News Bits
- GameSpot gets a nice first-look at the upcoming Family Guy game.
Sounds interesting…
- IGN got to give Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis the ol’ hands-on approach at PAX this past weekend.
Nothing TOO new, but at least nothing sounds particularly bad from their experience so far.
And hey, hand-drawn sprites instead of pre-rendered! Not that I didn’t like the original’s…
- GameTrailers sports a neat peek at the upcoming Justice League Heroes, which appears to have some promise. The cast seems to be culled largely from the pre-Unlimited cartoon, with the exception of Hawkgirl being replaced by Zatanna.
Oh, and Aquaman(the REAL Aquaman) and Green Arrow are in, too, with the latter being an unlockable. Nice.
- Next-Gen reports that sister publication PSM has apparently gotten the low-down on an upcoming “PSP 2.0,” for lack of a better term.
Rather than dropping the price of their product, it seems that Sony is keen to try and increase the value of the product in 2007 by including a built-in video camera(for Eye-Toy-like applications), 8GB built-in flash memory, a slot-load UMD drive, and an overall thinner and lighter form, all for the price of a current PSP.
Perhaps “PSP Lite” is a more apt description, though Nintendo’s update to its handheld didn’t seem to draw quite as strong a dividing line between old and new.
This news might upset me more if I didn’t think the PSP package I got was more than adequate for my relatively limited needs for the system.
- OnNintendo’s editors take a look at their most anticipated Wii games.
So far, mine are Zelda, Metroid, Mario, Smash Bros., ExciteTruck, Project H.A.M.M.E.R., Disaster: Day of Crisis, maybe Red Steel, and of course the Virtual Console, so I can check out some games from days long past that I missed out on the first time.
And probably some others that slip my mind at the moment.
- Ow, crap.
Go Nintendo reports that the factory that produces the Wii controllers(as well as that new-version PSP) is having some troubles with quality control, and it could possibly even push back the predicted launch.
Not good, but as long as we’ve got quality product in the end, I can wait.
- Damn.
I so wanted to buy stock in Nintendo before E3, and this is why.
Sucks that the process has to be so complicated/expensive. Sigh.
- Slashdot links to a piece from Extreme Tech exposing Ten Gaming Myths:
1. The PlayStation 3 will Fail
2. PC Games are Doomed
3. You Need a $500 Graphics Card
4. Console Games are for Twitch Gamers
5. Handheld Games are for Kids
6. Console Games are Too Simple
7. PC Games are Too Complicated
8. PC Copy Protection is Too Onerous
9. Games are Too Violent
10. I’m Embarrassed About GamingRegarding that last one, I’m not embarassed at all. Why, just earlier when I went out, I was wearing my Donkey Kong 64 t-shirt. Damn right.
- Joystiq links to a video of the Mega Man X suit in Dead Rising in action.
Seems the precise stats required to get the various parts are under debate, though.
…but DAMN, man. 60,000 zombies? Where is this, the Mall of America?
- Over Kotaku way, we find out that the PlayStation 3(or “PLAYSTATION 3,” according to some) will only be available in black.
Doesn’t bother me, and not just for the fact I’m not looking to get one any time soon, but I prefer black much of the time, anyway. I like a nice, unified look to my stuff when I can.
Wanted a black GameCube, but they were sold out, and I was tired of waiting, so Indigo found its way into my home. Frankly, I don’t care much about console colors. Portables, on the other hand, I feel are a more “personal” type of gaming, and I really prefer color choices and customization. Hence my having been irked at only one kind of DS Lite being available for so long here.
- More new backwards-compatible XBox games.
…at least there’s Burnout 3, at last. Otherwise, don’t really care. I just like the picture they chose.
- 2old2play says something near and dear to my, and many oldschool gamers’, hearts.
Bring Back the Side Scrollers!
Of course, they’re already sort of back, and in some instances, it’s like they never left. Most just took a vacation and left a skeleton crew to watch over things.
But I think that games like The Legend of Zelda: 4 Swords Adventures, Viewtiful Joe, Contra: Shattered Soldier(to some degree), and hopefully Super Paper Mario will show there are some nice new tricks that you can teach these old dogs with the newer wave of technology.
- Congratulations go out to AnotherBlazeHedgehog on his winning MTV/GameTrailers movie “The Third Mario Brother.”
- Ok, so evidently, there’s this big exclusive Nintendo wants to reveal on Friday. And magazines of Nintendo Power and UK’s Nintendo Official Magazine won’t be on sale before that, nor will subscribers receive their copies prior.
Um… oops?
I know I’m not the only one to get my new NP a few days or more before the start of the month, and this was no exception. So, um… yeah. I’m not sure what this is going on about, either.
- Wow.
So there’s this game for celphones. It’s basically like a Garfield RPG.
And evidently, it’s not bad.
Again, I say, wow.
- Oh, nice. A figure of Spidey in his “Iron Spider” costume.
- Oh baby, a preview of the comic for the pre-Beast Wars BotCon comic “Timelines.”
As if wanting the toys wasn’t agonizing ennough.
- Speaking of TransFormers, some new stuff from the movie seems to have surfaced.
One being a video of Ratchet(I think they meant Ironhide, maybe? Or maybe I just missed him) and Jazz in their vehicle modes, as well as “The Face of the Bumblebee.”
Wild stuff.
LBD “Nytetrayn”