Koreans shed tears

source: IGN

During the BMO Capital Markets Digital Entertainment Conference in New York today, Activision Blizzard Chief Financial Officer Thomas Tippl outlined the publisher's upcoming title and releases plans, including World of Warcraft and Starcraft II, but it seems any hope for a Diablo III release next year have been dashed.

Both Starcraft II and World of Warcraft: Cataclysm are on track for 2010, but during the conference a slide was shown that puts Diablo III's release date at "next few years" and not in 2010 as many speculated.

"Diablo III is coming along well. Blizzard has expansion packs for Starcraft II in development," Tippl said. "They have a continuous innovation plan for the Battle.Net platform, as well as an unannounced MMO to come sometime down the road.





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New Fallout Vault 69 Reveal Trailer!

(OF COURSE IT'S FAKE :D, BUT CHECK OUT THE WORK I PUT INTO IT)

Reinstalled Windows and programs so I made this stupid fake trailer to test-drive the 3D, camera tracking and editing programs.

Vault 69 is a fallout bunker made by Vault-Tec (from Fallout universe), it has never appeared in any of the game in FO series but the best part is that Vault 69 contains 999 women and 1 man (talk about "One man standing... or f**king???")

I used Borderlands' Old trailer as editing material because the lady said something like "You are looking for THE VAULT, aren't you?... blah blah blah... IT DOESN'T EXIST!" so I came up with the idea of putting Fallout's Vault into the trailer... the problem is to determine a Vault number which would be interesting so I searched info on Vaults and found out 69 would be nice for this fake trailer.

Hope you like it.





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Materiel sources:
- Borderlands' VGA Trailer
- Fallout 3's in-game image of Vault door
- Fallout 3's main theme by Inon Zur
- Jessica Drake's moaning LOL


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Army of Three 14 + Gaming WTF: Muscle March!

This is some WTF shits that I honestly would like to try :D

Remember the infamous HUMAN TETRIS??? I've got them for you after THE CLICK



The crazy and funny Japanese one...






But I know you love THIS version more!




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The reason people look at us like Idiots

EXAMPLE

Honestly, I browse gaming forums for several reasons, one of them is to check out how these people show off their ignorance. One of the most common phrase is "I didn't read the article you posted but I think ...(went on for another 10 minutes worth of texts)...".

Seriously, what the heck was that? It seems people are more concerned about their post-count more than actual making logical or reasonable debates so the faster they could assume the contents of news/articles within their own dreams and typed down what they had to say the better. This is kind of a characteristic of ignorant persons since they are always asking to be heard but denied or refused to hear others' opinions.

No wonder people look at us gamers like bunch of idiots...


P.S. I think it's normal if people based their debates on different information or data they learned and believed, that is what the debating process is for. But when people start arguing not by using information but their own imaginations... where would that argument lead them to?





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Gaming WTF: I wish you were *** so I could ***

Pretty old stuff, but it's GOLD!







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While Kojima's taking his time teasing your sorry asses, Contra makes a come back!

Forget about the sadistic Kojima and that empty teaser site! Instead, clean up the dust layers on your Wii and make sure it's gonna work by the time Contra Rebirth hits North America.





ALL YOUR AWESOMENESS ARE BELONG TO US!





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Kojimaaaaaaa !!!

- This guy is having SOMETHING in store for us, but what is it gonna be? No one knows for now.



Speculation on IGN talked about the keywords on that page have something to do with Metal Gear, but we can't be so sure since I'm sure George Lucas is gonna use the keyword 'Star Wars' on his teaser page for a movie about 'little pony searching for her lost parents' too (If, he decided to make one).

People who think of themselves as Robert Langdon from 'Da Vinci Code' might started decoding and translating the symbols of this teaser page already, something like "Oh... the numbers of fences mean..." kinda bullshits. I'm sure you'll start seeing a lot of fortune tellers wannabe soon enough.

It might really be the NEXT Metal Gear, NEXT Zone of the Enders or anything unrelated to those 2 series... I DON'T CARE WHAT IT'S GONNA BE! JUST TELL US ALREADY!

