Game Informer got to try out Grand Theft Auto IV (see the trailer for it here) and has answered a truck load of questions sent in by the readers of GTA4.net. For example we learn that there’s no airplanes in the game, but there’s helicopters, Liberty City feels as big as New York City but it isn’t a 100% clone and uuh.. Niko (as in you, the player) can climb telephone poles in a very impressive way.
Update: OK, my bad. They didn’t get to play it - they got to see a live demo by Rockstar Games. They still have answers we crave though.
Thanks to the Virtual NES emulator written in Java there’s hundreds of original 8-bit NES titles available for you to play in your web browser (no semi-decent Javascript reproductions here). No installation required at all as long as you have Java installed.
I really can’t think of a better way to kill slow office hours.
The video above shows some poor guy trying to play what must be the most sado-masochistic, cruel and frustrating Super Mario mod ever. The video is a bit long, but give it a minute or two and he actually gets somewhere - when he finally reaches the pipe and heads down to collect the hard-earned coins just cracked me up.
According to the Japanese website Famitsu Capcom and Nvidia just announced that Lost Planet: Extreme Condition will be available for PC gamers as well in June 2007.
Apparently it’ll feature improved visuals through DirectX 10, which might render it a Windows Vista exclusive (check out this DirectX 9 vs 10 comparison while you’re at it).
Rockstar Games has just updated their Manhunt 2 website and added a new trailer (watch it below) and disturbing goodies like patient files from the Dixmor Asylum for the Criminally Insane.
“An experiment at a secret research facility has gone catastrophically wrong. Daniel Lamb and Leo Kasper are the only surviving subjects. The Pickman Project will stop at nothing to hunt them down and stop the truth from getting out. The door to your cell is open. One choice. One chance. They took your life. Time to take it back.”
Manhunt 2 will be released for Nintendo Wii, Playstation 2 and PSP this summer.
This old device is a vintage Nintendo Entertainment System Kiosk which could be seen in retail stores back in the good old ‘80:ies. Besides the impressive size it features 12 slots for interchangeable NES games and five controller ports - just plug your cartridges in it and you’re set for countless hours of happy gaming.
It’s currently up for sale on eBay and the highest bid is $560 (the monitor on top of it is not included in the deal though).
This USB gamepad has taken the good old NES controller design and enhanced it a little. Besides the cross, select, start and A/B-buttons it features two extra buttons (C/D) and a turbo button with an interval slider. Just go grab yourself a couple of free console emulators and you’re set.
Good news Guitar Hero-fans, the guys over at Joystiq tried connecting the USB-guitar bundled with the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II to a Windows-running PC and after a little software calibrating here and there they actually got it to work.
Since there’s no Windows version of Guitar Hero they tried using it with the freeware clone Frets on Fire and apparently that worked like a charm.
Oh yeah, there seems to be a whole lot of goodies in the Xbox 360 Spring Update set for launch on May 8th. First of all Microsoft is bringing LIVE to your precious console, allowing you to chat with your buddies through instant messaging either by itself or by having the chat dialogs shown overlayed while you play games or watch movies. Since chatting using the onscreen keyboard would be a serious pain in the ass they’ve presented this hardware QWERTY-keyboard to snap between the “horns” on your controller.
Read the rest of the Spring Update 2007-features (including stuff like automatic power off when the downloads are done and new progressive video controls) from the press release below:
Steem is a free Atari STE emulator available for Windows and Linux and apparently it runs almost every ST program ever made without hassle.
This could be worth a download for anyone looking for a bit of nostalgia through games, demoscene productions, midi apps… the only thing missing would be the dear old floppy drive noise.
