Alan Smithee

Coming Soon: iPhone 3GS Elitism

Coming Soon: iPhone 3GS Elitism

We’ve all known and feared it, but didn’t expect it would be just around the corner…thanks to the new CPU in the iPhone 3GS, we now have an iPhone that is capable of handling more beefy games and applications from Apple’s App Store. This means that one day, the 40 million of us iPhone gamers […]

 Alan Smithee

Quite Possibly, The Best Pictures I’ve Ever Seen

Quite Possibly, The Best Pictures I’ve Ever Seen

Many thanks to Kotaku for sharing this yesterday. The French gaming magazine IG came out with its latest issue recently featuring so many of the prominent gaming ladies we’ve all come to love all done up as Cooking Mama characters. It’s soooo awesome, I’ve got desktop backgrounds to last months now! Ruth Steen’s Flickr

 Alan Smithee

Is Japan Showing Us a Repeat of 1983?

Is Japan Showing Us a Repeat of 1983?

I’m guessing that a good portion of the people who read this site don’t remember the ‘great video game crash of 1983’ that happened when I was but a child myself. Well, it was pretty fucking awful for everyone involved and it mainly had to do with too many similar consoles, personal computers, and mediocre […]

 Alan Smithee

Sony Shuns Full Game Downloads

Sony Shuns Full Game Downloads

Microsoft is surprisingly active in their stance on becoming the first console to offer current generation game digital distribution. Sony, however picked this time to let the world know that they no longer want to play the ‘catch up to MS’ game. I can understand the reasons to not feel the desire to offer digital […]

 Alan Smithee

Miyamoto Creates Reality By Speaking, He Really is God

Miyamoto Creates Reality By Speaking, He Really is God

Good thing I don’t believe in such silly things, but according to an exchage between Miyamoto, Iwata, and Shimamura, there was originally no Golf minigame in Wii Sports Resort. It was only after Miyamoto shot off at the mouth that there WAS going to be a golf game included, did they actually start working on […]

 Alan Smithee

Tretton: STFU About Pricing

Tretton: STFU About Pricing

SCEA boss Jack Tretton wants all of you to lay off of Sony. He stated in a recent interview that he thinks that the PS3 is on the “right path for long term.” If you couldn’t hear that noise, that was the collective sighs of about 80 million gamers still clutching their PS2s waiting for […]

 Alan Smithee

Fatality! MK vs DCU DLC KIA

Fatality! MK vs DCU DLC KIA

Christ that’s alot of acronyms in one title. Let me help you decode. Since Midway and the Mortal Kombat license have moved into the loving hands of its new managing company Warner Bros., a few things have been changed. This is just the first instance of the ‘under new management’ type of restructuring that we’re […]

 Alan Smithee

Eidos is now Square-Enix Europe

Eidos is now Square-Enix Europe

The Japanese have officially taken over England and mass casualties (i.e.: sacking) are expected. If you’ll remember, Eidos was bought out by Square Enix this April and while the company didn’t completely know what to expect with this transaction, the parent company has decided to get rid of the Eidos Interactive moniker in favor of […]

 Alan Smithee

Is this Halo:Reach?

Will Christiansen, an animator who is apparently working on the newest Halo spinoff Halo: Reach put up a video which was quickly taken back down that shows a UNSC Marine beating the living outta a Jackal (usually no threat for the Master Chief John 117) but a much different beast to a ‘normal’ human. It’s […]

 Alan Smithee

The Return of Difficult Games: Hooray!!!

I read this morning on VG247 about an interview from Touch-DS that the creator of the the Dragon Quest series Yuji Horii has reported to the masses that the upcoming Dragon Quest game (ninth in the series) will be ‘hard’. You guys all remember when games actually took some skill and plenty of invested time […]

 Alan Smithee

Giant MEH From Fumito Ueda

Giant MEH From Fumito Ueda

The creator of two of gaming’s best examples (Shadow of the Colossus and Ico) gave an interview with LEVEL that revealed that ultimately he feels farily ‘MEH’ about two of the biggest sellers of both 2007 and 2008, Super Mario Galaxy and GTAIV respectively.

 Alan Smithee

Nielsen Report Points Out Obvious, We Like Gaming

Nielsen Report Points Out Obvious, We Like Gaming

I love reading on Gamasutra for stories like this one. The Nielsen Games report came out recently and while the conclusion is an obvious one, that we are all gaming more and more. Regardless of how infantile the conclusion might be, it’s still interesting to see exactly how much we do love our games.

 Alan Smithee

Fallout 3 Makin’ A Killing on Steam

Fallout 3 Makin’ A Killing on Steam

You know what’s funny? Seeing games like Fallout 3 (that are almost a year old) jump to the top of the sales charts for the week only because the company decides to have a ‘half-off sale’ for the weekend. We have all learned one thing about games, the cheaper you make ’em, the more people […]

 Alan Smithee

What Could It Be? It’s SMG in HD!

Man, its amazing how good Super Mario Galaxy would look with just a little anti-aliasing. I’m no graphics whore, but I am of the opinon that the better the graphics, the more immersive the environment is, which makes the game a more whole experience. I great game like SMG could have been better, that’s all […]

 Alan Smithee

EA Losing Serious Bank on Used Games

EA has their own podcast (it’s the cool thing to do these days) and have made it up to 2 episodes so far. On the latest episode, they had Glen Schofield, GM of Visceral Games, as a guest. Naturally, he was there to talk about EA’s new IP, Dead Space. He noted on the podcast […]