Serenity Takes The Amazonian Top Spot

Nice one Britain - you've still got your taste firmly intact!


Look at the price, £11.49 from their Jersey thing that thinks its Play.com! A bargain... ney... A DELIGHT!

We're hoping for a sequel, a new Firefly series and our own bisexual companion to put in our ship.

Origami: We Find Out LOADS More

Yeah we're bored stupid so we've decided to be complete arseholes and get you here on false pretences!

More info on Origami here


Strange Origami Master Chief


Origami Famicom here (yeah its not proper Origami, but neither are you)


Shitty Spong article about shitty Microsoft Origami here

Anyway that whole Microsoft Origami project thing is days old now, shit and really not that interesting. Come on! It's just a tablet PC, but smaller and fatter. It's not going to beat the PSP, because the PSP can't even beat the DS. There's logic in there somewhere.

It probably won't hook up with the 360, (that's a PC version of Halo) and if it does it'll just be to play music - which you can do with an iPod. Buy one of them! They're smaller and trendier, you'll be socially accepted by your friends on the same level as smoking (or having sex) when you're 12.

would you really want to play old Halo on a demented laptop in a bag?

What Does An XBox 360 Thief Look Like?

LIKE THIS:


According to "This Is Local London" this chap (who may actually be pixelated in real life) yoinked an XBox 360 from Sutton's Blockbuster shop. We for one are shocked...

Shocked that Blockbuster had any units at all...

Now then. All you've just got to decide is what you'll do when you meet him, do you:

a) Congratulate him and get him to nab you something from the Happy Shopper
b) Hit him and tell him he should've grabbed something more valuable / get a job

Full Auto Reviewed By A Monkey

Our good pal the Gadget Monkey has posted his insightful review of Sega's surprisingly addictive demolition racer Full Auto.

One special thing to note is that it really is different from the demo version floating around on the marketplace.

Well this is what we found from our five minute play we had when he got his copy on Friday, so we can't possibly comment until we recieve ours... HINT HINT!

All in all it's an easy to read review for a chilled out Sunday afternoon... go looky

Spider-Man 3 Teaser Poster IS OUT

Ooooooh look at this precious thing...


A lorra people are saying "oh its the black suit" and "mmmm Venom is coming" but I dunno if thats just a really dark picture?!?! Speculate away ladies and gents for there's still over a year of waiting to do for this one.

What Alternative Costumes Should They Have Included In Dead Or Alive 4?

We've just being trying to finish off unlocking all of the costumes in this beautiful game, and in doing so we noticed the lack of male outfits. Now we're not a gay and we're not complaining because we love the girls outfits, it just seems like seven different colours for Mistress Chief and only four outfits for Tina is a bit wrong.

We feel slightly robbed so we've compiled our own list of costumes we'd like to see by stealing them from costume sites like http://www.starcostumes.com/.

Most of them infringe some sort of copyright but that's ok because we're not making the game and nobody knows where we live. Most days.

Some sort of flight attendant woman.
I'm amazed that Tecmo didn't include anything like this as these are the untouchable goddesses of the sky. Most of them are moody and hit you when you touch them so they'd fit right in on DOA4.



NURSE! Once again shocked that this outfit wasn't in the game considering they've got a french maid and schoolgirl variations. Another male fantasy come true, maybe not in Japan but come on hey? Downloadable content opportunities Tecmo!



Cheerleaders! Lots of em! The entire cast (not the men dam you) of DOA could be fitted out in different coloured ones for a splendid finale.
Why oh why you didn't put Tina in one of these surprises me, yet you'll stick her in a playboy style outfit. Please chaps.


Proper catholic schoolgirl outfits! Not those shabby colour changing pants options. This is something we'd have assumed Tecmo would get right, down to school logos and hem lengths. Sigh.




Some dodgy sort of Matrix ripoff outfit. From what we've seen Christie has something bondage like, but thats more to fulfill the wishes of the Ninja Gaiden fans. Zach would be most likely candidate for a morpheus outfit.



That wrestler bird could do a foxy seventies lass some justice.
Slap on an afro wig and you could even add that into her special moves somehow. I'm sure Zach would love an afro too. He'd probably even love a bra.



The colonel! You could even get some KFC sponsorship. We'd see Bayman in this outfit, or at a push Bass. We'd like to see them rip off Captain America too somehow. They could do a spinoff then.




Wonder Woman! Yey! Tina would once again fit the profile for this if she changed the colour of her barnett. Otherwise we'd see Hitomi fulfilling this wish quite well.




