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

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

When you finally play Lost Planet 2 after it launches on May 18, you’ll explore and uncover more of the misplaced celestial orb than ever before — but you won’t see everything . In an interview with Japanese magazine Famitsu ( transcript ; Kotaku translation ), producer Jun Takeuchi explained that, although development on the co-op shooter proceeded without trouble, a “significant” amount of content had to be cut before the final product took shape.

Read the rest here:
Takeuchi: Lost Planet 2 faced difficult content cuts

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: District 13: Ultimatum (800 ($10) HD, 480 ($6) SD, to rent) It’s Mirror’s Edge , the movie! Well, sort of. There’s a hell of a lot of Parkour in both, but District 13: Ultimatum has much more plot, explosions and general ass-kickery. Written and produced by Luc Besson, D13:U is set several years after the original District 13 (and no, you don’t have to have seen that to enjoy this one), and takes place within the same walled-off Parisian ghetto.

Read the original: 
JBO: Joystiq Box Office, February 8 – February 12

NIS America isn’t all about making niche video games. No, they’re going to be making niche anime DVDs as well. Beginning mid-2010, NIS America will roll out their new anime line, beginning with these four titles: Toradora! , Persona: Trinity Soul , PandoraHearts , and Our Home’s Fox Deity . Jack Niida confirmed that these titles will be available exclusively on DVD at first, although didn’t rule out the possibility of Blu-ray, PlayStation Network and Zune Marketplace releases in the future. These series will receive a limited print, and will be available through online specialty retailers — brick and mortar stores, like Best Buy and Walmart, will not carry these titles

More here:
NIS America to enter US anime market with Persona: Trinity Soul

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: Zombieland (Blu-ray: $39.95, much lower at retailers) What goes perfectly with Zombieland on Blu-ray? Twinkies

Original post:
JBO: Joystiq Box Office, February 1 – February 5

In an extensive interview with IGN , Sony senior VP of Marketing Peter Dille notes that it’s been the company’s philosophy not to charge for PSN, but calls the possibility “something that [Sony's] actively thinking about .” The company has no announcement to offer while it tries to figure out “the best way to approach” any potential changes. Dille also mentions that the company will stick with ad agency Deutch and keep using Kevin Butler as pitchman for its new PS3 ad campaign, which is slowly ( very slowly ) erasing our memories of the crying demon baby . Less likely to make repeat appearances are full, downloadable version of PS3 Blu-ray games (think: Burnout Paradise ).

View post: 
Sony ‘actively thinking about’ charging for PSN, not offering more Blu-ray game downloads

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. This writer has been out at Sundance for the past nine days, so week’s JBO will be heavily influenced by independent films, past Sundance hits and a bit of the bizarre. Check out the list, and let us know what your favorite indie film is

Continued here: 
JBO: Joystiq Box Office, January 25 – January 29

Fallout 3 on Xbox 360 tops Rentrak’s list as the most rented game in 2009. The company’s data reveals that the Xbox 360 “dominated” the US rental charts, holding 17 of the top 20 spots. Rentrak states that its tracking system follows “65,000 DVD, Blu-ray Disc and Video Game properties in the brick-and-mortar, online, and kiosk channels across North America .” The original Rentrak release from this morning states that the rankings were based on “spending via US brick-and-mortar rental channel.” We followed up with the group, which clarified that this was a typo and the list also includes online rental outlets, like GameFly . That’s a good thing, otherwise the list would have been: “The Top 20 game rentals by people who still go to stores to rent their games.” Not having online information in there would have made the data a bit …

Read the original post: 
Rentrak lists top game rentals of 2009

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

See the original post here: 
JBO: Joystiq Box Office, January 18 – January 22

Tags: a-normal-show-, aaron-greenberg, browser, How To, lyrics, major-nelson, Media, olympic-winter, special-guest-, table-border