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VG Chartz translates the latest first-day sales reported by the Japanese site Sinobi:
? Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (DS): about 200,000
? SD Gundam G Generations Spirits (PS2): about 160,000
? Sengoku Basara 2 Heroes (PS2): about 60,000
? Yu-Gi-Oh: Duel Monsters World Championship 2008 (DS): about 25,000
? Assassins Creed (360): about 20,000
? Naruto Shippuden: Gekitou Ninja Taisen EX 2 (Wii): about 15,000
? Sengoku Basara 2 Heroes (Wii): about 7,000
? Disgaea Portable with Network Play (PSP): 7,000
? Zero no Tsukaima: Muma ga Tsumugu Yokaze no Nocturne (PS2): 3,000
Games listed below are red light(?):
? Guilty Gear: OVERTURE (360): about 4000
? Super Swing Golf 2nd Shot (Wii): about 3000
? Another Century Episode 2 Special Vocal Edition (PS2): about 3000
? IQ Sapuri 2 (DS): about 2000
? Izuna 2 (DS): about 1500
? Tony Hawk Project 8 (PS3): about 1500
? Tony Hawk Project 8 (360): about 1000
? Puzzle Quest (DS): about 600
Notes: Wii Fit is not on the list because it launches on 12/1 in Japan, and the wholesale market is already reporting a shortage.
Fresh off our Toaster Deathmatch 2K6, we bring you this Breakfast-Art Image Toaster. Sure, it looks like any old toaster you could get as a wedding present (and then promptly return for booze money), but this one draws things on your toast!
Four separate image designs—a sun, a cup of coffee, a smiley face or a birthday cake. You know what? As jaded as we've become over cutesy gadgets, this thing's pretty great. We're buying these as gifts for everybody this Xmas. – Jason Chen
Product Page [Brookstone via Coolest Gadgets]
The company's technology shows a flashing circle or a dotted rectangle that lets users navigate through the video and get information on objects displayed on the screen.
What sells, what's being made, what's being looted and more.
Minor security tweaks and features added
Rayman Raving Rabbids is a screaming success
- K-Fed has been named one of the 50 Most Influential Men Under 45 by Details Magazine, and the Earth has just spun off its axis.
- Did someone pepper spray Miss Puerto Rico Universe's gown to sabotage her during the country's beauty pageant? Did she do it herself? Can Matt Lauer get to the bottom of this mystery? Why are you even still reading this?
- According to an unnamed Lindsay Lohan
friend publicist, her rehab boy toy Riley Giles might not want to go making himself too comfortable just yet.
- According to the stripper who also appeared in those pictures of Oscar De La Hoya in drag, they might have been photoshopped. Either way, we'll always prefer to think of the boxer as the fishnet-wearing ballerina we've come to know and love.
- And sadly, Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor has died after being shot by a burglar he confronted in his home.
Technologic Systems has announced a single-board computer (SBC) claimed to boot Linux 2.6 in under two seconds. The TS-7800 is equipped with a Marvell 500Mhz ARM9 CPU running a full Debian implementation, and includes a user-programmable on-board FPGA (field-programmable gate array) with 12,000 LUTs (look-up tables).
Cheaper 40GB model pointed for sales jump in North America, we reckon Christmas has got something to do with it as well...
In even more sales willy waving, Sony Computer Entertainment America has said that PlayStation 3 sales have increased by (exactly) 298 percent since November 2 in North America.
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Filed under: Sony PSP, Business
Speaking to
MTV Multiplayer, SCEA hardware marketing boss John Koller admitted that piracy of PSP software is still very much a concern to the company, but that it's been less severe in recent weeks. "It's trending down right now, we've seen the piracy not be as prevalent in the last month to two months," Koller told the site, adding, "But it has been a problem for us."
SCEA president Jack Tretton
pointed to piracy as a chief factor in weak PSP software sales during E3. Looking at the past two months' worth of releases for the handheld, though, one would have to imagine that the decline in piracy can be attributed to the fact that there have been no recent, major PSP titles to, well,
pirate. In fact, the holiday season will be devoid of a single new, triple-A year-end title for PSP ... something that has to be worrying Sony more than pirates right about now.