Maybe we should make our own costume themed game.

Got any of your own suggestions? Let us know and we'll add em in if they're worthy. We'll probably update this as they day goes on and work gets more boring.

Zelda Confirmed To Have Revolution Compatibility By Reggie?

Is he playing word games again?
Joystiq have published this tidbit of info coming at us from the upcoming issue of EGM:


"The trick will be what makes it special to play on Revolution"

For one Reggie is calling it Revolution and not "The Revolution" which may fuel more belief that Nintendo are sticking with the name as they and the public become more comfortable with it.

So has he? Hasn't he?

Lets just wait and see shall we. I mean come on, by now they must have put something in it - and to leave it around the launch window for the Revolution? There are going to be a lot of upset fans now if they don't have some secret functionality.

Hmmm lets just wait for those "stopping production of GameCube" announcements sometime this summer - people who want to play the new Zelda will have to buy a Revolution - or at least a second hand cube.

Power Stone Collection For PSP? GIVE US A SHITTING BREAK

Capcom, please don't.

Come on bring it out on a home console like the 360. Imagine all of the pretty effects you could laden us with and the hours we could waste away on live or something.

Maybe even just shove it on Arcade so we can download it.
Maybe just make a third Power Stone so we can introduce our friends to the wonder that was and show us how much better it was than Kung Fu Chaos.

Just don't bring it out on that so called portable console for Jimmy Nail's sake hey? Do you want to see us cry?

We didn't want to kill again, but it looks like you leave us with no choice.

Games That Affect Your Life: Animal Crossing

We run this feature every now and again when we really get caught up in a game.


Ratty got caught up in Animal Crossing so much that when Nookway was shut to become the grand Nookington's on Friday, he made Kevin leave his gates open all day via the wonders of WiFi so he could fish and sell to his Nooks. With this obsessive fishing trip Ratty managed to complete his 300,000 bell mortgage and get Nook to push upwards on the following day to make his house three stories high!

You actually feel as happy and as excited as the little guy does when he leaves the town hall and has a strange happy fit outside.

I HAVE THREE FLOORS!

So affecting life? How? Well apart from the obvious life loss I have had, it has started to affect some of my more daily tasks.

Here is the top 10 worst things to happen to me while confusing my life for the game:

1) Friday night going to see Aeon Flux and attempting to pay for the large salted popcorn and pepsi max with a bag of bells. The guy behind the counter looked like he was ready to kill me.
2) Asking that guy in town with the guitar to play KK Agent. He only knew Coldplay.
3) Fishing in the sea and catching boots all time time. No bloody fish.
4) Not catching a Koi in the river Bourne.
5) Running round the park with a net making puns everytime about whatever I catch, being it something or someone. Passers by walk faster and try to protect their children.
6) Walking up to people standing by their cars asking for fashion advice. The result of which is getting beaten up.
7) I was in Debenhams and I saw a cross on the floor, I tried to dig it up to get a fossil or some kind of Gyroid. I got thrown out. I went back in again trying to sell them an old shirt I found because I wanted to buy this chair I saw in Habitat. I got thrown out.
8) I picked up the phone and asked them to change the theme tune of Bournemouth but instead I got some confused Indian chap asking me if I wanted 8mb broadband.
9) Shaking the trees in people's gardens and then putting the fallen fruit into holes angers the home owner.
10) I went up to the big issue chap in town and told him that people are getting bored of him shouting the "Big Issue" whenever someone walks past him. Instead he should try holding a big exclamation mark above his head and shout "I'm a gay" whenever they walk past. I told him that's what Rhonda the Rhino does. He gave me his YMCA room number and told me to see him on Saturday night.


So once again we've discovered that mixing real life with a game is actually not the best idea. We wish we could live in a world that's like Animal Crossing. You don't have to meet any real people if you don't want to, you choose when to let people into your town much like the days of King Arthur. You can earn a living by stealing fish from the sea. You can piss people off one day and they'll completely forget about it the next.

IT IS the perfect world. Nintendo should be Presidents of the world. Life would be good.

Previous "Games That Affect Your Life"
Electroplankton
Burnout

N64 GoldenEye To XBox Live Arcade Or Revolution's Virtual Console?

We were just reading IGN's "Retro Remix" Round 3 and they've just let lose a little can of worms that we'd never really considered. We've never heard anything either way about it either. While talking about whether or not Sin and Punishment will make it to the Virtual Console system, they mention GoldenEye:

"While Goldeneye is still up in the air, since rumors are now formulating that Microsoft may include a multiplayer version on their Xbox Arcade, the possibility still remains."


