The Sony E3 presentation has now become internet legend. I was going to post this before, but Robbo has reminded me by mentioining it today in IRC. So here is another remix, arguably the best so far. Watch it now.
See it on YouTube here.
If the following picture is to be believed, the next incarnation of the world famous Grand Theft Auto will have the lead character possessing two X chromosomes.
Interesting if true, I’ve never been a fan of the series so far, even the 2D incarnations left me cold (although I did enjoy the soundtrack in Vice City).
Edit - Rockstar have apparently dismissed the picture as a fake, oh well
Sequence of events:
Full report here (requires flash)
There’s an impressive video over at teamxbox.com showing off ‘Prey’, the new FPS game which uses the Doom III engine, it looks very nice.
Pity ID didn’t turn the brightness up on their Doom III dev-boxes, eh?
Games Industry brings us news that the actor once predicted to go so far, Mark Hamill, is to get his second job. The Japanese hit Yakuza, is to be localised for western audiences, and in doing so has ‘attracted’ voice talents sure to help us understand the eastern-ness, and what with GAME scrapping its ‘no-quibbles’ returns policy, let’s hope they are right. A quote follows
“Topping the bill of vocal talent for the western adaptation is veteran actor Michael Madsen, who will voice Shimano, a physically imposing and brutal Yakuza boss. Star Wars legend Mark Hamill will provide the voice of Majima, an insane, violent Yakuza boss with a twisted sense of honour.
Other stars lending their voices to the game - which has already been a huge hit in Japan - include Smallville’s Michael Rosenbaum, Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Eliza Dushku and Rachel Leigh Cook, the heroine of geek-to-chic teen flick She’s All That.”
Read the rest here.
A culmination of the last few weeks of articles on the web about Girl Gamers or Female Gamers or whatever the fuck they want to be called. An excellent article, and one which any person wishing to write about GGs should read lies here. Richard displays pretty much the same attitude as myself on this subject, in a sensible way. A breif quote follows:
‘If you absolutely have to put a picture of a regular female gamer, a thumbnail or something is perfectly acceptable. In no circumstances may you begin with anything other than a physical description, moving onto the actual ‘gaming’ part only as time permits - in much the same way that no write-up of Jonathan “Fatal1ty” Wendell ever goes without a discussion of his latest hair-style, or the pertness of his ass.’
I’m looking forward to Halo 3 as much as the next man, (unless the next man works for Sony), but the latest media offering from Studio Bungie is almost un-watchable due to the high self-love content.
http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?link=e3makingof
Presumably after verbally copulating with the game’s design on-screen, the talking heads in the trailer all went back to their cubicles to compose love letters to each other.
Thanks to the unique way the BBC is funded, they can afford to make outrageous mistakes on their news website, and still get paid at the end of the month.
Exhibit A: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5041690.stm
(on the NintendoDS game ‘Brain Training’)
“In a Tokyo classroom, a teacher demonstrates how to turn on the PlayStation Portable and plug in the disc with the game on it.”
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“In this version the player has to solve simple sums as quickly as possible. But there are many different types of game on the market, not just for the PlayStation, but Nintendo and other models too.”
I suppose doing a bit of journalistic research at the beeb would get in the way of snorting coke off an nubile lady’s buttocks.
Edit - 4-June-06, it looks like BBC News has corrected the information now, it’s lucky nobody noticed, eh?
Another excellent edition of Way of the Rodent is out today, which includes this little gem:
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