Rachel Harrison has taken charge of the Hessel Museum at Bard College, smashing gallery walls to present “Consider the Lobster,” a piquant survey of her art of the last 15 years or so.
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The pre-order incentives for Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time are now ready for perusal on the PlayStation Blog. The bonuses reportedly start today at Amazon.com, Best Buy, Game Crazy, GameStop and other participating retailers. Each retailer has its own thing going, so explore before you plunk down the pre-order cash. Check out the four different programs after the break.
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‘Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time’ pre-order bonuses vary per retailer originally appeared on Joystiq Playstation on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Driving eastbound on Interstate 70 near Lisbon in Howard County, the 62-year old driver of a 1929 Model A Ford and his 10-year old daughter may not have seen the…
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A collection of 500 cowboy hats will be preserved at the Museum of North Texas History.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Donald Fisher, the founder of Gap Inc., decided to give up on efforts to create a contemporary art museum at a building in San Francisco’s Presidio, a spokesman for the Fisher family announced Thursday.
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We’re just gonna come right out and say it: July 2009 may be the worst month for new retail releases ever. Unless you like 2D fighters that is, because in that case, it’s awesome. Or games about movies about hamsters, those two groups are being really well serviced.
If you haven’t fully prepared yourself for the horror, we’d suggest you gird your mind with all the reason and clarity you can muster before continuing on.
New Games This Month: July 2009 originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Slightly less awesome news for certain No More Heroes fans: if the series does continue past Desperate Struggle, it probably won’t be on the Wii. “I think this is the last NMH that is going to be developed on Wii,” Suda said. “To expand NMH to new possibilities, we need a new platform. Wii is a great platform, but we’ve done everything we can with it now.”
Recent comments from Suda suggest that he’s looking toward the Natal-enhanced Xbox 360 for at least one future project — and No More Heroes was originally planned as a 360 game. Perhaps he’s realized that charging Travis Touchdown’s beam saber could be made even more embarrassing without a Wiimote prop.
In any case, it may be a bummer for Wii-only gamers, but at least if No More Heroes comes out on one of the other consoles, the “hardcore” types will be able to admit it’s wonderful without having to say something nice about the Wii.
Suda 51: next No More Heroes won’t be on Wii originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sony is printing money with its slowly expanding library of PSone classics on the PlayStation Store. Playable on both PSP and PS3, these downloadable titles have been an easy way to prey upon gamer nostalgia. Unsurprisingly, the most iconic games of the PS1 era take the top of the PSone downloads chart in the month of June:
It shouldn’t be too surprising to see multiple Crash Bandicoot games take positions in the top 10. He was, after all, PlayStation’s official mascot back in the day. Let’s remember him with some classic PS1 ads after the break.
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Final Fantasy, Street Fighter and Castlevania top the PSone sales charts originally appeared on Joystiq Playstation on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Are you one of the few people who visit our site every day, only dreaming of owning a PS3? Well, maybe now’s the time to change that dream into a reality. Newegg is having a special coupon-only deal, which will take $40 off the standard price of a PS3. It’s not a price drop, but it’s pretty close. To take advantage of the deal, use promo code EMCLVLN52.
For $360, you’ll be able to pick up an 80GB “Core Pack.” Sure, it doesn’t come with the nice bonuses of the full-priced Best Buy bundle, but the $40 you save can go towards buying some PSN games. May we recommend a few?
[Thanks, majindustin!]
Deal: Trade in 360 (dollars), get a PS3 originally appeared on Joystiq Playstation on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Here in the States, we’ve grown accustomed to certain luxuries: subsidized gasoline for our free Hummers (hey, gotta stimulate that economy!); a complimentary 72oz soda with every purchase (just buy anything!); a lifetime supply of type 2 diabetes; and, of course, monthly updates from NPD charting the sales numbers of the major video game consoles. Our friends in the UK aren’t so fortunate. So when we get a peek behind that curtain, we look to share it with you.
And here, courtesy of UK retailer GAME’s first-half fiscal statement, we find data from GfK Chart-Track for sales up to June 27th, 2009. Unsurprisingly, Nintendo is in the lead with the DS, having sold 2.7m in the past year, bringing its total up to 9.1m units (that includes 300,000 DSi units sold since launch). The Wii is in second place with 5.4m, up 2.3 from last year. And then we get to the main attraction: 360 and PS3 sales.
You’ll recall that in February, Microsoft claimed the 360 bested the PS3 in overall European sales by 1m units, citing GfK Chart-Track data again. In the UK, the Xbox is siting pretty with 3.9m units, up 1.7 from last year, while the PS3 is at 2.2m, up 900k from last year (and, coincidentally, right where Microsoft would’ve been a year ago). In between the “big boys” is the PSP, with 3.3m consoles sold, up 500k from last year.
It’s weird: despite their genetic differences (three stomachs? gross!) the video game shopping trends of UK citizens sound an awful lot like those in the States.
UK sales: Wii and DS up top; 360 besting PS3 at the bottom originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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