This week, the dynamic duo work out a brand new reality show in which Rutger Hauer fights social injustice, andLittle Shop of Horrorsgets a long overdue behind-the-scenes dissection. Also, Willem Dafoe gets another movie pitch, and then there are some other things. On the videogame front, Nintendo is deemed the Silent Hill of videogames, Konami gets a dressing down, JRPGs are criticized, and certain indie developers get put in their place....
PSP games played on the new PlayStation Vita will see a bit of a visual upgrade with the system’s bilinear filtering option. Sony Japan says that it smooths out the roughness in PSP games. I’d imagine that the big, brilliant Vita screen would show the rough edges of PSP games easily. Tapping and holding down on the Vita screen during play of a PSP game will bring up an options menu, and in there you’ll be able to select this filtering option, along with options for right analog stick use and others....
When I was in school I used to dread the end of summer vacation — the night before classes started up again was always torture. As I watched the minutes tick by under the comfort of myShirt Talesbedsheets, I used to hope and pray that time would just pause forever. I must be getting old because I have never been more excited about a summer break coming to an end. Yeah, seeing Colette in a chocobo bikini was great, but I really missed recording RetroforceGO!...
Is this real life? Draw Something 2is officially happening. How do we know this? Because Ryan SeacrestTweeted the news. What. OMGPOP CEO and Zynga Vice President Dan Porterlater confirmedthatDraw Something 2is indeed coming soon and will feature “new ways to draw & connect” with others. Game Informerspeculates that Ryan got to announce the new game because Seacrest Productions, Embassy Row, and Sony Pictures Television won the bidding war to make aDraw Somethingtelevision show....
Check out everything Destructoid did today Jesus H probably-non-existent-Christ! Talk about all across the board,SimCityseems to have hit many people in many different ways according to Metacritic. Or maybe it hasn’t hit you at all. Don’t worry, keep refreshing that login page and I’m sure you’ll get to play that game you paid for, someday. In the mean time you can enjoy the free game EA is offering though. Not like you can get a refund or anything....
Comes in red or blue ThreeA’s great looking Robot Heavy is now up for pre-order. The figure is a 1/6-scale figure, LED illuminated eyes, and includes a 12 inch minigun. Pre-ordering from Bambaland will also get you an exclusive boxing glove hands, plus some kind of item forTeam Fortress 2. Probably a hat. The figures retail for $220 each, or $400 for both. The two-figure set is also exclusive to justBambaland....
Razer? I hardly even know her! Every time I see a razor blade in person I have to pick it up. Those things are dangerous and shouldn’t be left lying about. Kids could put them in their mouth or pigeons could weaponize them. Maybe mobsters will smuggle them into prisons to slice their garlic. The same thing happens when I see a Razer Blade. I try to keep tech fetishization to a minimum, but seeing a sort of pretty, svelte laptop playingSleeping Dogsat 3200 x 1800, I can’t help but be a little bit impressed....
The competition is heating up It’s the last day of EVO 2015, the largest fighting game tournament of the year, and if you haven’t yet tuned in to catch any of this weekend’s action, now would be the perfect time to do so. Starting withGuilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-this morning and concluding withUltra Street Fighter IVtonight, today is all about the final rounds. The competition is at its fiercest, as the best players in the world have separated themselves from the pack....
Ready to be the very best? By the time this goes up, we’ll be less than a week before the release of one of Nintendo’s most anticipated titles for the year,Pokémon SunandMoon. From what Nintendo has drip fed us over the past year, it has been teasing some major shake-ups to Pokémon’s identity mechanically such as the removal of the HM system, battling Totem Pokémon, and the Island Challenge in the stead of the traditional gym and Pokémon league journey....
We’ve known aboutResident Evil 5: Alternate Editionfor awhile now, but we haven’t been clear on what exactly it includes. Now, thanks to theBBFCratings board, we know a bit more. Alternate Edition is supposed to have two new levels. One, Lost in Nightmares, has Chris and Jill back in the past, busting into Spencer’s mansion. The other we know now to be called Desperate Escape. As to what it’s about, well, you’ll have to use your imagination, as the BBFC only lists the name of the new level....
I still struggle to see Emperor Gestahl correctly Instead of taking a proper lunch break away from my computer today, I got caught up in this funny, nostalgicNeoGAF threadabout “sprites that look like things they’re not supposed to.” Older games allowed and even encouraged us to use our imaginations to bring their lo-fidelity worlds and characters to life and, sometimes, what we saw clashed with the artists’ intent. The biggest offender for me is the dark wizard Agahnim fromA Link to the Past, illustrated above, but I’ll to admit to thinking for years that Bullet Bills inSuper Mario Bros....
Infinity Ward heard that you like spending fake moon money on fake moon clothes for your fake moon person. That’s right folks,Modern Warfare 2-branded Avatar nonsense is coming to Xbox Live. Aren’t you excited? I just coughed up a kitten I was so overjoyed. Quite what the Avatar items will be yet, we don’t know, but IW’s Robert Bowlinghas statedthat he hopes a number of them will be free. Avatar Rewards look unlikely, however....
Four player co-op was always the hope says former creative director In an interview withIGN, Ex-Vigil creative director Joe Madureira released a few nuggets of information on whatDarksiders IIIcould have been, provided Vigil staff, and not Nordic Games, had won the bidding war. “It was always our hope to do a full four-player co-op game, with all four Horsemen playable … It’s possible we could have pulled it off. I would have liked to introduce Fury and Strife....
