Archive for the ‘Wii’ Category
By: Jon Christensen on December 3rd, 2008 am31 3:57 am
When Ready 2 Rumble debuted for the Dreamcast almost 10 years ago, people praised the game for its unbelievable graphics. While the game was certainly fun for its time, it was a tad basic and by no means deep. But many people excused the flaws because of how it looked.
At the time Midway released the title, it was obviously heavily influenced by Nintendo’s ‘Punch-Out!!’ series. Rumble had the same type of goofy cartoony boxers that ‘Punch-Out!!’ started years before. However, that is not the only reason why gamers consider Nintendo’s boxing game legendary. Sure it was cute, but it also had depth. It was up to the player to understand and learn the opponent’s consistent patterns. It took a lot of failing in order to beat the game. But at the time, that is what made it outstanding.
Ready 2 Rumble did the complete opposite. The game was 100% trying to appeal to gamers by its good graphics and cartoony characters. When we look back at it, the gameplay was not as important. The fighting system was more of a button masher with limited moves. Again, it wasn’t bad — it just doesn’t nearly hold up to the test of time like Punch-Out!!.
Apparently Atari own the rights to Ready 2 Rumble and has the talented team over at AKI (WWF Now Mercy) developing the boxing title for the Wii. If somehow AKI can mix the fun characters with good quality gameplay and utilize the Wiimote — this game could be fun. However, if Atari wants a quick buck than we should all just skip it.
In the end, I do trust AKI and if anyone knows how to make a deep fighting system; it would be them. After the Jump check out the second video.
Ready 2 Rumble: Revolution should be available in March 2009. (more…)
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By: Jon Christensen on December 3rd, 2008 am31 12:22 am
This could be the best review in the history of video games. Okay, I’m not serious at all, but for some reason I couldn’t stop watching. Gettinggoodatthis on youtube decided to review Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Although, I didn’t like it because of its in depth review — in fact it’s the complete opposite.
I just wonder if this was supposed to be a real review or a fake…
via: gonintendo
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By: Jon Christensen on December 3rd, 2008 am31 12:13 am
It’s official, the Ghostbusters’ video game will be published in June 2009 by Atari. Right after Comic-Con 2008, it was reported the game was dropped by Activision because of their recent merger with Blizzard, even though the game was months away from being release.
By the time the game hits store shelves in June, the game will have been delayed 7 months from its original planned date. We’re hoping the delay is to make sure the game lives up to the name. However, when the game was shown off back in July — it received a decent amount of praise. Maybe with the game being pushed back; it’ll end up being even better…
Ghostbusters: The Video Game will be available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, Wii, PlayStation 2 and DS
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By: Jon Christensen on December 2nd, 2008 am31 2:42 am
Capcom has just released a new video featuring their zombie game Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop for the Nintendo Wii. The game has been criticized for the lack of zombies on the screen at once and we think it has been a fair argument.
However, the latest clip shown above defiantly has more enemies on the screen at once during some scenes. Although sadly, you can’t even compare it to the Xbox 360 version. Also another thing we noticed was when an enemy dies; he/she almost instantly disappears. Which doesn’t help the issue the game is obviously having.
Hopefully the new mechanics introduced to the game will make up for the glaring problems. But don’t count on it.
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By: Jon Christensen on December 2nd, 2008 am31 1:48 am
When Sonic and the Black Knight was announced a little while back, most people including myself we’re thinking; “WTF is Sega thinking?” Seeing Sonic running around with a giant ass sword was almost as weird as seeing him morph into a werewolf.
When the first trailer hit the web, my opinion somewhat changed. I actually thought the game had the potential of being the first good Sonic game in a long time. Although, overtime that could change — it is again a next-gen Sonic game.
However, Sega has released a batch of screens from the game and I once again have the confidence this could be good. Not only that, it appears to be one of the best looking Wii games to date.
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By: Jon Christensen on December 2nd, 2008 am31 1:01 am
During the last summer Olympics, Michael Phelps broke the world record for winning about a million gold medals. Because of his crazy speed in swimming, Phelps has become a national phenomenon not seen for along time.
During an interview with the show 60 Minutes, it was revealed that the gold medalists is having his own game being developed as we speak. However, the only info to come out is that it’s going to be obviously a swimming sports game. As of now we have no clue who is publishing the game. Although, considering Michael Phelps worked to promote Call of Duty: World at War and starred in the Guitar Hero commercial, one has to assume that it will be Activision.
When more information breaks, we’ll let you know.
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By: Nick Collins on December 1st, 2008 pm31 7:45 pm
With titles for all but the PSP this week, nothing really puts a blip on the radar bigger than Prince of Persia. This is an absolute must have for this week on my list. Other notables are GTA IV on the PC and the new Mushroom Men for the Wii.
(PS3)
Prince of Persia, SingStar ABBA
(Xbox 360)
Prince of Persia, Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon
(Wii)
The Tale of Despereaux, Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars, Nancy Drew: The White Wolf of Icicle Creek, My Fitness Coach, Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun
(PC)
Neopets Puzzle Adventure, The Tale of Despereaux, Grand Theft Auto IV, Dairy Queen Tycoon, A Vampyre Story
(DS)
Prince of Pesia: The Fallen King, The Tale of Despereaux, Animal Boxing, Mushroom Men: Rise of the Fungi, Slingo Quest, My Fun Facts Coach, Dreamer: Puppy Trainer
(PS2)
The Tale of Despereaux, SingStar ABBA, Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories
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By: Jon Christensen on November 26th, 2008 am30 2:47 am
I think this deserves a proper funeral. We all recognize the famous red Nintendo logo. Heck, the logo is one of my earliest memories of successful visual marketing from any company. Well, it looks like Nintendo is changing the color permanently. The logo itself will remain the same, however the color is changing to grey.
