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Apparently the wildly popular Spore Creature Creator Video Game is being used by some pretty creative people to Create sexually suggestive creatures, such as a giant Penis and Breasts as well.

The game created by The Sims, Will Wright, is meant for less sexual pursuits and Electronic Arts, the Company Producing the Popular game is seeing Red!

Amazingly two from within PC Gamer, a reputable and popular Gamers Magazine were the ones who started this latest Bruhaha.  Tim Edwards, PC Gamers Uk Editor, created with the game what he called: “The World’s First Spore Penis”.  And then soon after PC Gamers US Editor and Chief, Kristen Salvatore, created something she called “Boobalicious”, a creature that looks much like two large breasts.

EA quickly blocked these two ‘Industry Players’ from their Sprore site noting that the two Editors had compromised their User Agreement to not use Spore in any sexually explicit manner.  And many wonder why there is such concern about video games… here are two ‘professionals’ from PC Gamer Magazine who think this is funny, no doubt!  Shameful and dispicable! 

Apparently we are ‘Getting Some’ obscene sex that is, with our games from PC Gamer Editors, Tim Edwards and Kristen Salvatore.

Soon after Mr. Edwards and Mrs. Salvatore were banned from their sick use of the innocent Spore Creature Creator Game, which is targeted mostly to children, thousands of like minded perverts were creating their own mock ups with the Spore game, many of these sexually charged creations saw their way to U-Tube where they were erased but live on elsewhere.

I’m not uptight about sex, and it sure isn’t any surprise to me that someone would start peverting something wholesome into something it wasn’t intended for, that’s the price of freedom and liberty.  It ain’t no problem, but one must note that it began this time with noted professionals within the gaming industry.  They should both be fired immediately!

Lucy Bradshaw one of the Producers of Spore says that Spore Users can can block S-porn from their game.

Amazingly and unsuprisingly the ‘Video Gaming Industry’ is treating this like a ‘no big deal’, its yet another circle the wagon moment.  Yet if I were with EA I’d be wondering If I should call up over at PC Gamer and tell them that I might pull my Games and Advertising!  This is business after all, and these professional Editors of PC Gamer should be held accountable and Fired Immediately!

See these two new Bad Company Videos, one making fun of Gears of War and the other an amused take on Rainbow Six.

 

 

Siren: Blood Curse is the latest Zombie Slasher, but this time its for the Playstation Network where you must download it!  We’ve put up yet another page for the Many Game Vids that come our way we’re calling it our Vid Page.  So go Here: (GOOGAD GAMES VID PAGE) to see these two videos.

Also here are some of the photos that I found upon it.  I’m not sure exactly when Siren’s coming to the PS3 Network but we’ll be letting you know!

 

 

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, the epic action-stealth game from famed designer Hideo Kojima is out today, concluding his more than 20-year directorial involvement in the series. I got a chance to sit down with Kojima and ask him about his popular franchise and what’s up next for him.

He said his biggest concern for Metal Gear Solid 4 was to wrap up the story and close up each character’s arc, a task he found came with a lot of pressure. Kojima hasn’t thought about missing the series but he imagines those thoughts may come after today’s launch.

“I’ve just been more worried about how the game will be received,” he said.

Early reviews suggest Kojima has nothing to worry about. Reviewers have been wowed by the story of Solid Snake as he takes on his final mission.

Kojima said the series will likely continue in some form though his role as a director or step-by-step designer is over. The story of protagonist Solid Snake, he confirmed, ends with Metal Gear Solid 4.

MGS 4, an exclusive on the PlayStation 3, is expected to be a big seller for the PS3, which has been trailing in the console race. Kojima said the platform took some getting used to but ultimately his team pushed it to its limits, maxing out the Blu-ray disc’s space. He said once the team got a hang of how to balance the work load and get the most out of the PS3’s Cell processor, they were able to make a game that was incredibly advanced.

“Looking back now, it could only have been achieved on the Cell because of its ability to multi-task,” Kojima said.

Kojima said he’d be interested in exploring movies or writing novels if he had the time. But he said he’s committed to creating video games, which he believes are an art form in their own right.

He believes future video games will combine other media entertainment elements beyond what we see today. In the end, he believes video games can leave their mark on people.

