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The premise is simple: turn your DS into a KORG synthesizer! While it's unclear how the KORG DS-10 Synthesizer can be rightfully called a “videogame,” it is certainly refreshing to see the DS touch screen finally making good on its promise to bring new ground-breaking software offerings to the masses. While Ubisoft’s 2007 release of Jam Sessions may have introduced the concept of player-made music using a handheld, it’s fair to say that KORG’s new DS software takes the concept to a whole new level!
The above headline was actually plastered across the front page of the Seattle PI on April 28, 2008. While it was certainly refreshing to see a mainstream newspaper admit that there is no conclusive proof of a correlation between violent videogames and violent tendencies, the Seattle PI failed to address the media's role in perpetuating the myths concerning videogames and violence. After all, any parental overreaction is not likely the byproduct of any rational thought process or in-depth independent research, but rather a knee-jerk reaction to the latest hysteria-inducing report from the mainstream media about how violent videogames are corrupting America's youth.
We've heard this all before. Comics, records, dirty dancing - all products of the devil. Whether it's print, music or pixels, the medium changes but the media's lack of intellectual curiosity when it comes to pop culture remains the same. So if you find yourself nodding along during Glen Beck's nonsensical rant about how the American military was full of cowards until the advent of desensitizing videogames, then you my friend are a fuddy duddy. That's right you are a fuddy duddy. You have already become what you promised yourself you would never be...a fuddy duddy.
Don't worry. There is a cure. Put down the "Vote McCain" button, and simply take a few moments to learn the truth about the relationship (or lack thereof) between violence and videogames.
Continue reading "Videogame Violence: Do Parents Overreact?" »
Engrish is possibly one of the best things to come out of Japan besides video games. Seriously. Even video games have had a few great Engrish moments over the years! The NDS once again has come to the rescue of the Japanese populous with English of the Dead! This great game is a tool for Japanese gamers to learn English, now with zombies! Hit the jump to find out where to play a wonderful flash demo for this quirky game from Japan!
Everyone's Killing Zombies and Learning’ English. Why Not You?
Daiku no Gensan (Gensan The Carpenter) debuted in the Japanese arcades back in 1990. The combination of a cute, lovable protagonist with IREM's classic arcade style/degree of difficulty garnered the action franchise a large loyal fan base, including yours truly, in the early 1990s. Finally, after 14 years, Gensan makes his long-awaited and overdue current-gen debut on the PSP.
Every city has its own D-class celebrities. Here in Seattle, one such minor celebrity shines above the rest. Maybe it's his shiney bald head. Maybe it's his awesome dance moves. But no late night commercial celeb is more famous than Seattle's own Vern Fonk.
And his marketing genius has not gone without notice. If it works for insurance, it's gotta work for videogames, right? Farewell George Harrison (not the Beattle but the former VP of marketing at Nintendo), say hello to every-man Vern Fonk. Just another nail in Sony's coffin.
Continue reading for some more Vern Fonk classics that are sure to be turned into Nintendo commercials for upcoming releases.
Continue reading "Vern Fonk: Nintendo's New Marketing Exec" »
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Retro Gamers looking to spend some quality time immersed in classic arcade gaming action need wait no longer than this July (in Japan that is). The newest iterations of SNK Playmore classics Metal Slug and Samurai Showdown are coming soon to a system near you! Hit the jump for all the details.
Continue reading "New Metal Slug and Samurai Showdown Coming" »
1. The first thing about Dev Kit League is that you will talk about Dev Kit League
2. The second thing about Dev Kit League is that YOU WILL talk about Dev Kit League (It’s that awesome)
3. If someone completes 4 games the match is over
4. 3 people to a match
5. Several matches at a time
6. No Goombas, No Prinnies
7. Matches will go on as long as they have to
8. If this is your first time at Dev Kit League, you should play (It’s fun).
Join the Pink Godzilla Dev Kit Developers League every 1st and 3rd Sunday each month at Blue Highway Games in Queen Ave from 2-5pm!
