Feature Sex in Games, Five Years After “Hot Coffee” How the Grand Theft Auto scandal changed videogames and the state of digital intimacy, with thoughts from the developers of God of War and Heavy Rain.
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Sex in Games, Five Years After "Hot Coffee"
Feature How to Anger a Gamer in 12 Easy Steps Hell hath no fury like a video game comments troll. By Michael Drucker Throughout the years of our lives, we gamers have faced many injustices.
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How to Anger a Gamer in 12 Easy Steps
In addition to the selection of games you’d expect Nintendo to have with it to showcase at its PAX booth next weekend, such as Donkey Kong Country Returns , Kirby’s Epic Yarn , GoldenEye , and NBA Jam , a new WiiWare game will also be making its debut.
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Nintendo to Debut New WiiWare Game at PAX
Feature Top 5 Enemy Plants Organisms that use photosynthesis to transform carbon dioxide… into pure evil. By David Wolinsky Not that anyone outside of Cartman needs more reasons to hate hippies, but it’s obvious that none of them are gamers.
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Top 5 Enemy Plants
As much as the industry disdains the used games business , it seems to only keep growing. Toys R Us , Best Buy , and Wal-Mart all dabbled with used game trade-ins last year, and now Target is the latest major retailer to institute a used games program of their own. Target will introduce their used games trade-in program in Northern California stores first, with more stores added across the country until the program is rolled out to 850 locatons by the end of the year
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Target Latest Retailer to Try Used Game Trade-Ins
Live video by Ustream Time : Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 at 5:00 PM (that’s today!) Location : Watch the embedded video player above. One of the greatest classic NES games you’ve never played finally made its North American debut this past Monday and, to celebrate, we’re going to stop working early tonight and play it for a while! Care to watch us?
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Retro Game Night: Let’s Throw Our Heads At Birds With Ufouria: The Saga
This morning MTV Games finally issued a press release announcing all 83 songs that will be included with Rock Band 3 . Word got out a bit in advance about the game’s final setlist — the developers at Harmonix even put out a tongue-in-cheek video that basically confirmed the leaked tracks — but now it’s as official as it gets. Previously unannounced standouts include “Imagine” by John Lennon, “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt
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Rock Band 3 Setlist Officially Revealed
Hiroyuki Kobayashi may be renowned as the producer of Resident Evil 4 and the Devil May Cry series, but right now in Japan he’s probably best known for his role in Sengoku Basara (aka Devil Kings ), a series of Dynasty Warriors-y action games that has become wildly popular in Japan in recent years. “We came up with the project plan for Basara around the time game sales began to slow down in Japan,” Kobayashi recalled in an interview printed in Famitsu magazine. “We thought a lot about how to to make a game sell here, and during the trial-and-error phase, we went to a bookstore and found a section devoted to the Warring States period.
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Hiroyuki Kobayashi Talks Devil Kings, Japan Game Biz
What’s it take to be one of the most revered game directors among Nintendo fans? What’s it take to produce the number-one video game series in Japan
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Dragon Quest, Smash Bros. Creators Spout Off