Gadgets and Video Games

We can’t be gaming all the time, despite our best efforts, and from time to time we’ll actually take advantage of the movie-playing abilities on our gaming systems. JBO features our top picks for XBL, PSN, Netflix’s Watch Instantly and Blu-ray each week. Recommendation of the Week: Stingray Sam ($12 HD digital download, $18 DVD, $49 deluxe) Cory McAbee is one cool character. He’s produced art, music, short films and feature films, and he’s at his best when he’s combining art and movie together. Last year at Sundance, he premiered his newest feature film, Stingray Sam

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JBO: Joystiq Box Office, February 15 – February 19, plus Joyswag!

Mega64’s latest lampooning is a bit more historical than the troupe’s other videos . Posted just after the jump is a video reenaction of the moment of Dante’s Inferno ’s inception. We’d thought that a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed Classic Literature major had planted the idea-seed in an EA executive’s mind — apparently, said gardening was actually performed by Ba’al Zeb

click to peruse outfits Two words, folks: Flame pants. Nothing says “iron fist” quite like Jin Kazama’s classy couture, and these latest shots from the upcoming Tekken film deliver in spades. Be assured, this ain’t no fan-made hullabaloo — we can clearly see someone spent at least a couple hundred bucks making this thing.

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Marvel at the Tekken movie’s amazing outfits

Game Crazy can’t catch a break as parent-company Movie Gallery has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. When the dust settles, only 250 Game Crazy locations will remain. The company already closed over 200 locations late last year

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Game Crazy parent files for bankruptcy, 250 stores to remain

There are plenty of things to love about Final Fight . There’s the ridiculously diesel, shark pile-driving wrestler-turned-mayor the story is centered around, Mike Haggar, and the fact that citizens in Metro City like to store whole turkey dinners inside of dirty oil drums.

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Fan-made Final Fight movie trailer is pretty good, actually

We can’t be gaming all the time, despite our best efforts, and from time to time we’ll actually take advantage of the movie-playing abilities on our gaming systems. JBO features our top picks for XBL, PSN, Netflix’s Watch Instantly and Blu-ray each week. Recommendation of the Week: The Bourne Trilogy (Blu-ray/SD flipper discs, $24.98 per movie, much lower at retailers) Flipper discs are back! Remember back when HD-DVD existed, and they’d put a standard def edition of the movie on the flipside of the HD? Universal is bringing it back: Frosted-Blu on one side, regular shredded wheat on the other

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JBO: Joystiq Box Office, January 18 – January 22

Activision has announced that it will publish the video game based on the upcoming film Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief , which is itself based on the children’s book of the same name. Being unfamiliar with the book, we assumed the story centered around a young, inexperienced pimp and his band of gymnastic prostitutes. Activision has announced that the game will be a tactical RPG for the DS and, frankly, the prospect of a portable pimping RPG is positively delightful . Upon further research, however, it turns out that the movie and game center around a young man with godly powers. Alongside his godly friends, he searches for “Zeus’ master lightning bolt.” Not quite as intriguing as a pimping RPG, but we suppose it’ll have to do …

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Activision doing Percy Jackson & The Olympians game

Platinum Games’ Shigenori Nishikawa, the director on MadWorld for the Wii, has told Official Nintendo Magazine that he wouldn’t mind taking a second crack at the violent Wii game. “I think MadWorld was very well received and was acknowledged for its innovative graphical style and gameplay,” Nishikawa said in Friday’s upcoming issue.

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MadWorld director ‘definitely’ interested in doing a sequel

With APB nearing release and the original Crackdown already an addictive note in gaming history, it looks like Realtime Worlds could be ramping up production on a third project. Superannuation points to the LinkedIn profile of Tahir Rashid, a lead artist at Realtime Worlds, who claimed to be working on “a brand new IP due for release in 2011,” according to Superannuation’s original discovery. The game was referred to as “Project #3″ for PC in the profile

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Rumor: Realtime Worlds developing 3rd project for 2011

Following its announcement of NBA Jam , EA sent out another press release that’s likely to elicit a much more somber “boom-shaka-laka.” The mega-pubisher adjusted its estimate for earnings for both its fiscal Q3 2010 (which ended on December 31) and the full fiscal 2010 (which ends March 31). It’s … not good news. EA reduced its net revenue for Q3 from $1.247 billion to $1.227 billion, and its fiscal 2010 expectations to between $3.6 billion and $3.675 billion, down from a range of $3.6 billion to $3.9 billion

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EA drops fiscal year outlook