New PSN Card Retailers
August 27, 2008
Sony just sent out a press release letting us know that they will be making PlayStation Network cards widely available (kind of) in September. 7-Eleven, RiteAid, and Blockbuster will be stocking your PSN cards, funnily enough.
PSN cards — which start at $20 — have been spotted in the wild already at a few locations, but it’s a bit odd that Sony hasn’t shipped out any cards to the bigger retailers such as Wal-Mart, Target, or even, GameStop.
7-Eleven, out of those mentioned, seems like the most convenient. We can now shop for our favorite $3.59 “Sushi - Ready to Eat!” and a $20 PSN card (avoiding credit fees) at 3 o’clock in the morning! Just like it was always meant to be…
Lara Croft’s Evolutionary Spreads
August 26, 2008
The real-life models who’ve embodied Lara Croft over the years have never disappointed, giving video game fans plenty of beautiful eye candy — whether it be in video game form, advertising, and…Angelina Jolie.
Unfortunately, her video game form hasn’t always been as nicely, umm, shaped. Go Nintendo found an interesting collage of her evolutionary process from blocky, first iconic female game protagonist, to the much hotter, and looser (as in well animated), model in Tomb Raider: Underworld:
Talk about a purely cosmetic, but entirely necessary, upgrade!
Fresh Ink Online: Batman R.I.P. & More
August 25, 2008
There hasn’t been a lot going on in the comic world lately, but ‘Fresh Ink Online’ recently reviewed Batman RIP, Urban Myths, Anna Mercury, and Uncanny X-Men. If you are interested in the topics here, G4 has some interesting forum discussions going on.
Top News In Video Games
August 23, 2008
This hasn’t been the most exciting week in video game news, but there’s always something worth checking out. If you want to send us an article link in the future, feel free to send it to tips@kezins.com. We read articles from hundreds and hundreds of game blogs each week, but we’ll always miss something. It’s not possible to catch every story out there. If you have a site you’d like us to check out, feel free to contact us. Here’s our picks for the top news in video games for the weekend:
Register To Vote On Your Xbox 360?!
Confirmed: There will be no PS3 price drop in 2008
Red Alert 3 Beta Opens
Games Convention 2008: Games Convention’s Most Ignored Games
LAME and TERRIBLE Video Game Endings - Second Edition
Blizzard’s Newest Cinematic is Truly Epic
Top 10 unique game controllers
Rumor: Some Rapper Has An Xbox 360 Phone
Wii Shortage: Shrewd Marketing or Flawed Supply?
Square Enix to reduce time it takes to kill FFXI mega bosses
Microsoft Bans ‘Ben Dover’
July 3, 2008
If you currently have a variation of ‘Ben Dover’ as your name on Xbox LIVE, you will be required to change it if Microsoft hasn’t already banned your name. It seems to me like Microsoft is getting a little too “PC” and trying to eliminate any kind of creative screen names that may have adult meanings behind them. Recently, Microsoft also decided to ban any screen names with the word “gay” included.
Are they going too far with name restrictions? What do you guys think? I realize that Microsoft is worried about offending people, but perhaps they are going a little too far. How about banning the foul-mouthed punks who continually plague XBL? Screen names are really the least of my worries.
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‘Star Ocean: The Last Hope’ Bound for Xbox 360, Others Announced
June 10, 2008
The Xbox brand has never been one to host the best RPGs, but it hasn’t been from Microsoft’s lack of trying. We got a taste of traditional RPG goodness with Lost Odyssey, Eternal Sonata, and Blue Dragon and Square Enix has just announced the next wave of RPGs for the system.
The biggest surprise is probably that Star Ocean: The Last Hope, once believed to be PS3-exclusive, is headed to the Xbox 360 in 2009. It’s likely that it wont be completely exclusive to the Xbox 360, but it should still come as a bit of shock to fans of the series as it had never left Sony’s camp before.
Other games previewed at the Microsoft RPG Press Event in Japan, by way of Famitsu.com, were Infinite Undiscovery (due Sept. 2 in North America), Tales of Vesperia (dropping August 7 in Japan), and The Last Remnant which will simultaneously release in all regions this winter on the Xbox 360 — the PS3 version following some time after.
