June 2009
260 posts
RT @Coonskin: People sure do love trading in their video games: http://bit.ly/RlruE
People sure do love trading in their video games →
Gamestop is rich, bitch According to a report from Gamesindustry.biz (via Destructoid), the game trading business is a’boomin. Those scoundrels at Wedbush Morgan have estimated that 100 million…
RT @erikaolson: Hilarious - Stephen Colbert believes random Twitterers over Jeff Goldblum’s rumored death: http://bit.ly/ChuGj
The French Inglorious Basterds trailer is a lot better than the American ones: http://bit.ly/3shZh Thanks @slashfilm
All You People Bitching About New IPs, Quit It! →
The President of EA Games, Frank Gibeau has stated that we could see as many as nine new IPs released within the next 3 years. That’s 2-3 each year for those of you that are horrible at math. I know…
Red Faction: Demons Of The Badlands DLC Announced →
I’m coming to close to being ready to do my Red Faction: Guerrilla review now. All I need to do is play Wrecking Crew and the Multiplayer since I finished the single player campaign last week….
NBA 2K10 comes with furniture →
NBA 2K10, 2K Sports popular yearly Basketball franchise is about to be released and to celebrate a decade of the franchise 2K are releasing a special edition (act surprised). Costing $99 the…
Goldfarming: B-B-B-B-ANNED IN THE P-R-C! →
The Peoples Republic of China has, in its infinite wisdom, banned gold farming.
Next thing you know, Mexico or India will join suit then people in all the different MMOs will actually have to you…
Summer Of The Dead: Resident Evil 3 →
So here is Resident Evil 3, the last game in the main series of RE games (not counting side-games like RE: Code Veronica or RE: Outbreak) to feature zombies. This is because Las Plagas becomes the…
Wild Speculation: id Software Gearing Up for Quake... →
Pete Hines is wasting no time getting the recently sold id Software up to snuff. They’re currently building up a 3rd software development team. Bethesda’s head honcho said in an inverview with…
Gears of War: Dead Tree Format →
I’m guessing that Cliffy B isn’t satisfied with just killing the Locust anymore, he now wants more and more trees to be chainsawed…only difference is that the trees don’t fight back. What the hell…
I’m Calling it Right Now, PS2 Emulation on PS3... →
SiliconEra released an interesting tidbit of information recently that Sony has patented a PlayStation 2 emulator that runs off of the PlayStation 3’s Cell processor…meaning that they are currently…
Capcom Showing the PC Serious Lovin’ →
Capcom has announced that they will be releasing their new IP, Dark Void, on both the PC and consoles simultaneously. This is quite unprecdented seeing how no other company has been able to match up…
Pachter predicts, we sigh… →
It seems like the Nostradamus of gaming, Michael Pachter, has yet again pulls predictions and numbers out of his ass for the game journalists to eat up. First, he predicts that the ever popular Xbox…
Morning Cup o’ Metal →
When Ex told me this week’s theme was Gothic metal, I was both parts excited and ashamed; excited cuz I could share some of my favorite gothic bands with all of you and ashamed because I would have…
Gamers petition Blizzard for Starcraft 2 LAN:... →
Even Bono’s Irish luck isn’t enough.
Excremento reported yesterday that Blizzard had announced there would not be any LAN option for multiplayer in StarCraft 2. Obviously this is going to piss off a…
No More Pirates Anymore: Pirate Bay Is Bought,... →
Or at least it looks like that way. According to a press release from CVG, The Pirate Bay has been bought by the Global Gaming Factory for what looks like 60 Million Sek, or $7.8 million. Some…
I really need to see this movie: http://bit.ly/MUfLd
Dream Killer Is Announced, Concept Sounds Awesome →
I have a soft spot for games that try for an original concept. Maybe it’s why I’ve been more forgiving on games like Mirror’s Edge and Assassin’s Creed, but I’m willing to give something a chance if…
Zenonia: An iPhone RPG →
The iPhone is getting itself quite a large library of surprisingly decent games. One thing that the platform hasn’t received yet is a good RPG, this looks set to change with the release of Zenonia….
Starcraft II…Has No LAN Support →
God dammit Blizzard, what the hell. First you mess things up by delaying Starcraft II coming out by spreading their personnel to work on WoW, now you take out the heart and soul of the original…
RT @MediaWhoreTwit http://www.mediawhorenetwork.com/?p=7457 Lost: The NES Game
Halo Reach could utilize Natal…but why? →
Recently the Seattle Times interviewed Bungie, and for the most part there was nothing interesting to be learned. Bungie talked about the open worldness of Halo: ODST (we already knew about that)…
Warner Brothers annouces San Diego Comic Con... →
Details are beginning to leak out from the big studios regarding what they are planning to show off at this years SDCC and Warner Brothers have announced the full schedule, there’s a couple of things…
Lost: The NES Game →
Trawling the net this morning I came across this over a .Tiffs blog. I really wish this was real this it can’t be any worse than the last game. Tiff even lists her own ideas for the gameplay:…
WoW holds up StarCraft 2: Another reason to hate... →
It’s hard, but I hate you even more now.
