Error Macro: Newspost for 01-27-08

Lwelyk's Legos is a new blog showing off photos of video game sprites rendered in Lego form.

1up News Editor Patrick Klepek is leaving 1up to work for MTV's Multiplayer.
According to legal documents in the ongoing court case, Silicon Knights paid $750,000 for the rights to use Unreal Engine 3.
If you were wondering whether the money thrown at Yahtzee was worth it, it seems that Zero Punctuation has greatly increased the Escapist's readership. How odd that people weren't initially taken by all the lengthy articles on ludology.
Maxi, Seung Mina and Yun-seong have all been confirmed for Soul Calibur IV.
The Travel Channel's Anthony Bourdain reports from the set of FarCry, where he has a two second role as "doctor who gets shot."
A blogger at GameTap visits Sunnyvale Golfland, once the prime spot for the newest and latest arcade games. But the market has changed a bit since those days. "[Tekken 6] is about $15,000, and for a fighting game, that's tough," he explains. "In the past with something like say, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, that's an obvious slam dunk. We'd order two for every location."
A patch is being issued to change the Grab Bag achievement in Turok -- the one that required you kill an enemy, a creature, a teammate and yourself in a single online match. The PS3 version is also being patched (since the game has its own achievement-esque award system), and the patch will also add rumble.

New content: New Team Fortress 2 map CTF_Well
New media: GameTrailers TV coverage of Tiberium

The NPD has issued a corrected list of the top ten PC games of 2007.
American Public Media's Marketplace reports on businesses leaving Second Life, many because there are "too many 7-foot-tall winged creatures flying around with no need for American Apparel's cotton T-shirts."
If you ever need to familiarize yourself with a Commodore 64 game, this is the way to go about it: The Internet Archive has over 100 gameplay videos of C64 titles ranging from Radar Rat Race to Ghostbusters. Not simply clips, but full playthroughs from beginning to end.

New media: Smash Bros. Brawl Subspace Emissary mode footage as well as footage of Brawl demo kiosks in the wild in Japan

A trademark filling and a listing on a French website is all one has to go on at the moment, but there could be a DS game called Guitar Hero: On Tour on the way.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl's story mode is being written by the scenario writer for Final Fantasy VII.
Koreans don't just do Starcraft. They also have televised Mario Kart matches.
Those with sharper memories and nerdier leanings may remember the Bit Plains area in Populous, which in the SNES port was populated with buildings shaped like NES and SNES consoles. It's nice to know they're sticking with it for the DS port, though with updated systems, naturally.
One Target location was sold out of copies of Advance Wars: Days of Ruin, so they recommended picking up High School Musical on the GBA instead.
Amazon is selling the Wii Zapper with Link's Crossbow Training for $19.99.

New media: High res Resistance 2 screenshots, Final Fantasy Versus XIII screenshots, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII screenshots

GamePro talks to Jeff Morris about the PS3 version of Unreal Tournament 3.
Now that the PS2 library is starting to thin out, Next Generation lists some import games they'd like to see brought over to fill the gap.
A Patapon demo is coming in a couple weeks to those who pre-order the game at Gamespot. It will contain a special weapon and the ability to transfer demo saves to the full game.
Sony is working on a smaller Blu-ray laser that could help combat PS3 production costs.
Play Asia is taking pre-orders for Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection.

The psychologist who was one of the guest panelists during Fox News' "discussion" of Mass Effect's sex scene has apologized, saying she "misspoke." It's amazing that this happened at all, given the great amount of research she put into it beforehand: "Before the show I had asked somebody about what they had heard, and they had said it’s like pornography. But it’s not like pornography. I’ve seen episodes of ‘Lost’ that are more sexually explicit."
Gamespot has a Q&A with Tetsuya Mizuguchi about Rez HD and other stuff.
IGN has the details on new planes coming to Ace Combat 6 on January 31.
Kudo Tsunoda, former head of the now-closed EA Chicago studio, has reportedly taken on a job at Microsoft.

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