You just know your system is fucked when the second largest publisher in the world is “crossing its fingers” in regards to its future, instead of, you know, pimping new games for it. Clap harder, PS3 fans!
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Pop quiz!
How can you easily spot the most elite of hardcore gamer douche bags?
Answer? They’re using one of these!
Geoffrey the Giraffe hates games developers
Toys R Us is testing a used games program. Is it time to start blaming Toys R Us for video game developers’ money problems now too?
Video games != (and never will be) Movies
Seriously guys. Just stop before someone gets hurt. Game publishers need to get off their faux Ivory Tower and realize that video game movies just don’t work.
British group poo-poo's on opportunistic race-related criticisms regarding Resident Evil 5
The bogus race debate surrounding upcoming sales figure failure Resident Evil 5: Use the Controls We Tell You To Use takes a slap to the face. Can we stop talking about this made-up controversy now?
Another clip from the No Shit! Awards Show
Telling children they can’t have something makes them want to have it even more. Who knew it applied to to Mature rated video games too? Not the American Academy of Pediatrics, apparently, which just finished up a wild foray into the world of the mind-numbingly obvious.
Mortal Kombat fire sale at Midway
Last week Midway lambasted the gummed up inner workings of the PS3 because the system was too difficult to work with in the development studio. Now they’re unloading the Mortal Kombat franchise. Either Scorpion is also a bitch to work with, just like the PaperweightStation 3, or Midway really is in deep shit these days. Probably a mixture of the two.
Pay no attention to the DSi behind the curtain
Says Iwata as he cackles maniacally about the DSi and how it is not competing with cell phones or that iPod thing. Bullpoopy! Nintendo’s unofficial long term goal is world domination, and that includes smashing all portable electronics under its brown Mario Bros jackboots.