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Welcome to the news section, which will be updated on a daily basis or
when something interesting is available to write about. A lot of the news will be text only. This is because most news
are usually rumours and inaccurate. If I take any news from any other site, I will mention where it came
from. 3rd of December 2008 Virtual hamster announced for the PSP. More Castle Crashers multi player patch will soon be available. More Age of Conan is still in production of the XBOX 360. More The new XBOX 360 arcade will come with 256 MB of internal ram and according to Microsoft. "We are constantly updating the console's more than 1700 internal components. We can confirm that we are moving to internal memory for the Xbox 360 Arcade. The physical internal memory is the same size as the previous external memory units - 256MB." More World's 1st 3D LED Display Sports 180-inch Screen. More
Apple finally start pushing anti-virus for Macs. Are they taking the p**s? More XBOX 360 outsells Playstation 3 three to one on black Friday. More RIAA sue hospitalised teenager over $10 of music she did not download. More King of the Fighters the movie; What will they next turn into a film? How about Cooking Mama. More This is censorship gone wild. Timothy Plan has created a document that is meant to be a guide for sensible presents for Christmas. That seems reasonable so far but, he has highlighted Army of Two as and I quote, "GAY & LESBIAN: Homosexual Encounters: (not mentioned): Somewhat homo-erotic undertones between the two main characters are present.". Right!! Here is a link to the original Kotaku story. More The original site is very slow so I have posted the PDF file here. More Yakuza 3 will be bundled with a white Playstation 3 console. More Atari plan on producing new games based on Baldur's Gate, Dungeons & Dragons, Neverwinter Nights and Test Drive Unlimited. More Activision: ‘Call of Duty: World At War’ DLC Will Be Unusual. More Riddick: Dark Athena will be available early 2009 and will be approximately ten hours. More Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Online Closed Beta Client can be obtained at gamershell. More
2nd of December 2008 Nintendo make $6 for every Wii they sell. No wonder they don't want to reduce the price of the machine. More Grand Theft Auto on the PC will be uncut in Australia. More Nintendo can not patent the term Wiimote in the US, because remote is too common. More Want to learn the five different class types in Dragon Quest 9? Here is a translated Japanese page for you to read. More Solar Plexus
What we know about Joakim's new game (pictured
above): Freeware Game Pick: Insomnia (Wilson Saunders)
A 2D platformer created by Wilson Saunders, the
objective of
Insomnia is
to reach the top of a tower before you collapse from deprivation of sleep
and get dragged down by tentacles into their cold embrace for a really
long nap. Trailer: RunMan - Race Around the World (CoolMoose)
Gameplay trailer for RunMan: Race Around the
World, a 2D platformer currently being developed by Tom Sennett (RunMan's
Monster Fracas) and
Matt Thorson (An Untitled Story, Jumper series).
1st of December 2008 Here are some new screen shots from Star Trek Online. More Midway is working on a title that is alleged to be better that Gear of War 2. More The Escapist has an interesting article on Abandonware and how they work with the copyright holders. More The passing of an XBOX 360 is usually tough but, the average person doesn't usually have a funeral for it. check out this funeral piece one owner has for their machine. More I appear in this weeks AI Podcast. More A new trailer for the Half Life total conversion Black Mesa, on Half Life 2 engine has been released. I wouldn't get too excited. This game has been in production for over three years with no release date in sight. More Grand Turismo 5 is expected to be released at Christmas 2009. More Freeware Game Pick: Teppomanto (Ikiki)
Teppomanto is a new 2D action game
created by the author of Nikujin and Teppoman, where players assume
control over another naked assassin on a mission to infiltrate the enemy
base and take out all adversaries within. Freeware Game Pick: Lost in Eldritch (Joachim Despland)
Lost in Eldritch is a short 2D platformer
created by Joachim Despland for TIGSource's Commonplace Book competition,
featuring a protagonist who is stranded on an unfamiliar landscape with no
memory of events leading up to his current predicament. Freeware Game Pick: From Primordial Egg (Logan Ames)
From Primordial Egg is a Commonplace Book
competition entry created by Logan Ames, developer of the exploration
platformer
Nothing. Starting out as a baby dinosaur inside an egg, players
would have to press a button repeatedly to break the shell and venture
forth into the labyrinth for food. Freeware Game Pick: Verge (Kyle Pulver)
Verge is a 2D platformer created by the
developer of Bonesaw: The Game for TIGSource's Commonplace Book
competition, featuring music contributed by Alec Holowka. In it, players
assume control over an unnamed protagonist who has to traverse between two
worlds in order to solve rudimentary block puzzles and reach the exit of
each stage. This will require impaling himself with spikes Karoshi-style,
using marked tiles on the ground to teleport, or jumping into deep ponds
to appear on the other side.
