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| Classy Gamer |
| In a world in wich good games with good plots and well developed chatacters are more and more dificult to find, as they're drowned by tons of trash, a decently mature gamer shares his very personal point of view. |
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| Kevin Butler hints to Gran Turismo 5 |
| 2010-05-17 15:41:00 |
In a new commercial dedicated to Mod Nation Racers released today, the hilarious Playstation face Kevin Butler, after trash talking and eventually getting owned by a gloating Jack Tretton, drops the following line: "That is if i'm not too busy with my next project: let's just say it's a little racing game that rhymes with Man Furismo Jive".The hint to Gran Turismo 5 is completely obvious, and seems to indicate that an announcement of the release date of the massively awaited and massively delayed racing simulator by Polyphony Digital may really be imminent (my prediction is that it'll be one of the biggest Sony cards at E3).The line is actually open to interpretation. Did he mean his next project as a fictional VP, or his next commercial? If he meant his next commercial, then it's very pos...
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| Kazunori Yamauchi 4th in the Nürburgring 24h race after overtaking 114 cars |
| 2010-05-16 07:15:00 |
Kazunori Yamauchi, CEO of Polyphony Digital raced across yesterday, last night and today in the prestigious and incredibly heated Nurgburgring 24 hours endurance race as part of Team World Car Awards, driving the #72 Lexus IS-F (SP8 class) alongside Peter Lyon, Hideshi Matsuda and Owen Mildenhall. .After round 1 of qualifying with a wet track that obviously produced mediocre lap times for everyone, things started to look dire, as Yamauchi's Lexus suffered from problems to the fuel pump requiring it to be changed, forcing the team to skip qualifying round 2 when the track had dried up. This potentially disastrous occurrence forced the team to start the race in 174th overall position.Yamauchi and his fellow drivers, though, didn't give up and prepared for a difficult uphill battle. The team ...
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| Kazunori Yamauchi is racing right now in Nurburgring 24 Hours |
| 2010-05-15 16:37:00 |
Right now the creator of the Gran Turismo series, Kazunori Yamauchi, is undertaking the titanic endurance challenge of the Nurburgring 24 Hours race, as part of Team World Car Awards, driving the #72 Lexus IS-F (sp8 class).The race didn't begin well, as the team missed the dry qualifying round and started 174th in the rankings. At the moment, after nine hours on the winding Nurgburgring track (that by the way will appear in Gran Turismo 5 in all it's three incarnations, road track, F1 circuit and the 24 hours track that's a combination of the other two), Yamauchi's car is now 88th (and 6th in it's class. In this kind of competition cars of different classes and power race all together, but have different ranking boards) after working it's way up through the rankings almost costantly in wha...
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| White Knight Chronicles 2 might be between Sony's cards at E3 |
| 2010-05-14 12:20:00 |
White Knight Chronicles 2Picture uploaded by AbriaelEvery May people speculate wildly on what each first party developer will bring to E3. Everyone knows that Natal, Move and the 3DS will probably have most of the spotlight (unfortunately) this year, but can those new shiny pieces of hardware support by themselves the whole event?I personally doubt it. Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo will probably try to bring as many additional cards as possible to enrich their hand.Lately we've seen quite a slew of news and rumors on White Knight Chornicles 2, including a potentially groundbreaking one about the second chapter including a reworked and updated version of the first, to provide a sort of reboot of the series and to ease the approach of new fans to the franchise.This is almost unprecedented...
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| Yakuza PSP new five minutes trailer released |
| 2010-05-13 10:43:00 |
Black Leopard Yakuza logoPicture uploaded by Abriael Sega released a new five minutes trailer for the upcoming PSP yakuza ba game named Kurohyou: Ryu Ga Gotoku Shinshou (Black Panther: Like a Dragon New Chapter), slated for release in Japan on September the 22nd.The trailer, voiced by Takaya Kuroda (voice actor of Kazuma Kiryu), shows a long sequence of the game's cutscenes, drawn with an art style very similar to that featured in Metal Gear Portable Ops.It outlines the backstory of the main character, Tatsuya Ukyou, grown in the wild street of Kamurocho knowing nothing but violence. His life is changed forever when he kills an high ranking member of one of the families of the Tojo clan. From then on his only way to continue living is as a fighter in the underground arena that appeare...
