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Poor Little Mac, of Punch Out! fame, has really let himself go over the years. What used to be a svelte, little pugilist has morphed into the loathsome combatant, King Hippo. With all of the hoopla over Nintendo's mild E3 presentation, it makes good sense for them to shelve the Mac Attack until he can get fit again. For that matter, it is disheartening to note that the Big-N failed to mention anything in regard to Captain Rainbow.
Now, what is rather encouraging is to the return of Birdo to the video gaming scene. I've been waiting for someone to fill the missing gaming analog to Mrs. Dr. Girlfriend for ages now.
Those saucy brutes over at Mega64 have revived their sexy branded Sexy64 all sexy male sexy gaming troupe. Lady gamers and suicide girls of the world take note: This is a sexy, smexy, S3XY gamers group for the sexy men types only. Lady gamers? Denied!
Should you feel sexy enough to ride the sexy train to sexy guy gamerville, Mega64 has produced a standard uniform for manly sexiness in the form of the Sexy64 tee shirt. Heck, I feel sexier from just absorbing the sexiness that these sexy men radiate!
Sexy64 All Guys Gaming League [MySpace]
While I'm sure that the various actors seen in this video are intended to reflect notable pop culture celebrities within Japanese society, from the outside, it just looks like Nintendo having a fit of fabulousness for the sake of Rhythm Tengoku Gold on the Nintendo DS.
With this in mind, one can only scheme a disco drag queen rave up featuring coordinated tapping on color matching Nintendo DS Lites while launching glitterbombs at strobe-washed television screens pulsing to the beat of Rhythm Heaven. Ah, brilliant.
You can have that one, Nintendo. Consider it a gift from me to you.
Jack Tretton and company may not be listening to your wails and pleas for a proper, backwards compatible PlayStation 3, but it appears that someone within the hallowed walls of Sony has realized that PlayStation Portable owners would really like to see their own version of the PlayStation Store.
In an interview with Pocket Gamer, Sony's Director of Hardware Marketing, Jack Koller stated:
"Having a native store on the portable is something we're looking into."
I've always been surprised at Sony's lack of interoperability and their inability to offer concurrent services between the PlayStation Portable and the PlayStation 3. For instance, why is it that Sony has continuously tried to drive an online initiative, and yet you can neither view, nor contact your buddy list via the PlayStation Portable?
With any luck, an embedded store of the PlayStation Portable is just the beginning.
Sony "Looking Into" Native PSP Store [EDGE Online]
With a reported 60 instruments, Miyamoto's next baby for the Nintendo Wii, Wii Music, was always guaranteed to feature a series of delightfully unique gameplay devices. I mean, it's Miyamoto we're talking about. It would be more far fetched to think that there would be nothing but conventional noisemakers from the world in the game.
With that in mind, the Puppy Suit is an instrument that your Mii wears to produce barking sounds reminiscent of that brief fad in the mid/late 1980s whereby christmas holiday songs were required to be rendered in the wails and howls of our canine companions.
Silly? Quite. Yet, the weird gates have only just been opened.
As one of the crown jewels in Nintendo's E3 2008 lineup, Animal Crossing: City Folk continues to impress as more of the game's features are laid out. What follows are some of the major points revealed during Nintendo's Developers Roundtable question and answer session.
- Halloween is returning from the original Gamecube release, as is the Jingle character for the winter holiday season.
- WiiConnect 24 will feed players new items and surprises.
- New to 'City Folk is a city theater that puts on comedy skits.
- You can visit your friend's city without them needing to be there.
- The Able Sisters will now allow you to decorate the front, back, and sleeves of your shirts.
- 'City Folk interacts with the Photo Channel so that you can send pictures to your friends or save them to a SD card.
- If you have a friend that leaves the town, the connection will disappear for everyone...just like Wild World
- Animal Crossing: Wild World fans can transport their character to City Folk, and gamers can also transport their collections. All this requires is a visit to Tom Nook in the Wii version. (!!!YES!!!)
- Players without WiFi can take their City Folk character data with them on their Nintendo DS to visit a friend's town.
- Brand new (i.e. not hidden on the disc) downloadable content is being developed for the game.
- Bummer, classic Nintendo games will not be returning.
- City Folk will not interact with the Wii Forecast Channel, as has been speculated.
- Gamers within the southern hemisphere will see their seasons inverted from gamers in the northern hemisphere.
