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With continuous rumors of a successor to the Wii, last month at Nintendo’s 70th annual general meeting of shareholders, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata confirmed that the company has been working on a successor to the Wii, but that he remains silent on any specific details. More »
While ComicCon dominates the headlines these days, we can’t forget about the ScrewAttack Gaming Convention, concluded only a few weeks ago. The excellent folks at ScrewAttack throw quite a bash, bringing together gamers across the country for a three day party filled with nerd celebrities galore. If you couldn’t make it, at least scope out some of the sights and sounds of the event.
You can’t force it and you sure as hell can’t fake it; some games are so bad they’re good. Maybe it’s the stilted voice acting, the amusingly horrible graphics, or the hysterically bad level design, but at some point a game crosses that magical boundary between being unplayable trash and a magical train wreck from which you can’t look away. Gaming on the B-side looks at those games that somehow possess the intangible qualities that make them a special brand of enjoyable.
Harmonix has the unique ability to announce something completely unexpected, and have that seem the most natural idea in the world minutes later. More complex instruments and a “pro” mode; Rock Band’s always trended to musical simulation as opposed to Guitar Hero’s video game tropes. Now we have but the barest information regarding Harmonix’s next video game love letter to music, but all the information revealed points to certain possibilities that would rule too hard to not speculate about.
The Texas heat, physical activity, and insulating costumes did not make A-kon 21 the most olfactory pleasing experience, but boy howdy was it a visually interesting one. Here’s pictures and video of cosplay, crowds of nerds, and more anime than you can shake some cat-ears at. Be warned, there are a lot of pictures.
Demos on Steam are dangerous things. In days of yore, playing a demo involved downloading an executable, double-clicking that business, and watching bars go. Of course, the entire process is too strenuous for words. Who can be bothered to click on things in this day and age? Thanks to Steam’s drastic reduction in click-overhead (cloverhead?), installing and playing demos is nigh-on impulsive. Such impulses started the Alien Breed: Impact demo, an experience that was often punctuated with screens begging me to buy the full game with almost comic intrusiveness. I chuckled at the first few instances, and somewhere around the fifth screen promising me that the full game offered more weapons, explosive encounters, and non-stop action, it occurred to me; it may not have come on a 3.5″ disk, but in the year 2010 I’m playing shareware.
Even though Splinter Cell: Conviction released more than a month ago–which means it has all but faded from the minute-long attention span of gamers worldwide–I’m still dismayed that its innovation and refinement was mostly glossed-over. Maybe it’s just because of the four year gap since the last game; maybe people just forgot about Double Agent. I picked Sam Fisher’s penultimate title again this week and let me tell you. Yeesh.
Listen Sam, I know you just sit there and play the piano, but I have a request for you. See there’s this game – not a lot of people liked it, but I could see that it had potential. It was a good idea, Sam. You don’t get a lot of good ideas these days. That’s why I hope they make another one. You see, Sam, sometimes good ideas don’t take off the first time. You have to give it another shot to really nail it. So why don’t you play it for old time’s sake? Play it, Sam. Play ‘Dark Void.’
We all know the stereotype – Wii games are nothing but terrible-looking childish minigame collections that have you do nothing but waggle your Wii Remote until your arm falls off. As it turns out, there are actually a few decent games for Nintendo’s confounding plastic box. QualitWii games highlights the diamonds in the rough, so you don’t have to play Party Collection 4: Dart Boogaloo to find them.
“Oh man, is that a DS? What are you playing?” The cafe manager’s question sounded genuine enough, but it immediately set me on edge as a flurry of considerations ran through my head. It was Wednesday, which means my girlfriend and several of her shrieking female companions had taken roost in my apartment in celebration of “girl’s night” – an event involving a girly movie and the TV show Glee. My severe allergy to jazz hands and overacting sent me walkabout, eventually settling in a cafe for a few hours of time-killing DS-ery. |
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