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Gaming WTF: Drama Queens?

^{44.99$ sounds nightmarish steep! Try it at your own risk! LOL}

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Army of Three 13: Sarcasm Ep.1

Note: These random sarcasms have nothing to do with the actual games or sources. I made them up based on my first impressions upon seeing the clips.

DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO
Dragon Age: Origins Trailer



Most of the higher people in movie and game industries kept telling you while trying to get a job that you should put "NO HEAVY METAL" in your demo reels. Yes, heavy metal is bad if you are small flies because they are loud and can annoy the person viewing your reels, unless you are called BIOWARE or EA, then you can pretty much use any kind of music you want in your trailers even after turning down the poor souls applying with the same song in their reels.

Now isn't this ironic?

P.S. Marilyn Manson doesn't come close to metal in my book, but I know a lot of recruiters would call it metal :D

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Who are your target groups again?
New York Nights (?)



IF you like to party, you wouldn't be playing this iPhone app... you'd be busy flirting your asses off in the real clubs.
IF you don't like to party... why wouldn't you go shooting some Nazi zombies or enjoying blue alien sex scene instead of playing this game?

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Wii IS for FAMILIES!
Family Pirate Party




When the whole family can enjoy evil activities such as robbing, raping and killing, thanks to Nintendo Wii!

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Want to get into Movie Industry?

Tired of current job? Ever dream about working in the movie industry? Now your dream may comes true with the walls separated you and your opportunity to be a movie poster designer are all gone!!!

Resume? Education? Fine Arts degree? Do not worry about such minor details, you see people at Hollywood are simple and easy going bunch. But of course no matter how easy they are, you still need to meet these 2 requirements...(you know, it would make them look bad if this is TOO easy)

1.) Know what a photo editing program is and how to save a file.

2.) Ability to put face (any face) at the center of the poster (or at least in the central area of the poster).

Here are examples of what you should have in your portfolio...

See? Not that difficult, right? It always makes me feel good when there are new opportunities for people to get into the industry. What are you waiting for? Fire up your editing program and start practicing putting faces in the center!

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Limited OR Collector's Edition?

^{THIS THING looks sweet, but 143CAD? I'm thinking real HARD}

At the time like this when the term Collector's Edition means nothing more than "I'm throwing in bunch of shits to your face and you pay 20$ more!". Publishers got smarter enough to change the term Limited into Collector's since LE usually stick to lower quantity in order to stay limited (well, what else?) and desirable among consumers while CE means they can produce as many copies of these special editions and sell at premium price to consumers who thought they got something really special (where in reality, each person in the whole neighborhood has the same thing sitting on his collector shelf), remember seeing this scary image (click Read More to see) at any game retailer near you?

^{This scary mother of all over-supply theory}

Like the T2 set I mentioned above... if it's really a Limited Edition (say, 500-1000 sets ever produced) then I would have already placed the order long ago. But when the trend now is that everyone will probably own the same thing because they can produce near limitless (exaggerated) supply of Collector's Edition... consumer with the right mind might want to think again since CEs are not THAT special like the way LEs were.

It might be fair to say that Collector's Editions are just extortion schemes by publishers to take more money away from us. Have you seen Metal Gear Solid 4 CEs collecting dust on game shelves recently? I think CEs defeat the original purpose of having SPECIAL product packages in the first place... I think it would be cool if they go back to LE again, it would be hell but it would be fun... like people who got (and failed to get) this Lineage 2 Limited figurine.

P.S. Although I stated my opinion about CEs, but the Endoskull of this T2 set is seriously tempting!


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Gaming Deal: Buy Killzone 2 and save 50% on Dualshock controller

Amazon.ca is having a great gaming deal of the week, get Killzone 2 for the Playstation 3
and save 50% on a Dualshock 3 Controller. (Amazon.ca says the deal will valid until May 9, but it's definitely a typo ... the deal will work until May 16 or until they're totally sold out)

Not a bad deal especially if you still haven't got the game and still short of controller (it's selling around 55CAD at retailers so 25CAD is pretty sweet!)... and don't forget, you get free shipping for order of 39CAD and up so these sweet babies will be delivered to your doorstep hassle-free.






