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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - Posts

  • Tue

    Mario Carnage-FPS Style

    If you're like us, you may have wondered from time to time how a Nintendo Mario FPS would play like in the world of Super Mario 64? Well, you can leave your wondering days behind you now as the video below will vividly display just how it would go down. Hell to the yeah, get fraggin' suckas!
  • Tue

    PlayTV Receives Australian Date

    PlayTV. What is PlayTV I hear you ask? For the uninitiated, PlayTV is the latest offereing from Sony to bring integration into everyone's face. No really, it's the following," PlayTV is a twin-channel DVB-T tuner peripheral with digital video recorder (DVR) software which allows users to record television programs to the PlayStation 3 hard drive for later viewing." So in essence, it's a device connected to your TV and whatever you record using it will be stored on your PS3 hard...
  • Tue

    Prototype Mutates New York

    Interesting title coming for both the Xbox 360 and PS3 by the name of Prototype which involves a mutated New York. You'll play the role of Alex Mercer who awakens to find himself with no memories and a unique virus that grants him the ability to mutate and change in more than one way. Just one ability will be the power to consume people and take on their form for a start. With the game set in a city where anything and everything happens, you can bet that soon enough Alex will be squaring off...
  • Tue

    Singstar PS3 Bound

    Party for the drunken party yahoos and wannabe divas out there, Singstar has been confirmed as receiving a version for the PS3. Shipping in the US on May 20th, the PS3 incarnation will bring with an online social interaction called My Singstar Online. What MSO is bringing to the table will be the ability to purchase songs very similar to the current structure in place for Apple's iTunes store where the tracks will be on a similar par pricewise with the music video of course thrown in. The game...
  • Tue

    Spectrobes Sequel Screenshots

    New screenshots released today from the followup to Pokemon like game,Spectrobes titled, Spectobes: Beyond The Portals for the Nintendo DS.
  • Tue

    More GTA Rampage

    Am amazing statistic today from play.com reporting that it's been taking over 80 orders a minute for highly anticpated roam and destroy God title, GTA IV. Stuart Rowe, the Chief Operating Officer for play.com said, "We're experiencing trading levels similar to what we would see in the run up to Christmas, taking over 80 orders per minute at peak times. "We have had to recruit extra warehouse staff to work through the night to ensure product arrives on the day of launch," he...
  • Tue

    GTA IV Causes Shortages

    We all knew it would happen and mostly does with HUGE releases in the gaming world/industry but there have already been reports trickling in that some retailers have been shafted by their distributors with the release of GTA IV today in Australia. The distributors have just not been able to keep with consumer and retailer demand and have been shortchanging some stores with particular emphasis on independently run stores reporting little to no stock of the limited editions of GTA IV for both the Xbox...
  • Tue

    Sega Studio Wins a Reprieve

    We recently reported that Sega had chosen to close the doors on its racing arm based in the UK, Sega Racing Studio, seems like another developer in the form of Codemasters have a vested interest in the studio. They've given the studio a gold ticket and purchased it meaning that now Sega can work closely on some of Codemaster's signature franchise series' like Colin McRae and Race Driver, for example. Codemaster's CEO, Rod Cousens, had the following statement, "In seizing this...
  • Tue

    Capcom's Public Apology Part 2

    Ready for another serve of recent bouts of Capcom laziness?? The recent cover of Okami had a snafu when it was revealed that the IGN logo could be clearly seen on the front cover of said game. Well, now they've gone one better and released the strategy guide for Okami and you'll never guess it but they've gone and done the exact same thing to that cover! Don't these people learn and aren't they aware that people are paying close attention to this sort of stuff? Unless it was intended...
  • Tue

    Top Spin Serves Up A 3rd Slice

    Top Spin on the Nintendo DS hasn't had a favourable run for the tennis sim yet that hasn't stopped 2K Sports from releasing a third incarnation of the sport for Nintendo's handheld. The following screens below don't actually look half bad but we've yet to see gameplay on this but still these are the first screens that 2K Sports has released so it can only get better, right?
  • Tue

    GTA IV To Bring Free Live

    Been hearing reports that versions of GTA IV for the Xbox 360 will bring attached a coupon for 1 month free on Xbox Live as opposed to the standard 48 hours free. Can anyone confirm or deny this for the Australian market or are we to get shafted again??
  • Tue

    Prince of Persia Update

    The latest title in the Prince of Persia franchise is as yet untitled but we do know that it's coming to Xbox 360, PS3, PC, and Nintendo DS sometime later this year. It's being developed by the same team that did the original, Sands of Time and more recently Assassin's Creed. Also Ubisoft will be releasing a version specifically tailored for the DS. The game promises to have a new style of gameplay with illustrative art.
  • Tue

    Wii Be Multiplying

    Reports today from Nintendo that they have forecasted selling another 25 million Wiis over the next 12 months bringing the total up to 50 million. Absolutely staggering. Their profits have already gone up 50% to $2.5 billion for the Japanese fiscal year and overall Nintendo racked up sales totalling $16.2 billion. In a statement Nintendo added the following, "Nintendo's strategy is to accelerate the current sales momentum from 'must-have for every family' to 'must-have for everyone'...
  • Tue

    Bioshock for PS3?

    Gaming magazine, EGM, recently ran an article that hinted at the possibility of Bioshock being released for the PS3 and if they're spot on, it should be hitting stores this September. The game will supposedly ship with enhanced graphics over the Xbox 360 and PC versions as well as come bundled with the previously released free content. Funnily enough the publisher of the game, 2K Games, don't have any comment but creator, Ken Levine, denied the PS3 port. We'll just have to wait and see...
  • Tue

    Retro Favorite Comes To VC

    Fighting fans of arcade 80's giant, Double Dragon, can now relive those memories all over again with the release of the game for Nintendo's Virtual Console on the Wii. Below you'll find the official spiel from Nintendo: Double Dragon (NES ® , 1-2 players, Rated Everyone 10+ — Mild Violence, 500 Wii Points): Double Dragon begins with Billy Lee ’ s girlfriend, Marian, being kidnapped by a group called the Black Warriors. They demand to know the secrets of Billy ’ s martial-arts style in...