new details about Resident Evil 5 are appearing. Latest news comes from japanese magazine Famitsu Xbox, saying that apparently the PS3 game is being delayed until 2008. The reason? The game is apparently very graphically detailed, including fluid facial expressions, realistic hair and skin and an environment that changes from hot to cold weather and affects the games dynamics. All of this has turned the game a little slower than Capcom would want and so they are taking until 2008 to try and keep a stable 60FPS.

Awesome, an extra year to achieve lifelike undead!

December 19th the Cyberathlete Professional League announced they are developing a game specifically designed for professional gaming. The name of the game is Severity and even with that ugly logo this game promises enhanced tournament support, spectator modes and some sort of sadistic… ahm.. statistical module to calculate player’s performance (Unreal Tournament anyone?). The game is set for a late 2007 release.

Is this a good thing at all? When a game model is pushed by one of the big names in professional gaming, does it mean it will become standard? Standards are any formal sport’s foundation but innovation is what drives the gaming industry. Paradox!

Wii-tan is most commonly depicted as a small child, she’s supposed to be of a very happy-go-Lucky attitude, often seen with a Wiimote and nunchuk in her head and other times hanging out with Wiimote-tan and Nunchuk-tan. PS3-tan is constantly teasing her for her supposed immaturity while 360-tan helps her out every once in a while. The Internet has yet to settle on a definitive design for Wii-tan.

this quiz sucks…

it makes me feel old and geeky.

i should give it a second try and go for 0% to see what it says…

Update: it called be a noob

now i feel satisfied

Build-Your-Own point & click puzzle games. Plus it’s free for non-commercial use!

All you need is a low-to-intermediate understanding of Flash animation and some standard image editing skills. Beyond that, just download the Lassie Adventure Studio and leave the rest to ambition. Check out the Developers section for tips on getting started.

Sony released a new firmware update for the Sony PSP in Japan and the United States.

The new Sony PSP Firmware 2.80 improves over the Firmware 2.71 with Video RSS Feeds, AAC music format (3gp) support, Music, Video and Picture folders, and wireless feature improvement for the Location Free Video streaming support, and of course new fixes against homebrew hacks (-_-;)…Sony just wont give up.

Sony also released another demo Game download for the Sony PSP. This time it is a World Tour Soccer 06 demo.

More details and download for firmware 2.80 can be found on the Sony Playstation site.

Worth1000 photoshopping contest: fake box-art for bad video-games. There are some real howlers in this one .

It looks like eliminating overtime pay isn’t the only thing the Japanese government is up to. Gamespot has a story up about a Japanese governmental investigation of gold farming in massively multiplayer online games:

Kyoto Shimbun reports that Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) intends to look into wrongdoing perpetrated in connection with online games and virtual currencies. METI has begun its survey by interviewing major, albeit unspecified, game manufacturers on the matter.

This action was triggered by the recent boom in real money trading and the use of unauthorized programs to tamper with data and/or automatically obtain large amounts of virtual currency or items.

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