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Have Your Say On Video Game Pricing Remember that Cave Story graphics comparison we ran a while back? Showing how the upcoming Wii version was making some slight, yet tasteful, changes to the way the game’s characters looked? Got another one for you today. And it’s probably the most radical, not to mention important, of the lot. Look at his little nose! And his little haircut! And the cute little details on his cute little cap! Melts the heart, it does.
Have you seen the Wii Speak microphone in action? I haven’t. So let’s watch, as this sweet, innocent Japanese teenager “meets up” with a friend in Animal Crossing and “does stuff”. Can’t understand much, but it’s clear they both recognise a lobster when they see one, one of them is very insistent they eat chicken for dinner, and they both find the whole experience overwhelmingly cute. If there were a hell for Xbox Live users, surely this would be it.
Street Fighter IV’s unique graphical style looks pretty good when you see it on a screen. Different, yes, and it’s taken a little while to get used to, but when you see it moving, it looks pretty great. These Street Fighter IV figures from NECA, though…show that maybe the character’s plastic representations shouldn’t have been made so literal. Especially since Ken looks a little slow, and Ryu looks like a monkey taking a crap. Pics are at the link below (don’t worry, there’ll be plenty more than just the three so far spotted).
While it never exactly resonated with the more discerning end of the video game buying public, the average man on the street would still have put a fiver on Wii Music doing well in its first month of sale (the game was released in the US on October 20). After all, it’s for the Wii, it’s made by Nintendo and it’s got “Wii” in the title. Not to mention the fact it was the beneficiary of a fairly hefty marketing push from Nintendo. So heads were no doubt being scratched at Nintendo HQ when the game wasn’t among the top ten sellers for October. And scratched further when it wasn’t among the top twenty.
A Turkish prisoner in a west German jail — well, he used to be in a west German jail — has employed some Solid Snake-style tactical espionage escape action, hiding in a box that was supposed to be shipping stationery supplies and delivered by an express courier. According to the BBC, the 42-year old man jumped from the truck that carried him and his box off prison grounds, escaping through a cut in the truck’s outer tarp.
Eagle-eyed Kotaku reader Srider spied something interesting during his playthrough of the Left 4 Dead demo, amusingly enough on the back of an in-game box of “Chocobites” cereal. Seen in the first apartment in the game’s first campaign — and wherever cereal is eaten in Left 4 Dead — the back of the box promises a free six-inch Team Fortress 2 action figure. The catch? It teases us to “collect all 10!”
All hail the top ten-selling games for October, as they are showered in glory and accolades from an adoring public. And while you’re hailing, spare a thought for those games that sold OK, but not well enough to make the top ten. Below you’ll find the games that finished 11-20 for the month. Like Connor MacLeod from the Clan MacLeod already said, Guitar Hero dominates with three entries, while FIFA shows the round ball game isn’t the hit in the US it is in the Old World. Feel-good story of the day? It’s Kirby – yes, Kirby Super Star Ultra – doing the DS proud, coming in at #13.
It’s all fun and games using ‘Piracy’ to describe copyright infringement when you want to reframe the debate and equate the sharing of intellectual property with aquatic larceny, but what happens when your actual ship-based armed robbers yo-ho-ho into view? What then, Mr cognitive linguistics smartypants?
For whatever reason, I wasn’t allowed to talk about this game for months. I was almost scared they’d scrapped it for some bizarre legal reason (since The Chase is the name of several different movies). But luckily it looks like The Chase: Felix Meets Felicity is back on track for a 2009 release.