“I believe real entertainment games should add value to people who play,” he said. “I strongly believe and wish it would form in this way in the future.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Perhaps Brodie Bruce put it best when he said “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for Sega”. Indeed, there is a social stigma that goes along with being a gamer that seems to be at its worst when dealing with the fairer sex. It’s clear that there are female gamers out there, but unfortunately the majority of them just don’t have a spot in their life for a 360. When dating, the videogame topic is one that’s often avoided until absolutely necessary. Girls often turn up their noses at the thought of playing a videogame, and refuse flat out to have any part of it. So with that in mind, I present to you…

 

10. Viva Pinata – A great game for serious gamers with a cute and cuddly disguise, this game may have been tailor made for the good old bait and switch tactic. Even the most reticent girlfriend will at least admit that a Bunnycomb is pretty adorable. The upcoming Trouble in Paradise makes this even more appealing, with a newly added cooperative mode.

 

9. Dead or Alive 4 – Sure, the ladies of Dead or Alive are horribly stereotyped sex objects. That doesn’t mean your girlfriend won’t be thrilled when she kicks the crap out of your Bayman with her Ayane. Hotseat through the story mode once so she can get the feel of the game and then jump into some competition. With a pretty even spread of male and female characters to play, a Battle of the Sexes tournament can be a lot of fun.

 

8. The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion – Taking on the role of a personally created character can be enough to get anyone hooked. Customization and the ability to make choices that affect the game are a big selling point, and a rich and immersive story adds to what may be seen as an unlikely choice for a way to introduce your girlfriend to the 360.

 

7. Halo 3 – Or for that matter Army of Two, or Kane & Lynch. Sure they’re all shooters, but they have one important thing in common - cooperative play. Cooperative play is not only a great way to build upon a relationship, but it’s also a good way to keep a new player from getting discouraged.

 

6. Dance Dance Revolution Universe – The old standby. Sure, it’s not the most hardcore game, but everyone gets their start somewhere. Many girl gamers bought their first console for the DDR series, and why not? It’s exercise, it’s dancing, and it’s great fun.

 

5. Rock Band – A favorite game of non-gamers, Rock Band provides plenty of options. Even a girl unwilling to pick up a controller may be willing to grab the mic and belt out her favorite tunes. The ability to adjust the difficulty separately for each player means that it can be challenging for you without being frustrating for her. A karaoke experience in the house can be a compelling reason to turn on the Xbox, especially if there are a few friends singing too.

 

4. Marvel Ultimate Alliance – With a wide array of characters to choose from, and a simple, easy to grasp game mechanic, Marvel Ultimate Alliance is a great way to kill two birds with one stone. Not only is it a wonderful introduction to what the Xbox 360 has to offer, it’s a fantastic way to start that comic addiction too. With a cast of very strong characters, both male and female, a light leveling system and a pretty interesting story, Ultimate Alliance is a fantastic introduction to gaming.

 

3. The Simpsons Game – Funny and familiar, The Simpsons Game is a great way to transition into games. The drop-in drop-out coop in the game is a great way to invite her to play. Start up the game, show her some of the cinematics, and coax her into joining in for a bit. The gameplay isn’t the best, but the laughs are there, and that may be enough.

 

2. Lego Star Wars / Indiana Jones – Familiarity plays an important role when introducing someone to games. While Gears of War may be too much to grasp all at once, the Star Wars and Indiana Jones stories are already well known. Combine that with Pixar like humor, virtually no death penalty, and places where the 2nd player is almost necessary, the Lego series are great ‘couple’ games.

 

1. The Orange Box: Portal – A personal favorite and a great introduction to the First Person Shooter, Portal is the perfect game to introduce a girlfriend to. The overhead voice of GLaDOS provides the laughs and the puzzles ramp up at a slow but steady pace. Of course, Team Fortress 2 and Call of Duty 4 are simply applications of the same shooting mechanics as in Portal, so moving on to one of the hardcore Xbox FPS titles afterwards is simple. Get your lady friend started on this one and prepare to see fuzzy companion cubes start cropping up around the house in no time.

 

 

 

 

 

Interesting that The Bourne Conspiracy is coming out at this time, what without a movie to back it up. Many have seen these popular movies based on the Robert Ludlum bestselling Mystery/Suspense titles. And if you’ve never seen a Bourne movie that wouldn’t be much of a problem in terms of playing The Bourne Conspiracy.

In fact the main character doesn’t much look like Mr. Damon, the star of the present Bourne Films.

