Folks with small gaming rooms rejoice! Nyko has the answer with its Zoom peripheral for Kinect. This brilliant little peripheral clips over the Kinect sensor, and let’s you play Kinect games using “40% less space,” per Nyko’s calculations. Dale had a chance tocheck it out at E3and seemed impressed. He “found that there’s no performance hit at all,” and even said he had no issues using it to play “Microsoft’s sillyKinect Adventures....
[For your Bloggers Wanted assignment last week, you were asked to write about a game you thought was relatively obscure; one that a lot of your peers likely hadn’t played or even heard of. Today, Kyle MacGregor (the artist formerly known as Cadtalfryn)would like to tell you something about a browser-based online game calledHiddenworld, which you may even play for yourself since it’s still online. Kind of reminds me ofLegend of the Red Dragonfrom my BBS days!...
Despite extensive bitching all over the internet that the price of the first chapter of Penny Arcade’s new serial title,Penny Arcade Adventures, was too pricey for their pocketbooks, it seems most people got over their crabbiness long enough to download the title. The game made $330,000 in its first three days, beating out the previous record debut titleholder,Worms HD. The positive response will likely lead to a brisk release of the second chapter, but this isn’t good news for the exploits of Gabe and Tycho alone....
Surely there’s a Japanese porn director groaning somewhere over the fact that this title was used for a video game rather than his privately envisioned opus about an innocent young girl with a deadly vagina, but that’s too bad for him. Next time!Poison Pinkis a Banpresto PS2 strategy title recently released in Japan in which you play a non-linear story with features such as demon-collection, where captured critters can fight in your party....
So what do you get when you takeLittleBigPlanetand put it on the PSP?LittlerBiggerPlanet? I’m stretching for a joke here, but that’s kind of what I got from my few minutes playingLittleBigPlanet PSPis that, yes, it is exactly likeLittleBigPlanetfor the PS3. And that’s really all there is to say about it. While there are some cuts to the game (and a rather major one at that, if you hit the jump), I can easily say that there really isn’t too much more to say about the game other than it’s portable and very much like the original....
Roogoo , I would argue, was the most under-appreciated title of 2008. How can I say this? Well considering it has a Metacritic score of 78, there is an adorable main character, and it came out last year to almost no fanfare, I can generally assume that most people passed right over it. Which is a drag, as anybody who has at least played the demo forRoogooon Xbox LIVE Arcade can agree that it is an amazingly charming game....
I often lament the fact that I don’t have a gaming-capable PC, but to be honest, I’m very glad that I don’t own one for some things. EA’sThe Simsfranchise is one of those things. I could easily see myself whiling away my days and nights, glued to a computer monitor, stealing random objects from people’s houses. “Wait, what?”you may be asking. Oh, that’s right — I haven’t yet explained the all-new trait system that’s the foundation of your Sim’s personality inThe Sims 3, which wasrecently delayed to June 2nd....
It’s the Summer of the Sims and at the EA Summer Showcase, there were disc (Frisbee) catching dogs on hand to excite the crowd aboutSims 3 Pets. Just like the title implies, this expansion adds pets to the core game that people have been clamoring for a while about. In this expansion, you will get to play with a bunch of furry creatures and probably be able to build a room with no escape around them to watch them die....
What’s up with the Xbox LIVE Arcade price changes lately? Firstit wasMadballs, and nowTMNT: Turtles in Time Re-Shelledhas been dropped from $15 down to a fair $10 … and it hasn’t even been released yet. The switch was confirmedby IGN, but no one knows for sure why it occurred. Perhaps Microsoft heard a complaint or two from a couple of guys on the Internet? Sure, let’s go with that. Talk about a heartwarming, inspiring tale....
Due to the ludicrous volume of PlayStation Network users trying to reset their passwords at once, Sony hashad to temporarily ceasethe bigPSN rolloutand suspended services for a bit. “We’re currently experiencing an extremely heavy load of password resets, and so we recently had to turn off services for approximately 30 minutes to clear the queue,” said Sony’s Patrick Seybold. “As such, a large number of people are attempting to change their passwords at the same time, it’s taking longer than expected for all those emails to clear all of the ISPs....
Friends don’t let friends drive cars with chainguns. Not because the idea isn’t metal — not, it’s totally metal — but because, generally speaking, videogames featuring weapon-equipped vehicles blow. We’re not sure if this rule applies to the 1996 DOS titleDeath Rally, but we’ll know soon enough. According tosuperannuation, Remedy Entertainment has filed a new trademark for the title, indicating that it could be seeing re-release in the future. As pointed out by superannuation, the trademark makes it sound like the release method will be digital, as it states the trademark will be used for “computer game software, and any printed instructions or printed hint manuals sold therewith as a unit....
All that talk of ocarinas, boleros and sonataslast weekhad us walking around for days withZeldamusic stuck in our heads, so it only made sense that this week’s show be about our favorite game music. We love it. You love it. We love you. You love Chad, and Chad loves to conduct undersea performances with his all-dolphin symphony orchestra. So how about it? What are some of your favorite songs and soundtracks from back in the day?...
Christmas is only a couple of days away, and we’ve finished baking our cookies and wrapping our presents. Now there’s nothing left but to curl up by the fire and sip some hot chocolate while we take a look back at some of our fondest holiday gaming memories. I’m not sure what it is that’s keeping said fire going, but Hamza was in here earlier, saying something about not being able to find his desk....
