Ripten writes:
"Want to get yourself some money in double quick time, or get hold of some top secret government documents? Then why not use your PS3 to crack some passwords faster than ever before! Of course we here at Ripten don’t condone this sort of behavior, but the PS3 is actually an incredible password cracker, able to crack eight-character passwords in just hours."
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Joystiq reports:
"In the wake of the rumors surrounding Jeff Gerstmann’s suspicious removal as editorial director of Gamespot, Gamespot owner CNET has issued a short, official comment on the situation:
"GameSpot takes its editorial integrity extremely seriously," the statement reads. "For over a decade, Gamespot and the many members of its editorial team have produced thousands of unbiased reviews that have been a valuable resource for the gaming community. At CNET Networks, we stand behind the editorial content that our teams produce on a daily basis."
As for Gerstmann specifically, CNET repeated their assertion that "it is CNET Networks’ policy not to comment on the status of its employees, current of former."
While it’s nice to see CNET taking the accusations seriously, the statement doesn’t confirm or deny the facts behind the controversy, or add any significant information to the story. With the rumor still generating significant discussion throughout the online gaming community, such a short, pat statement seems unlikely to stop the gathering storm of attention."
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"The Top 100 Games of All Time!
Yes, friends, more than 30 editors located all over the world set aside their ages, allegiances and personal favorites to pick the hundred best videogames that the planet has ever seen! There was fighting, there was mayhem, and there was pizza — lots and lots of pizza.
Now, some of you may proclaim, "but your list is different from the rankings you guys did in 2005!" Well, of course it is people. Plenty of fantastic games have been released since then, and we have plenty of new folks in our ranks to throw in their couple of cents. We’re also not afraid to admit that our tastes change over time too."
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In a recent interview with developers from Insomniac Games, they were asked about things they had to cut from Ratchet & Clank Future, which results in them giving some interesting hints at Ratchet & Clank Future 2.
To quote: "There were certain things in the story, characters that I wanted to address more in this part of the story arch that we’re not going to address until a later part of the story arch. And more of the background with the Lombaxes and what happened to them. It’s things we hint at. The Zonie and the history of the Zonian and who they are."
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Gameplayer has gone live with their review of The Complete Saga of LEGO Star Wars games.
"Whether you’re playing through the new trilogy and constantly hacking Jar Jar Binks to bits (you get an Achievement for that this time out if you play on Xbox 360), or going back to the good old days and wrapping cables round the legs of AT-ATs, you’ll always have a big grin on your face."
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For anyone who needs to know something about the Halo games, this will lay the story out.
1up writes:
"So, you finished Halo 3. Then you finished it again on Heroic difficulty. Then you teamed up with a friend or three for a Legendary-difficulty playthrough. And at the end of it all, only one lingering question remains: What the hell just happened?"
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One of the team members who worked on the Kane & Lynch ads for GameSpot says that the timing of editor Jeff Gerstmann’s departure is a case of coincidence, not cause and effect
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Although tactical shooter Battalion Wars II is out in the US already, Brits won’t be seeing the Wii title until next year. In part two of this interview series with Tancred Dyke-Wells, creative director of the game’s UK-based developer Kuju, VideoGamer.com chats GameCube 2.0, customer feedback and future development.
VideoGamer.com: How much better is the Wii than the GameCube?
Tancred Dyke-Wells: It varies. It’s somewhere in the factor of two really. But there’s so many different aspects to it. The way the memory works is different. There’s now some much faster memory. The overall amount of memory is much greater. And the CPU is faster. So factoring lots of all these elements into account it’s probably by a factor of two.
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Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends takes the cutesy quirk of Cooking Mama and kicks it up to a level that teeters precariously between charming and irritating. While I could have done with a few less flowers and rainbows, it’s still the same Cooking Mama I begrudgingly loved in the first place.
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Keita Takahashi, creator of cult sensation Katamari Damacy, has announced that he is to make a playground for the people of Nottingham. The designer revealed his plans during his keynote presentation at Nottingham’s GameCity festival, where he also discussed his favourite sandals, his philosophy of truck design, his obsession with Miffy, gardening as a form of revenge – and finally showed his next game, Noby Noby Boy, running for the first time.
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