Red Steel 2isfinallycoming to the Wii this March, sporting some fancy Wii MotionPlus support and pretty hand-drawn-style visuals. So what better way to get you excited than to show you someone drawing a cowboy holding guns. Look, I can’t even draw a hat, much less a cowboy. And some guns. So this is impressive. Would I rather see the game? Of course. But if Ubisoft can make drawing epic, you have to hope they can do the same with the final game....
You see that image right there? Okay. Look at it really closely and imagine that the upper and lower images move across the screen. I just saved you the time it takes to click beyond the fold and watch a video which teases lessRed Steel 2and more “we’re deliberately wasting the precious seconds you can never get back to let you know that we’re going to say something aboutRed Steel 2at Gamescom next week....
“Console Vendors & OTT Delivery: Let the Games Begin!” is the latest report from The Diffusion Group, a research and consulting team. Their 49-page report points to consoles like the Xbox 360 and PS3 as the future of on-demand video. “Rising dissatisfaction with service value, the lack of flexibility implicit in tiered strategies, and a growing interest in watching online video on the TV have combined to create a unique opportunity for alternative video services — an opportunity not at all lost on console vendors....
I have no idea what exactly inspired me to play this game again. I remember it was plodding, frustrating and (in many ways) terribly unfair. I never made it much further than the first ten levels as a kid because my patience level for it was so short. Yet, at the same time, I kept being drawn to it. It’s not as thoughBoomer’s Adventurewas one of the only cartridges I had for my Gameboy....
Everyone seemed to dig last week’s rant, which means you’re all in for a good round of comparative disappointment today. My rant this week concerns indie games, but it’s probably not what you’d expect — it is not the usual ten to fifteen minutes of Jason Rohrer ball-licking that I so frequently indulge in onPodtoid. In fact, it’s kind of the opposite. Hit the jump to watch it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr0CCkH49g0...
Every week, Anthony Burch monologues about a topic of his choosing in a video Rev Rant. As is typically the case, I screwed up some aspect of the exporting and this week’s rant is in the wrong aspect ratio. Doesn’t really matter, though: the whining transcends video format. This week’s rant is about Metroidvanias, and why I am effectively incapable of enjoying them. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that Metroidvaniassuck, but I imply it pretty heavily in the following video....
Here we have a video forSpider-Man: Shattered Dimensionsfeaturing one of the titular hero’s alternate costumes. This is the “Scarlet Spider” who is, if you’re up on your Marvel trivia (or have the internet and care), a clone of Peter Parker made by Jackal who took the name Ben Reilly. Not to be confused with the even more obscure villainous cybernetic version or the trio of Stark armor-wearing characters from recent memory....
The box art forLeft 4 Deadwas brilliant in ways beyond description. Is was both subtle and over-the-top, a visual pun worthy of both praise and a facepalm in one swift movement. But do you think they came up with that overnight? The officialLeft 4 Deadbloghas revealed a slew of concept art for the game’s box, leading up to the final design. All I can say is thank God for revisions. The initial concepts were terribly bland, the first of which didn’t even feature a single undead ghoul....
A few days ago,we caught windof a new game fromHeavenly Sword developer Ninja Theory,Enslaved. Unfortunately, the name was all we knew. Now thatGame Informerhas been stuffed into our mailboxes by careless USPS workers, we have the full story, which we shall now kindly relate to you. Enslavedtakes place decades and decades after the third and fourth world wars have ravaged the world. Players take on the role of Monkey (voiced and mo-capped by Andy Serkis), a man who has lived a solitary life on the run from nihilistic machines — remnants of a forgotten war who continue to carry out their objectives, even though most of the human race is now dead....
[smacks head] I mean, I have an iPhone and plenty of games on it. But it’s not a game system. It’s a communications device that can play some games. That’s not how analyst Nicholas Lovell from Game Brief sees it, though. “…the iPod doesn’t have expensive processors or a unique format disc like the UMD; it is an easy-to-use device that offers consumers their music, podcasts, short-form video and accessible games on the move and in my opinion, will be the final nail in the PSP’s coffin,” he says onCasualGaming....
Yesterday, Nintendo of Americaset up a hype pageforSonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1. The page listed a bunch of features, including online leaderboards and a widescreen format. The most interesting thing was the fact thatSonic 4was boasting a “full HD resolution,” despite the fact that the Wii doesn’t output in HD. We wondered what that meant, and so did our readers. Some had assumed it would upscale to 720p with third party hardware....
The PSPgo. Most people in the gamer community are laughing and/or grimacing at it. A number of retailers around Europe areboycotting itfor being expensive and attempting to diminish in-store revenue. Sony doesn’t mind, though, because it expected the negativityto be worsethan it is. The publisher has said that it’s “really quite fine” with the hating. “We were very aware of concerns when we went into it and I actually expected a lot more negative responses than we actually got,” says PSP UK product manager Claire Backhouse....
Did you know you can create your own PS3 themes. There’s even a PlayStation 3 Custom Themedownloadable packto get you started. Theme creation ranges from simple things like editing the kit icons a bit to starting from scratch. TheEU PlayStation bloghas a bunch of tips on how to make your own. There’s an example that shows how a Japanese Manga theme was created, custom XMB icons and all. I have some Destructoid custom backgrounds but I’d love to see a full-blow Destructoid PS3 theme, complete with all the little icons and sounds....
