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By: Jon Christensen on November 21st, 2008 am30 4:30 am
What the hell was Ozzy thinking!? Wait, WTF was Activision Blizzard thinking!? Oh yeah I forgot, they’re both whores for money — duh!
Ozzy Osbourne stars in a commercial for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, and while Ozzy’s old — he demands he is still the Prince of Darkness. However, the offscreen voice disagrees. That guy should have known old people are ridiculously stubborn and when they get mad, you can’t understand them.
That’s our tip of the day; never have a verbal argument with an old person.
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By: Jon Christensen on November 20th, 2008 pm30 3:52 pm
South Park for the last 7 years have used video game references in their shows. From the parody system inspired by Gamecube/Xbox called the ‘Gamesphere,’ to the ultra funny World of Warcraft episode. The series is no stranger to the video game world.
This past episode isn’t any different. While the boys are in their computer lab class and supposed to be working. However, instead of listening to the teacher, they end up playing Call of Duty: World at War. Of course the video above is not NSFW, but it’s South Park and you probably should know that by now.
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By: Jon Christensen on November 20th, 2008 am30 3:33 am
Last week we featured a story about EA and Borne Games working together. They both calibrated and have started to developed a 2D Mirror’s Edge flash game. Most people who have tried it and I talked to, no question loved it. Some of those crazy people said they enjoyed it more than the actual next-generation game ( I wouldn’t go that far).
Because so many people have enjoyed it, hackers have started to modify the game. One talented person had the idea of not using a keyboard to control ‘Faith,’ but a Wiimote instead. Check out the video above — surprisingly, it looks like it controls really well.
This is just another reason why EA should just let the game become a download for WiiWare, PSN and XBLA. I certainly would rather play it on my TV and use a real controller.
Want to learn how to do it? Click here.
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By: Jon Christensen on November 18th, 2008 am30 3:46 am
National Geographic is known for their stunning pictures and information in their magazine. They’re also created a well produced cable station as well. Over the last few months, the company began dabbing their fingers in the gaming industry with the release of their iPhone and DS games.
Apparently the publication likes the idea of developing games, because the Associated Press have broke a story about their plans to create a full fledge studio and focus on all gaming systems and handhelds.
If you’re thinking the games will only be educational, Paul Levine wants you to think again. “Our content is extremely well-suited for a global gaming audience, Levine said. “Our content is extremely well-suited for a global gaming audience,” he added.
I’m open to the idea for National Geographic looking into ways of making games more interesting, heck — even if I learn something, I’m cool with that too. Everything they seem to touch generally turns out good. So, maybe they can create games, however — it could also be out of their league. We’ll just have to wait and see.
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By: Jon Christensen on November 12th, 2008 am30 1:01 am
7-Eleven is slowly becoming one of my favorite video game stores. Yes, the same 7-Eleven that sells Big Gulps and day-old sandwiches, are now selling some of the biggest games to date. However, we don’t like them because they have a great game selection — in fact it sucks. We just think highly of them because they don’t seem to care about the infamous ’street dates’ for games.
Last week, it was posted around the internet that Gears of War 2 was being sold in various locations of the popular convenient store, but a few days early. Today, some guys over at 1up noticed the second expansion pack ‘World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King,’ was for sale. The game is scheduled to come out on November 13, so having it a few days before the release date might get some addicts of the series extremely happy.
Watch the video above and see the journalist purchase the game. Although it looks like that particular store is now ’sold out,’ we can confirm it was one of the many stores located on Market Street in San Francisco, CA. If you live in the area — it might be worth checking out.
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By: Jon Christensen on November 3rd, 2008 am30 2:29 am
Time has an article that lists the ‘Top-50 Inventions of 2008.’ What might come to a surprise to some — is Will Wright’s ‘Spore‘ was listed as #20. The game edged out other inventions such as; Bionic Contacts, an Invisibility Cloak and Barack Obama. The game was picked because of its mind-boggling concept of evolution, that should be confusing but somehow Wright made it into a ’simple’ video game.
“It’s blasphemy, brilliance or both to take the entire evolution of a species — from a single-celled animalcule in a drop of water to a space-faring, galaxy-exploring sentient being — and turn it into a video game. But that’s exactly what Will Wright has done.”
Head over to Time and see the entire list.
