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Four Warriors of Light, Old-School in the Oddest Ways
Final Fantasy Gaiden: Four Warriors of Light is billed as a role-playing game from the old school. And it is — but not in the way you’d expect.
Released on October 29 in Japan, this Nintendo DS game is created by Matrix, the development house that did the 3-D remakes of Final Fantasy III and IV [...]
Collected 3 days ago from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged japan, portable gaming, final fantasy, four warriors of light, nintendo ds
High-Flying Prince of Persia Movie Trailer Feels Like Live-Action Game
SAN FRANCISCO — Disney’s trailer for its Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time movie emphasizes the project’s videogame roots.
In the trailer, Jake Gyllenhaal as the Prince clambers up buildings, takes massive flying leaps over rooftops — and yes, even does some wall jumps. The high-flying action sequences will likely give the [...]
Collected 3 days ago from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged culture, disney, jerry bruckheimer, movies, prince of persia
Gay Tony’s Timely Jokes Justify Episodic Gaming
There’s a surprising moment in the opening scenes of Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony, as you’re driving the title character to one of his struggling Liberty City nightclubs.
“Forget the banks,” Gay Tony says. “We’re the ones who needed a bailout!”
Shortly after, during an altercation with the club’s bouncer, one of the game’s [...]
Collected Nov 3, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged console games, culture, grand theft auto, rockstar, the ballad of gay tony
Game|Life Video: Inside Akihabara’s Game Stores
What secret gaming treasures await inside the stores of Akihabara?
On our recent trip to Tokyo Game Show, I decided to bring a video camera along and document my wanderings through the city’s game stores. You’ve already heard about my cheap bargain bin finds, now watch this video of stores like Super Potato and Sofmap, with [...]
Collected Nov 3, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged game|life video, japan, akihabara, dragon quest ix, thrifting
Sony Online Brings Magic the Gathering Tactics to PC, PS3
Wizards of the Coast will team with Sony Online Entertainment to create Magic: The Gathering — Tactics, a turn-based tactics game based on the popular collectible card game franchise, the companies said Monday.
Sony Online Entertainment’s Denver studio will develop the game first for the PC, and plans to release it in early 2010. A version of [...]
Collected Nov 2, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged online gaming, pc gaming, magic: the gathering, magic: the gathering – tactics, playstation 3
Video Gallery: 10 Creepy Games That Go Bump in the Night
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It’s one thing to shout “Don’t open that door!” to the clueless protagonist of a slasher film, but what do you do when you’re controlling that endangered character and you’ve got to twist that doorknob? From zombies to ghosts to the just plain criminally insane, the horror videogames in [...]
Collected Oct 28, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged culture, trailers
Leaked Left 4 Dead 2 Trailer Highlights Characters, Terrible Odds
An extended trailer for Left 4 Dead 2 has leaked to the Internet. The cinematic, embedded above, feels like an intro video. But it goes way further than the opening video for the original Left 4 Dead.
Here we see hints of encounters that will happen throughout the game, such as the clown zombies that turn [...]
Collected Oct 23, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged console games, pc gaming, leaks, left 4 dead 2, valve
Video: ‘Eight Bits of Jam’ Jazz Up NES Classic Tunes
Classic Nintendo games had awesome music, and two musicians prove it in this video.
Hartford, Connecticut-based jazz pianist Scott Bradlee and saxophonist Ben Golder-Novick have created a video called Eight Bits of Jam, featuring piano-sax versions of music from Super Mario Bros. 2, Zelda and Punch-Out!! among others. The joke is that they will come to [...]
Collected Oct 21, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged culture, retrogames, music, nintendo, youtube
Brütal Legend’s Botched TV Ad: Welcome to ‘Hell No’
Even before its release, Brütal Legend, the new head-banging videogame that stars Jack Black as a guitar-wielding roadie thrust into a heavy metal fantasy land, has earned heaps of street cred. The game’s immaculate soundtrack features deep cuts by beloved metal gods and respected up-and-comers, and the gameplay is full of metal in-jokes and references. [...]
Collected Oct 12, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged marketing, brutal legend, jack black, kabbage boy
Modder Creates PlayStation 3 Laptop
If we did a story every time serial console modder Benjamin Heckendorn put the insides of one machine into the outsides of another, we’d never cover anything else. But his latest work, the PlayStation 3 laptop, is too fascinating not to share.
That this device exists and works is testament to the hardware skills of not [...]
Collected Oct 2, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged hacks, console mods, playstation 3, sony
How Felicia Day Recruited Millions for Her Guild
Felicia Day’s stardom wasn’t handed down to her from on high by Hollywood. She’s guest-starred on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and House, but most of her legions of fans still know her because of a show she wrote and produced herself that doesn’t air on any network.
Now in its third season, The Guild — Day’s [...]
Collected Sep 29, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged people, felicia day, internet, the guild
Dead Space: Extraction Brings Fright to Wii
Collected Sep 25, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged console games, dead space: extraction, wii
Final Fantasy XI’s Cutest Troublemaker Returns in New Trailer
Professor Shantotto, one of the ultra-cute Tarutaru from Final Fantasy XI, is returning to the virtual world of Vana’diel. And she’s up to no good.

