[As originally postedon Japanator] Taisho Yakyuu Musumeis a title with a whole lot of Japanese in it, and it doesn’t really tell you much about the game, does it? To explain real quick, and thus give you an idea of what this currently airing anime is all about, the Taisho era dated from 1912-1926, while “yakyuu” is the Japanese word for baseball — and “musume” means “girl” or “daughter,” depending on the context....
This is as much a post about a good price on a game as it is an appeal that you go and buyRed Dead Redemption. It is almost certainly the best title to come out of Rockstar in many years and I might argue that it’s the best they’ve ever made. If you have a PlayStation 3 and have yet to experience the visceral joy of planting a rifle round between the eyes of a charging bear, why not take the first step towards changing that today?...
If you’ve been to a convenience store or supermarket in a city recently, you’ve probably seen the Redbox video rental machines. For the uninitiated, they’re little kiosks where you can slide a credit card and rent a DVD at a cost of a dollar per day. Now, in some places, they will be vending videogame rentals as well. Ane-mail sent out by Redboxto customers in Reno, Nevada announced the availability of game rentals....
Usually, downloadable games on Xbox Live can only offer 200 Gamer Points’ worth of Achievements.The HD reissuesofResident Evil 4andResident Evil: Code Veronica, however, will offer 1,000 Points each, boasting full-fledged Achievements. This is because they are skipping both retail and Xbox Live Arcade in the West, releasing instead via Xbox Live’s “Games on Demand” service. Since full-fledged retail games appear on this service, the twoResiremasters aren’t bound by XBLA restrictions....
Every week, features editor Anthony Burch rants to a camera about some aspect of game design or gamer culture. He’ll change the name of the series to “Ant Rants” when he grows the balls to do so, but for now they’re called Rev Rants. …
TheGears of Warseries needs no introduction. Though it saw its initial entry during the current generation, its popularity is undeniable, and its influence can be seen in nearly every third person shooter released since 2006. Just this past week, the fourth game in the series was released to the masses, garnering near-universal praise as the pinnacle of the genre. What’s that, you ask? What do I mean, fourth game? Didn’t you know?...
Harmonix has finally revealed thatRock Bandcoming out for the Nintendo Wii. It will retail for $169.99 and will be out June 22.Rock BandWii will come in a bundle package containing the drums, one wireless guitar, a microphone and the game and there will also be stand-alone instruments for sale the same day. The game will come with 63 songs with five exclusive tracks just for the Wii version. I wouldn’t be too surprised if these songs are based of certain Nintendo games....
Rumors have surfaced that the latest attempt by Sony to make the PSP worth a sh*t involve jamming a smartphone in there. The word on the street is that a PSPgo with phone capabilities could hit the market as early as October of this year. According to the speculation, the Sony Ericsson “PSP phone” would pack the Android 3.0 operating system and boast a 3.7″ to 4.1″ screen, a “long touch pad,” a 1 GHz Snapdragon CPU, a camera and a slide-out control mechanism as found on the PSPgo....
According toCVG’s “cast iron source”close to the development ofThis Is Vegas, the open-world shooter/wet t-shirt contest simulator has been scrapped. Being developed by the Seattle-based Surreal Software, the game was acquired by Warner Bros. as part of a $33 million deal when it picked up Midway’s assets back in 2009. As CVG points out, the cancellation comes as no surprise, as Warner Bros. quietly closed Surreal, moving staff to other Seattle developers, Monolith and Snowblind....
Either these rumors are a successful attempt to toy with my emotions, or they’re really true. We started hearing that a sequel to the airship and pirate Dreamcast RPGSkies of Arcadiasince late last year. Since then, we’ve heard a few more hints of its existence, but nowCubed3drops a full rumor load on us. They hear that we may seeSkies of Arcadia 2debut as early as this year’s Tokyo Game Show. And while we’ve already heard that the Wii was the target platform, now they’re saying that this game could hit the PS3 as well....
At Capcom’s Comic-Con panel last night, Keiji Inafune suggested that 2010 is going to be a very good year forMega Man. I would hope so, because that trailer forMega Man Universewhich released the other day suggests some very bold ideas. But that’s apparently not all that Inafune is talking about. No, Inafune said that there’s something else coming, noting that no mention of this had yet been made to the press....
No way! Ubisoft is getting it started by following upMichael Jackson: The ExperiencewithThe Black Eyed Peas Experiencefor Wii and Kinect. That’s right, a motion control game centered around the currently all-male pop sensation famous for their excellent Super Bowl halftime show. It doesn’t look like Ubisoft is meeting anyone halfway here. I gotta feeling that it’s going to make a lot of tween girls go “Hey mama! I want this!” Because they want to rock their body and go boom boom pow with their humps....
It seems that Sony has a vendetta against England. Kikizo hasan articleup today saying that the PS3 is going to cost a whopping£425 in England, making it the most expensive territory in which you can purchase one.£425 is the equivalent of $842.44USD, which isutterly insane. Even worse, England’s price is higher than that of mainland Europeandit’s also higher than the price in Ireland. Keeping in mind that Ireland is like thirty feet away from England and is actually a part of the United Kingdom, Sony’s decision is just frankly mean....
