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- How Sackboy Came to Be, and How He Could Have Died
- Kinect Launch Didn’t Go Smoothly for Everyone
- Rumor: Metal Gear Solid Hits (Slices?) in 2012
- Gran Turismo 5 Trophies
- The Call Of The Firefiles – FPP?
- New Vegas PC Patch Coming This Week, Big Multi-Platform Patch Coming Later
- The Difference Between FPS Design Methods: 1993 and Now
- Interactive Comic, Paid DLC Included with PS3 Mass Effect 2
- 34 Cortana Cosplayers (HOT AND NOT-HOT PICS)
- Amazing New Vegas Mininuke Minigun Mod.
- FileFront User Account FAQ
- A Hilarious, Randomly Generated Madden NFL 11 Player Name
- Fallout: New Vegas Sells Five Million
- Over 100 Copies of Call of Duty: Black Ops Stolen at Gunpoint
- Five Minutes of Dragon Age 2 Gameplay Footage Straight from Moscow
| How Sackboy Came to Be, and How He Could Have Died Posted: 08 Nov 2010 06:18 PM PST
Do I even need to write anything after that? No? Yes? Hmm, the pair of Na’vi on this huge cardboard Avatar standup display that’s right behind me don’t look amused, so I’ll keep writing. The stuff at the top of this post are from a Media Molecule blog post about the development of LittleBigPlanet’s lovable sackboy from the early days when he was a 2D thing with a square yellow head to the form we know and love him today. It’s pretty exhaustive; the whole thing will take you forever to read, unless you, unlike me, read at higher than a 2nd grade level. In that case, have at it. And there are pictures for the folks like me out there who are less than fond of text filling up my screen.
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| Kinect Launch Didn’t Go Smoothly for Everyone Posted: 08 Nov 2010 06:02 PM PST If I were to, by some stretch of the imagination, arrange my apartment so as to make my living room Kinect-functional, I would probably still be afraid to use it, because I’m tall and have a bad habit of destroying light fixtures when I raise my arms above my head. Oh, yeah, that TV in that picture there? That’s why I try not to raise my arms above my head. That’s Phil Villarreal’s TV, and he accidentally spiked the chain from his ceiling fan into it while playing fake volleyball. And now it don’t work no mo’. Also, Kinect can cause you to abuse your children, as you can see here: On top of all that, Kotaku has a picture of the hand of a guy who bloodied himself up by smashing his hand against an exposed metal beam in his house while playing fake volleyball. (Fake volleyball is the new jumping off a building into a bush.) I won’t post the picture here, because it’s gross and I’m squeamish about large, close-up pictures of wounds.
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| Rumor: Metal Gear Solid Hits (Slices?) in 2012 Posted: 08 Nov 2010 05:38 PM PST Sometimes, you just know how things are gonna play out, and everything goes according to plan. But sometimes life throws you a curveball, and your crazy efforts at cross-promotion are undermined by the game you were promoting being released way too late for it to work effectively. We always thought that Metal Gear Solid: Rising would come out in 2011. We were f**king wrong. Maybe. Well, if Kotaku’s source is correct, we were wrong, because said source says Rising won’t be out until 2012. There is precedent for this; MGS4 was announced in 2005 and released in 2008. Rising was announced in 2009, so 2012 is reasonable. This is just unfortunate because many of us gamers are tired of only being able to slice up fruit into tiny pieces in Cooking Mama; we want to be able to slice up fruit and people into tiny pieces in the same game, damn it. That is the main appeal of the game, right? Whenever this fruit/people slicing game does come out, it’ll be on PS3, 360 and PC.