Wow. As a complete and total nut for the Animal Crossing series, November 16 could not get here fast enough. For all of you that have let your Animal Crossing: Wild World towns languish under a heavy overgrowth of weeds, you now have a good incentive to spruce things up in preparation for Animal Crossing: City Folk's launch.
The shift of Square Enix's Final Fantasy XIII to being a multi-platform release for the west came as a shock to many a fanboy. As one of Sony's constant pillars for wooing prospective buyers, the loss of exclusivity doesn't just sting--it hurts badly. During a roundtable question and answer session today, Sony Computer Entertainment America President and CEO Jack Tretton responded sharply when asked if he was disappointed in Square Enix's move:
"I guess disappointed is clearly an appropriate term."
"I think Microsoft has spent the majority of their money on trying to curry favor with third parties. I think it's going to be harder and harder to have third-party exclusives as we move forward."
Whether the multi-platform move was a choice founded on the hope of garnering higher sales, or if the shift was driven explicitly by Microsoft waving suitcases full of cashola, will only be known to those present within closed boardroom sessions.
Then again, Sony's been in this business for well over a decade now. You would think that they would have learned long ago the direct response money brings.
It was a sad day, many years ago, when Rhythm Tengoku for the GameBoy Advance was passed over. Caught in the glut of remarkable games (a tear for Mother 3 and the Bit Generations series) to arrive near the end of the Advance's lifespan, Rhythm Tengoku brought many a music-themed game fan to source out their importer of preference for a chance session with a game that is both quirky and addictive.
In continuing the brilliance of the original and the arcade edition, Rhythm Heaven, as it has been branded for a North American release, brings on the beat in a series of wild rhythm gaming spiced with the zany action of the WarioWare series.
E308: Rhythm Tengoku brings heaven to the U.S. [ds fanboy]
The 80GB model of the PlayStation 3 has become synonymous as a final avenue for gamers to find their oft desired backwards compatibility. So, imagine the immediate joy, and the ensuing horror, in finding that the 80GB PlayStation 3 would be arriving in September as part of a new "Core Pack" at the pleasing price of $399.
Be warned, this is not the 80GB PlayStation 3 that you know and love--Oh no. This rogue SKU is the presently scorned 40GB model harboring an 80GB hard drive.
What will become of the 80GB Metal Gear Solid 4 backwards compatibility equipped PlayStation 3? Will is Sony so content to maintain backwards compatibility as a premium that one must search for?
How does the extra 40 gigabytes strike you? Will you now be rationalizing a PS3 purchase, or will you instead wait to find out if Sony will provide a new SKU for a system featuring backwards compatibility?
Photo courtesy of Joystiq.
Aside from the whole Final Fantasy XIII for Xbox 360 bombshell today, the primary news story had to be Microsoft officially demonstrating a full-fledged renovation to the thoroughly familiar Dashboard interface.
From gutting the conventional blade system in favor of an Aero/Windows Media Center interface definitely scales the Xbox 360 in a similar aesthetic to Microsoft's variety of wares, but immediate questions arise as to the speed and snappiness of this new "Xbox Guide".
To match with the new navigation, Microsoft has premiered their own take on the extremely well received Miis of the Nintendo Wii, and dubbed their Sims-like creations as Avatars. Featuring a more robust customization system, and a new, neighborhood-themed experience paired with Xbox Live's Gamercards, the fall dashboard update is set to reengage Xbox 360 gamers worldwide.
Having your personal property violated by criminals is thoroughly unsettling. Even worse is that homes and vehicles directly attacked by vandals and thieves tend to see repeated visits. This posted letter details such a case.
Having been victimized repeatedly, the car's owner decided to take measures into their own hands by channeling the crowbar toting, Gordon Freeman, as just the resilient muse to strike danger into the hearts of those finding great pleasure in crushing ocarinas and pilfering car registrations.
Broken windows theory, be damned. Sometimes the best solution works out to also be witty social commentary.
Trying To Reason With Criminals [FrostFireZoo]
It's on like Donkey Kong, my friends. With Konami strutting onto the scene and catting Harmonix into a fight, it only seems suitable for Harmonix to, at the very least, acknowledge the existence of the tiff.
"Konami's actions are extremely surprising. Unfortunately, successful products such as Rock Band can often become targets for baseless litigation," said a company spokesperson today.
"We have substantial defenses to this claim and intend to vigorously defend it."
Good for you, Harmonix! Don't let the good ship Rock Band go down without an adequate, and publicly dramatic, fight.
Harmonix Responds to Konami Rock Band Suit [Wired Game|Life]
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