NIS America is looking for a new editor for their localization staff, as one is leaving to teach English in Japan. They are asking for editors here at Anime Expo in their industry panel today. Here’s how bad they want someone: they have three computers at the ready right here, waiting for potential employee contact information. They will be contacting people over the next couple of months from this contact list gathered at the event....
You know that mood you fall into when you discover music that really, really gets you going? Well, Niero’sdisasterPEACEhook-up has rocketed me into one of those moods. This current musical obsession has me thinking a lot about this sort of music, what is colloquially defined as ‘chiptunes’. What is it about the sound of a hummin’ NES that invokes in us such feelings? Who gives a crap? Good music is good music, no matter the medium....
We tip our hats to Capcom for all of the PC love. They’ve been pretty serious about bringing their games to Windows PCs, and that comitment continues with some of their biggest franchises, all coming this summer. Resident Evil 5, Street Fighter IV, and Bionic Commandoare hitting the PC starting in July of this year.Bionic CommandoandStreet Fighterwill hit first, withResident Evilcoming later in the year. All three will be optimized for the platorm, and will sport PC-specific features....
Super Street Fighter IV 3Dfor the Nintendo 3DS is neat, but it’s just SSFIV. And you may play that elsewhere. Give me the good sh*t, Capcom! They are. There’s an event going down in Tokyo’s Akihabara area later this month where Capcom will show off that new sh*t to gamers. This “3DS x Capcom Premium Demo Event” will be held at the Belle Salle event space in Akiba on the 29th of this month, and there they’ll showMega Man Legends 3andResident Evil Mercenaries Gofor the 3DS....
Now thatwe knowthat Xbox 360s are shipping with HDMI ports, gamers were wondering how we could be sure that the system inside the box would actually have the ports on it. The answer is simple: read the box. Joystiqhits us with a “why didn’t I think of that?” post, showing us that “HDMI port” is actually listed in the “Contents” list on newer Xbox 360 boxes. Captain Obvious will wait for you to slap your own forehead before flying off into the sunset....
Just released today, it appears that someone has already completedMass Effect Galaxy, the iPhone tie-in to BioWare’s Xbox 360 and PC title. Completing the game for completions sake is so two years ago, as finishingGalaxyrewards you with something for the unreleasedMass Effect 2. “Your reward for completing the game is already waiting for you inMass Effect 2,” gamers who finish the game are told. The reward is transferred toMass Effect 2by tyingGalaxyto your EA....
Akinai Games’ WiiWare “space adventure” titleEvasive Spaceisavailable today, and Destructoid wants to give you the chance to win it! To win simply post an image in the comments of this post of your favorite videogame character evading something. Anything. you may get the screen from anywhere, it can be from any game, and you can alter it using your favorite image editing software if you so choose. We just want to be amused — is that too much to ask?...
EA and DC Comics/WildStorm have partnered up to bring us a comic book mini-series based onDante’s Inferno, the videogame. The comic will be premiered this week at San Diego Comic-Con and Con-goers can get their hands on a special “issue 0” preview of the comic from either EA’s booth or DC Comic’s booth. The comic is written by Christos Gage and illustrated by Diego Latorre and the six-issue comic mini-series will go on sale this December....
In case you haven’t noticed by the Machinima player that pops up on the right of the page every now and again,we’ve teamed up with Machinima! I was a guest host on Inside Gaming Daily with the lovely Adam Kovic where we talked about all of the day’s kind of exciting news. Topics we discussed included thestupid fakeModern Warfareteaserthat was really about some Internet show thing,PlayStation 3 being seized by customs in Europe, theNinja Gaiden IIIandSerious Sam BFEdebuts and what Adam and I are looking forward to at GDC this week....
According to the producer ofGhostbusters: Sanctum of Slime, being a part of the Ghostbusters team is tough. Why? Well, because you have to deal with ghosts, obviously. In any case, enjoy this latestSanctum of Slimedev diary, which shows off a bunch of in-game footage for the fun-looking twin-stick co-op title. Also, have some new screenshots while you’re at it. This is likely the last you’ll hear about the game from us until our review, because it comes out next week....
Silent Hill: Downpourwill mark a change for the franchise in a number of ways, most notably the absence of a soundtrack music written by Akira Yamaoka. With Yamaoka resigning from Konami in 2009 and heading to Grasshopper Manufacture (his music can be heard inShadows of the Damned, hitting stores next week), Konami searched for new blood. It turned to accomplished film and television composer, Daniel Licht. “Obviously Akira Yamaoka had a big following withSilent Hill,” Licht told Hollie Bennett at E3 last week, “and Konami wanted to find a composer that had a different following....
NowDiRT 2may not be the prettiest racing game ever, but it’s quite the sight to behold. And with the PC version of the off-road racer supporting DirectX 11, it’s going to beeven more stunning. If you or someone you know has a PC capable of handlingDiRT 2at the highest possible settings, you can expect the logical opposite of the Nazi face melting scene fromRaiders of the Lost Arkto ensue. I know it’s hard to envision, but you can do it....
While many of us point fingers at Microsoft and accuse them of “ripping off” Miis with the New Xbox Experience’s avatar feature, perhaps we should not be so hasty. Xbox boss Don Mattrick is putting his balls on the table right nowand claimingthat HE is the sole creator of the avatar, and he did it in 1991 … BITCH! In an interview withOXM, Mattrick made his boastful claim, and tackled the interviewer when questioned on the legitimacy of his claim....
