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30 May 2009GamersConsoleNetwork scored a big scoop this morning, pulling the first images of the PSP Go (running LittleBigPlanet) out of the latest edition of Qore, which apparently went live early. On top of that, someone managed to film the video and place it on YouTube. That’s below (bad audio) In the video: • Grand Turismo, LittleBigPlanet, [...]
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29 May 2009Game developer Mark Cooke did just that — all for Pecha Kucha in Tokyo. For those who aren’t hip to Pecha Kucha, people give presentations. Twenty slides at twenty seconds. The embedded video is a screencast of Mark’s presentation. Check out the actual presentation here, complete with crummy sound quality. Mark goes through and talks [...]
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29 May 2009Peter Sjostrand’s Mega Man 2.5D sadly doesn’t have a playable public build yet, but this video uploaded just recently was enough to get me excited enough to post it. It seems to reimagine Mega Man 2 as a Paper Mario style platforming adventure, with a number of interesting play twists on the original’s classic layout. [...]
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29 May 2009Naginata Destruction is a frantic vertical shooter that features a secondary weapon similar to the one found in Taito’s Ray series. Only one stage is playable in this trial version, but the game does not allow continues so it might take at least couple of tries to beat. Your ship is equipped with a laser [...]
After nearly four years in operation, the machines now greatly outnumber the players and The Matrix Online is no longer necessary. July 31st is the day the machines finally triumph. Sony Online Entertainment has held on to The Matrix Online for far longer than we ever expected they would, but as producer Dan Myers puts [...]
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28 May 2009Attn. would-be indie devs: World of Goo creators 2D Boy, as they gear up to develop their next game, have just released this simple open-source framework for rapid prototyping, a process which 2D Boy Kyle Gabler notably employed to create the original Tower of Goo at the Experimental Gameplay Project. The framework, they say, will: [...]
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28 May 2009A pretty awesome list of the best twenty vertical doujin shooters, with a collection of download links posted in the video description. Most of the chosen games are commercial releases with trial versions, but there are a couple of free stuff to grab as well. The great thing about this video is that the names [...]
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28 May 2009Don’t expect the PS3 Slim at E3! According to website Ars Technica, it won’t be there. A “very well-informed mole” says that there won’t be a PS3 Slim announcement next week at E3, and that the console won’t be in stores until late summer or early fall. Why? “There are plenty of PS3 systems sitting [...]
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27 May 2009After job advertisements and some exquisite leaked footage prematurely lifted the lid on the game last year, THQ have just officially announced Space Marine, a Warhammer 40K “Action RPG”. A few things to note: while the original material suggested that “THQ Australia” were working on the game, the official announcement says that Dawn of War [...]
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27 May 2009Sweden-based developer GRIN is said to be the latest game studio hit by cutbacks, as multiple sources have told Kotaku that the Bionic Commando and Terminator: Salvation dev has laid off more than 100 staffers. GRIN, which has development offices in Sweden, Spain and Indonesia, is rumored to be in the process of shuttering its [...]