Gadgets and Video Games

Finally, Nintendo has been able to make a little money from New Super Mario Bros. Wii , a sequel to one of its old franchises, released this November. Nintendo of Australia announced that as the result of a federal court settlement, one Australian will be required to pay $1.5 million ($1.3 million USD) to Nintendo for loss of revenue due. This person was allegedly the first to upload New Super Mario Bros.

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Nintendo Australia fines NSMB Wii uploader $1.5 million

Despite the similar game setting, the theme song to Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is not just the theme to MGS3 with the words “Snake Eater” replaced with “Peace Walker.” Maybe then if we listen to the newly-announced soundtrack enough, we’ll stop hearing “I’m still in a dream, peace walkerrrrrrrr” in our heads every time we see a reference to the upcoming PSP spinoff game. The Peace Walker soundtrack disc will be released on Konami Japan’s Konamistyle site on March 17, one day before the game releases, for

Click the image above to Enterprise-size Seriously, Cryptic Studios and Atari — you are drowning us in screenshots for Star Trek Online . We had to go out and purchase another external hard drive just so we could keep tabs on our ever-burgeoning ” STO Assets” folder.

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Star Trek Online screens are multiplying with Tribble-like speed

Update: That was quick! Gearbox’s Steve Gibson sends along word that the dev has already fixed the problem. ” We are very pleased to report that using PSN friends lists with the game should now work properly for all PS3 customers. The fix has been released invisibly and should work automatically for all PSN users on the PS3 platform. No special action is required by PS3 customers to apply the fix – just play the game and you’ll find that everything works fine now.

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Gearbox admits Borderlands PS3 friends list glitch, fix coming ‘as quickly as possible’ [update]

Click to see how he did it! Remember that show Prison Break? Yeah, from like the mid-2000s or whatever. Anyway, Zootfly is making it into a video game . Today, the game’s publisher, Deep Silver, released a batch of screenshots and reiterated the plot as follows: “The protagonist of the Prison Break game is Company agent Tom Paxton. He is sent to the Fox River State Penitentiary to find out why Michael Scofield (the hero of the TV series), a man without a previous criminal record, became a bank robber

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Prison Break game screens unfold blueprint for escapism

Idol Minds, known best for the PS3 downloadable game PAIN , has laid off more than half of its staff, according to a report by Kotaku . The original team of 46 has been reduced to a mere 20 through a series of layoffs, the latest of which affected seventeen developers. Kotaku’s sources point to budget cuts from long-time publishing partner Sony Computer Entertainment

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Rumor: PAIN developer Idol Minds lays off more than half of staff

When you get home with your gigantic DJ Hero Renegade Edition box, make sure to get everything out of it. We know the temptation to just unfold the case/table thing and start playing the game with that kind of irresistible-looking novelty controller will be overwhelming, but if you turn the package over and shake it, exclusive greatest-hits CDs from Jay-Z and Eminem will fall out. Rolling Stone got the full list of tracks on both sets. Jay-Z’s disc sticks exclusively to past hits, but Eminem’s includes a brand-new song, “Taking My Ball.” That’s right, the “unreleased tracks” mentioned on the box is really unreleased track . And it’ll premiere on Eminem’s Sirius radio station over a week before the game comes out, so it’s more like no unreleased tracks

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DJ Hero Renegade Edition’s Jay-Z, Eminem compilations detailed

Speaking about upcoming co-op zombie shooter Left 4 Dead 2 at EA’s Tokyo press conference today, Valve’s Kim Swift announced intentions to release a demo on October 27. Though no platforms were explicitly mentioned, we’re betting pre-orders on both Xbox 360 and PC platforms will be getting first dibs, as Valve has already stated . From what we understand, the demo will feature multiplayer, though we’re not sure to what capacity this will extend.

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Left 4 Dead 2 demo running straight for Xbox/PC on October 27

“vines on her body make a type of organic ‘henna tattoo’” Not a Batman fanatic? We suppose that’s entirely possible, you tasteless, soulless fool . Fortunately for you, Eidos and Warner Bros.

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Batman: Arkham Asylum baddies profiled, illustrated

This weekend, ngmoco announced plans to remove the original Rolando from the iPhone/iPod Touch App Store, to allow the sequel to launch on July 1 without competition from its own predecessor. However, in response to a fan outcry, the company has decided not to delist the platformer. Before the announcement of the change of plan, Offworld ’s Brandon Boyer speculated that the delisting was designed to create “artificial scarcity” for the title, and enticing one final rush of downloads before the game disappeared — and then making the title available once again when the sequel’s sales dropped. In addition to canceling the removal of Rolando , ngmoco has reinstated Topple to the App Store, a game that had also been removed to make room for its own sequel. Rolando almost removed from App Store originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:15:00 EST

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Rolando almost removed from App Store