2008 was dominated by shake-ups that involved game announcements, disasters and controversies within the gaming media as well. As with the closure of several studios and the departure of many key developers (such as Itagaki from Tecmo), another trend began to grip the gaming industry: Mergers. And not just that of an EA or Microsoft [...]
The first Street Fighter movie was bad. Jean Claude Van Dam is no indicator of a movie’s quality, but oh, was it a whole new hell dimension of bad or what. We prayed, nay demanded, that Capcom disallow such travesties upon its franchise again. But after violating Street Fighter, 90’s style, the company is all [...]
Bethesda Softworks recently tied up with Connect Entertainment to have Fallout 3 distributed to a majority of the world’s developing markets. The list – which includes Greece, Malta, Cyprus, Turkey, Kuwait, Oman, UAE, Saudia Arabia, Yemen, Lebanon, Qatar, Egypt, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro – is conspicuous for the absence [...]
For the past 11 years, one man has been in the cross hairs of gamers, journalists and common sense everywhere. Jack Thompson, born in 1951, had a brief stint in politics (nope, we don’t remember seeing him in Congress, either) before evolving into the crusader against obscenity and violence. No one knows why exactly he [...]
You’d think Sony was being anti-homosexual when 18-year old Michael Marsh reported his inability to create a gay/straight community in Playstation Home. Marsh was surprised to find that the words “gay”, “lesbian” and “bisexual” were being filtered by the content regulation system present in Home.
“I can understand if they’re filtering out profanity, but if feel [...]
Yes, we admit it. We like LittleBigPlanet. Some say we even love it, what with the amount of coverage and defenses made on it’s behalf. We’re not ones to ignore the grim realities of the title’s starting status (covered later on) or the subsequent time it took to hit 1 million. But credit where it’s [...]
by Ravi Sinha
The Wii is still out-selling the PS3 and 360. Nintendo claims to have “reached out to a more main-stream audience” , which favours the amateur appeal of Wii Sports and Wii Fit. On-line is as bare-bones as you’ll find outside of a third-world country. Virtual Console is more or less “just there”. And [...]
News on Plantinum Games’ MadWorld, scheduled for the Wii next year, had been rather sparse after censorship and banning rows generated in Europe. However, just recently, G4-TV spoke to MadWorld producer Christoper Kaminski and was privy to some new gameplay footage. This footage clearly depicts the gameplay in motion and the main HUD involved. Jack, [...]
On Game Over 2K8, we look at the most defining events of 2008. Reflecting on any major change is the modus operandi, but the 7th most defining event of the year brought forth an answer to a problem haunting 360 gamers since launch day. That’s right – today, we take a look at…
Our man Benjamin Heckendorn is at it again. This time around, we have the Xbox 360 posing as a Pelican Case. The point to something like that? According to him, “…to create a “tough” portable Xbox 360 that can be transported with ease.”
So, what does a Pelican Xbox look like and what does it contain? [...]
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