Archive for the ‘Games’ Category
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 ...
Posted in Games, Music |
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. ...
Posted in Games |
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 ...
Posted in Games |
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. ...
Posted in Games |
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 ...
Posted in Games, Music, Technology, Web |
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 ...
Posted in Apple, Business, Design, Games |
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 ...
Posted in Games, Video |
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 ...
Posted in Games |
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, ...
Posted in Games, Television |
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Starting Friday, Microsoft confirms, you can pick up the 60GB version for $299.
Posted in 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 ...
Posted in Business, Games, Technology |
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 ...
Posted in Games, Star Wars |
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 ...
Posted in Games, Web |
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 ...
Posted in Games, Politics |
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 ...
Posted in Games, Toys |