I played Lair today and the controls wouldn’t work.  Why?  They reconfigured it for analog use.  Now you can choose which controls you like.  It’s too bad so many Lair owners balked at the innovation.  It’s still good to have a choice.  The patch will be available sometime in March for download. 

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Xbox LIVE Arcade Awards - 2007 Winners

Best Overall Arcade Game: “Bomberman Live” (Hudson Entertainment)
Best Classic Game: “Castlevania: Symphony of the Night” (Konami Digital Entertainment)
Best Original Game: “Pac-Man: Championship Edition” (NAMCO BANDAI Games)
Best Family-Friendly Game: “Pac-Man: Championship Edition” (NAMCO BANDAI Games)
Best Competitive Multiplayer Game: “Bomberman Live” (Hudson Entertainment)
Best Cooperative Multiplayer Game: “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (Ubisoft [...]

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Someone slipped me an invite to the CCP/White Wolfe Party tonight.  It’s supposed to be the hottest party at GDC.  I didn’t know why until I showed up.  I guess it’s an S&M themed party.  They had girls all over dancing in cages and on poles.  The girl pictured above was my favorite.  I named [...]

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They had Wii Fits out at Nintendo’s booth today.  I figured I’d give it a try.  Now you must know that I’m 6′4″, 355lbs.  I know the Japanese version is rated at 300lbs, but supposedly the American version of the Wii Fit is rated at 330lbs.  I gave it a shot anyways.  I stood on [...]

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Today at Sony’s Blogger Lounge Insomniac had a press briefing detailing their Nocturnal Initiative.  NI is basically open source tool development and sharing.  Insomniac believes that the same thing shouldn’t be done twice when it comes to making tools for game development.  What they have done is setup a website and wiki to give out [...]

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Just got back from Microsoft’s Blogger Breakfast and it was a hoot! The smoked bacon was delicious! Several bloggers got to throw questions at Chris Satchell, Aaron Greenberg and John Schappert. They answered all the questions and even recruited Ron Workman to their PR team. Here are the bullets as I wrote them down:

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Who says the Xbox community has nothing to look forward to in 2008? Sequel mania this year. After all of the denials over the past few weeks, we see that Epic was waiting to drop the news at GDC . . . Gears is coming back, folks! Although the movie-going community has been tortured by [...]

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Among several announcements made at the GDC, one of the major ones made by Microsoft during a keynote address is that they would open up game development to the console community. Since the early days of home gaming, PC users have had the opportunity to download and enjoy many gems through various Internet portals like [...]

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As promised, here’s the trailer footage for SS7 and KOFXII.  Notice the violent finishers at the end?  Yeah, it’s gonna be sweet.  As far as KOFXII goes, these videos don’t do it justice.  I think SNK may have the one up on Capcom for 2D HD fighting.  Enjoy!

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I capped off my busy day at Sony’s Blogger Lounge.  Played some BUZZ! and got my ass handed to me.  Jeff Gerstmann was there as well as a fuckton of other media analyst, bloggers and press geeks.  They gave away a $5000 donation in the name of the winner of the BUZZ! contest to a [...]

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Spent some time at SNK’s press area at the Prescott today. They have some amazing things coming down the pipes. You already know about the Arcade Classics: Volume 1, Samurai Shodown and World Heroes Anthologies. Well SNK dropped another bomb today; Metal Slug 7 for the Nintendo DS. If [...]

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Rumor has it that Capcom will be showing playable versions of Resident Evil 5 and Super Street Fighter II HD at the Game Developers Conference next week.  Funny thing is, I don’t see Capcom listed as an exhibitor.  They might have kiosks in both Sony and Microsoft’s booths though.  I won’t be there til Wednesday [...]

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Gamespy is back in the game with the new Scaleform In-Game Lobby. It was made popular in Crysis and now it will be available for developers to use in other games. Don’t feel like coding an in-game lobby? Pick up a Scaleform kit.

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PS3 owners have been screaming for a feature like this in XMB.  PlayXpert allows cross game communication with your friends from your friends list.  It’s supported in all the major SOE games and even works with non-SOE games.  Full release after the jump:

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The big Game Developers Conference 2008 is around the corner and one wonders what goodies they’ll have at the show.  I have some info that was already sent to me that I can’t discuss.  I do however, have a short list of predictions to list.

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