http://www.gamingflavor.com Get the latest Gaming News for your Favorite Games and Gaming Systems Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:30:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Civilization was never the most realistic game, and those who enjoyed battling against a nuclear-armed Gandhi have not minded. The next one, Civilization V, though may be the most natural one thanks to some crafty tweaks. Kotaku was shown an early version of development studio Firaxis' Civ V running on a ... http://www.gamingflavor.com/pc/civilization-v-preview-small-changes-big-differences-gdc10 The creators of Logorama - an Oscar-winning short film that featured its fair share of video game companies - will be sticking with a gaming theme for their next work, creating a live-action short for Ubisoft's Ghost Recon series. Francois Alaux and Herve de Crecy will be working with writer Tim ... http://www.gamingflavor.com/pc/oscar-winning-duo-working-on-ghost-recon-movie-ghost-recon Ready? Fight! Because Street Fighter IV is coming to Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch. As Kotaku posted previously, the game is played like most iPhone titles, press "buttons" in the corner of the screen. The virtual button and joystick do take up a great deal of on-screen real estate. It is ... http://www.gamingflavor.com/pc/street-fighter-iv-iphone-hits-tonight-iphone Wow. The PS3 is getting HD purchases and rentals from all six major studios. A quick search turns up that Xbox is missing Fox and, duh, Sony. It's nice that Sony isn't handicapping the Playstation 3 in order to protect its blu-ray business.Sony's got deals with Fox, Disney, Paramount, Itself, Universal ... http://www.gamingflavor.com/playstation/playstation-3-first-console-with-hd-movies-from-all-6-major-studios-sony Nintendo is making a big deal of upcoming Nintendo DS game WarioWare D.I.Y. at this year's Game Developers Conference, handing out miniature Warios that are not only easy to build, but make a great distraction when people are trying to post. Curse you, papercraft Wario. http://www.gamingflavor.com/nintendo/warioware-papercraft-the-easiest-diy-project-at-gdc-gdc10 This draggable, zoomable map of NYC is made from old 8-bit NES elements. It is as awesome as it sounds. [8-Bit NYC via WAXY via Kottke] http://www.gamingflavor.com/nintendo/8-bit-nyc-map-turns-new-york-into-hyrule-maps Not only is Seattle Mariners' superstar Ichiro one of Japan's greatest baseball players, he's also one of the most talented big leaguers today. He also likes to unwind like the rest of us — by beating up virtual palookas. In a recent interview, he explained his lack of sleep. The ... http://www.gamingflavor.com/nintendo/baseball-star-unwinds-with-a-little-face-punching-wii Want to own a piece of Baltimore history, a bit of gaming that helped unseat a mayor of the east coast city? The city is auctioning off an Xbox 360 that prosecutors say then-mayor Sheila Dixon purchased with gift cards meant for the poor. The Xbox 360, and a single controller ... http://www.gamingflavor.com/xbox/own-the-xbox-360-that-helped-kick-the-mayor-of-baltimore-out-of-office-crime Kotaku darling, Independent Games Festival finalist and soon to be Electronic Arts-published game Shank gets a bit more face time this week as GDC kicks off. To celebrate, developers Klei released this new video showing a bit more of the 2D brawler gameplay. If you're at GDC, you can swing ... http://www.gamingflavor.com/xbox/a-deeper-look-at-shank-gameplay-gdc From a Japanese game developer saying that the Japanese industry was "finished" to lower attendance, last year's Tokyo Game Show was disastrous. This year can only go up. Hopefully. This year's TGS is the 20th Tokyo Game Show, and organizers have announced "a new midterm vision of becoming 'The No.1 Information ... http://www.gamingflavor.com/xbox/dwindling-tokyo-game-show-hopes-to-be-worlds-biggest-game-gathering-japan