A press release from Germany reported the new change and when translated to English reads:
Dear Media Partner,
For several years, a new generation of Wii and Nintendo DS games have adorned themselves with a new logo, in discrete grey.
In various publications the former logo, with red lettering, can still be seen. In the event that you have not already done so, we would like to sincerely ask you to now only use the current, gray Nintendo logo.
Yours sincerely,
The team from Nintendo & Popular PR
Although, the grey has been around since the Gamecube days, the red logo still could be seen from time to time. And it’s certainly sad to see it go.
Source: kotaku
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By: Jon Christensen on November 22nd, 2008 am30 3:58 am
Freddy Wong, you are my new hero…actually you are my new Bike Hero. I really don’t want to ruin the video, but he calls the viral marketing company Droga 5 “douchebags,” and we agree! He then takes it one step further and plays Dragonforce on expert — on his bike!!
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By: Jon Christensen on November 21st, 2008 am30 1:38 am
Remember the awesome video named ‘Bike Hero‘ we posted a few days ago? Well, it’s not nearly as cool as we thought because it was created by an production teamed named Droga 5. The team works with Activision and they plan working with them in the future doing similar things.
In a weird kind of way, I feel Activision has completely lied to us and I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to forgive the publisher…Okay, I think maybe I’m going overboard because it was just viral marketing and guess what? It worked. Almost a million people have watched the video and it got the internet thinking about Guitar Hero. We were fooled this time by Activision, but hopefully when they do their next lie, we won’t be. However, we probably will. 
Source: MTV
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By: Jon Christensen on November 20th, 2008 pm30 10:44 pm
Ken More apparently loves the sound of a theremin; an electric musical instrument that the user does not touch. You’ve heard it a million times before, but you probably didn’t even know you were listening to one. It was popular during the 50’s and generally was used for scores in sci-fi movies — something that More explains in the video above.
Now, you might be wondering why we’re showing Ken More and his obsession of theremins and how it’s related to video games. It’s because he hacked a Nintendo Wiimote and used his skills to create his very own theremin. In the end, it’s a much cheaper investment than purchasing an actual theremin, which can cost a few hundred dollars.
Source: Cubed3
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By: Jon Christensen on November 20th, 2008 am30 3:33 am
Last week we featured a story about EA and Borne Games working together. They both calibrated and have started to developed a 2D Mirror’s Edge flash game. Most people who have tried it and I talked to, no question loved it. Some of those crazy people said they enjoyed it more than the actual next-generation game ( I wouldn’t go that far).
Because so many people have enjoyed it, hackers have started to modify the game. One talented person had the idea of not using a keyboard to control ‘Faith,’ but a Wiimote instead. Check out the video above — surprisingly, it looks like it controls really well.
This is just another reason why EA should just let the game become a download for WiiWare, PSN and XBLA. I certainly would rather play it on my TV and use a real controller.
Want to learn how to do it? Click here.
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By: Jon Christensen on November 19th, 2008 am30 2:33 am
Alone of the Dark for the Xbox 360 was certainly a letdown for most people. The series was always known to be one of the first games to actually scare people who played it. But when the newest addition game out, it was filled with problems and bugs — it felt incomplete. And it wasn’t worth the price of $59.99.
However, if someone asked me if I could buy a brand new copy for $15, I would. And that is exactly what Amazon is doing right now. Their Deal of the Day is Alone in the Dark for the Xbox 360 and it sells for $14.98. Might be a good pick up for some of you.
If you have a PS2 or Wii, you can purchase it for about 5 bucks less at $9.98.
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By: Jon Christensen on November 18th, 2008 pm30 1:10 pm
Some people in this world have way to much free time, but that can sometimes work to our benefit — we become entertained. Madflux and his buddies decided to recreate the song ‘Living Dead‘ by Prisoner of Society from Guitar Hero and the way they did it was creative.
First they put the notes from the game on the street, than LED lights on the bike — what you get is Guitar Hero on a bike. The concept is fascinating enough to share with all of you.
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By: Jon Christensen on November 18th, 2008 am30 3:46 am
National Geographic is known for their stunning pictures and information in their magazine. They’re also created a well produced cable station as well. Over the last few months, the company began dabbing their fingers in the gaming industry with the release of their iPhone and DS games.
Apparently the publication likes the idea of developing games, because the Associated Press have broke a story about their plans to create a full fledge studio and focus on all gaming systems and handhelds.
If you’re thinking the games will only be educational, Paul Levine wants you to think again. “Our content is extremely well-suited for a global gaming audience, Levine said. “Our content is extremely well-suited for a global gaming audience,” he added.
I’m open to the idea for National Geographic looking into ways of making games more interesting, heck — even if I learn something, I’m cool with that too. Everything they seem to touch generally turns out good. So, maybe they can create games, however — it could also be out of their league. We’ll just have to wait and see.
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