News Archive - July 2005
even older news...
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The Xbox 360 with cost $299, but for $399 you get these extras: 20 GB HD, wireless controller & headset, ethernet cable and remote control. Basically, if you go the cheaper route your Xbox 360 will have no hard drive. This is a smart move for Microsoft to control their losses on initial sales. Console makers turn their profits from game licensing, not from individual console sales. |
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Valve is hard at work playtesting the new Day of Defeat Source mod, according to a recent news release on Steam. New player models have been added too. Its looking good, but I'm not sure if this Half Life 2 Source mod will every match the enjoyment I got out of Day of Defeat when it was still in beta. For some reason, after it went retail it never felt the same to play anymore. To see more info check out our Day of Defeat Source profile. |
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After getting pulled from the shelves of nearly every retailer, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is popping up on eBay for some wild prices. One seller has set a "Buy it Now" price of $199.99 for several of his copies while many others have set their "Buy it Now" price up to $99.99. As far as we can see right now, no one is actually bidding that much for copies of this "banned" game. It is amusing what this simple Hot Coffee mod did to an already highly-controversial sequel in a highly-controversial line of games. |
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San Andreas will be flying off the store shelves at Wal Mart, Target, and Best Buy -- not by buyers, but by the stores themselves. The ESRB upgraded Grand Theft Auto San Andreas from a "Mature" rating to "AO -- Adults Only." Effectively, they turned an R-rating into an X due to an unauthorized hack which gamers can download off the internet.
The ESRB's short-sightedness could open both them and Rockstar to civil lawsuits. Of course, I'm sure that a "fixed" version of San Andreas will be back in stores before we know it.
Disturbingly, in the wake of Terrorist Bombings in London, United States politicians (specificly Hillary Clinton) decided boobies were a greater threat than suicidal maniacs with bombs strapped to their chests. |
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Electronic Arts has delayed The Godfather console game until 2006. This means that this anticipated hit will miss the important Christmas season. The Wall Street Journal also reported that Marlon Brando's voice would not be used in the actual game due to health problems at the time of recording. Instead a voice mimic will be recording the voices with the help of Marlon Brando's -- who died last July. |
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Here is a picture of a kid of a Microsoft employee playing the Xbox360 at home. Apparently he is the son of Microsoft's Regulatory Compliance Manager -- so says Joystiq. Amusingly 40% of the picture is the kids face, 50% is the kids hair, and 10% is a little Xbox 360 in the background. |
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A new Ghost Recon 3 screenshot has been posted over at GhostRecon.net's forums. Ghost Recon 3, officially known as Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter suposedly is really going to see a PC release, unlike Ghost Recon 2 which never made it to PC. The screenshot on GhostRecon.net shows a soldier crouching around a corner holding what appears to be a modified M4. |
After the release of the Grand Theft Auto San Andreas Hot Coffee sex patch every anti-gaming crusader is after the game. Everywhere I look there is another article about this San Andreas sex hack that unlocks explicit sex games with your girlfriends in the game.
What they refuse to acknowledge is that San Andreas is rated M for Mature.
That means San Andreas (or any Grand Theft Auto game) was never meant for kids. So whats the big deal here? The Sims and The Sims 2 both had nude patches -- and those games were meant for kids, teens, and adults. I never heard anyone compalin about those hacks that turned it into an X-rated game. American politicians and lawyers aren't about to back off in their attack of video games and computer games. They thrive on the ignorance of the people who put them in office and pay their bills.
Why is hetrosexual fornication more dangerous than AK-47 massacres anyways? Anti Gamer lawyer Jack Thompson has openly accused the ESA of illegal activity -- despite never having won one of his many anti-game lawsuits himself. Jack Thompson sounds completely nuts to me. I think if this guy got a hold of an AK-47 he would go completely bonkers himself (hey, maybe he needs to play a few rounds of San Andreas!)
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From IGN - "Certainly, being able to do Civ in 3D allows us to do lots of new things, like with camera angles -- swooping for combat, pulling back out when you're making strategic decisions. 3D animations, units, the continents -- there are a lot of cool things that 3D allows us to do as well. I'd say the interface and the 3D are two things that are really fun about the new version of Civ." |
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Sin 2 has been announced to be released for Valve's Steam. The game will be released in small $20 segments. Steam's technology has made it easier for Sin 2 to be published rather than the hassles of going through a regular developer. |
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Check out this trailer for the new Black and White II over at 3DGamers. It is only 25mb and is only 55 seconds long -- I'd hardly call it a trailer, more like a video clip with 20 seconds of LionHead Studios and EA logos at the beginning. What you actually get to see is a town being destroyed and people all running around on fire -- and this is in-game footage. |
