The VGA’s were ridiculous, people are afraid of change, and Sony doesn’t know what the hell they’re doing. These are the topics of Podtoid 79. You can gohereand listen to Jim, Aaron, Topher and myself bitch about gaming society, as always. Highlights included: – The subtle art of Quincying – If you love Sony, you should hate them – Y’all come back now if you evers want some food...
[As originally posted onTomopop] I’m not going to lie to you — I know almost nothing about Pokemon (other than the fact that I make a squeaky noise of delight whenever I see a Charmander). In fact, in order to post about the Giratina Origin Forme figure that you get free when preorderingPokemon: Platinum, I had to enlist Tomopop editor Bryan Coffee for help, who did a much better job of telling our readers about it than I will ever do in this lifetime....
Microsoft announced todaythat by pre-orderingBanjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, you will get a free redeemable code for the originalBanjo-Kazooieon Xbox LIVE Arcade weeks before the game is available to everyone else for purchase. Remember “Stop N’ Swap?” It’s making a comeback: your accomplishments in the new game will nab you extra content in the XBLA game. Better yet,Nuts & Boltshas been confirmed to be priced at $39.99 when it drops later this year....
TheStarcraft IIbeta has been out for a few days now, and if the beta forums are any indication a lot of people are still trying to wrap their heads around the new strategies. Sitting down to play for the first time, it feels so much like the originalStarcraft, but there are also enough changes present that it feels like a true sequel. This post won’t be about the gameplay, though, as I’m not near pro enough to be talking about a 3 Hatchery Muta build or the Ayumi counter with any kind of credibility....
The Euro PlayStation.blog has plenty of new details on the PSP Go. Most of them are pretty positive changes to the system, in my opinion. The one that isn’t is the battery life. Also, it’s an embedded battery. PSP product manager Adam Grant: We have adopted an embedded battery to realize a smaller and lighter PSP system. The battery life is equivalent with the current models meaning approximately 3 to 6 hours for gameplays and approximately 3 to 5 hours for playing back videos....
Our ears perked up when we heard that a new Xbox 360 title was comingfrom the Sweedish developers behind theGTRandRACEline of PC games.SimBin’s upcomingRACE Prowill be their console racing debut, with the team opting for simulation over arcade action. We had the chance to speak with Diego Sartori, Creative Director from SimBin, on their new title. We talked about what kind of cars, tracks, and game play we can expect fromRACE Pro, making sure to ask about hot topics like damage modeling and fair online multiplayer....
Playable for the first time in the good old U.S. of A,Resistance: Burning Skiesbrings the much-loved Insomniac shooter to Sony’s sexy little Vita. Developed by Nihilistic,Burning Skiesis a brand new game in the series set during the invasion of the Chimera — basically right beforeResistance 2with an all-new and axe-wielding protagonist. As firefighter Tom Riley, you are thrown right into the heat of things with the Chimera invading a burning New York City....
[Update: Nintendo’s not committing to a permanent price drop here, but would tell us that “Nintendo provides suggested retail pricing on its hardware and software products. The final price in stores is always up to retailers to determine.”] Looks like rumors of a Wii price drop were the real deal. Multiple big box retailers have dropped the price of the console to a cool $169.99 down from its former $199.99 price point....
Blaster Masteris one of those games that I think just about everyone has at least heard of. It amazes me, however, that it doesn’t seem to be one that is talked about all that much. It comes up in most conversations that I have regarding clasic NES games, but I’m almost invariably the person who mentions it. The game was popular enough to merit roughly half a dozen games in the series before disappearing completely, so it has to have been popular....
There’s a growing trend on Xbox LIVE Community Games. Developers are creating silly applications and clunky tools for entertainment purposes instead of games. I won’t pretend to know the reason why — although I suspect it’s easier to make a controller shake than to create a level — so, instead, I’ll point out thatRemote Masseuseis one of those aforementioned XBLCG tools/game-things. The text in the game doesn’t say it, but let’s be honest:Remote Masseuseis some sort of weird pleasure-bound toy....
Analysts, market research firms, we only like them when they say what we want them to say. So how seriously should we take them? Well, you or I may not take them seriously, but money-hungry shareholders sure do pay attention and that’s why when someone actually has something positive to say about the (publicly) failed PlayStation 3, my little ears perk up.Here’s the latest: A Dublin-based market research firm says that the PlayStation 3 will eventually lead the new console race....
The firstprologue videoforDark Soulswasn’t particularly interesting, but it did serve a point. Now, in part two, we can begin getting into the good stuff. We’re shown a bunch of vile fiends who you probably wouldn’t want to invite to your birthday party. The dude with the scraggly beard, in particular — no, just no. It’s almost a month untilDark Soulshits retail, guys. We can do this.
Sega is pumped about Nintendo’s upcoming 3DS hardware, which we’ll see for ourselves in a couple of weeks. They’re so jazzed about it that they’re saying that it’s going to be something they focus on in the future. Sega’s head of entertainment, Naoya Tsurumi, says that 3D is the next big thing. “I believe 3D will become a big wave,” he says in Nikkei Trendy’s “keyman” interview series. “The Nintendo 3DS is a landmark hardware....
