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Blizzard Drinks Too Much Sprite
Friday, May 25th, 2007We’ve all see ‘em, those weird Sprite commercials featuring subliminal advertising. My recent favorite is the one with LeBron James in some weird helmet shooting a giant tongue with yellow and green paintballs. Hey, if I got paid millions to wear a tuxedo and a goofy green helmet while shooting a tongue, I’d do it [...]
Mountain Dew Game Fuel – Get It On Ebay
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007Halo 3 is still about 4 months away, but the Halo 3 marketing machine is already in full force. That’s one thing I will say about Microsoft – they sure know how to spend a lot of money and advertise the hell out of something if they want to. Back in March, Pepsi announced they [...]
Wii: Great If You Want The Same Game Twice
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007Hey everyone, Resident Evil 4 comes out next month on the Wii! This would be great news if the game didn’t already come out two and a half years ago. Am I the only one who finds this rehashing a little disconcerting? This is a state-of-the-art gaming system with advanced controls, and they’re tossing out [...]
Halo 3 To Feature 4 Player Co-op Over Live?
Sunday, May 20th, 2007Some astute gamers over at 7th Columnist managed to extract text from the Halo 3 beta source files and gain access to the onscreen menus, prompts, and other bits of information. During the process of it all, they came across one particularly interesting piece of onscreen text: The game cannot start because all players are [...]
First Pics from set of Hitman – Fanboys Commence Whining
Friday, May 18th, 2007Filmwad.com has posted the first images, from the set of Hitman, of Timothy Olyphant as Agent 47. Expect relentless fanboy whining to commence shortly. I’ll admit, I’ve regrettably not played a whole lot of the Hitman series. I have, however, watched my fair share of Deadwood, and will vouch for Olyphant’s status as a bad [...]
Halo 3 Beta Problems
Friday, May 18th, 2007Yesterday was a bad day for those waiting to play the Halo 3 Beta. Owners of Crackdown were unable to access the download as promised and were forced to wait hours (HOURS!) before they were able to begin their download. One Digg user was quoted as saying, “Don’t ******* tell me to ******* calm down. [...]
Obvious Update: Lots of People Want Halo 3
Thursday, May 10th, 2007Gamers be buyin’ Halo 3! You cannot stop a gamer from buyin’ Halo 3! According to Gamestop, Halo 3 is on it’s way to shattering all previous pre-order records – with over 4 million pre-orders so far. Xbox Evolved summed it up nicely: In the coming months, if this information is verified this would be [...]
Why are Japanese RPG’s so … ummm … gay?
Monday, October 23rd, 2006If there’s one thing I think we can all agree on, it’s that Japanese gamers love cute things. Almost everything that escapes the land of the rising sun has the patented Japanese sugar coating better known as “cute”. While this is fine for games like Pokemon, or Animal Crossing, I am getting sick of more-serious [...]
Do gamers really want innovation?
Thursday, October 12th, 2006I hear it all the time from game critics and gamers: “Games nowadays lack innovation!! I want innovation damn it!!!”. But do gamers really want innovation? I’ll give you a hint. No. Capcom just announced they will be closing Clover Studios – the same studio that oozed all sorts of innovation in every game they [...]