PSP piracy down, but so are major releases originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Leave it to the Japanese to dress a bunch of guys up in Waldo outfits, place binoculars on their heads and make them play soccer.
http://www.techspot.com/news/27873-phillips-and-liteon-announce-199-pc-bluray-player.html
Review of
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts for Xbox 360, a game in which you can create an infinite variety of wacky vehicles, then use them to play a game that isn't that much fun.
IBM introduced new servers that use a new quad-core processor design from Intel.
Official Xbox Magazine sings the praises of Mass Effect before rewarding it with a perfect 10. Editor Paul Curthoys writes:
"The experience as a whole - the sense of awe that lasts all game long, and the emotions in your gut as you sit back at the end and just gape - pays off all on its own. Personally, it's the best game I've ever played, but even if you're not a hardcore sci-fi nerd like me, Mass Effect is a transcendent experience, the new standard-setter for what a game can be. You have to play it, and that's why we're kinda jealous of you. Even if you memorized all the previews and trailers, you're still not ready for how awesome this game is."
I scanned the four-page article from the just-released Holiday 07 issue of OXM. Enjoy!
Two new Mass Effect videos, "Private Dancer" and "Escaping Ship."
An absolute war classic that goes against convention
http://www.c21media.net/news/detail.asp?area=1&article=38433
If, like me, you've ever had severe back pain or found yourself bedridden, a portable PC device can help you avoid tons of disconnected downtime.
Technology news in brief.
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It's not as shocking as you'd expect, but Manhunt 2 still satisfies your primal instincts.
Legendary is the gaming equivalent of cheap supermarket own-brand beans, but instead of costing eleven pence it costs the same as a prime steak cooked by a top chef. It's a bad, bad game. One of the worst of this generation of consoles, in fact. In that regard, at least, the title is surprisingly accurate.
Once again, Spark has managed to take Unreal engine 3 and make it look like a 1997 Half-Life mod. Try to slurp up some Animus while the game simultaneously tries to render flames and smoke, and you'll get a lovely psychedelic slideshow. What makes it all the more galling is the occasional moment where the game actually looks pretty good. There's a giant golem made from cars and rubble in the third chapter that is genuinely impressive - though the manner of its defeat is typically pedestrian - and there are enough moments of subtle lighting sprinkled throughout to suggest that there were at least some people involved who knew what they were doing.
Some odd characters break dance in a grade school hallway while talented Swede Lykke Li sings over a digital break.
Runtime: 00 hrs 03 min 09 sec
Paparazzi = so dead
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2007 has been a banner year for
the Black Lips.
They came,
they saw, and now they're making their move to the silver screen as the stars of the forthcoming film
Let It Be. According to its website, the movie is "the story of the movement in underground American music that was known as D.I.Y." as told through the narrative of a fictional band called the Renegades, played by the Black Lips.
Springboard Films is working in collaboration with the Lips' label,
Vice, on
Let It Be, which will be produced by
The Breakfast Club/
Fried Green Tomatoes producer Andrew Meyer and Winn Coslick. It will be directed by Roger Rawlings.
Given the mid-late 80s setting of the movie and the name of the fictional band it takes as its subject, its title seems more an homage to the Replacements than the Beatles. According to a press release, "the movie will be filmed throughout the Southeast and will include notable music of the period and new music written by the band [Black Lips]."
The Lips have a month-and-a-half of dates scheduled for this year to keep them busy for at least a little while longer until production on
Let It Be begins in May 2008.
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Spore is a sight to behold: a strategy game made up of a cluster of gaming styles that take you from a protozoan swimming in a primordial soup to the commander of a spaceship, all in about eight hours.
There's been a lot of evolving since Spore's initial showing in PCG 151. The world is sweeter, more childlike. Edges are bevelled and shiny. It glows like a kid's toy.
These are some new images of the Nintendo Wii game Soul Calibur Legends
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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider an appeal by Microsoft Corp. in a dispute over whether the company should be liable for damages overseas for infringing a software patent owned by AT&T Inc.
