Virus Alert: Trojan poses as iPhone game (1)
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Filed under: Culture, Hacks, Retro, Mobile All right, kiddies, we know all of you out there have dutifully replaced your DS with a gaming-powered iPhone 2.0, but with all that gaming power comes the responsibility to be careful. Thus, you should all be on the lookout for a new Windows virus masquerading as apparently popular iPhone game Penguin Panic. According to Sophos, the computer-controlling Trojan shows up as a zipped attachment to an e-mail with ...
Are the Rock Band 2 instruments really quieter? (A semi-scientific study) (2)
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Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm Observation Harmonix has claimed that Rock Band 2 will have "quieter and more natural feeling drum pads" and guitars with "quieter buttons" than their original Rock Band counterparts. Hypothesis Rock Band 2 instruments are quieter than their original Rock Band counterparts.Continue reading for our experimental method and results! Continue reading Are the Rock Band 2 instruments really quieter? (A semi-scientific study) Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | ...
'Ultimate proof' oracle regrets trading in Xbox 360 (2)
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Filed under: Culture, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business Since CNBC analyst Jane Wells granted us poor peons a glimpse into "the ultimate proof Sony is winning" two months ago, we at Joystiq have been eagerly awaiting another chance to hear from her son, the twelve16-year-old oracle who sealed Microsoft's fate by trading his Xbox 360 for a PS3. And lo, today the all-knowing king of business analysis didst speak once more, ...
New tech puts ESPN anchors on video game gridiron (5)
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Filed under: Culture, Simulations, Sports Don't be surprised if this Sunday's edition of ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown looks a bit more like a game of Madden. According to a New York Times report, the Disney-owned sports network will use the "EA Sports Virtual Playbook" and a special studio and camera setup to allow "both real and virtual people move around the ESPN set to demonstrate plays and possible situations." It sure sounds a lot simpler ...
Europe's PS3 PlayTV records TV with no DRM (2)
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Filed under: Culture, Hacks, Sony PlayStation 3, Peripherals In a world where video providers seem to be adding increasingly disruptive digital rights management into their video streams, you can always count on video game accessories to provide a hole for unprotected video to break through. First it was the Xbox 360's HD-DVD drive, whose component output allowed for DRM-free copying of the now-defunct high-def discs. Now it's Sony's European PlayTV digital video recorder add-on for ...
Homebrew proposal culminates in 'Bejeweled' wedding (3)
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Filed under: Culture, Nintendo DS, Hacks, Casual You've probably all but forgotten about a story we ran way back in March in which one Bernie Peng used a homebrew version of Bejeweled to propose to his girlfriend of three years. Well, Bejeweled publisher PopCap didn't forget about the proposal, helping to make the couple's wedding this Saturday an unforgettable affair.According to the New Jersey Star-Ledger, PopCap chipped in $1,000 for decorations ($500 of which went ...
Michael Phelps gets CoD: World at War early, but not really (2)
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Filed under: Culture, Sony PlayStation 3, First Person Shooters, Fashion As if winning eighteen thousand gold medals at the Beijing Olympics wasn't enough, swimmer Michael Phelps got a further reward for his awesomeness on last Thursday's CBS Early Show -- an early copy of Call of Duty: World at War provided by publisher Activision. But all was not as it seemed. As developer Treyarch revealed on its blog, the box Phelps was handed on live ...
European 80GB PS3/LittleBigPlanet bundle spotted (1)
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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Business, Casual Apparently, Sony won't be satisfied until every single PlayStation game is available as part of a bundle with a system. The latest title in this cavalcade of software tie-ins is apparently LittleBigPlanet, which a French retailer has revealed as part of a €399 European bundle with the 80GB PS3. The combo package will be available on Nov. 5, according to the retailer, complete with the incredibly busy box ...
Oh, Canada Wii's home and native land (4)
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Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Business Hey, grab a Molson and pull up a comfortable ice block and listen up. The AP is reporting that the Wii has become the first system to reach a million units sold in Canada. That's like one system for every two people or so you've got up there, eh? We're guessing it's because the pearly white exterior of the system matches the decor of your igloos (not to mention the ...
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Holy crap. No wonder gaming stuff costs so much more up here. We're really not pulling out weight.
Amazon offering release date delivery for big-name games (4)
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Filed under: Culture, Business For gamers, there's usually a push-and-pull battle involved in deciding to order a new game from an online retailer. On the plus side, ordering online means not having to deal with clueless game store employees, not fighting off the harsh rays of the sun and, most importantly, not leaving the comfort of the couch! On the downside, though, those online delivery people will sometimes arrive days after a game is available ...
