Monday Newspost for June 23, 2008
Retronoob has a gallery of game sprites placed into real world settings. Maybe.. maybe you should look at it?
Industry and multi-console news
New media: Left 4 Dead gameplay videos
- The Financial Times reports that Activision and MTV are vying for the rights to Beatles' music.
- Lego Indiana Jones is back on top of the new UK sales chart after briefly being knocked down by MGS4.
- Call of Duty: World at War will have four-player online co-op.
- At the Paris GDC, 2K's Chris Kline talked about why BioShock should have failed.
- GameCareerGuide's Ask the Experts column tackles the question of whether your school's reputation reflects poorly on you.
- Crave Entertainment is the latest company to leave the ESA.
- Joystiq has the full setlist from Guitar Hero: Aerosmith.
- There's a rumor that New Zealand's retail chain Gamesman is being taken over by Gamestop.
- An ESA study finds that the use of video games for employee training is increasing. It can even teach prison guards.
- BlazBlue, the new arcade fighter from the Guilty Gear team, will get its first location test in the US at the Anime Expo in Los Angeles July 3rd through the 6th.
- Rick Moranis won't be in the Ghostbusters game for the same reason he hasn't been in anything for the past several years. "He made so much money off of Honey I Shrunk The Kids that he retired. He just doesn’t want to work anymore."
- Wall-E is notable for being the first Arabic-localized game on current gen systems.
- 61 Frames Per Second looks at 10 games that should have been controversial.
PC and mobile news
- Blizzard has a new splash page that some people thought might be a teaser for Diablo III, but WoldofWar.net has determined it's something Warcraft related.
Nintendo news
New WiiWare title: Gyrostarr
New Virtual Console titles: Alex Kidd in Miracle World, Burning Fight
New media: Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels trailer
- Gamasutra has excerpts from the My Life as a King postmortem in the new issue of Game Developer magazine.
- Capcom’s Christian Svensson says you shouldn't hold your breath for a Zack and Wiki sequel.
- Thank God the Twilight Hack was reinstated, now you can run homebrew Wii vibrator software.
Sony news
New content: Hail to the Chimp demo, Grand Theft Auto 4 patch
- PSN cards are finally showing up in retail stores.
Microsoft news
New content: Frontlines; Fuel of War free map, Grand Theft Auto 4 patch
- This week's Live Arcade titles will be Happy Tree Friends False Alarm and Ticket to Ride.
- Amazon's deal of the day is Tony Hawk's Proving Ground for $14.99.