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01.30.10Gaming, Porn, & Synergy: Playboy does Bayonetta (poorly)Just as American Idol attracts a subset of "singers" who have no business performing in public, Playboy is inundated with audition photos from women who simply shouldn't be seen in public. Those are the girls Playboy puts in gaming shoots. But there's a more important question to be asked. Push yourself past the apparent fact that the girls used for Playboy's Bayonetta lookalike contest are straight out of the trailer park (I know it's hard, but try). Instead, ask yourself this: Did Sega pay to have this content produced as a means of disguised advertising, or is this collaboration between Sega ...
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10.05.09Porn & Pong: Mass Effect was a step in the right direction.A month ago, when I was at PAX, I picked up a fun little book entitled Porn & Pong: How Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Our Culture By Damon Brown. As the title suggests, it was about how the game industry intertwines with the Larry Flint and Hugh Hefner's naked utopia. The book talks about the significance of titles like Custer's Revenge, Tomb Raider, and Grand Theft Auto 3. Brown does a great job covering what was in the game, where the controversy lies, and what it meant for both the video game and ...
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10.02.09Batman=DDR: Quick Time Events done Right.Gameinformer.com went live several days ago, and with it came a feature about tidbits in Rocksteady's Batman: Arkham Asylum. The short feature talked about some of the smaller details about the game that are largely overlooked; like where the sound effect for the explosive gel came from. Out of all of these, one tidbit caught my eye. "Combat went through three distinct revisions – the first one being a full rhythm action game! The second one was prototyped in 2D, which popped up whenever you got into a fight, and involved colored circles bashing into each other. This actually formed the ...
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10.01.09What exactly is the PSP Go?While reading reviews over this bizarre half-step upgrade of a handheld, I kept trying to figure what exactly the PSP Go is about. I also had to figure out what the PSP was, and why it failed in ways the Go will succeed. Later on, it hit me what Sony is thinking, and why nobody else has really mentioned it. The PSP Go is an iPod. Continue Reading...
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09.29.09Is Street Fighter IV Super?Street Fighter IV has been available to the public sense spring 2009, and I feel myself concerned about the recent announcement about Super Street Fighter IV—an updated version of the game with a rebalanced roster and eight new characters. I love the idea of a rebalance, but Capcom has not only stated that it will be a stand-alone game, but also that the roster update will be so drastic it will not be playable with current Street Fighter IV discs. This leads to some slight turbulence though, what happens to players with old copies of the game? Are we supposed ...
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09.28.09Japanese game industry is dead?Keiji Inafune is a name every gamer from the NES generation should know. He is the mind behind the Mega-Man series, as well as many other amazing titles sense then. In the video below during TGS, Inafune talks about how the Japanese game industry is dead. More after the jump. I'm giving you the link because I couldn't get embedding the video to work. Continue Reading...
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07.29.09Images Fixed!So I disabled all of my plugins until I found the culprit, podpress! On one hand images now work correctly, on the other I have to search for another podcasting plugin. And podpress was so perfect, oh well.
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07.08.09Wordpress. Fight!So Wordpress magically started not working correctly with images. When you upload an image to Wordpress it resizes it to three different sizes and let's you pick which one you want. For some reason it is realizing it's doing that anymore. By realize I mean it's resizing them, it just doesn't list them as options. The problem with this is that things use this: wp_get_attachment_thumb_url That should return the url of the smallest image, the thumbnail. If there isn't a thumbnail it should return 'false', instead it's returning the url of the original image size. So ...
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07.07.09Podcasts, oh my!So I downloaded all of the top 25 Video Game podcasts as ranked on iTunes, even the WoW ones. I'm going to listen to them throughout the week and see what happens.
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07.06.09Stupid iTunesI for one think iTunes is a big piece of shit. The 64bit version runs alright, but the 32bit version is a piece of crap. Their whole navigation scheme is wonky, and the UI is absolute crap. Apple is a company with great designers but horrible UI guys, I really don't understand how they think a consumer will use a product. I'll also lay some blame on the architect of iTunes, whoever that cocksucker may be. So I'm updating the podcast, and iTunes (on their server side) is randomly breaking. The feed is valid, I made ...
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- Gaming, Porn, & Synergy: Playboy does Bayonetta (poorly)
January 30, 2010 | 12:10 pmJust as American Idol attracts a subset of “singers” who have no business performing in public, Playboy is inundated with audition photos from women who simply shouldn’t be seen in public. Those are the girls Playboy puts in gaming shoots.
But there’s a more important question to be asked. Push yourself past the apparent fact that [...] - Porn & Pong: Mass Effect was a step in the right direction.
October 5, 2009 | 2:32 pmA month ago, when I was at PAX, I picked up a fun little book entitled Porn & Pong: How Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Our Culture By Damon Brown. As the title suggests, it was about how the game industry intertwines with the Larry Flint and Hugh Hefner’s naked [...]
- Batman=DDR: Quick Time Events done Right.
October 2, 2009 | 5:13 pmGameinformer.com went live several days ago, and with it came a feature about tidbits in Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham Asylum. The short feature talked about some of the smaller details about the game that are largely overlooked; like where the sound effect for the explosive gel came from. Out of all of these, one tidbit caught [...]
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- GDC 10: Teaching child violence prevention through gamingAllan McCullough is a man with a very noble quest. He wants to help educate children so that they know how to deal with violence. How does he plan to do it? Videogames. As someone who loves to see developers use the power of games to do good, his GDC session, titled "Violence Prevention - Playing a Video Game Can Make a Difference", s […]
- EA Sports Active 2.0 coming to PS3, snubs Xbox 360Well, the console wars are officially over. Electronic Arts has announced that cynical "me too" fitness game, EA Sports Active 2.0, is coming to multiple platforms, but will skip the Xbox 360 for some reason. The Wii, PS3, and even iPhone are getting a version, but Microsoft has been left in the cold. The PS3 version looks like it […]
- Yggdra Union prequel announced for PSP, Blaze UnionIf you like obscure Japanese strategy RPGs, then you best dust off your PSP. Atlus is publishing a new SRPG that acts as a prequel to Yggdra Union called Blaze Union: Story to Reach the Future. Yes, that sounds like the kind of name a Japanese SRPG would have. Blaze Union will have players step into the boots of female warrior Garlot, a red-ha […]
- Square Enix ships five million Final Fantasy XIIIsDid you know that Final Fantasy XIII is kind of a big deal? Apparently it is, because Square Enix has revealed that five million copies of the thing has shipped worldwide. Three million of those games have infiltrated North America and Europe. Yeah, this game is rather large. XIII is still selling really well in Japan, having launched for the P […]
- Final Fantasy XIII on Xbox 360 'not a hard decision'With Final Fantasy XIII finally releasing in North America, Square Enix president Yoichi Wada has touched upon the always controversial decision to port the game to Xbox 360. According to Wada, it wasn't a hard decision to make. His team wanted to do it, and the install base was such that it was essentially a no-brainer. "The Xbox tea […]
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