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| Yakuza 2 RetroReview: two Dragons for an epic game |
| 2010-05-04 20:23:00 |
Ryu Ga Gotoku 2Picture uploaded by Abriael About one week ago I reviewed the first chapter of the Ryu Ga Gotoku series, A.K.A. Yakuza. The second chapter, Yakuza 2, was released in the west without any promotion and so late after it's it's original release in Japan (a whole two years later), that it was almost completely ignored.I actually remember walking into the local Gamestop about a year and a half ago, well into the current generation, and randomly giving a look to the shrinking PS2 area (that I didn't visit regularly anymore) of the shop, completely oblivious of the fact that Yakuza 2 was to be released, and just finding it there, unannounced and unexpected. Even at that time, I used to follow the gaming news regularly. This blog was already well underway by then, but the releas...
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| Ace Combat X2 Joint Assault: New Trailer, Screenshots and info |
| 2010-04-30 14:11:00 |
Ace Combat X2: Joint AssaultPicture uploaded by Abriael As the Japanese release date (July the 22nd) approaches, Namco Bandai released a new trailer, a new batch of screenshots and information about the newest PSP chapter of the Ace Combat series, Ace Combat X2: Joint Assault. You can see the screenshots in this Flickr gallery, and the new trailer at the bottom of this post (after the jump).The most juicy piece of information is definitely the multiplayer mode, that not only will allow up to eight players to duel in the virtual skies both via infrastructure and ad-hoc connection, but, for the first time in the series, will include a four-player cooperative mode during the campaign. This explains the "Joint Assault" title. The ability to play a flight combat game alongside three other f...
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| Vanquish: New info gameplay and story revealed |
| 2010-04-27 23:19:00 |
VanquishPicture uploaded by Abriael Today Sega revealed on the new official site some new information about Vanquish, the upcoming shooter developed by Platinum Games and scheduled for release on PS3 and Xbox 360 this winter.The most juicy piece of information is probably the background behind Vanquish's story that has been described in detail.Providence is an american space colony, built with the shape of an immense cylinder to capture the energy of the sun. It's basically a gigantic power plant that sends energy back to Earth.Unfortunately the station has been hyjacked and the power plant has been turned into a weapon of mass destruction. The enemy used the amplified microwave energy to irradiate San Francisco causing the dead of half a million people in an instant.At the same time in...
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| The Famitsu Controversy Part 2 - Hypocrisy |
| 2010-04-27 00:40:00 |
FamitsuPicture uploaded by Abriael A few days ago I wrote about the controversy stirred by Kotaku over the review of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker on the Japanese magazine Weekly Famitsu.To recap for the ones that missed it, Famitsu has a Tie-In deal with Konami, that will result in the magazine making an appearance in MGS: Peace Walker as a in-game item. Also, Famitsu reviewed the game and gave it a 40/40 perfect score.Kotaku evidently took offense at that, and Brian Ashcraft posted an libel-bordering and sensationalistic rant titled "Do not trust this magazine's review scores", pretty openly accusing Famitsu and Konami to have an undercover deal in order to promote the game with a perfect score.Looks like both Famitsu and Konami didn't like the article, which isn't surprising, in jou...
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| Gamer Segregation: It's about time to do away with it |
| 2010-04-24 11:18:00 |
Gamer SegregationPicture uploaded by Abriael It's now official. After being able to play Starcraft for years with and against players from all over the world, fans of the series will find themselves segregated in their own regional Battle.net communities. You're European? You might as well make sure that your American friends are on MSN or Skype, because you won't sure be able to play with them on Starcraft 2.Wings of Liberty, of course, is only the latest example of that nasty thing that I define "Gamer Segregation", with several games that limits the ability of their players to enjoy an online match with their friends that happen to live across a pond.Blizzard was already a major offender, with their World of Warcraft players neatly split by region, but many other MMORPG developers di...
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