Don’t you just love it when outdated consumer electronics and semi-obscure game characters meet? Hope you do. Because they sure as shit meet in this rare Samba Di Amigo iPod.
The folks that brought you PaRappa the Rapper and UmJammy Lammy (game designer Masaya Matsuura and Rodney Greenblat) have re-teamed for Wii title Major Minor’s Majestic March. Guess who’s releasing it in Japan?
Screw interest rates! Is there a better way to sock money away than this? No dear reader, there ain’t.
That’s Shota Matsuda. You may know him, you may not. But if you like Ridley Scott movies, you probably know his father.
No GTA Club + for you, Europe, because…well, because you got it in December. No Ultimate Ghosts’ n’ Goblins, either, and still no SFIIHD. So what did you get?
SEGA’s Yakuza series has been successful in its native Japan. In the West, not so — blame poor localizations for that! Now, it looks like Yakuza 3‘s North America release is undecided. Crud.
Yikes! It’s been an interesting day for games not being banned. First GTA Chinatown Wars and now MadWorld. Australian Gamer sends word that Sega’s black-and-white-with-a-dash-of-red Wii brawler has evaded the Classification Board’s banhammer and will be shoving a street sign down your throat come March. Oh, and they note that – like GTA Chinatown Wars – no edits to the game were necessary to warrant an MA15+ rating.
Guitar Hero’s been played out. Colours pass in front of you, you mash a button, music plays, life goes on. If only there was a way to take the core mechanics and make them fresh.
Another Friday afternoon means another browser-based game to amuse yourselves with. Today it’s the spectacularly literally-titled Minotaur China Shop. Yep, you play a minotaur. And you run a china shop. What makes it work is the ingenious combination of plausible physics and the rewarding ability to smash a lot of stuff. Enjoy!
Britain’s Eidos, publisher of Tomb Raider, has announced it’s in talks for a possible acquisition. According to a statement from the company:
