A little over a week ago, I had the opportunity to be flown out to Los Angeles by THQ to check out their newest WWE game, Smackdown vs. Raw 2010. And following that, I got to attend the Biggest Event of the Summer, SummerFestSlam.
And after getting back, I had to write about what I saw and what I head. You can check out the full preview over at Kombo. It’s a doozy, but I hope it is both informative and entertains fellow WWE fans.
And I stand by my statement: this is the LittleBigPlanet of WWE games.
In video games, some villains have pretty clear defined goals. Dr. Wily wants to rule the world, Ganondorf wants to… rule the world, and Count Dracula? He wants to make humanity suffer and then rule the world, so at least it’s not completely redundant.
But even for their examples of clearly-defined goals, there are others who are much more… dubious in what they hope to accomplish by sending the protagonist to an early grave. And with that, Topless Robot has assembled for us the Top 8 Video Game Bosses with Extremely Dubious Motivations.
I will say I’ve seen some interesting theories put forth about #4. The Yellow Dart has a reasonable approximation in the comments, though. And Manwards gives a good account of #3.
GamePro takes a look at what it calls “The 5 Best Console Wars.” Let me tell you something: there was only one console war. The rest have been spats, scuffles, maybe schoolyard brawls at best.
I might accept Game Boy versus Game Gear, but we all know that was just an extension of the whole Nintendo vs. SEGA thing that the Super NES vs. Genesis war was the core of.
Speaking of the Genesis and the Game Boy, they aren’t the only ones turning 20 this year. There’s also the TurboGrafx-16.
As much as I was anti-SEGA at the time (due in large part to their anti-Nintendo propaganda), I never really held much of a grudge against the TG16. Perhaps it just never seemed like much of a threat.
And while my answer is “most definitely yes,” I have no inclination to partake in this, as there are still games I would like to play on the other consoles. But if it helps, I spent almost the entire last generation with only a GameCube, renting an Xbox and PlayStation 2 during a brief period when I worked at Blockbuster.
But there is so much I have to play, so much I’ve yet to play, and that’s just on Wii and DS. If I wanted to go back through past platforms, I’m sure I could find more.
Still, I wonder: does playing Genesis on Virtual Console count as Nintendo?
A little while back, The Consumerist posted an amusing comparison of the Pepsi logo’s evolution versus the Coca-Cola logo’s. It’s funny, but the Coke logo has changed a bit over time, though not nearly as drastically as Pepsi’s, I would wager to say.
Personally, I miss the old Pepsi logo with the name in between the circle halves. Somehow, it always looked like that one was smiling to me.
Nintendo Alters Metroid Prime Trilogy Dialogue – While it kind of sucks that Nintendo would see fit to edit out such a minor curse word in a T-rated game, I’ll be honest: I don’t even remember him saying it. I guess it failed to leave a lasting impression on me.
Of course, if any Nintendo franchise should be allowed to say “damn,” it’s Metroid.
Just a little late to the party on this one by about a week, but as my wife was setting the alarm on the clock-radio, we heard the DJ mention the name of Jason David Frank. Or rather, “Jason David F–” before my wife switched it off, we looked at each other, and she switched it back on.
Thankfully, it’s not another celebrity death, although I’m sure there are those who would debate Frank’s status as a celebrity. Regardless of how you feel there, it appears that he has joined the world of mixed martial arts. Read the rest of this entry »
With the PlayStation 3 marked down to $299 and getting a nice, new slim refit, more people are looking at getting one. For those people, Kombo has organized a nice little buyer’s guide for the newcomers.
Just a little late to the party on this one by about a week, but as my wife was setting the alarm on the clock-radio, we heard the DJ mention the name of Jason David Frank. Or rather, “Jason David F–” before my wife switched it off, we looked at each other, and she switched it back on.