tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-309566412011-04-22T07:00:21.261+10:00"I got your number...I steal your thunder...I got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm..."Squid of Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15183808593139241520noreply@blogger.comBlogger1521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30956641.post-56582162881716585062007-05-09T20:19:00.000+10:002008-12-10T03:14:01.848+11:00

I am man enough to admit that whatever the fuck is going on here looks fantastic.

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That Dogtown movie was a pile of shit. This 1978 British doco on skateboarding is not. Needs some Brant Bjork somewhere, though.

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Yes. This is by Five Pointz . That's the map to One-eyed Willy's treasure. On a very snappy jacket. Wonderful.

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Best album of 2007? Bet your ass it is. I know there's 9 more months. Don't care. Scott Reeder spends 18 years making an album that sounds like Stone Temple Pilots, Alice in Chains and Jan Hammer, you go buy it."Tunnelvision Brilliance". It's out on Liquor and Poker Music.Go.

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Yeah. Was at the PS3 media launch yesterday and...well, I walked IN expecting to be buying one at launch. I walked OUT swearing not to buy one for a very long time.Way to pitch a sale, Sony.It's not that there's anything wrong with the PS3. It looks gorgeous, the multimedia functions are nice and it looks very dashing. It's just...the 360 does everything it does, does it for nearly half the price

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Did you ever think you'd see the day Lif and Def Jux were shillin for MTV and running bullshit, ego-centric competitions?Yeah, I did too.UPDATE: Aesop Rock is in on it too.AESOP ROCK COMMISSIONED FOR NIKE + ORIGINAL RUN SERIES!Joining the ranks of renowned artists The Crystal Method and LCDSoundsystem, MC/Producer Aesop Rock has joined forces with Nike torelease an original composition in the

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Background information (from CNN):SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- A woman who competed in a radio station's contest to see how much water she could drink without going to the bathroom died of water intoxication, the coroner's office said Saturday.Jennifer Strange, 28, was found dead Friday in her suburban Rancho Cordova home hours after taking part in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest in which

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No, Squid is not dead. The Squid LIVES.But updates will be few and far between for the next month or so, culminating in a trip in two weeks time to NYC to throw myself upon the shrine that is the Nintendo World Store. Pictures will be taken, and shared.To tide you over, today, I saw a homeless man playing a PSP. No shit. He was a Big Issue salesman on the corner of Park & Castlereagh St.The

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The village idiot and the cackling hyena-woman."$1200" my arse. And you're supposed to be fucking journalists.Ungh.

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Dear Nintendo Australia.FUCK YOU YOU MISERABLE CUNTS.Love,Squid of Man

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Here's some sweet, sweet justice. This moron camped out, bought himself a $900 bundle of PS3 goodness at the expense of some kid who actually wanted a PS3, then promptly turned around and listed it all on ebay.Without setting a reserve.The winning bid was $651.When eBay profiteering goes wrong [NeoGaf]

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If there's one thing i'm thankful for in life (and I mean truly, truly thankful), it's that there's no such thing as the Happy Room Academy. If my living quarters were arranged in a grid-like manner, and I was being critiqued on my furniture placement down to the most minute detail, I'd develop so many complexes I'd wind up a prisoner in my own house. Bolted doors, plastic covers on the couches,

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This thing is REAL. No shit. It's the Russian PC Gamer for this month.Poster-sized prints, please.[Thanks Rossignol]

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So IGN launch their "Australian wing". Thousands are...nonplussed. And not just because of the complete absence of actual Australian content.The Aussie editor, Bennett Ring, implores you all to sign up to the IGN boards, so that they can have "a nice community bubbling and fermenting in no time". What he fails to mention is that to access half the thing you need to be a paying subscriber.For a

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I didn't want to believe the rumours. I refused to believe them. Surely Konami, brewers of the world's finest football game, wouldn't punt the ball so comically into their own net. Surely they wouldn't go to all the trouble of releasing a brand-spanking new, shiny next-gen version of their game, only to cripple it to such an extent that some of gaming's most passionate fans would take to the

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...You are an ignorant cunt.Love and kisses,Squid of Man

