Gadgets and Video Games

A very elegant Uncharted box set will be released in Japan on February 18 for

Apple’s App Store has attained over 100,000 fart simulators apps and blown by the two billion download mark. GI.biz reports that games make up 19.6 percent of the store’s content. EA Mobile VP Travis Boatman notes that the store, which is now available in 77 countries, has allowed his company to make high quality games that “have been a huge success with customers.” If Gameloft’s sales figures are any indication, the App Store shows no signs of slowing down in the game department

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iPhone App Store tops 100K items, 2 billion downloads

Click image to deke into our gallery Like Capcom before it, EA Sports now has its own dedicated section of the PlayStation Store. It’s not changing the game, but simply following the same format as the Capcom section (with custom background and list of wares). Check out some more screens in our gallery below: Gallery: EA Sports’ section in the PS Store Here’s the new EA Sports section of the PS Store originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:28:00 EST.

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Here’s the new EA Sports section of the PS Store

The 200+ Game Crazy stores expected to close by the end of October will begin a liquidation sale, starting this weekend. Locations expected to shutter have received boxes and a list of items that are to be sent back for redistribution, which allegedly includes “all systems, major first party accessories (controllers, memory, etc).” The “majority” of games released within the last year will be also be sent out, “both new and used.” Several employees have commented that closing stores will likely be “pretty bare” by the time the sale starts. The timetable for the liquidation, corroborated by several sources: 10/3-10/9: 30% off everything in the store 10/10-10/16: 50% off everything in the store 10/17-Closing: 80% off everything in the store There doesn’t seem to be a consistent date for when the stores will close, but we haven’t heard of any location staying open beyond October 27. We continue to work on getting a master list of which stores are closing, as well as a list of items sent back for redistribution. Request for official comment from Game Crazy corporate on several issues, including what customers with pre-orders at closing stores should do, have gone unanswered.

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Closing Game Crazy stores begin clearance sales this weekend

We don’t do a lot of critiquing of controllers, we know, but as stacks of them continue to pile up at HQ, it occurred to us that you might be as daunted in the store aisle as we are staring at this pile of plastic. So, in the spirit of making you a more informed consumer, here’s a look at the Rocketfish Rapid Fire PS3 controller. If you’re interested in more snappy peripheral analysis from the experts at Joystiq, let us know in the comments section below. Review: Rocketfish Rapid Fire PS3 Controller originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:27:00 EST

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Review: Rocketfish Rapid Fire PS3 Controller

The Japanese PlayStation Store features a ridiculously huge selection of old PlayStation games, especially compared to the paltry selection on the American store. Now, it’s getting old games that weren’t even on the PlayStation, in what appears to be a tentative step toward a Sony Virtual Console. Sony announced that four PC Engine (Turbografx-16) games will be available on the Store today: Bomberman ‘94, New Adventure Island , Sengoku Mahjong, and Devil’s Crush , each for 600 yen, roughly the same price these games command on the Wii’s Virtual Console. The PC Engine Game Archives will be playable on PSP and PS3, which means we’ll be able to take Devil’s Crush on the go for the first time since the TurboExpress — thus elevating the PSP to the best system since the TurboExpress .

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Japan’s PlayStation Network offering PC Engine games

You know how your birth was a miracle, because of the odds against a specific sperm fertilizing your mom’s egg? Now that there are 13,000 frigging games on the iPhone, how far are we from a comparable setup in the App Store? How long until the simple act of playing The Moron Test rather than other games is considered a miracle in and of itself

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There are 13,000 iPhone games now

Okay, folks, we’ve got something huge for you past the break. You remember those PSAs that requested you not copy that floppy ? Well, it’s going to a whole ‘nother level now, because MC Double Def DP is back with a teaser for his new anti-piracy video. Apparently his rhymes and flashy outfit didn’t do enough the first time around, so he’s come back (and learned how to fly) to spread the word in a new video, the full version of which will be released sometime this summer. So kids, don’t copy that! What?

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Floppy copying to the next level: MC Double Def DP returns

Another brief snippet of gameplay arrived on our digital doorstep today, showing off some super combos and other asskickery in the upcoming King of Fighters XI I . In the above trailer, we’re presented with some beatdowns courtesy of Joe Higashi, Kim Kaphwan, and fan-favorite Kyo Kusanagi. Sadly, there’s no Iori, but we’ll have all of the time in the world to watch him mess folks up when the game releases later this month

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King of Fighters XII trailer shows us combos are king

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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