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Excellent service! Way to go Amazon. And, another reason to buy Amazon Prime.
Japanese Xbox 360 sales fall back to Earth (1)
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Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Business Well that was fast. It seems like just last week we were reporting the bizarre news that the Xbox 360 had suddenly leapfrogged the PS3 in weekly Japanese sales, selling nearly 25,000 units on the strength of Tales of Vesperia's release. Things are back to normal this week, though, with Microsoft's system once again sitting comfortably in last place with 7,258 units sold. Don't get us wrong, this is ...
Space Invaders/Sept. 11 art exhibit stirs controversy (3)
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Filed under: Culture, Retro An art installation that features Space Invaders aliens attacking an image of the World Trade Center is beginning to draw ire from the mainstream media. Kotaku was the first site to call attention to the exhibit, which was part of a larger tribute to the classic game's 30th anniversary at the Leipzig Games Convention. A Games Convention press release calls the installation an "an articulated and critical commentary about the current ...
Space Invaders/Sept. 11 art exhibit stirs controversy [update] (1)
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Filed under: Culture, Retro An art installation that features Space Invaders aliens attacking an image of the World Trade Center is beginning to draw ire from the mainstream media. Kotaku was the first site to call attention to the exhibit, which was part of a larger tribute to the classic game's 30th anniversary at the Leipzig Games Convention. A Games Convention press release calls the installation an "an articulated and critical commentary about the current ...
Third-party Wii Balance Board listed on Amazon UK (1)
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Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Peripherals Are you one of the dozens and dozens of British citizens that wants a Wii Balance Board to play games like Skate It! or Rayman: Raving Rabbids TV Party, but also doesn't want to pay extra for the included Wii Fit game? Well you're in luck! According to a recent Amazon listing, the Njoy G-Board Balance Board will only set you back £64.99 -- a full five pounds less than ...
Ryan Davis talks up Giant Bomb's explosive re-launch (4)
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Filed under: Culture, Hacks, Business When Gamespot Editorial Director Jeff Gerstmann was abruptly fired under controversial circumstances late last year, it set off a sort of domino effect. In the wake of the scandal, Gamespot staffers Ryan Davis, Brad Shoemaker and Vinny Caravella all decided to leave the venerable site to start a new project with Gerstmann: a project called Giant Bomb. A skeleton of the site has been up since March, but the project ...
Final Fantasy XIII petition video is an instant comedy classic (1)
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Filed under: Culture, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, RPGs [Update: Apparently this is a video of Kevin Bowen of Something Awful fame (infame?), making us 99.999% sure that it's a joke. Thanks, commenters.]We can't really decide whether or not the ridiculously over-the-top mad genius in this Final Fantasy XIII petition video (some slightly NSFW language) is for real or not. On the one hand, the know-it-all, spittle-flecked delivery and lines like "I personally do ...
Valve: MS, Yahoo, others turned down chance to build Steam (1)
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Filed under: PC Now that Steam is running 300 games and 15 million subscribers strong, Valve's grand experiment in digital distribution seems like a no-brainer. Some of the titans of the computer industry apparently didn't see it that way, though, when given a chance to get in on the ground floor years ago."We went around to Yahoo, Microsoft...and anybody who seemed like a likely candidate to build something like Steam," Valve marketing veep Doug Lombardi ...
Nega-review: Grand Theft Auto IV (1)
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"GTA IV has its flaws as a game." (1) "The flow of the game basically goes like this: you watch a cutscene, someone in the cutscene says that someone has done them wrong, you're told they need to be taught a lesson, and then you get in a car and go teach them the lesson. At that point another cinema is triggered and the process repeats. ... it can definitely become a little repetitive." (2)"It's ...
Secrets of the Tetris Grandmasters (1)
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Filed under: Arcade, Microsoft Xbox 360, Puzzle You ever see those videos of people playing an insanely fast version of Tetris? You know, the ones where the block drops to the bottom of the screen literally in the time it takes to blink?. Ever wonder what the hell was going on there?The answer is laid out in incredible detail in a new, extensive gameplay essay on Tetris: The Grandmaster. Originally developed for Japanese arcades by ...
Pac-man + Mii = Pac-miin (1)
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Filed under: Retro, Nintendo Wii, Fashion It doesn't take much ingenuity to create Mii versions of celebrities like The Office cast, of The Big Lebowski, and some Japanese guys we've never heard of, but it takes some true inspiration to make the Pac-man face above, complete with frowning ghost facial hair. For those who doubt such a creation is possible with the Wii's somewhat-limited palette of face-creation options, we've included a video of the process ...
