Interesting feature up on Next-Gen exploring which GameCube games could/would have worked better on Wii. After all, most Cube games didn’t sell too well, and titles like Res 4 are showing that a rebirth on the Wii can do wonders to a game’s sales tally. So what’s their list look like? Predictable. But also…reassuring. Animal Crossing, Wind Waker, Pikmin, Super Monkey Ball…all solid choices, but what about Mario Kart? Actually throwing the bananas might have given the gunner something to do. Or Geist? Could have put some decent Wii controls in there, people might actually have remembered it. Same goes for Harvest Moon. I could go on all night, but they did put Wind Waker in, and that’s enough to keep me happy. FEATURE: The Wii that Wasn’t [Next-Gen] More »
Just a heads up: Joel Johnson, Brian Crecente and Brian Crecente’s hair will be putting on their officially blessed Child’s Play fundraiser in two fabulous cities. On Wednesday, December 12th in Brooklyn and Denver, kind hearted and generous gamers will gather to play Guitar Hero and Rock Band, drink some beer and help raise money to benefit hospitalized children for the holidays.
The Brooklyn competition will take place at Barcade (home of the World Famous Kotaku Party 2007) and in Denver, rockers will attend at the glamorous and exciting Walnut Room. In both locations, a donation of ten dollars (either at the door or through raffle tickets depending on the location) could net you a host of currently unannounced fabulous door prizes. All proceeds from bothe events will go to benefit Penny Arcade’s Child’s Play Charity. Last year’s Brooklyn event raised over $US 4,200. This year, let’s totally kick the shit outta that total and raise moar.
Joel, who heads up Boing Boing Gadgets, will be handling the Brooklyn bash, while Crecente will be heading up the Denver one. Likewise, Crecente’s hair will help with the Denver event. (That, and drink too much beer.) Read more about all this in the link below and help a good cause rock out. Funde Razor ’07 [Official Site] More »
Wolfenstein is Roger Avary’s “dream film”. One he’s going to have to dream about for a little longer, sadly, as the Hollywood writer’s strike has hit the film’s production. Even though the script’s mostly finished, Avary says: [I'm]almost done with the script and am proud of it, but everything as far as the production date and that kind of thing won’t be decided on until after all this [is]over. And I fully support the strike.
Bugger. Was really looking forward to 126 minutes of GIs v Nazis v vampires v robots. You can’t mess up a movie like that. You just can’t. Avary’s Wolfenstein On Hold [Sci Fi Wire][Image] More »
In case you missed the memo, we’ll bring you up to speed: Just because women don’t have penises, doesn’t mean they aren’t gamers. What’s more, women in college play video games. USC student paper Daily Trojan profiles some female co-eds who are totally into games, blah, blah. Swell! That’s ground we’ve covered before, so we’ll skip that. Instead, we bring you this nugget:
Celeste McWhorter could probably identify [fellow female player]Soriano in the middle of Trousdale. She said she has gamedar, like gaydar for gamers, she informed me with authority.
“Hey, it takes one to know one,” she said.
And so, just like that, “gamedar” enters the lexicon. (Note: Celeste McWhorter is a junior and not related to our own Michael McWhertor, who tipped us about this story.) Video Games Not Longer Old Boys Club [Daily Trojan] More »
Fifty former Rockstar employees got left out of manhunt 2′s credits. Oops. Not very professional! Not very cool, either. So uncool, in fact, the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) have just released a “public beta” of its Credit Standards Guide, which they hope will formalise the way in which everyone involved in a game’s development gets their due thanks. Those curious, or finding it difficult to get to sleep, can check it out below. IGDA Credits and Awards Committee [via Gamasutra] More »
Don’t forget! We are totally giving away a BlackSite: Area 51 gaming PC from Alienware. The winner will also get an Area 51 t-shirt, an “eyeblack” patch and a copy of Midway’s Stranglehold PC. The computer is a $US 3,000 dollar machine, making this one of the most expensive things we’ve given away, so any bitching about the TOTALLY FREE AND AMAZING PRIZE will be met with the blunt end of the Ban Hammer.
Wanna win that computer? Read this. Do it. Contest closes to entries November 12th at midnight EST. Specs after the jump: More »
Last we saw Shawn, he and “Aunty” Gina were on their way to Mexico, where Gina was going to dump Shawn at the border so he could go get his DS back from his friend’s evil Mexican father. Now…now we just don’t what the fuck is going on. Pretty sure bulls don’t speak Spanish, though. More »
Dragon Quest IV hasn’t been remade once, but twice. The NES game’s first remake was for the PlayStation back in 2001, and it’s latest is for the Nintendo DS. (It also spanned a bunch spin-offs, but that’s neither here nor there!) So, instead of comparing the game’s graphics, we’re comparing the games’ Japanese tv ads. Which one is the best? Like most things, the original. More »
It’s After Dark. Which means…it’s OK to post this. This is a Kotobukiya statue of Dead or Alive Xtreme 2′s Lei Fang. Well, it’s half of it. Other (slightly NSFW) half is after the jump, because when posing for the sculpt, the meaning of “cheese” was a little lost on the poor lass.
With all this Atari gloom and doom, it’s easy to forget the company used to rule the roost. Good thing Gamasutra hasn’t forgotten! The site has posted a whooper of a feature (twenty pages!) that traces Atari year by year from 1971-1977. The feature is peppered with quotes from Atari founder Nolan Bushnell. Quotes like:
I had to come up with a game people already knew how to play; something so simple that any drunk in a bar could play.
The piece talks about Atari’s early fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants years and the company’s successful raise — as well as touching on things like the Apple I computer Atari connection and the dawn of Chuck E. Cheese. Give it a read. Atari History [Gamasutra] More »
