A record week for the Smash Bros. Dojo, with nine action packed updates, including one that confirms months of speculation and should finally settle ages old Genesis versus Super Nintendo debates. On top of that, the number of pictures of Zero Suit Samus added to the Dojo requires your busy hand to count. Having spent a few hours with Super Smash Bros. Brawl in San Francisco over the past two days, I realized wrapping up the weekly Dojo updates has taught me a lot about the game.
The Dojo Dump is right after this.
The first publicly playable version of Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii was available to sample during Nintendo’s media event in San Francisco, giving those on hand a chance to check out the next evolution of the franchise. While some headline characters were unavailable for hands-on play—Snake from Metal Gear Solid, for example—many newcomers to the series were featured, including the recently announced Sonic the Hedgehog. Limited to only two minute time battles, up to four players, we didn’t get to experience portions of the game that hardcore fans are surely looking forward to, but did have enough time to become familiar with the varied control options. Plus, we saw some new, unannounced aspects.
newVideoPlayer("AOG_gawker.flv", 475, 276); Today Sierra Online announced another XBLA (and PC) space shooter, following their horrid rendition of Battlestar Galactica (which, admittedly, is not out yet for final review but looked bad at E3). It’s called Aces of the Galaxy and it’s a third person, behind the ship shooter that looks at least nominally better than their first two attempts at blowing things up in space. A co-op mode will allow you to play the game with a friend. And yeah, we’d pay a few bucks for the experience when it hits this winter. They announced some other stuff too that we just had no interest in, so we’ll put the press release after the jump.
I spent the last 36 hours soaking in Nintendo DS and Wii games, controlling various plumbers in space, in Olympic sport, and in vicious hand-to-hand combat. This weekend, I’ll be focusing on gaming of a different sort, as I immerse myself in The Orange Box. I’ve had a busy week, nary a moment to enjoy my recent Steam purchase and having come dangerously close to Portal spoilers during my stint at Nintendo’s media event, I realised I need to buckle down and force feed myself some first-person shooting fun.
Other than that, I’ve got Metroid Prime 3: Corruption wondering where the hell I’ve been and some must-play time with Dementium: The Ward.
So what is it, dear readers? What are you playing this weekend?
According to a round of national research by Solutions Research Group, the Wii is a woman’s eighth most wanted “digital lifestyle product”, (with 9% of participants wanting one). Men, on the other hand, preferred the PS3 as their top console (which came in sixth on their list after 10% of respondents wanted one). The 360 and Wii came in ninth and tenth place on man lists.
We’ll ignore the fact that decent sales of Wiis and 360s mean more people own them and thereby mean less people want them, and instead stoke the fires on the console fanboy wars. Women Prefer Wii, Men Prefer PlayStation 3 [via wiiwii]
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OK, the video of the mystery record ended up being super rambly, and at one point is interrupted by the UPS lady dropping off a package on my doorstep, but I suck at video editing, so sorry. :)
This cracks us up. What do you think, Crecente? It looks like the perfect location for our next Kotaku get together. If there’s a game conference in Oshawa, ON, Canada, consider it booked.
Church Uses Halo 3 to Advertise [flickr]Thanks TedHead!
It’s a simple question: is Microsoft poised to win the console wars? Microsoft Senior Regional Director of entertainment Neil Thompson had something not so simple to say in response: I don’t think it’s as binary now as it was with the previous generation. It really depends on your criteria of ‘winning’. Some people say it’s how many boxes you ship, some say it’s the amount of profit you make, some might judge it on how broad your offering is…I think when people look back on this in the future they will see this as a very successful stepping stone in Microsoft’s broader entertainment vision.
The obvious translation?