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| Posted: 08 Nov 2010 05:12 PM PST Graphics-intensive racing simulator Grand Turismo 5 keeps getting its release date pushed back, presumably so its designers can craft even more car porn money shots. The latest installmentm boasts a full multiplayer component for the first time ever, along with a bevy of hyper-realistic bells and whistles like windshield wipers, improved weather effects, and the scatalogically hilarious feature “dynamic skidmarks.” Below you’ll find a complete list of all the trophies available in Gran Turismo 5. Bronze TrophiesExtreme Series Complete – Complete the Extreme series of Race Events Expert Series Complete – Complete the Expert series of Race Events Professional Series Complete – Complete the Professional series of Race Events Amateur Series Complete – Complete the Amateur series of Race Events Beginner Series Complete – Complete the Beginner series of Race Events Super Licesnse – Complete the S License International A License – Complete the International A License International B License – Complete the International B License International C License – Complete the International C License National A License – Complete the A License National B License – Complete the B License Sebastien Loeb Rally Challenge – Complete the “Sebastien Loeb Rally Challenge’ Special Event Grand Tour – Complete the ‘Grand Tour” Special Event AMG Driving Academy – Complete the ‘AMG Driving Academy’ Special Event Top Gear Test Track – Complete the ‘Top Gear Test Track’ Special Event Jeff Gordon NASCAR School – Complete the ‘Jeff Gordon NASCAR School’ Special Event Gran Turismo Karting Experience – Complete the ‘Gran Turismo Karting Experience’ Special Event Win Number One – Win your first A-Spec event race The Right Direction – Win your first B-spec event race Proud Owner – Take and share a photo Course Designer – Create and share a track Loony Tune – Spend an insane amount of money on tuning a car Race Ready – Perform Racing Modifications on one of your cars Dream Drifter – Get 10,000 points or more in a Section Mode Drift Trial Data Analyst – Analyze your performance using the Data Logger Driving Music – Use the Personal BGM function and go for a drive while listening to your favorite songs Beyond the Autobahn – Drive 12, 718km in total — the length of all Germany’s Autobahns combined Car Collector – Fill your Garage with 1,000 cars Multi-Millionaire – Possess an insane amount of money Old-Timer – Acquire a car manufactured in 1959 or earlier Half a Century of Cars – Own at least one car from the 60′s, 70′s, 80′s, 90′s, and 00′s Maximum Mileage – Buy a used car with 300,000km or more travel distance High Roller – Bought a seriously expensive car Sky-High Roller – Buy an insanely expensive car Speed Demon – Achieve a speed of 300km/h 111 Meters a Second – Achieve a speed of 400km/h Within One Hundredth – Win a race by a margin of .01 seconds or less Arch Rivals – Achieve a one-two finish in a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X and a Subaru IMPREZA WRX STI Dream Race – Win the ultimate three-way showdown between a Ford Mark IV Race Car, and a Ferrari 330 P4 Race Car GT-R Official Record- Achieve a time of 7’29.03″ on the Nurburgring Nordschliege in a Nissan GR-R ’07 Human Stopwatch – Complete 3 consecutive laps with time with .2 seconds of the Best Lap time A Star Is Born – Train a B-spec driver up to Class 30 or above The Air of Experience – Raise a B-spec driver to the peak of his career Colorful – Collect 256 Paint colors Penniless – Spend every last Credit you have Silver TrophiesExcellent Driver – Reach A-Spec Level 40 Expert Manager – Reach B-Spec Level 40 Finale – Reach the ending movie Gold TrophiesGold Standard – Get a gold trophy in every race event, license test and special event Platinum TrophiesGran Turismo Platinum Trophy – Earn every single Gran Turismo 5 Trophy Secret TrophiesSecret Trophy – Continue playing to unlock this secret trophy Secret Trophy – Continue playing to unlock this secret trophy Secret Trophy – Continue playing to unlock this secret trophy Secret Trophy – Continue playing to unlock this secret trophy Secret Trophy – Continue playing to unlock this secret trophy Secret Trophy – Continue playing to unlock this secret trophy Secret Trophy – Continue playing to unlock this secret trophy
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| The Call Of The Firefiles – FPP? Posted: 08 Nov 2010 04:50 PM PST We’d like to draw your attention to The Call Of The Firefiles, and ask you, have we reached the geekularity? Maybe so. Allow me to explain. The following is a list of things that are objectively, self evidently true: * Water is wet. That is, they were all self evidently true things until Octover 18th, when The Call Of The Firefiles was released. COTF is a Crysis mod with an interesting departure from what typically happens in these things – all of the violence, mayhem, shooting, explosions and generally anti-social elements have been excised. In their place is a charming puzzle game. The concept is simple: your protagonist, an elderly man, is compelled to follow lightning bugs through a haunting, wintry landscape, while solving puzzles in order to remove obstructions. Instead of boss fights and curbstomp battles, you fight to escape death by exposure to the elements. So what does this mean? Did they intentionally reverse course and aim for “interesting” and “thought provoking”? Or is the the natrual result of escalation, meaning that when you reach the most amazingly violent thing ever, the only place left to go is the precise opposite. And what do you call it? A First Person Puzzler? Maybe! Either way, even though The Call Of The Fireflies troublingly evokes Shadow of the Colossus1, its brevity – filesize is a scant 140MB and the advertised approximate play time is anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour – means that the puzzler won’t force you to spend 2 hours thinking you’re in a fantasy adventure game before boring you with inscrutable, impossible-without-a-guide puzzles. It won’t break your computer, but it will definitely give you a little something different, and that ought to be rewarded. Get it here. In the meantime, enjoy the trailer.
1) (Don’t get me wrong – I mean to insult Shadow of the Colossus, not Call of the Firefiles.)
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| New Vegas PC Patch Coming This Week, Big Multi-Platform Patch Coming Later Posted: 08 Nov 2010 04:23 PM PST Fallout: New Vegas is very damn popular, and people love it. I know I love it, because I’ve logged 36 hours so far. But, as was also the case with Fallout 3, there are some technical issues, as we know, and one patch has already come through the door. But Obsidian isn’t finished, nope. They’ve got more patches in the pipeline. The most imminent of said patches is coming to the PC this week, and it’ll ” fix the save corruption issues and problems with companions, as well as improve performance for NVIDIA users and resolve some issues reported with Havok.” But that’s not all, which you knew since I said “patches” rather than “patch” up there. They’re in the midst of certification on a “comprehensive” patch that will go out to all three platforms. Something to look forward to, I guess!
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| The Difference Between FPS Design Methods: 1993 and Now Posted: 08 Nov 2010 03:40 PM PST Yeah, that looks about right. I guess Halo was ahead of its time in more ways than we thought. BLAMMO. via reddit
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| Interactive Comic, Paid DLC Included with PS3 Mass Effect 2 Posted: 08 Nov 2010 03:30 PM PST When Mass Effect 2 was announced for the PS3, I was all like, “BUT THEY WON’T GET THE FULL EXPERIENCE WAAAAAAAHHHHH.” I really felt for my PS3-only brethren, because of a mind that you only get the full experience once you’ve played ME1 and ME2 each six times. Unfortunately, though, PS3 Mass Effectors will never have that full experience, because Mass Effect Original is not going to the PS3. But BioWare is going to do what they can to give you something between two-thirds of the experience (which is ME2 and ME3, which I have to assume will also be out on PS3) and the full experience. In order to do that, BioWare is producing an “interactive backstory” by Dark Horse Comics that will take you through the story of the first game and let you make decisions on how it plays out. While I kinda imagined they would have a menu or something that would tell you what happened and make a few decisions, I suppose I should have assumed they would make something worthwhile. I’m saying this sounds worthwhile. Oh, and this backstory thing will come on the Cerberus Network on PS3 only. You also get other things with your ME2 BD. You get a code for the Cerberus Network (of course), and all three non-Cerberus Network DLC packs (Kasumi, Overlord, Shadow Broker) come on the disc. So there you go. There’s your 70% of the full Mass Effect experience. via a BioWare producer explaining Casey Hudson’s comments in a magazine.
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| 34 Cortana Cosplayers (HOT AND NOT-HOT PICS) Posted: 08 Nov 2010 02:30 PM PST It was hard coming up with a gallery for this week, because I think Call of Duty cosplay would have been kinda weird. But last week, I finished the Halo: Reach campaign (shut up; you haven’t even started it), and there’s one picture I used in the old Master Chief gallery that I really, really wanted to post again. And it’s in this gallery. Enjoy.
