Your very own Lamarr
Posted by inpheaux on April 29th, 2006 at 12:53 pmIt appears Valve is branching out in their merchandising efforts. Now in addition to being able to buy assorted HL2-related shirts and mousepads and such from their store, you can buy your very own headcrab plushie.
It's scaled down, so Valve side-stepped the potential comedic value of a headcrab hat, but it's still quite nice. It [...]
The Revolution gets a name: Nintendo Wii
Posted by inpheaux on April 27th, 2006 at 12:53 pmI can't help but feel like I'm being trolled.
After years of going under the development codename "Revolution", Nintendo has finally given its next-gen offering a proper name. Wii. Yes, "Wii". No, I am not joking. You can read it on Nintendo's site just as well as I can. There isn't a whole lot there, apart [...]
Someone out there really does love us: A Silent Hill Movie Review
Posted by Metallian on April 22nd, 2006 at 6:51 pmSo I'm back from the theater and my viewing of Silent Hill, and I am ecstatic. Some people have spent the past 24 hours panning the movie for everything they're worth, and it's true it's no Oscar contender. Then again some of these people enjoyed Hostel. So who can we trust here?
To be in the [...]
PS2 pricedrop official – New MSRP: $129.99
Posted by inpheaux on April 20th, 2006 at 11:57 amSony has been rocking the pricedrops pretty hard lately. Just about a month ago, they cut the price of the PSP from $249.99 to $199.99. Now they've cut the price of the PS2 from $149.99 to the bargain-basement price of $129.99. CNN Money reported that analysts had predicted this move last week, but now it's [...]
Guitar Hero 2 officially announced
Posted by inpheaux on April 17th, 2006 at 2:12 pmWe've known that Guitar Hero 2 was in development for quite awhile now. Markus Henderson - one of the main guitar gods at WaveGroup, the company responsible for all the Guitar Hero recordings - spilled the beans about it way back last year, when he mentioned he was on the song choosing team. Now it's [...]
Official Out of this World remake out this Friday
Posted by inpheaux on April 12th, 2006 at 11:01 pm15 years after the original release, and an untold number of ports later to every platform under the sun, Out of this World (or Another World if you're from foreign parts) is coming back to the PC. Earlier today (or yesterday, or tomorrow, or something. Damn you, timezones!) Out of this World's creator, Eric Chahi, [...]
Starforce loses a major client
Posted by inpheaux on April 12th, 2006 at 6:26 pmFor the past few years, Publisher/Developer Ubisoft has been one of the larger corporations spewing PC games into the marketplace that use the wonderfully overzealous Starforce copy protection scheme. That ends now.
Earlier today, the producer of Heroes of Might and Magic 5 confirmed that HoMM5 will be the first high-profile Ubisoft game in a long [...]
Microsoft formally acquires Lionhead Studios
Posted by inpheaux on April 6th, 2006 at 10:38 amI say formally because gee, don't they practically own them already?
Well now they do, for real.
The good news here is that it won't result in any changes for us consumers. Had Lionhead been gobbled up by the competition, like EA or Ubisoft, Bad Things might have happened. EA, well, EA would have probably wanted to [...]
The “Macs can’t play games” argument is officially dead
Posted by inpheaux on April 5th, 2006 at 12:24 pmThe end-times are near.
Over the past month or so, the several independent efforts to bring Windows to the new Intel-based iMacs have reached fruition (pun definitely intended), but now there's an official option. Earlier today, Apple announced the immediate release of the public beta for Boot Camp, a bootloader for Intel-based Macs. With this, an [...]
Bob-omb scare in rural Ohio
Posted by inpheaux on April 1st, 2006 at 3:54 pmPaging Jack Thompson . .
When you see a headline like "Girls attempt real-life version of video game", there are two fair guesses as to what it's referring to. Either it's going to involve Grand Theft Auto [as every "OH NO KIDS RECREATING GAMES!" story is required to, by law] or it's going to involve [...]