Imagine this: You're really itching to play but your PS3 controller isn't working for some reason. You just shrug, grab some random object that's within arm's reach, and use that as a controller. Nice, huh? That's what a recently-spotted Sonypatent -- one of the biggest PS3 news this week -- is suggesting. You can read all about it along with more game news, rumors, and price cut calls in this week's PS3 Weekend Warrior.
The Hardware:
Sony extending Official License Program to third-party accessory makers. Link
Rumor: Two Taiwanese firms building PS3 Slim, Japanese rollout set for early July. Link
Pachter: 31 of worldwide software sales will be PlayStation's.Link
Team Ninja: Less gore in Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 is deliberate. Link
Eyes needed: for three Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 ass-kickin' babes and a challenge. Link
The Network:
Home updates: new inFamous space, fixes, more.Link
More downloadable Capcom games on PSN starting tomorrow. Link
That's it folks. See you again in seven days for another edition of the PS3 Weekend Warrior. I'm gonna leave you with this Fu-Rin-Ka-Zan video as a parting gift this week, because Bang is so awesome his theme song drowns out everything else. Enjoy!
GameTrailers has posted a new Wolfensteinmotion comic. We're not quite sure how to feel about it really. Sure, it's nice to see B.J. Blazkowicz doing what he does best. We also like that Wolfenstein's famous chain gun-wielding Hitler once again gets what he deserves. Still, the whole thing is just so cheesy. If we didn't know better, we'd say that B.J. is trying to fill the one-liner chasm that has been left by the dearly departed Duke Nukem.
Don't take our word for it though, watch it after the break and see what you think.
Not the best video content update we've seen on the PlayStation Network, but this batch does have a few aces up its sleeve. For one, the movie adaptation of the 1997 Arthur Golden novel, Memoirs of a Geisha is in the mix. If you're looking for a tougher Asian hottie, then The Legend of Chun Li might fit the bill nicely. And with Ice Age 3 now showing, there's a few shorts and a trailer here to tide you over just in case you haven't gone to see it yet.
Now onto the list. As always, the boldfaced ones come in HD.
Movies
Hoodlum
An American Haunting
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Memoirs of a Geisha
H2 Theatrical Trailer
Inglorious Basters Theatrical Trailer
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
Harder They Fall
Leprechaun 2
The Betrayed
The Pink Panther (2006)
Ready
District 9 - Theatrical Trailer
Out of the Pond
Smith!
American Outlaws
The Human Contract
Dark Streets
12 Rounds
12 Rounds EXTREME CUT
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li UNRATED
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Ice Age Short: Surviving Sid
Ice Age Short: No Time for Nuts
Ice Age Short: Gone Nutty
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs - Trailer
TV Shows
iCarly Season 2 iMust Have Locker 239
Voltron Season 5
Ice Road Truckers Season 3 Accident Alley
In Plain Sight Season 2 Who s Bugging Mary?
In Plain Sight Season 2 Miles to Go
Law & Order Season 1
Brotherhood Season 1
Brotherhood Season 2
This American Life Season 1 Reality Check
This American Life Season 1 Growth Spurt
This American Life Season 1 The Cameraman
This American Life Season 1 God s Close Up
This American Life Season 1 My Way
This American Life Season 1 Pandora s Box
Read or Die Season 1 Episode 01
Read or Die Season 1 Episode 02
Read or Die Season 1 Episode 03
Attack of the Show Season 2009 Best of 6/27/09
True Jackson, VP Season 1 True s New Assistant
The Closer Season 5 Walking Back The Cat
Jesse James is a Dead Man Season 1 Figure 8 World Championships
Kings Season 1 Pilgrimage
Law & Order: Criminal Intent Season 8 Salome in Manhattan
Law & Order: Criminal Intent Season 8 Lady s Man
Air Master Season 1, Volume 2
Captain Harlock Season 1, Volume 2
Brooke Knows Best Season 2 My Mother s with Another
In a recent Zero Punctuation review, Yahtzee couldn't declare which blockbuster game "about super-powered assholes" was better, but would give the honor to the studio that best drew the rival game's protagonist in drag.
Astoundingly and to their everlasting credit, both Radical and Sucker Punch participated. First up, Radical sent in two submissions, but that monstrosity takes the cake - Cole McGrath with Vegas showgirl peacock tail, a Marilyn Monroe birthmark and ... oh God are his pubes showing? NEXT.
Here's your winner: Alex Mercer, who shapeshifted up some heaving bosoms thanks to Sucker Punch, in a tableau that "could be the cover of a romance novel." Per Yahtzee's award citation:
It's a close call, but I'm going to declare Sucker Punch the winner by one lovingly-rendered pair of breasts. Also their unicorn is a much prouder, mightier steed, and Alex's expression is delightfully coquettish. Therefore InFamous must be the better game. Buy InFamous. Prototype's still good, though. Buy it as well.
Nothing like a cute kid in a Mega Man costume to make your day. I wanted to be Mega Man when I was little too. Lucky for him, his dad's a gamer. Not only does he come with a left-handed buster, he also dons the oversized Mega Man boots to complete the look. Awww.
The costume took about 40-50 hours of daddy's hard work and cost about US 70. Daddy is a proud geek with a passion for gaming Halloween costumes, and his three-year-old son is the lucky recipient of this adorable Mega Man look. The dad also put together a Captain N costume for himself and a Pit costume for his one-year-old.
Maybe when he's a bit older, Mega Kid here may want to step into a capsule and upgrade to a shiny new Ultimate Armor.