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Holy shit.Sony has gone and killed Lik-Sang. Killed it dead. Out of naught but spite.Furious at the online retailer for bringing hope and salvation to frustrated European gamers, who it shipped Japanese PSPs to during the systems 9-month delay between the two territories, Sony launched a series of seemingly flimsy legal challenges against Lik-Sang. And somehow won.Sony claimed they were

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Eurogamer brings ill tidings this morning.Seems Contact, the only upcoming DS game that looks even remotely interesting, is slipping to February 2007. At least, it is in Europe. And in the absence, as expected, of Australian release info, we can take that to mean here as well.Fuck this. What is this, 1997? It's already out in the US, why hold it over for so long?

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The PS3 “features” list is like acid to my ears. I care not for Blu-Ray, I don’t have a 1080p television, HDMI is 5-6 years away and I most definitely do not have $1000.But there’s a corn in every nugget of shit, and today, I have found the PS3’s lone, golden morsel.It comes in the form of an “install” option. Gamers enjoying the "historical accuracy" of Genji at Sony’s Gamer’s Day event in the

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Fucking rad.[via modblog]

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Say it ain't so, Nintendo.This is just going too far. I grudgingly accepted the lack of HD support for the Wii, and am finding ways to deal with the lack of Dolby Digital. But forcing me to buy my component cable online? You're telling me that on December 7, when I diligently pick up my launch-day console, i'm going to have to play it on my 32" HDTV using composite cables?Fuck you, Nintendo. If

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If you don't think The Melvins are the greatest fucking band on earth, you should stop reading this and go throw yourself under something heavy and do not dare get up again until you realise the error of your ways.(A) Senile Animal is a joyous return to ballsy, dirty, thunderous rock as only they can conjure. There's no static, no 14-minute feedback tracks, just guitars, bellowing and some

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So today, I visit The Australian's IT section, and I see something that I was fully expecting, but hadn't expected to see so soon.The PS3 hype machine is already rolling into top gear.I'm not talking about advertisements or demo booths or anything like that. No, i'm talking about something far more sinister. It might be journalistic ignorance (perhaps), or it might be the pulling power of Sony's

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So, last week, Australian Playstation boss Michael Ephraim played the good corporate shrill and said something stupid about Microsoft and Nintendo. Something so stupid, in fact, it propelled the otherwise anonymous local man into something of an internet cause celebre: he said he was worried they were too expensive.Way to go, Michael.Today, he's gone one better. Again, in keeping with what I'm

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EDIT: "Anonymous sources" have told Game|Life that the cause of the split is due to the Clover team wanting to piss off from Capcom and form an independant studio. That's a story that makes a lot of sense.Oh, Capcom, why? Why do you always have to go and fuck perfectly good things up all the time?Word (very Japanese word, too, I might add) has spilled today that Capcom are disbanding Clover

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Well whaddya know. Turns out kids really dig that Pokemon shit.That aside, though, it's once again sad viewing. Test Drive Unlimited proves that Australian Xbox 360 users do, or possibly can, not read, as they ignore global warnings and continue buying the game even though it's fundamentally fucked. AFL blah blah blah Fifa blah blah blah.The award for the most interesting item goes to Singstar

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It may have taken two years, but the DS has finally come of age. No more shitty ports or bullshit "touching" games: it's time for a good ol' fashoned schoolgirl rape-em-up.Better still, it looks like if you pre-order from Play-Asia you get a strictly limited-edition minge-fingering stylus, too!The game's called Doki Doki Majo Saiban, and is made by SNK! Which means if we're lucky it'll have Mai

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Introversion's latest "critics favourite", Defcon, is out and for those of us who can't be arsed paying for the privelege of playing it you can snag the demo for nothin'. It's pretty damn cool, letting you live out all your darkest Dr. Strangelove fantasies with none of the post-apocalyptic clean-up to worry about.Yeah, it's simple, but when you're dealing with the extermination of the majority

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Normally, I hate the French. Their snooty ways disgust me.But this goes some way towards redeeming them. It is, quite simply, the most adorable video game commercial I have ever seen. Slightly homo, yes, but it is French, so there's some leeway to give in that regard.Pity it's all a bit of a lie, then. When's the last time you saw (heard?) a gentle, joyous Frenchman on Xbox Live?That's what I

