You know how it works! With the help of each other, attempt to figure out all of the disguised game covers. They all share a common theme that, once solved, can help you figure out the harder ones. This week’s theme is relevant to a current issue, so it should be mildly easy, but the teasers themselves are a little challenging.As usual, don’t be afraid to shout out ideas and work together as a team to solve them all....
While Jim was busyrailing ontheSwine Flusequel-itis epidemic currently gripping the games industry, Namco-Bandai was releasing a new trailer forKatamari Forever, the series’ PS3-exclusivefirst foray into HD.Katamari Forever(calledKatamari Damacy Tributein the Land of the Rising Sun) might escape Jim’s ire, however. It’s not exactly a remake, but it is kind of a like a remix. The game will feature some new levels, beautiful visual filters, and jump functionality (!), but it will also feature some old favorites with extra goodies (hence the “Tribute”)....
Namco Bandai has released some new images of its upcoming shooter,Time Crisis: Razing Stormfor PlayStation 3, and well… yeah. It looks like aTime Crisisgame, am I right? That’s not necessarily a bad thing, if that’s what you’re into.Time Crisis: Razing Storm, by all accounts, looks like it’ll continue the Time Crisis tradition of pointing at and shooting the hell out of everything that moves. It’s a port of the 2009 arcade title,Razing Storm, and makes use of either the upcoming Move controller or the Namco Guncon 3....
Kevin Butler, Sony’s PS3 ad spokesperson and President of Everything Plus the Kitchen Sink, is a man who says what he wants whenever he wants. Other people would love to have that level of on-screen confidence. Take the above commercial currently airing on the TV3 channel in New Zealand, for instance. This guy, comedian Dai Henwood, exudes a bit of that Butler charm, don’t you think? Oh ho ho? What’s this?...
For me, the one of the biggest gaming disappointments of 2007 was the four-player monster killing romp,Monster Madness: Battle of Suburbia. The Xbox 360 title was clearly influenced by one of my favorite 16-bit titles, LucasArts’Zombies Ate My Neighbors, but was missing one key element — fun.Battle for Suburbiahad all of the right ingredients for a good time — an interesting art style, cooperative play, wide weapon variety — but was unfortunately marred by a mind-bendingly poor control scheme....
One would imagine that The Behemoth developers Tom Fulp and Dan Paladin wake up laughing every morning due to the critical and commercial success of their scrolling brawlerCastle Crashers. PaladinrevealedthatCastle Crashershas now found its way to over 250,000 hard drives across the world. Not too shabby, I suppose. “I was optimistic and hopeful forCastle Crashers, but I wasn’t prepared for the reception it got,” explained the game’s artist. Alien Hominid HDhas also enjoyed success off the back ofCastle Crashers, and Paladin claims that around five times the amount of people than usual have started playing it sinceCClaunched....
This week’s Famitsu had some interesting news: one more go-round forPanel de Pon. For those of you unfamiliar with the name, chances are you’ve taken a shot or two with the game;Ponis better known in America under wacky face-lift conversion aliases, likeTetris Attackon the SNES,Pokemon Puzzle Leagueon the GBC and N64, and most recently the Gameboy AdvanceDr. Mario / Puzzle Leaguecombo cart. It’s also one of the best puzzle games ever made....
Phil Harrison has said that Atari’sAlone in the Darkmay be among the last of a dying breed, asconsumers no longer wantsingle player experiences. “Alone in the Darkis a beautifully crafted single-player adventure game. I don’t think the industry is going to make many more of those,” states the slender-necked Atari ship-jumper. “I just don’t think consumers want to be playing games that don’t have some kind of network connectivity to them, or some kind of community embedded in them, or some kind of extension available through downloadable content....
This week’s episode has a pretty long Games of the Week segment (mainly because we spend a healthy portion of it talking aboutartgames), so be ready for that. After the first half of the show, however, the regular Podtoid crew yaks aboutSonic 4, EA’s 2011 lineup, and some other stuff I can’t remember at the moment.
This week’s episode is an odd one. The games of the week segment, which usually only takes up five minutes, comprises almost half of the entire episode. One of the two news topics we were to discuss is shortened to a single sentence. The post-show discussion isn’t that long and it’s all about a single (horrible) thing. – Linde explains himself to no man – 45 minutes about why most JRPGs suck...
[Editor’s note:This is a special edition of theMonthly Musings. CaffeinPowered and Aerox have a weekly column on the C-Blogs where they each have a counter-point to a specific subject. Caffeine here takes a look at why he thinks licensed games are good. For the bad take, just click thislinkor look right below. Who do you think had the better argument? — CTZ] This is the sixth part of a series of dueling editorials I have been doing withAerox....
WiiWare has been hit or miss with its games, but the Wii’s downloadable service will soon be getting a high profile visit from one of the biggest franchises Nintendo has.Pokémon Rumblewas announced by Nintendo today, a new game to be debuted at PAX. Pokémon Rumbleis a four-player co-op game where Pokémon team up to attack oncoming enemies that surround them. Playable versions ofMario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, New Super Mario Bros....
You know what? Bravo EA. Someone start a slow clap, because this just looks awesome. I haven’t been this excited for an on rails shooter since… actually, I’ve never been truly excited for an on rails shooter. Maybe interested inHouse of the Dead: Overkill, and rightfully so, but never truly excited. EA has done it though, and the new E3 trailer really shows us were in for something that at least looks great....