It has recently been brought to our attention that a shipment of Pink Godzilla Dev Kits contained only the Japanese instruction manuals. Our bad. For some reason we thought everyone in America reads Japanese. What were we thinking? For anyone who'd actually like to know how to play the game they just bought, please send an email to orders@pinkgodzillagames.com, and we'll be sure to send you a copy of the English instruction manual. We'll also be posting a downloadable PDF of the instructions at www.pgdevkit.com soon. In the meantime, you can check out the How To Play section of the Dev Kit site.
Or you can simply start teaching yourself Japanese. As if Dev Kit wasn't enough, here's even more incentive to learn Japanese.
Nande Indian ya nen!
With the recent discovery of an IGN watermark on the retail box art for the Wii version of Okami, the PGI, the Pink Godzilla Investigators, went through the PG classic game library in search of more evidence of watermark tainting. The team was surprised to find three more games had suffered such fates! This devastating find was promptly compiled into an official report and rushed to the Elders for immediate prosecution.
Hit the jump for the exclusive report!
Continue reading "PGI Investigates: The Watermark Scandal" »
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Three months have already passed since the ringing in of the New Year. And with the change from 2007 to 2008 seems to have come a change in fortunes for Sony's PSP....in Japan at least. For the first time since the release of the DS Lite, the PSP has outperformed the Nintendo handheld for an entire quarter in Japan!
Continue reading to learn the first quarter results for 2008 in worldwide sales for all your favorite consoles.
Continue reading "Q1 Sales Numbers Are In: 2008 The Year Of The PSP?" »
Continue reading for all the details including the The Rey's own description of his latest vision.
Continue reading "Corey Lewis & Pink Godzilla Presents: Seedless" »
The third Dev Kit Developers League meeting was held this past Sunday and the league continues to grow as more and more developers show up to try their luck against the leagues best. The most recent meeting brought Rick Labadie, the current Dev Kit World Champion out to play a few matches and even issue of challenge of sorts to his nemesis, Cheatum, who took second place at the PAX 07 Dev Kit tourney. Hit the jump for the updated scores and a video message from Rick to Cheatum!
Everyone's Makin' Videogames. Why Not You?
One year ago, the greatest Pink Pong match of the 21st century was played ….
It was a matchup of epic proportions that will be remembered for generations to come. In the end, Robert Khoo pulled out a thrilling victory to put an exclamation point on Penny Arcade's 5-1 domination of Pink Godzilla.
An exclamation point indeed ….
That fateful match dealt Greg a devastating blow. The impact from the chain of thunderous 40mm forehands sent him reeling into a downward spiral of misery and despair….. a place known only to those who’ve entered the Joe Zone…
Cick play:
Pink Pong I links from a year ago:
The challenge.
Post-match: PG, PA.
Ore ha katsu. Shinjitu wo itteru.
The Wiimote has been used to perform delicate virtual surgeries, cook digital yakisoba and drive pixelated monster trucks. But thanks to the makers of the Roomba robot vacuum and the U.S. Department of Energy, the Wiimote will be adapted to control robots capable of diffusing real-world bombs and other things that go boom-ba.
That got the scientists over at the Pinky G Underground Research Facility thinking. What other dangerous activities could the Wiimote be adapted for? Continue reading as we explore the possibilities.
Continue reading "Danger Is The Nintendo Wii's Middle Name" »
Longtime readers might remember our crack team of investigators discovering the Nintendo Fan Network, a baseball-themed download service available at Seattle's Major League ballpark, Safeco Field. You might also recall when we broke the story of the ultra-rare limited edition Mariners logo Nintendo DS.
Now that baseball season is once again upon us, our investigators felt the need to return to Safeco Field to see what other wondrous discoveries we could find. Would the Nintendo Fan Network return? Are the Special Edition DS's back? Will Richie Sexson ever get another hit? Join us below the fold for the answers to these questions and much more!