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Titties and the Powerglove. They go together like titties and a Game Boy."It's the hardcore gamer's fantasy - a utopia of retro button-mashing and joystick-tweaking, populated by cute girls playing to their heart's content. Nude girls. Arcade coin-ops, consoles, and handhelds galore - it's all fair game for these

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What the fuck is wrong with you people? Huh, Sony? Are you even listening anymore? Or are you too busy powdering your faggoty French face while you slither "oh, let them eat cake"?SCE Europe VP Jamie MacDonald sat down for an interview with Gamesindustry.biz yesterday, and was quizzed about what European's (and I guess us by association - GO TEAM PAL) thoughts were on always getting Sony hardware

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Holy shit.The teaser trailer for 300 has launched, and it's just the greatest thing mankind has ever done.It needs no further acclamation. Just go watch the damn thing.Sin City was awesome, but this...this is the stuff of fantasy.

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I was waiting for it. Leviathan had earned them some serious cred, and appearances on the soundtracks to shit like Madden and Need for Speed pointed towards two things: a swift sell-out, and a third album that would be an over-produced pile of shit.Sometimes, it's awesome to be wrong.Blood Mountain is fucking fantastic. It suffers the same fate as Leviathan, in that it's a tad too shiny and clean

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Some clever little cupcake over at Joystiq has gone and done himself, and the world, a great favour. Salvaging what he could from the various screenshots and videos available, he's created a near-perfect mock-up of the Wii's "Mii" avatar creation suite.It's terrifyingly addictive. And, as an added bonus, it'll save you precious minutes when you first start up your Wii, as you won't need to fuck

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From an interview David McLean, regional mouthpiece of Microsoft (since all he seems able to do is regurgitate North American press releases), with The Age:The Age: How family friendly can you call a console (Wii) that is $399 and possibly around $100 each for extra controllers?David McLean: "I don't know it's going to be a problem for them this Christmas because of who's going to be buying them

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Don't buy it if you're planning on playing solo. There's just not enough to it - it'll grate on you, start feeling like a 1997 Playstation platformer and cause you to take advantage of EB's generous 7-day return policy.But if you have friends, family or courtiers that you see from time to time, and they're at all likely to play video games with you, get it. As a two-player co-op game, this game

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Nintendojo are claiming that they've got clarification from Nintendo that the mighty Wavebird will not only be compatible with 'Cube games being played on the Wii, it may well be compatible with some Wii games, with Smash Brothers lining up as the most likely candidate.You'll still need to use the receiver plug, which apparantly fits snugly into the 'Cube ports at the top of the machine, but

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You've probably already noticed, but Microsoft are dumping most of the cool shit from X06 onto the Xbox Live Marketplace. Of particular interest should be the Bioshock trailer, which while taking more than a few liberties relative to how close it resembles final, playable product, is simply the most astounding trailer ever released for a video game.It's probably incredibly shallow to rate a

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Hyperactive poster The Brett, an EB employee, has ventured bravely into the companies vast, omnipotent database and come out not only unscathed, but clutching a torn, ragged parchment, upon which was hastily scribbled the Australian pricing for the Wiimote.The EB system is notorious for "placeholder" pricing, but these prices are too exact, and too close to home, to not be the real deal:- The

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Say what you will about Microsoft and their plans for interstellar domination (in particular, J Allard’s vision of a utopian, agrarian community of the stars), they’re starting to get the hang of this video game lark.Case in point: X06 has been surprisingly awesome.It’s been so long since we had such a deluge of genuine, real product to get excited about I’d nearly forgotten the feeling. That

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I know, I know, all this PS3-bashing is getting a bit old. Passe, even. There's only so many things that could go wrong with it before we all assume a semi-permanent state of apathy, and just ignore the thing until either a Team Ico game surfaces, or it doesn't cost me a fortnights pay.But sometimes...well, sometimes the urge to give them one last kick is just too strong to resist. Wired scored

