EA Sports acquired Hypnotix today

Electronic Arts today said it had acquired Hypnotix, the makers of the Outlaw series (mostly known for Outlaw Golf).

2 Games

Black hawk down was released today and Polarium for the GBA is comming soon

Gphoria

Recentally if you been surfing around the web you would have heard about G4tv’s annual Gphoria with the hillarious commericals mocking several companies. Well today G4tv has once again proclaimed Halo 2 as Game of the (last) Year. God of War, Warcraft and Katamari Damacy.

The funny thing about this is even though the voting is still going on G4tv has already desided the winners but encourges you to keep voting.

See the commericials:
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Update on the PSP browser

The PSP browser has been released as an update. The update gives the PSP a number of new functions, including a Web browser and support for AAC files, the audio format used by Apple’s iPod. The 16MB PSP update patch is available for download at Sony’s official Japanese PSP Web site. Sony says that it will work for US PSPs and will auto-translate but they say it is unstable and are not suggesting that you download it (it may cause the system to be unstable). Also sony has made a movie download site/feature for the free downloading of currently 7 movies in Japan. Sony says that it will soon grow to over 100 titles.

New changes to the site.

If you are surfing here using the blogspot domain you will notice that the icon was changed to a little falco icon. However if you are surfing using netmasa.co.nr you will not be able to see the icon.

This JUST IN!

Bungie (who has their offices inside of microsoft game studios) is moving away to new offices. We learned this information during a exclusive chat with Microsoft Games Artist, Matthew Collins.

Sony makes its own official PSP Browser

New PSP color which is iPod white. System software for PSP will also be updated to version 2.00 on July 27th on the SCEI (Sony Japan) official Web site,” revealed Sony in a statement. “With this update, the various additional features such as installation of the internet browser which allows users to have the internet access available to make PSP a more attractive entertainment system.” North America will not get this Ipod colored PSP. The NA browser will come out later.

New Halo 2 Patch gives warnings

Bungie (the people who made Halo) recently released a new patch that would ban cheating Halo 2 on X-box live. The patch is supposed to log you out immedentally when it detects cheating without the other players permission. If you do cheat and log back in the system gives you the following warning, “You were cheating if you don’t stop, for the next 2 times you play you will be banned. You have been warned.”

GTA GETS AN AO RATING!

Recently the ESRB has revoked the M (mature) rating that GTA (Grand Theft Auto: San Andres) origionally had and replaced it with AO (adults only, this means you can’t get this version game anywhere except for P2P networks and the blackmarket) because of the “minigame” (I will not explain it, but if you want to know then watch the news because they like to talk about that stuff) that could be accessed when you hack the game (with an illegal device). The media won the intense battle and Take-Two Interactive (owners of the Rockstar Games company) as a result lost 43% of their stock and lost all chances of selling their game. As of tommorow at 9:00AM all Target, Wal-Mart, GameStop, EBGames, GameFly, Hollywood Video, Fred Meyer and Kmart Stores will quit selling the game forever. If you really want the game then search for it on eBay and/or Amazon. Since this is the media’s fault in the first place for saying it was a bad game (which in translation means “Hey kids go buy this game and your parents will be mad and not want you to”) it’s sort of ironic. This game is one of 19 games that have been released with an AO rating. Take-Two Interactive is also forced to not resell the game. Also, the media focuses on GTA geting AO and not the other 3 games that got AO ratings, too. [updated] This change has cost the game industry $50 million. EA games trys out a “minigame” of their own with their Sims game. Lawyer sees this and tells hillary cliton.

Nintendo just can’t stop!

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl are to be released for the Nintendo DS. Then a third game called Pokemon Ranger. Both Pokemon Diamond and Pearl will have connectivity to the Pokemon series for the GBA and GameCube, and users will be able to port their pocket monsters from previous installments to the DS.

Chaos Theory gets new maps

Ubisoft is dating 2 new downloadable multiplayer maps coming in next 12 days and then three more by end of summer.