News is slow today so bear with me. The source is also old, but that doesn't make this kid any less adorable.
In an interview with CVG, Valve's Doug Lombardi says the experiences of putting Half-Life on PS2 and Orange Box on PS3 have put them off Sony development for the near future.
He doesn't complain about the differences in developing for one console, or PC, over another, but does say the PS3 versions of Valve products have been inferior to the original releases, and so the company's not interested in doing anything on that console again unless and until they can put something out that gives Sony players the same experience as PC and 360 users.
We look at it as if we were customers of this product, how would we want to be treated and what sort of product would we want out of it?
We've run a couple of experiments over the years of PlayStation in general; we did Half-Life on PS2 with an outside company and then we did Orange Box PS3 with an outside company. We weren't able to deliver the same type of product on PS3 and PS2 for that matter that we were on the 360 and PC.
[...]
Until we have the ability to get a PS3 team together, until we find the people who want to come to Valve or who are at Valve who want to work on that, I don't really see us moving to that platform.
We've kind of learned a lesson in that again, if we were customers of that product on PlayStation, we'd feel like we sort of got the stepchild version of the product while the guys on the PC and the 360 got the sweet version of it.
Translated, what it really means is there is no one inside Valve with any interest in PS3 development, and the company on the whole isn't interested in outsourcing any more ports after the experience with The Orange Box on PS3, which suffered some bad load times and framerate issues.
A couple of months ago, we had a report from CNET saying that Sony had been talking to some recording industry types about providing downloadable music for the PSP through the PlayStation Network. Now that rumors of PS Cloud being a social networking tool has been debunked, the latest from the mill alleges that it's actually for this music service.
It's a rumor from an anonymous tipster, so take this with a huge helping of salt. PlayStation Lifestyle points out that the PS Cloud trademark Sony filed indeed covers "audio content provided via an on-demand service via the internet", but it's only one of the services covered in the filing.
Well, what do you think guys? I wouldn't mind if PS Cloud did turn out to be iTunes for the PSP and PS3, but only if Sony completely kicks its bad DRM habits. You can check out more info that possibly support the "Cloud as music service" theory in the source link.
Last month, the swindling of more than 200 billion ISK resulted in an actual run on a virtual bank in EVE Online. The best part? The loot was sold IRL - just $5,000.
No, griefers from Something Awful are not claiming responsibility. Not that any of them would have the patience to play nice long enough to become a controller for EBank. User Ricdic was, and then he took the dough and sold it off, he says in order to place a down payment on a house and pay medical bills.
The heist dwarfs the earlier 100 billion ISK embezzled by an in-game investments manager. But 250 billion ISK was just 8 trillion of 8 percent of the bank's 2.8 trillion held in deposits. Still a tidy sum, but hardly the whole kitty. That didn't stop EVE Ebankers from rushing the teller windows once word passed of Ricdic's dirty deeds.
He has since been kicked out of EVE, as selling in-game currency for real-world value is a no-no according to the TOS. Had he kept the ISK in-game, he would not have been sanctioned - by CCP anyway. In-game depositors may have had something to say and/or do about it. Billions Stolen in Online Robbery [BBC]
We've seen a lot of announcements and teasers being released via Twitter this year. Here's another one from LucasArts. Recent entries in the LucasArts Twitter account are teasing "awesome news" for their old school fans early on Monday. Here are the pertinent Tweets:
Entry 1: Amazing news coming Monday! Super excited! You have no idea how tough it is not to start yelling about it! But it's secret! Until Monday!
Entry 2: Okay, we will do hints. It is awesome news for our old school fans. (anything more direct might get me in trouble)
Entry 3: It doesn't have to do with any specific intellectual property...
Craig Derrick, the producer of The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, recently intimated that they have "another platform announcement to make very, very soon", but that last entry kinda hints that it's not all about a PSN or WiiWare release of Monkey island SE. Still, I think it's safe to say that point-and-click adventure fans are in for a treat this Monday. I certainly wouldn't mind having a go at a revamped Full Throttle.
Last year, the coder who wrote the Atari 400 port of Donkey Kong revealed it had an Easter Egg but it's "totally not worth it." Someone has gone to the trouble of finding it.
Donkey Kong for the Atari 400 and 800 was one of the best early ports of an arcade game, and its writer, Landon Dyer, detailed how he built it practically by himself, with no support, reference code, or anything one would expect in a licensing deal. He also revealed the existence of the Easter egg, but incorrectly described how to get it ("something like: Die on the 'sandpile' level with 3 lives and the score over 7,000," he writes.)
Don Hodges, who earlier fixed Pac-Man's notorious kill screen, set to picking apart the Donkey Kong code and finding the egg. He did. It's rather underwhelming, but for posterity's sake, he found the conditions for achieving it.
• Play a game, setting a new high score that is either 37,000, 73,000 or 77,000. The digits for hundred thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones may be anything.
• Kill off all of your remaining lives, but your last death must be by falling.
• Then set the game difficulty to 4 (press the option button 3 times.)
• Wait for the game to cycle through the demo screen where Kong jumps across the screen, then at the title screen, the programmer's initials, LMD, will appear. (Pictured above)
That is a set of conditions so specific I can't imagine anyone discovering the egg without prying apart the code, much less knowing how to repeat it. Hodges shows how he found it in the code, using an emulator.
I think the only question remaining is why Dyer made the egg so hard to discover. Certainly other Atari-programmed games of the time had Easter eggs that were not only easier to find, their methods were widely known and circulated. Donkey Kong Lays an Easter Egg [donhodges.com via Game Set Watch]
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