Well, here’s the HD Wii Console everyone has been waiting for. Yesterday, Sony had a conference at GDC and it was all about one thing, the PlayStation Move. Sony talked about how the Wii gamers will eventually buy a HDTV and would want a HD Console to play motion control games, so they are hoping those audiences to “move” towards the PS3 as they say, it does everything. With certain games, players will either use one or two Move controllers or one Move controller and a Sub-controller (ala Nunchuck for the Wiimote). A lot of people have been bashing it calling the Waggle 2.0 or like joked above, Wii HD, but there are people who got their hands on the device and was very impressed with it. As far as how your resident PS3 fanboy feels about it, well, just have to wait and see when it comes out as I will buy it just to try it out (or if Sony would like to help this poor college student out, GIVE ME ONE!!!). Either way, Sony does want the PS3 to do everything as they will also have the firmware update to play games in 3D with the new 3D HD TV’s coming out later this year. What do you guys think? You think too late for Sony to try to do this and tha Microsoft’s Project Natal is the future? Or does the Move seems good and it will probably be a hit. Check after the break for a nice vid Joystiq put together that features the games of PlayStation Move.

Source: Joystiq, Destructoid

Do you wonder how a staff meeting would go on all the worlds of all the bosses you have to take on in so many video games? Neither did I…Don’t miss this, its College Humor’s new installment in their bountiful world of beautifully rendered 16 bit to 8 bit hilarity .” How come one man, ONE MAN!! an get through literally thousands of you trained killers??!!”  They demand!! ” Just stop them from moving to the right!!!!!!”

It’s funny because it’s so true…

Francois Alaux and Herve de Crecy, the duo that won an Oscar for their short film, Logorama, is apparently now working on short live-action film Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon series. The film will serve as advertisement and a prequel to the upcoming Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Seems like Ubisoft is hoping that what they did with Assassin’s Creed, they are hoping it will work for Ghost Recon, and getting the folks from Logorama may make it work right to get people pumped for the game. Let’s just hope a certain evil company,  *cough*Activision*cough,* doesn’t get the idea to make movies for their games because really, who would want a Band Hero movie.

Source: Kotaku

Can you see what the person photo shopped here? Sho-Ryu-Ken! (Sure-You-Can). Sorry with that lame joke, but up above is a pretty funny and clever photo shopped image then what my joke was. Sure the name is really Hadouken but c’mon people, lets use some imagination on this. I also appriciate the down-forward quarter circle punch image as there are some gamers, mostly new generation gamers, claiming it’s hard to play and they want the dial-a-combo game play. Maybe we do need to send them out to Haboken to get them learning on Street Fighter basics. Comment below if you have seen other signs and it had you remember or thought of something you like.

Source: Geekologie

Today is the big release for Final Fantasy XIII, the big RPG franchise that many gamers has been waiting for. As for me, although I do have love for the Final Fantasy franchise, as Final Fantasy IV (or Final Fantasy 2 when it first released in the US), I will not be picking that game up today. Instead, I have decided to buy Sega’s release of Yakuza 3, a game that many thought wouldn’t come to the states. Most of you might be asking what the hell Yakuza 3 is, and to simply answer, it’s an Action Adeventure, where the fighting is similiar to Final Fight and what a 3D Streets of Rage would be, with a some what open world that lets gamer travel around cities of Japan and do stuff before their mission and progress of story, which some will say more than what you can do in Final Fantasy XIII.

In case you haven’t heard, Final Fantasy XIII has you focus more on the story, and by doing so, you have a linear path in the game and have no towns to visit or any NPC (Non-Playable Characters) to talk to. If you want the freedom you usually get in an RPG, you have to wait and beat the story mode, which could take 40-60 hours to beat. Where in Yakuza 3, before you go on with the story, you get to walk around the streets of Tokyo, fight some street punk and also curb stomping them, go into a convenient store and check out magazines, go karaoke with a hot chick, or go to the arcades and play some games. This can all be done when getting in between checkpoints of the game, and to me, it sounds like Yakuza 3 is already more open then FFXIII is with all the exploration you can do in Yakuza 3.

Either way, Final Fantasy XIII will sale because of its name and maybe I’m just hoping that this will give some attention to Yakuza 3 because it would be cool to have more games like this from Japan to come out. Unfortunately, seems like Sega doesn’t really care much as there hasn’t been any advertisement and the fact they decided to send it out the same day as FFXIII doesn’t help. As many gamers out there will be just be going in a “straight line” in FFXIII, I will be swinging a bike in circle and and smashing people’s face in with Yakuza 3 (expect a review in the near future).

