Dreamcast sensation Jet Set Radio seems to be making a reboot on XBLA + PSN, according to this new teaser trailer from Sega!

  The awesome massive cel-shaded, music-jammed, graffiti-driven, Shibuya graphics-madhouse of a game has been announced by Sega to make an appearance on XBLA + PSN this summer, as fans wait with bated breath to see if Hideki Naganuma's ace soundtrack- that made the game what it is- will be available on the XBLA + PSN ports, in retrospect to the Crazy Taxi HD soundtrack, which omitted ace tunes a la Offspring and Bad Religion. Sega's teaser, seen above, shows nothing apart from the Jet Set Radio (Jet Grind Radio in NA region) logo and a musical excerpt from the orginal game. Check after the break for a gameplay video of the original game on Dreamcast.

Well, here's to hoping they're going to bring a port to other platforms, too... please?
~Chis

People say that socks are lame Christmas or Birthday presents.

I actually disagree. Yes, there are better presents, but, and I can’t be the only person – my socks are literally covered in holes. Sometimes there’s more hole than actual sock, most pairs have huge gaps in the soles I could potentially fall out of and hurt myself. So yes, when I see a group of freshly unwrapped socks with no holes in them whatsoever, I feel pretty happy with it.

But there is one type of sock that I loathe as much as any one man can possibly loathe a sock.

This type of sock is the type of sock with the day on it.

For the first few days – maybe even a week – this might seem like an incredibly witty and hilarious feature that will instantly get you laid as soon as someone looks at your feet. But, like a rollercoaster that goes through your intestines, the enjoyment soon goes to shit.

Picture the scenario; you’re getting dressed in the early hours of a Monday morning (And I’m talking, like 7.15am sort of thing). You’ve got on pants, vest, shirt, trousers, whatever you need, except of course, your socks. So you thrust your hand deep down into your sock drawer or whatever you have, and withdraw a pair of socks, cold in the early morning air.

The socks, on the side of them, say ‘THURSDAY’

And as I previously said:

It’s a Monday.

You can’t wear these socks!! It’s just not right!! It would just feel wrong. It is wrong!! So you throw them away, and try again.

‘SUNDAY’

Try again...

‘TUESDAY’  

By this time you’re in a cold sweat. You’ll miss your bus, be late to school, get a detention, get into all kinds of trouble – I mean, its 7.18 already!! You try again, but to no avail – ‘SATURDAY’ is the day that appears in an almost mocking fashion on the side of your footwear.

And so it goes on.

Basically, what it comes down to is that there is a one in seven chance that you’ll get the right sock, and it doesn’t take a genius to work out that the odds are against you. The pair of socks you want are sat snugly at the back, while you throw around all the wrong pairs in a desperate attempt to find the socks that have the correct day on them.

What we have here is something akin to Communism – an idealistic dream that went horribly, horribly wrong. In all honesty, it’s a stupid idea anyway. Would you walk around with a shirt and trousers that say the day on them? No. Because you’d look like an idiot. Imagine walking into a meeting at work with a jacket, shirt, vest, tie, trousers, belt, socks and shoes that are all labelled ‘TUESDAY’!! That would just add more stress to the already heart-attack-inducing tension brought about in the mornings by trying to find the right socks. It’s like a fascist regime!! You can’t wear Wednesday socks on Friday, if you do then everyone will turn against you, questioning your sanity, wondering if you own a calendar or can even read!! A well meaning (or evil) relative’s present has accidentally (or purposefully) turned your whole life into a disaster purely because of some words written on the side of a sock!!!!    

Ubisoft's wildly popular Assassin's Creed series of games has seen yet another addition to the franchise- Assassin's Creed 3. It's been been shoved outside the door into the freezing cold with a tag around its neck reading 'October 30th'. Click 'read more' for a massive chunk of bite-sized info.

During an investor's Q & A session, Mr. Yves Guillemot, Ubisoft's head honcho, said the game would release on the 30th of October, without showing any type of promotional material- no official announcement, reveals or trailers whatsoever.

Mr. Guillemot did however say that AC3 will conclude the tale of the series protagonist Desmond Miles, a guy with roots in the not-so-ordinary past, with ancestors being Altair and Ezio Auditore. Guillemot wants the story to conclude before the game's actual real-life 'doomsday date', anyway.

It will be chucking itself onto the PC, Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii U this October, and I bet you the likes of Sam will probably not be able to get his mitts of this game when it comes out ;)

~Chris

The newest online report of Nikkei seems to point that Nintendo is planning to revive other publishers' long-lost and forgotten titles on Nintendo 3DS as part of a strategy to establish strong titles for the system, mentioning a strange Sega Dreamcast game by Yoot Saito as an example of this, the 1999 "Seaman".

