In developing Red Steel 2, Ubisoft Creative Director Jason VanderBerge learned quite a bit about Nintendo’s optional Wii MotionPlus accessory (and how people use it). So he seemed like a good person to ask about the potential of Sony and Microsoft’s impending motion control accessories, the Move and Kinect. When we did just that, catching up with VanderBerge after his talk at GDC Europe this week, he was a bit ambivalent about the subject.
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We’ll be honest: we thought SSDs would suck down most of platter-based storage’s milkshake by now — that magnetic disks would follow tapes into obscurity. Alas, SSDs are still niche items, and Toshiba is doing all it can to keep them that way, demonstrating a successful prototype of a new storage technique called bit-pattern recording that currently generates a storage density of 2.5Tb per square inch. That’s about five times more dense than the company’s current offerings, achieved by placing individual bits onto lithographed “islands” of magnetic material. This protects …

Say what you will about wanting your videogame press-type folks to be objective, I don’t think now is the time for me to even feign objectivity — I want Epic’s and People Can Fly’s Bulletstorm, and I want it now. I want it streamed into my system intravenously. I have three cats and I’m going to rename them all “Bulletstorm” starting now. You get where I’m going with this.
I knew that we were going to have a “thing” going after I played it at E3 earlier this year. The …

If you play Kane & Lynch 2 and feel that there’s not enough content with its five-hour story mode and limited multiplayer maps, then don’t worry. IO Interactive was busy preparing downloadable content instead of finishing development of the full game!
Not one, not two, but three downloadable content packs will be available on August 31 — The Multiplayer Mask Pack, Alliance Weapon Pack and Doggie Bag Pack. New weaponry and maps will be made available in these packages, for a price that’s yet to be announced. 
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Now, two of our favorite things in the world just so happen to be ice cream and robots. So combining the two could only lead to awesome things, right? Well, that’s Yaskawa-kun is: a robot that vends ice cream. And yes, it’s super fantastic. Currently working a Tokyo Summerland, Yaskawa-kun has a touchscreen ordering panel, and you can even watch him make your treat for you. While the video below is pretty impressive, this is one thing we just need to see for ourselves.
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The last week, particularly the last few days, has been full of new PC game release dates and announcements. What will next week, which also happens to be Gamescom week, bring us? We’ll just have to wait and see — in the meantime, check out what the last seven days brought us.
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StarCraft II: We conclude our strategy guide to Blizzard’s game with entries on the Protoss and Zerg factions along with some of the game’s achievements.
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[Update: Submissions are soon coming to a deadline this week for the photo contest, but for those of you without Facebook (or a camera!) that still want a chance to get a 3-Day SOLD OUT pass to PAX, a free download of Kung-Fu LIVE when it launches on PSN this year, and an exclusive piece of KFL finery — Virtual Air Guitar Company has offered up more prizes right here on on our site!
Submission rules for this leg of the contest are simple: Respond in the thread below telling us …

You know the old ‘smoke and fire’ adage by now, and while the alarms aren’t sounding just yet, we get the feeling that they will be shortly. We’ve heard Samsung itself confirm that an Android-based tablet would be departing its labs sometime this year, and since then, we’ve also heard an IFA debut tossed around. Given that said show is but a few weeks out, it’s halfway logical to think that Sammy would be notifying some of its launch partners of its intentions. We can’t be certain that things are …