Continue reading "Nintendo DS Fan Network Service Now Free At Mariners Games!" »
Due to popular demand PG is proud to present, PG @ Home, a delightful series of PG themed items that anyone can enjoy in the comfort of their own home with just a few simple supplies. Last time, we gave you the supplies to make a paper Pink Godzilla and hopefully a few of them still survive! Everyone now knows that the Pink Godzilla Plushy is stealthy, so check out the latest in PG papercraft! Tune in after the jump for the second round of PG @ Home!
The first installment in the Super Mario Galaxy scandal series recounted Jumpman's fall from grace. After years on top partying with the likes of Corey Haim and the Bubble Bath Babes, Jumpman suddenly found himself living the life of a recluse amongst the Bloknauts. in 1996, Jumpman befriended fellow disgraced gaming icon Disk-kun whose incessant yammering about Mario finally pushed Jumpman to the brink.
Continue reading for the story of how Jumpman plotted his revenge against Mario.
Continue reading "The Super Mario Galaxy Scandal: Part 2 - Your Enemy's Enemy" »
A long time ago, PG scholars scoured ancient texts to discover the secret history of Super Mario and Princess Peach. What they found was a shocking tale that cast everyone's favorite characters in an entirely new light.
In the first two chapters of this bizarre story, we learned that there was much more to the seemingly simple Super Mario universe than meets the eye. We met a scheming ruler of a small kingdom with dreams of glory, a lonely lizard king who dared to love a human, a family of giant criminal gorillas, and a simple Brooklyn plumber who was caught up in a struggle for power. Join us, if you dare, as we continue the twisted tale of the Princess and the Plumber.
Continue reading "Mario and Peach: The Real Story, Part 3" »
Have you ever dreamed that instead of playing your favorite game, that you were instead living the action? Perhaps not if your favorite game is a dangerous war simulator or a brutal street fighting game. But if a leisurely stroll through the Mushroom Kingdom is your cup of tea, then we have a treat for you.
For all you who aspire to be the next Captain N, the Nintendo Amusement Park might be just the thing. Today we'll take a gander at two students' dreams of "physically augmented reality", and how with a little luck, a magic winch, and 35 million dollars of venture capital, you too could be bouncing on Goombas and saving the princess someday soon.
Continue reading "I Wanna Be Like Mario: The Nintendo Amusement Park." »
Now that SSBB is out in North America the brawl'in is just beginning! For those who were unaware, the Elder's discovered the fastest way to unlock all character's in SSBB after only 24 hours with the game way back in February. Hit the jump for a refresher on how to unlock all characters the fastest!
Continue reading "Want to play with all the character's in SSBB?" »
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DATELINE: Pink Godzilla HQ, somewheres in Seatle. The news media is abuzz with the the Smash Brothers Brawl phenomenon - where do they turn? Sure, maybe Nintendo, fine. Makes sense. But the word on the street? They turn to the authority on all things Smashing, Brawling, and/or a combination of both. That's right - your local Pink Godzilla. Check out the report after the break.
Continue reading "Pink Godzilla: Seattle's Smash News Source" »
Where is the violent game show that allows you to shoot down waves of enemies to get to the end? Where are the robots that give us new powers when we defeat them? Will we really see robots on the baseball field in the year 2020? Will mankind really be on the verge of extinction in the year 2084?
For years, video games have led us to believe that these amazing things would be just around the corner. But many of these dates have come and gone and we still don't have baseball playing robots. Today we'll take a look at the flawed chronology of video games.
Germany wasn't all glamor and Dev Kit. Team Pink Godzilla worked hard into each evening investigating the seedy underworld of Essen, Germany. The name Essen means to eat. Eat what though. How can the name be a verb without an object? In an attempt to unravel this mystery, investigative journalist Uncle Jackson came across Drehscheibe. Would Drehscheibe and the dancing Spider Mike turn out to be Uncle Jackson's Rosetta stone? Watch the video to find out!
The last time we visited Videoland, we profiled the main characters of Captain N. Today, we continue our N-Team roll call with our supporting cast bios.....
In 1989, a crack video game unit was sent to prison by Mother Brain for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Videoland underground. Today, still wanted by Mother Brain, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The N-Team.
