Saturday, February 21, 2009
Media
Wall Street Fighter
3:30PM Luke Plunkett | Street Fighter is fun; economics, not fun. But turning Street Fighter into Wall Street Fighter? With M. Lynch vs Fannie Mae? Bravo, CBFresh, you’ve somehow pulled this off. More »
Regulars
3:30PM David Wildgoose | I’ve never been a big fan of light-gun shooters, but House of the Dead: Overkill for Wii has changed that. Thinking about the reasons why, it’s not really the on-rails nature of the genre that has left me cold. Rather, it’s the style. For such a disposable type of game, few light-gun shooters have exploited that enough to bring a real sense of fun. The boisterous lunacy of Point Blank did. And now the trashy, expletive-filled, tongue-in-cheek Overkill does, too. I love it and will be playing it all weekend. What will you be checking out?
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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
3:30PM David Wildgoose | I’ve never been a big fan of light-gun shooters, but House of the Dead: Overkill for Wii has changed that. Thinking about the reasons why, it’s not really the on-rails nature of the genre that has left me cold. Rather, it’s the style. For such a disposable type of game, few light-gun shooters have exploited that enough to bring a real sense of fun. The boisterous lunacy of Point Blank did. And now the trashy, expletive-filled, tongue-in-cheek Overkill does, too. I love it and will be playing it all weekend. What will you be checking out?
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Culture
How That Awesome Half-Life Movie Was Made
2:30PM Luke Plunkett | About a week ago, we showed you part one of “Escape From City 17″, a short, fan-made Half-Life movie put together by the Purchase Brothers. Let’s all today see how they made it. More »
News
Heavy Rain Creator: Hollywood Actors Don’t Care About Games
1:30PM Luke Plunkett | Been some big(ish) names doing video game voice work of late. Robert Downey Jr. Ron Perlman. Kristen Bell. But are they really doing the work? Heavy Rain creator David Cage doesn’t think so. More »
News
World Of Goo Coming To Japan
1:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Indie puzzle physics game World of Goo is going to be released in Japan via Nintendo’s WiiWare in second quarter 2009. More »
News
NPD Says PC Retail Sales Down 50%
12:30PM Luke Plunkett | Speaking at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas today, Anita Frazier of the NPD Group has revealed an interesting little piece of information regarding the PC market, saying retail sales are down by over 50%. More »
Hands On
Overlord Does the DS
11:30AM AJ Glasser | Overlord: Minions for the DS reminds me of a certain game where you have four different-coloured playable characters that you guide with a stylus to work together to solve puzzles. More »
News
Sony: There Are 21 Million PS3’s Out There
11:00AM Luke Plunkett | Sales update time! Sony announced today that the company has sold 21.3 million PlayStation 3 consoles worldwide, a figure that by February is probably a bit higher, as their tally only runs until December 31, 2008. More »
Hands On
Overlord Wii Lacks Wee
10:40AM AJ Glasser | Overlord: Dark Legend had me at sombrero-wearing minions, but I was still worried. I was worried there for a second because it’s a Wii game, so surely they had to tone down the humour a little. More »
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