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| Amazing New Vegas Mininuke Minigun Mod. Posted: 08 Nov 2010 02:05 PM PST As if you needed another reason to upgrade your gaming computer and snag a copy of New Vegas, feast your eyes upon this incredible Mininuke Minigun mod. I mean look at it. Just LOOK! It rapid-fires nuclear projectiles that go boom and asplode all over the place. Plus mushroom clouds. Yes, go get it and get it now. You can read more about it, and download here.
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| Posted: 08 Nov 2010 02:04 PM PST Dear FileFront users, We realize that parts of that service are not optimal, and we’re working on it. We have plans in the near future to update our file hosting service. In the meantime, if you have an idea for how we could make user accounts better, drop a comment. We want your feedback! Also, if you have more questions on FileFront accounts or file hosting, please feel free to leave a comment. We will try to address your questions as soon as we can. 1) Where do I log into FileFront? 2) Where do I manage my files? 3) When I log into FileFront and visit my files, why do I get redirected back to the FileFront main page? 4) Where do I upload new files? 5) Where is my user account information and management tools? 6) What does this error code mean “Oops! An unexpected error (-1) has occurred?” 7) What about other download and 404 errors?
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| A Hilarious, Randomly Generated Madden NFL 11 Player Name Posted: 08 Nov 2010 11:56 AM PST While deep inside Madden NFL 11′s “draft mode”, one of our interns stumbled upon this amazing, randomly generated player name. Now don’t get me wrong, Tremendous Johnson knows how to handle the ball, but he’s got some stiff competition. I hope he plays strictly within NFL rules: otherwise the refs might phallus and we’ll be rendered impotent for the rest of the season. Then again, I doubt coach Richard Swett will be that hard on him. I hear they’re planning to erect a monument in his honor. No word on how promiscously Madden NFL 11 will eject such hilarity, but one thing’s for certain: We are 13.
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| Fallout: New Vegas Sells Five Million Posted: 08 Nov 2010 11:10 AM PST Fallout: New Vegas has been out for three weeks now, and it’s gotten good reviews, modding tools, and a ton of bug reports. Apparently, the reports of a host of bugs in the game haven’t dampened the enthusiasm of gamers to play it, as Bethesda is reporting that the game has sold five million copies at retail thus far. Vlatko Andonov, president of Bethesda Softworks, said of New Vegas,
However you slice it, five million is a whole lot of sales in three weeks. It’s two million more than Starcraft 2 sold in its first month. Just imagine what a new Elder Scrolls game could do. If you’re busy playing New Vegas, and you need a hand finding your way around the wasteland, we’ve got an awesome New Vegas walkthrough to guide your travels.
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| Over 100 Copies of Call of Duty: Black Ops Stolen at Gunpoint Posted: 08 Nov 2010 10:31 AM PST A robbery at a Baltimore-area GameStop has netted the perpetrators over one hundred copies of Call of Duty: Black Ops. According to the Baltimore Sun, at least two men armed with handguns burst into the store at closing time Saturday night. They made off with four cases of Call of Duty: Black Ops games, as well as game systems and cash. This was the second robbery at a Baltimore-area GameStop in less than three weeks, and it’s thought that the same robbers may have perpetrated both crimes. The sheriff’s office is asking anyone who is offered an early copy of Black Ops to contact them. I know there are people out there who really want to play the new Call of Duty, but this is just taking it way too far. Armed robbery is NOT cool — there are better ways to get ahead on the Call of Duty: Black Ops campaign. Like our full walkthrough, located here.
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| Five Minutes of Dragon Age 2 Gameplay Footage Straight from Moscow Posted: 08 Nov 2010 10:05 AM PST Every November, Russian gamers gather in Moscow for Igromir, the largest game expo in Eastern Europe. This year, one of the featured games was Dragon Age 2. YouTube user has uploaded just over five minutes of captured gameplay from the upcoming action RPG for our viewing enjoyment. Enjoy the video, and see how your thoughts compare to our PAX 2010 Hands-on.
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