Sony’s latest addition to their console family is the PSP Go, a UMD drive-less piece of hardware that will only play downloadable games. As stated by Sony themselves, the worst kept secret of E3 will have games available the same day and date as their retail counterpart. What does this mean? All of the games will [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 4, 2009
Rumors ended up being true, as N64 classic Perfect Dark is coming to the Live Arcade in one of those always open release dates of “Winter ‘09.” Those who only know Joanna Dark from her Xbox 360 launch day adventure Perfect Dark Zero would probably be taken aback by the choppy frame rate of the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 4, 2009
Microsoft opened their press conference with an elaborate set-up for Beatles Rock Band, going to the lengths of throwing Ringo Star and Paul McCartney up on stage without a clue as to what they were doing. That was funny. However, they failed to mention on thing: Beatles Rock Band is a stand alone. The songs are [...]
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Believe it or not, some people were not fans of the 3-D Mario games… this writer included. Mario Galaxy just didn’t do it, neither did Mario 64 or the dreadful Sunshine. As such, when Nintendo chooses to cater to this audience, we listen. That’s what they’ve done with New Super Mario Bros. Wii, adding four-player [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 3, 2009
You can have Yoda on the Xbox 360. PSP owners are getting Kratos. Yoda lifts rocks; Kratos kills gods. Take that sci-fi green guy. But yes, the above it true. Kratos will be the secret character in Namco’s upcoming PSP debut of Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny. Sadly, he doesn’t seem to have both the chains and a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Microsoft introduced Halo reach during their press conference, and they’ll be including a beta for it when you buy Halo: ODST. But, what is Halo Reach? The trailer only showed Earth exploding, and who hasn’t see that before? Is it a new RTS? Could it be the first third-person Halo? Could is be a new revolutionary [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 2, 2009
If anything, Sony seemed to be the only one who gets what E3 is for. They didn’t open the show by wasting 15 minutes on a game that’s multi-platform. They didn’t try to sell products we already knew about. They showed us the PlayStation 3’s Uncharted 2. The latter looked spectacular, a perfect way to open the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Video games are fantastical. Where else can you play in the Super Bowl but Madden? Where else can you beat Tiger Woods in 18 holes? Wii Motion Plus, which Nintendo pushed for the second year in a row at E3 ‘09, disables a gamers ability to do that. I don’t want a game that makes me [...]
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Friday, June 5, 2009
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