• ssf2t2.gif Contest

    Free Capcom games


    Our buddies over at Capcom are giving us two Playstation 2 games to giveaway this week rocks for you, sucks for me. This is all you have to do for a chance to win a copy of Street Fighter Anniversary Collection or Fighting Evolution:
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    2:00 PM on Tue Nov 30 2004
    By Brian Crecente
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    Free Commodore 64 games for your Palm


    Forget the 50-pound keyboard and green monitor—check out the free Commodore 64 emulator. Frodo lets you play some pretty sweet C64 games on your Palm, provided you have OS 5.0 or better and an ARM processor. I can t wait to play some MULE during my next flight. Sweet! More »

    1:31 PM on Tue Nov 30 2004
    By Brian Crecente
    521 views

  • grandthievesaudio.gif Oddities

    Grand Theft Auto monologues


    Sick of the 80's music that pumps through every car you jack in GTA: Vice City? Then check out a new mod that lets you listen to an army recruiter, driving instructor or yo mama as you whore and maim your way through the game as Tommy Vercetti. The monologues were performed by voice actors and can be loaded on your Xbox or PC to replace the game s in-built soundtrack. My favorite is the book on 8-track version of Terminator as read by Ahhhhnold. More »

    11:38 AM on Tue Nov 30 2004
    By Brian Crecente
    369 views

  • ces-2005-logo-0217.gif Gossip

    Xbox 2 won't make CES?


    Some development friends of mine are hearing that the Xbox 2 won t make a Consumer Electronics Show premier after all. Despite rumors that Gates will unveil the next-gen Xbox during his keynote at the annual show, the latest gossip is that the unveiling is more likely to come at the Game Developers Conference in March. I doubt this will have any real impact on the Xbox 2 s launch, it just gives Microsoft more time to come up with a hot d but. I have a call in to the Xbox people, but no word yet. More »

    10:58 AM on Tue Nov 30 2004
    By Brian Crecente
    122 views

  • drunk_santa.jpg Oddities

    Redneck Santa picks holiday loser


    Apparently Santa s a beer-swilling, tobacco-spitting yahoo redneck whose idea of a good time is watching cars chase each other around in a circle for three days. In an exclusive interview with the morbidly obese elf, The (Mount Carmel, PA) News-Item discovered that Santa s top holiday pick is NASCAR: Chase for the Cup 2005. Hey Santa, ever hear of a little thing called Halo 2 or GTA: San Andreas? More »

    10:45 AM on Tue Nov 30 2004
    By Brian Crecente
    1,725 views

  • preorders.jpg Only in Japan

    The hunt for PSP goodness


    Sounds like getting your hands on a PSP pre-order ticket in Japan is akin to finding twins into threesomes. Sony actually launched a pre-order pre-order drive for the PSP, letting people sign up for the right to eventually pre-order the handheld device. The people who lucked into the little pre-order tickets ended up spending a lot of time roaming from game store to game store hoping to find a pre-order line forming. More »

    10:36 AM on Tue Nov 30 2004
    By Brian Crecente
    69 views

  • gtabw.jpg Playstation 2

    GTA: San Andreas morality


    GTA: San Andreas as after-school special? Maybe that s a stretch, but the game does have its own form of positive message. Buried under all of that violence, gang-banging and hoing is a light anti-drug motif. CJ may bang with the best of them, but he doesn t use drugs or like people who do and at least one radio station DJ is very anti-drug. Too bad they choose anti-drugs instead of anti-violence as their message: I d rather be reading about a group of teens found eating their weight in Twinkies than some angry geek plotting the decimation of his local high school. More »

    10:34 AM on Tue Nov 30 2004
    By Brian Crecente
    157 views

  • animal-dead-computer-mouse.jpg Business

    Video games killed the computer


    People are too stupid for computers to survive. What with the mouse and the whole having-to-be-able-to-type thing, computers are just too complex to win the battle for the family room; instead game consoles will morph into tomorrow s entertainment system. I'm looking forward to the day when the Xbox replaces medical equipment. Heart valve replacement, was that A,B,A,A,A or A,B,A,A,B?
    Computer firms seen losing to consoles [Bloomberg]

    9:34 AM on Tue Nov 30 2004
    By Brian Crecente
    814 views

  • hideo.jpg Events

    Metal Gear Solid creator detected in U.S.


    Hideo Kojima, the famed creator of Metal Gear Solid, and character designer Yoji Shinkawa will be giving away some Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater posters and autographing stuff Tuesday in California. The two will be at the GameStop Planet X in the Glendale Galleria from 11 a.m. to Noon PST and then will appear at the EB Games flagship store on the Universal City Walk from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. PST. More »

    8:33 AM on Tue Nov 30 2004
    By Brian Crecente
    57 views

  • valvelogo.jpg Legal

    Valve wins Cyber Cafe fight


    Valve got a chance to legally bitch slap Sierra/Vivendi Universal Games Monday. A U.S. Federal District judge granted Valve a summary judgment in their case involving Cyber Cafes and copyright infringement. Basically, Valve sued Sierra Online, saying that the company didn't have the right to distribute their games in cyber cafes because Valve was handling that with their own service. Then, out of spite, Sierra/Vivendi prevented Valve from allowing players to unlock Half-Life 2 early. The details are really too boring to go into. The only thing that really matters is that the people that kept us all from playing Half-Life 2 early got their asses handed to them in court. More »

    8:29 AM on Tue Nov 30 2004
    By Brian Crecente
    143 views

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