Links: Mud Pie Day 2009 Edition

Links: Mud Pie Day 2009 Edition

My youngest, a kindergartener, had Mud Pie Day today (they do bubbles, throw footballs, play Frisbee, eat pudding, mess with sand and much more.
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Game du Jour: Week of 31 May 2009

Game du Jour: Week of 31 May 2009

The following games will be discounted next week on Game du Jour, the ‘one-deal-a-day’ website dedicated to indie and casual games:
Sun. May 31st: 50% off on Archibald’s Adventures
Mon. June 1st: 50% off on Larva Mortus
Tue. June 2nd: 20% off on KingMania
Wed. June 3rd: 20% off on Phantasia ...

Atari plays the name game

Atari plays the name game

Videogames News: Old moniker, new plans for publisher — Atari is going back to its roots. The French-owned videogame publisher that has been operating as Infogrames Atari is reverting back to the original moniker that launched the company back in the 1980s.

WayForward’s Mighty Flip Champs out tomorrow

WayForward’s Mighty Flip Champs out tomorrow

WayForward — creator of the upcoming A Boy and His Blob — has announced that its new puzzle game, Mighty Flip Champs, will release for DSiWare this week. The game has players guiding the main character, Alta, through a series of mazes, which can be flipped like pages from one ...

Rumor: Nintendo to show off new Mario game at E3, releasing this year in Japan

Rumor: Nintendo to show off new Mario game at E3, releasing this year in Japan

Coming from Japan’s Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper, we hear rumblings of a new Mario game destined for Japan sometime this year, and that we should expect to hear about this game during E3 this week. It’s a fairly credible rumor, considering Nintendo admitted that the Mario and Zelda teams were ...

No Whiimies! Ubisoft bringing Press Your Luck, Family Feud

No Whiimies! Ubisoft bringing Press Your Luck, Family Feud

We’ll forever remember the moment we saw John O’ Hurley crush Richard Karn’s windpipe, the finishing move in the back alley street fight that decided the next rung of the Family Feud host lineage. A moment like that begs for a video game adaptation, but we doubt that’s what we’ll ...

Spotted in the wild: TA-090v3, new motherboard?

Spotted in the wild: TA-090v3, new motherboard?

TA-090. Remember this well, cos I have a feeling this will play a very significant role in the lives of us PSP gamers in the very near future, if not now. Circulating the Internet is a picture of what appears to be a new motherboard model for the PSP handheld.
  
It ...

PSP Homebrew: Defense Station Portable v2

PSP Homebrew: Defense Station Portable v2

It’s time to come home. After leaving the PSP to trek its way to the iPhone, Danzel’s Defense Station Portable has finally made its way back to where it came from, and we’re all geared up for a thundering welcome applause. Defense Station Portable v2 is back, and it definitely ...

QuickJump QuickPeek 74: The drought that didn’t happen the week before E3 2009

QuickJump QuickPeek 74: The drought that didn’t happen the week before E3 2009

 
For the weekend directly leading up to the E3 event, it sure was jampacked with news, wasn’t it? If you’ve been hanging around the industry for a while now, you’d know that the usual occurrence during this time of the year (or whenever there is an event, ...

Defense Station Portable v2 Released

Defense Station Portable v2 Released

From the PSP to the iPhone, and back to the PSP again, it’s Danzel’s genuinely crafted Defense Station Portable. The objective, it’s simple… Setup shop in the surrounding area, cannons, laser towers, anti-air guns, etc. There’s an impending attack and you’re on the defense. Once you ...

E3 2009: ‘Nier’ is Square Enix’s next game

E3 2009: ‘Nier’ is Square Enix’s next game

Square Enix has seemingly jumped the gun on at least one of its E3 announcements, with the trailer for Nier (after the break) finding its way online, not to mention the game having a website. Hey, there’s even gameplay!
The art style looks like a pretty dramatic departure from the Japanese ...

Gears of War 2 ‘All Fronts’ pre-orders vanish from the web

Gears of War 2 ‘All Fronts’ pre-orders vanish from the web

A tipster sent in word that GameStop had pulled all pre-orders for Gears of War 2 retail compilation ‘All Fronts’, and lo and behold, it has. So we did some snooping, checking out Best Buy, Target, GameCrazy, and Amazon, and found each also have pulled it.
So, what does this mean? ...

QuickJump QuickPeek Special EditionThe games of E3 2009

QuickJump QuickPeek Special EditionThe games of E3 2009

 
We’ve had a few publishers whip their E3 lineups out this week, so we’re starting to get a picture of all those publishers and developers packed inside the LA Convention Center next weekbut hold up, a few won’t cut it. There are over a hundred different companies flocking to show ...

E3 2009: Borderlands debut trailer

E3 2009: Borderlands debut trailer

Here’s a new trailer for Gearbox Software and 2K Games’ Borderlands (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC) showing off the game’s new concept art-ish style. It seems to be mostly made of cutscenes but there’s a second’s worth of gameplay footage that doesn’t seem to be all that different from the ...

PODCAST: Radio Free Nintendo: Episode 148

PODCAST: Radio Free Nintendo: Episode 148

E3 is around the corner, but we try to have a normal episode with Zelda II for RetroActive. Special guest Lukasz Balicki makes his RFN debut!

E3 2009: XSEED lineup includes Yuusha 30, Lunar, more

E3 2009: XSEED lineup includes Yuusha 30, Lunar, more

XSEED’s E3 2009 press release got buried in the mass of press releases we’ve seen over the past couple of weeks, but I just had to post it even if it’s a bit late since it confirms US releases for two PSP games I’ve been watching out for.
First is Marvelous ...

FuSa SD v1.0.50b Released

FuSa SD v1.0.50b Released

Full-screen video output, full-speed game play, and fully functional POPS support — I’m talking OldPrisoneR & Andy_maN’s new version of FuSa. It’s the way TV out should be on the PSP-2000/Slim.FuSa SD v1.0.50b changes…New “SpeedDBoosteR” solves speed issues for all games and now it’s turned on by defaultNew rewritten ...