DualPenSportsis made up seven sport mini-games which are soccer, boxing, archery, basketball, baseball, skiiing and power gliding. The key difference with this game from other sport game collections is that you’ll need to use two styluses in order to play the games. In the archery game, you’ll use your left hand to pull back the string on your bow. You’ll use your right hand to fire and aim your cursor at the target....
It may not be as beloved around here asa certain sharkwho also recently celebrated a birthday, but watching this video put into perspective how many good games have come out for Nintendo’s handheld download service. FromMario vs. Donkey KongtoBejeweled Twist, there’s some real quality stuff here. And there’s more to come. Watch the vid to see some footage ofX-Scape, for example, which reminds me a lot ofRez.Metal Torrentlooks like it could be a lot of fun too....
Just look at that picture. Tell me you don’t want the opportunity to sing anything that men that once looked like this came up with. Luckily, Harmonix knows we want these things, and today they’ve given us just that with the announcement of the Rock Band Track Pack: Classic Rock. Including artists such as Boston, Jethro Tull, Rush and Steve Miller Band, the pack will retail for $29.99 and will come out this May 19th....
Left 4 Dead 2is a pretty fun game on its own. What’s even cooler about it, however, is that its rules are flexible enough to allow for multiple methods of play: in the same way thatFar Cry 2lends itself to permadeath runthroughs andIkarugaallows for dot-eating as a strategy, so too doesLeft 4 Dead 2allow for… …Well,this. I dunno if anyone will seriously try to play the game in the way Ash and I suggest in this week’s episode, but it could be interesting to find out....
As you know by now, I spent a portion of E3 chatting withSonic the Hedgehog 4brand manager Ken Balough. I wanted to know exactly whySonic 4 is episodic, and I was informed that the reasons were twofold. “The thing is we need the consumer to be able to absorb it,” he stated. “If we went out with the grand story that isSonic 4it would be a very large and costly download experience....
Hot Toys are known for doing absolutely sick levels of detail when it comes to toys — check out their insaneJoker figure, for instance — but it seems to me they’ve really topped themselves when it comes to theseBiohazard 5figures (that’sResident Evil 5to us, of course).Tomopopspied some pics of them last night floating around on Toys Daily, and this morning’s press release just gave us further confirmation that these incredible figures are coming our way very soon....
If you’re expecting Ubisoft’sI Am Aliveto see the light of day this year, then you’re sorely mistaken, my friend. Ubisoft has confirmed that the more-concept-than-game IP put on hold until 2011. This morning we mentioned that the game, along withBeyond Good & Evil 2, wasstill being made, but it won’t be ready before next March. “We have been totally re-engineering the product, so it is still on the way Ubisoft,” boss man Yves Guillemot....
Last week (Thursday to be exact), I drove down to San Diego to listen to anInternational Game Developers Associationpanel discussion on next-gen gaming. Specifically, it was a group of video game journalists essentially speaking to game developers and students on their views on next-gen gaming and what it means to them and the industry itself. Instead of just writing a boring summary, I thought I’d share with you my notes as I tracked the back and forth discussions....
Art being subjective and all, it’s easy enough to say something is art when it’s really just a pile of festering dog crap you passed on your way to buy beer. Add games into the formula, and you get an even bigger argument brewing: Can video games be considered art? Into the Pixelis a project celebrating the art of the video game, following in the tradition of such fine projects asI am 8 Bit, but going with a modern vibe rather than retro....
This artist’s rendering of Mario almost blew my eyeballs out. It’s that repulsive. My long standing mental image of Nintendo’s cute mascot has been erased by this foul image, and I’ll never look at him the same way again. Thanks for that. Pixeloocreated this unattractive IRL Mario with “Photoshop CS2 and a bunch of random faces pasted over a 3d render of Mario from Nintendo.” It looks more like the dark arts were involved....
EA showed off thenewG.I. Joegame in New York this past week and our very own walking dictionary, Samit Sarkar, got to check it out. He’ll have a preview of it coming soon, but until then, I wanted to talk about one of the awesome bonus features theG.I. Joegame is going to have. MTV Multiplayer’s Stephen Totilowas at the same eventwhere he found out that the original “Knowing is half the battle” PSAs will be in the game....
Digital World Tokyobrings word about some updated PSP software called Everybody’s Map 2. The software works with a GPS dongle that’s available for somewhere around 5,000 yen ($41 USD), and costs 50,040 yen on top of that. It’ll allow you to create a street-level map of where you’re at. Everybody’s Map 2, as the package is quaintly called, allows note-taking and wireless map-sharing through a service calledPetaMap. The latter is a collaborative tool that lets users share points of interest through a central server and apply them to their own personalized maps if they wish....
Japanese gaming mag/propaganda pamphlet Famitsu has been gathering opinions from developers on the 3DS, and the opinions are overwhelmingly positive. Such legends as Hideo Kojima, Suda 51, Keiji Inafune and Shinji Mikami have all been grilled, and they’ve all been glowing. Kojima praised the 3DS for not requiring 3D glasses, speaking as a man with specs, while the eccentric Suda claims that the 3DS made him feel “the speed of progression of video game history, and also the feeling of ‘We’ve come this far....
