I’m not one that needs convincing. I amalwaysplaying new PSP games. Regardless of the number of releases or sales data, there’s still this odd air around Sony’s first portable. People like to dump on it. I don’t care. I’m done being the PSP’s champion. I’ll just continue quietly playing all my beloved portables while the internet bickers endlessly. The PSP’s worth comes into question again with the new rumors of a successor going around lately....
I hope you folks like adrenaline in your sports games, because 2K Sports has made sure to inject plenty of it intoNHL 2K9. How so? The soundtrack, of course. With fourteen tracks — many of them from old-school punk bands like NoFX and Bad Religion —NHL 2K9brings back memories of a simpler time, before emo was an entire culture (as opposed to a mere sub-genre of music). What’s somewhat strange is that I received the post-jump press release (check it out for the full tracklist) announcing the songs today, but the game hit stores on Tuesday, September 9th....
Jade Raymond mentions Ubisoft’s Toronto studio is working onSplinter Cell 6. In a video posted onOntario.ca, she talks about working on the title while talking about their new studio. They opened the new Toronto studio with 83 employees at the moment, with a plan of 800 people working there in the next two years. It’s fun to work there, because they hold Nerf fights. The only thing you can see about the actual game is part of a CG video that shows Sam Fisher playing piano and something about a car approaching at night....
While we’ve already reported on a couple of Square Enix’slatestplansfor parting you from your cash, a report atJapanatoron the Square Enix Party ’07 reveals a nefarious multi-format campaign of terror, intended to put them in your home or pocket soon, regardless of which systems you own. It seems Squenix are treating 2007 as the year to really embrace the international industry as a whole. With high profile releases comprising of established franchises and new IPs, with all kinds of things in between, excitedly bursting out all over the place for every major format on the market....
[Update:Square Enix has indeed confirmed that Army Corps won’t demand a memory card, so the conspiracy theories can be laid to rest. However, the fact that a “Memory Card required” logo still exists is what really unsettles me.] Square Enix caused a bit of a stir when it revealed the box art forArmy Corps of Hell, an upcoming PS Vita game with a fantastic name. The trouble arose from a note on the box, which stated that a memory card would be required — a memory card that Sony will be selling forsilly amounts of money....
This week’s Sundays with Sagat is a little different. For one, it’s the start of a two-part crossover with thisother video series on Destructoid. Secondly, this is one of the only episodes in the series to get an accompanying feature-length post as well. Sagat thinks that we need more overweight videogame protagonists, and I’m here to show him that we’ve already got plenty. Behold my list of the best of the best of the rotund videogame characters OF ALL TIME....
Jo “Supernanny” Frost has decidedto join Noel Gallagherin using last week’s nationwide UK riots to blame those evil, evil videogames. Using the ever-disingenuous phrase, “research shows,” the savior of shitty parents everywhere has proven without a doubt thatVIDEOGAMES DID THE RIOTS! “I felt for a moment as if we had stumbled into a real-life violent video game of the kind that so many of those involved are addicted to,” she writes in herstaggeringly arrogant column....
Tecmo Koei, let me stop you now. Don’t go down that path. Wipe the dollar signs from your eyes. Tecmo Koei president Kenji Matsubara spoke with Play magazine recently, and they discussed Sony’smotion-sensing technology announced at E3. Matsubara expressed interest in the tech, but says that he would have to test it to see if it would be a good fit for their games, likeNinja Gaiden. “I’m very interested in the new motion-control technology announced at E3, but we really need to know how responsive it is,” said Matsubara....
Tesla: The Weathermanis from a new indie developer, Thoughtquake Studios. As you’re able to see from the above trailer, it’s a 2D platform game where you control Nikola Tesla as he tries to stop a a lunatic Thomas Edison. Tesla takes control of the elements and makes Mother Nature his bitch, allowing him to defeat enemies and solve puzzles with lightning, rain, sunlight and magnetism. Not much to look at, but the game has potential....
Wouldn’t it be awesome to have Team ICO’s games on the PlayStation 3 like that thing they did withGod of War: Collection? Of course it would. You know it, I know it, and according to a recent TGS interview with1UP, Fumito Ueda knows it, too. When asked if we’d ever seeICOandShadow of the Colossusbundled together in a combo pack on the PS3, the games’ creator says he’s all for it. Ueda tells 1UP:...
Microsoft’s shindig took place at the New Otani hotel, right next to Makuhari Messe. This was a poolside affair, which mixed Japanese celebs, foreign press, and community people with good food and plenty of Japanese beer. The j-celebrities took up controllers in a Japanese version of Microsoft’s Game with Fame events, with gamers fighting it out in games likeRainbow SixandBomberman Liveon big plasma screens and in front of colored spotlights.Aside from this event and someMicrosoft XNA kiosks,not much gaming took place....
First things first:Sonic Generationsis okay with the 3D on. Not the greatest, but doesn’t hurt your eyes. As for gameplay, it’s just like the big console versions. You run around and either you may do cool attacks with new Sonic or you’ll just simply be running around with old Sonic. I checked out both Mushroom Hill Zones based onSonic & Knucklesand the level was looking really pretty. No clue about the music, but I will flip tables over at Sega if the music isn’t like the one from the original Genesis games....
April Fools makes for a very fun day in the industry and all across the Internets. Some of the jokes were pretty good; some, not so much. What was your favorite joke from April Fools this year, videogame-related or not? Nick talks to Volition aboutRed Faction, Ghostbusters is coming to the PSP, the originalSilent Hillis being remade for the Wii, a newJak & Daxterwas announced,The Saboteur‘s Web site was launched and plenty more happened on 04/01/09....
