Daily Blips: Game News from June 22nd, 2009

Good to see people (other than Hanna Montana) caring about the PSP again.

News Blips:

â€¢ Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars cheats on DS with PSP. Not that we really expected Rockstar's latest portable game to stay faithful -- despite pleasing many folks with its impressive touchscreen skills on the DS, Chinatown Wars couldn't muster up much of a profit. So Sony is courting the game over to the PSP to give it a second chance to sell to an audience who actually fancy murdering gangsters over solving passionate murder mysteries. [Joystiq]

â€¢ Microsoft CEO apologizes for not knowing anything about his company. So last week Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said a new Xbox will be coming out next year. Well, apparently that was his bad, as he tells IGN that he "confused the issue" with "poorly chosen words." That makes sense. Why should Ballmer know what his company is doing? That's a job for a CEO. Good thing Ballmer is just a...wait, a minute... [IGN]

â€¢ Peter Moore thinks President Obama is fat. EA Sports head honcho Peter Moore is challenging Obama to take the EA Sports Active 30 Day Challenge after the President's recent comments about kiddos needing to stop playing videogames so they can be more active. Just like how our President needs to stop running our damn country so he can perform five sets of thigh-burning lunges. What a lazy leader we have. [1UP]

â€¢ Splatterhouse still needs another year of touch-up work. The development on the 3D reboot of action-horror franchise Splatterhouse isn't looking too pretty -- original developers BottleRocket were scraped off the project, only for a few choice members to come back recently to help finish it off. Well, with all this drama, it's obvious Splatterhouse will not be completed anytime soon, so look for it next year. We hope, at least. How long does it take to paint a frickin' house anyway? [GameSpot]

Hit the jump for some video blips, including combo-happy Bayonetta gameplay, love on the DS, Space Invaders magnets, and...more.

Video Blips:

â€¢ Bayonetta shooting for ridiculous action. And looks to be hitting the mark.

â€¢ Fat dude pimps Overlord 2 again. Guess they're going for a different demographic.

â€¢ Fall in love with chicks on your DS. Then realize they're fake.

Cultural Blip:

â€¢ Someone is raiding your fridge. Oh, it's just those damn Space Invaders again? Nevermind. Though it is cool to see these classic pests in magnet form. [technabob]

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Michael Burridge

June 22, 2009

Chinatown Wars on PSP? The game was catered for the DS, and unless Rockstar remakes the game into 3-D, it'll seem underwhelming to most of the consumers who bought the previous GTA games on the PSP. Personally, I don't care. I'd rather play the game on my DS, I liked the way the touch-screen was used. Even if it was unnecessary.

Greg Ford

The press release for Chinatown Wars doesn't mention anything about what's happening to the touch-screen stuff. How will you hot-wire cars or do the half-dozen other touch-screen minigames?

I like the idea of the widescreen -- and of a great game getting a chance at more sales; I just wonder what will happen to the game's unique points.

Patrick Williams

I found GTA: Chinatown underwhelming. I've read a few articles where people counted the number of times its been finished and lamented that it was a gem falling through the cracks. Neither myself nor my girlfriend could stand playing it. Maybe that has something to do with why so few other people finished it? Putting this game on the PSP will not make it any more fun to play.