Did you know Halo 3 is coming out soon? If you didn’t, Microsoft are expecting these strange-looking cans of Mountain Dew to keep you in the loop. Yes, they’re cans. I think they look like bottles, but Kotakuite Jonathan promises me they’re just strange-looking cans. And he should know, these appear to be taking pride of place in his own private Halo 3-themed drink container collection. More »
No better way to illustrate Zack & Wiki’s awesomeness than to see an innocent Japanese family fall victim to it. Look at them. They’re overcome by it! More »
The TurboGrafx-16 is a nice addition to the Virtual Console. Don’t get me wrong. But it’d be nice to have more. Hudson know what I’m talking about! They’ve announced that, starting next month, they’ll be rolling TurboGrafx CD and TurboDuo games onto the Wii’s retro catalogue. Games from both systems will set you back 800 points, and the plan is to make them available across all regions. Yes, Europe and Australia, that includes you as well. As for games, Ys Book I & II and Chou Aniki will be amongst the first available. Took them long enough, but between today’s other announcement and this Nintendo finally seem to be coming around to just why we were so excited about the Virtual Console in the first place. ãƒãƒ‰ã‚½ãƒ³ã€Wii「ãƒãƒ¼ãƒãƒ£ãƒ«ã‚³ãƒ³ã‚½ãƒ¼ãƒ«ã€[Game Watch] More »
Wow, Winamp! Forgot all about it. Presumed it was dead. Seems it’s not, and it’s making a big comeback. Most of it involves various iTunes-killing ideas, but one should be of interest to you: the new version will stream your music library to your Wii. Just in case you’re the type who’d actually use that kind of feature. Winamp’s 10th Anniversary Version Edition Will Challenge ITunes [Wired, via Boing Boing] More »
The DS cares not for your colour or creed. Japan, America, doesn’t matter, everyone loves the DS. Take Europe, for example, where Nintendo have announced that over 14 million of them have been sold since launch. That’s a lot! It’s also an odd number to celebrate, so either they needed something to spruce up their DS Lite Silver announcement or it’s the last set of numbers they could pry out of GfK or ChartTrack or whoever it was that was clutching the numbers tightly to their chest. More »
Hey. Europe. Don’t look now, but there’s new stuff on your PSN. Shhh. No sudden movements. You’ll frighten it all away! While European 360 owners have to wait until 9pm GMT tonight for their FIFA 08 demo, PS3 owners can go right ahead and download it now. That and a whole bunch of other stuff. There’s two pieces of DLC (A Ninja Gaiden Sigma weapon pack and a Motorstorm vehicle pack), NBA Live 08 and Harry Potter demos and trailers for Heavenly Sword and LocoRoco PS3. Should keep you busy enough. More »
Should have been doing a ton of pre-TGS stuff this morning, but couldn’t. Half the time I was playing Mario. The other I was playing this. “This” being Nelly Cootaloot, a delightful little adventure game put together by Alasdair Beckett. It’s 15MB, it’s free, it’s well worth the deviation from your hectic schedules. Plot summary is as follows: Nelly Cootalot, fearsome pirate and lover of tiny and adorable creatures, is charged by the spirit of a dead buccaneer to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a fleet of birds known as spoonbeaks. Her adventure will bring her face to face with the nefarious Baron Widebeard as she uncovers corruption and wanton punning in the Barony of Meeth.
Baron Widebeard? Brilliant. Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy! [AGS, via TIGSource] More »
Sony’s invited me to take a look at a ‘review’ build of Eye of Judgement, the Magic: The Gathering-inspired card game for the PS3.
I’m not sure what I’ll be able to talk about immediately afterwards, but I wanted you to know that I’ll be heading their way on Monday 17.
If there’s anything you’d be interested in hearing about, drop in a comment and I’ll take it to heart… and notepad. More »
By far the best part of Chance Glasco’s demo of Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty 4 at Activate Asia this year was when he killed a dog.
Yeah, a dog.
Sneaking through Pripyat, Russia, all decked out in his sexy-looking Ghillie suit, Chance tried to snipe an enemy soldier in a nearby church bell tower. He fired about five shots. They all missed. The soldier was – expectedly – upset.
Seconds later, Chance was beset by troops and trained killer puppies. One of the animals jumped Chance, knocking his player to the ground. After a few chomps, Chance, with deadly precision, reached his hands up and snapped the creature’s neck. Objectively, it was an awesome bit of gameplay.
We found out later that the neck-snapping was completely unintentional, and, in fact, it was the one thing Activision had informed Chance he shouldn’t do.
We didn’t mind that he did, though. More »
The Leipzig Games Convention provided us with our first look at playable code of Rockstar San Diego’s upcoming Midnight Club Los Angeles. I just got back from Rockstar’s home base in Surry Hills, here in Sydney, where I was shown similar content on the 360 version, but with a few new tidbits, fresh for the biting. More »