Mascots have been a very important part of video game history. Nearly every major console maker has at one time or another employed one or more mascots to help push their products.
Earlier, we profiled two of these luminaries, Segata Sanshiro and Johnny Turbo. Today, we will take a look at Nintendo's super powered gaming squad, The N-Team!
For the first time in nearly two years, it snowed in Akihabara today. While most Tokyo-jin probably enjoyed a rare frolick in the snow, the inclimate weather was particularly tough on Mr. Underwear & Shirt Fetish. This Akihabara icon, famous for wearing little more than his name implies while exercising in front of Akihabara station, didn't let the cold interrupt his routine. But why? Why would someone subject themselves to the humiliation of exercising in public?
Two words: Segata Sanshiro.
Back in the early 90's, a scrappy young company named Sega challenged Nintendo's video gaming dominance. Utilizing the power of their Blast Processing and a hedgehog with attitude, Sega did what Nintendidn't. What was the secret to Sega's success? Was it a new and exciting way of making games? Was it superior technology? Was it dumb luck?
The answer is none of the above. In fact, the driving force between the rise (and fall) of the Sega empire is the King of Pop himself, Michael Jackson.
Continue reading "Michael Jackson and Sega: A Match Made In Heaven" »
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We've had a Japanese copy of the new Smash Bros. Brawl game for less than 24 hours, but we've already unlocked all the hidden characters. Toon Link, Snake, Sonic and R.O.B. are now our marionettes fighting at our fancy.
So how did we do it? It didn't involve the Subspace Emissary or any of the Challenges. And we certainly did not unlock Snake by playing on Shadow Moses Island ten times, like some gaming sites are reporting.
Continue reading to find out how to unlock all the hidden characters.
Continue reading "Fastest Way To Unlock All Characters: SSBB" »
The PG Game is taking shape! The story, gameplay and art style are in a flexibly firm outline and are nearing a solid state soon. After the latest meeting it was clear that game is at the point where key information can now be revealed! Hit the jump and let Corey Lewis enlighten you!
Yesterday, we revealed that Captain Falcon is in fact in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. We also posted a video showing a couple more previously unannounced characters. After all that, if your socks are somehow still on your feet, then hold on tight because they are about to get blown off...
Spoiler alert! New Challengers Are Approaching.
Continue reading "Spoilers Galore - More Smash Characters Confirmed" »
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Oh, you poor American Nintendo fans... having to wait a whole extra month to get your Smash on. To make the wait just that much more unbearable, Japanese Wii owners are playing the game right now. As a result, the leaks have sprung, and the official intro movie to Dairantou Smash Brothers X has hit the web. There are spoilers incoming, so unless you're prepared to have some Subspace Emissary moments SPOILED, don't view the video after the break. The rest of you, click the link to get your mind blown.
Continue reading "Spoiler Alert: Smash Intro Movie Hits Intertubes" »
Perhaps in an attempt to appease rabid fanboys starving for all things Smash, Nintendo continues to publish installments of President Iwata's interview of Sakurai, the Lead Smash Designer. As the majority of the fourth installment is focused on aspects of the game that have previously been announced, the interview is not particularly interesting. Except, that is, for an exchange about the evolution of the story behind Smash.
What may shock you is that story was created by a writer for a very famous RPG franchise. Continue reading to learn the identity of this famous videogame writer.
Continue reading "The Wheels Of The Bus Go Round and Round." »
The heated flame war continues as author Cooper Lawrence caves to the continued efforts of gamers’ everywhere to let the truth be known about her ‘expert’ opinion on Fox News’ SEXbox segment recently and issued a sort of apology today. The recent debate over Mass Effects ‘sex’ scene sparked a massive internet response from gamers outraged over the false claims made by Fox News anchors and everyone’s favorite pundit Mr. McCullough. Hit the jump for the latest development in the SEXbox scandal.
