Stupid world news

Halo: ODST comes out on Tuesday and ToysRUs is offering a $20 gift card and an ODST figure for those who buy it from them. The deal is in-store only, so no online buying.

these guys are SO gonna get a call from EA Games' lawyers
http://kotaku.com/5363727/socal-alarm-service-about-to-get-a-letter-from-norcal-games-publisher

Capcom is prepping people for a Street Fighter sequel announcement. Most likely this isn't going to be Street Fighter 5, but Street Fighter 4 Super Hyper Mega Turbo Alpha etc...

Best Buy is currently considering buying GameStop.

For the girls on the site...
http://kotaku.com/5363353/pokemon-menstrual-pad-yours-for-eight-bucks

Best Buy is offering to have their Geek Squad install any new PS3 (meaning Setup and configuration of the console, installation of the latest firmware update, setup and configuration of the user account and parental control features, and setup and configuration of 1 online account) for $129.99.

So many other stores have been confirming a $50 price cut on the Wii set for Sept. 27 and Nintendo has pretty much confirmed it via a call from Nintendojo.com

Bioshock 2 Is hitting stores February 9.

Half-Life 2 mod
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwxN8sCIOOE

there's a new table-flipping arcade game out in Japan.
http://kotaku.com/5362259/pissed-off-tea-table-flipping-the-arcade-game

Blockbuster is planing on closing up to 960 stores in 2010.

Microsoft project Natal
http://www.destructoid.com/videos/even-famous-people-look-goofy-playing-natal-135256.phtml&t=video

Lots of new info on the future Dead Rising 2 coming out some time 2010. It seems that you may be able to use duck tape in the game to combine items to make awesome new items like a wheelchair with chainsaws or a RAKE SHOTGUN
http://kotaku.com/5368151/dead-rising-2-behold-the-rake-shotgun
and the multiplayer mode for Dead Rising 2 was sort-of revealed at TGS. It looks like its going to be an American Gladiators-type dealy where multiple players are in an arean trying to rack up points for zombie kills. Check out the trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=metujh_I2Y0

A Sega of America document was leaked that mentioned the possibility of PS2 and Dreamcast games being sold on the Playstation Network in the near future.

Goichi Suda, creator of No More Heroes says that NMH2 will conclude Travis Touchdown's story, but there may be a 3 in the future on the "Wii 2" or whatever Nintendo puts out next... which is odd as he was talking about moving the series to other consoles in the future. This dude needs to make up his mind on these details.

Guess who got an OS-tan makeover... that's right! Its Windows 7!
http://www.japanator.com/the-os-war-is-won-windows-7-gets-officially-endorsed-os-tan-11521.phtml

Apparently the Cowboy Bebop movie's script is going through a rewrite right now as the current script would make the movie cost $500 million to make.

It won't let me update this, and I have permission to use this account from the owner to use it now and then, if I need to.


The FF13 TGS trailer now with the english team's dub!
http://kotaku.com/5373292/hear-final-fantasy-xiiis-english-voice-acting-in-new-old-trailer

The wii 2 looks to have mind control
http://kotaku.com/5019408/what-we-hope-the-wii-2-doesnt-look-like

New Super SF4 trailer is out and shows off Juri, DeeJay, and T. Hawk!
http://kotaku.com/5373171/now-this-is-a-super-street-fighter-iv-announcement-trailer

this new JP commercial for Bayonetta uses a live actress that looks pretty accurate.
http://kotaku.com/5372442/bayonettas-live-action-model-looks-about-right

Nintendo's new 4.2 update is taking off the Homebrew Channel.. again.. and it's also bricking Wiis. But not just hacked ones. Regular ones are dying too. Nintendo says they'll fix your console if it bricks from the update and ISN'T hacked SO DONT UPDATE YOUR WII!!!

Resident Evil: Afterlife, the 4th entry to the live-action movie series has been officially announced.

