Ah, the single biggest hurdle of the retro gaming movement: Playing all your old favorites with anything other than the original controller. The $70 RetroN 3 Video Gaming System appears to have that base covered, though.
The console not only plays Nintendo, Sega Genesis, and Super Nintendo game cartridges, but it features two …
Crackdown 2
Publisher: Microsoft
Developer: Ruffian Games
Systems it’s available on: Xbox 360
ESRB rating: T for Teen
System reviewed on: Xbox 360
Pacific City’s really gone to hell. It was just a few years ago that legions of players assumed the roles of genetically-grown crimefighting Agents deployed to take out the gangs who …
We hate to dash your hopes of a Christmas in July but the “classic white” PlayStation 3 Slim will only be available in Japan when it’s released later this month. The PS3 will not only see a new color scheme but bigger hard drives. A 120GB model and 320GB model will be released on July 29 for 29,980 yen and 34,980 yen, …
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Skate 3 posted up some strong numbers in May and now the reigning king of skate games is rolling out brand-new stuff for all those people who’ve bought it. The Danny Way’s Hawaiian Dream DLC pack sends players to the Pacific archipelago to shred on rails and …
Should I be as depressed as I am that all it takes to turn Wonder Woman into a hit comic is changing her costume? Perhaps, but that doesn’t change the fact that #600 of the Amazon Princess’ comic is being rushed into a second printing following the three-day sellout of the initial print run and what’s being called “phenomenal” downloads …
Two months later, that headline surprises no one, right? But, it’s important to remember that RDR’s success wasn’t a slam-dunk. The Western diverges greatly from what Rockstar’s done with the GTA games and there were no guarantees that it would be as awesome as it is.
Coutesy of Wired’s Game|Life blog and the NPD Group, …
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
8-Bit Twilight Game Shut Down, Makers Slam Summit Entertainment [via NewsFeed] – UPDATE: It’s been saved!
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Over iPhone 4 Antenna [via CNET]
Apple Is Hiring iPhone Antenna Engineers. I Wonder Why. [via …
Over at IGN, Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony’s Worldwide Studios, let it be known that Playstation’s parent company’s finally making money on every PS3 it sells. The quote from IGN:
“This year is the first time that we are able to cover the cost of the PlayStation 3,” Yoshida said. “We aren’t making huge money from hardware, but
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DC Comics announced the closure today of its online Zuda Comics imprint, with “select titles” moving over onto their new comiXology/PSP Network digitial platforms. On the official Zuda blog, editor Ron Perazza wrote,
[F]rom here on out, Zuda Comics will be folded into DC Comics’ exciting, new Digital Publishing initiative. Expect more
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The Russian spy scandal that’s been making headlines this week has briefly crossed over into the realm of technology with news that the accused spies hid secret messages and data inside the code of seemingly-ordinary digital photos–the above picture apparently “has the map of an airport hidden in its data,”
So, video games’ most prominent gadfly returns to the subject of interactive entertainment this morning. But, wait! Before you roll your eyes, you should know this: Roger Ebert admits he was wrong.
Yep. The Chicago Sun-Times’ longtime movie critic wrote the following in a new blog post:
I was a fool for mentioning video games in
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Monday’s announcement that former Heroes and Lost writer/producer Jeph Loeb had been named Executive Vice President and Head of Marvel Entertainment’s newly-created TV department created a lot of questions: Marvel television? What characters would get their own shows? What networks would they appear on? Who’d work on the shows? I talked
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