From the creative insaine minds at ThinkGeek comes the most superfluous accessory since the WiiZapper; the WiiHelm. Now instead of flapping your arms around and possibly looking a bit silly you can wrench your neck. The website does little to convince that the product is needed, especially with lines like “…the average gaming geek is just not up to the strenuous task of vigorous arm movement for longer than 10 minutes. This makes those extended play sessions a thing of the past…” Yes it certainly would put a damper in one’s play time when they loose equilibrium from swinging their head around like a special ed kid. But at least that beats having the remote slip out of your hand and break your tv.
For those curious how exactly the helm would work with the motion controls, thankfully they provided a video of the product in action
With the release of Brawl and its undeniable awesomeness, everyone I’ve seen has the same thing to say: “We were disappointed with the lack of voice communications support.”
I can understand why you would want to communicate with your friends in game, both to coordinate matches and just to have some fun. But think about this for a minute, do you really need voice in this game? Let’s look at some of the things you’ll be encountering in your adventures with voice chat!
Instant Online Radio! Ah, who thought we could get music we’ve never heard of by artists without labels at such poor quality? Listening to music while playing a video game is great, especially when it comes over someone else’s 10 dollar Wal-Mart mic, which can barely communicate with its own headphone jack, let alone start a disco. I don’t know about you, but I love it when people share their musical tastes with me while I’m trying to say something important to my teammates or calling for backup. It makes be feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
10 year olds with superiority complexes! When I’m playing online, I enjoy listening to someone half my age talking about his enormous testicles and dropping F-bombs like he grew up at the state Veteran’s Hospital. It makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something when I beat up someone so young, and it’s ok to feel proud, because the little bastard had it coming. The state of our youth is in good hands when we can say with conviction that our children are growing up strong minded, strong willed, and strongly in need of some grammar lessons.
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So the next time you start thinking to yourself “I wish this had voice communication so I could talk to the person I’m playing with,” just remember what comes with it. If you really want it that bad, get their cell phone number.
Ok I know the whole Nintendo Seal of Quality thing is bullshit but come on. I wouldn’t waste my time with this if it was a free flash game.
What’s even more ridiculous is that this is actually a port of an arcade game released in 2004. Arcade Link
Konami Hype/Shame Page
“Originally an arcade game created by legendary designer Eugene Jarvis (Defender, Robotron: 2084, and Cruis’n series), Target: Terror puts you in the place of an elite anti-terrorist agent who is charged with protecting the U.S. from all terrorist activities.”
Who else thinks Eugene is in his 80’s and hitting the bottle a little too hard these days?
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Or import S-Video cables for that matter. THEY DO NOT OUTPUT GAMEPLAY TO YOUR TV OR VIDEO CAPTURE DEVICE. ARGGH!
Oh I guess I should have looked this up on the internet before I bought the cables or maybe I should read the tiny bolded line on the back of the box that says they’re ONLY for videos and pictures. WHAT IN THE FLYING @!%!?!
Component are the only cables that output gameplay to your TV apparently and it sounds like they don’t even do it that well.
DEAR SONY I WANT TO SHOOT YOU IN THE FACE.
So if you want the right cables click here.
On May 29th you can take a step back in time nearly 20 years and pay full price for it at the same time.
“Back in the summer of 1986, Bandai released a fitness game titled Family Trainer: Athletic World on the 8-bit Famicom which shipped with a flimsy mat controller. The idea was to get kids off the couch and in motion with simple mini-games that were played by stepping on the circular cues located on top of the mat. Sales were mediocre and Bandai eventually abandoned hopes of starting a video game fitness craze.”
Then:
Now:
The more things change, the more things stay the same?
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Apparently the game crashes like crazy at random times.
I think I’ve seen enough reports of the game freezing up where I’m pretty sure it’s not just an isolated issue.
At first I was thinking it my 360 was about to red ring when my game froze 3 times in a row, but then MaizeRage25 started saying in the official thread that he was having the same problems.. so I looked on GameFAQs… and some more people said their game freezed. I’m sure I could’ve found more if I looked harder.
Others are complaining about the shoddy framerate on a PS2 PORT, audio glitches and brief lockups.
So obviously this isn’t a problem with the console… but did Rockstar really let the game through QA in this state?
NEOGAF
Ernest Gary Gygax (July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) was an American writer and game designer, best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson, and co-founding the company Tactical Studies Rules with Don Kaye in 1974. Gygax is generally acknowledged as the father of the role-playing game.[2]
On March 4th, the Associated Press confirmed reports of Gygax’s death that originally were made by Troll Lord Games,[3] a small role-playing game company Gygax had been working with.[4][5] He had been in poor health, suffering multiple strokes and a near-heart attack. He died the morning of March 4, 2008 at his home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
Saw this pic on Digg and I just had to share it. I was about 9 at the time of this one so I didn’t have the rad stonewashed jeans or the pink t-shirt but I’m sad to say I’m pretty sure I had a neon hat. I can also remember crying because the video rental store didn’t have Duck Tales in. Good lord the 80’s scare me.
In the latest salvo in the let’s-claim-credit-for-a-commonly-used-term-that-we-didn’t-even-create War(TM), Finnish software company Futuremark Games Studio filed papers on February 26, 2008 to protect the trademark “Pwnage” in relation to:
“… computer game software; computer game programs; computer game discs; interactive multimedia computer game program; downloadable ring tones, … multimedia software recorded on CD-ROM featuring fictional characters and computer games; pre-recorded DVD’s, video tapes, laser discs featuring movies about fictional characters, and pre-recorded compact discs featuring music; motion picture films on fictional characters…”.
Kotaku
So don’t go saying or writing Pwnage or Finland will charge you!
Only $9.90!
“Shin Sangoku Musou DS: Fighter’s Battle (aka. Dynasty Warriors: Fighter’s Battle) challenges you to team up with the greatest fighters in the Dynasty Warriors series. Use your tactics and commander cards to fight through 12 stages and conquer territory. With your awesome Musou attack you have the power to stop the hordes of enemy soldiers ready to strike. Unite all of China and victory will be yours! Wireless Vs. mode for up to 3 players Game controls and visual design created expressly for Nintendo DS.”
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