Kaz said:

Hahaha.  What a show!  Kaz loves the circus.

YES! So where is PSP2 Kaz?

Dvader said:

Kaz leaves us with Cirque du Solei... thats it... wtf is this, this is embarrasing.

man i would have thought that sony would have learned a lesson after MS's embarrassing Cirque du Solei mess

and sony's 3d glasses are so funky looking

bugsonglass said:

aspro, awesome new avatar.  i have to say i am surprised, you had the aspro clear packaging as your avatar for as long as i remember seeing your posts which would include several years of gamespot forums before the last two years here

Yeah, I've only ever had one avatar since January 1 1995.  So... not sure why I changed it, but vibrating cat is here for now.  I will probably go back to the box after a while.

Dvader said:

Well that was terrible.

I missed it. I assume nothing for gamers?

Hudson’s announced it’s to bring TurboGrafx-16 games to the US PSN next week.

Titles hitting the PlayStation Store next week include:

• Alien Crush
• Bomberman 94′
• Bonk’s Adventure
• Dungeon Explorer
• Neutopia
• New Adventure Island
• Soldier Blade
• Super Star Blade
• Victory Run
• World Sports Competition

Official confirmation comes after the games were previously outed by the German classifications board, the USK, last November.

The stock market is a JOKE. Their biggest quarter ever was "slightly disappointing".

"This morning GameStop announced that its holiday season was a success, with sales up 5.4 percent to $3 billion and comparable store sales up 3.4 percent. But that wasn't as much as analysts and industry-watchers were hoping to see, and the market is punishing the retailer's stock.


In response to the news, GameStop shares fell over 4.6 percent, trading at $20.67 as of press time. "We'll have to sort out the market reaction. I'm not sure what that means ... but in general we're hearing favorable things," GameStop CEO Paul Raines told Reuters.


Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter called the results, in line with some estimates and below others "slightly disappointing." Lazard Capital Markets' Colin Sebastian said he thought the lowered stock "reflects profit-taking following the 13 percent rise in the stock last month," and that the company's results were "solid."'

aspro said:

WTF is everyone?

this place has felt very desolate these last few days.  i worry about gg especially, he was having a tough time during the holidays and he's hardly been around this week since i've been back

Anybody else got a shitty holiday card from Nintendo? It says Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in like, every language there is, and the front has a giant 2011 with a 3DS in the middle and the words BE PREPAR3D below, and it has a little holographic 3D pattern effect.

The Last Story's Online Play Detailed

The conversation system, team play, bananas and more!

(translation of the scans I posted in the last page)

If anyone wants to help out on news updates, I should say I really don't post anywhere close to everything I find, just the stuff that is interesting to me, so if you see I've been to a site, don't assume that is all that there is to report. (Or if you see something in the wild that you think is interesting don't assume I've already posted it).

For those of you not posting, hope all is well, and a reminder we did post a new podcast this week, that addresses some highly controversial issues, as well as a revelation from one of the cast regarding their sexuality.

Okay... maybe not all of that is true.  But it does have Vader's impressions of GT5. And YODA actually played 2 games.

Iwata Asks: Nintendo 3DS:

Itoi: Well…you know…this is really… Oh, that’s Pikmin!2 Great!

Miyamoto: Doesn’t Pikmin look great? (laughs).

Iwata: It seems like Pikmin is perfect for 3D.

Miyamoto: I like the way they scurry around.

Itoi: Pikmin is a game with a peculiar 3D effect as if you’re getting down on hands and knees to look at something small. Man, I want one of these! I’ll buy one, Prez! How much is it going to cost me, Prez?

Iwata: (laughs) Well, shall we close the Nintendo 3DS system and begin our conversation?

Hey, don't change the subject, Iwata!

GG where are you?!