Archive for the tag "nonsense"
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Posted in America, Legalities, PS2, Rockstar | 1 Comment »
According to this Kotaku story, a US court has refused to certify the proposed settlement class of the Hot Coffee lawsuit as too few people were offended by the matter ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Posted in Casual, Japan, PS3, Sony | 11 Comments »
Have a front page? Hold it. Stop all presses while you're at it. A Japanese retailer has posted a description of what Afrika actually is, meaning those endless, dreary dark ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Arcade, Japan, Sega | No Comments »
Sega's let press near the upcoming Rambo arcade game, which looks far too much like a modern Operation Wolf that is good for it. The title's based on the movies ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008 Posted in Nintendo, Platformer, Stuff | 4 Comments »
After the link. We're not even sure which game it is, if we're being honest. Looks like some bastardised Japanese version of Mario World. The whole thing's been set to ...
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Stuff, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | 13 Comments »
This is going to run and run. Not content with banning the word "gay" in GamerTags, Microsoft has stopped a Mr Cummer from using his name on Xbox Live.
With all ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in Action, Arcade, Japan, Sega | 1 Comment »
On CVG. Looks shit, but it's Rambo and Sega, so nothing can possibly go wrong. Apparently this is going to release this autumn in Japan. No idea if this will ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008 Posted in Stuff, UK | 6 Comments »
In a poll of 2,000 Britons, gaming has emerged as a preferable bedroom activity to sex. According to this, the top ten bedroom pastimes in UK household, by minutes spent ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008 Posted in Retail, UK | No Comments »
According to this, the UK retail chain Dixons is after developers to it can start publishing its own games.
“We’re going out to the development community and saying that DSG are ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008 Posted in Stuff, Wii | No Comments »
This is about the Friday afternoon level. "Troubled soccer legend Paul Gascoigne has yet another addiction – to his Nintendo Wii," said this.
"Gazza, 40, has been spending hours on end ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 Posted in EA, Financials, Trade | No Comments »
Next stop, the moon. EA's just announced plans to hit $6 billion in sales by 2011. CEO John Riccitiello said this was a target, and not guidance, but shares jumped ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008 Posted in Journalism, Politics, Trade | 3 Comments »
Family values idiot-paper, The Daily Telegraph, "The Daily Mail with more syllables", has launched a fantastic attack on Tanya Byron, the ex-TV psychologist charged with compiling a government report on ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008 Posted in Puzzler, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | 2 Comments »
We love Peggle. So it comes as great news that the upcoming XBLA version will include online multiplayer options. We think this means two of you will be able to ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in DS, Puzzler | 1 Comment »
This is the last story we write about Peggle. According to this, a previous confirmation that nonsense, random, depressing casual game Peggle is coming to DS isn't true.
"We have ambitious ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in DS, Puzzler | 5 Comments »
So says this. We're only posting this because we have to. Apparently a chap in Amsterdam told Pocket Gamer that ridiculous Peggle thing's going to be launched on DS. We ...
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 Posted in Crime, Stuff, Wii | No Comments »
Not so great. Two Kansas City women have been held at gunpoint by two men in their home, who were apparently looking for money and drugs. When they realised they'd ...
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