One crazily dedicated man took the entireSonic 3 & Knucklessoundtrack and reworked it to play on the NES in an 8-bit format. The creator says that it took two hundred hours of work to finish it all, but I’d say all the ear candy was worth the effort. 8BitDanooct1 has a bit of a blog on the project on YouTube: The file is in two parts, as once Famitracker reaches 540kb on a module, it starts overwriting the end to remain within that filesize....
Lately it seems that developers have been expressing their longing for a single console to rule them all. BothDennis Dyackand, more recently,David Jaffe, have supported the idea of a one-console industry, an idea that is both fanciful, unworkable and simply bad for the business. Luckily, Square-Enix president Yoichi Wada appears to have a good head on his shoulders, and hasextolled the virtuesof the multi-console industry we currently have: “It was going to happen anyway, it wasn’t accidental … Videogames became popular in the 80s, and for about fifteen years, until the year 2000, the main focus was just on ensuring that everybody had a console....
Since she was announced, many of us have been wondering how Juri will play in the upcomingSuper Street Fighter IV.Those of you who made it out toCapcom’s Fight Clubevent in NYC may have seen her in action first hand, but there’s still a pretty good chance you never actually got to try her out for yourself. Thankfully, Battle Director Taisaku Okada has taken some time to update the game’sdeveloper blogwith a little info on just what you can expect when you first choose the sexy South Korean spider lady from the game’s character select screen....
Capcom’s officialSuper Street Fighter IVwebsite has just beenupdatedtoday, and it was a relatively big one. First off, the character page now detailsChun-Li,Crimson ViperandCammy, with character profile pages and imagery in the new pencil art style. But you’ve already seen these ladies before. You want to know about all the other updates, like bonus stages and the hot new multiplayer features, right? Hit the jump and we’ll get to it. The first big update is the site’s official page featuring the return ofbonus stages, with plenty of screenshots and info....
Ubisoft swooped in to pick up RTS-famous Massive Entertainment following their closure after theActivision/Blizzardmerger last year. A new press release from Ubisoft this morning says that that they picked up Malmö, Sweden- based studio, with the real prize being the rights to theWorld in Conflictfranchise. “Ubisoft is growing at an intense pace and our strategy is to ensure the strength of our global creative teams,” said Christine Burgess-Quemard, executive director of worldwide production studios at Ubisoft....
It’s like retro on top of retro! If the Atari gameMissile Commandwasn’t retro enough, how about aMissle Commandvinyl soundtrack? This rare 33 RPM, 12″ vinyl LP from the 1980s contains the score [hah!] to this classic game. You get a whopping three tracks, with one of them being the “Atari Theme.” So really two tracks. There’s a runningeBay auctionfor the vinyl album with the Buy It Now price of $100. I don’t know that I’d pay $100 for this, but I’d definitely pay some money to hear what this sounds like....
Damn, an Xbox 360 Pro for $250? That’s just about good enough of a price to tempt me to get a second system. If these Target ads that we saw onengadgetare real and correct, the Xbox 360 60GB Pro will cost only $249 (free 2nd controller!), while the 120GB Elite will only be $50 more. These are supposed to be next week’s ads, so these prices may be set to go into effect by Sunday, August 30th....
Game Watchjust gave me another reason to want a Japanese DSi. This newly announced bit of DSiWare, entitledTime Diagnosis, looks like it could easily fill theWarioWareshaped hole that (in my opinion) the service currently suffers from. My Japanese is awful, so I asked around the Dtoid offices to see what this game’s all about. According to Topher, the site says thatTime Diagnosisis a collection of “chicken” mini-games: see how long you can drop out of a plane before pulling your parachute, see how far you can fill a glass without it spilling over, drive as fast as you can toward a cliff and try to stop at the last possible second, etc....
What’s going on inPS Home? It’s a question I wanted to explore late last evening after I finished messing withTrine. I’ve had the Sony’s social thing on my PS3’s HD since the beta debuted, but I haven’t wandered the digital streets since the release of Capcom’sResident Evil 5space moons ago. You won’t see this in the above, but the process of me jumping back intoHomehad a few steps. First, I was forced to download and install two patches....
Konami’s booth at this year’s Tokyo Game Show was one of the largest. I wouldn’t even call it a booth; it was more like a fortress of Konamism. It takes quite a while to walk around the four sides, and each face had something different to promote. Metal Gearrecieved the most fanfare and promotion from Konami. Two large screens on opposite corners of the booth promotedMGS4andMetal Gear Onlinecontiniously, and one featured a full stage, where Hideo Kojima would often appear to talk about his game....
Ape Escape Movecomes as something of a disappointment. I was really hoping for the reveal of a full-fledgedApe Escapegame at TGS. Instead, we get a on-rails shooter with some motion-controlled fan slapping and net snagging thrown it. If this were a Wii launch title, then maybe Sony could get away with that, but as it stands, this isn’t all that impressive. Well, at least they didn’t slip any realistic monkey-faced monkeys into the proceedings....
Are you curious as to howAssassin’s Creedwill look when you actually get your hands on it and play it? Yeah, so are we. Well, thanks to X06, take a look a the 360 gameplay here in this video.
Hamza has the day off, so I will be presenting your daily recap this evening. Which means it’s probably been done wrong. But that’s alright, because a ton of stuff happened today. Awesome stuff, because that’s what we do here. We ripped Twitter a new one with ourKOF XIIcontest, the team at SDCC continued to rock, Brad declared I-No to be Badass of the Month, Nick gave us another peek at the new NXE, and you’ve got two new podcast episodes to get you through the weekend....
