Ah, the mighty Omega.
Victim of a mistaken identity, his name bore a reputation which grew in the Mega Man Zero games long before he ever actually appeared.
And now, thanks to a hack-in-progress, it seems that one’s wish to play as the mighty Reploid may soon become a reality.
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Personally, I think they made Launch Octopus’ energy drain attack much cooler here.
Sort of like Bob & George once was a long, long time ago, before Anez started saying “I couldn’t come up with anything good today, so this’ll just have to do” every other day. Except still better.
IMO.
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shinkuu has brought to my attention this video clip of some neat little Nintendo noisemakers. They look like keychains that each play a different sound from Super Mario Bros..
I want one, naturally.
In addition, if you ever wondered how a cover like that comes together, G-Man gives you a peek.
Aww, how can you not like that?
Hmm, I seem to recall being curious about that one.
Even more dastardly than the X-Men “reset the computer” trick on the Genesis!
No, not Don Carnage and his crew, but rather the folks out in Hong Kong who managed to produce a NES version of Super Mario World. It really ain’t too shabby, and Press The Buttons has a link to a video of the last stage in action.
They also link to some more new videos at MyExtra Life.
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Some amusing stuff, to be sure.
“They also comment on the voice acting. Yes, it is in Japanese, crushing rumors that it was removed from the game (like MMXC X6). They give their own reasoning why the English plans were deep sixed.”
They also use the word “nodel” a lot. But since they’re actually going to bring us a story soon about each model, with exclusive art no less, I think I can forgive.
From what I’ve played, the game is definitely one for the books. But according to Go Nintendo’s post, EGM doesn’t think quite as highly of it.
“Metro city has never looked so… 8-bit.”
…to which I say, “It has, the first time Mighty Final Fight came out.”
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
But sadly, I bet you can’t make Bowser trample downtown in this one. 
I’m such a sucker for that. I’d be quite happy if Nintendo did what SEGA once did and made this the console’s default game, like if you turn it on with nothing inside.
DVD might be neat, tho.
Sounds cool. But it also brings to light how perhaps playtesting for the Wii may be more complicated than anything that’s come before it.
Guess it’s to be expected of the guys who sorta ripped my wife’s article.
Sorta.
But if you’re an aspiring game developer, as I know a few people who read this stuff are, this may be worth a look if you haven’t already heard.
“Craigslist poster claims rare N64 cart, offering free rom for services”
Curious though I am, I think my more paranoid side would keep me some distance from this…
(Be sorta funny-scary if this was some kind of a piracy bust)
As far as anything to do with WWII goes, I say bring on a new 194- game, or a new Bionic Commando.
But if you can tolerate Madden, well, maybe you’d be interested in seeing how it works. Maybe I’ll try again later.
More like “this is boring.”
I’m annoyed because friends often refer to be as “BD” for short.
In any case, Fox is going to have 8 of them ready for the PS3 launch, it would seem.
About 3 or 4 of those have my interest.
Except I can already see them on DVD.
Has a good message, though.
…poor Goomba.
Sometimes, you can’t help but wonder what might have been. On the other hand, I think it took the PlayStation(as we know it) to really show what a CD-ROM could do for gaming.
2old2play reports on Best Buy offering 3rd-party Wii titles for $49.99.
Not bad, but I bet the Canadian pricing will still make me wretch.
The Wavebird controller will work with the Wii.
Now, I just have to hope that when the Wii comes out, retailers start knocking the price down as it’s a “GameCube” peripheral.
Additionally, I’ll have images of the bag up later today for those who wish to see it.
The words of Simon Furman are true. “It never ends.”
Still not the greatest image quality… I still can’t make out a lot of what’s what, but he seems a little more in line with the TF aesthetic than some of what we’ve seen.
Allspark also reports that the TransFormers in the movie will have CG-augmented faces.
Which means that the image of Bumblebee we saw isn’t quite finished yet.
