For Xbox 360 players, Dante’s Inferno is being called the God of War alternative for good reason. See if Dante’s hellish adventure will satiate your desire for demon slaying and gratuitous nudity. Can this holy warrior give the God-slaying Kratos a run for his money?

You might be surprised. We certainly were. Quarter Up!

After an eternity, the Apocalypse is almost here! It’ll officially be here when Joe Mad finishes something (…oops, did I say that?). Anyways, a third trailer premiered @ E3, but still no release date.

The game looks good, but with Kratos coming out again in 2010, we’ll see who the REAL God of War is.

Yesterday Sony officially revealed “The Last Guardian”, the long awaited sequel to “Shadow of Colossus”. Team Ico’s newest offering looks fantastic, and there’s a giant Griffon, rat, dragon, thingy. If we had to guess, it’s likely, a colossus.

Currently, Sony hasn’t committed to a release date. In the meantime, enjoy the moving pictures:

Kojima-san popped up yet again @ E3, this time at SCEA’s conference to announce Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker for the PSP. It seems that this entry in the series will be a return to the more traditional Metal Gear Solid gameplay, and may be following Solid Snake instead of Big Boss.

In other news: The Cleveland Show has already been picked up for a second season.

From Dwayne McDuffie's blog w/headline "The New Justice League?" Art by Ed Benes.

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Black Lightning Year One #6 (of 6)

Stormwatch PHD #20

Supergirl #39. Pencils by Igle.

Teen Titans Spotlight: Cyborg TP

Gold Digger: Maidens of Twilight #2 (of 4). Written by Perry.

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Witchblade #125

Ultimate X-Men #100

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More on the Resident Evil 5 controversy: An anthropologist stated that it definitely was not racist. But can he really be considered an expert on the subject?

Character designs from The Princess and the Frog.

Rosario Dawson still insists that filming on Sin City 2 will start this year.

The film version of Bernardin & Freeman’s Monster Attack Network is in the works.

A website in Egypt writes about the recent Vertigo graphic novel Cairo.

All the hip kids in Africa read Korean comics.

“Now cultural and media experts have weighed in as ‘Resident Evil 5,’ the game previewed in the trailer two years ago, rolls out on U.S. shelves this Friday. And their opinion suggests that video game players should not worry so much.

“In fact, the survival horror game may actually focus needed attention on issues of race and how the United States and other industrialized nations view the developing world.”

Also: The First Fan makes his manga debut, along with some other notable political figures.

In just a few hours, before the movie even hits US silver screens, Quantum of Solace will release on consoles. Below is a video trailer of some of the steps Activision took to bring Bond to life in the videogame.

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And as an added treat for the fellas, we’ve also added a trailer of Bond Girl Olga Kurylenko adapting to her videogame role. You know we had to do it.

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Mortal Kombat Vs. DCU hits retail shelves on November 16.

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Fans of Metal Gear Solid swarmed the Uniqlo store in New York’s Soho neighborhood yesterday to buy limited edition Metal Gear T-shirts and wait for the rare chance to get an autograph from Hideo Kojima, the game’s creator. The event celebrated the recent release of Metal Gear Solid 4. Kojima appeared at the Virgin Megastore in Times Square for the midnight release of the game.

Kojima is rumored to hate autograph sessions, but agreed to sign one item each for the first 300 people in line at Uniqlo. One creative fan had a bag of wasabi flavored Doritos for Kojima to sign, but game artwork cards were provided to those with nothing to sign.

Yumi Kikuchi, the voice of Raging Raven, was also on hand to sign autographs. A few fans flinched as Ms. Kikuchi signed their Metal Gear items which predated Raging Raven’s appearance in the series, but they didn’t stop her.

Although Uniqlo stocked 300 Metal Gear T-shirts, due to a miscommunication the large and extra-large shirts were put on display before the event and sold out early, leaving only extra-small and medium sizes for sale during the signing. Pictures of the shirts can be seen on Uniqlo’s Japanese site and on Kotaku.

Kojima will be doing another signing at a launch event in San Francisco on June 14th.

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Geekanerd won FOUR Wii Sports Packs which they’re giving away in a random drawing picked from everyone who e-mails them before Wednesday, so hit ‘em up!

Super Paper Mario’s shipping date was supposedly April 9th, which usually means the game wouldn’t go on sale until the next day. I stopped by Nintendo World after work on Monday to see if they had the game in-stock. As it turned out there were plenty of them on sale, so I grabbed two copies (one was for my friend!).

This is the first Paper Mario game I’ve ever played, so it was all new to me. I was worried I wouldn’t understand the whole “flipping” thing, but it wasn’t hard at all to grasp. Super Paper Mario has a very good way of telling a story without being tacky and generally keeps things light-hearted and fun. As in most Wii games there is a lack in voice acting or narration, but you know it’s not a Mario game without the little guy’s trademark exclamations. Maybe it’s the humorous hand gestures they’ve added, but the way Mario says “Yes!” is too funny and never gets old.

I’m fine without the voices though, because the creators try to keep the reading enjoyable. The characters keep talking about the “Legendary Hero” and describing his outfit — red cap, blue overalls and “mighty ’stache”. At one point a character refers to the mustache as “the celebration of follicles dancing on your upper lip”. There’s also some mild punnage, which isn’t necessarily my thing — but the second Pixl you get is named Thoreau, which caused Jon to point out: “Get it? You throw him…that’s why he’s Thoreau”. So that was amusing. (Please forgive him, he’s just the PCS webmonkey after all…)

The game also has a sarcastic side, which I appreciate. This is especially the case with the goons working for Count Bleck (the evil guy you must stop). They’re all pretty entertaining and each has very different personality. O’Chunks is the muscle of the group; he looks a little bit like a bulked-up & cracked-out version of the Simpsons janitor. Meanwhile Natasha, Count Bleck’s right-hand henchwoman, goes around hypnotizing everyone and converting them to follow Count Bleck’s evil side without a care. Weirdly, Count Bleck himself has the least personality (at least as far as I’ve seen); he reminds me a bit of Count Cannoli in Wario: Master of Disguise.

I can’t write a complete impression of the game yet only because I’ve spent about 6 hours with the game over the past two nights. Last night, I finally played Chapter 3 of the game which deals with “geeks” believe it or not. Everything in this dimension is in 8-bit style. At the beginning of this stage, a geeky looking iguana, Francis, kidnaps your Pixl, Tippi, who happens to be a “pixelated” butterfly (I think he grabbed her with his tongue…yuck). Francis, is probably the geekiest Mario character you’ll ever meet…(I may be wrong)! He uses the phrase “high-technical” with just about everything. Even with my Mario currently at level 7 (about 25 hit points) it still took me a couple tries to figure out some of the puzzles. This was probably the longest chapter so far.

Tally’s Tip: Remember to use the Pixl, Slim, you can overcome a lot of obstacles (moving spikes on the ground *cough*) by using this and standing STILL, you won’t get hurt!

I do like it that each chapter has a unique feel to it, but what irks me is you can’t seem to return to your homebase in Flipside town at any given point without losing your place. That is, there are no checkpoints, so if you do return to Flipside you better have a good reason for it or else you’ll just have to redo each sub-chapter again. I guess this just makes it more rewarding after you’ve beaten a chapter and the option to jump into any sub-chapter becomes available.

After work is done today, I shall go back and continue on my quest to collect the other Pure Hearts. Right now, I’m currently very jealous of those people who got to stay home and play the game.

Chapter 4 takes place in space (^_~)b I can’t wait to explore it!!!

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