  Strangely enough, Seaman went on to become a Japanese video game sensation and became one of the Dreamcast's best selling games, but with a face like *that*, it's a wonder how that ever came to be.

~Chris

In a truly odd but exhilarating fashion, Electronic Arts will be launching Mass Effect 3 copies into space using real weather balloons in five different cities across the globe, namely London, Paris, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Berlin, around a week before general release. Each game will have a GPS tracking device attached to it so that intrepid fans will be able to track its trajectory back to Earth at masseffect.com.

in my opinion, this is by far the most creative marketing scheme I've seen EA- or any developer- pull before. Now, the two things that need to be seen, are if Activision will copy this and distribute the next (*cough* cash cow *cough*) Call of Duty game via airdrop or tank. The second- I just can't wait to see a flashmob appear below a drifting weather balloon with a copy of Mass Effect 3 in it brandishing shotguns and pitchforks to grab and play it :3

~Chris

As of today, Nintendo has acquired the closed-source video codec provider Mobiclip, for the express purpose of using its video compression technology, which has already been used in a variety of Nintendo platforms, i.e Game Boy Advance and selected Nintendo DS titles, on its 3DS and upcoming Wii U consoles.

  Nintendo announced that they had acquired the Paris-based company with offices worldwide 'last year' and has only just now enlightened the public on the acquisition. 

And so here it is. Gathering more attention from a single trailer than most could have hoped for, Grand Theft Auto V's debut footage threw up so many questions that have led the gaming community not knowing what to do with itself. Recently there has been lots of speculation about what to expect in this open world shooter. So here at filmflux we have decided to bring a nice little post separating the fact, from the utter crap. I thought I'd kick things off with some humour... I was researching the internet for speculations and such and this is what I came across, courtesy of the 'Armchair Empire'...  

Click Read More to read some of the hilarious crap this guy has come out with...

The Importance Of Animals
It's easy to conclude with 100% certainty that there animals will play a central role in GTA V. The trailer opens with a shot of a dog and two seagulls in the opening frame. Note, the number of animals exceeds the number of humans in that same shot. I'd guess that pigeons, which played such an integral role in GTA IV, particularly during the climatic chase through the city, will play an even more pivotal role in its sequel. And there's rumor that at least two missions will put the player in control of a pigeon. PETA should be happy about this move.

Mustard Gas
It's obvious from this series of frames that these migrant labourers are being sprayed with mustard gas, likely from the crop duster piloted by jihadists or possibly domestic terrorists:


This leads me to believe that the protagonist will take on a job to kill not only the labourers but also poison the food supply. It's also possible, and this is thinking outside the box, that not only is mustard gas being sprayed but GMO seeds of high-yield but an extremely carcinogenic strain of wheat are being spread. Time will tell.  

Super Strong NPCs
Look at the way this guy is pounding in the "For Sale" sign. It takes a heavy sledgehammer to get a sign like that inserted into the earth. There's really one explanation: GTA V's world is populated by super strong NPC's, which leads me to believe that the main protagonist will develop super powers through the course of the game, including super strength and the ability to kill hookers with his mind.

The Plane
Without a landing strip in sight, this one is a no brainer. This plane belongs to the criminal syndicate that the protagonist will work for (and probably against) and there's a runway INSIDE one of the buildings just up ahead. The runway is actually a corkscrew design which allows the runway to fit easily inside the building. 

Holes In The World
Check this frame. What the hell is that?
The easy answer is that Rockstar goofed up here. They've tipped their hand as to the intergalactic nature of GTA V. This is very clearly a space-time dilation point, which is bathing the entire city in cosmic rays. That accounts for all the super powers late in the game. The protagonist will be given a decision at the end of the game: leave the dilation point open and the world is destroyed, or close it and everybody loses their superpowers. (Any post-launch DLC will assume the player closed the dilation point.)

Here are three simple examples to prove that the protagonist will be involved in busting a strike by sanitation workers. It's obvious that trash is not being collected or cleaned up. From this we can extrapolate the fact there will be some crooked union involvement and some shady political dealings connected to the strike. 

"bulyrtrn" 
This actually blew my mind!
When I ran this plate through an algorithm that the DEA and Homeland Security use to estimate the amount of cocaine that funnels in from South America (switching the letters to numbers prior to the calculation) then converting the result to matching letters of the alphabet you get "bulyrtrn" or more specifically "Bully Returns." It's likely the best stealth reveal in the history of gaming! 

