A lot of things come across my desk over at the Japanator office. Oftentimes, it’s kind of hard to do a review of a volume 8 of this series or DVD 13 of that one, simply because I don’t want to go and buy all the leadup volumes. So, we put them in a bin, saving them up for a contest at the end of the year. Now it’s time to unleash the box andgive away something every day....
I’ll say one thing for Square Enix and Eidos, they’ve not been shy on the trailer front. Here is another video forKane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, this one centered around Marcus Kane, the embittered ex-mercenary who decided to travel to Shanghai and work with schizophrenic maniac James Seth Lynch once again. As with allKane & Lynch 2videos, it’s suitably violent and thoroughly sleazy, which is good. The game’s out a little later this month and I’m really looking forward to it....
This one is kind of a stretch, folks. But the fact of the matter is that you can’t have solid, usuable videogame news to report on every day. Some days there’s just nothing. What I have for you today is a vaguetweetor two from Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima. It’s about a game he’s working on. It could be the next Zone of the Enders. Or not. CVG has pointed out that some of Kojima’s ramblings sound like they could be talking about ZotE....
According to mad scientist Hideo Kojima, his studio is not one big, happy family where everybody gets along. In fact, there’s a little bit of competition brewing between the teams working onMetal Gear Solid: Peace WalkerandMetal Gear Solid: Rising, with the former showing a little bit of jealousy when it comes to the latter. “If you could imagine the PSP team looking at theRisingteam,”explains Kojima, “they have all the money and specs....
One should think that everybody who ever wanted a PSP now has one, but mad genius Hideo Kojima believes that there are plenty of people ready to be turned into fans, and thatMetal Gear Solid: Peace Walkeris the game to do it. How will this happen? Well, that’s a secret! “There’s an unannounced system that will surprise you. It will make you want to rush out and buy a PSP,”boastedtheMGScreator while chatting withFamitsu....
What is this I don’t even … Madballs. Yes, we are talking about those obscure rubber balls with faces from the eighties. You remember, right? They had one guy that was a living baseball, a mummy, a swamp monster. They were ridiculous and failed to have the lasting appeal of Transformers and pretty much disappeared when the fad was over, yet here they are,resurrected for no good reasonand coming to XBLA this Summer....
Public service announcement to our readers out in or near Atlanta, Georgia: Capcom’s “Fight Club” is headed your way! This will be your chance to get your hands on the upcomingMarvel vs. Capcom 3, and probably pick up some hella cool Capcom swag in the process. They’re also promising “tighter line control and security, as well as good ventilation!” We suggest going shirtless, regardless. Capcom will thank us later, I’m sure....
If you don’t want even more revealed aboutMetal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, look away now. This is the latest trailer forMGS4and as usual, it does whatMGStrailers do best: Over-expose the game, take away big surprises … and yet strangely still make one ridiculously excited for the game.Lord knows what Kojima is cooking up with this one, but I’m down with it. This trailer brings a few new hops (chiefly the one that Cam Clarke may be able to do some role reprisal after all) but I’ll try not to get too excited for the possibilities....
Got a PC? Consider yourself better than console gamers? Waiting for the nextCrysisin order to turn your computer into a gigantic surrogate penis? It seems that Microsoft has heard you, and is all set to deliver. A new game is in the works from the Xbox 360 manufacturer, but this one isn’t for the console kiddies. Microsoft is aiming to market to the GPU and CPU upgraders of the world, with spokesman Dave Luehman stating that there’s a game in the works aiming to “really encourage that type of behaviour....
Last week we found out that the new Xbox Experience will torequire 128 MB of storage space. Not bad, except for all of the people that own the Arcade/Core Xbox 360s who typically only have the 256MB memory card that comes with the system. Microsoft feels their pain andhave offered up a solutionfor Arcade owners. Anyone that owns an Arcade/Core unit just has to enter their unit’sserial number at this Web site....
A few days ago, we broughtnewsthat Japanese-exclusive Mega Drive titleMonster World IVwas heading onto PSN and XBLA. Considering that the previous entries in theWonder Boy/Monster Worldseries had been released on VC, it’s safe to wonder why this one isn’t also hitting the Wii. It looks like the game will indeed make a Wii appearance, at least across the pond. The European PEGI board hasratedthe game for the VC, while the Australian OFLCratedfor multiple platforms....
I know you’re probably all reeling from the improbability of thispast weekend’s rumored LEGO Rock Band title(seriously, WTF?), but there’s more LEGO rumors where that came from. According to Eurogamer, a source close to developer Traveler’s Tales has whispered that the rumored LEGO Harry Potter title — a likely pairing, based off this year’s film release ofHarry Potter and the Half Blood Princeand the licensed LEGO toys — won’t be happening in 2009....
Following the add-on characterSkarletis none other than Kenshi, who will be available for download inMortal Kombatsoon enough. Xbox Live gets the blind fighter on Tuesday, July 5, followed by PlayStation Network a day later. In this video, we’re given a quick runthrough of his moves. Sadly, the fatalities are cut a little short, but the fourth wall-breaking one is most excellent. Even though I have an uncanny love for Johnny Cage, I’ll never miss the opportunity to see him take a solid beating....
