Archive for May, 2008
Like a Polaroid picture: “Wario Land Shake” for Wii
Hold on to your hats. Nintendo of Japan has announced the release of a new Wii iteration of the classic Wario Land games entitled “Wario Land Shake.” While not much has been revealed, a fact sheet has been leaked with some info and screenshots.
From what we can see, this new game will be in the [...]
You kids and your darn video games: Olympic president condemns digital entertainment
In a manner reminiscent of my parents’ pleas for me to “put down the controller and go outside”, Olympic president Jacques Rogge condemned digital entertainment in an interview with The Times, as part of an attempt to reach out to the next generation of Olympic viewers, participants, and administrators. Correct me if I’m wrong in [...]
XBLA games to be discontinued
Do not fear fellow gamers, by the headline I am not referring to the best and brightest of the XBLA catalog, only those which Microsoft deem have run there course. By what merits would they be able to identify the good from the bad though? Reported earlier this week on NextGen in an interview with [...]
Scratch on your DS with ProteinDS
Perhaps the next best music making application for the Nintendo DS since the guitar sim Jam Sessions and the quirky Electroplankton is a homebrew by the name of ProteinDS. It turns the user’s DS into a functional turntable. While it doesn’t exactly imitate the appearance of a physical turntable, it displays the audio clip scrolling [...]
Wii-vival: Sam and Max Season One coming to the Wii
I promise to never make a Wii pun in a news title ever again. Now on to the actual news.
Coming this August to a Wii near you, hopefully yours, it’s Sam and Max: Season One. What makes this news so special? Well for one thing, Sam and Max are finally coming to consoles. This [...]
Dead Space: EA’s best looking new IP
Fittingly set for release on Halloween of this year, Dead Space is looking very promising. Mixing the third-person survival horror of the Silent Hill series with the sci-fi aesthetic and action of Doom, as well as the promise of zero-gravity gameplay, things are shaping up nicely for this big budget title. Sure it’s not the [...]
Overachieving: Is there such a thing?
Microsoft’s latest game console, the Xbox 360, has been out for more than two years now. Most of us here own this super system and have grown familiar with its ups and downs. But there is something MS has pulled off quite nicely and that is to implant obsession amongst its faithful followers. That obsession [...]
Soul Calibur on XBLA - First Screens!
I wrote up a rather excited post back when Namco-Bandai announced the upcoming release of Soul Calibur on Xbox Live Arcade this summer. After I finished writing the article, I hooked up my Dreamcast to the high-def television in the living room to get back into shape and eagerly await more news. Well, [...]
GC Review: LostWinds
It cost me 1000 Wii Points, or 10 dollars to purchase LostWinds, a game that I had been eagerly awaiting. Upon recently completing it, the old adage “You get what you pay for…” comes to mind. This is not a bad thing. I have often paid 50 dollars for games that haven’t provided [...]
Xbox 360 Lips being announced tomorrow?
Yeah, you got me with this one too. But rumor has it that a new Xbox 360 accessory is going to be announced at tomorrow’s Microsoft Gamerday 08 in San Fransisco. The code name (and lord I hope it’s just a code name) is Lips. Also rumored to make an [...]