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Johnny Crush WHAT?!

When you let people make their own ideas into reality and allow them the distributing channel like the Xbox Live Community Games, clueless gamers might end up shooting some meat sticks... really kinky!

Watch the trailer after the click...



Johnny Crush is the name of this game which (in my opinion after watching the clip) may make you think about Serious Sam or Nitro Family, they all look like the kind of game which won't allow you to take your eyes off the screen even for half a second (forget about your favorite game-time snacks). No, no, no ... they are not THAT fun you couldn't take a break, they are games that required constant Run-n-Gunning and pausing won't do you any good because you couldn't remember which direction you'll have to straft to next!!

And from the clip below I think they should rename him Johnny CRUSHED (by giant RODS) LOL

Anyway, this is the developer's website and despite the jokes I made above, Johnny Crush is actually a good looking community game.



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Pixar coming to Van?

A lot of us CG people might be shaking in their boots holding their pee right now LOL

The Vancouver Sun: Pixar Animation, one of the world’s leading computer animators and a multi-Academy Award winning studio, will build a 20,000-square-foot facility in Vancouver to produce its popular short features.

Walt Disney Studios, with whom Pixar merged in 2006, is scouting locations in the city, concentrating on the downtown area. It hopes to have the new studio up and running by this fall.

The studio will hire 75 to 100 people, most of them Canadians, and will make all of Pixar’s three-dimensional, computer-animated short films, which usually run three to five minutes. All Pixar theatrical features will continue to be made at its main studio in Emeryville, Calif., which employs almost 900.

READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE (BEFORE 'JUMP FOR JOY') ---> HERE





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CONTRA IS BACK! (for the 100th time)

Anyone who can read Japanese, please do human race a favor and translate THIS

I only know it's for Nintendo Wii, it costs 1000 Wii points, and coming out on May 12 (next week... in Japan?)





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Skynet Research Infomercial

You think infomercials are stupid and redundant? Think again because this is the infomercial from the company which will change your world forever...

Why donating your CPU to space researches or cancer analyzing when you can contribute your valuable resources for a well known organization like Skynet Research?

See more details HERE





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Spartans meet their maker in this Darkest of Days trailer

When guys in Village People's costumes think they're at the top of the food chain, give them a split second to think again or use your shiny things to change their mind.

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Middle Manager Hi-Five!

You've got to love this!





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Army of Three 12: Red Steel Explodes Angry Nerd

Red Steel 2: Wild West Cyber Punk + Motion Plus = WTF

Remember Red Steel, one of the most anticipated launch title for the Wii? If not, then remember seeing the image below in the discount bin of any game retailer recently?


Now you know what game I was talking about. Despite the mediocre stamp it received as average from critics, it was still one good game to play especially if you are tired of shooting the axis (of evil?), mutated life forms or even aliens from other dimensions (Oh! Did I forget to mention zombies?). It had flaws in many parts, but the concept was promising Ubisoft just need to polish thier next sword-swinging title into better shape before putting it on shelves.

Now Ubi just released the debut trailer for their upcoming Red Steel 2 but do not think you'll get to put yourself into some gaijin's shoes and start blazing your Uzis and swinging your Katana against some Asian mobsters this time around...

Since game controversies had proved to be dreadful for developers and can halt games in progress, playing as a white guy shooting up Asian and colored gangsters as well as saving Geishas from evil Mama-san could be considered as "Racist", so the safest bet is to abandon all the setting from the original and let players play cowboy and place them in a surreal world where they can shoot and slash as many masked (apparently evil) people as they want. Yes, I made all those up... just watch the trailer, it really looks interesting!

And you've got (some high on drugs) Splosion Man video and the newest episode of Angry Video Game Nerd after the click!




Splosion Man: This is what you've got when developers took weed brownies while working!

Explosive trailer, that laugh was creepy!

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You Favorite Nerd is BACK!

