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The release of firmware 3.90 on Network Update allows users with a PSP-2000 to use the long awaited Skype feature. If playing a PSP on the train didn’t make you look like a dork, talking to your PSP on the train certainly will. The update also expands support for Playstation Network titles
Later this week, Xbox Live will launch new Xbox Rewards to cater to a growing market segment of gamers using the service. Recent reports suggest a growing number of pedophiles using the service, and Microsoft is striking early to please those members. Gamers, in particular young boys, will be able to exchange achievement points in return for a reward based on a match-making service. Continue Reading »
In a recent interview with Gamasutra, David Jaffe said that PS3 will take over the Xbox in market share when the console war dies down. You can read the uncensored interview below. Continue Reading »
Today Take-Two Interactive Software announced its release date for the latest installment in the Grand Theft Auto series, GTA IV. The day of reckoning will be on April 29, 2008. Pre-order is available on various sites, such as Amazon, EB Games, and Best Buy. New screenshots from previews were also released, quelling arguments that GTA IV would not offer any significantly new features. Screenshots revealed that a significant portion of GTA IV’s game-play would be based around the new feature of “police brutality with a twist.” Continue Reading »
Jeff Brown, Vice President of Communications for Electronic Arts has sent a pissed off letter to Fox News regarding the whole Cooper Lawrence/Mass Effect fiasco. Well let me tell you this. I don’t like it. I know exactly what he’s trying to do. He’s trying to beat me into Cooper Lawrence’s pants. Not while I’m still the Harbinger of Truth, Jeffy boy! I see that lust in your eyes. You will try to lure she who is a 37 year old MILF into your expensive car to your beach side villa, and then make magnificently suave attempts to get her to call you “darling,” aren’t you? Well let me tell you something, freckle head, you’ve just declared war on the nation of Fried Yoda, and believe me, I’m served spicy! Let the best man win. And we all know who the man is in this situation! Cooper! Cooper! Come into the warmth of my embrace so we can explore Mass Effect together! Come to me!
A disturbance traveled through the gaming community the last few days regarding the game Mass Effect. Fox News decided to do a report on the game’s incorporation of “graphic nudity” and a sex scene, and how it was being marketed towards children. Featured in the report were Fox’s hand pick “expert psychologist” Cooper Lawrence and Spike TV’s game guru Geoff Keighley. Cooper, without even having played the game attacked Mass Effect and how negative and damaging it is on today’s youth. You can see the clip of the report below. Continue Reading »
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all consoles are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day in America, the followers of XBox 360 and the followers of Playstation 3 will be able to sit down together at the couch of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the company of Nintendo, a state sweltering with the heat of inferiority, sweltering with the heat of exercise from Wii Sports, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not own a console of single color but by the content of their games.
I have a dream today! Continue Reading »
Age of Conan was pushed back to May 20, 2o08, but fear not! Your need for pixelated titties can be temporarily cured!
Researchers at the University of California - Berkley have published a study regarding online flame wars and professional world quarrels. In light of a recent professional quarrel in the gaming industry, Dr. Jonathan Miller decided to see if there were any similarities in the behaviors exemplified during an online flame war with the behavior exemplified in a professional quarrel. His findings were published in this week’s issue of Real Berkley Studies Magazine: For Those Doubting Credibility. Fried Yoda has generously decided to translate all this scientific gibberish into more common tongue to help the average person understand the results. Continue Reading »
