Jack Thompson’s donation a fake, Penny Arcade picks up his slack

First he offers to donate $10,000 and then goes back on his word, claiming his donation offer was "satire" and the gaming community is too dumb (basically) to comprehend that. Penny Arcade picked up to cover his lack of humanity and decency and made the $10,000 donation for him, and no one even had to make them a game!

Is THE Master Chief in Dead or Alive 4 on the Xbox 360!!

I could see how one would thing so but dag nammit, read people, read! *begin halo geek rant* While this Spartan wears similar MJOLNIR, it is not the John 117 we all know and love. This Spartan is actually Spartan-458. A female Spartan by some unknown name.*end halo geek rant* If I see one more site/blog touting the pics they have that prove THE Master Chief is in Dead or Alive 4, I will rain the fury of many-a-halo nerd upon thee.

and you call yourelves gamers…ba!

[xbox365]

To sastify your Metal Gear Solid appetites

This MGS luvr edited together the cut scenes from the three currently available Metal Gear Solid movies. They’re bloody torrents thought. That means I can’t watch’em from work. Good for his bandwidth, bad for my lack of work ethic. 

Spielberg joines forces with EA

Now that this next-generation allows games to be more cinematic (supposedly…zing!), EA has decided to combine their sweatshopping creative talents with Steven Spielberg to have the director work directly with EA’s developers to collaborate on three upcoming games. Spielberg had this to say:

 

I have been playing EA games for years and have watched them master the interactive format. Having watched the game industry grow from a niche to a major creative force in entertainment, I have a great deal of respect for EA’s understanding of the interactive format. I’m looking forward to working closely with the team in Los Angeles

 

Master the format? I wouldn’t go that far. It would have been nice to see Spielberg team up with someone like Bungie. Probably too much red tape and politics for that though.

 

 

 

Project Gotahm Racing Cars have more polygons than expected

Bizarre lied about the poylgon count of most of their car models in PGR3!?!?! I am shocked and awed.

 

It’s not so much they lied (like everyone is freaking out about) but more like they underestimated. They whole "we lied, we’re actually more awsomer than we said before!" angle is good for getting the hype out. When I saw "They lied!!" I was thinking the poly count was going to be lower or the game wouldn’t be coming out until 2008 or something similarly disappointing.  But I digress. Bizarre previously stated that their car models were going to be around 80,000 polygons but now, closer to release, their models ended up being anywhere from 85 to 105,000 polygons. I just hope the game is fun to play. 1up has the new images Bizarre released laid out nicely. 2 wireframe images and 2 (in-game?) finished model shots.

PS3 losing developers to the Xbox 360?

Citing the expensive costs (2 billion yen to start developing, that’s $17.6 million) and how much harder it is to program games for, many developers may be jumping the Playstation 3 development ship for the lush, green hi-def paradise that Microsoft is making the Xbox 360 out to be. Developing for the Xbox 360 will cost less and is more akin to developing for Windows, which many developers are already familiar with. Could this explain Sony’s, or more specifically Ken Kuturagi’s, lack of comments lately? I’d say all PS3 developers should get together and finish KillZone 2 and Metal Gear Solid 4. That would make it all worthwhile.

 

One journalist, a veteran of the industry, observes, “The Xbox 360 is selling at 39795 yen [US $350], whereas the PS3 will probably be more expensive. To draw a comparison with PC operating systems, the Xbox 360 is like a low-cost and stable version of Windows, while the PS3 resembles a high quality Macintosh [operating system]. Considering the economic variance within the world market, we may find that console selection depends heavily on geographic location.”

Ragdoll Kung Fu released

The string-puppet-ish fighter Ragdoll Kung Fu is now available.

Final Fantasy XI beta on the Xbox 360

The beta program for Final Fantasy XI on the Xbox 360 will launch the day the Xbox 360 is launched in Japan, December 10th. You have to buy a certain limited edition 360 package to actually partake of the testing goodness. You’ll have to sign up for the free SquareEnix PlayOnline service and the also free Xbox Live Silver Package.

Playstation 3 festival coming late October?

According to the-magicbox, Sony is going to be holding an entertainment festival dubbed Akihabara Enta Matsuri in Tokyo starting on October 22 and ending on the 30. They don’t detail whether or not any games are to be playable or what they’re going to be doing at this festival that will keep people entertained for 8 days but I guess we’ll see.

Jack Thompson is still crazy

Doesn anyone even listed to this guy anymore? Apprently he found a media outlet to spill some more, untrue gossip. He’s now claiming that Eidos is (on the always reliable inquirer site) is shelving their upcoming 25 to Life game indefinitely since they no longer want to release it ever. Why do they want to throw out an almost completed title and waste all that they’ve put into it so far? Why to avoid the legal sh!tstorm that is senior Thompson himself. Oddly enough, when Edios was contacted for comment, they claimed to not know of these developments and to not even know Thompson himself.  Of course. Just what will happen if Eidos does decide to release the game (making Thompson look even more like the crazed-crazy man he is)?

 

Of course, even if these rumours from Thompson prove to be incorrect, Mr. Thompson himself says, "If they haven’t pulled it, we’re gonna sue their butts."

 

I am so going to buy this game.