X-Men Origin? Forget about the movie... it's not gonna be crappier than these old school X-Men titles!


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Army of Three 11: Ninjas Pirates Zombies Screwing You

Rocket Riot?



This is probably the only game I don't have any bad thing to say about ... looks like the kind of game people can have fun with just like Worms or Raving Rabbids. Love that "Have you fought a pirate, ninja and zombie AT ONCE?" irony thing... for Buddha's sake why not throw in some cyborgs and space marines too?

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NVP: Choose your side and settle the world's oldest debate(?)



Seriously, what ****ing debate? Like which clan has the biggest sausages?

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Zombie 'Wanker', oops... I meant 'Wrangler'



Sometimes I'm not really sure if western gamers love or hate zombies. Can you remember or have you ever counted how many games with zombies released during the past few years? Too bad all of them is about slaughtering these green people.





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It's BROKEN! It's coming... and it's RAD!

Broken Steel coming tomorrow. That was all I needed to say.





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Army of Three 10: You'll need 9 UPs in Battle for Terra!

Here are some upcoming 3D movies I'm looking forward to

And so ... 9 ... I'm creating YOU... [09.09.2009]




UP up and away... [29.05.2009]




Terror in planet Terra [01.05.2009]








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Army of Three 9: 256 gang-bangers online?

My life and things had gone really really MAD recently. Been getting a lot of headaches from work, too tired and unable to continue making my own 3D and manga projects, my RPG gaming weren't progressing ... AND ... getting robbed by the beloved annual income tax!

But despite all those things mentioned, I still feel the need to post something ... to keep doing things I normally do ... yeah, blogging can take my mind off those trouble for a while (or so I hope)

MAG Trailer: Talk about hail of bullets



This MAG thing (I mean the game, not the cosmetic!) is looking kind of cool. I'm not a hardcore online FPS-ter but thinking about a match with 255 other people in it (minus the lag) it could turn out to be a really exciting online experience, unless you're at the wrong end of the barrels :)

2 more videos from this Massive Action Game after the click...



MAG: Architecture Interview



See and listen to what the good people at Zipper Interactive have to say about this conceptual FPS.

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MAG: E3 2008 CAM Trailer



Old stuff but still cool to watch.


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Susan Boyle Flew, How About You?

Seems like everyone (or most of the online people) knew or heard about Susan Boyle and the stir she caused last weekend. It moved the hearts of so many people.

I admitted her performance and the scene captured from the Brit show touched my emotion a little too, I said a little because I always believe in the hidden selves of us people, I always believe that we are all different in one way or another and we all have something special inside that we need to search and realize for ourselves, something many of us as well as the judges and most of the audiences in last Saturday's audition didn't believe in.

But according to Peter Bregman, Susan didn't pass with flying color just because she has the talent, her triumph was 35 years in the making and she also had the most important thing we all need ... The heart...



Her brief story from the article told us that apart from 35 years of singing, she also had one of the most important ingredient above all. That ingredient is (are) Heart(s). She has the love for something which she has been doing it for 35 years and also she acquired the love and believe from some important people around her and these are the reason she stands tall and keeps her head high in the position she's in right now.

Now come back to take a good look at ourselves. How many of you who after getting Susan's slap on your faces, felt motivated during that weekend and now finding your skins sinking into the same old couch (where you got motivated) stop believing in yourselves and others?


Susan Boyle is a phenomenal role model for all of us, not just because of her talent or her courage or her perseverance or her supportive friends. She is a phenomenal role model for us because she is us, in all our awkward ordinariness and amazing extraordinariness - Peter Bregman

^{(We'll see how long people are going to keep this in mind)}

It's hard to really get up there and work on your dream especially after the long day at work and other headache stuffs, but I believe if you don't start doing something when you're motivated then you will never get anything done for the rest of your sorry lives. You can start from smaller steps but at least you've got to have a slightest progress in order to keep on being motivated. And when your fire died down, you'll stop believing you're special and you'll stop believing in others also, I noticed people who lost their motivation (or never had, to begin with) always say words of discouragement, because they know themselves won't get anywhere therefore they tend to bring other people's hopes down too.

