Triumvir will re-release its handsome Street Fighter World Warrior line of T-shirts at a gamer-friendly price, the clothier tells Wired.com.
The line was originally launched in 2009 and has since gone out of print at Triumvir’s web store. The company says the original cut and design of the shirts will be maintained, but that only the character tees (designs featuring Akuma, Balrog, Cammy, Chun-Li, Dhalsim, Fei Long, Ken, Ryu, Sagat and Vega) will be reissued.
In late 2009, Triumvir unveiled a pricey line of cut-and-sew apparel inspired by Street Fighter’s Shadaloo Brigade. A Triumvir line that dropped this April used designs from original Street Fighter II concept art.
Visit Triumvir’s web store starting Sept. 7 to nab the discounted tees.
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Brookyln rappers Das Racist released a new videogame to promote their single “Who’s That Brown” Thursday.
The retro-styled game finds the hipster rappers on a quest to find their hype man “Dap” when Justin Bieber and Jay-Z are waylayed by a limo accident and the duo are asked to fill in onstage.
Their journey takes the pair through myriad videogame genres. They beat up yuppies on the subway a la Double Dragon, ride Back to the Future hoverboards through the streets of New York in a sequence that looks straight out of Narc, and cross the East River, Frogger-style.
And yeah, they also bump into Sarah Palin (pictured above).
Das Racist is best known for its 2008 viral hit, “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.” Visit the blog Your Music Today to see the non-interactive, music video version of Das Racist’s new Who’s That Brown game.
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A gamer, a rabbity-thing, a heavy-weapons expert and a Mexican wrestler walk into a casino …
Telltale Games will release an all-star poker game built around just such an unlikely mix of videogame characters, the publisher said Thursday.
Poker Night at the Inventory will seat Tycho from Penny Arcade, Sam of Sam & Max fame, internet celebrity Strong Bad and The Heavy from Valve’s multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2 at the same poker table, and will deal players in as the verbal sparks fly.
Wired.com spoke to Telltale Games CEO Dan Connors by e-mail to get the scoop on the new game.
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SEATTLE — You can take that toe tag off Duke Nukem Forever: The game, presumed dead after developer 3D Realms pulled the plug on it last year, is alive and kicking at Penny Arcade Expo.
And it’s as raunchy as ever.
Borderlands developer Gearbox Software has taken the reins of the first-person shooter, which Take-Two Games will release next year. Two levels of the game are being shown to attendees at PAX 2010, the massive videogame gathering this weekend in Seattle. (The photos above were snapped on the show floor during demo sessions.)
“You cannot kill Duke. You cannot kill Duke!” shouted Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford to a group of gamers that had waited in line Friday at Take-Two’s PAX booth to see the game. Pitchford, a former employee of 3D Realms, was wearing the Duke shirt the company gave him in 1996.
“I couldn’t let Duke go, either,” he said.
The oft-delayed videogame, a sequel to 1996’s Duke Nukem 3D, became the perennial winner of Wired’s Vaporware Awards during more than a decade of delays.
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A fan of the 2001 GameCube game Wave Race: Blue Storm found a long-buried Easter egg in the racing game this week.
The code, posted to the NeoGAF message board by user “Raoul Duke,” unlocks a sardonic commentary track that insults the player at every move. “You don’t have an inferiority complex,” the announcer quips. “You’re just inferior.”
The code seems “pretty elaborate,” says Chris Bieniek, editor of Tips & Tricks Codebook magazine. “It’s separate from the password entry system that they used for the rest of the codes in that game, so somebody must have wanted it buried deep.”
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Nintendo will re-release its 1993 Super Nintendo game Super Mario All-Stars on Wii in Japan to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the series, according to reports.
A news leak from a retail event in Japan, reported by the indispensable Andriasang, says that Nintendo will release a Wii disc containing the SNES game for 2,500 yen (about $30) that comes packaged with a Mario history book and a soundtrack CD featuring music from games spanning the entire history of the series. Nintendo has since added the game to its release schedule for October 21.
Known as Super Mario Collection in Japan, Super Mario All-Stars contains reprogrammed, enhanced versions of Super Mario Bros. 1, 2 and 3, including both the U.S. and Japanese versions of the second game. It is one of the few games that Nintendo has not released on its Virtual Console download service, most likely because the collection would cut into individual sales of the original versions of the games, which are some of the biggest-selling downloads on Wii.
While slapping a Super Nintendo game onto a Wii disc and calling it a day might seem a bit cheap, these sorts of re-releases are not uncommon in Japan. I own a similar reprint of the arcade game Haunted Castle. In these cases, it’s not so much the content on the disc but the bonus materials included that make it worth the money. If the book and CD are awesome, it’ll make the whole package quite appealing at the bargain 2,500 yen price.
