April 2011
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BossKiller's ROFLFact of the Day!
While the original Atari Football game was first created in 1973, it wasn’t released until 1978. It was delayed because the game couldn’t scroll the screen — players couldn’t move beyond the area shown on the monitor. When the game was finally released, it became the first game to utilize scrolling, a key part of many games today.
In 1973, Atari created Atari Football,...
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Deathsmile 2X coming to the U.S. →
If you like shooters and under age girls, then you undoubtedly enjoyed your pants off with DeathSmiles, a Cave game brought to us Americans by the fine folks at Aksys Games.
According to Siliconera.com, the ESRB has rated the sequel, DeathSmile 2X, for an American release.
Personally, I loved the original Deathsmiles - I just hated walking into my local game store and walking out with that huge...
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Portal2, Nin2-Jump and Trouble Witches Neo...
Nuff’ said.
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Swiped off the desk of Dr. Light - the E Tank...
The talented folks at FanGamer are accepting preorders for it’s completely awesome E-mug. Grab one at the link below before they’re gone. Also check out the rest of their catalog, including some great t-shirts and a Mother 3 guide.
http://fangamer.net/products/e-mug
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This Date in Video Game History - 4/28
Get ready folks, because this is a big one… too many for pictures.
1997 — 3DO quits the hardware business by selling off its division to Samsung for $20 million dollars.
1999 — Connectix ceases shipments on its Virtual Game Station software for the Mac, in compliance with a federal court order initiated by Sony. The Virtual Game Station allowed PlayStation games to be played on...
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This Date in Video Game History - 4/27
On a fairly quiet day in video history, I was able to find some semi-relevant video game history nuggets…
1990 — Touchstone Pictures releases the science fiction comedy film Spaced Invaders, a B-movie that would gross over $4.4 million opening weekend - REALLY? Your welcome video games.
1995 — Sega Saturn-A is released in Canada!!!!!
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A cavalcade of (hopefully) awesome XBLA games out...
Check out what was released today on Xbox Live. All relatively unknown games but still worth a look! Let us know if you pick any up, we’ll be downloading the trials tonight.
Trouble Witches Neo
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/TROUBLE-WITCHES-NEO/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d802584109b8
NIN2 - JUMP
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This Date in Video Game History - 4/26
Late post, I know, but it still is the 26th…
1999 — Nintendo releases Super Smash Bros for the N64 and Captain Falcon fans rejoice!
Take a trip down memory lane with the commercial here.
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Nintendo confirms next console to launch 2012 →
In a statement published alongside its 2011 financial report, Nintendo confirmed that its new console, currently codenamed Project Café, will launch in 2012. The new system is planned to be revealed in playable form for the first time at E3 this June.
~ GamePro
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Bizarro World Giant Bomb →
Apparently Russia is getting it’s China-On by ripping off one of the best videogame sites evar, GiantBomb.com. with it’s own GameBomb.ru.
This Bizarro World edition features all of the same great content as GiantBomb, except it really has none of that and is instead chock full of rusky-talk… which I’m fairly certain can be translated into a plan about invading America via...
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BossKiller's ROFLFact of the Day!
In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, if the player walks around at Mt. Silver with your Snorlax and interacts with him, a unique message will come up saying “SNORLAX is feeling very eager”
This happens because there is another trainer at Mt. Silver who owns another Snorlax…
Looks like your fat Snorlax wants to have sex with another fat Snorlax - if you catch my meaning.
And...
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“You know you’re getting old when you can say you were around for seeing...”
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This Date in Video Game History - 4/21
1989 — Nintendo gives birth to mobile gaming when the Game Boy hits the shelves in Japan.
2006 — RapeLay, the 3D eroge video game made by Illusion goes on sale — CREEPY!
The Japanese are into to some weird sh!t.
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RUMOR: A new God of War game in 2012??? →
If the rumors are true then you made my day Jarbo!
I am a creature of habit, I can play each iteration of Angry Birds repeatedly, so I sure as hell can climb Gaia’s back, or systematically dismantle every god that wronged me (as Kratos) any and every time - regardless if they do just add a new coat of paint. Furthermore, if I know Sony they will not let that title go into the sweet night....
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This Date in Video Game History - 4/20
1976 — Data East, the company best known for games like Burger Time, Lemmings, Bad Dudes and countless others - see list here - is founded by Tetsuo Fukuda. 27 years later they would declare bankruptcy.
1999 — Two troubled teens entered Columbine High School and opened fire, killing 12 students, one teacher and wounding 23 others. Subsequent videos released by the gunmen site...
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LTTP: Inventor of the videogame console dies
Sad that as a fan of videogames, the name Gerald Jerry Lawson didn’t carry any significance with me until just now.