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From an interview with Gamedaily.biz. And no, it's not a joke :"[Nintendo and their DS] are appealing to the same audience that Game Boy has always appealed to. And if you look at the adoption rate of the DS over the first 17 months, not only does it trail the PSP but it also trails their other platforms ... They're potentially losing some of their core audience and they're not really expanding

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Any of you watch the Today Show? No? Didn't think so.So you probably missed this cracker of a story this morning. With the release of Bully drawing a little nearer, it looks like it's been unable to escape the same kind of controversy the game has faced overseas.On this morning's show, an illustrious panel including a wealthy private school boy (ie toffee-sucking cunt) and a blathering old school

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...right then. Apparantly there's a Gameshark code that whacks an Arwing into the Kokiri Forest. Add this is it.Good stuff. Though it's hardly canonical....

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Dead Rising is some good shit. Zombies, crying women, zombies and chainsaws sure do make a good game.A good game, yes. Maybe even an excellent one. And yet it is weighed down by niggling imperfections. Flaws, if you will. Let us weigh up both the pros and their diabolical counterparts, the cons, in an effort to determine a winner.Pros: 55,000 zombies. Chainsaws. Crying women. Battle axes.

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It's a Mario comics bonanza.I don't speak a word of Japanese, so I have no idea what the fuck is going on here, but the idea of Nausicaa keeping a forbidden garden of world-threatening Mushroom Kingdoom flora is...well...alluring.

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Wow. I've seen some cool Nintnedo-related stuff over the years, but a Japanese comic detailing the "real" story of Mario & Luigi just takes the cake. Allow me to both translate and provide a brief plot synopsis: Here we see a young Mario, understandably upset that some shifty Italian travelling salesman is getting all the pussy, and all he's left with are lonely, tear-soaked evenings receiving

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You all know the date, price, package, etc.It's...well, it's great that the Wii is on its way. It's no longer a distant blip on the radar, it's something that exists, it will be out soon and we will actually be playing it.That is the good news.The bad news is that...well, for Australia especially, it's a bit fucking cheeky asking us to pay $400 for the thing, bundled game or not. And it's even

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A day that began innocently, with expectations running high in anticipation of tangible Wii launch details (at least for the Japanese market), sank into farce, sank lower into "high" farce, emerged comedic and ultimately ended with some actual news.10:00am: If you were anywhere near the Penny Arcade Forums this morning, it was a sight to behold. Sixty pages came and went before the conference

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It's TODAY, bitches! From 9:00am, you can swing by your favourite flavour of retailer and pick up Dead Rising. Yes, it's a few weeks later than the US, and yes, there's no snazzy "collectors edition", but come on. You've played the demo. You know you don't need that shit. You know all you need is Frank West, some every-day items fashioned into weapons and an unenending horde of the undead with

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David McLean, Regional Director for Xbox Australia, went on record yesterday to "officially" kick Sony while they're down.“(The PS3 delay) doesn’t surprise me. And it further wouldn’t surprise me if this product wasn’t seen in March next year either,” he told Gamespot in an interview yesterday.He then proceeds to [insert corporate boasting here], and comes across looking like a right smug little

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The new, more "comprehensible" endingUnless you're a liar, Neon Genesis made no fucking sense whatsoever. All that business with the chair in space and every second kid in the school becoming pilots? Completely lost on me.Luckily, it had awesome, giant robots piloted by weird young kids, so I still loved it. I now stand to love it a whole lot more.Hideaki Anno, who wrote the TV series, and

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Avast, ahoy, sail ho and all that shit.The freighter above, the S.S. Salvation, is en route to these antipodean shores, bearing a most precious cargo: copies of Lego Star Wars II & Dead Rising for the 360.Lego Star Wars II will be on shelves Wednesday, 13 September (tomorrow, bitches!). Dead Rising will be a day later, being released on Thursday, 14 September.Good times.

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The Company of Heroes single-player demo is now available for download. It's made by Relic. It looks like the best damn thing to happen to RTS games since Kari Wuhrer was running around looking strangely shit-hot in a tight pair of army pants. And it looks fucking awesome. That should be all you need to know.