And finally, speaking of ‘B, here’s a video of him in action… driving.
Hey, you take what you can get at this point.
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Sounds interesting…
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…
Oh, and Aquaman(the REAL Aquaman) and Green Arrow are in, too, with the latter being an unlockable. Nice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Gaming
Regarding 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.
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?
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.
…at least there’s Burnout 3, at last. Otherwise, don’t really care. I just like the picture they chose.
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.
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.
So there’s this game for celphones. It’s basically like a Garfield RPG.
And evidently, it’s not bad.
Again, I say, wow.
As if wanting the toys wasn’t agonizing ennough.
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.
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La-dee-dee, another day, another round of news. Let’s see what we got, and hope nothing is screwed up in coding.
Sadly, in the same breath, he mentions that they aim for that with ALL of their systems… I think that, despite production continuing(somewhere) on the original PlayStation, that one died out pretty damn quick when PS2 was on the horizon. I don’t think PS2 is moving quite as strongly at this point, either, now that the next generation is on the horizon.
So, yeah, this leaves Sony in sort of a cloudy area, per my reckoning. If PS3 were really to have a 10-year lifespan, that might be one thing. But drawing up a comparison to the past consoles, as if to cover his ass should a PS4 be wheeled out in a few years, well, it effectively negates much of that original point. And that’s too bad, as I’m sure that sort of dedication to a console lifespan of that length would no doubt help draw more people into the PS3 camp, even at that price.
Awful news!
There’s absolutely no mention of a Nintendo version. Dammit. There hasn’t been a Burnout on Nintendo’s consoles since the 2nd one, before they were bought by EA. Come on, gimme some Wii Burnout love, EA!
And while you’re at it, do what you did in Fight Night Round 2 and that basketball game, and throw some Nintendo characters in. Let me knock people off the road in a Mario kart(with the red shell) or an F-Zero racer or an Excitetruck or something.
Or bring back Mach Rider, let us ride through the city and shoot up cars instead of just knocking them around.
Anyway, the ripping cars in two thing sounds neat, as well.
Not to get off on a rant here, but it gets worse, when you consider that the weirdest, most offshoot places will get a game before other places. It’s crazy. Why can’t we just go out and get the same damn game on the same damn day? I hate coming home empty-handed to find that everyone online is away because they’re playing the game, or raving over some stuff I haven’t even seen yet.
Nuts to that.
Not too shabby at all. I definitely would like to give this one a try.
Unless it’s Killer Instinct. Um… “if it says ‘Killer Instinct,’ then it better not stink.” Or something.
Uh… “boy-ee?”
So what that would mean is another chance to go a few rounds on the original Ninja Gaiden games and see if skills have improved over time, or if they’re every bit as brutal now as they were then.
(Of course, if you played through the XBox title of the same name, you could probably tell us, but…)
The rumor is further substantiated by a financial report covered by IGN that says the company wants to support the Virtual Console “aggressively.”
I wouldn’t mind giving Super Mario Sunshine another try, if it seemed to work better, Luigi’s Mansion remains an unfinished favorite of mine, and Resident Evil 4 sounds like it would be neat, at least that chainsaw bit…
But the Donkey Kong bongo games, while they make sense, still mystify me a little. Maybe a lower pricepoint would help, but the need for bongos ought to be a non-issue, since the games come with them, and don’t even raise the price that much.
…which reminds me, I still gotta try Jungle Beat sometime.
Maybe it was her creepy gaze that frightened me off.
Nope, never happen to me.
I’m strictly a Coke/Pepsi guy.
…and occassionally Sprite. Or Sunkist.
Do love the flagpole bit, though. And the “entering 1-2″ bit.
Sounds like a lot of fun, and I’d definitely enter if I had a video cam, even though I’m probably not really the biggest Mortal Kombat fan around, I’m still a fan nonetheless.
