Lost Odysseykind of made an impact on me. Sort of. Destructoid’s Jim Sterling and Chad Concelmo were also both vocal fans of the Mistwalker RPG, and I’ve personally found myself keeping a close eye on the studio’s future since. Hironobu Sakaguchi recently updated theMistwalker dev blogrecently with some information about the new project, which he describes as a “four wheel drive Lego with removable doors”. Here’s more from the blog:...
While he’s currently working in a creative director role to bringI Heart Geeks(aFantastic Contraption-inspired puzzler for the Nintendo DS) to North America, Marc Ecko hasn’t forgotten his gaming past. In a recent interview, Ecko told us he’s keen on aGetting Up: Contents Under Pressurerevival. “Getting Up was a lot of blood, sweat, and tears,” he said. “Atari shit the bed, you know? And I’m gonna f*cking make that game again if it kills me....
In honor of the release of Boston-based Harmonix Music Systems’The Beatles: Rock Band, Governor Deval Patrick has proclaimed July 16, 2025 “Video Game Innovation Day” in the state of Massachussets. While the proclamation was obviously spurred by the release of the Fab Four title, Patrick makes a good case for Massachussets and gaming. In 2008, the videogame companies in the state generated over $3 billion in sales. Looking back at gaming history, one of the first games ever created, Spacewar!...
It’s that time of the year again! Valve has just begun their massive end-of-year sale on Steam, and there are a ton of great deals up. Everything in the store is discounted anywhere from 10% to 75%.TF2is only $10,Portalis $5,Bioshockis $5; if you’ve missed out on any big PC releases in the last couple years, now is the time to get them. Some of the biggest deals are listedhere, but since they’re claiming that everything in the entire Steam store is on sale you should probably just poke around and see what you may find....
Not content with simply releasing a game that was kind of a close approximation of being a US Special Operations team member, Electronic Arts went right to the source forMedal of Honor. The developer worked closely with dudes whose faces have to be blurred out in videos to protect their identity, which is a bit unnerving. But hey, videogames. While neither of these new videos released by EA have any game footage, they do a good job of giving us the sense that EA means serious business when it comes to authenticity....
This is no fault of the Mega64 guys at all, but there will never ever be anything funnier as far as Batman spoofs go thenthis. In other Mega64 related news, they have somenew posters on sale! The portrait posters were designed by Emily “Ferret” Irwin and give a historical take on the Mega64 crew. As for Version 3, we should be seeing a firm release date pretty soon.
This morning we told you how Sony tried todiminish the Wii’s achievementsin the hopes we’d pay attention to PlayStation Move. This afternoon, we give you Microsoft diminishing the Wii’s achievements in the hopes we’ll pay attention to Project Natal. Aaron Greenberg has mounted a solid attempt to make the Wii sound terrible, claiming that publishers struggle on the system. “Over 70% of third parties that are selling games today are actively making games for Project Natal,” claims the minister of propaganda....
It’s time to put on your music critic caps, people: 2K Sports has just divulged the details on the seventeen-track song list forMLB 2K8. (The press release, including the full soundtrack, can be found after the jump.) This will give you a head start on getting to know the music that will quickly become entrenched in your brain, so much so that you’ll be screaming “CLEVELAND ROCKS” in your sleep. Or maybe that’s just me....
Hey, this is certainly noRobot Unicorn Attack, but I’m still confident this gorgeous pixel art game will be one of the better flash games of 2010. IfBoomshinewas theFl0wof indie flash games this year, and Adult Swim’sRobot Unicorn Attackwas theKatamari Damacyequivalent, andEpsilonwas definitely thePortalequivalent, thenOne Button Bobwould have to be chalked up as theWarioWareindie flash game of this year. If you haven’t tried out ALL of these games so far, you really owe it to yourself to check them out one by one; we’ve been given many great flash games lately!...
The naysayers said a whole bunch of nays when last month’s topic went up, but, as always, you guys delivered: you talked about stuff you hated without devolving into flaming or trolling, and we got some interesting discussion out of it all. Where last month was all about hatred, this month is about my other favorite emotion — fear.“The fear! The FEAR!”asks the question, what scares you in videogames? I don’tjustmean in terms of horror games, but what makes you nervous, uneasy, frightened, or terrified in games in general?...
The list of things you ought to be glad you don’t know about me is long enough that I think it’s okay to remove one item. One bizarre, deformed, dark secret. Go ahead and insert your own dramatic pause here. Impregnate it with the weight of your emotion, haunt it with the ghosts of your baited breath. Got a haunted, pregnant pause? Good. Moving on… …I likeDragonball Zgames. Still with me?...
So, this weekend marks the opening of theSex and the Citymovie. For those of you living under a rock, the popular TV series about four liberated ladies drinking and partying their way around New York was bound to be made into a film, and if you’re unlucky, your girlfriend/wife plans to drag you to it. Gamers and Sex and the Cityfans don’t really strike me as a harmonious relationship match, but that’s not to say that many men won’t be forced to endure two hours of scripted cocktails for the sake of your woman’s happiness....
Did you ever play with Tangrams as a kid? They’re the set of polygonal shapes that can be configured into an array of different designs that are intended to resemble… all sorts of things, really. Typically, they’re played with by being given a silhouette of the intended configuration and you have to figure out how to use all the pieces to make it look like the image you’re shown. NEVES Plusfor WiiWare is pretty much that, as you’re able to see from the video above....
