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Dragon's Dogma: The Kotaku Review Costco is currently selling Wii bundles that include the Wii, an extra Wii remote and a copy of Mario Party 8 for $US329. If you’re still looking to get a Wii and you have a Costco membership, this might be the perfect opportunity for you although you’ll probably be wanting to pick up an extra nunchuk as well. The savings is minuscule at only $US10, but it’s better than nothing I suppose. Look at it this way, you’ll finally have your long sought after Wii and while you’re there you can use that extra ten bucks to buy a giant tub of Gummi Worms and a case of Mountain Dew. Let the good times roll!
Coscto Wii/Mario Party 8 bundles [GoNintendo]
Deceptively difficult (or deceptively easy, depending on your perspective), Gimme Friction Baby by Wouter Visser also has a deceptively lascivious title – it’s really just a fun, addicting little game of angles. If an orb bounces back over the dotted line and shatters into pieces, you lose. The game won the jayisgames.com Casual Game Design Competition #3, and there are several other worthy timewasters to take a gander at if Friction doesn’t strike your fancy.
Website Xbox 360 Rally has managed to get their hands on what seems to be an authentic list of Sega’s offerings for the upcoming Tokyo Game Show. Highlights include Shenmue 3, Nights: Journey of Dreams, House of the Dead 4 and Space Channel 5 part 3 (ok, so maybe I’m the only one excited about that).
We don’t know from whence this list came but the Xbox 360 Rally folks seem to think it’s a pretty reliable source. So I guess what I’m saying here is, if it turns out not to be true, send your angry emails to them, not us. Thanks.
Make the jump to check out the (supposedly true) full list of Sega’s TGS roster.
[Thanks, blackicejoe]
In answer to the seemingly never ending tales of Xbox 360 failures (mind you, unlike Crecente I’ve had mine for almost a year with no problems) Microsoft is launching an online site where US owners can help speed up the process of getting their original Xbox or Xbox 360 repaired.
In something of a departure from Dance!, the new Acclaim Game’s ‘extreme action MMORPG’ (it sounds so dramatic) 2Moons started its open beta last week to little fanfare – as far as I can tell, there’s not been a lot of press on the game. With the tag line of “No mercy for the weak, no pity for the dying, no tears for the slain,” the adaptation of Korean MMORPG Dekaron is being aimed towards adults and will retain the free to play model even after going live. David Perry, the guy behind Earthworm Jim and Enter the Matrix, is behind this adaptation. I’m not sure how the promise of ‘Massive bloody battles! You against thousands! Blast monsters into chunks of writhing flesh!’ differentiates this game from all the other MMORPGS where you kill things with lots of other people.
You can sign up over at the 2moons website and download the client from a couple of sources. And then get to blasting those monsters into chunks of writhing flesh.
The Arcade Flyer Archive has completed their August update with an additional one hundred flyers in each of their categories (pinball, arcade & amusement, video game). This time around they have managed to lay hands on a Tekken 6 flyer as well as one for the new Silent Hill Arcade Game. The Pinball and Arcade & Amusement sections are featuring games based on popular video game franchises like Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and of course, Mario Bros. If you’ve never checked out TAFA, now is the time, and if you are a faithful fan, you’ll find plenty of new stuff to peruse with this month’s update.
U.K. website Guardian Unlimited has posted an interview with uber talent Bob Hoskins. Amid an interview discussing his career, the pitfalls of getting too into your character and copious f-bombs, Hoskins talks (albeit briefly) about his horrific experience making the Super Mario Brothers movie. so horrific in fact, that he lists it as the worst thing he’s ever done. (I wonder if John Leguizamo can say the same?)
He accepts there have been flops, and films he’s detested, but that’s the nature of the game. “The worst thing I ever did? Super Mario Brothers. It was a fuckin’ nightmare. The whole experience was a nightmare. It had a husband-and-wife team directing, whose arrogance had been mistaken for talent. After so many weeks their own agent told them to get off the set! Fuckin’ nightmare. Fuckin’ idiots.”
Something tells me method acting didn’t enter into his performance on that one. Although, the thought of Bob Hoskins jumping on heads and eating mushrooms on his days off is an amusing one.
‘The Method? Living it out? Cobblers!’ [The Guardian Unlimited]
Nexon and Wizards of the Coast have paired up to offer the US and Canada the ‘MapleStory iTrading Card Game (iTCG),’ starting this November (aren’t we so lucky?). The cards will offer players the chance to, uh, do the card battle thing, but also give access to new (and exclusive, mind you) parts of the regular game. I’m having bad flashbacks to elementary school, when Magic: The Gathering was all the rage.
With the news that Heavenly Sword will be hitting shelves September 12, PS3 owners have reason to rejoice. Having just purchased a PS3 myself yesterday (more on that later), I downloaded the demo for HS and it looks and feels absolutely amazing. The controls feel very God of War-ish and the visuals are beautiful. And of course, Nariko and her moves are hot, hot, hot. I mean come on, even I think she’s hot so that’s really saying something.
You can see more of Nariko and her badassness after the jump!
The government of China’s Zhejiang province decided to go after children and teach them in no uncertain terms that corruption is bad and everyone ought to do their part in ensuring corrupt party members, their families, and mistresses ought to die a painful death – in late July, they introduced ‘Incorruptible Fighter’ so players can slash their way through corruption and to a wonderful, corruption-free paradise that has no earthly connection to the China of today:
“Players fight their way through one level after another, overcoming all obstacles to eliminate corrupt officials and enter a spring-like paradise filled with birdsong and the scent of flowers, a peaceful world where people live in love, harmony and national prosperity,” the Ningbo [Zhejiang province]city government said in a statement.