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Hocus pocus. Poof...another review has vanished. In what may be the greatest illusion since David Copperfield made the Statue of Liberty disappear, Cooper Lawrence's book, "The Cult of Perfection," has emerged from one-star pergatory reaching two stars over night. What could be the explanation? Has CEO Jeff Bezos been replaced by David Blaine? Did Cooper Lawrence and Fox News apologize to EA causing gamers to relent and voluntarily recant the negative reviews? Or perhaps Amazon.com simply caved to pressure from Ms. Lawrence's publisher and deleted them? Well, Jeff Bezos is still CEO and Fox hasn't apologized, so....
While the headline of this article may come as no surprise, some of this week's sales figures may shock you. For instance, given the hype, many falsely believe that Halo 3 is the best selling game of all-time. The fact is that Halo 3 is no where even close to the level of sales achieved by classics such as Pokemon (Game Boy) or Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES). Halo 3 even lags well behind a handful of games from the current generation such as Nintendogs (NDS), Wii Play (Wii) and Mario Kart DS (NDS).
But the question on everyone's mind is how did the SEXbox "scandal" affect sales of Mass Effect? Continue reading to find out.
Continue reading "Nintendo Continues To Dominate Global Sales" »
Are you confused about the endless ongoing SEXBox debates? Are video games really "virtual orgasmic rape machines" and gamers sex crazed psychopathic murderers? Don't you wish that a voice of reason could pierce the endless babble and bring some much needed truth to this whole ridiculous argument?
So do we, but unfortunately we couldn't find that voice of clarity. We did, however, manage to find yet another raving lunatic. Today, we're bringing you a very special interview with one of the imaginary world's foremost experts on sex in video games. Join us below the fold as our very own Jumpman has a revealing discussion with one of the "moral crusaders" who believes that video games are corrupting our children.
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For the last week, a couple of so-called morality experts have been bashing the Xbox and Mass Effect. The "controversy" began with Kevin McCullough's sexually deviant fabrications such as "Mass Effect can be customized to sodomize whatever, whoever, however, the game player wishes." Not to be outdone by Mr. SexCullough, Fox News compared Mass Effect to "Luke Skywalker meets Debbie Does Dallas."
Electronic Arts apparently decided that it's heard enough. In a letter to Teri VanHorn, Fox News' producer of the Live Desk with Martha MacCallum, EA asked the Fox News Channel to correct the record.
Continue reading for the excerpts from the EA letter (as published on Kotaku), and Fox News' response.
Stylish Hard Action! Not quite Survival Horror, not quite Tactical Espionage Action, but something as genre bending as the Devil May Cry series deserves such an absoludicrous description. Missile riding, smack talking, demon slashing antics have been the exclusive domain of the PlayStation 2, until now - the demo for the series' first next-gen foray, Devil May Cry 4, is now up on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace, debunking the rumor that the demo was due to drop next week - unless you live in Europe or have an Xbox Live silver account, that is. Fire up those magic download machines and get to demon slaying, and hit the break for a look back at the dramatic high point of the series.
Nintendo has published the second installment of the Iwata interview with Super Smash Bros. Brawl designer, Sakurai. In the first installment, we learned about Sakurai's background, how the Brawl project grew from a misunderstanding, and that Grandia III developers were hired to create Brawl at Miyamoto's behest.
Continue reading to learn about about Sakurai's philosophy in designing Brawl for the Wii and his thoughts on the console itself.
Continue reading "Iwata Interviews SSBB Dev Sakurai: Part 2" »
Not to be outdone by the violent, sex-crazed, liar Kevin McCullough, Fox News recently decided to throw its hat in the SEXbox "debate." Although not drenched in the abhorrent lies flooding Kevin McCullough's piece, Fox News has decided to sensationalize Mass Effect's relatively non-descript digital love scene by describing it as "Luke Skywalker meets Debbie Does Dallas."
Continue reading as Pink Godzilla's own truth squad takes on Fox News and uncovers Cooper Lawrence to be an even bigger hypocrite than violent, sex-crazed, liar Mr. SexCullough.
