Archive for the ‘Games’ Category



Beatles: The Game

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

MTV Games and Apple Corps have announced an exclusive Beatles game from Harmonix, the Rock Band folks.  This is not, however, a Rock Band-based game. The game will be a journey that will take you through the entire Beatles catalog, from the first album to the last. There will be an ...

Nintendo News Round-up

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Kotaku rounds up their coverage of last night's Nintendo event.  The important stuff: Nintendo DSi, because the lack of a camera was killing the DS The world demanded more Punch-Out Re-releasing GameCube games to confuse people Saving games to the SD slot almost solves a problem The larger screen on the DSi might be nice. ...

Wii HD in 2011

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

That's the rumor, anyway. As you can tell by the name, it'll get Nintendo back in the graphics saddle by opting for HD visuals. There'll be a "greater emphasis" on digital delivery and backwards compatability. There'll again be an emphasis on the system's controller, rather than the system itself. And it'll ...

PDGA Presents Disc Golf

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Autonomous Productions is working on a WiiWare disc golf game, and they seem pretty committed to making it authentic.  From an interview with 1000 Rated: SHAYNE: MotionPlus has changed what we can do. Unfortunately, the Wiimote doesn’t currently have a gyroscope sensor built in; only an accelerometer. MotionPlus actually adds the gyrometer. ...

Metallica’s Lars Ulrich on Audio Quality

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Ever ignorant of how stupid he sounds when he talks, Metallica drummer and enemy of music Lars Ulrich weighs in on the controversy over the audio quality of their new album: I will say that the overwhelming response to this new record has exceeded even our expectations as far as how ...

New DS Rumored

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

From Kotaku, the rumor is that Nintendo is preparing a a new iteration of the DS, this time with a camera, music playback, and improved wireless.  Some are jumping to the conclusion that this is Nintendo's answer to the push Apple is making into the handheld gaming market with the ...

There Will Be Brawl

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Ever wish someone would make a gritty live-action web series about Nintendo characters?  This is your lucky day. In a Dystopian Mushroom Kingdom, corruption and avarice reign supreme. Even the greatest heroes of the land have buckled beneath the overwhelming will of the amoral elite. When a series of grisly crimes ...

No Hard Drive for Nintendo

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Nintendo gives an emphatic middle finger to hard drives, and claims to be working on something better.  This probably either means that they're being pedantic about the definition of a hard drive ("it's all flash memory, so technically...") or they plan to leverage the synergies of the cloud paradigm and ...

Buffy MMO Announced

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Multiverse, the company behind the now-delayed Firefly MMO, have announced that they're also working on a Buffy the Vampire Slayer MMO. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A massively multiplayer online game based on the critically-acclaimed Joss Whedon television series. Currently under development at Multiverse, "Buffy" exemplifies a new era of game design, ...

Microsoft Drops XBox 360 Prices

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Starting Friday, Microsoft confirms, you can pick up the 60GB version for $299.

Nintendo Working on “Core” Games

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Kotaku, on the long gap between "core" games from Nintendo: So if they take 2-3 years to make...where are the ones you started working on 2-3 years ago? As we get deeper into this hardware cycle, I become convinced that the Wii is more lucky accident than ingenious savior.  Nintendo needs some quality leadership ...

• The Force Unleashed

Monday, August 25th, 2008

The demo for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed hit XBox Live last Thursday, and I finally got around to playing through it last night.  The developers were smart to give us an easy level with a lot of familiar elements.  Skipping over any hints of the prequel trilogy, the demo ...

Penny Arcade Profile

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

The Seattle Times has an interesting profile of Tycho and Gabe of Penny Arcade. "Penny Arcade" webcomics come out as stand-alone strips three times a week online, and unlike traditional newspaper strips, this one doesn't shy away from violence or cursing. In addition, the creators' real lives cross over to their virtual ...

Register to Vote on XBox Live

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

From Kotaku: Microsoft is teaming up with Rock the Vote to allow gamers to register to vote on Xbox Live. The Pwn the Vote initiative (OK, i just made that up, they're calling it Rock the Vote still) will allow Xbox Live members of all races, creeds and payment tiers to ...

• My Brand New XBox 360

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Barbeque sounded pretty good.  I live in an apartment, so charcoal is out.  And I have this fear of propane.  On a logical level, I understand that it's perfectly safe and people use it all the time.  But in my head, the moment I touch flame to gas, a bolt ...