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Dear Blogosphere: You don’t have to tell me what hasn’t happened

Look, I don’t think it’s exactly newsworthy when a publisher announces a special collector’s edition of a game is coming, so you can imagine how little it interests me to hear there will be No Heavy Rain Collectors Edition for US. You mean to say the thing never promised isn’t happening? How is this [...]

News, news; Guess-Guess-Guess

Fox three away… Up YOURS!!!

Gotta love Joystiq’s brazen disregard for “facts”. They’re reporting on a new, unannounced Ubisoft title in their long line of Tom Clancy inspired war simulators. Leaked from the Australian ratings board, the new game is reportedly titled Ghost Recon: Predator. Joystiq concludes:

given the title, it’s a pretty safe bet that this [...]

Classic overreach: No word on Libel charges against Joystiq yet.

An artist's rendering of Eisner's lawyers.

When I was a kid, say ten or twelve, I would do anything to see a movie about giant robots. I would hunt through the aisles at my local rental place, searching for even the crappiest, low budget, direct to video trash that at least had a robot on the [...]

Warning: Playstation Lifestyle causes headaches, confusion.

Buzz! controllers being held for questioning at Gitmo.

If you are prone to migrane headaches, please be advised. The following story will likely induce mindsplitting pain: PlayStation LifeStyle » Scene it? Pressing on the PS3 Buzz!.

I link to it not only for the nauseating effect of the repeated use of both games’ titles, complete with confusing punctuation, [...]

Pricing strategies are HARD!

Reporting on a Destructoid interview with SCEA’s Eric Lempel, Joystiq chose to discuss the expected ‘pricing parity’ for downloadable PSP games compared to retail versions. From Andrew Yoon’s commentary:

While the PlayStation Store is simply offering games at normal retail price, many retailers engage in price wars to gain the loyalty (and dollars) of consumers. Unfortunately, owners of [...]

Joystiq: The Internet leader in OLD NEWS

In their thrilling new expose, “PSP Go allows players to save and resume state“, Joystiq scoops the competition by re-reporting a Gamespot UK discovered feature of the soon to be released revision of the Sony portable. You see, the PSP Go will have a handy-dandy feature allowing you to save a game at any point, use [...]

Great moments in dickwhickery

The crew delivering your new shower door is waylayed by terrorists.

The following interview with Infinity Ward’s Vince Zampella over a Joystiq gets my dander up for a couple reasons.

First, and I’ve been getting this sense for a while now, the developers of Modern Warfare 2 seem like dicks. I understand they aren’t real happy with the [...]

From Joystiq’s bureau of “no duh!”

From Joystiq: Hearsay: Sony motion controller opens door for Wii-to-PS3 ports.

This is a prime example of borderline moronic reporting. For a couple of reasons. First, back when the PSMC was first shown at E3, one of the leading motion control middleware providers for the Wii announced support for the device. That means Wii developers can take all [...]

Are you like me?

Sometimes it feels like I spend far more time reading about and discussing video games, on blogs and online forums, than I actually do playing them. I’m not sure of the actual breakdown, but it’s true I spend at least a couple hours every day scrolling through Google Reader and catching up on the latest threads [...]