That said, releasing this in America would prove to be more of a challenge.
Final Fantasy XIV. Image courtesy Square Enix
Square Enix will commence open beta testing of
Final Fantasy XIV at 7 p.m. Pacific time Wednesday.
The beta test of the new MMO was meant to begin on Tuesday, but was postponed when the Japanese gamemaker discovered “critical” bugs in the code.
Final Fantasy XIV, due out September 30 on PC and in March 2011 for PlayStation 3, is the company’s first foray into the MMO space since it launched Final Fantasy XI in 2002.
It will be interesting to see how Square Enix makes an MMO in the post-Warcraft world. FFXIV recently incurred the wrath of hardcore gamers when it came out that it would try discourage marathon game sessions by reducing the gains of players who stay online and grind for too long.
Remember that there was a similar outcry when folks learned of World of Warcraft’s rest system — a feature that gives people who take time off from the game twice the experience points. We learned to live with that.
The current beta test is for PC users only. Visit the official Final Fantasy XIV open beta website to sign up and start playing, and watch Game|Life for ongoing impressions of the game.
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Christopher Lloyd will reprise his role as Dr. Emmet Lathrop “Doc” Brown in the Back to the Future videogame, publisher Telltale Games said Wednesday.
This will be the first time the actor has portrayed the harried inventor of time travel since Universal Studios launched Back to the Future: The Ride in 1991.
Telltale announced its intention to revive the classic 80’s films as a videogame series earlier this year. Through a licensing agreement with Universal Studios, the maker of contemporary adventure games also has a Jurassic Park title in the works.
The new Back to the Future game, planned for all major platforms, will feature the likenesses of Lloyd and Michael J. Fox. Bob Gale, writer and co-creator of the popular movie trilogy, will consult on the game’s plot and characters.
Telltale Games will be at Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle this weekend with a replica of Doc Brown’s time-traveling DeLorean. Expect photos.
Correction: Doc Brown sightings aren’t as rare as I thought. A reader points out that Lloyd has revived his “Doc” Brown character as recently as 2007 for an extremely cheesy Microsoft corporate video. Thanks, Dan.
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Case Zero, a downloadable game for Xbox 360, gives players a few hours' worth of the zombie beatdowns that the full Dead Rising 2 game will feature in September.
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Let’s not mince words. Dead Rising 2: Case Zero is a demo that costs five bucks. It’s still worth it.
The idea of paying real money for a hands-on preview of a game might be a bitter pill for frugal gamers. But Case Zero, an exclusive prequel chapter to Capcom’s forthcoming zombie sandbox Dead Rising 2, is deep enough to merit a token payment.
Coming out nearly a month ahead of the full game, which ships for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on September 28, Case Zero gives players content that won’t be in the final product and rewards those who beat the episode when they finally get their hands on Dead Rising 2.
The Xbox 360 exclusive download, available Tuesday, takes place in the days before Dead Rising 2, setting up the predicament of protagonist Chuck Greene and his infected daughter Katey.
The pair are stuck in a desert town called Still Creek, just a skip and a jump away from Las Vegas, where Dead Rising 2 takes place. The sleepy burg was the site of a military quarantine, but all Hell broke loose and the zombies won the day. Greene’s not just trying to survive: He’s got his daughter to think of. In the tumult of the infection, she got bit. But Greene has been able prevent Katey from turning green and brain-hungry by giving her daily doses of Zombrex, an expensive pharmaceutical that can stave off infection.
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Fantasy University, a new Facebook game, uses parodic characters with classic role-playing game mechanics to draw in gamers that want more complexity than FarmVille.
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Though Facebook games have a reputation for being addictive, they’re also seen as far too simple to satisfy the serious gamer. David Whatley, president and CEO of Simutronics, hopes that his company’s new game will live up to the rigorous standards of the hard-core.
Fantasy University, a parody-driven role-playing game that riffs on pop culture, went into closed beta testing last week. And it is certainly a step in the right direction.
The game plays like a classic turn-based RPG. Players move around a game world, gathering quests and fighting beasties one whack at a time. But there’s more to the game than flavorless hack-and-slash. Fantasy University is funny, stylish and smart; in short, it’s no FarmVille.
“If you listen to Zynga they’ll say that the target demographic on Facebook is a 35-year-old housewife,” Whatley said to Wired.com. “Our game will probably not appeal to the demographic of Facebook.”
Rather, Simutronics hope to lure serious gamers to Facebook and get them hooked on stat-driven role-playing. If World of Warcraft can do it, so can a Facebook game.
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