Keane Ng Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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Order Pizza With Your Wii

Feel like gaining back all those calories you just burned off playing Wii Fit? Head on over to the new Japan-only Catering Channel ...

By Keane Ng Legacy AuthorMay 26, 2009

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Epic: Photo-Realistic Graphics 10-15 Years Away

Games are only 10-15 years away from truly realistic graphics, says Epic’s Tim Sweeney, but making games look real isn’t enough. They have ...

By Keane Ng Legacy AuthorMay 26, 2009

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Nintendo Is Always Working On New Hardware

Worried that Nintendo is too busy sitting on piles of money and riding rollercoasters made of gold to think of some new ideas ...

By Keane Ng Legacy AuthorMay 23, 2009

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Smellable Games Are Decades Away

Are you ready to smell your games? Yes? Well then be ready to wait a couple decades, because researchers at Birmingham University have ...

By Keane Ng Legacy AuthorMay 23, 2009

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GameStop Expects Wii, PS3 Price Cuts This Year

GameStop CEO Dan DeMatteo no longer simply wants price drops this year for the Wii and PS3, he expects them to happen, or ...

By Keane Ng Legacy AuthorMay 22, 2009

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ESRB Rating Forces Cleavage-Filled Game’s Cancellation

Ikki Tousen: Shining Dragon, a beat-em-up in which scantily clad female college students unleash moves that shred up their opponents’ clothes, was rated ...

By Keane Ng Legacy AuthorMay 22, 2009

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Amazon, eBay Now Prohibiting R4 Sales

Nintendo made significant headway in its crusade against the sale of DS flashcarts like the R4 when it revealed today that eBay and ...

By Keane Ng Legacy AuthorMay 22, 2009

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Metroid Prime Trilogy Coming To Wii

Nintendo is releasing a compilation of all three main Metroid Prime games for the Wii this August. Metroid Prime Trilogy adds widescreen and ...

By Keane Ng Legacy AuthorMay 22, 2009

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NPD: Americans Choose Games Over Movies

Americans would rather waste away an evening playing videogames than take a trip to the local multiplex, according to the findings of market ...

By Keane Ng Legacy AuthorMay 21, 2009

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Geek-Filled College Has Required Social Skills Classes

Responding to employer complaints that its graduates are socially inept and glued to their computers, computer science school Neumont University is forcing its ...

By Keane Ng Legacy AuthorMay 21, 2009

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7-Eleven Reveals Kojima Productions Mystery Game?

A retail listing from 7-Eleven’s Japanese branch makes mention of a new Metal Gear for the PS3 or PSP. Could this be the ...

By Keane Ng Legacy AuthorMay 21, 2009

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Studio Ghibli Talks DS Game Project

Professor Layton developers Level-5 have to be pretty happy to have legendary anime creators Studio Ghibli working on the cutscenes for their new ...

By Keane Ng Legacy AuthorMay 21, 2009

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