Show Notes: Episode 19
ByGuildCafe Entertainment Inc. is now GamerDNA Inc.
www.gamerdna.com/company/blog/2008/04/18/guildcafe-entertainment-inc-is-now-gamerdna-inc/
Today we announced that we closed on some funding to allow us to expand upon everything we’ve built with GuildCafe.com. We’re excited about the possibilities before us–we’ll be building a platform for bringing together gaming communities and games across all types of genres and platforms; a place where the memories and stories of your gameplay will be preserved forever.
Worlds Collide as Mortal Kombat Meets DC Comics
blog.wired.com/games/2008/04/worlds-collide.html
What is Marvel vs. Capcom like on Bizarro World? I’m pretty sure it’s Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe.
RZA Launches Wu Tang Online Chess
www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/684713/RZA_Launches_Wu_Tang_Online_Chess.html#readmore
Wu Tang Clan mastermind RZA recently teamed with Chesspark.com to launch Wuchess.com, an online community where chess-lovin’ hip hop fans can compete in live games with other chess players.
Most Wii games “look like crap”
www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=133156
Developer High Voltage has attacked the mentality of developers making games for Wii, claiming most end products “don’t even look as good as the latter day PS2 titles”.
Nintendo Dominates Hardware and Software Sales in the U.S.
It appears as though this whole shortage issue is gone for Nintendo. They posted very impressive sales numbers for their hardware and software in March and trounced both Sony and Microsoft in these areas. Let’s just put it this way, Nintendo sold 58% of all hardware sales in the US between their DS, Gameboy, and Wii systems.
Obama, Clinton Supporters Battle in Second Life
gamepolitics.com/2008/04/18/obama-clinton-supporters-battle-in-second-life/
As the crucial Pennsylvania primary draws near, competition between Democratic presidential contenders Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is heating up in real life as well as Second Life’s virtual world.
First Facebook Beacon Lawsuit Hits Blockbuster
www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/17/first-facebook-beacon-lawsuit-hits-blockbuster/
As if Blockbuster didn’t have enough problems trying to justify its existence by making an ill-conceived buyout offer for Circuit City. Now, it is being sued for privacy violations related to its Beacon ads on Facebook. And, no, the plaintiff is not Michael, although he did once point out that the way Blockbuster used the names and images of Facebook members without permission to hawk its service could be a violation of their privacy rights.
Activision: ‘Guitar Hero: Aerosmith’ Does Not Signal Shift To Single-Band Approach For Franchise
Just filed a story for MTVNews.com about the “Guitar Hero: Aerosmith” game coming to PS3, XBox 360, PS2 and Wii this June.
EA extends deadline for Take-Two offer
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24200875/
Yesterday, Take-Two urged its shareholders to refuse EA’s buyout offer of $26 per share, but EA isn’t backing down. They have extended the deadline on their offer to May 16, 2008.
They have also revealed that “as of 5:00 p.m., EDT, on April 17, 2008, 6,432,787 shares of Take-Two had been tendered in and not withdrawn from the tender offer.”
Take-Two also voted to issue more shares to its shareholders and in response, EA has reduced their offer price to $25.74 per share.
It’s clear that EA wants Take-Two badly, but what will happen after GTA IV releases?
Epic Fail – ‘Naruto: Ultimate Ninja STORM’ for PS3
www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/684666/Naruto_Ultimate_Ninja_STORM_for_PS3.html#readmore
2009 targeted for Crackdown dev’s MMO APB
BABE!! – GI Joe’s Scarlett Pic Revealed
www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/684656/GI_Joes_Scarlett_Pic_Revealed.html#readmore
*Drool Drool* Paramount just released the first photo of Rachel Nichols (Alias, Charlie Wilson’s War) as Scarlett O’Hara from the live-action adaptation of toy/cartoon/comic franchise GI Joe.
Activision Confirms Spider-Man: Web of Shadows
ps3.ign.com/articles/867/867061p1.html
Like a streak of light, he arrives just in time — Spider-Man is coming back to videogames.
Activision announced today that Spider-Man: Web of Shadows is currently in the works from Shaba Games and Treyarch for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PSP, Nintendo DS, Wii and PC.
Play Age of Conan three days early
www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=132846
Funcom and Eidos have announced anyone pre-ordering Age of Conan in the USA, Germany, France, Spain, UK, Oceania and the land of the Nords will get to play the game early.
IGN reviews GTAIV
xbox360.ign.com/articles/869/869381p1.html
…and gives it a Perfect 10
NES Cartridge Modded into NES System
gizmodo.com/382452/nes-cartridge-modded-into-nes-system-space+time-remains-intact
This has to be the most jaw-dropping NES mod ever… putting a whole system-on-a-chip NES console clone into an original game cartridge. Talk about how to demonstrate the advances in shrinking electronics over the years!
If Pac-Man Was to Take a Crap…
kotaku.com/381802/two-brothers-meditating-upon-questions-of-pac+man
Kotaku’s Owen Good and his brother discuss what happens when Pac-Man takes a crap.
Uwe Boll asks Blizzard for WoW movie rights, Azeroth says no
www.strategyinformer.com/news/865/uwe-boll-asks-blizzard-for-wow-movie-rights-azeroth-way-off-limits
Blizzard has essentially laughed the German director out of their offices, and certainly right out of Azeroth. “We will not sell the movie rights, not to you… especially not to you,” was apparently Paul Sams reply, to which Azeroth was pronounced saved!
Nintendo bucks tradition, says no price cuts for Wii
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080425/ap_on_hi_te/japan_nintendo
Nintendo does not plan to cut prices of its popular Wii gaming console or DS handheld game system anytime soon, the company’s president said Friday.
Jack Thompson Reaches Out To Take-Two CEO’s Mother
blog.wired.com/games/2008/04/jack-thompson-p.html
The email is provocative, to say the least. Not only does it say Mr. Zelnick is “like the Hitler Youth,” it also attributes the deaths of three Alabama policemen and “a recent plethora of cop killings” to prior entries in the GTA series.