So which type are you? The Susan Boyle type or just ordinary dreaming machine type? Your future is yours to decide.

And before I go I'll leave you with something good to watch, cheers!



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Army of Three 8: RPG Head too busy at work

Too busy working and playing Last Remnant, but I still want to post updates of some upcoming (cool looking) RPGs, enjoy!


Magna Carta II: RPG with BJD!!



Okay, it did strike me as a little creepy at first, but the character models look kinda interesting though.

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End of Eternity: How?



I don't know how you could find the 'end' of 'eternity' (here may be?) but this is another cool looking RPG, reminds me of Shadow Hearts.

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X-Edge: so 'X' is pronounced 'Cross'?



Just cool, I didn't (and still don't) know anything about this game but I already pre-ordered it. (life of an RPG Head :p )

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Army of Three 7: Ninja Medias - Dos and Don'ts

What the hell are Ninjas? Why they became so popular in the west these days? Actually Ninjas has blended into western culture for quite some time already (remember this shit? or this cool thing?), but personally I think it was this punk who brought the Ninja hype in the west up to the level it is today.

Who are they? You could probably find out about Ninjas here and there on the internet. And you might like or dislike these Ninja stuffs, but what I'm going to show today are little examples of Dos and Don'ts for the uses of Ninjas.

DO(s)

Cute/Fun Ninjas



I love this trailer of Mini Ninjas from IO and Eidos. It has cute looks, nice animations, good overall look and fun to watch (and hopefully fun to play too).

Although this is not likely the first image that came to my mind when I heard the term 'Ninjas', but a lot of people (especially kids) loved, still love, will love these kind of ninjas. There are a lot of cute and fun ninjas out there ranging from old school types to modern ones. Here are some examples...

Hattori-kun: This cute ninja by Abiko Motoo or Fujiko Fujio (A) from Fujiko Fujio Duo had captured many young hearts (a lot have become middle-aged or elderly people by now) since the 60s' to late 80s'. They (both manga and anime) were really fun, funny and had a lot of things to teach young kids.

TMNT: This cartoon about turtle ninjas, ratman, pigman, rhinoman, slimy brain, cyborgs and a cool villain called Shredder was one of the most favorite TV shows among children in the late 80s' to early 90s'. Its easy going tone and cool fighting sequences made this show a fun and memorable action-comedy cartoon.

Jubei-chan: Although it's an anime about a girl who possesses the power of Yagyu Jubei, a samurai, but she looks more like a ninja (and definitely fights like one). Secret of lovely eyepatch? Hell yeah, this is one lighthearted and fun ninja-ish anime to watch.

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Deadly Ninjas



So these are the ninjas which appeared in my mind. The deadly ninjas or assassins, the people living in the darkest shadow of history performing dirty and lethal tasks. This type of ninjas reminds you of what these people really are. Here are a few examples...

Iga vs Kouga: Classic rivalry between these 2 clans shown in Shinobi and Basilisk series (video shown above) are the example of how dangerous and deadly these ninjas could be. These tragic love stories full of political agendas, surreal techniques and incredible amount of blood and gore might change the way you think of ninjas.

Assassin Ninjas: As long as they are ordered to kill, it doesn't matter if they are androids or not. Ninja Warriors and Robocop 3's Otomo are those ninjas with any cool stuffs (like Titanium Endoskeleton?) but magical abilities.

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DON'T(s)

Ninjas WTF?!?



Bad example of the exploitation of ninjas in pop cultures, just because kids these days like ninjas as well as pirates doesn't mean putting them into the same environment, let alone doing some sports, would succeed. I really wonder whose magnificence idea was this? Or were they just responding to people's needs? If you're about to point fingers at this game's developer, I'd say wait until you've seen forum post like this. Seriously I've been seeing a lot of these questions for many years now, Ninja vs anything from worm to cowboy to even Chuck Norris!!!, why don't they throw in Jesus or even better, the Earth into the combination also?

