Jason and Nate break in staff noob Esteban with fun topics such as new Wiis and broken Wiis, overpriced 360 hard drives and PC rage.
This week we welcome the new staffer Esteban to the fold and release a lot of rage over...the PC release of Rage and the decline of PC gaming in general.
This week's PB & Jason might be shorter than the rest, but it still tastes just as good.
What's in PB & Jason today? New Wii models, of course! Alongside those comes a preview of what to expect in upcoming PlayBits (*HINT* Ratchet & Clank All4One and Kirby's Return to Dreamland on next Tuesday and the following Monday, respectively). Afterward, the expect to hear Jason elaborate on all the details of the recent Playstation Network and Sony Online Entertainment hackings. Click through to see the rest and to listen to the podcast!
Spyro is back and he's brought his friends in the launch trailer for his latest adventure.
Chessa leads the charge in an effort to recap the entire Ratchet & Clank series with a set of Review Rewinds.
With the release of Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One quickly approaching, we thought it would be interesting to go back and replay all of the entries in the Ratchet & Clank series starting with the original. As those who are familiar with our Review Rewinds may already know, these articles tend to stray from the standard PixlBit review formula, allowing the writer to analyze and critique a game in any way they desire. As such, when going back through the Ratchet & Clank series, we'll be focusing mainly on the staples of the series in order to fully capture how each has evolved as the series has grown.
It's a lofty question with grounded answers.
The idea that games can change the world sounds pretentious to me. It’s a notion I believe, sure, but in a distant sort of way, like how I faintly accept that my vote counts in the grand scheme of things. What changes, at least in the traditional sense, could games honestly cause? Then again, why not? Why couldn’t games actually change the world? That’s where Jane McGonigal comes in.
Hackers access thousands of PSN accounts. Sony locks down compromised accounts.
Sony Chief Information Security Officer Philip Reitinger posted this morning on the Official European Sony Blog that a mass attempt at logging into thousands of PSN and SOE accounts was rebuffed last night. Suspected of culling the list from other companies, the hackers used large amounts of username-password combinations to attempt access to Sony users. 93,000 accounts appeared to be successfully accessed by using these username-password sets. In response Sony locked all of those accounts until their proper owners could confirm authenticity and reset passwords. Of those accounts, "a small fraction" had transactions on them before being locked down. Sony is reviewing all account activity and offering to assist anyone who may have had purchases made in their name.
Gamestop, Amazon and Best Buy getting different content.
Remember GoldenEye 007 on the N64? You do? Good. Remember the Wii remake from last year? Sort of? Good enough. You know the HD remake of the Wii remake? No? Well, GoldenEye 007: Reloaded is the current generation remake we all wanted from the Nintendo 64 original. Now Activision has announced that pre-ordering at Amazon, Best Buy or Gamestop will get you additional content; what that content is depends on which store you trusted to save it for you.
Your actions in co-op multiplayer will ripple through the single player campaign.
Yesterday our long-held suspicions were confirmed: Mass Effect 3 will indeed contain some kind of Multiplayer element. Now we’ve been provided details on exactly what’s in store for multiplayer via a blog post by Chris Priestly of BioWare.
King of Fighters 96 and Metal Slug 2 make their debut on the service.
SNK Playmore USA is continuing to release titles for their NeoGeo Channel on the PlayStation Network. Today the company announced that two more titles will make up the fourth set, bringing the total available to 16. The King of Fighters '96 and Metal Slug 2 are now available for $6.99 and $8.99 for the PSP and PlayStation 3, respectively.
Epic did a bad, bad thing...
Players have discovered a serious glitch in Gears of War 3, that is reportedly freezing Xbox 360 consoles. It occurs while trying to enter a horde match in split screen with two different gamer profiles. Not only will the console freeze, forcing the player to restart their console, but afterward one of the profiles will be altered, prohibiting that player to enter a match. The "loading game mode" screen is when the glitch appears to be happening.