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IGN got the scoop on Ubisoft's new steering wheel peripheral yesterday, and I really like the look of the thing.It's just a shell, so any Wii game that involves driving can use it, so you won't get shafted on compatability. It also means you can use it for games that only partially use driving, which is also cool (use the Wiimote normally for action sequences, then just pause it and clip on the

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"It's one of the most instantly enjoyable games around, and were it not for the humbling price tag, we'd demand you go out and add it to your collection immediately. Whether you're 3 or 33, this is one of those rare games that can genuinely appeal to everyone whether you're into Star Wars or not."You may, should the urge take you, peruse the full review over at Eurogamer.I dont' give a shit

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So the PS3 is a no-show for Aussie gamers this Christmas. That leaves an advertising vacuum of sorts, with both Microsoft and Nintendo suddenly given extra room, and motivation, to pimp their respective consoles a little harder in the coming months.Considering Nintendo Australia's gross incompetency, I thought it would be Microsoft who would step into the breach and flood the market with 360

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Master Replica's "Studio Scale Replica" Milennium Falcon. This thing is so crazy the term "toy" just doesn't do it justice.It's 32 inches long. If you can't envisage that, it means it's fucking enormous."The studio scale Millennium Falcon is an exact copy of the filming miniature. Constructed with an internal metal armature for structural integrity, with quality resin and ABS components with

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The Official Squid of Man Prediction was wrong. I console myself with the fact that I shouldn't have trusted anyone from the Electronics Boutique Corporation, and that with most major retailers displaying massive "November 17" posters I am not alone.Sony themselves have announced that they aren't limiting the Australian release. They've canned it altogether. Europe and Australia are getting the

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#37: Make high definition, and specifically 1080p high definition, the biggest selling point of your console. Then price your console at ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS....and do not include a $40 HDMI cable.

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You know, just as soon as you start to have a little faith in the Australian gaming public, shit like this comes along to just ruin your day.Seeing the all-sales charts dominated by the likes of AFL and two fucking versions of both Singstar and FIFA is enough to break this poor Squid's heart. If two DS games and Guitar Hero hadn't been on there I just don't know what I would have done.[thanks GFK]

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Guess she had the rumble pak in....

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Handré de Jageris a box art "parodist". If you have any fondness whatsoever for insane 80s video game box art, his shit is worth checking out, especially if you're a fan of those fantastic early Psygnosis covers. Dig Dug. I'll let Jageris explain: "An innumerable amount of hellish, subterranean beasts are unleashed upon humanity. Soldiers trained specially in the arts of pumping and digging are

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What's the difference between this:And this?Uh.....Fuck all. Except the fact the GBA sold about a billion more units than the PSP, and people still couldn't be arsed hooking it up.

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It'll be $49.95, and include:- Geometry Wars- Wik: Fable of Souls- Outpost Kaloki X- Bejeweled 2- Hardwood Backgammon- Texas Hold 'emAs well as a one-month Gold subscription and demos of Uno, Marble Blast Ultra and Feeding Frenzy. So it's basically a packaged advertisement aimed at getting you connected to Xbox Live Gold.Fifty bucks is a bit fucking steep if you ask me, considering Geometry Wars

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Thursday, September 21, for $199.95.Nice one.Incidentally, in the press release for the announcement it says the DS has sold 300,000 units in Australia. That's already double the Gamecube installed user base. This "blue ocean" thing might actually be working.

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September 14: New York. September 14: Tokyo. September 15: London.Three press events held in each of the three primary video game markets within 24 hours, each being convened specifically to talk about the Wii.So this is the day for launch details. And also the day for a slight pang of concern from Australian Nintendo fans.At each of those conferences, each of those three regions will find out

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(click for a more suitable version).That must surely be the very pinnacle of character design.15 days and counting.....

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Merciless...

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Crisis averted.Granted, they've acted as more of a quality control agent than a censorship board of late (bless you, sirs for canning Getting Up), but at the end of the day the OFLC can still be a right bunch of cunts when they get a bit of media affrontage behind them.So it's comforting to know we'll be getting an unedited, uncensored version of the PS2s swansong on these shores.

