Third Parties Were So "Confused" By PS3 [Kaz Hirai]

Once upon a time, the PLAYSTATION 3 was not a game console. A Blu-ray player! An home entertainment hub! It was a super computer! A... Sony Computer Entertainment honcho Kaz Hirai explains: I think there was some confusion as to what PS3 was initially — some of the third parties didn’t understand ...

Europe Getting Metal Gear Solid 4 Goodies [Mgs4]

Europe dwellers, listen up! Konami is launching a special pre-order campaign as well as rolling out a limited collector's pack. Those who pre-order the game at selected retailers get a Metal Gear Saga Vol. 2 documentary DVD. The limited edition collector's pack includes a soundtrack CD, six inch Snake ...

Sega And Platinum Games Join Forces [Rumor]

Platinum Games, the studio founded by former Capcom developer Clover, has apparently struck a deal with SEGA to publish three games. Those games are: • Bayonetta, directed by DMC creator Hideki Kamiya, and is described by the site’s correspondent as a “stylish action game” with “a witch battling ...

First Official Metal Gear Solid 4 Review [Mgs4]

The first Metal Gear Solid 4 review is in! UK Official PlayStation Magazine has written up its thoughts and even put them on paper. And for those who care about things like numbers, the game gets a 10. From the review: Every question posed and loose end dangled since Metal Gear first introduced stealth ...

Classical Gaming: A Roman Retrospective [Exegi Monumentum]

Rock, Paper, Shotgun linked to this nice retrospective of Roman-themed games over the years, starting with Legionnaire (1982) and ending with Rome: Total War (2004). The series of musings includes wrap ups and discussion, strengths and weaknesses. I began my academic life as a classicist with a knack ...

Why Achievements are Awesome [Achievements]

OK, I think I get the gist of this piece. TeamTeaBag takes a look at gaming achievements on the 360, and it's hard for me to assess the tone: Either SmellyGeekyBoy (the writer) • resents the hell out of all achievements and is parodying achievement whores OR • knows that cynical motives on behalf ...

A List of Demands for Grand Theft Auto [Grand Theft Auto IV]

Not even two weeks since its release and the ingrates at Kombo.com already have eight things they want to see in Grand Theft Auto from now on. Everyone has an ultimate GTA experience list, and I'm betting that GTA IV represents someone's wishful thinking from the Vice City days (the controls represent ...

The Games My Mother Played [Mother's Day]

May 1st 1980 I came home from school to find my mother waiting there for me, a giddy smile on her lips. She always loved birthdays. Back then we were living in an apartment, my younger sister and I sharing one room, my older brother and sister sometimes sharing another, and birthdays were the one time ...

Niko Bellic's Backstory [Grand Theft Auto IV]

Mr. Juandrful over at Kezins.com has pieced together a backstory on Niko Bellic, in a VH1 "Behind the Music" kind of biography. Counterintuitively, I should put up a spoiler alert here, because although it's all about stuff prior to his arrival in Liberty City, naturally it draws on dialogue and events ...

The Week in Games: No Reversals! [Week In Games]

Major League Eating comes to DS this week, so you can, I dunno pack your face using the stylus while you chow down at a McDonald's on a lunch break or something. Remind me to tell you all sometime about the abortive fried chicken eating match contest I nearly got into at West Wendover, Nevada back in ...

Work from Home, Earn Cash [Weekend Note]

To: Ash From: Owen Re: Poker, The Redemption So the realboss at the realjob is in Hawaii all week which means, woohoo, work-from-home with impunity! Oh shit, do they have the Internets in Hawaii? Did they stretch ethernet across the Pacific? Oh dammit!. Hi Steve. I hope you are having fun, sir. I will ...

Americans Brag, PS3 No Letdown, Kotaku is Wrong [Hideo Kojima]

No, no, no! When Hideo Kojima said the MGS4 graphics on the PS3 weren't to his "satisfaction" or that he realized there were lots of "restrictions" the PS3 posed, he didn't mean it. He was just trying to be humble, you know! He's not disappointed with the PS3 at all. He is totally happy with it. The ...

"America Has Always Been Better At Creating Unique Products" [Miyamoto Says]

It's OK, America. You're not braggers. You're unique! Despite tossing a waggly cat amongst the dual-sticked pigeons with it's Wii console, Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto says that when it comes to games, Japanese companies aren't quite as outside the box. "I think America has always been better at creating ...

Viva Pinata 2 Screens, And By Association, Announcement? [Viva Pinata 2]

Looks like the good ship Microsoft Press Conference, which was due in port on Tuesday to shower us all with news and media of exciting new titles, has sprung a leak. Banjo Kazooie 3 screens? Leaked. What look like Viva Pinata 2 screens? Leaked. No news or info to accompany the screens, of course, but ...

First Official Dragonball Movie Promo Image [Hollywood]

Maybe we've been a little harsh. Maybe Hollywood's Dragonball movie will actually be good. Maybe not! Without an official trailer, all we've had were some crummy quality on-set images. Now we have a somewhat crummy quality scan! Here's the first official promotional image for the DB. It appeared in ...

Wii Fit's Times Square Ads Need Better Placement [Delicious Irony]

When Reggie said Nintendo would be spending the big bucks on promoting Wii Fit to the great unwashed, he wasn't fuckin' around. Go Nintendo reader Charles just snapped this pic while strolling nonchalantly around Times Square, and I must say, that's pretty darned eye-catching. It'd really make me want ...

Sonic Is Strange Brown [Sega]

Silly Sega, Hedgehogs aren't blue! They don't wear gloves and sneakers, either!! Here is an artist's rendition of Sonic — you know, if Sega hadn't deceptively painted him a different color. Liars! Says the artist: In the end I decided to give him a color-pattern that resembles a West European ...

180-Degree Gaming With The J-Dome []

This is John Nilsson's J-Dome, a projector-based screen that's the result of some nifty ideas concerning field of vision. Wrapped around you like a lowered umbrella, the J-Dome promises to give the player a whopping 180-degree field of vision, as opposed to the standard 15-20 degrees you enjoy from ...

Third Parties Were "Confused" By PS3 [Kaz Hirai]

Once upon a time, the PLAYSTATION 3 was not a game console. A Blu-ray player! An home entertainment hub! It was a super computer! A... Sony Computer Entertainment honcho Kaz Hirai explains: I think there was some confusion as to what PS3 was initially — some of the third parties didn’t understand ...

NPD's PC Sales Charts April 20-26 [Npd Group]

Three Sims titles, three Warcraft titles. That's fairly standard practise these days, a practise which leaves only four spots open for other non-Sims, non-Warcraft games to make some inroads. These week, those four games are Call of Duty 4, Assassin's Creed, Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and, yes, Sins of a Solar ...