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Square Enix’s Private Trailer Theater: The Report

Hands On: Final Fantasy XIII’s Hot New Moves




A Shantotto Ascension: The Legend Torn, Her Empire Born, a new downloadable expansion for Square [...]
Collected Sep 25, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged mmo gaming, final fantasy xi, shantotto, square enix, trailers
Why Tokyo Crowds Can’t Stop Playing Dragon Quest IX
TOKYO — Outside the giant Yodobashi-Akiba department store in the Akihabara district, hundreds of gamers gather each day, crowdsourcing the hunt for rare creatures and virtual treasure.
They stand, packed together in a cordoned-off area reserved for them, as store employees attempt to keep the sidewalk clear, ushering the players behind safety barriers. Everyone is holding [...]
Collected Sep 25, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged portable gaming, akihabara, dragon quest, dragon quest ix, square enix
New Final Fantasy XIV Trailer Shows Eorzea’s Beasties
A new trailer for Final Fantasy XIV Online offers a closer look at the highly anticipated game’s fantasy realm of Eorzea and the deadly creatures that live there.

See also:

Square Enix’s Private Trailer Theater: The Report

Hands On: Final Fantasy XIII’s Hot New Moves



Revealed by gamemaker Square Enix at the Tokyo Game Show this week, [...]
Collected Sep 24, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged mmo gaming, final fantasy xiv, square enix, tokyo game show 2009
LaserActive, Gaming’s Greatest Boondoggle
Some parts of videogame history are best left as footnotes. Consider the LaserActive, an incredibly expensive machine released in 1993 that is quite possibly the most poorly conceived and spectacularly useless game console ever created.
The doomed brainchild of Pioneer, the LaserActive was a laserdisc player that used the massive silver discs to run games, overlaying [...]
Collected Sep 18, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged retrogames, genesis, laseractive, pioneer, sega
Retronauts Video: Secrets of Japan’s Best Game Stores
TOKYO — Here’s a guided tour of the curiosities to be found in two of Japan’s best classic game stores.
Last year at Tokyo Game Show, the Retronauts crew went around to our favorite hot spots with a video camera in tow. First, we hit up Super Potato in Akihabara, the colorful, happy store packed floor [...]
Collected Sep 17, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged retrogames, akihabara, retronauts, tokyo game show 2009
Tokyo Game Show Diary: Boob Volleyball
Oh hi! Tokyo Game Show is coming up at the end of this month, and I’m here in Japan already getting a head start on things.
Usually, when I fly to Japan, I take a couple hours of my flight to watch some new Japanese movie or another. These generally follow a certain formula: Rag-tag group [...]
Collected Sep 15, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged japan, movies, tokyo game show 2009
Confirmed: Zune HD Will Play Games
The Zune HD media player will also be a portable gaming device, with a handful of games available when the sleek gadget launches Tuesday, a Microsoft representative told Wired.com.
At this summer’s E3 videogame conference, Microsoft said only that the upcoming Zune HD would play nice with the Xbox 360. But a series of video ads [...]
Collected Sep 14, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged portable gaming
Courtney Love Calls Guitar Hero 5’s Creepy Cobain ‘Vile’
Guitar Hero 5’s inclusion of Kurt Cobain as a playable character is “vile,” said Courtney Love, widow of the late Nirvana front man, in a rambling Twitter rant early Thursday.
“FOR THE RECORD I DID NOT APPROVE KURTS AVATAR FOR GUYITARHERO5,” tweeted the musician/actress. “I think Kurt would despise this game alone let alone this avatar.”

Love [...]
Collected Sep 10, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged legal matters, activision, courtney love, guitar hero 5, kurt cobain
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