There's an open beta/demo for Uncharted 2's multiplayer on the PSN. Go download it and enjoy 2 extra maps, a bunch of new modes, a better lobby system, and more co-op story missions.

the new L4D episode "Crash Course" is out now. If you have the PC version, go get your FREE update. If you have it on 360, enjoy your 500 points purchase.

apparently LittleBigPlanet for PSP has finally been given a release date. It comes out November 17. Too bad it has no MULTUPLAYER

Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize recently and Kojima tied it in to promote MGS: Peace Walker
http://kotaku.com/5378697/kojima-weighs-in-on-obamas-nobel-prize

Konami is reviving the old Rocket Knight series and making a new game for LIve Arcade. Should be fun despite a somewhat soulless-looking art direction
http://kotaku.com/5378406/first-rocket-knight-remake-trailer-is-go

China made a PSPgo knockoff called the "PXP-2000" that looks just like the PSPgo (slide screen and everything!) and comes with a built-in camera, FM radio, drag and drop MP3/MP4 capabilities, speakers, MP5 player, SD card slot, 4GB of built-in memory AND has a built-in emulator that can run ROM titles... all for $83.99.
http://kotaku.com/5377570/pspgo-in-chinese-knock-off-form

Sega All-Stars Racing is getting even more awesome.. Shenmue's Ryo Hazuki is in the game and will race using a motorcycle AND a forklift.
http://kotaku.com/5376255/sega-all+stars-racing-gets-a-little-shenmue

Wii can help fight terrorism? Whut? Apparently the Wii balance board can be used to track shifted weight of people fidgeting. More fidgeting means more likely of being guilty.
http://kotaku.com/5376164/how-the-wii-can-help-fight-terrorism

Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner just filed a trademark on the title "Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands"

The Rock Band Network tools have finally been released so people can start making their own Rock Band songs that they can sell on XBLA! The software for converting to Rockband is free, but in order to make separate music digital tracks and all that, a program called "Reaper" is needed.. and you'll have to buy that.. so unless you're a musician, you might wanna just pass on this and just wait for the awesomeness to hit Live
http://kotaku.com/5375491/get-your-rock-band-network-tools-now-start-making-tracks

Looks like Master Chief heard New Orleans was ravaged by The Flood and headed down for support, found out he was too late, and supported the Saints team instead.
http://kotaku.com/5374246/guess-who-loves-the-new-orleans-saints

someone made a PC game called "lose/lose" in it, you play a ship that shoots aliens that don't fight back... because the aliens are actually files on your computer. As you kill aliens, computer files are deleted. WHY WOULD SOMEONE MAKE THIS?!
http://www.stfj.net/art/2009/loselose/

For a game-themed show coming up, someone made a few pieces where games are shown in just 15 pixels. Kinda interesting.
http://timmaughanbooks.com/2009/10/11/parappa-and-street-fighter-in-just-15-pixels/

games coming out last Tuesday!
-Uncharted 2
-Brutal Legend
-Way of the Samurai 3
-Fallout 3: GOTY Edition
-MagnaCarta 2
-Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games
-Where the Wold Things Are
-A Boy and His Blob
-Petz Pony Beauty Pageant
-Fate: Traitor Soul
-SingStar Motown
-Cake Mania 3
-Afrika

"Games coming out last tuesday"
*that came

Also all thoes games came out Yesterday in the UK.

I was banned last week, the source is supposed to be in the us, ... huh... that's it, I guess.

The OS wars never ends

Someone made a custom Optimus Prime steam train figure
http://tomopop.com/an-excellent-transformers-custom-that-answers-what-if--9366.phtml

one night, some dude's dog just started gnawing on his 360 controller which turned on the Xbox and apparantly, the dog ended up buying 5000 MSpoints (that's $50 of points).
http://kotaku.com/5386863/dog-bites-mans-live-account

best buy is joining amazon.com and toys r us on the buy 2, get 1 free video game sale train.

FF13 isn't going to force an installation on PS3 users.

Kojima says one of his reasons for putting Peace Walker on the PSP was because he wanted kids to be able to play it since their parents wouldn't want to buy them a violent game on a home console.

