Pachter: 360 Dominance Will Stay Through 2011
Says only peoepl who have not bought a PS3 now are waiting for $299.
industrygamers.com news
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Video game software sales top $33 billion in 2010
$2.5 billion coming from digitally-distributed products
gamepro.com news
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Pachter: Iwata Like a Record Company President
The parent of 11 year-old twin girls defends casual/mobile.
industrygamers.com news
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Crysis 2 Review - 1UP
"A-" Fun to play, most impressive visuals, story blows.
1up.com impressions
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Square to Bring MMO Servers Back
Have found other ways to conserve energy.
andriasang.com news
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The Press Room Episode #90
Iga joins Homer and Foolz in Melbourne for a LIVE recording.
thepressroompodcast.com editorial impressions media news
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Shogun 2 Review from 1UP
"polished, smart, generous, elegant, and bold. It is utterly sublime."
1up.com impressions
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Nvidea Shows Off New Graphics Card on Thursday
Dual graphics chips and a very high price.
bigdownload.com news
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Baidu Uses SimCity-Like Drawings for Maps
The "Chinese Google" gets around security concerns by using cool hand-drawn maps.
theatlantic.com news
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Crysis 2 PS3 Versus 360 Screen Comparison
Side-by-side screen comparison.
nowgamer.com media news
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Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City details!!!!!!
Hoooooooooooooooolllllyyy Shhhhhiiiiiiiitttt!!!!
stickskills.com news
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RE4/ Code Veronica Ports Will be Dowloadable
Not sure if retail copies will be available.
1up.com news
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XSEED Announces Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls For PSN
Classic Wizardry with new anime look
gamespy.com news
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PS3 Hacker Flees the Country, Goes to South America
"It's just a vacation"... that will never end
theinquirer.net news
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Steel Diver 3D Review
"C+" Poor combat, short length made longer with annoying padding.
1up.com impressions news
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Lego Star Wars 3 Reviewed by 1UP
"hard to determine who the game is specifically designed for" "A-"
1up.com impressions
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Full List of Japanese Game Cancellations
Not the delayed, just the cancelled.
andriasang.com news
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10 Old-School Video Game Rumors (That Were Actually True)
Including the favorite jumping over the pole in SMB
gamespy.com editorial
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Persona 2 Remake on PSP Has Creation Mode
Just when you think Persona can't get odder.
andriasang.com news
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New Call of Juarez Getting Co-Op Demo
Game is due in Summer, unknown when demo will be released.
bigdownload.com news
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Hudson Vetrans Will Quit If Konami Gets Pushy
"[if] requested that the content of Momotaro Dentetsu changes greatly, we've agreed to retire"
andriasang.com news
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Lego Star Wars 3 Review from 1UP (3DS)
"B-" "isn't enough of a challenge here for most"
1up.com impressions
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Ghost Recon Shadow Wars Review (1UP-3DS)
"A-" "highly recommended as a launch title"
1up.com impressions
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1UP's Review of Ridge Racer 3DS
"B+" "hardly fresh, but still a fantastic showcase"
1up.com impressions
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JP Retailers to Destroy One Piece Promo DVDs
Featured ability to create earthquake inducing catastrophic tsunami's.
andriasang.com news
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...and I am HOME!
Two Brand-Spankin' new 3DS in hand!
FUCKIN' AWESOME ! ! !
NO. PROBLEM. WITH. THE. 3D ! ! !
Pretty much. Years of screen use has wiped out my vision.
You can use them for chocolate pudding.
There is no news today, which is good because I need to vege out. I was up at 4 and drove most of the day.
Is UC2 multiplayer still a thing we are doing? I'll update if so, so that it is ready to go when needed.
Cool! Relax! I am updating my 3DS topic as I type this with REAL hands-on impressions!
Everytime I try the update I lose connection somewhere and it makes me start over. Stupid crap. I will devote tomorrow to downloading it while I play with the 3DS.
The 3DS is mine and here are my impressions. I love the feel of the system, remember I did not have a DS lite so this is so nice and compact. The analog nub is perfect, best thing about the controls. D-pad feels like crap, other buttons are fine. Then I turned on the system and it has the coolest setup screen ever where it does a countdown to the 3D taking effect and all of a sudden the logo slowly becomes 3D like the Star Wars logo coming at you. All the menus are so sexy in 3D, 2D menus are so boring now.
