Apr
16
2008
16
2008
Wednesday
10:04 PM
2
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Finally the RockBand guitar is sold separately. Now the band is complete. I decorated it with a memorabilia from SXSW signed (thanks Ming) by the lovely Veronica Belmont, the Sexiest Geek of 2007.
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I’ve played my share of games, a lot of them pretty gory and violent. I would be the first person to tell you that no matter how violent the game is, it doesn’t desensitize me from real life violence or make me want to actually kill people.
I was working my way through the seasons of Law and Order SVU and came across an episode where the crime is an exact reenactment of a fictional video game called “Intensity”. There’s no doubt that Intensity is supposed to be a parody of Grand Theft Auto. But in the show, the main goal of Intensity is to drive your car into a women, beat her, then collect money from her purse. Who would ever make a game like that? The scene where the detectives first found out about the game involves a little kid playing the game while explaining everything he’s doing with a weird glee: “I’m driving along, I see a women. So, I run her over. I get out of the car. To get her money, I got to knock her out first so she can’t fight back. Then I get her purse. Look, my money supply just went up!”
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A new trailer for Soul Calibur 4 is out and it’s video proof that Darth Vader and Yoda will be playable characters. Am I the only one who thinks this is retarded? Sure, the light saber wielding characters could be fun. Weapons aside, I can see Yoda on the 360 jumping all over the place kinda like Talim and Vader on the PS3 probably has a fighting style similar to Siegfried.
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Rubbishpixels rounded up six of the biggest assholes in gaming. The best part is how mad he is at these characters.
Nothing’s ever good enough for this bearded, carpet-headed bell-end. No matter how big your Katamari is he’ll complain about it being too small. Maybe you shouldn’t have accidentally destroyed the entire cosmos then, you giant regal fuck.
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This is old news but the upcoming Silent Hill 5, while still published by Konami, will no longer be developed by Team Silent. Instead it’s being made by The Collective, who doesn’t exactly have an exemplary portfolio. I’m sure they are aware of how high the bar has been set in the Silent Hill series thus far, but I remain skeptical until I actually experience the end product.
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Deutsch, Inc. won the coveted $150 Million PlayStation account yesterday, beating out incumbent TBWA as well as Publicis & Hal Riney, Publicis West, Grey, Young & Rubicam, and JWT. Hopefully they do a better job than TBWA.
While I really like TBWA’s latest PS3 ad (above), apparently it was too little too late. Really it was the first good PS3 commercial I’ve see. The other ones like the “room” campaign or the “this is living” campaign is just weird. I mean until this latest one, all the PlayStation 3 commercials just doesn’t appeal to the average gamer. Sure, they’re avant-garde and bear artistic merit, but that’s not what sells games. Check out some other ps3 commercials after the jump. All of which I’m assuming is by TBWA since they’ve been the PlayStation account holder for 13 years.
Update: The last three are actually from PlayStation’s European ad firm. They’re still weird though.
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In a recent interview, Tetsuya Nomura stated that the increased space made possible by the Blu-ray technology could make the leap from Final Fantasy XII to XIII greater than the leap from VI to VII.
He also verified that Final Fantasy XIII will “of course” be a PlayStation 3 exclusive, and that it will be the first PS3 release to fully utilize the capabilities of the console.
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A nice run-through of the new Nissan GT-R at the LA Auto Show. The guy talks about the in dash screen using the UI created by Polyphony Digital (about 2 minutes in), which is also the company behind the exalted Gran Turismo series.
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I know I am. I got to work at 6:45 today so I can leave early to go pick up Rock Band for PS3. I’ll be rocking the drums and Eric will be on guitar or base. Susie’s here for the week so she can be on vocal or one of the guitars as well. If you wanna join in on the fun, just come on over. We’re getting a band going.
Check out a very well written review on Ars