A Fly in the Ointment for Pinnacle Station
August 31, 2009 by Amy Tucker
Filed under Gaming
If you’ve downloaded Mass Effect’s Bring Down the Sky and then decided to ALSO download Pinnacle Station then you might have experienced a “glitch” like what is being talked about on the Mass Effect forum and on Joystiq.
Apparently, for some people, content just isn’t showing up.
To add to the frustration, if you’ve played through Bring Down the Sky then that custom content is hanging out on your hardware and in your game and the only way to to get Pinnacle Station to work is to kill Bring Down the Sky and then reinstall it.
With six pages of complaints about the …read more
Yahtzee reviews Haze and doesn’t hate it as much
Here’s something one should pay attention to when watching one of Benjamin “Yahtzee” Croshaw’s video reviews: the guy is not big on praising games that belong to the FPS genre. If Yahtzee doesn’t hate (place shooter title here) as much as Turok, then the fanboy in you would likely deem it as worth the purchase. That said, it’s rather surprising to see that Croshaw doesn’t hate Haze, a much-maligned FPS from Free Radical. Correction, Yahtzee doesn’t hate Haze that much.
What I don’t get is that Kotaku seems to see otherwise.
Three is the new one: Halo 3 tops Japan charts
You thought it would never happen. As we all know, the Xbox 360 and Japan don’t mix. Why? Because it’s the land of Nintendo and Sony, baby. Imagine my surprise when Kotaku said that Halo 3, that behemoth shooter that’s making everyone in North America crazy, tops the Japanese charts this week.
Say what?
Halo 3 is #1 in the Japanese charts this week. It feels odd typing it, so a take-two was necessary. I did some deeper digging and stumbled into what seems to be the source of all this: a Japanese Web site that confirmed what we just …read more