Mr. Matt Damon - as Jason Bourne in the Robert Ludlum Movies

I suppose that the makers of the film didn’t get the go-ahead to use the likeness of Mr. Damon in the games… which doesn’t much matter, since like James Bond/Sean Connery you’ll likely get many ‘do-overs’ in the future! I’m not much of a fan of the Bourne movies, having found them a bit dry, still I do wait for a good one to arrive and they are interesting.

But enough about the movies. Playing the game is more fun than seeing the movie. I found the game pretty compelling but not entirely exciting. The Bourne Conspiracy actually seems to be a complete look at the many plotlines of the three Bourne films. There is the time before the memory loss and much after as well. The game jumps from mission to mission, and if you are a fan of the films you will surely enjoy the play of actually putting Bourne through his killer paces.

There isn’t much down time to The Bourne Conspiracy, it keeps going on and on, and if you’re bored that’s a good thing. The cut scenes are pretty standard and you won’t find yourself following much along with the story. It’s funny but that I play so many games now, because of this site, but that the so-called ‘Plot’ doesn’t even have to exist in a Video Game for it to be good, in my opinion. It does set me back when I see a ‘game critic’ go on about story not being there… this from a guy who probably hasn’t read a book since ‘Catcher in The Rye’! So it is funny because I can easily go from place to place, without much bother, you just put me there, give me the gun, and I’ll do the rest! That’s become my attitude, in shooters especially.

In that this latest Bourne game is no different. I sort of recognized this and that but I’m just happy to complete the mission!

There is quite a lot of hand to hand combat in The Bourne Conspiracy. Of course we aren’t seeing a real fight. Fighting is unpleasant at any speed. Still it is interesting when games make the attempt. This is a little known area as yet, since most are focusing upon the guns/hardware more than the actual ’spirit’ of combat. At any rate, you get the famous ‘Combo’ moves that video games go on about. And it’s pretty maddening not to be able to move the character in a fluid manner. The ‘advice’ from the game is to choose from the light to heavy combo attacks and watch how opponents react. The game says that the opponents will react differently to your combos but I saw no change at all. One just has to knock the opponent down enough to get to the final cut scene, this in itself is entertaining, and I found out that it is best to use your kicking skill as much as possible, since the opponents are actually better at punching than you are! It becomes just a matter of ‘missing’ those punches and landing your own… not as easy as it may sound. Still, there hasn’t yet be a ‘revolution’ in this area. Hand to Hand doesn’t get much respect from Game Makers as yet!

The ‘old Sarge’ there was, if I remember, much tougher than the Demo I played a few weeks before! I had to do this one over a number of times until I got it right.

This was the hardest hand to hand in the game, I believe. This guy was really hard to finish! One of the good things about the game was that you could replay the scene as a trainee if it was too hard to complete as an Agent. I finally got fed up and put myself in Trainee mode for this one and finished him off! In real life, of course, a guy like that would have murdered me in, oh about, 30 seconds or so! So it is fun to fantisize!

Here I am hiding.

It’s funny but I didn’t realize that I could actually run until about 3/4ths through the game! I literally wasn’t aware of the so called 2-A Button. And I was thinking that I’d be sure to criticize the makers of The Bourne Conspiracy for not putting in the Run. Then I hit the button! All this time I was moving in slow-motion!

There’s quite a lot of shooting. Unfortunately the guns just aren’t that thrilling! The actual armor seems almost Pre-Hitler at times. With not much punch or power!

The best part of the game I’d have to say was the little Cooper Car moments. You’re with your girlfriend and she’s making those Video Game noises… it’s a pretty fun little ride, driving that little car around. I just floored it and was pretty pleased that the makers let the car go. In fact the look of London and the mechanics of the driving are really good, and a lot of fun. I enjoyed this zippy little part of the game.

My Zippy Little Cooper Car

So all in all the Bourne Conspiracy isn’t going to actually add anything new to the Ludlum Legacy in terms of bringing out some new story elements for Bourne, but as a game I felt it was pretty good really and not boring in the least. It’s a game that should capture your interest for a time, and if you in any way liked the movies I can’t imagine you not liking the game. Unless you were on the CIA’s side!
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 11, 2008 - Those vaguely familiar with Capcom’s history might have been surprised on Wednesday when the company marked its 25th anniversary by releasing an advertisement and a letter from CEO Kenzou Tsujimoto. That establishes Capcom’s founding on June 11, 1983. However, Capcom’s own website and other sources place the company’s founding date as May 30, 1979, meaning that Capcom is actually 29 years old. So what gives?