Our friends over at Eurogamer recently posted an article of an interview with Blizzard’s vice-president of game design, Rob Pardo. In this very interesting…
Morning Cup o’ Metal →
LOL, I fucking forgot how amazing and bad Type O Negative was until I saw listened to this cover version of Neil Diamond’s classic hit “Cinnamon Girl”. I mean, I do love the song and how they…
Morning Meal Of Zombies →
Well, there’s no stories worth writing about so I thought it would be easier putting up the Zombie music video up first. As for the video, given last week’s events, I think there can’t be any other…
MWN’s Mission Statement in 27 Seconds →
There’s absolutely nothing going on in games and movies right now, so I thought I’d look at youtubes of none other than Conan the Barbarian. I found one of the most common sayings that is quoted…
No one cares about your teaser site →
Today Capcom put up a teaser site for something or another, to be honest I really couldn’t give a shit. Teaser sites, in my opinion, are the worst fad that game developers have employed in recent…
Attention Celebrities: STOP DYING! →
I know I’m not going to win any medals for taking this stance, but look. You celebrities really need to cut this dying shit out. At first it wasn’t a big deal. Old man McMahon was 86, and Farrah…
Breakfast, Only in Utah →
I’m trying a local restaurant out here in the great white north of Clearfield, Utah…and to paint a picture of the experience, there is maple wood paneling all over the walls, old shit on the walls,…
Demo Daze: NCAA 10 →
Google image results for NCAA 10…I SWEAR
Being the only sports gamer(besides Vlambo) I felt it was my duty to write up my recent experiences with NCAA 10 for the 360. Since I decided not to buy 09…
Morning Cup o’ Metal →
I don’t normally put these up on the weekends, but for some reason I can’t help myself…it’s been a really slow news weekend when it comes the movie and gaming industries. Ok, so for a new theme this…
Sorry Fighting Game Fans…MvC2 in Late July →
Yup, sad news for everyone who has been clamoring for this game to be released on XBLA/PSN. The release date that was stated from Marvel (June 29) isn’t actually when Capcom has as a release date,…
Omegle: The Best Thing In Trolling Since 4Chan →
You might have heard of this little service called Omegle. Since it’s release in March, it’s been getting more and more popular. So when I heard people talking about it, I thought I’d see what all…
Bioware Kills The Replay Value of Mass Effect 2 →
Ok, well I had some serious hope that I’d be playing Mass Effect 2 the same amount of times that I did the original (last count was 4), but it seems that there won’t be any kind of feature in ME2 to…
Mid-day Ska Song of the Day! →
Oh man it’s been since forever that I’ve posted a video from The Specials…after seeing this video, you too should know why they’re easily considered one of ska’s most prolific groups. The track…
In which Sony makes another bad decision →
Oh Sony, when will you ever learn? According to a Japanese business paper, Nikkei, (via Kotaku), Sony will begin R&D on a gaming cellphone within the month. Now, I can stop typing here and your face…
Strange Brews: The Zombie →
Seeing as it’s the Summer of the Dead here at Media Whore Network I thought we should dedicate this weeks strange brew to the Zombie. The cocktail was originally created by Donn Beach in the mid…
Morning Cup o’ Metal →
Hooray, it’s the final day of the Nu-Metal week! Nothing like going out with a bang…unlike this group who just kind of went out with a whimper, a gigantic, dreadlocked, greasy fried chicken skinned…
My copy of ghostbusters turned up from the US today! My weekend has now is now planned!
Warner Wins Midway By Default →
Turns out that Midway won’t have to go to auction at all…seeing how they had only one bidder trying to purchase them.
That’s right, nobody else but Warner Bros. even bothered to put in a bid for…
I Need Clean Pants – New King of Fighters XII... →
I know a few other people who will need a change of pants after seeing this as well.
Aliens RPG Cancelled →
Say it isn’t so Obsidian Entertainment! I’ve been hoping for an RPG set in the Aliens universe for the longest time. I guess us fans of the series will have to make due with the other 2 games that…
Game Turned Movie Becomes Game Based on Movie?... →
Yeah, we’ve just found out here at MWN that the next Hitman game coming out won’t stand on it’s own…it’ll be a damned movie tie-in with the filmed sequel to the original movie. They’re both slated…
THQ Opens Up on Natal →
THQ CEO Brian Farrell in a very nonchalant way let the guys at G4 know that they’ve had a Natal dev kit for a month or so:
“I don’t know how long [we had had the kits] 4 , 6 weeks, however long…
Battle Arena Toshinden Reboot for Wii →
Looks like the Wii just might become my new Dreamcast…It’ll be the system that I buy all of the obscure yet completely awesome fighting games for.
The powers that be at Tomy/Takara have decided that…