Sept 06, 2007
The first ever bar-coded item to be scanned at a retailers was a pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum. 'Typewriter' is the longest word that can be spelt using only the top row of letters on a keyboard. Donald Duck's middle name is 'Fauntleroy'. What's not to love about trivia? Those little nuggets of seemingly useless info harboured in your noggin, called upon to fill the void when the conversation goes uncomfortably quiet or when an innocuous keyword prompts its surprise
Sept 5, 2007
We have an updated list of tracks that will be available for Rock Band when it releases in November. To be perfectly honest, the list has grown so much that we aren't entirely sure which songs are new to the list and which we already knew about. We do know that they have an impressive list of master tracks with only three cover versions on the list so far.
Check this out, our most rockin', most updated Rock Band track list:
Blue Oyster Cult "Don't Fear the Reaper"
Sept 5, 2007
The singing, dancing, rhythm-action game is no longer exclusive to Wii - as new versions are bound for PS2 and DS before the end of the year. Here's what the DS version looks like.
Boogie on DS comes packaged with 3D glasses - something we last got free in Kellogg's Cornflakes about a billion years ago when Jaws 3D came out at the cinema - so you can view the game in, er, 3D - while wearing the glasses - and it features new modes and mini-games.
(Note to self: don't wear the
Sept 4, 2007
Pandemic's Mercenaries 2: World in Flames will miss its 2007 release and has been pushed into next year. An official reason for the delay has not yet emerged from the mouth of the game's publisher, EA.
Mercenaries 2 is in development for PC, Xbox 360, PS3 and PS2 and, after Pandemic's success with the first game, we're hoping for an impressive action experience from the follow-up.
The game, says Pandemic, "is an explosive open-world action game set in a massive, highly reactive,
Sept 4, 2007
Scapegoats - gaming's full of them. Each and every year, the media sacrifices a new one to the public, proving again and again how violent and disgusting our hobby supposedly is. But they don't even know the half of it.
Posturing politicians and clueless news anchors love to sensationalize the obvious stuff - Super Columbine RPG, Ethnic Cleansing, JFK Reloaded, etc - games with seriously shocking titles but no real fans or audience (until the media shines the spotlight on them,
Sept 04 2007
We knew it was going to be expansive - but the Leipzig trailer of Spore really blows all bets out of the water.
The scale of change in how you manage your species through it's evolution from the primordial ooze to indisputable galactic dominance is staggering - but not nearly as exciting as the ability to control the evolution of your creation, not just manage it. Every evolutionary adjunct, every building, vehicle and plant is for you to
Sept 04, 2007
Games have to be made, of course. Theyre created from scratch, not born with their daddys nose, with developers piecing them together down to the genetic level. So, its no shock to see them changing and evolving as they head towards commercial release: HUD tweaks, visual improvements, character makeovers, gobs of spit ‘n polish and the like.
While all games go through a sequence of iterative facelifts, some go through a complete reinvention. Others get scrapped completely,
September 4, 2007
An arcade game called Arm Spirit has been recalled in Japan after three people suffered a broken arm while playing it - with further unreported cases likely. The game is supposed to be quite easy to beat and its makers Atlus Co. (the company who brought the world Princess Crown and Odin Sphere) can't see how people could manage to sustain such an injury while playing it. All 150 machines have been recalled and will be investigated for possible malfunction.
"The machine isn't
Sept 3, 2007
Following on from our video walkthrough of The Simpsons game last week, we can now bring you the latest trailer featuring everyones favourite yellow family, entitled Medal of Homer.
This is just one of a number of game related levels to be included in whats shaping up to be the best Simpsons game ever. But lets be honest, the previous titles werent exactly triple A standard.
As the games script is being crafted by the shows writers, we know theres going to be hundreds of
Aug 31, 2007
Teabagging: You do it. We do it. Chances are, your grandparents did it too (We've seen pictures.) But it's never been chronicled quite so finely as in the video below.
While scouring the GamesRadar archives, we happened upon an instructional film chronicling the elegant art of the dangle. Believed to date all the way back to the 1950's, the movie depicts how Teabagging came to prominence, and with the help of an on-screen guide clad in a clip-on "training bag" it's sure to
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