IGN contacted Capcom USA PR director Chris Kramer for clarification and the truth is actually that there are essentially two birthdays. The May 30, 1979, date marks the establishment of I.R.M Corporation, which was “founded with the objective of developing and selling electric applied game machines.” In May of 1981, I.R.M. established a subsidiary called Japan Capsule Computer. It wasn’t until June 11, 1983, that Capcom Company, Limited was established “for the purpose of selling software.” So while the corporate roots of Capcom stretch back to 1979, the formal organization of Capcom was in 1983.

The past 25 years have proven to be quite fruitful for Capcom. The company claims 46 games that have gone platinum, or sold more than a million copies each. Its biggest hit is the 1992 fighting game Street Fighter II with approximately 6.3 million units sold for the Super NES. 1998’s Resident Evil 2 is Capcom’s second greatest hit, with 4.96 million units sold for the PlayStation. More recent hits include 2008’s Devil May Cry 4 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 (2.3 million units sold) and 2006’s Dead Rising for the Xbox 360 (1.4 million units sold.)

Meanwhile, Capcom’s immediate future looks bright, with new games in the Resident Evil, Street Fighter, Mega Man, and Bionic Commando franchises currently in development.

 

 

 

 

 

Well, actually he doesn’t really have much to say!

But he has a few tidbits about RE5.. the choice of Africa and the New Evil “Chick” with a gun!

But he looks and sounds like a pretty cool dude so check him out at our new Resident Evil Page

 

 

 

 

 

We decided to port this post over from Stuff. Yeah, well we are lazy but we work pretty hard I’d say. We thought you’d like to take a look at some of these cool toys. I know, I know it’s supposed to be about video games! Well play with these while watching that boring Transformers Video from last year!

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What could possibly be Cooler than a Celebration of EVIL!

And now with Resident Evil 5 coming to the Video Game World it got us thinking about how we could tie-in the cool new Evil video game. Well we love Toys here at Stuff, and although we show you some really high class things (after all we aren’t Gizmodo or Endgadget, we know there is more to life than a Cellphone!) from Unica Home lately, we are very juvenile and funny stupid, and yes in that very annoying manner! Nobody likes growing up, it’s a Drag, Mon!

Anywho you may wish to check out our Resident Evil Page over at Googads! There is a cool new video from the forthcoming game that you should see.

But enjoy now a few toys from Resident Evil from the Past few games that we have played here at Stuff. These are good presents for the wee ones! And goodness what better gift for young minds?!

This ones called Illuminados: “So there’s where Father O’Mally’s been hiddin’!” This one looks like a lapsed Catholic or something!

This one is Leon S. Kennedy the last Hero of Resident Evil in Part 4!

And lastly don’t forget to Red Bull Up with some Virus from Resident Evil! Well maybe you won’t become a Zombie if you drink this stuff. Still you’ll up your sugar count and look cool while doing so!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Look in on our new Bad Company Page.

We Opened up a new page here at Lost Planet… our Resident Evil Page.  Please Take a look, we have the newest video up there.

 

 

 

 

 

Now we turn our attention to Free Radical’s Haze. As you may be aware we haven’t been ‘Active’ for too long on the Blog-o-Sphere with Lost Planet being our site for Video Games, we actually have quite a few blogs. And have been Reviewing Movies, Books and many other things for many, many years… even when there wasn’t an Internet in fact! But if you’ve been here you may know about our Haze Page!, which is under our New Games Rising Category on the Right Sidebar of the site. I feel this was a very good idea, as I intend to keep it where it is regardless… and hopefully there will be a Haze 2, which I’m pretty sure there will be. Haze just may be the Halo Killer that Sony has been looking for! So do see if there is anything new on the Haze page from time to time, even though it may be quite a while until the new development stage begins for Haze 2!

With that said let me now turn to Lost Planet’s Review of Haze. Haze is a very good start for a beginning game.

What is Haze about?

Haze is about the establishment Versus the counter-establishment. When the game begins we meet Shane Carpenter who has joined the ranks of Mantel Corporation, a multinational biotech company that fields its own army. This is a popular construction these days in video games… similair to Army of Two (Army Of Two - Lost Planet Video Game Review). The initial scenes are really off the cuff, you might say as we follow Shane with Squad leader Morgan Duvall, and Corporals Teare, Peshy, and Watchstrap. The ‘conversations’ between these hardened veterans of Mantel Coroporations Army are full of the usual Hyped up talk and dismissals, that our common to the situation…

As the game progresses Shane captures the leader of the Rebel Force, Gabriel “Skincoat” Marino, the leader of the Promised Hand who supposedly eats his enemies and wears a longcoat made of their skins. This Marino isn’t like Castro or Che Guavarra much, he wears a Cross and seems more Grandfatherly than would probably be required under ‘actual’ circumstance. He does go on about the usual nonsense, sentimentalizing life and coo-cooing about the need for togetherness and so forth, he hardly seems battle hardened and it rather amazed me that he was in charge! Still, with the way things are these days on the actual Earth, these weaknesses perhaps would be comforting to many!