This is not, I repeat NOT our “Sexy Cosplay of The Week” (which is up every Fri. afternoon). No, what this is, is the equivilant of taking your genitals, putting them in a blender and setting it to frap. To say this is a poor execution of cosplay would be a severe understatement. Will never look  at Felicia from Capcom’s Dark Stalkers the same ever again . As much as we are inclined to comment on this great big mess we’re just too afraid of Karma and well, fat girl backlash. We’re bastards but we’re not mean bastards. That’s what the comment section is for. I  am, though, reminded of a old sang thats rings true for todays example of Cosplay gone wrong. As Mama always said “If you can’t be a good example, you just have to be a horrible warning”. This couldn’t be more of a clearer warning to the walking mounds of flesh out there wishing to dress up as their favorite character from pop culture. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

full sized pic after the jump. Warning: We are not reasponsible for any permanent or short periods of erectile dysfunction that may occur. Look at your own risk.

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After so many teases that weren’t subtle, Valve (the lovely people that brought us Left 4 Dead, Half-Life, and more), has confirmed officially that Steam, their awesome digital distribution platform, will be available to the Mac next month. Valve will be treating the Mac 100x better than PS3 users as they will release a function called Steam Play, where PC users who bought games before can also play those exact game on their Mac for free. Not to mention, multi-player will be cross platform as Mac players can go head to head with PC users and maybe the age old question can be answered, who’s better, Mac or PC users. The folks at Valve had this to say:

“We are treating the Mac as a tier-1 platform so all of our future games will release simultaneously on Windows, Mac, and the Xbox 360. Updates for the Mac will be available simultaneously with the Windows updates. Furthermore, Mac and Windows players will be part of the same multiplayer universe, sharing servers, lobbies, and so forth. We fully support a heterogeneous mix of servers and clients. The first Mac Steam client will be the new generation currently in beta testing on Windows.”

I’m happy for Mac fans to finally get some great gaming available to them… of course this just leaves me high and dry since I only have a PS3 and for some damn reason Valve hates Sony’s machine. I swear, if for some odd reason Valve supports Nintendo Wii before the PS3, I am going to go Gordan Freeman on some ones ass.

Source: Giant Bomb

So no joke, my girlfriend doesn’t want me to play World of Warcraft because of all the horror stories she heard about it. She can put up with my love of video games, anime, manga, wrestling, and Power Rangers but don’t know what to do if I ever started to play WoW which makes me laugh a bit but then I have no interest in playing the game so it works out. The folks over at Fark TV made a new video and I have to say, it’s pretty funny. The video is about a few wives who were worried about their husbands being addicted to  video game, so they had their husbands hypnotized thinking their life with their wives as a video game, in which we get World of Wifecraft. I think it was nicely done and at the end, it does reference one of the greatest thing that ever came out of WoW. Check the video after the break and tell us what ya’ll think. (more…)

Oh, the ultra violence, fast action anime/manga Hokuto no Ken, Fist of the North Star over here is the states, is an awesome franchise and if ya haven’t checked it out, you should just at least experience one the first fighting scenes just to see the awesomeness of bodies exploding and such. Koei, the developers that brought us the countless of Dynasty Warriors game, has mixed Fist of the North Star with the Warriors game play (like they did with Dynasty Warriors: Gundam) and we get Hokuto Musou, which can be translated to North Star Warriors. Has not been confirmed for an American release but I can only hope it will after watching the video, which you can check out after the break or you can have your head explode. (more…)

(Every friday, here at nerdbastards, you can come to find the sexy side of nerd pop culture in a little weekly feature we call “Sexy Cosplay of The Week”. Cosplay is a known term in the nerd-verse when fans dress up as their favorite characters from pop culture, either from movies, comics, TV, gaming and so on. A lot of times it’s quite sexy and what we do is find the sexy and bring it to you, you’re welcome.)

Ok, so we’re a little lazy with this weeks edition of Sexy Cosplay. Our priorities are elsewhere today. We are on a mission to find the bastards reasponsible for eating the lefts overs from last nights dinner at Cheese Cake Factory. Nobody fucks with a nerd and his cheesecake. Heads are gonna roll!

Anway, so, Cammy White from Street Fighter is…. well, the reason why nerdy boys get sent to the hospital for severe penile damage. Ya, she is a fictional, pixaleted character from the worlds most beloved fighting game but damn if those long legs, luring posteriar, blow job handles…errr, I mean pig tails and that mysterious chin scar don’t make her nerd spank bank material. So it’s without question that Ole’ legs McGee here  is by far one of Cosplays most inspired characters.

For your gawking pleasure here is a small collection of the sexiest gals dressed up as Cammy. We don’t know who these girls are, again are priorities are else where today, but just sit back relax and try not to hurt your genitals.

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