Imagine that hey? That would be a bit of a coup over Nintendo for one. Who really owns the rights here? Rare or Nintendo?

And even then - will Microsoft spruce up the levels and give us an updated HiDef version for our 360?

the incredible GoldenEye: Source project gives us an idea of what a lovely XBox 360 update could look like, but probably won't

XBox 360 Core Units Back In Stock At Play.com

Go have a look

£210 and it's yours.

Awooga. Yes.

Pictures Of Pyramid Head From The Silent Hill Movie Hit T'Internet

How incredibly accurate but bizarre does this look?


You may remember him like this while you were shitting yourself:


This is gonna be one saw-esque messed up visual wonder.

UPDATE - There's more info on the film at IMDB if anyone's interested - the Director, for instance is Christopher Gans, who has nothing I know of against his name. Art Direction is from people who have worked on Mimic, eXistenz, The Fly, Blade 2, and the LXG.

Singer Comments On Superman Returns

As many readers will no doubt know, I am really badly looking forward to the next Superman movie (due this summer) more than anything else in the world.


In a sad confession, I do watch the trailer on a daily basis, since the day it was released last year, and every time I feel the goosebumps.


I've just read this from IGN where Bryan Singer comments on his work:

"The time felt right to re-experience this character," Singer said. "My goal is to address and celebrate in some way people's collective memory of the character Superman and how he's evolved from 1938 to now. Some of it will look familiar physically, emotionally. Some of it will be new."

That's wonderful. To hear something like that is really invigorating to know that he's using the music, he's using the look and feel and it's going to feel like a proper follow on to the first couple of films. I mean just look at these pictures as an example!


I can not wait. I can't. In fact I'm going to go and watch that HD trailer again!

You will believe a man can fly.

Nintendo DS TV Tuner / Opera Browser Video Reveals More!

Well it seems that the way the browser will work is that the top screen will function as a zoom in on the page you are viewing, and you select the area you want to view by using a rectangular box on the bottom screen. Pretty nifty. Still no info on a QWERTY keyboard and how you will get to sites!


Here's the vid at the Gaming Hobo

It shows the TV tuner too, the bottom screen functioning as a remote control for viewing what on the top screen.

Lovely stuff!

Apple's iPhone In "NOT WHITE" Shocker

Apple likes to make money.

Phones are a good way to make money no doubt, and these "Leaked" photos show a concept drawn up last year for Apple's iPhone, very pretty. If they can make it as cheaply as other manufacturers do, Ballmer will need to build another money bin to swim in.

Note they show the now trademark white headphones, indicating that you'll probably get some sort of iPod functionality out of it too. How much is anyone's guess - don't expect 20GB worth though at that size!

Nice idea though, we wouldn't put it past them shifting one out sometime soon or announcing one say oooooh.... April time?

We Find 3 Pictures Of The New Lara Croft Model - Karima Adebibe

HERE

SHE

IS

According to the internet she had a small role in that shitty Alien Versus Predator film we never saw, but apart from that she's relatively "unknown".

We did read on some photographers blog though that she's already done a shoot for FHM.
YES!!

We look forward to following her career and buying posters of her to put up on our wall, in an attempt to relive our childhood all those years ago. Get your inhalers out lads.

Digital TV And Web Browsing Coming To The DS!

Brilliant! The DS is getting more killer aps!

Yesterday, Nintendo of Japan announced some dates - like the lovely new Mario coming in March. The major two key announcements were that Opera are developing a new add-on that will allow you to browse the internet on both screen on your DS. There's no screen as of yet, but we can imagine the bottom screen will allow for a QWERTY style touch screen input to allow you to input web pages.


Now if it's Opera you can be sure it will be packed full of functions much like their PC counterpart which offers tabbed browsing, insane zoom control and more.

It's also open to so much more too - think of all the things you can do on a web browser! Flash games, animations and the rest!

Possibilities are a comin! We just want to know more about this Digital TV thingy...

Windows Defender Says BYE BYE To AntiSpyware

Microsoft have released Beta 2 of Windows AntiSpyware and ushered in it's lovely new, somewhat assumptuous name of WINDOWS DEFENDER!

Sounds a bit OTT as a name really, promising more than it will probably be able to deliver - will it defend your Windows? Not if you have a dodgy copy!