The 3D effect felt completly natural, I could move the slider to any spot and still see it fine. Losing the 3D image is no issue unless you have spasms or something and can't hold a system kind of still, you can move quite a bit and keep the image in 3D. First thing I did was enter camera mode, the camera quality is ass, like crappy cell phone quality. That sucks cause the 3D effect is amazing, if this took good pictures it would be a revolution. I still had fun taking crazy 3D pics with my fingers coming at the screen, finding action figures with poses that jump out and stuff. Then you can manipulate the pictures in cool ways, it really showcases the 3D effect perfectly.
There is a game called face something, I forget but it takes your picture and makes your head a floating enemy, it animates it and everything. Its an AR game, you play using the camera so your room becomes the level then floating heads of yours come to attack you and you need to move the DS around to find them. I love the effects, slowly pieces of the room falls apart in 3D fashion so it flies at the screen, cool stuff. Its a simple game where you shoot the heads but again a nice showcase for 3D. I assume that yes you can take a picture of a penis so then you can have floating penii trying to kill you, sickos.
I created a mii by having it take a picture of myself and sort of generating a mii, it didn't do so well. Haven't mess around with the Mii stuff much nor the AR card game but I did see it for a bit and again impressive 3D stuff. Setting up the 3DS for the internet was very easy. I love the menu, very easy to organize and find everything.
I tried out SF4 next and even the menu looks cool (I'm telling you guys 3D menus kick ass, screw the actual game, its the menus that are wow). The 3D effect in the game is cool, the fighters are on one layer and the background in another so it has that added depth to it. Eventually you don't even care about the 3D, it just becomes a part of the overall package. Like great graphics, eventually you stop being wowed by them and get focused on the game you are playing, its always about the game and this is no exception. 3D isn't going to make games better, it's just a cool piece of tech to make the visual side more interesting. There is a new mode in SF4 called 3D mode which puts the camera in an isometric view kind of over your characters shoulder, the 3D effects look better that way and its an interesting way to play. It plays well too, I wish the d-pad felt better, I used the analog pad instead.
Its charging now and I should get to bed, more impressions tomorrow.
Again to retell what Best Buy is doing. When you buy any game, you pay $5 more and you enter into a replacement plan. At any time for an entire year if you feel like turning that game you bought in you get ANY other game of equal value. So I want Mortal Kombat right, well it comes out in a few weeks, I can buy say Dragon Age 2, pay the $5 extra, play it all I want, then switch it in for MK when it hits. Or you can buy one $60 game pay the $5, and the switch it out and keep paying the $5 each time basically giving you endless "rentals" for $5 a pop. These are rentals without having to hope its avaliable, or that its there day one or that you have to return it at anytime.
For you people that like to sell back games this is perfect. Why buy a game at GS, then turn it in and only get like $30 or less for it. Pay the $5 more and when you turn it in you get a BRAND NEW game. This could destroy GS, it should kill GS. This is so exciting. I am afraid BB will realize they did something too awesome and will cancel it.
That is an incredible deal but I too don't think it will last. They will realise when people start exchanging games which are a few months old (and have lost more than half their value) for brand new games, that they're doing something wrong (for them) and will probably change it to something like having to return the game within a month rather than a year. Which still wouldn't be such a bad deal
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Listen to Wu-Tang and watch Kung-Fu
You assume? Yeah right! Look at that telling smiley emoticon! You've done it already, haven't you? They shouldn't have called it Face Raiders... Wang Wars would have been so much more appropriate.
Mornin' Bugsie!
Mornin' Brother Leo!
Have you guys from across the pond also had an hour cruelly snatched away from you today? I nearly missed my piano lesson this morning as I was completely oblivious to the stupid time change
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Listen to Wu-Tang and watch Kung-Fu
And there we have our 3DS killer ap. If it allows for ad-hoc multiplayer then that could eliminate the need for chat-up lines and revolutionise speed dating
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Listen to Wu-Tang and watch Kung-Fu
You play the Piano?!
We lost our hour a few weeks ago!!
Boo! One less hour to play with my 3DS!!
Archie?! You're up too?!