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When Square Enix unveiled the English-language release date of Final Fantasy XIII , Joystiq commenter Chedder dared to ask the one question on everyone's mind. "Is it me or has the host of this video been drenched by a douche nozzle before they turned the cameras on?" Mega64 has the answer: ...
Gaming
Final Fantasy XIII
Square Enix
In its continuing battle against apathetic parents, the ESRB is launching a brand new ad campaign promoting its mobile ratings guide (viewable after the break). Both the iPhone app and mobile website will allow searchers to get disturbing and/or hilarious descriptions of all rated games. In ...
Other
Patch 3.3 is just around the corner in the World of Warcraft , and WoW.com is there as usual: we've got lots of information about what's coming in the new patch, including the new Icecrown raid instance , the cross-realm Dungeon Finder system, new loot and gear, lots of class updates and ...
Gaming
World of Warcraft
The team behind the Penny Arcade Expo's journey to Boston has announced an open call for panel and speaker submissions that will run until January 11, 2010. In order to qualify for an open panel or speaker slot, submissions need to both entertain and inform. "We're looking for the kind of ...
Other
Not that we've ever run across an invincible, burning Witch, but we'd say it's probably a great thing that Valve decided to fix that particular bug in Left 4 Dead 2 . You see, apparently there's a glitch that allows Witches to become invincible if set on fire, the upshot of this being that ...
Gaming
Left 4 Dead
Famitsu has apparently given Heavy Rain a Japanese release date of February 8, 2010, reports IGN . Japan is receiving a specific localized version of the title, so it's unclear whether this means the game will be released earlier or later in other territories; however, it's unusual for a ...
Gaming
Quantic Dream
IGN
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences has announced a few additions to the lineup of speakers for next year's DICE (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) summit in Las Vegas.
Naughty Dog game designer Richard Lemarchand, Zynga chief creative officer Brian Reynolds (previously ...
Gaming
Naughty Dog
DICE Summit
Raven Software
FIFA 10, the latest iteration of EA Sports' biggest global franchise, itself based on the world's most popular sport, is selling well. That's an understatement. Worldwide, EA estimates game sales have surpassed 4.5 million units since the October 1 launch, including a so-called ...
Gaming
Digital distribution service Direct2Drive is celebrating the 24 days leading up to Christmas by discounting a select PC title each day from now until December 25. As the math whizzes have no doubt already divined, that's 24 discounted games! Today's game is DICE's parkour-em-up, Mirror's ...
Hardware
PC
Seeing as how the whole " Macbeth with gunz" thing has already been done (see: movie starring Aussie heartthrob Sam Worthington, above), we're ever so curious to learn more about Marc Ecko's canned game concept for a "completely re-imagined Macbeth ." Unfortunately, the famed clothing ...
Other
According to Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg , Xbox 360 sales saw a serious increase thanks to the post-Thanksgiving shopping madness known as Black Friday . While Greenberg doesn't disclose specific numbers, he notes in a recent tweet that Black Friday granted the Xbox 360 its "biggest sales week ...
Gaming
Black Friday
Xbox 360
Microsoft
Sony
PS3
If you've been sitting around on your fat stacks of cash, waiting to pick up an extra DJ Hero controller then now is the time, friend. Activision sent along a press release stating that the turntable controllers are now in stock at the Guitar Hero Store for $70 a pop, $40 cheaper than the ...
Gaming
Activision
Guitar Hero
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Erik Estavillo has been given a handful of nicknames by the press recently - he listed "Professional/PSN Plaintiff," "The Serial Suer" and a few others when he spoke with Joystiq this morning. He assured us though, time and time again, "That WoW lawsuit , ...
Gaming
Activision
Blizzard
World of Warcraft
Sony
Microsoft just pulled back the curtain on a brand-new bundle exclusively for our brothers and sisters to the north. Aside from a 250GB Xbox 360 Elite console, the bundle also includes a double dose of Bungie goodness: Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST .
Starting today, you can get your maple ...
Gaming
Halo 3
Xbox 360
Bungie Studios
Halo
Microsoft
Look, if for some crazy reason you've still not gotten yourself a DualShock 3 and, even crazier , haven't played through Uncharted: Drake's Fortune , then you might want to check out this Amazon bundle -- which is set to release December 15. For $60, you'll get a black DualShock 3 ...
Online
Amazon
Naughty Dog
Truth be told, loyal readers, we kind of already told you about SouthPeak Games scooping up the right to publish the Midway-developed TNA Impact!: Cross the Line for the PSP and DS. So when the company recently announced that it would be publishing Cross the Line "later this Winter," we ...
Gaming
PSP
DS
The PC version of Codies racer DiRT 2 may be a bit behind the console pack, but it's crossing the finishing line in style. The extra time has allowed the team to throw a couple of more DirectXs in there (they've got it up to 11 now!) and fine-tune all of the game's tessellation. And if ...
Hardware
PC
Codemasters
We're not sure why publishers decided that purchasing a game should be more difficult, but the recent trend of retailer exclusive pre-order goodies seems to be here to stay. Case in point: the various pre-order bonuses for Bayonetta in the UK. Those who pre-order at Play.com will receive ...
Gaming
Sega
DVD
As exciting as the prospect of Puzzle Quest in Space might have been, the excitement offered by Galactrix was completely derailed by the game's outrageously lengthy load times . However, in a recent interview with Kotaku , D3 Publisher's Michael Cerven claimed that the recently announced ...