Famitsu just gave the 360 version of Bayonetta, the new game from the creator of Devil May Cry, a perfect score of 40. Meanwhile, the PS3 version is a 38 out of 40

Abbey Road DLC for Beatles Rock Band is out. And it's $17. If you're wondering if it's worth it, check out the trailer

Scribblenauts was the #3 best-selling DS game in September with 194,000 copies and right behind Mario & Luigi 3 and Kingdom Hearts 358/2. Also, Halo 3: ODST beat EVERYTHING last month (including MADDEN 10! Which was beaten by.. Wii Sports Resort??) with 1,520,000 copies.Oh, and the PS3 price drop made it the top-selling console (though DS still sold over 100,000 more copies

Mario VA says there's another Mario game in the works other than Galaxy 2 and New Mario Bros. Wii.

Game Informer with info and screens on Epic Mickey came out. It looks... not nearly as epic as the concept art... but hey, it still looks kinda creepy. Take a look at this animatronic Donald Duck in the game:
http://kotaku.com/5385302/epic-mickeys-animatronic-donald-gives-me-the-creeps

In the same interview where they say that "This is the most fan-responsive game in Capcom's history," they also say that Super Street Fighter 4's Seth is going to be "EVEN CHEAPER AND MORE IRRITATING"

the PS3 is finally getting the instant watch Netflix feature that the 360 has. apparantly, once people sign up for the program over at netflix.com/ps3 , they'll be sent a free "instant streaming disc" that will initially be required to be put in the PS3 in order to stream content. This seems to be the equivalent to the 360's syncing code, so maybe it only needs to be done once.

Home Shopping Network dude broke an HDTV while showing off wii accessories. LAWL.
http://kotaku.com/5384471/ok-this-wiimote-mishap-were-calling-not-fake

so New Mario Bros. Wii has playable characters Mario, Luigi, and TWO Toads, right? What about Peach? Well, a magazine asked Miyamoto that recently. Miyamoto's reply was that they would have to work on programming for Peach's dress.

Nintendo has been cracking down on R4 sales at retailers in Japan, people have resorted to selling R4s out of apartments like crack dealers
http://kotaku.com/5382926/r4-sales-get-shadier-and-shadier

the final two characters for the US version of Tatsunoko vs Capcom have been revealed. They're going to be the rumored Joe the Condor from G-Force and Zero from Megaman X
http://wii.ign.com/articles/103/1034545p1.html

So new info on Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep was revealed recently. First of all, a new character was revealed possibly named "Master Eraqsu" which spelled backwards in japanese is close to "Square" similar to the Yen Sid character being "Disney" backwards. This dude apparently may have been based off of the original Final Fantasy creator, which is pretty cool.
http://kotaku.com/5382223/who-does-this-new-kingdom-hearts-character-look-like
But what's even more cool is the reveal that not only will there be a new Cinderella world in the PSP game, but also a Stitch world featuring characters and villains from the Lilo and Stitch TV series.
http://www.kingdomhearts3.us/2009/08/

so apparently the boycott of Left 4 Dead 2 is ending. The founders of the boycott are throwing in the towel claiming that their goal was to get Valve to support the first L4D, which apparently they're doing.

the new Dragonball Tenkaichi game "Dragonball: Raging Blast" comes out november 10 and will feature 45 characters and have a SSJ3 Broly and Vegeta among other alternate story takes. Oh, and it's for PS3 and 360 meaning GOOD online Vs mode.

Modern Warfare 2 is going to have a 3rd-person multiplayer mode

3D Dot Game Heroes has been confirmed for US release. No publisher has been picked yet, but the japanese developer said they are planning on bringing it overseas. This game is basically an awesome old-school Zelda homage for the PS3

Nintendo just announced ANOTHER Nintedo DS redesign. This one is called the "DSi XL" and has a big screen. A whole inch over the DSi (which was .2 inches more than the DSlite). looks pretty big in comparison to the DSi. Oh, it also has a big stylus too
http://www.destructoid.com/elephant/photo-m.phtml?photo_key=119767&post_key=153494
this is due out in 2010

Some 3rd party developer is making a zoom lens for the DSi's camera.. shit looks ridiculous
http://www.destructoid.com/elephant/photo-m.phtml?post_key=153443&photo_key=119719

Dennis Hopper has prostate cancer

New Super Mario Bros on DS has sold almost 20 million units now. Guess we know how well the Wii one will sell

The site I update from is finally back up. =D

Europe's rating system just gave a rating for Michael Jackson's Moonwalker of Virtual Console.