Halo DS would be a wonderful thing; especially considering the wi-fi multiplayer possibilities. So if you agree but feel powerless to make your opinion felt, it might be a good idea to sign the Halo DS petition. There aren?t many signatures yet, but your vote might help change that - BELIEVE! (oh yes, we went there).
The average cost of replacing a Sony laptop battery is about $125 for the time and trouble involved, according to a new study. But some IT managers don't even measure such costs and see it as the price of dealing with technology.
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Robots, Transportation
Apparently building
space elevators in one's spare time is becoming a
common hobby for
jobless entrepreneurial engineers, as a bevy of eager teams set out to best NASA's "house tether" in order to get their rendition approved for intergalactic use. The contest requires that teams create cabling that weighs under two grams, sports a fiber loop with a circumference of at least two meters, and can withstand more weight (upwards of 1,662 pounds) than NASA's three-gram edition. While last year's shindig ended
sans a winning party, NASA quadrupled the prize to $200,000 in order to attract more serious competition, but failed to crown a champion yet again. Three teams were immediately disqualified due to loop circumferences being less than the compulsory two meters, which sparked a "heated debate with contest organizers" about the supposed clarity of the rules. While a plethora of geeky expletives were presumably hurled, NASA only allowed the rule-abiding Astroaraneae team to officially compete -- but the Aerojet employees fell a bit short as their line snapped after withstanding 1,336 pounds of force. While we aren't sure if next year's challenge will offer an even larger purse (or yield an actual winner), we're fairly certain that the rulebook will be exorbitantly straightforward if nothing else.
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The inconsistency that rocks the camera can also be observed in the visuals, which take on an uneven quality. Characters look fantastic and there are a number of impressive scenes, particularly in the later half of the game. That comes at the cost of a smooth performance, though. Later stages that pack the screen with hordes of symbiotes or loads of special effects cause the game to stutter significantly. By the time you reach those points in the game, though, you'll have fallen in love with the combat system. Spidey's adventure gets entangled in a number of silly issues, but the action is so satisfying that you're likely to skim over them just as you would those few panels in a comic book.
Pro-wrestling federation files a second suit against game publisher and toymaker with the same goal of having its game-license agreements terminated.
With his reality-TV show on the airwaves and Mohawks as popular as ever, we asked the big guy to check out one of his vintage clips.
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We go hands on with the biggest enhancement to the Football Manager experience in the series' history...
Music-subscription service Napster ditches its downloadable desktop client in favor of a cross-platform web app. The company's switch to a browser-based model leaves it poised to easily port its streaming-music service into Facebook's application platform.
"A lot of the songs have been inspired by Black Dice... There are also two mentions of Willie Nelson on this record to look out for."
For the second time in six months, we spoke to Hot Chip co-frontman Alexis Taylor about a new record from his band. Last time, it was their DJ Kicks mix. This time, it's an honest-to-goodness full-length follow-up to last year's The Warning, titled Made in the Dark and due on Astralwerks tentatively on February 4 in the UK and February 5 in the U.S.
The record's release will make three LPs for the band, and Taylor was kind enough to expound upon the musical changes it marks for Hot Chip. In the process, he also revealed the band's (fake) collaborations with Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel, (real) remixes for Alicia Keys and Rilo Kiley, and just how deeply ingrained their eclecticism is. Oh, and he wants more people to buy Gang Gang Dance records.
Pitchfork: Why did you chose to call the album Made in the Dark instead of some of the other titles you were throwing around, like Shot Down in Flames and IV?
Alexis Taylor: There's always someone in our band-- always a different person-- to veto any of the names [that could] be taken not too seriously. IV was definitely my favorite. It could've worked. There's a great Fucking Champs album called IV, there's Black Sabbath's Vol. 4. This is our third record, so calling it IV was good. Shot Down in Flames-- Felix [Martin] was worried it sounded too much like a name the Beta Band might have come up with, so we went with the other name. "Made in the Dark" is the name of one of my favorite songs on the new record. I like its open-endedness, and it's nice to sometimes name an album after one of the sadder, more thoughtful songs rather than it just being like Coming on Strong, The Warning, and then Shot Down in Flames: big, slightly jokey, macho phrases.
