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I’ve been playing Mario Strikers: Charged since Friday (3 days ago). I figured I’d write some of my thoughts on the game. First thing is first, Online Gameplay! Let me just tell you, it’s intense! After a bunch of server glitches early on, it’s been up and running pretty flawlessly, no lag, no disconnects. My [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Mario Party 8 (Video Review)
Mario Party 8, MetaCritic score (as of 1pm est.) 78/100 GamePro: Played alone, against the computer, the game is barely worth popping out of its case. But, having even one other human opponent ups the fun exponentially–you just can’t get the same satisfaction out of trash talking against a faceless computerized enemy. GameTrailers: The level [...]
Manhunt 2 (Wii) IGN preview
You can’t say that there are no “mature” games on Wii. Since the console’s release six months ago, we’ve already seen two M-rated titles in The Godfather: Blackhand Edition and Far Cry Vengeance. And in the next few months alone, several more are on the way, including Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition and Scarface: The [...]
Super Smash Bros. DOJO!! Update #5
Today’s update includes info on the item that was shown in the trailer, the Smash Ball. It allows your character to perform his/her special move, Final Smash. Use it wisely! It states that it can only be used once, but does not specify whether it is once per game or per Smash Ball. Share
Virtual Console Update
Written by Shaun White on The Wiire “Nintendo of America will release three new games onto Wii’s V irtual Console service today. Those games are ActRaiser, Kid Chameleon and J.J. & JEFF. Descriptions for these games, provided by NOA, can be found below. ActRaiser (SNES, 1 player, 800 Wii Points): A masterpiece of game design [...]
Super Smash Bros. DOJO!! Update #4
The Super Smash Bros. Brawl homepage, DOJO, has been updated again. Today’s addition was a bit of info on Pit’s special moves. As expected, he can fly in a manner not too unlike Kirby or Jigglypuff, exausting over time. Also, as we have heard, steering up and down will curve the trajectory of his arrows. [...]
Interview with Geometry Wars Developer
Geometry Wars has, until now, established Xbox as its home platform. Why has Bizarre/Kuju chosen to bring the series to Nintendo platforms? Carpenter: The timing and concept were perfectly aligned. The Geometry Wars gameplay and appeal works on many levels and over a huge age range. The current Nintendo platforms seem to be king and [...]
Smash and Brawl WILL come before December.
In an interview with Perrin Kaplan, via Game Informer: GI: It seems like the core gamer is being left in the dust for this new gamer. Kaplan: Reggie would tell you that we’re fully committed to the core gamer. You know it’s interesting. We have these arguments internally. Do we have too much expanded audience [...]
New Wii’s block mod chips
A new Wii motherboard has shown up in Japan which blocks current modchips. The revised motherboard has three pins removed from one of the chips which renders modchips useless. There have been several reports of these motherboards appearing, however they are limited to only Japan for the time being. The one thing to remember is [...]
Final Fantasy CC: The Crystal Bearers for Wii (video)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl_Ej2fU42M[/youtube] Here’s the first footage released for the upcoming Final Fantasy game for the Wii that’s been dubed Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers. From this short clip, it looks like it’ll be a good adventure game in typical “the protagonist looks like a girl� Square Enix fashion. No word on a release date [...]
E3 2007.
conferences to announce blockbusters, and to unveils titles and software sure to knock everyone off their feet. Microsoft is slated to debut on Monday, while both Nintendo andE3 2007 is little over a month away, and major publishers/developers are lining up their Sony are having their press conferences on Wednesday, which will cause some interesting [...]
Mario Strikers: Charged, impressions
I have a copy of the game and have only played for a little bit, has far as I can tell it’s looking good. Online is great and it should make for a great game. IGN had this to say: “Based on what we saw, the online experience with four-star connections is lag-free. Strikers moves [...]
New touch screen details for Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
* Depending on how you move the touch pen, Link has three different sword attacks. * Touch on-screen arrows, and Link will move objects in that direction. * Touch on a far point, and Link will run or jump there. * Touch on a close point, and Link will walk there. ——————————————- Just incase you [...]
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