Gadgets and Video Games

Does your dead-eyed Home avatar lack a bit of that buccaneering spirit ? LucasArts has a sure-fire way to fix your lack of nautical flair: During its pirate-themed party at GDC , the company announced that Monkey Island costumes (pictured above) would soon make their way to PlayStation Home. Now, we rarely get excited over virtual duds for our virtual manifestations — but Stan’s coat could really add a certain savoir-faire to our terrifying craft .

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Monkey Island Home costumes allow for Dread Pirate Quincy

When Warren Spector’s first Junction Point Studios title, Disney Epic Mickey , was revealed, many gamers were miffed to learn that the game was exclusive to the Wii — especially after being inundated with some spectacular concept art for the game. It looks like there is still some hope that the game will hit the Xbox 360 and PS3, according to Disney’s Graham Hopper. Hopper tells Gamasutra that one of the game’s core concepts is its “ink and paint mechanic”, making it ideal for the Wii. However, now that both Xbox 360 and PS3 will soon support motion controls of their own, things might be different

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click to awaken the gallery BioWare revealed one of the new venues being added for the Dragon Age: Origins expansion Awakening . Kal’hirol was once a dwarven keep, a center of learning and culture for dwarf society. At some point, however, the dwarves were driven out.

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Kal’hirol: Explore this mysterious dwarven fortress in Dragon Age: Awakening

In January , Ubisoft revealed plans to streamline its DRM policy across all PC titles, making players log in to Ubisoft servers to authenticate before playing. Although it sounded dubious at first, Ubisoft’s Brent Wilkinson assuaged our fears , explaining the new process would allow gamers to play on any computer and continue a game’s progress through a cloud-based save system. According to PC Gamer , tests of upcoming Ubisoft PC titles Assassin’s Creed 2 and Settlers VII proved how flawed the system actually is.

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Ubisoft PC DRM doesn’t sound like such a good idea anymore

Considering the extent to which Farmville has enraptured the hearts and minds of 95 percent of the Facebook-using populace, we’re not surprised that Natsume has decided to bring yet another installment in the Harvest Moon franchise to the States. According to Siliconera , American store shelves will play host to Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley for the PSP in April. The game will task you with staving off the expansion of The Funland Corporation’s chain of amusement parks into your home town of Leaf Valley. You’ll do so in the most logical manner imaginable: By repeatedly performing various agricultural chores. Yeah, that’ll show ‘em! Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley coming stateside in April originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:30:00 EST.

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Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley coming stateside in April

They say you can find your stripper name by combining the name of your first pet with the street you grew up on. Keeping that in mind, you may someday find yourself trying to figure out how to politely decline the awkward, compulsory advances of Miss Fluffy Lara Croft. As reported in the Derby Telegraph , the hero of the Tomb Raider series in one of eight potential names for two stretches of a road in the UK city Derby, which was the home of Core Design, the original studio behind Lara. Surprisingly, Lara Croft is not our favorite option, as the idea of being badgered into buying Scruffy John Flamsteed a $13 drink is just too wonderful to imagine.

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Lara Croft may have road named in her honor

Santa has added a layover in PlayStation Home to an already-packed holiday itinerary. On December 10, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe is opening up a new PlayStation Home space that allows you to see Santa’s workshop through the unique Home filter — by which we mean it’s now kind of eerie. The new Winter Wonderland space will allow you to interact with a vaguely Shatner-esque Santa Claus and elves like Robin Williams here, as you help the crew get all its preparations for Christmas done. Which means minigames ! There will be presents, of course, and a Photo Elf who will take festively decorated pictures of your Home avatar.

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Santa Claus is coming to PlayStation Home

While we’re certainly happy to hear that a brand new Final Fantasy XIII trailer is coming to the theater in PlayStation Home tomorrow , we can’t help but be a little put out too. Is this the announcement that had been hinted at on Sunday?

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Final Fantasy XIII trailer coming Home tomorrow

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Arcade: Encleverment Experiment, 0D Beat Drop, Encleverment Experiment and NBA Unrivaled

Our grandmother had this saying, “Handicrafts make for strange bedfellows.” In fact, she believed in it so much she once stitched the saying into a pillow she made from the skin of drifters she had lured into her home and killed. True, you don’t normally think “drifter murder” and “decorative pillows” as a pairing, so she had made her point. But we tried (and are still trying) to convince her that there are ways of stating her case that are both less illegal and involve less risk of contracting hepatitis C

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Brutal Legend gets papercrafted