Archive for January, 2008

4 Zeldas in 48 Hours

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

Sometimes certain things just call to you, you know? Some people feel the urge to become painters, astronauts, or medical doctors. However, there is another group of people, a brave warrior/poet class of people, that must play all 4 3D Zeldas to completion and do so within 48 hours.
That’s a Zelda every 12 hours people!
Well, […]

Get out the prayer rugs: first Sonic RPG info

Friday, January 11th, 2008

First announced back in the Summer of 2007, Untitled Sonic RPG from BioWare has finally received some critical updates in the ways of both name and content from the most recent issue of Nintendo Power. Now officially titled Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, the game will apparently focus on Sonic’s quest to rescue the enchinapped […]

In Brief: 3rd party mega-consoles on display at CES

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

For the hoarder in your life: Wired’s Gadget Lab has found numerous multi-format retro videogame consoles at this year’s Consumer Electronic Show. Highlights include a fairly nice looking NES/SNES combo (pictured below) and a Genesis/Master System/NES combo that are region-free (I.e. it’ll play imported games from other countries). The rub: you have to actually own […]

Breaking: Zelda timeline still unsuccessfully explained

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Not content with just simply being angry at his games, The Angry Videogame Nerd has accepted the most daunting of tasks: trying to explain the chronology of the Legend of Zelda franchise. So unbelievably complex it inspires whole new emotions beyond the realms of conventional hate, the Zelda series is essentially an unsolvable puzzle. […]

Gizmodo works The Shaft

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Look, I promise you I won’t be the first person to make that joke today. However, I do promise that the joke was entirely white-roomed and reverse engineered to avoid lawsuits. Remember, it can always be worse: I could’ve done a terrible Shaft theme-song parody.
The nice folks over at Gizmodo have gotten some hands-on time […]

The Winner has been crowned

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Who says the current-gen console race is a three party system? Winner, yes that really is the name of this thing, is set to launch soon in Japan and North America. Will it be the Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich of the videogame world? Only time will tell…
… and time has told; No, no it […]

Wii North American Virtual Console Update: 01/07/08

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Bad news first: it appears Nintendo has begun to scale back the releases on the Virtual console. Good news: joining the ranks of the legally downloadable this week are StarTropics and King of Fighters ‘94.
StarTropics (NES, 500 Wii points) In analogous terms, StarTropics is as if the Legend of Zelda were created for the American […]

Smash Bros. goes strictly commercial

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Probably the first time you’ve seen Smash Bros and Frank Zappa referenced in the same title, huh? Now there is a new character for you: Challenger Approaching: Zappa! At this point, really, that would be the only way to make the soundtrack any better.
So, anyway, the marketing for Smash Bros in Japan is in full […]

Rez from DC in HD on 360.

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Remember that list of similarities between the Xbox 360 and the Dreamcast 1up.com published around the launch of our red-ring-prone friend? Well, add another item to that list as Rez, the game which should be owned by anyone who considers themselves a fan of on-rails, techno-music-creating, rhythm/shooters about hacking into computer systems, is coming very […]

Shh… no one tell Jack: Bully Scholarship Edition coming to Wii/X360

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Hey you, yeah you: remember that game Bully, released on the Playstation 2 over a year ago? Well, I’m betting that Rockstar is hoping you don’t, as they’re set to release an updated version of the game this March. The game, famous for stirring up more controversy than it probably deserved, garnered generally positive reviews […]