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Back in 2006, Factor 5 President Julian Eggebrecht scoffed at the idea of developing games for Nintendo's technologically inferior console complaining that the Wii's audio capability is "relatively mediocre" and dubbing the console "essentially GameCube 1.5." Then came Lair and the Wii's rapid ascent to the top spot in global sales. Factor 5 recently announced it's back in Nintendo's camp and its working on a Wii title. A new Rogue Squadron game? The previously rumored Pilot Wings sequel? Or maybe Hikari Shinwa Parutena no Kagami?
Continue reading as Pink Godzilla analyzes the recent Kid Icarus rumors.
Continue reading "Rumor Alert: Kid Icarus Sequel In The Works?" »
With Super Smash Bros. Brawl being delayed to March 9th in the US, there are a lot of anxiouos Wii owners. Compounding the frustration of anticipation, Famitsu awarded SSBB a perfect 40/40 - making Smash only the seventh game to achieve perfection. To appease rabid fans, Nintendo has been regularly updating its Smash Bros. Dojo site with news about the game. In today's update is a link to an interesting interview between the president of Nintendo, Iwata, and the head of the SSBB project, Sakurai.
Continue reading for highlights from the lengthy interview.
Rez was one of the most beautiful and visually stylistic games released for the Dreamcast and PS2 and was a great rail shooter as well. With the game now coming to the Xbox 360 Live Arcade in High Definition, this classic game will now doubt be even more impressive. Hit the jump for more info on how win a free download.
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Jake of 8bitjoystick.com, the 2007 Pinky G Award winner for Blogger of the Year, recently posted an interview he conducted with a confidential source who claims to have intimate knowledge regarding the Xbox hardware and its high rate of failure. If you haven't read the lengthy interview, then check it out here. It's an excellent read.
Continue reading for highlights from the interview as well as Pink Godzilla's take.

Downloadable content is all the rage with the hip kids! Let’s take a look at how you’ll be spending your assorted virtual giga-currencies in the near future – that is, if you’re cool. We vouched for you, dude. Everybody’s doing it. Read on for PixelJunk, Microsoft apologies, and Rock Band milestones.
Continue reading "You Down With DLC: Microsoft Is Very Sorry Edition" »
In May of 2006, a survey conducted revealed Seattle as the #1 gaming city in America. While that study focused on the number of consoles owned per household, the number of games purchased or rented, and frequency of online play there are many other reasons why Seattle is known as the #1 gaming city.
Besides Pink Godzilla, Seattle is home to scores of legendary videogame entities such as Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony Online Entertainment, Blizzard, Digipen, PopCap, Penny Arcade and Gas Powered Games. Adding to the city's gamer cred the Seattle Symphony performs videogame music in concert and now the city's newspaper has used a Super Mario Bros. 3 parody to sum up the recent end to the Seattle Seahawks football season.
Continue reading to view the greatest image to ever grace the front page of a sports section.
Continue reading "Seattle Solidifies Image of #1 Gaming City" »
No doubt feeling the repercussions of the SEXBOX scandals in both America and Japan, the Xbox 360 has fallen to last place in the weekly hardware sales contest. Although the console is still performing well in North America, the Xbox 360 finished dead last in both Japan and Europe. Topping the charts were of course the NDS and the Wii, but don't overlook Sony. The PS3's push towards second place continues with another strong week of sales.
Continue reading for all the details including a comparison of software sales.
By now most have heard about Kevin McCullough's ill-informed rant about sex in video games and how those responsible for such content are "pushing our next generation of young men through the gates of hell as fast as is humanly possible." Bet you didn't realize that watching PG-rated virtual sex scenes got you a one-way ticket on the bullet train to hell. Say what? But Kevin McCullough, the leader of the MuscleHead Revolution, said it, so it must be true. After all, according to his bio, Mr. McCullough is the people's advocate for "such shocking things as absolute truth."
In the same bio, Mr. McCullough shares this enlightening statement, "Show me how a man thinks, and I will tell you how he will behave." Oh really......
Continue reading as we analyze how Mr. McCullough thinks so that we can determine how he behaves.