G4 – Video Game Girl
Oh yeah, if game stop hired girls like this they would make SO much more money. Hmm.. Playboy needs a ‘Girls of GameStop’ spread, yes/no?
Modder places USB flash drive in Atari 2600 cart
[Via BoingBoing]
Chris Daughtry’s Poker Face.
Can’t say I’m the biggest Chris Daughtry fan.. but this is pretty cool
Funny stuff!
AR Gaming.
One of the first AR video games, being shown on a new handheld system from NVidia.
First impressions: Ghostbusters
This is a game I just knew was going to suck. It’s not that many games based on movies that do well and this licence has been sitting almost 20 years with little to no activity. However I am really surprised at how well it plays! Even when I read awhile back that this would be the definitive 3rd movie (actually now there is talk that a ‘real celluloid’ movie coming) I wondered how they would pull this off. I must say that using the writing as well as voice talents of the Ghostbusters cast makes this a great game to get into. Any company that wants to use a movie licence to make a game really should take notes on how to create an immersive story.
Moving right along, I really love the fact that there is no HUD clogging up the screen with useless info, some really tight graphics and again great banter among the cast DURING the course of the game. Any of the reviews you probably read are already spot on. This game keeps you busy. You can upograde your proton pack, scan for ghosts to get nto your Spirit guide etc.
My only complain of course is that in the game you can’t control your favorite Ghostbuster unless you play it in MP mode which also handles pretty well.
IN some places it feel repetitive because you are actually ‘killing’ some spirits as opposed to actually trapping them but part of the fun of course is some of the bigger bosses.
The set peices are also impressive and help for the immersion experience. There are a few plotholes in the game which I won’t give away which might spoil some people’s fun but what I would recommend is watching the movies again and catch some stuff you may have missed or didn’t get which will make this game all the more enjoyable!
Pick this game up and happy Ghostbusting!
4 out of 5 stars By: DreddheadedPoet
First official lightsaber accessories for Wii announced update: no Motion Plus
First official lightsaber accessories for Wii announced [update: no Motion Plus]
There are a few weird, internal reactions a nerd has to deal with when a company — Bensussen Deutsch & Associates, in this case — announces that it’s creating the first officially licensed Star Wars lightsaber and blaster accessories for the Wii. On one hand, Wii accessories are, by and large, completely pointless. On the other hand, they’re lightsabers … and they light up. On yet another hand (wait … three hands?) the accessories, including the blaster, clearly don’t have enough room to accommodate MotionPlus (as far as we can tell).
Granted, these are being released in conjunction with Star Wars – The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes, which has no MotionPlus support that we’re aware of, but come on! Any lightsaber accessory should have an extra slot for MotionPlus. We don’t care if LucasArts ever makes another lightsaber game or not. Hell, we’ll pick up Red Steel 2 and just pretend we’re using a lightsaber. At least, we would, if these accessories supported MotionPlus.
Oh, the Clone Trooper blaster also comes with stickers.
Update: We’ve confirmed with BDA that neither Republic Heroes nor its accessories support MotionPlus.
First official lightsaber accessories for Wii announced [update: no Motion Plus] originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Mark Jacobs Speaks About His Departure from EA Mythic – Ten Ton Hammer
Mark Jacobs Speaks About His Departure from EA Mythic – Ten Ton Hammer
via Ten Ton Hammer Headlines by Martuk on 6/26/09
Mark Jacobs talks about his departure from EA Mythic.
Mark Jacobs is speaking out for the first time about his departure from EA Mythic. In a post on his personal blog titled, “All Things Must Come to an End“, Jacobs talks about the reasons for…
Istaria (AKA Horizons) now supports Vista!
According to the Email I just got the developers at Virtrium got in the Vista support they have been working on. If you’ve been holding out on playing/Testing out this good MMO because it wouldn’t run on your Vista box your prayers have been answered!
ZeniMax Media Acquires id Software
Via: http://www.gameslice.com/2009/06/24/id-software-gets-bought/
Holy mother of all that’s good and pure. Fallout 3 parent company buys out the makers of Doom?! I don’t know why this is hitting me like this I’m totally floored. Granted Quake3, Doom3, Quake4 really havn’t done that well, and ZeniMax has made a killing with Marrowind, Oblivion, and Fallout3 but enough to snatch up ID? Wow.. just wow.
On the bright side, ID has come up with some pretty nifty game engines and now that they will own the ID’s franchises perhaps Doom4 will go back to it’s roots and be fun again!
good luck ZeniMax.. you’ve got some big shoes to fill.
