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 and Playboy a pro bono job? Comment away.

As my gift to you, I’ve embedded the B-movie video clips of each Bayonetta below. I hope you like lollipops.

If any of this has somehow convinced you to play Bayonetta, you can get it at Amazon.com.

Thanks to BoobieBlog.com for tipping us off to this wonderful bit of material.

… and for Belisle’s take on Bayonetta, read the article he wrote a couple weeks ago.

“Mass Effect didn’t change the industry, but it did show that video games have the capability to show sensuality in a respectful manner and equal to anything done in mainstream movies. I’m not sure if sexual situations in video games have vastly improved in the two years since Mass Effect, but for future game designers it did show what’s possible with our medium. In short, Mass Effect was a step in the right direction.”

Brown also spoke about the challenge of writing the book. He wrote about the difficult balance of blending highbrow and lowbrow culture, as well as writing for both the hardcore gamer and the Bejeweled-playing mother.

If you like video games and boobs, this book is sure hold your interest. It’s a great analysis about two industries that aren’t always held in high regard. If you aren’t into boobs, I’m frankly surprised you visit this site. I’m sure you’d enjoy the book though.

“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 basis of the final system.”

I’ve thought it before, and now I have proof: Arkham Asylum is a rhythm game!

It may not have been in the final version, but the elements of rhythm games feel prominent in Batman. If you hammer the punch button in it, you will probably die a painful death. The key to success was the timing of your combat buttons. It led to one of the most fluid combat experiences I’ve ever felt in a game. Beforehand, I could only compare it to Assassin’s Creed’s combat done right.

Even with the rhythmic feel of the game, I entitled this post “Quick Time Events done Right” for a reason. By nature, a QTE is about reacting to an on-screen command with a single button combination. What gets in the way of this in modern games is that they are used to keep the player from screwing up something awesome (see God of War). What Batman does is give you rewards for pushing the correct button at the correct time. The game-given gift: Combo score. Getting a high combo is one of the most badass-feelings I have ever felt in a game. During the second-to-last moment of the game, I got a 60+ combo score and nothing has ever made me feel like Batman before (but feeling like Batman is already written about in another article).

Am I right? Am I an idiot for thinking that Batman has a lot in common with Dance Dance Revolution? Comment and tell me.

It could have been this idea that spawned the PSP. Nintendo, the competitor, had the game-only DS to rival the PSP’s multi-tasking wonder. The consumer base also wasn’t sure about the PSP as a gaming platform either, as the Console sells well, but software never seems to leave the shelves.

With the release of the iTouch and iPhone’s App. store, the internet has been abuzz about if Apple has a gaming machine on their hands. I think Sony realizes this with the PSP Go. As far as I can tell, the way the PSP Go should be thought of is the same way we think about the iPod. It’s odd to think of a PlayStation not being mostly about play, but it at least makes the $250 price tag more reasonable.

Leave comment and argue with me.

Leave comment and talk about it.

I’m giving you the link because I couldn’t get embedding the video to work.

“Japan is over. We’re done. Our game industry is finished.”

Aside from Capcom, Japan has no more creative innovations towards the game industry? Really? An odd sentiment considering Final Fantasy XIII and the new game from team Ico are on the way. On the other hand, Inafune has been recently working on the western developed Dead Rising 2. Inafune has also been working in the game industry sense Japan’s gaming hey-day when the world craved Nintendo games. Only the future can tell what will happen to the Japanese game industry though. Commenters, predict!

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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 I had to rig it up real quick and do a str_replace() to replace ‘.jpg’ with ‘-150×150.jpg’. This sucks because it still isn’t working on the backend.

If you have any clue how to fix this email me, josh at -getridofme-golgotron.com. I don’t have much faith in anyone answering my post on the Wordpress Support forums, but you never know.

So I’m updating the podcast, and iTunes (on their server side) is randomly breaking. The feed is valid, I made sure, yet somehow it loses pictures and doesn’t update. It’ll have a picture on the iphone version, and when you do a search, but when you go to the landing it’s broken. I’ll ping it to make it update, and it doesn’t do anything. I get confirmation I pinged it, but nothing happens. They also don’t have any real support, heck there isn’t even a control panel for your podcast. Everything you do is done through the rss feed itself which is quite ingenious, but absolutely maddening when it’s not working. I hope episode 4 of GolgoCast actually makes it up there, episode 3 was up for 2 days before mysteriously disappearing. I finally got it back up, but now episode 4 hasn’t shown up yet.

Great.