“Kids of All Ages Have the Rare Opportunity to Interact With Their Favorite Superheroes When the Power Rangers Embark on the “Get Powerized” Tour Starting September 23rd.”
A pity that Toronto isn’t one of the stops, but oh well.
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Of course, these aren’t counting the ones that inspire acts of violence not due to content, but due to mind-blowing difficulty and/or cheapness.
That should get a list all its own.
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Slow day yesterday, so I figured I’d let everything accumulate a bit.
And if you’re interested, it appears that the good doctor is looking to expand his scanlation team, specifically to find someone to clean the scans up. Apply within if interested.
Kirby Morrow does well, too.
The unknown UK one is just HORRIBLE, though! God, it BURNS! Even Bandai’s is better.
Says the ending is anti-climactic, but it can’t be any worse than Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga‘s.
So if Charged remains par for the standards set, it ought to be fun… even if you don’t like sports.
Oh, my mistake, it’ll follow on next-gen consoles. Wonder if it’ll still be digitally distributed there?
Lucky the developers have a solid pedigree in licensed games.
Not really enough info to say much else, though. With any luck, maybe it’ll play out like their recent “Armadeadon” story arc.
Anyway, this looks to be quite fun. After all, some of the best parts of Sonic history are the races, like Sonic vs. Metal Sonic in Sonic CD, or my personal favorite, Sonic vs. Shadow in Sonic Adventure 2: Battle.
The downside? Casino Night Zone was a favorite in Sonic 2, and they made a whole game around THAT, and… well, results were mixed, at best.
Guess we’ll have to wait and see if this one shapes up before it ships out.
At least in Australia. Nice.
Can’t help but wonder what the “C” is on some of the Mini-Donkey Kong’s ties…
On a related note, however, Nintendo ought to market some Mini toys. I know I’d like one.
But it sounds quite promising, hopefully better than Mario Kart DS‘s.
Still, less than favorable? Come ON, Maverick Hunter X‘s voices were great!
Just no pleasing some people.
That’s no good. What’s with that, Nintendo?
*coughs*
Er, I mean, interesting. Yes, quite interesting indeed…
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
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Ok, so trying this Ordered List thing, as recommended by and taught by . Also by PiratedTV’s request, I’m going to try and give my thoughts on more of the stories, as I’ve noticed myself that I’ve sort of slipped away from that a bit. Partly due to doing these late at night.
But not today!
All the same, though, it looks like it might be fun, even online. Some of those create-a-characters look interesting, like the Akuma haircut on one, or the almost Green Arrow-esque outfit on another. And a third has a sort of generic Rock-N-Wrestling look to him…
Anyway, I’ve liked the recent Mortal Kombats, though I’ve yet to play Shaolin Monks. Other than that boss thing that ran through most of the series, I’ve enjoyed them. Here’s hoping that this one brings about a good ending to the saga.
Edit: Oh, wait, it’s coming to Wii, and IGN has a hands-on. Rockin’.
…my custom fatality button sequence would just be hammering the A button until my thumb and their face matched.
Regarding story mode, I think it’d be a neat feature for a fighting game to have a story mode that lets you play all the key matches involved in the story, and see everything strung together as its meant to be.
And I gotta try “Motor Kombat” at least once.
But the story sounds quite cool.
I’m sure that no matter what I do, though, someone else will pick up the slack for me.
Ye Gawds, what ARE they thinking?
But looking back, it’s actually a neat story, and I’m hoping that Bendis does as he says he hopes to do, to do the core concept justice.
Of course, knowing the history behind it and how it ran, I also completely understand why fans were down on it at the time.
I’d love to see how the story shows the far-reaching effects of seeds planted in earlier issues.
A certain return, though(keeping hush-hush for spoilers)… I don’t know what to think of it.
And looking at that last image… man, I’m going to miss Bagley.
I wish I were a fly on the wall inside Sony. To hear the press go on about it, it sounds like there’s a new problem every day. Makes you wonder what their Christmas parties are like.