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By: Jon Christensen on October 29th, 2008 am31 12:03 am
Ok, this video is cool. When games were being made in the mid-1980s, technology was limited when developers were trying to program a game. Especially when creating animations, that’s why Super Mario and other games moved the way they did — stiff. Back in the day, companies couldn’t use technology that’s available today. Things like motion-capturing simply were not around for developers. So they had to use the next best thing that they had access too — their little brother.
When Prince of Persia was released in the ’80s, it was considered to be the best game when it came to movements and animations. Hell, to this day it still holds up. While in the early stages of the game, Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner was so obsessed with recreating real-life movements, he filmed his little brother to copy the exact motions and programed them in the game.
After viewing the long lost tape for the first time, we can say he successfully accomplished his goal. If we viewed this video without knowing which game it was supposed to be — we would have guessed which one it was correctly. The big giveaway is when his brother jumped over the walkway, that was perfect!
Source: boing-boing
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By: Jon Christensen on October 21st, 2008 am31 5:22 am
Imagine if Microsoft used Mac hardware and Apple’s operating system? Maybe if they did, we wouldn’t have the red ring of death happening to everyone. Ok, maybe not. But Phil Herlihy did take an Xbox 360 case and his old Apple PowerBook G4 and decided to put the two of them together — making an Apple Computer run inside the case of an Xbox 360.
After the jump check out more info/specs and pictures of his mod.
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By: Jon Christensen on October 15th, 2008 pm31 4:25 pm
Newly acquired CEO for Electronic Arts John Riccitiello has been very vocal since he started to become head boss. From talking about how EA’s lineup is the strongest compared to other gaming publishers to how the DRM complaints are overrated.
He has spoken once again while responding to EA dropping the game Tiberium earlier in the month and how they’ll keep on doing the same thing to other games…forever!
“When something’s not meeting expectations… you can course correct by giving it more time, more money, changing the concept or killing the game. If you’re committed to quality, you take one of those paths. If you preclude any one of those paths, quality will suffer.
EA will kill a game or two a year — Forever.”
Before we run to EA’s head building and scorch Riccitiello — just stop and think. Why would anyone disagree? If a game isn’t meeting expectations and the company feels in the end they’re just going to loose money by funding more into the project — than why would they continue to make it?
Remember a year ago when we used to bitch about how EA would just milk franchises and come out with utter crap? Now, they have a new philosophy — if the game isn’t good enough, than it won’t see the light of day. I’m okay with EA trying to build a reputation of quality over quantity. And in fact — I welcome it.
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By: Jon Christensen on September 26th, 2008 am30 3:52 am
Hey everyone look, Will Wright has made a game and crap loads of people bought it. EA Maxis has sold over 1 million copies of their evolution game Spore since it was released on September 7th. The god-game numbers are based off of the Nintendo DS, PC and Mac platforms.
If you were to total up the number of people who bought the game and counted every creature that was made, it would equal well over 25 million species. It’s incredible when you stop and think about it. Although, the real number I want to see is the percentage of the animals that were made — how many of them would be considered Penis Monsters?
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By: Jon Christensen on August 2nd, 2008 pm31 2:45 pm
The game LevelHead could be one of the most original games I saw at a E3. I wanted to get video footage, but when I finally was able to, the show ended. Luckily, likecool found some video. In order to play the game, you need a webcam and three blocks. When facing the blocks on the webcam, a 3D virtual room appears with a man inside on your computer screen. By tilting the blocks, the man will walk in that direction. The goal is to get the man from one side to the next and through the exit. It’s a pretty simple concept, but innovative as hell. Watch the video, and you’ll understand why this game is F’n awesome.
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By: Jon Christensen on August 1st, 2008 pm31 10:58 pm
John McCain’s website has a game on it called Pork Invaders, based off Space Invaders. For those who could care less about politics and don’t understand what pork is, I’ll explain it to you. Its real name is “pork barrel,” and it means a bill that is going into the house to be voted on. This bill is usually for a candidate’s personal fortune or its campaign contributer. Basically, most people who care about politics; pretend they hate “pork”.
If you play the game, notice the instructions and how each pig gives you a certain amount of points. One pig gives you 10 points, the second one gives you 20, and the third gives you 30 points. Problem is, every pig they show looks exactly the same. WTF!?
Anyway, play the game above the article. I could only play it for a small amount of time, I found it too old, and I lost fairly quickly…
*Slashgamer no way endorses John McCain nor any other candidate for that matter.
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