Still, I didn’t respect Marino much…. he reminded me of a gardener more than a rebel leader. He would have been more interesting if he had skinned his victims alive and worn them! I’m not finding the prospect attractive, but good guys do no wrong, according to our surveys, society, media and government.

In fact I really didn’t ‘feel’ all that sympathetic to the rebel stance. The Mantel Corporation seemed a lot more interesting, sure they were drugged up on Haze and going nuts but they were a lot more ‘alive’ than Marino and his Rebels. One of the really funny things of Haze was this particular rebels voice being heard over and over again… I couldn’t stop laughing (“Remember your promise to, Morino!”) he would shout over and over at us! I don’t mean 5 or 10 times during Haze but about 350 times… and here ‘developers’ of ‘growing concerns’ (new games) should be aware not to repeat too much of the dialog. Silence is much more telling and scarier than these weird moral yelps from do-gooders with a religion to scratch!

That being said, Shane really had more to work with with Duval and the other ‘nut-cases’ over at Mantel. In fact it was quite a let down to become a Rebel. Mantel had the cool Drugs, the crazy killers (Duval and his boys) and a great air craft carrier that floated in mid-air. The Mantel Corporation shuttles were clean and smooth, whereas the Hand Rebel shuttles were really dirty and unattractive. Now that doesn’t really matter when something is at stake… and here we don’t really get a feel that much is at stake at all. So we’re in it for the laughs I’d say and why not go with a Rolls Royce instead of a Pinto was my view. Also, when Shane jumps over to the Rebel side I lost my Haze sight and my cool Mantel Gun which had a far better sight on it than the Rebel pieces.

The Mantel Magnum - A Haze Gun.

 

I was liking the Mantel Magnum much better than the Hand Knife.

 

Hand Rebel Knife

I must say that Haze will have to update the weapons a bit in Haze 2. There needs to be much more force and impact to such exciting kill machines! I do notice when a cool gun has a maximum destroy range! Dark Sector (A very good game actually, I couldn’t finish, but very ‘nearly’ did) had a better system of updating the force and skill of a weapon based on currency… and it gives you a breather from the game. The weapons simply are not that powerful in this first Haze! Shooters really have to have the Armor (for Armageddon! :P) more than anything these days!

The Rotor Gun

As the game continues, Shane, helps the Hand defeat Mantel. There is a good clip to Haze. It moves along is what I mean and luckily doesn’t take itself too seriously. I think ‘the guys’ over at Free Radical had a good time making Haze and their good time does show. Haze is receiving some really scurrilous reviews from game sites recently:

Its PlayStation 3 debut would be matched up against established FPS hits like Unreal Tournament 3 and Resistance: Fall of Man. After spending its first week on store shelves, however, Haze earns an unexpectedly low Metacritic-averaged score of 57 out of 100.

Matt Bertz at Game Informer rates Haze at 6.25 out of 10.

“The year is 2023, and Shane Carpenter is the newest numbskull to join the ranks of Mantel Corporation, a multinational biotech company that fields its own army,” Bertz begins. “Their secret weapon is Nectar, a supplement that gives soldiers increased fighting skills and a euphoric high that prevents them from experiencing PTSD.”

But then again these are the same people who reek of ‘game industry’ connections. Guys who are ‘plugged in’ and never quite ‘plug out’ when they should! These reviewers are not always reliable in the first place, since much of their ‘reviewing’ is constrained by advertising of the game makers who butter their bread. So on this rare occasion they decide to jump on ‘Haze’ because it is ‘acceptable’ since they got the ‘go ahead’ with their other like minded lunks! But they are not important anymore than a movie critic matters much anymore. I did notice that many game folk seem to like Haze quite a lot actually! And it outsold Grand Theft Auto IV just last week.

So although Haze is not without its faults it’s hardly a poor game. It’s a pretty good game and a good beginning for the Playstation to build upon its exclusive rights.

 

Haze Two?

 

Coming Soon!