His back slammed against the metal examination table, its ice-cold surface a stark contrast to the heat between them. The colonial marine’s standard-issue helmet began to slip as she pushed him down, her claws lightly scratching his skin in an all-too-familiar fashion. The sensation filled him with lust, and shame, and when his helmet finally hit the floor the resulting clang reverberated throughout the halls of the still-sleeping ship.
“Not here,” he whispered, his breath clouding in the humid, recycled air. “They’ll catch us for certain, we’ll both be killed.”
“SCREEEEEEEEEE,” she cooed back, extending her ovipositor and whispering into his ear with her second mouth. “Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.”
Bioware has confirmed that sci-fi RPG Mass Effect 3 will not be sold through Valve’s Steam service due to what it calls “restrictive terms of service”.
It’s the same problem publisher EA had with sales of Crysis 2 and Dragon Age 2 on the service. And like those two titles, all PC versions of the game will be required to use the Origin
“During initial release Mass Effect 3 will be available on Origin and a number of other 3rd party digital retailers, but not on Steam at this time,” said the developer.
This week is gonna be nuts, you guys. The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is the largest of its kind in the United States, as well as one of the biggest in the world; manufacturers from all over the globe traverse the Nevadian desert in order to show off their latest tech, and our own Mike Schramm will be on site to sample their wares.
Who knows what kind of mysterious, life-altering devices will be revealed during the show? Will Samsung enter the console race? Will the Dreamcast resurface as a subscription-based set-top box running WebOS? Will Sony finally unveil the successor to the Move, the Okay, Stop? Keep an eye on the CES 2012 tag to find out!
[In this weekly column, Gamasutra rounds up the most popular paid and free iPad gaming applications on the App Store as of today, with Machinarium, Monopoly and Where's My Water? currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.] This week’s top paid titles are: 1. Monopoly for iPad ($ 0.99) 2. Where’s My Water? ($ 0.99) 3. Machinarium ($ 1.99) 4. Words With Friends HD ($ 2.99) 5. Scrabble for iPad ($ 0.99) 6. Tetris for iPad ($ 0.99) 7. Angry Birds …
[In this weekly column, Gamasutra rounds up the most popular paid and free gaming applications on the Android Market as of today, with Modern Combat 3, Cut the Rope and Where's My Water? currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.] This week’s top paid titles are: 1. Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation ($ 6.99) 2. Cut the Rope ($ 0.99) 3. Where’s My Water? ($ 0.99) 4. UNO ($ 0.99) 5. Grand Theft Auto III ($ 2.99) 6. 9mm HD …
Sales of Sony’s new handheld, the Playstation Vita, dropped sharply in only the second week of the device’s availability in Japan.
According to sales data from Media Create and translated by NeoGAF, Vita sales went from an estimated 324,859 in the week of its launch to 72,479 during the Christmas week, just one week later — a loss of nearly 78 percent. Meanwhile, the Nintendo 3DS outsold the Vita, as did its predecessor, the Sony PSP.
There are lots of things that might be to blame for the apparent failure of the Vita. Many people have been pointing toward the rise of smartphone and tablet games as having a harsh effect on the handheld market, and Vita owners have been having a lot of problems with the device. If I had to guess, however, I’d go with price: The Vita costs 24,980 Yen (about $ 320) for the Wi-Fi only version, and the Wi-Fi/3G version goes for 29,980 Yen (about $ 385). That’s just frakkin’ expensive, when you get right down to it, especially when you’re going up against the 3DS, the price of which Nintendo already slashed when it failed to sell well at launch.
The Vita will have a much more reasonable price tag when it hits U.S. shores next year — $ 249 for Wi-Fi only, $ 299 for Wi-Fi/3G. Until then, we’ll have to see how Sony handles the bad news at home, and whether it’s going to start slashing prices the way Nintendo did.
The fact that Square Enix is releasing a transforming arcade game made us nostalgic for the first transforming car robots we encountered as youths. No, not the eponymous Transformers, but rather their oft-overlooked older siblings, the Gobots. Like everything cool in the 80s, the Gobots were originally Japanese, a toy line called “Machine Robo” localized for American consumers by Tonka.
Gobots debuted in American toy stores in 1983, with Hasbro’s competing Transformers line arriving one year later. While time has certainly shown who won this battle of branding prowess, we’ll always have a special place in our dark little hearts for our first experience with transforming Japanese robots.
Japanese hardware sales, January 16 – 22: Forbidden love edition originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
[In this weekly column, Gamasutra rounds up the most popular paid and free iPad gaming applications on the App Store as of today, with Machinarium, Monopoly and Where's My Water? currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.] This week’s top paid titles are: 1. Monopoly for iPad ($ 0.99) 2. Where’s My Water? ($ 0.99) 3. Machinarium ($ 1.99) 4. Words With Friends HD ($ 2.99) 5. Scrabble for iPad ($ 0.99) 6. Tetris for iPad ($ 0.99) 7. Angry Birds …
[In this weekly column, Gamasutra rounds up the most popular paid and free gaming applications on the Android Market as of today, with Modern Combat 3, Cut the Rope and Where's My Water? currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.] This week’s top paid titles are: 1. Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation ($ 6.99) 2. Cut the Rope ($ 0.99) 3. Where’s My Water? ($ 0.99) 4. UNO ($ 0.99) 5. Grand Theft Auto III ($ 2.99) 6. 9mm HD …