Unlike the drunk homeless man pictured in GTA V begging for money, The retard who posted this crap on the internet, who is clearly ill in the head, was actually BULLSHITTING...

Now we have informed you of the idiocy of some people in the world today, we shall now talk to you about the facts behind GTA V.

1) Its Predominantly set in Los Santos*
Prior to GTA V's trailer people speculated that the game would be set in the area of San Andreas, Th fictional state which incorporated the areas of Los Santos, San Fierro an Las Venturas. It now appears that only the first city, which is based on Los Angeles , and it's surrounding areas will apper in the game.

2) You Will Visit the Same Areas we saw in San Andreas *
This is true. If you watch the trailer carefully you will see references to the following locations and more:
- Downtown Los Santos - Based on Downtown LA
- Vinewood - Based on Hollywood
- Vespucci Beach - Based on Venice Beach
- Pleasure Pier - Based on Santa Monica Pier
- East Los Santos - Based on East LA
- Rodeo - Based On Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills
- Little Seoul - Based on Korea Town 
  Plus Many More...

3) Many Of The Buildings In Los Santos Will Be Based On Real Life LA Buildings*
Like in liberty city, many of the landmarks can be located in real life LA, such as the Citigroup Center, Figueroa Hotel, US Bank Tower, Walk of fame, and the famous Whisky A GO GO Bar.

4) You Will Be Able to Visit Los Santos' Surrounding Areas*
 Although GTA V will be mainly set in Los Santos, it will also feature rural areas outside of the city. We know this as at their press conference Rockstar said, "Grand Theft Auto V heads to the city of Los Santos and surrounding hills, countryside, and beaches." This is also evident in the trailer where several locations are depicted including Mount Chiliad and a wind farm situated in a wide meadow. 
Despite Being confined to one city and it's surrounding areas, Rockstar promises the "largest and most ambitious game." Rumour as it that Los Santos alone is at least four times larger than Liberty City.

5) It's Not Going to Be The Same GTA Experience Were Used To... *
 Let me expand a little... You will still be stealing cars, killing people and chasing after hookers but the structure may be a bit different to what we are all used to. Sam houser, founder of Rockstar Games said,"Grand Theft Auto V is another radical reinvention of the Grand Theft Auto Universe". The press release called it " A bold new direction in open world freedom, storytelling, mission based gameplay and online multiplayer". The question is, What Direction...

6) Planes Will Make a Return*
Planes, unfortunately, were absent from GTA IV given that it would take less than a minute to get from one side to the other if you were piloting one.The trailer for GTA V however features many different aircraft including Airliners, Crop dusting planes, Jets and even a blimp. Could this suggest something about the size of the map... Who knows... 

*- Starred Items are complete (intentional) bullshit. For the actual rumours, please see below.

Now to finish with I thought that I might as well inform you of some things that are not necessarily fact, but come close to it...  That's right people, Here they are...
 
The Not So Crappy Rumours:
1) You will be able to enter many of the buildings...
2) Property Ownership will return
3) GTA V could support multiple protagonists
4) GTA V will use Motion Scan
5) It will contain some RPG elements
6) Old charters will make a return
7) 6 Star wanted level will return
8) We will be playing GTA V sometime in 2012...

So there it is people... All you need to know about GTA V... Possibly the best game of 2012...

Matt.

Sony is releasing a new firmware update for its PlayStation 3 Consoles. They've written a lengthy paragraph on their blog about what it contains, but in a nutshell:

• Updated Browser
• Changed PSN account name to SEN account (Part of Sony's "Entertainment Network" rebrand)
• Re-accept changed PSN/SEN ToS

And that's it. The above blog post is essentially the original Sony one without all the corporate wizardry- i.e quoting the PSN as something people 'love' as opposed to a service.

~Chris

'Tiyuri', one of the Terraria developers, have provided IndieGameMag with some details regarding his next game.
He says that it will be "a mix of diablo, metroid, castlevania, terraria, pokemon + some new stuff no one has ever done before..maybe borderlands too,".

Though the screenshots provided to IndieGameMag resemble Terraria quite a lot, Tiyuri has commented that his next game will be "considerably different [to Terraria]," A link to the full article can be seen after clicking 'read more'

Seeing as, in my opinion, Terraria was a mind-bogglingly hour-snatching, time-consuming, gorgeous-looking and expansive game, debatably only second only to Minecraft on the indie game community. The screenshots Tiyuri supplied all look very appealing, so I am looking forward to this game as much as the next person.

~Chris
P.S Here is the article where the screenshots reside