action. More »
ah, the irony
Lobster Claw Machine
BoingBoing writes that a reader snapped a picture of this Marine Catcher claw machine during a backpacking trip through Asia. More »
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GameTap's Latex Lara Clip (And Other Stuff)
The folks at GameTap wanted to remind us that they've been working on a look back at the ten-year old Tomb Raider franchise, regularly releasing segments of the documentary online. Most importantly, they have video fo the multi-Lara Croft photoshoot that I posted yesterday. The full featurette featuring the five latex-clad Laras is scheduled to go live on June 5th, but you can get a sneak preview at the official GameTap site. It's an impressive show of models preening and posing in PVC and four inch heels and, at two minutes, plenty of time to get the job done. More »
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Dead Rising Gets "New" Threads, New DLC
Capcom is celebrating 1 million copies of Dead Rising sold by... hitting you up for Microsoft Points. Seven new pieces of downloadable content for the Xbox 360 game are now up on Xbox Live, including three freebies. More »
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Blizzard Pres to Keynote Austin GDC
Blizzard president and co-founder Michael Morhaime will be presenting a keynote at this year's Austin Game Developers Conference. More »
Clips
The Bugs Of Street Fighter II
I remember seeing the Guile "handcuffs" glitch in action for the first time at a Monroeville Mall arcade, back when we did all of our rumormongering and FAQing on Usenet. Now, thanks to the efforts of the internet and some generous YouTuber capturing key bug-filled moments from one of the Tanomi superplay-filled Insanity DVDs, this one titled The Starting Over: Hyper Street Fighter II from 2005, we're all privy to the secrets of Capcom's seminal arcade fighter. Rather awesome nostalgia, no?
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Japan Gets PSN Cards Next Week
Sony's been teasing us with the prospect of PlayStation Network prepaid cards for over a year now, but the agonizing wait for prepaid digital money is finally over. Starting next Wednesday, Japanese gamers will be able to purchase PSN cards at some 52,000 retail outlets nationwide making credit card purchases a thing of the past. More »
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