Outside of the Game Boy Micro, I feel Nintendo has done a pretty great job of designing and selling iterations of the Game Boy that have left its predecessors in the dust. I was happy to see the fat body and spinach colors of the original Game Boy eventually give way to the Game Boy Color. And as much as I loved the Game Boy Advance, I never looked back when I picked up the Game Boy Advance SP on its launch day....
You really can’t beat some good old fashioned Engrish. This video may merely be masquerading as an unreleased intro forFinal Fight, but that doesn’t stop it being absolutely hilarious. Do you want to be a burning man of vigor? Let Haggar show you how! Final Fight: Double Impactwill hit XBLA and PSN on April 14/15. We fully expect everybody to download it and partake in the many violences so Mad Gear can continued OK times for all....
[Update 8/7 Noon EST: Donation goal surpassed at $21,375 of $20,000 with 9 hours to go.] Minecrafthas been a quickly rising hit over the past year. The game centers around mining, and building, and more generally, simply surviving. This has led to one of the few complaints of the game to some people, with the lack of any clear cut goals. My attention was recently brought to the work-in-progressLords of Uberdark, which seeks to take the mining and building aspects ofMinecraftand apply them to a team-based real-time-strategy formula....
Monster Hunter Frontier Onlineis coming to the Xbox 360, at least in Japan. That’s pretty good news, and we’re hoping it goes worldwide, since Xbox Live is the perfect platform for Capcom’s co-op dinosaur murder game. Stealing eggs and cooking their mothers is always better done with a friend. Anyway, here are some new screens that show off a selection of fierce creatures. Giant scorpions and thorny dragons are the order of the day, so use the eyes on your face to look at them for a bit and then go look at something else when you’re done....
Microsoft dropped wordof what I can only describe as a metric f*ckton of new games last night, many of them coming for Xbox Live Arcade. Square-Enix’s0 Day Attack on Earthis one of the ones that caught my eye, which looks a bit like an overhead shooter version of my belovedEarth Defense Force 2017. Can you imagine? I’m actually drooling on the keys as I type this. Hit the jump to check out video of the title, which is coming sometime this year....
Following the recent announcement of theTime Attack/fixes patchforMotorStorm, it seems there’s even more tweakery and embellishment on the way in the form of some proper downloadable content. Coming to the PlayStation Store in June,Coyote Weekendpromises a new vehicle, newEliminatormultiplayer mode, a revamped version of the Coyote Rage map, and new car configurations for some existing tracks. It’s the first of a wave of “light” DLC packs Sony have planned for this year, comprising game mode and vehicle updates....
If you haven’t heard ofDokapon Kingdom, let us fix that. The best way to describe this Wii and PlayStation 2 title is to call it acracked out RPG party board game. Play with up to four players on a game board, as you run around collecting items, working to beat down monsters for cash. The money-crazed king needs to collect his taxes, but monsters are in the way. Because of this, he has offered up his princess to the one who can take down the most monsters....
Normally I bemoan the fact that Japan gets so many cool games that never make it to US shores, but I have a feeling with this one we may see it eventually. Famitsu Magazine reported thatMr Driller Worldis coming to WiiWare in Japan next week, retailing for 800 Wii points. After the disappointing experience ofplaying a rather broken version of Mr Driller on Xbox Live last year, I could definitely go for a new version of the addictive series....
Despite previous reports indicating otherwise, RedOctane hasset the record straight with 1UP. The Wii version ofGuitar Hero III: Legends of Rock— like all other versions of the title — will support online play out of the box. The confusion arose earlier in the week whenProG reportedRedOctane President Kai Huang as saying “There won’t be online initially for the Wii.” Seems pretty clear, right? Apparently, Huang was referring to the game’s imminent downloadable content; given the storage limitations of the Wii (limited internal storage, no established external peripheral), this could pose to be a challenge for RedOctane....
GoNintendo is reporting that one of its readers headed out to his local GameCrazy to try theSuper Mario Galaxydemo … a demo that just so happens to be the entire game. Earning the envious rage of gamers everywhere, this reader has now set out to beat the entire game before its official release date. This isn’t the first time Nintendo has sent out a full game for demo units prior to launch....
This is the second year that videogame cover bandThe OneUpswill play San Francisco’sBay Area Game Jam. The band played 24-hour game making competition, held at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Campus, last year alongside another popular (and fantastic) videogame cover band,The Megas, and the response was great. This year the show is free, and all ages can attend. They’ll have their new CD, theSuper Mario Kart album, on hand forthose that may have heard about it....
As the game industry gears up for the so-called “future” of videogames, yet more evidence has appeared to suggest that videogame publishers are putting the cart before the horse. A new survey reveals that only 2% of British consumers are interested in a 3DTV, let alone 3D gaming. 89 people out of the 4199 polled are considering purchasing a 3DTV. Whether this is due to expense or a simple apathy toward the entire gimmick, one cannot be sure, but the numbers state that people aren’t swallowing the hype, in any case....
After I review a new title for Destructoid, it’s usually shelved after we run the review, as I move on to the next title. This is not the case forHot Shots Golf: Out of Boundsfor the PlayStation 3; I still play it nightly. I adore every aspect except one: the characters’ quirks. In this version, the golfers look and sound better than they ever have before. And you can change their clothes, swing styles, and even equipment....
