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The Full Story Behind An Unreleased South Park Game

The Full Story Behind An Unreleased South Park Game

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Earlier this week a mid-2000’s South Park game, completely unknown to the public beforehand, was revealed in a YouTube video that quickly went viral. The two you see below (who run a Web video series called “Happy Console Gamer”) picked up a developer’s XBox (the original) at a trade show and discovered, among other unreleased things, the game showcased in the video below. It looks to be an attempt at creating a South Park version of The Simpsons: Hit and Run, which was in turn a clone of GTA. It was clearly cancelled in its early stages, with some environments lacking textures and others sporting textures created on the cheap — parts of the pavement were simply a black background with “PAVEMENT” written on it, and Stan’s house was just a giant red block with the words “STANS’S HOUSE” in giant letters. There weren’t a lot of places you could go — in some areas the game would freeze and in others cars one drove would sink into the ground.

Unreleased Nintendo 64 Game Finally Revealed!

Unreleased Nintendo 64 Game Finally Revealed!

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If you hunt around, you can find information about cancelled or vaporware games for just about every console that’s ever been sold…and even some consoles that never made it. Far less frequently does one of these lost games actually show up. Viewpoint 2064 for the Nintendo 64 was one of those games…until today. Viewpoint 2064, in development by Sammy, was to be a fast-paced autoscrolling shmup shooter. Its only public exhibition was at Space World, a Japanese video game press event, in 1999. That was all anybody heard of it until, without warning, a prototype for Viewpoint 2064 appeared on eBay in the middle of last month. The opening bid price was $2,999 — a hefty sum for all except one. The auction was won with one bid, and its new owner has now created a YouTube video of Viewpoint 2064. This is the first time anyone outside of a Japanese trade show has seen this game. The graphics are incredibly dated, as is usually the case for games from

New XBox One Bundle Includes Rise Of The Tomb Raider

New XBox One Bundle Includes Rise Of The Tomb Raider

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Microsoft wants to promote its exclusives while it has them. The company announced today it would be putting out a special XBox One this holiday season, with a Rise of the Tomb Raider themed box — and more. Inside the system will be digital copies of both Rise of the Tomb Raider AND the Definitive Edition of the Tomb Raider that came before it. You’ll also get, free of charge, the Tactical Survival Kit Content Pack, which contains a new outfit and weapon skin for Lara Croft. It will all cost $399, the same as any other 1 TB XBox One. If you want this model, you should know Best Buy landed an exclusive deal to carry it, so you can only buy it there. If there isn’t a Best Buy near you, Microsoft has exclusive dibs on selling the bundle online — go to the Microsoft Store on their website to purchase one. (If you don’t live in America, just walk down the street and any store that sells

Shockingly, There Won’t Be A Successor To The PS Vita

Shockingly, There Won’t Be A Successor To The PS Vita

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The Playstation Vita, commonly shortened to the PS Vita, will go down in history as Sony’s most unsuccessful piece of gaming hardware. It’s not that you can’t find good content for it, it’s that it’s been largely ignored by both consumers AND the company who made it. After a big launch with Gravity Rush and a portable Uncharted game, Sony weirdly ignored the fact that their handheld existed. The following E3 the Vita was barely mentioned, nor were many titles announced for it. The E3 after that had about a minute devoted to the Vita and mentioned nothing but downloadable indie titles. The PS Vita could have been more of a success if it had actually been promoted, but Sony just threw it out into the lake before it could swim, and watched it drown. As a result of the surprisingly low sales figures due to this strategy, Sony has no plans to introduce another handheld to replace the Vita. There’s another reason, which they state specifically: the mobile market.

Another Mysterious Nintendo Patent Discovered

Another Mysterious Nintendo Patent Discovered

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Every now and then a patent for a weird new Nintendo device turns up in the US Patent Application database. The last one to be found was speculated to be for the NX, and suggested the console would not run games from discs. Now a new one has turned up, and this time, there’s little guessing what it’s supposed to be. It’s a Gamepad, with a giant screen. This implies Nintendo intends to continue putting screens into their controllers when the NX comes out. Hopefully they find a way to reduce the cost of this. See what the finger is doing? The drawing is depicting new technology that senses movement outside of the Gamepad itself. The drawing shown in the featured image depicts an amiibo being read by one of these remote sensors, without having to place it on the pad. It”s also possible the device could be a new handheld, but several factors stand in the way of that: for one, these days, Nintendo wouldn’t release a handheld without

The Reigning King Of Kong Keeps Changing Every Hour

The Reigning King Of Kong Keeps Changing Every Hour

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Quick — name the current serving King of Kong. If you thought of Billy Mitchell or Steve Wiebe, get with the times — those guys are ancient history. The world record in Donkey Kong continues to be smashed by new challengers, and this weekend, it was broken twice. The Donkey Kong Online Open 2015 was held by DonkeyKongForum.com last Thursday. It was an online competition where those who considered themselves the best players in the country competed live via Twitch. Only actual Donkey Kong arcade units could be used, but that wasn’t a problem for the hardcore members of the forum, who each had their own. There is already an answer to the proverbial question asked on the game’s screen — we know How High You Can Get. Most arcade games have a bug-out point and Donkey Kong is among them, though it’s not as spectacular-looking as Pac-Man’s glitched-out 256 screen. There comes a point where Mario will simply, randomly die for no reason and the game will end. Most