Check out Paul Thurrot's review here.

It looks alreet, the whole thing has been refurbed so it doesn't look anything like its former GIANT self, it's quick and it's sleek and doesn't seem to get in the way of what you are doing.

Oh and it's FREE! FREEEEEE!

GAME OVER, YEAH GETS MUSHY!

Happy Valentines day to all!!

Yeah everyone goes on about it being too commercial and every year to make a deal with your significant other not to buy that card. But you always end up buying a card and go overboard on the gifts so why not jump the gun and join us in our DAY OF PINK.

Yes we've changed our template so the background is pink, and as Ratty is a soppy git and full of love with no significant other to share the child benefits with, please leave your messages of love for him and kevin in the comments box.

Happy valentines day!


Eliza - if you are reading - marry me!

Previous Downloadable XBox Games Of The Year

As voted for by D list celebrities...

2005 - Super Mario War - mod an XBox for this game alone

2004 - Halo 2 - famously available in glorious french over a month early


Pre 2004 - Every ROM you can lay your hands on - think MAME

Animal Crossing Continues To Wreak Havoc On Lives

Its getting worse than Eastenders in my small town, we've got people starting fires, shouting accusations at one another, making each other cry and run off in what can only be described as the purest anger ever witnessed on two screens.

I saw some people arguing over the in game version of Ratty yesterday, with me voting for the fox Whitney and her sexy lighting demonstration on her house. I've had the mayor, Tortimer poke fun at me like a child in the playground "Ratty and Whitney sitting in a tree...."

Thing is, if I'm going to be truthful I do like the attention.

Its almost like having a soap about me, all about me! Sorta like Sister Sister if one of them was dead, or the way Saved by the Bell was when it was focused just on Zack. Although none of these soaps for kids did have a white hippo that walked round greeting people by saying "I'm a gay" or a duck that calls everyone "brotha".

I'm sitting here now wondering what could happen tonight! It's too early to actually "get it on" with Whitney, they'll drag that out until the end of the series. But we're due a dramatic fight, and one chap moved away last week because he was scared. Is it possible he was murdered? Those snowmen I repaired are pretty angry and they haven't got much time left...

We could have some excitement in store...

Will We Get A DS Lite? Would A Sandwich Be Nicer?

It's true that when we heard of the DS Lite we thought it was going to be some new venture for Nintendo into the world of torches or household lighting, and then upon hearing that it was the oft-rumored remodelling of the DS we actually filled with both joy and horror.

Without sounding like a gay fashion advisor, the name is all wrong. To me "lite" makes me think we're losing out on something, as with food we lose out on the fat content or with software we lose out on certain features. So we were surprised to learn that all we really lose out on is some, well, size...

It's smaller but will we get one? Perhaps. It's a hundred quid to import one from somewhere like Liksang, and at the moment it's even more to get one off EBay (surprise).

Ratty has a tendancy to purchase Nintendo Japanese consoles no matter if he has the previous models. This time it's not cheap and not that different.

This time he may just skip this release...

Nintendo Says NO To Violence In The Living Room

We for one are all for making sure that playing a simple game doesn't end up with you killing your family and friends, and now Nintendo are set to unveil an innovative way of making sure you don't accidentally do so while playing with their new Revolution console.


Sex god Reggie stated in an interview with someone at the D.I.C.E summit held somewhere not long ago that Nintendo are set to put people's concerns to sleep when they reveal at E3 how people are not going to end up killing one another with the hands free frantic gameplay that the Revolution remote allows.


GAME OVER, YEAH salutes you Reggie, you are a king amongst men.

A Week Without Games (sort of)

I've been in some strange wonderland this week, falling in and out of consciousness and bed ridden with some perculiar illness that really got the better of me.


Wonderful stuff.

But what did this prevent me from doing? Well I really found myself without the will to plug in my XBox or any other console and play a game. I've been instead making a small indent on my back catalogue of DVD's - namely working my way through four series of Smallville that I've never watched.

So how was it? Not playing a game all week? Not bad really, I haven't felt the anger of having my arse thrown about in Dead Or Alive 4 online, I haven't felt the shame. I haven't felt the anguish of playing through Condemned one more time to get those achievement points I should have gotten the first time round, that an in-game bug prevented my from getting. I haven't felt the disappointment once more of the wrongness of Perfect Dark Zero.


