Archive for May, 2008
Viva Piñata 2 announced!
It’s coming soon! Microsoft’s main family friendly game, developed by Rare. The last game didn’t make any huge leaps in getting whole families to buy Xbox 360s, but it was still a good game with an addictive goal of collecting piñata animals and keeping your garden where the piñatas live nice and tidy. Click the [...]
First look: Gears of War 2 gameplay
Two years after the original “Emergence Day” will see the return of Marcus Phoenix and the COG team in Gears of War 2, slated for release in November. Epic’s console baby has grown into one of Xbox 360’s most important franchises and after its official announcement in February we now have the first peek [...]
Zune homebrew games: One small step in the evolution of mobile gaming
While it’s not a big surprise that games are coming to Microsoft’s Zune MP3 player, the release of XNA software 3.0 has enabled homebrew games to be developed and added to the Zune with relative ease.
As an adopter of Microsoft’s underdog media player I must honestly say I’m surprised with the new opportunities for [...]
Just a customer…
Since January 2008 “child accounts” on XBL have been unable to download “M” or “Pending/Unrated” content because of a little rule the ESRB set up. This is not a law enforced in any U.S. state or country internationally. Microsoft has decided to follow this rule and update the marketplace to restrict child accounts from downloading [...]
Getting the Valve on your Wii?
Over on CVG, Valve Software’s Doug Lombardi gave a rather interesting interview expressing Valve’s potential interest in breaking out of their FPS mold, and trying something new… on the Wii. Cue that fancy block quote;
“We all play the Wii a lot and we think that the proper way for Valve to approach the Wii [...]
The potential triumphant return of Tecmo Bowl
When it comes to football games, Tecmo Bowl can be considered my first and only true love. Even today, if I were given a chance to play Tecmo Bowl or preview the new Madden NFL, I would choose Tecmo. In my opinion, it is more of a football game than Madden with respect to the [...]
GC Review: Wii Fit
As the gaming community continues to embrace Nintendo’s vision of gaming beyond the gamepad, it would have been easy for them to throw yet “another peripheral for the masses to lap up and fill their living room with. Nintendo has done this with Wii Fit, but the Wii Balance Board is without doubt the most [...]
