This video depicts a poor, unfortunate man in Brazil whose Xbox 360 has decided to go the way of Sinatra. Not giving up hope, he found an ingenious way to fix the problem. I’m not going to spoil it with too much rhetoric, so just watch the video.
It wasonly a matter of time. Now when you see people at the grocery store renting movies from Redbox, there’s a chance they might actually be grabbing a videogame, not the latest Tyler Perry film. As unveiled today, Redbox will have games available at more than 21,000 locations in the United States starting on June 17. Game rentals are marked at $2 per day. For the sake of comparison, DVDs are $1, and Blu-rays are $1....
Capcom’s Jun Takeuchi toldMTV Multiplayerthat theResident Evil 5demo did rather well, moving over 4 million downloads on the PS3 and Xbox 360. That’s pretty good for just a few week’s time, and a pretty good sign that the game is going to sell really well. We’re with MTV in the worries that the single-player days of Resident Evil were over after seeing the cooperative element ofResident Evil 5. They went as far as to ask Takeuchi if we can have another single-player, single characterResident Evilin the future....
When I heard the news that a secondLost Windsgame was coming out I knew I had to finally download the first game and become a big fan of it. So I did download it and I did become a big fan of it. It had its flaws though. Most of these had to do with the fact that you just wanted more thanks to the short length of the game. Luckily for me there was more in the form of the sequel,Lost Winds: The Winter of the Melodias....
It boggles the mind why Activision, a publisher obsessed with building huge franchises, has refused to help the brand awareness ofSingularity. Overshadowed by nearly every other release this year, Raven Software’s time-manipulating shooter was released without so much as a squeak, and very few people have talked about it since. This is criminal, asSingularityis probably the best new shooter I’ve played all year, and is easily one of Raven’s finest games....
You want to get your company’s game on Xbox Live, but there’s a 50MB limit to the games they accept and your 527MB game just ain’t gonna cut it? Well it’s a good thing Sebastian DeGuy, coder of Xbox Live gameRoboblitz, is claiming to change how game industry games are coded all together. The makers of the Xbox Live gameRoboblitzhave a new way of producing game textures that they think will revolutionize gaming....
The PSpgo has beengetting some flackfrom us, though when it finally landed I think we gave it apretty fair shake. One of the great things about it is that the downloadable game service over PSN was pretty robustly supported at launch (as may possibly be discussed later today in a feature – come back to find out). However, with no UMD how the hell is anyone supposed to rent games anymore?...
Recently, the Games for Windows Marketplace has been doing a genius promotion where it marks a well-known game down to $0.99 on a daily basis. This is just cheap enough where you’re left questioning your stance on Games for Windows, and whether or not it’s ultimately worth the trouble. As of right now, you can get GSC Game World’sS.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobylfor under a dollar. Normally, it’s $19.99 from GFW and Steam....
Wondering what happened to that rumored (and then announced!) PlayStation 3 port of Volition’sSaints Row? Turns out of all that fancy Cell technology crammed into the big black monster is to blame. “We couldn’t just couldn’t get our heads around the Cell technology,” producer Dan Sutton tellsCVG in a recent interview. Sutton says the team got half way through theSaints RowPS3 port before throwing their hands in the air and calling it quits....
Not a lot of time tonight, I’m afraid, so this is going to be a quickie. I have to get packing for the trip up to CES and I haven’t done a damn thing yet. I even have laundry yet to do. I’m so screwed. Anyway, here are stories that we didn’t cover today: Hit the jump for some original content from around the web.
Hey, Marvel fans! Yeah, all 5 of you. Look, I knowCivil Warwas a total disaster, but the good people at Sega are bringing us some games based onCaptain America,The Incredible Hulk, andThor. Along with their game coming out for whenIron Mancomes out in theaters next year, they’ll practically have the entireAvengerslineup ready for our enjoyment. For bothIron ManandThe Incredible Hulk,they’ll be recruiting all the major voice actors from the movies to do the voice acting....
I have never understood the point of cat-calling. Is the assumption that the random woman you are yelling “Hey baby, nice ass” at is going to then turn around and go home with you so that you can have sex? In what world does that work? And since it isn’t this one, why is cat-calling still pervasive? It happens to my fiancee all the time and drives her nuts. That’s why I’m going to introduce her toHey Babyso she can take her aggression out virtually....
Say what you want, but I’ve always foundThe Simsstrangely appealing, despite never really bothering to play them. I like the idea of little people who will react to my capricious and Godlike actions. I’ve been perpetually tempted to pick upThe Sims 3, and now another round of temptation is ready to launch with the game’s console debut this Fall. The Sims 3has been officially confirmed for Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii, finally leaving the realm of PC exclusivity after ten billion years....