Original Xbox Boss Believes Next Gen Consoles Will Be Digital Only

Original Xbox Boss Believes Next Gen Consoles Will Be Digital Only

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In an expansive interview with Geekwire, original Xbox boss Robbie Bach has explained how he believes that the next generation of consoles will shun physical media and instead focus completely on providing content digitally. When he was asked by the website whether he thought future consoles would use physical media, he said: “Probably not, so how does that look? Is it just a game box or is it more? What’s the balance between what an Apple TV is and what an Xbox or a PlayStation 4 is? These are really interesting questions, and the teams going to have to wrestle with those. That next generation will be a whole new game.” Bach spent 22 years at Microsoft and was made the President of Entertainment & Devices Division at the company. In that role, he was primarily responsible for developing and designing the Xbox, Xbox 360, Zune and Windows Games and helped launch the computer and software business into the video games market. He held that position until 2010 when he

ET Landfill Auctions Generate $107,000

ET Landfill Auctions Generate $107,000

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In April of 2014, an excavation took place in Alamagordo, New Mexico….site of the former landfill that, rumor held, was the graveyard of the Atari corporation: the place where they had to bury their shame and all their bad business decisions, specifically millions of ET cartridges. The game supposedly so bad that the dump consisted of nothing but ET carts. The excavation was covered by the media and presented in the documentary Atari: Game Over a few months later (still viewable on Netflix). They discovered a half-truth: while Atari did have to bury thousands of unsold merchandise due to the collapsing video game market, and most of the blame for that collapse was on their shoulders, it wasn’t all ET carts that had been dumped. They made up a lot of the inventory, to be sure, but there were plenty of other games and peripherals that weren’t selling as fast either. After the Atari dump of legend had been dug up, the crew and the city agreed to auction off

Price Of Nintendo 2DS Drops To $99

Price Of Nintendo 2DS Drops To $99

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Remember when Nintendo came out with a budget version of their 3DS handheld, minus the 3D, with the intended target of little kids? It was in November of 2013. Don’t blame yourself if you forgot. Nintendo noticed you did, and they’re slashing the price in response to stoke up interest again. “The new lower-priced hardware combined with the strong lineup of new games launching this year and arguably the best library of games in this generation makes it a great time to be a Nintendo fan,” said Nintendo marketing executive Scott Moffitt. On August 30, the company will be lowering the price of the 2DS to $99.99. That’s in one week. Normally announcements of price drops take effect immediately, but this one will take another week to be activated. It’s currently at the old price of $129.99 at most stores. You might want to inform any soccer moms with little children you know to wait one week, just in case. The current 2DS package comes with a digital copy of

New Patent From Nintendo Suggests Discless System

New Patent From Nintendo Suggests Discless System

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Console-making companies flirted with the possibility of leaving the disc slot out of today’s current-gen machines (like the PS4 and XBox One), but decided the time wasn’t right. I never would have expected Nintendo to be the first to dare cutting discs out, given how behind the times they can sometimes be, but some new evidence has surfaced that seems to suggest they’re thinking about it. Last February Nintendo filed a design for a new device with the US Patent Office. The schematic was discovered by NeoGAF this week and shows what anyone would guess is a game-playing machine, which doesn’t have a disc slot. While this console schematic doesn’t include a disc-reading drive, that doesn’t necessarily mean it only plays downloadable games. There is also a “memory card” slot for “First Basic Program” and “Second Basic Program,” words that are repeated next to the processing units — which implies the machine would take data cards similar to SD. It makes sense, now that such cards have caught up with

Konami CEO Says Mobile Gaming Will be Company’s Main Platform Going Forward

Konami CEO Says Mobile Gaming Will be Company’s Main Platform Going Forward

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Just look at a recent post on NeoGAF (via jin115.com) regarding Konami’s future: “We will pursue mobile games aggressively,” says Konami’s new CEO Hayakawa in an interview with Nikkei Trendy Net. “Our main platform will be mobiles. Following the pay-as-you-play model of games like Power pro and Winning Eleven with additional content, our games must move from selling things like “items” to selling things like “features.” “We saw with these games that even people who buy physical games are motivated to buy extra content. The success of Power pro especially has motivated us to actively push more of our popular series onto mobile than ever before.” “Gaming has spread to a number of platforms, but at the end of the day, the platform that is always closest to us, is mobile. Mobile is where the future of gaming lies.” “We hope that our overseas games such as MGSV and Winning Eleven continue to do well, but we are always thinking about how to push our franchises onto mobile there too.” “With multiplatform

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Gaming: The Harbinger of the Singularity?

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Is AI learning from human input and interaction? Will this bring our Robot Overlords to power? Don’t want the lesson? Skip to The Conspiracy! Defining the Singularity Singularity – The advent of Artificial Intelligence that exceeds that of its human creators. Along with becoming smarter than humans, these computers and machines also gain sentience and break free from the control of their human creators. Civilization is forever changed – but for better or worse is up for debate. It is important to note that Artificial Intelligence is disparate from the Singularity in that AI aims only to imitate human-like intelligence, and the Singularity is the rise of actual computerized intelligence – no longer artificially created. That is, AI can never exceed human intelligence because the intelligence present in an AI machine was given to it by its human creators. In the Singularity theory, machines are able to use the vast amount of human intelligence programmed into it to give itself true intelligence with which it may gain freedom from the programming bonds its

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