If you were curious about the packaging for the Grand Theft Auto IV Special Edition you’re just about to spend way too much money on, then…you can stop that.
An Australian retail employee has obviously found the crate marked “DO NOT OPEN UNTIL APRIL 28TH” somewhere out the back, and took six happy snaps of the retail packaging, and what’s inside - check them out after the jump.
If LOLCats weren’t quite nerdy enough for you, you’ll be glad to hear that the makers of I Can Has Cheezburger recently launched a new site called GraphJam.
Mike Masnick over at Techdirt posted an interesting article on the emotions that first person shooters evoke in players. The part worthy of mentioning is the possibility that players actually enjoy getting killed. Apparently, hunting other players increases players’ stress and dying acts as a sort of relief mechanism.
Check out the original post for the rest of the story.
Want to know the best version of SingStar to buy little Jimmy, or which version of Guitar Hero has the least emo? MTV have the ultimate tool for the job, the Rhythm Game Track Finder, which is a searchable database containing the tracklists for over 20 rhythm/music games from the ubiquitous Guitar Hero to forgotten favorites like Donkey Konga.
According to the Blog Readability Test, The Gamer Gene ranks alongside Level Up and Ars Technica as a gaming blog you’ll need more than just a paltry degree to wrap your head around.
Here’s the rest, courtesy of Susan Arendt from Game | Life:
The Blog Readability Test via Mental Floss via Game | Life via GamePolitics.com
It would appear that Team Ninja would like to send us a clear message: Ninja Gaiden 2 will not be short of blood and gore. The video above reveals some swift hack & slash gameplay too. The game will feature an all new arsenal of ninja weapons and magic, delivered through a new gameplay engine. And it shouldnt be too long before a concrete 2008 release date is named for it, either.
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It appears nothing gets past the hawkeyed game-fan, and as evidence I cite the recent Deus Ex 3 teaser. The trailer contained about 1 second of visual information revealing anything about the game, but that one second was enough to generate a rumble of speculation from PC Zone Magazine’s editor. It appears that two versions of the official trailer were released, with the second one edited to remove the conspicuous year “2027″ from sight. The date bears heavy significance, as it could be evidence that the game is set some 20-odd years before the original Deus Ex, making it a prequel.
The coming Thursday is a massive day for video game releases in Australia. It’s Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune for me, and SingStar for Kevin - what are you going to be picking up?
It’s a big day for Australian releases today. I’m just about to nick down to the shops and pick up a copy of Super Mario Galaxy - which of the following will you be picking up?
A forum poster by the name of “slugz” has proven that all you need to do is ask, and you will find the answers that you seek. He wrote an email to Valve asking nicely as to whether we could expect any additional achievements on Steam for the classic Valve Source games, and received this very promising reply from a Valve staffer:
“We’re planning on adding achievements to all of our games you touched on in your mail [Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1, Day of Defeat: Source and Counter-Strike: Source]. We’re just now coming out of the post-shipping haze, so these should start showing up on Steam pretty quick here. We’re also planning on adding a bunch more to TF2, starting with an achievement pack for the Medic in the next week or so.”
via Gaming Today
