Daily Blips: Game News from May 6, 2009

We here at Bitmob know it's difficult keeping up with the fast-paced, new-post-every-second videogame blogs. So we're making it easy: Instead of sifting through dozens of posts everyday just to digest your daily dose of news, we decided to compile all the best blips and post them in one easy-to-read post. So, essentially, we're keeping busy so you can stay lazy.

News Blips:

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â€¢ Duke Nukem Forever is apparently coming out, well, never. Shacknews reports the long-awaited sequel will not be released because developer 3D Realms is shutting down. Guess that's how the bubblegum pops. [Shacknews via Kotaku] Update: BBC News confirms 3D Realms is no more, thus the developer will be officially remembered for creating a 12-year case of videogame blue balls.

â€¢ Eminem fights brain-eaters on iPhone. The rapper is starring in a zombie-filled iPhone game based on his latest video. Real slim chance we'll play this one. [MTV via Joystiq]

â€¢ Piston Honda continues to combat Japanese stereotypes on the Wii. Nintendo confirmed that the bandanna-wearing boxer (now named Piston Hondo) will appear in the upcoming Punch-Out!! sequel. [Kotaku]

â€¢ Namco is hungry; registers trademark for God Eater game. Not much is known about what the game will be about, but after using our keen deductive skills, we're assuming it probably involves a god that is a, uh, eater. Yeah. [superannuation via Joystiq]

â€¢ Prototype pre-orders net you tons of trinkets. Depending on where you pre-order the upcoming open-world action game, you'll get a variety of cool stuff (art book from Gamecrazy, comic book from Amazon, and an action figure from GameStop). Or you can just buy it at Best Buy and get nothing. Your choice. [Destructoid]

Click that "Read more" button for the morning's video highlights (Bionic Commando high-fives a guy's arm off!), candy Pac-Mans, and the KU (do they call themselves that?) drumline riffing on Mega Man 2, and...more.

Video Blips:

â€¢ 9-5 Bionic Commando shenanigans. Capcom promotes its swing-happy game via ha-ha's.

â€¢ The PSP's Soul is still burning. Publisher Namco Bandai is bringing its weapons-based fighter to Sony's handheld. Looks hot.

Soul Calibur Broken Destiny 'First Look' trailer

â€¢ Wii-slicer Red Steel 2 debut trailer. The samurai-western uses the Wii MotionPlus to guarantee you'll look like an idiot 100% more realistically.

Cultural Blips:

â€¢ Candy that makes you wanna wakka-wakka-wakka. The folks over at FredFlare are selling Pac-Man-inspired candies that look entirely too fun to eat. Pellet-addicts proceed with caution. [technabob]

â€¢ It's EVE Online's 6th birthday and you can play if you want to. To celebrate, the developers ate a spaceship. Or at least one disguised as a cake. [Kotaku]

â€¢ Kansas University students play Mega Man 2 tunes...on drums. This is probably the best 10 minute video you'll see of a drumline playing along to a Mega Man soundtrack. [Kotaku]

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Michael Donahoe

May 07, 2009

This post made me: :);):D;D>:(:(:o8):P:-*:'( all at the same time. Congrats!

Aaron Malone

If "God Eater" isn't about someone who eats gods, I will be very upset.

Me, too! I'll be all like this face: >:( x 10!

Jaryd Buzzell

Honestly, they should just release Duke Nukem Forever as is. I for one would like to rip off someones head and shit down their neck just before I tea bag their face with my balls of steel one last time.

Mike Cruz

Thank you Michael Donahoe. I always enjoy my news delivered in blip form. Good to see ya' buddy!

Greg Ford

Mmm, Pac-Man candies. How do they compare to sour patch sea creatures, Donahoe?

Bryan Crandall

Well could or would anyone want to pick this Game up Duke Nukem Forever? Also man how bad would it be to have Duke Nukem Forever on your resume in the game industry?

Robert Pavon

Loving the Blip style news form. May pic up a set of those pacman candies, just for the tins.

Nigel Lowrie

Poor Duke. Poor, poor Duke.

Nikhil Naidu

I was a freshman in high school when Duke Nukem Forever was first announced. I remember seeing some of the early, early previews out on the web about it and being so excited. I remember the delays followed by that showing at E3 in 2001 (at least, I think it was 2001) Somewhere on the old Hotmail servers, my message to one of my friends is still there: "They showed this one crazy clip where the guy shot a gun from behind a glass window and the glass shattered! This game is gonna be so cool!" If you want to see the clip, go to the pc.ign.com preview of this game at http://pc.ign.com/articles/123/123880p1.html and check out the videos at the bottom.

If you're done reading, go ahead and laugh. Features like "shooting holes through walls and glass" and "real-time lighting" may be standard now, but you have no idea how impossibly cool that was to a 17 year old kid back in the day. I had never played a Duke Nukem game before and I still wanted DNF.

And now, 12 years later, there is no game at all apparently. What the hell did they do for 12 years? Crytek made Far Cry, created a whole new engine, used said new engine to make Crysis and release it within that time frame (not even mentioning the expansion packs). I'm hesitant to say that everyone at 3D Realms was incompetent, but there has to be more here that we're just not seeing.

I lost interest in the game years ago, but it's still sad to see people throw away 12 years of their professional lives with nothing to show for it.

Jordan Singer

In my experience, any video-game themed candy in a metal tin is disgusting. Those Super Mario mushroom tins? The "mints" taste like stale Lucky Charms marshmallows.

However, the tin does make a small, ambiguous hiding place for your stash...

Your stash of DS carts.

Love the Blip news format. Perfect for the low-attention span part of the Bitmob community! ;D

Dana Cowley

May 08, 2009

I dunno, I think the Pac-Man candy is too cute not to buy. It's never too early to start hoarding stocking stuffers!

Riley Pinkerton

May 09, 2009

Hrm. Do you think Gamestop will reimburse me for my 2001 preorder?

Andrew Wilson

May 10, 2009

Man, I remember when I was 6 and we went on a trip up the West Coast. The first day, we stopped at a service station in Gila Bend, Arizona, an hour on the road from where I lived at the time. They had SweeTart-style Pac-Man candy - Pac-Man, ghosts, dots, and fruits - in a plastic box shaped like the Pac-Man maze. My mom bought it for me to ensure a few hours of peace and quiet along Interstate 8.

In Oklahoma, they have Pac-Man lottery tickets.