Posted by Stephen Johnson - Monday, July 07, 2008 6:08 PM
Here's what happened today in the world of videogames, technology and popular culture:
- A couple impressive titles are hitting the Nintendo download service today.
- Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg had some choice words for Nintendo Wii owners: You'll eventually see the light and buy a 360.
- MySims is migrating from the Wii to the PC.
- Japanese business newspaper Nikkei reports that Toyota plans to implement solar panels to its highly popular green machine,the Prius.
- Exclusive Gears of War 2 footage.
- A widescreen DS may be just a rumor.
- We look at slings for your iPhone, and decide which holster is going to be the one to make you drool with joy in this tech review.
- Max Schaefer, co-founder of Flagship Studios, admitted his company tried to do too much with Hellgate: London, and as a result the final product suffered.
- Here it is: The supposed box art for the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King. 3
- There's a video up on the Youtubs of a man playing Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart on the iPhone.
- Atlus has announced December 9th, 2008 as the U.S. release date for Persona 4.
- Gamers want shorter games?
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Tags: Daily Wrap-Up, Videos
Posted by Frank Meyer - Monday, July 07, 2008 5:30 PM
Will Smith’s Hancock opened to an estimated $103.9 million from 3,965 runs over 5½ days to become the third-biggest Fourth of July opener of all time after Transformers and Spider-Man 2. About $62.6 million was grossed over the weekend alone, while overseas grosses clocked in at $78.5 million.
“The Will Smith business is a great business to be in,” said Sony prexy of domestic distribution Rory Bruer. “It’s not just a matter of audiences loving him, but they love the characters he plays.”
Sony’s superhero flick is Smith eight film in a row to open at No. 1 domestically, as well as his fifth -- and most successful -- Fourth of July opening. All that with crappy reviews to boot! You go, Will Smith!
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Tags: Movies
Posted by Jonathan Hunt - Monday, July 07, 2008 5:26 PM
Let's say you're in one hell of a dogfight and the fate of the world rests on your ability to lure one heat-seeking missile into a head-on collision with another heat-seeking missile. Can you do it? Sure, you might be able to wing it, but wouldn't you rather have some practice? Well, that's why Kevin Pereira is here with Missile Matador. Check out the video and grab the game for yourself.
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Tags: Indie Games, PC Gaming, Videogames, Videos
Posted by Brian Leahy - Monday, July 07, 2008 5:24 PM
Have you ever wanted to watch a movie without all that annoying motion and sound? Now you sort of can, with Thumber, a new application for Mac OSX.
Thumber will take a Quicktime compatible movie and take a snapshot every few seconds. It will then assemble these snapshots into a collage of images.
Watch this episode of Sessler's Soapbox:
Then hit the jump to see what it looks like after Thumber... will it truly capture Adam's hand movements?
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Tags: Apple, Internets Culture, Products, Tech
Posted by Jeffrey Kanjanapangka - Monday, July 07, 2008 5:22 PM
Square-Enix announces the release of their new full scale epic RPG for the... iPOD? Utilizing a tactics based system and artwork in a similar vein of Disgaea or the Final Fantasy: Tactics series, Song Summoner: The Unsung Heroes, adds some spice to the mix with soldiers created from songs on your iPod. Remember when you were creating monsters from unwanted AOL data discs via Monster Rancher on the Playstation One? You will instead raise a legion of doom out of all those played out Soulja boy mp3s.
Click the image below for the Song Summoner: The Unsung Heroes image gallery
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Tags: Apple, iPhone, Videogames
Posted by Frank Meyer - Monday, July 07, 2008 4:21 PM
Formerly known as crackspace.com, hip hop social entertainment and information site iHipHop today announced its launch as an online community offering music, videos, news, forums, commerce and social networking tools.
iHipHop launches with almost 800,000 users and a slate of new and updated features, including user profile widgets, video chat, blogs, and a hip hop wiki. The aim? To “help hip hop fans engage more actively with the community and with each other.”
“While operating as CrackSpace, we worked closely with the community to understand their needs and how they interacted with the technology, and we used that information to develop an in depth hip hop site with the most advanced tools on the market today,” said founder and CEO Chuck Wilson in a statement. “Now we’ve got a site where hip hop and pop culture fans can enjoy content and participate in the community, and advertisers can reach an engaged and targeted audience.”
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Tags: Internets Culture, Music
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