Gerald Jerry Lawson created the Channel F system - a precursor to the Atari 2600. The Channel F was first cartridge based system ever, but for some reason or another, was completely overshadowed once the 2600 landed on Earth. Even stranger is the fact that he largely went...
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This Date in Video Game History - 4/19
2005 — EA announces that Sims 2 will be available to home consoles.
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WatchNot sure if you guys have ever caught Revision 3’s Death Battle - it’s a show that puts your favorite video game characters in… death battles.
Here’s one of the more recent episodes: Yoshi vs. Raptor (from Killer Instinct).
Guess who wins?
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Portal 2's alternate box art
In celebration of the awesomeness taking place tomorrow with Portal 2’s release, 1up.com got a hold of some of the different takes on what could have been the game’s package art.
Instead we got the usual, focus-tested, bland box art that will blend with everything else on GameStop’s dirty shelves.
The concept on slide 4 (pictured below) is the bosses’ balls if you know...
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This Date in Video Game History - 4/18
The Good…
1994 — SUPER Metroid launches in North America
The Bad & The Ugly…
2006 — Final Fantasy 11 comes to the Xbox 360 and HD DVD comes to North America #fail
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ESRB bringing in the Robots to do man's work.
Seems we were wrong folks. SkyNet is not the group responsible for the upcoming Robot Revolution. It’s the the Entertainment Software Rating Board who will usher in the beginning of man’s end.
New York Times reports that starting today the ratings board plans to begin introducing computers to do the job of deciding whether a game is appropriate for Everyone, for Teens or for Mature...
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The Dreamcast Lives! New Shmup, Sturmwind coming... →
Good to see a new game coming, and a shmup no less! Graphics look incredible for a Dreamcast game.
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BossKiller's ROFLFact of the Day!
The very first Electronic Boutique (now EB Games - owned by those nut suckers at GameStop) store opened in 1977 located in the King of Prussia Mall near Philadelphia.
They sold calculators. And digital watches.
Ok… that wasn’t much of a ROFLFact.
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This Date in Video Game History - 4/15
April 15, 1999 – Sega of America announces the Dreamcast video game system will be released in the US on September 9, for retail price of US$199. The company will spend US$100 million marketing the system.
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Awesome XBLA Sale - Today Only!
Microsoft is sending you a virtual fist bump by marking down some of it’s AAA downloadable games. Honestly all of these games kick ass, and are half the price TODAY ONLY. So get a fresh pair of undies on and gets to downloadin!
LIMBO - 600 points
Castle Crashers - 600 points
Shadow Complex - 600 points
Trials HD - 600 points
Monday Night Combat - 600 points
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Wii successor at E3; significantly more power than... →
Lots of unconfirmed news about Nintendos next console flying around! Grab your helmet!
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Atomix Magazine beats EGM to the iPad (ouch!)
EGM has been promising that EGMi would be coming to iPad very soon… but for whatever reason, they got stuck as a browser based zine that leaves a lot to be desired. The content is ok, but reading a magazine on your computer monitor is as convenient as reading a book in the shower. It’s not convenient at all.
Along comes Atomix. Partly designed by the awesomeness that is Area 5 (from...
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BossKiller's ROFLFact of the Day!
I’m back kids!
Here’s a long overdue ROFLFact for your face:
If you place 5 of the dungeons from the first Legend of Zelda side by side, it actually spells ZELDA!
And if you jumble up the word ZELDA, you can spell DAZEL! Which clearly means Zelda is related to Dazzler.
ROFL on that!
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Kinect support for Netflix now available - just...
You can now furiously wave your arms around to control movies on your xbox360 thanks to an update.
If you don’t have a Kinect, you can still virtually high-five Will Smith during all of the action scenes in Bad Boys 2. Make sure you give Martin Lawrence some love too, he deserves it.
From Major Nelsons Blog:
Today we released an update to the Netflix experience on Xbox 360. The next time...
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Epic offers Bulletstorm OST for free, I proceed to...
I expressed my appreciation of the soundtrack People Can Fly/Epic’s latest release Bulletstorm in an earlier post. Apparently I’m not the only one who loves it, as the developers have uploaded the soundtrack for free for all to listen.
Doesn’t get any better than this. Unless they packed the game in there - but it’s worth the MSRP so just go buy it and see how awesome it...
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Do a Barrel Roll! Starfox 64 3D gets a release...
The driving force behind my 3DS purchase (besides Ridge Racer) was this furry shooter right here. Looks like Japan is getting it July 14th, the U.S of A better get it shortly after, or I’ma push Slippy down the stairs again.
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WatchYou vs. God’s finger
Asura’s Wrath has been on my radar for a while now - just watching the trailer makes me want to run outside and punch the first person I see on the street.
So I did. And now my Mom has to get 7 stitches in her chin. Thanks Capcom.