It's a bit of a lie though really because I've been playing Animal Crossing on my DS. Now in theory this doesn't really count because it's a part of life now anyway isn't it? Paid off my second mortgage is the result of some serious fishing while I've been camped out on the couch while working through those DVD's. Tortimer's been asking me what I thought of other people's lights so I keep telling him everyday that this female fox called Whitney has the best ones so I can get in her bed.


I've been trying to get online to contact the world, making sure it's still there - but as my router didn't like the idea of this I concluded that the rest of the world had abandoned me.

So what's the conclusion? Erm. Not playing games can be ok, watching DVD's is a healthy alternative - maybe even consider reading one of those book things. Or started an obsession with collecting something.

I have found that my XBox 180 collection of game must have reached "untrackable" status because I bought a game yesterday that I already own. I didn't know I had this game. Is it because I am still do-lally?

Cell Processor's True Intentions Fully Unveiled: Perversion

Looking at Kiziko's article on their Playstation 3 encounter - we've found somewhat of a shocking revelation from their insider source.

On page four of the article they continue about their views of what the PS3 can do in comparison to the demos we've seen thus far along with their fascination of wavy hair and, get this:

"high definition IP webcams is just one example that keeps us excited"


Now you will be able to experience fat naked men on even bigger televisions.

AGES ago, SEGA.

If you're man enough to brave the cold, and emerge from your home/office/porn dungeon you can snap up SEGA CLASSICS COLLECTION today, who needs an XBOX360 when you can return to the past and play Outrun! Golden Axe! Columns! and others.

Of course, as with all 'classic collections' that have gone before, the Capcom ones, Namco, Midway, Intellivision, this will shatter all your rose-tinted memories, all the games you loved will now seem slow, mundane and rather boring. But it might be fun for five minutes.

Except the Sonic Mega Collection, that's genuinely amazing.

XBox 360 EBay Sales Leveling Out

They're just not making stupidly high amounts of money for those Christmas profiteers we remember so well a month and a half ago.


Oh well, maybe it's time to start selling PS3 consoles early.

PS2 Liberty City Stories Coming At The End Of March?

Play.com, always wonderful but not always reliable has posted the date of the 31st of March for release of the PS2 version of the PSP "hit".


We still don't understand this strategy, with the PSP game being out for 3 months now - isn't it better to keep it on a platform that would really help to sell it? I'm only thinking they're fulfilling the "play on the go or at home" ideas they stressed when they originally announced the PSP. Letting you save upload your progress to the PS2 and back to the PSP when you want to go out.

Lord knows.

Who loves Katamari?

We've just remembered what comes out tomorrow, but we can't figure out how we're going to be able to afford it. Does anyone want a kidney, I'd been saving it for digestive matters but I can do without for a while.

We haven't been this excited about a game that doesn't make any sense since a couple of weeks ago, when we were excited about Animal Crossing.

No no, tell a lie, last week we were excited about Electroplankton

XBox 360 VS PS2's SingStar - Which One Won This Time?

Well well well... last night I took my newly replaced 360 round to my good friend's place for our regular gaming eve.

Right, the prologue...

I was already laste because I'd been hooked on playing Dead Or Alive 4 online, desperately trying to somehow beat the guy that was now kicking my arse for the 16th time in a row. I didn't manage it in the end cause I realised I had to get to this eve, as well as giving Kev a very special CD.

Back to the actual evening, and when I got there I found my humble company SingStar'ing their guts out in the most wonderful way and I joined in. We did all the hits, Spandau Ballet's Gold, Dolly Parton's 9 to 5, I even found my best score (which still isn't getting higher than 2,000!) on Like a Virgin and Take Your Momma Out. I'm getting better at hitting the high note.

In the end we didn't manage a shot on Dead Or Alive 4, we had too much of a good time on SingStar that we didn't need to. We will do someday, but right now we're having too much fun.

this isn't us, we're better

So what are you going to take away with you today? I've got a sachet of mustard in my drawer if anyone wants it. Really? I dunno, but it does seem that the most unlikely of games can definitely be the one's that get people together and playing a whole lot more.

What about you world? Found yourselves amused by a game you didn't think you would be?

Lovely Resident Evil / Biohazard DS Edition That Probably Won't Make It Over To The Bloody UK

Get over to Play Asia and look at what you could buy if you had £50!

And because we love it so much, we're going to show the special lovely wallet you get with it - but in SUPERBIGVISION:

Hmmm maybe its not that big, but it's nice!

Oh! And you do get the game with it, but we don't know if it's inEnglishh or not. But look at the fine leather work on that wallet, mmmmmm.