30th of November Grand Theft Auto's version of Securom will include unlimited installs. More Last Remnant to get four packs of DLC in December. More Aonuma will not quite the Zelda franchise until he betters Ocarina of Time. More Fable 2 may be coming to the PC. More GiantRealm has an article that talks about six games that will work on you parents computer. Six Titles That'll Work on Nearly Any Machine. More Freeware Game Pick: Everybody Dies (Jim Munroe)
Everybody Dies is an interactive fiction work written by Jim Munroe,
with Michael Cho contributing illustrations for the game. The story is
centered around three employees who happens to work in the same Cost
Cutters grocery store building. We are first introduced to Graham, a
pothead who has been assigned to retrieve shopping carts haphazardly
misplaced by previous customers after use.
Play online here
(requires a browser with Java Machine installed) Freeware Game Pick: Besieged (Yarooze, Baron)
Note: contains crude and toilet humour. Indie Games on Consolevania (Every Friday)
The Consolevania crew is currently reviewing indie games every Friday,
and had posted a request for indie game developers to send their releases
to them for a bit of media spotlight. Send your money to contact@castlevania.com
and they will talk some smack about the game on one of the upcoming shows.
Brilliant. There are also two more videos in the extended. (source:
Retro
Remakes) Freeware Game Pick: Colk-Cube (TERU-soach)
Colk-Cube is a 3D puzzler created by
TERU-soach, where players would have to clear as many boxes as they can to
advance from one level to the next. Use the cursor keys to move around,
press the Z key when standing next to a block to kick it, and tap the X
key to jump. You can also nudge a block slightly by pressing the correct
arrow key when the push text is displayed on screen. SImply connect three
or more squares of the same colour together to remove these blocks from
the area.
29th of November 2008 Here are some new Star Wars: Knights of the old Republic screen shots. More Are Rare working on a new Killer Instinct game? More This should please all you perverts. New Bayonetta screen shots. More Destroy all Humans is still coming to Europe on the Playstation 3; now I'm confused. More Capcom share at a five year high and that's always a good thing right? More Jasper XBOX 360 console will do away with the red ring of death! When pigs fly I say. More Quentin Tarantino Rewrites Team Fortress 2
Freeware Game Pick: Cosmic Invaders (X-G)
The objective of
Cosmic Invaders is to prevent the
invaders from reaching the bottom of the screen. This is done by deploying
defensive structures, accessible from the bottom right. Once deployed,
towers will automatically fire on your enemies. Each costs money, which
along with your remaining life is displayed in the bottom left. Towers can
be sold, giving you back half of their original cost plus potentially
valuable real estate, by selecting them with the left mouse button and
clicking the demolish button. Right click cancels selection and placement.
Pressing the escape key exits the game. Freeware Game Pick: Carrion Reanimating (Lemmy, Binky)
Herbert West in Carrion Reanimating is an
action game set in a large building with multiple exits, where visitors
would come knocking at any of the door and request to see if their friends
are doing okay. The objective is basically to reanimate and send the right
zombie to meet these people, so they can be reassured that nothing has
happened and will leave you to your experiments peacefully. Should one of
the guests lose their patience from waiting for a response or catch a look
at their friends, then a cop will arrive shortly and attempt to find
evidence of necromancy in the building. Simpy guide the other zombies away
from him as he walk from one exit to another, and things would return to
normal when he comes out of his search empty handed.
28th of November 2008 here is an interesting editorial on Gamer.blorge.com, that gives its reason why there will be a price cut next year. More Sony is not commenting on speculation, that a Processor has been made that could be used in a PSP2. More Here is a small review of Sony's Home Beta. More YS I and II are being translated to the Nintendo DS. More Sony's Home will available this year to everyone, according to PlayStation Home director, Jack Buser. More Big sales today on Amazon.com and well worth looking at if you are a gamer. More Grand Theft Auto VI on the PC, gets thirty two player online multiplayer modes. More One of the actors who does the voices in Assassin's Creed and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3, was shot in Mumbai yesterday. More Freeware Game Pick: Akrasia (AHA Studios)
Akrasia is sort of an experimental game
which features multiple endings, where players can arrive at a different
conclusion based on the number of pills they collect and the state they
are in when exiting the maze. One for the art game lovers.
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