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Melbourne's two big gaming expos, the eGames & Entertainment Expo (Nov 17-19) & the Game1 Electronic Gaming Expo and Tournament (Nov 4-5 in Melbourne, and also Dec 2-3 in Sydney) have confirmed that the Wii will be there, in the flesh, and playable.Does this hint at an Australian release date? Fuck knows. But if they're going to have demo units in stores in October (maybe) and then have them

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A few weeks back, some people went into a bit of a shit-spin about retailers taking down their PS3 posters for a couple of days. Aussie-Nintendo led the charge, coming right out and suggesting supply shortages would result in delays aplenty.Steve Wilson, Managing Director of EB Games Australia, restored some order last week, and the continued presence of PS3 promo posters in EB with NOVEMBER 17

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The demo for Just Cause is now available on Australian Xbox Live servers. It takes place on a tiny island offshoot of the main game's sprawling landmass, and lets you pull off most of the shit you'll be able to try out in the real game. There's also a few missions to get stuck into as well.I must say, I don't want to get all giddy off a demo, but this game looks mighty promising.

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Oh man.And I thought i'd used up all my HL2 excitement up at the end of Episode 1.What they are doing to that Source engine defies belief. What they've done to those big outdoors levels leaves me breathless. My heart is thumping just watching that buggy sequence.That big 360 "compendium" edition of all things Half-Life 2 cannot come soon enough.

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So the Nintendo keynote at Leipzig has come and gone, and we've got both jack and shit to show for it.Disappointing, yes, but hardly surprising. Other than the slightly cocky "Wii Prove Our Promise" title, Nintendo themselves never promised that a damn thing was going to be revealed regarding either release date or pricing.We brought that expectation on ourselves with a deadly concoction of

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The Australian newspaper today published overall sales figures for all consoles and handhelds of the "last generation" (and a couple of "current" ones as well). The figures include all units sold from the console's launch until July 2006.Playstation 2 ..................... 1,809,000Game Boy Advance ............. 857,000Xbox................................. 835,000Nintendo DS .....................

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You've got to be fucking kidding me.

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I don't get it.A large gaming expo is announced, the first of it's kind in Australia. It's open for the public, has industry conferences, tons of demos and announcements and should be the best thing that's happened to Australian gamers ever.Then they go and fuck it all up by staging it in Perth.Who is going to go to Perth? Gamers aren't going to fly there to attend a conference. Kid's parents

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What do I normally think when I see somebody walking down the street wearing a gaming t-shirt?"Wanker"Why? Because said shirt most likely falls into one of the following categories:1) Piece of shit promo shirt that EB employees wear on their "days off" because it's "nerd chic". It's not.2) Piece of shit black IT shirt, worn because the fat cunt wearing it is either broke after building his latest

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That's right. The greatest. Fuck all the plumbers, Hylians and anyone called Gordon; this game is called Ninja Loves Pirate. And features.....ninjas. And pirates. And robots. And zombies.Holy.Shit.Add in the fact it's done ala early-90s side-scrolling beat 'em ups and I could spend another 800 pages telling you how this is the embodiment of everything I hold dear. But I don't have to. Because

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Mondo Generator AND Brant Bjork doing Allen's Wrench? Jesus Christ. My pants can barely take the strain.

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Mad props to Aussie mags that snag exclusive interviews like this one.The lads at Hyper sat down recently with Ubisoft to see if Red Steel had gotten any better since it's decidedly average (read: shithouse) showing at this year's E3.Going by their word, it seems it has. Highlights of the interview include assurances the game will push the Unreal engine to it's absolute limits, and that your

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THAT much. Co-op has never looked so downright dreamy.Lego Star Wars II hits these antipodean shores on September 13, on pretty much every platform barring the N-Gage.

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These have Photoshop written all over them. But, in the interests of fairness and that fact the AICN folk are going absolutely apeshit over them, here are two apparent "concept renders" of Optimus Prime from the upcoming Michael Bay film/disaster.Obviously, Prime's elbow is going to play a big part in the movie, so i'm glad we got to see it first. It's not the kind of thing I want to go into the

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This will be of particular interest to the three of you out there who are still using your PSPs for...well, games.Gamespot are reporting that Gamestop (ungh, most stupid sentence of the week) in the US have an EA "retro" anthology listed for release in October. While it sadly does not include Chuck Yeager, it still looks pretty fuckin sweet.The titles included are:B.O.B. -- 1993 -- SNES and

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Edan and Mr. Lif performing Lif's "Get Wise 91" from the Emergency Rations EP. First time they ever performed it live. Please. Watch this.