People who preordered L4D2 can pre-load it on Steam now. Which is a good idea since the game is apparently MORE THAN 6 GIGS


Comparison pics of God of War PS2 and the remastered edition for PS3 are out. Looks like there's a noticeable change there
http://kotaku.com/5399200/god-of-war-ps2-vs-god-of-war-ps3


new trailer for Zelda: Spirit Tracks is out. Apparently, Zelda is a ghost and Link is trying to save her spirit.
http://kotaku.com/5398686/zelda-puts-the-spirit-in-spirit-tracks

a magazine ad for the Tekken movie is out
http://kotaku.com/5397109/first-tekken-movie-sales-art-shows-off-six-iron-fist-fighters
Looks surprisingly accurate to the game.. also, there's a myspace account with on-set pics
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=391328083&albumId=203892&page=2

Car smashing and barrel smashing bonus rounds confirmed to return to Super Street Fighter 4. Also, 2v2 and 4v4, replay channel, and endless battle modes confirmed for the game.
http://kotaku.com/5396648/ready-to-smash-up-cars-in-super-street-fighter-iv

Myspace/facebook relations:
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/4508/tomjoinedfacebook.jpg

Rabbids Go Home has its own Mii-style channel that can be downloaded from the game. It allows others to see and download cool Rabbid creations done by other people
http://kotaku.com/5395972/rabbids-developers-remembered-wiis-neglected-features

if you preorder L4D2, you get a free Bill hat for TF2
http://kotaku.com/5395713/preorder-bonus-puts-l4d-headwear-in-team-fortress-2

Microsoft heard about that dude whose dog bought $50 of MSpoints and is refunding him the money. Apparently this story even hit the news, hence M$ hearing about it

Poster speaks for itself
http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/1420/missingimagenaryfriend.jpg

Russia is banning Modern Warfare 2, mainly because of the terrorist airport scene in the game. Infinity Ward says they're planning on cutting the level out of the game in Russia and, pending Russian government consent, they'll re-release the game there

Some teenager was kidnapped and forced by his captors to buy a PS3 at gunpoint.

The Onion has revealed Modern Warfare 3!
http://kotaku.com/5401281/the-onion-reveals-modern-warfare-3

The original Power Rangers series is getting a digital remastering AND a new toy line reissuing of the show's original toys.
http://tomopop.com/it-s-morphin-time-original-power-rangers-series-returns-with-new-toyline-9623.phtml

Rockstar has been confirmed for working on GTA V and rumored to be working on Bully 2.

it's rumored that Project Natal for the 360 will be launching in November of 2010 and will launch with 14 games. It may also be cheaper than people expect (around $50)

during halloween, a couple guys dressed up as mario and luigi (and a 3rd guy in a tux, presumably Toad) mugged a New York cabbie guy and are currently wanted. WTF?
http://kotaku.com/5403341/oh-no-mario--luigi-wanted-for-assaulting-ny-cabbie

Final Fantasy 13 finally has a US release date of march 9, 2010. Plus, a new trailer
http://kotaku.com/5403678/final-fantasy-xiii-hits-north-america-march-9

someone managed to manipulate the motors inside of a laser engraver to play the Mario Bros theme. AWESOME.
http://vimeo.com/4028427

Speaking of Mario, New Mario Bros Wii, AKA Super Mario World 3 is freaking out! Go buy it because it is awesome. Also, epic final boss encounter.

Apparently the Modern Warfare 2 developers are considering making a spinoff game about the character Ghost.

Resident evil: darkside chronicles, trailer here:
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/experience-the-darkside/57808
It is awesome!!!

http://pleasedontreadthis.com/category/japanese-bug-fights/

Bug fights :/