Sakes…
Here’s hoping that this one is more Sonic CD than Blinx.
Unless I get work.
You see, people? THIS is the kind of revolutionary, outside-the-box thinking we’re going to need if this industry is to survive!
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And, the next game show of the season has begun…
Funny thing here is, it feels like a slow news day, but we have a rather healthy number of items here for you today.
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1) Buddy Blaze takes a look at the story of the long-forgotten third Mario Brother as his entry into a GameTrailers contest. Check it out.
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2) Elsewhere, Boss Frog has added to GameVideos a Retronauts beta video podcast, taking a look at things such as the 15th anniversary of the SNES and 20th of Metroid, along with the likes of Scott Sharkey, Chris Kohler, and my wife(who wasn’t there for it, but via Skype).
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3) Miyamoto on Wii, new side project.
“Mario creator talks to the Japanese press about his involvement in a museum installation and explains why Nintendo decided to “destroy the paradigm” of the games industry.”
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4) Indy 4 in 2008, Lucas, Spielberg, and Ford discuss.
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5) N-Philes has 15 Nintendo Dream scans, including two for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, though those are really more just Kid Icarus stuff from the Famicom.
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6) Screenshots we’ve seen, but the box art for Capcom Classics Mini Mix is absolutely uninspiring.
Couldn’t they get Udon to render Radd, Hiryu, and the FF guys for us?
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7) OnNintendo views rumors before the Leipzig GC.
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8) Screens from the game I can’t believe I want to try.
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9) Man, they are bound and determined to get my money if this is true.
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10) New Lunar Knights scans. I thought Django wasn’t supposed to be in this?
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11) A slight sleeper of a Rockman ZX video import review.
This game is going to SO rock, once I can halfway(and so far, it seems ONLY halfway) understand it.
…it’s sort of funny hearing a guy with almost NO clue about Mega Man reviewing this, though…
“…and here we have ‘flight guy’…”
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12) More foreign fun, as a Nintendo magazine from abroad takes a look at the possibilities of other famed video game heroes appearing in the next Super Smash Bros. installment.
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13) Slashdot reports on why the console war is NOT good for gaming.
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14) Oh, right, The Wizard hit DVD yesterday.
Go get your Power Gloves on it.
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15) Game Over.
“A short-film maker by the name of Pes has put together a bloody brilliant stop-motion tribute to several arcade classics including Centipede, Frogger, Asteroids, Space Invaders and Pac-Man. The short feature, entitled Game Over, runs 1:30 minutes long, uses only household items like toy cars, muffins, shark’s teeth, and leaves for the visuals, and syncs it all to the original game soundtracks.”
Nice piece.
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16) Ok, so it’s 2 million PS3s by launch, and 2 million more by year’s end.
The plot thickens.
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17) As Kotaku says, “silly, but not a bad deal at all.”
…well, relatively speaking. If you don’t think the PSP itself is a good value now as-is, this doesn’t really improve it.
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18) While the wife isn’t much a Tetris player, I bet she’d have a hard time pulling herself away from these.
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19) Press The Buttons takes a look at the story for Star Fox Command, and draws some comparisons to the old, unreleased Star Fox 2.
If it plays like the latter, save the touch screen adjustments, I think I’ll like it juuuuust fine.
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20) An interesting look at what Nintendo needs to do to make Mario Kart stand out on the Wii.
Re: #3. Keep ROB.
…and screw snaking. Screw starting boosts, too, while we’re at it.
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21) Wow, now this is one cool controller.
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22) Street Fighter’s Sakura is a sell-out.
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23) These new Hot Topic TransFormers shirts are looking pretty cool.
What to get, what to get…?
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24) According to The Allspark, ex-Dreamwave and current IDW TransFormers artist Guido Guidi has set up a DeviantArt account, within which he has the first thirteen pages of the cancelled ongoing DW TransFormers Generation 1 comic.
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