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If the rumours are to be believed, then yeah, 'fraid so. Apparantly there's some tussle over the rights to the original book and some rubbish mini-series being shown on the sci-fi channel in the US, so Tales From Earthsea is not going to hit Western theatres until 2009.I'll allow you a moment to let the gravity of that news sink in.On a brighter note, Hayao has said he's "full of fight" and

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Only a month to go. From September 14, Aussie Xbox 360 users will be able to stroll into any major retailer and pay cold, hard cash for some Microsoft points, forgoing the need to fuck around with a credit card over Xbox Live.This is wonderful news.For $25.00 you'll get 1500 points to spend. In games-for-points terms, Streetfighter II will cost you 400, so you'll be able to pick up 2-3 arcade

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I know. I didn't believe it at first either. I was wandering around in a consumerist daze last week, and saw giant Wii posters all over EB Games in The Galeries.Then, while enduring the hellish torments of a drive to Canberra, I heard a radio DJ in Wollongong interviewing Mario. For realz. He was asking him about the Wii, Twlight Princess and Mario Galaxy, and Mario was answering him. Which was

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If word on the "street" is to be believed, then yes, it is.September 21, $199.95. If this were true, it would continue Nintendo's unrelenting policy of punishing early adopters of hardware with later editions in superior colour schemes.No official word yet from Nintendo Australia, but then, that's hardly surprising.

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Check this shit out.This thing hasn't been made yet, so take all of this with a healthy grain of salt, but the makers of the DS-X are making some bold, and juicy, claims. I could list them in brief, but they're very techy and boring, so as a service to you I shall present you with their gist.Plug and play Nintendo DS emulation/storage. No fucking around with flash cards or any other nonsense.

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There are three comic book stores in Sydney City. And only one Squid of Man. Time for a showdown.It's Kings Comics vs Comic Kingdom vs Kinokuniya.Kings: The shiniest and prettiest of the three. Very clean, up-to-date stock and a nice browsing atmosphere. Pity they're so damn expensive. Toy section is also rubbish. There's lots of them; just none you want to buy unless you're one of those

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Well fuck me if this isn't the single most alarming thing i've read about EA in a loooooong time. Dubious Quality have bothered to actually read some of Xbox Live's fine print, and have uncovered what can only be described as some shocking facts. [cue Naomi Robson head-nod]Seems every time you play an EA game over Xbox Live, Microsoft provide your account information to EA. This is one of the

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So that's how it's going to work. Well...it's not as simple as I thought it would be...but then again, saying that I can't see how it could be any simpler. It's nice you don't have to get up to open the tray door...but since you have to get up to put the disc in anyways...ungh.The drive was demoed to some industry types yesterday in the US, and is apparantly coming along nicely. The 360 itself

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And now for something completely unexpected.Gamespot are reporting that Yoichi Wada, President of Square Enix, has hinted the company are seriously considering entering the hardware market."The strategy behind Nintendo and the iPod, to create a new environment based on hardware, is completely valid. But, this is impossible if you don't have experience making hardware. This is one of the reasons

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Word has reached me that demo units of the Wii are on their way to Australian shores towards the end of October. This will be excellent news should it be true; alas, Vooks.net are claiming only "independant" and "reliable" sources are at the heart of this "information". So we cannot trust a fucking word they say.Still, it's nice to dream, isn't it? And who knows...they might even be right.

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The Squid of Man is not a fan of Gamerankings. The Squid....is not alone.Enter Metafuture. Once a run-of-the-mill gaming blog, it has woven itself an elaborately cynical cocoon, nestled gently within it's silky confines and is preparing to emerge as...a raw collection of statistic and graphs.Stats and graphs do not normally get this Squid all moist and sticky. My aquatic habitat performs that

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