Pitchfork: Is not being taken seriously a fear you guys have?
AT: I kind of like giving people the wrong impression all the time, so I'm happy if the album's called IV and people are annoyed that it's just a stupid joke. That doesn't bother me at all, but I don't think calling the album Made in the Dark was an attempt to be any more serious; it was just a phrase that is from one of the songs and everyone agreed on it. There's not really a fear...I think if people would see us, meet us, see us play live, hear our records, if they give us any time they would see that we're very serious about comedy and very serious about serious things as well.
Pitchfork: The press release describes the new album as "faster and rockier." Is that true, and was it an intentional move?
AT: Yeah, some of it is rockier, and there are moments that you could detect a bit of a heavy metal influence.
Pitchfork: Are there less electronic elements?
AT: No, no. Unfortunately, we never do things by adding one thing and taking something else away. We just throw everything into the mix, so it's just as much electronic stuff and just as much live stuff. There isn't really one thing gone to make room for something else.
Pitchfork: Does that mean it's going to sound bigger and more maximalist, maybe, than previous records?
AT: Yeah, some of it is. And other tracks are much more minimalist, so if the press release says it's faster and rockier it doesn't account for that fact that there are more ballads on this record than any other record.
Pitchfork: So it's more of everything: more slow, more fast...
AT: More of everything, yeah, more of everything is probably the easiest way to describe it. That way it could be read as more of the good things, more of the bad things, more of the okay things, just more. Excessive and...no no no, it's not really [laughs]. Quite a lot of strength in certain tracks, and quite a lot of overloading in other ones.
Pitchfork: Other than the heavy metal influences that you mentioned earlier, are there any new directions or left turns that people might not be expecting?
AT: There's one that is kind of wrestling with the idea of making an R. Kelly kind of slick r&b number, but it maybe ends up sounding more like Randy Newman's "Short People". Maybe that's the strange turn. [MORE...]
Filed under: Drama, Music & Musicals, Casting, Deals, Scripts & Screenwriting, Newsstand
Mozart. Loretta Lynn. Bobby Darin. Ray Charles. The list of musical biopics goes on and on, but they're usually about the voices, or fingers, that brought the music to life -- the faces on stage, not the faces behind the scenes. According to
The Hollywood Reporter, however, we're about to dip behind the scenes for a biopic about
Leonard Chess, the man behind Chess Records. The new project,
Cadillac Records, was written by
Darnell Martin, and he will direct it as well. (He's the man behind
Prison Song, which he co-wrote with Q-Tip, and he also directed the real-time, eerie
L-Word episode "Losing the Light.") To top that off,
Matt Dillon is in final negotiations to star.
I can only hope that the film wrenches Dillon out of his cycle -- crappy flick after crappy flick, with a small handful of good stuff mixed in so that we don't completely write him off. Usually, a decent actor at least tries to balance the two, if not only go to the crap once in a while for a big paycheck. I mean heck, both Michael Caine and Peter O'Toole are unforgettable actors who have headed schlock -- but they've also had enough good roles to sustain them. But maybe Dillon's tide is finally turning.
Chess, born Lejzor Czyz (changed, I'm sure, to offer vowels to the consonantly-challenged), grew up in Poland before moving to Illinois in the twenties. A few decades later, he and his brother were into the black nightclub scene of Chicago. They soon joined Aristocrat Records, which they later renamed Chess Records when they took control and flooded it with notable talent. The label took on names like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, and Etta James. Production will begin this January in New Jersey and Chicago. Can you see Dillon as the man behind such R&B greats?
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Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) 1.0 offers a new way of creating and
deploying Rich Internet Applications for the Web.
Marjane Satrapi talks about the similarities between her uncle and Iggy Pop.
Someone left a beautiful, tuned Baldwin piano and its bench in the middle of the woods in Harwich, Massachusetts. Police are trying to figure it out, because absolutely nothing else is going on in Harwich these days. So far, they have no clues. Well, I'm not a trained investigator, but I do have a few guesses. Who could have left this piano in the middle of the woods? Here are some suggestions:
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