Coming up this summer,
- Ninjas vs Cowboys: Bank Robbery
- Ninjas vs Nerds: Hacking Battle
- Ninjas vs Pimps
- Ninjas vs Gangstas
- Ninja vs Moms
... the list goes on.

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Army of Three 6: Plastic girls are creepy but attractive (?)

Yes, you (boys) always complain about how these girls look just like plastic. But according to the stats found in places hosting these precious resources, you boys love them. So now it's the time you stand tall and admit like 'a man' that you have a thing or two for plastic girls.


Reiko from Rumble Roses XX performs SEXY dance



I found the clip on he internet many years ago so I posted it on GameTrailers's user movie section and guess what? It had got more than 100,000 views in the first month (not to mention thousands of private messages requesting me to send the hi-res video to them)

Seriously, do you find Reiko in this video appealing? I just couldn't stop laughing at how ridiculous she looks and dances.

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Even slayer needs shower: Aya from Onechanbara



Yes, seems like plastic girls are always taking shower when the world need them the most! And like they said (with their fists raised) 'Something always get in the way!!!' If you were to be Aya's costume designer, it might bore the hell out of your life since her wardrobe would filled only with (some) bikinis, a pair of cowboy boots, cowboy hat and a (pink) Mink scarf (and probably some Katanas also).

Actually she's not that creepy compared to the ones above and below :D


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Naughty Lara Croft? (You all know where this girl came from)

- Stirring rumors among boys since 1996 -

How can we miss The Big Sister of the Plastic Girl Association?
Her sex appeal worked better than any kind of propaganda ever existed in mankind's history, it sent a lot of young and old out in the quest for the mythical (console) nude code. Well, it's 2009 now and all rumors died but the nude patch lives on.
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Army of Three 5: Secret World with Pip Boy 3000

Secret World Debut Trailer: Simply Gorgeous!



This debut clip for the game 'Secret World' from Funcom (yes, the developer behind The Longest Journey and Dreamfall: The Longest Journey) is simply gorgeous.
Watch how well the editing was (as well as the lighting, rendering and visual effects)

After the click, I have interview with director of Secret World and a real Pip Boy!



Ragnar Tornquist Interview



Hear from the director, Ragnar Tornquist, what this game is about.
Yes, an MMO (as if you haven't found that out by now, duh) which is set to come out for Xbox360 and PC where you will be fight monster in modern day, but could they get rid of zombies though? I'm kinda sick and tired of those animated corpses already.

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Pipboy in real life?



This guy made this Pip Boy 3000 from the collector item and his Ipod Touch, looks pretty cool. The next thing you need to do, mate, Is to figure out how to bring VAT (Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System) into reality! (ha ha ha)

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Iraq, The Video Game: Neutral Documentary Game (and my thought about it)

Developer 'Atomic Games' and publisher 'Konami' (Yes, THAT Konami) as stated in an article from Wall Street Journal (WSJ.com), are working on a documentary-style game with the name of 'Six Days in Fallujah' Read the full article HERE. Right now I don't think we've got much to talk about the concept of this game or even the game itself because we pretty much know nothing in detail. But I have some opinions about this subject after the click...



I think this is a pretty ambitious idea to create a 'game-amentary' (the term was used by the developers of this game themselves) which lacks the commentary elements usually presented in its counterparts (films) in order to stay 'unbiased' toward a particular viewpoint about this war.

Yes, it is ideal to try to be neutral, but how can we define the 'neutrality' of this subject? Atomic Games said it took into account experiences and memos from many soldiers as well as interviews with Iraqis involved in the battle, but how can one be totally neutral when the game puts us gamers in the shoes of US Marines? How can we, who will be struggling to survive in the digital version of this reenacted conflict, learn about the pain and suffering innocent Iraqis who were caught in the conflict between US battalions and Iraqis insurgents? And last but not least, how could a piece without commentary tells you about the reactions of US soldiers after they were briefed that all Iraqi males from the age of 18 - 65 were potential threats (especially when one had Kalashnikov in his hands) or would the developer show the truth concerning Fallujah Ambush in which 4 American contractors were killed while working for Blackwater and were sent into Fallujah 'underarmed' on a food-delivery mission^*? or will they just talk about these deaths as the victims of 'insurgency'?

So what is neutrality in the context of this game?

"We're not trying to make social commentary. We're not pro-war. We're not trying to make people feel uncomfortable. We just want to bring a compelling entertainment experience,...At the end of the day, it's just a game." Anthony Crouts - VP of marketing, Konami

"In parts of the "game-amentary," as the developers of "Six Days" have called it, users are forced to make hard choices. In one opening sequence, an enemy bursts from a door without a weapon in hand. Players can decide if this character qualifies as a hostile and can act accordingly. Whether you choose to shoot the unarmed person will drastically change your experience with the game and will be heavily based on the player's own support or objections to the war. Those personal feelings are complicated by the need to survive to succeed in the game." Jamin Brophy-Warren - WSJ

Sure thing, having these kind of choice making processes would add some depth and realism to the gameplay, this doesn't sound too different from your Karma system in Fallout 3. Without commentary, would it make any difference if the player is someone who doesn't have any knowledge about the social lives of people and the environments of the place? When you had never seen the looks on faces of injured Iraqi women and children, you tend to say the same thing I always hear (or read) from a lot of people (especially Pro-War American who had no idea of what the war is all about) "Better get them before they get us!"

Personally I don't have anything against this game because we will need to see more about this game before passing any judgment on the qualities of the game itself, but it was my personally feeling toward the idea of throwing facts and the precise events taken place in Operation Fallujah (at the moment I haven't had the idea whether 'Six Days' was modeled after the event in Operation Vigilant Resolve or Operation Phantom Fury) at the players without giving out any opinion or drawing any conclusion might result into a hyper-realistic war simulation which might not be too different from any other shooting games out there.

I watch documentaries on a daily basis, and rarely did I find a documentary which gave viewers only 'facts' without creator's point of view of the subject. The point about a good documentary is that the director states his/her views while giving the viewers breathing spaces to think, to do their own research and to draw their own conclusions by themselves. Personally I think a documentary without a clear directions or thought is a little pointless.

So we'll have to wait and see which direction and what decisions the developers at Atomic Games would adopt for the subjective matters in 'Six Days in Fallujah'.

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* Go do some research about how private firms do their business and earn profit from the current war in Iraq. (I think we gamers can acquire knowledge beyond our HDTVs if we want and choose to do so)

Update: From this article on Joystiq, it's inspired by Phantom Fury


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Army of Three 4: J-POP Bio Hazard Rules

Black Prophecy: You Are Destined to STFU!!!



It's always a good concept to have cool voice and catchy phrases in trailers, but of course it's good when you do it right. This trailer for a PC game with the name of Black Prophecy got that concept wrong. As soon as the guy finished saying 'destined to...' for the second time at the 35th second of this clip he couldn't keep his cool any longer and went totally nuts until he got tired at the end of the video. Don LaFontaine would have made it higher morale if he was to narrate this one, but well it's just my opinion.


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Bio Hazard J-POP: Something we won't expect western gamers to understand



Yes, most of you wouldn't understand us Asian gamers. It's in our cultures to add songs into our medias, you wouldn't understand how cool it was for me when I first saw this promo video for the original Bio Hazard. Guess why we love animes or movies with high-octane themes, guess why Asian kids love Sentai shows and guess why we have got something like JAM Project, classics like this or even this Kingdom Hearts' Ending? We love these stuffs and you can keep making fun of us but you will never change our hearts.

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Too much ranting I almost forget that there is one more relaxing video after the break... enjoy!




Sweet Eyes Ninja!



In my April Fools post, I posted a link to a piano rearranged version of Dr.Wily stage from Rockman 2. This time I brought you another version which is more grand and cleaner to your ears. You've gotta love this guy, he played the song really really well and he occasionally looked at the camera with his sweet eyes (too sweet for a ninja anyway).

This guy has only 4 videos on his YouTube, but check them out since they're pretty cool

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