What if one day you went to sleep and when you woke up your teenaged neighbour was president and you the vice president? Then what if all fell to you to defend the country from terrorists, a mad Korean dictator, crazed fanboys and Josef Mengele — while returning everything to normal rested on the shoulders of a mad genius who’d rather play Dragon Quest than save the world? Well, then you’d be ready to boot up your PC and play My Girlfriend is the President.
Last weekend, Sony kicked off a promotional tour for the June 7 release of Tokyo Jungle at Yodobashi Camera in Akihabara. While the event consisted of little more than a spokesperson and two demo stations, I was able to spend almost a half hour with Sony’s newest big name PS3 title. The demo consisted of eight stages, each a tutorial for a given aspect of the game.
When I first saw the Xbox Kinect, I was a GA (Game Advisor or peon) at GameStop. I felt a sense of wonder and I thought, “This must be the future”. This morning, when I saw the finally released Eedoo CT510, I felt the same sense of wonderment that I had when I first saw the Kinect — except it was soon followed by disappointment.
Last Friday, Sega introduced us to the sequel to their alternative to Nintendo’s Mario Kart. Racing against their PR team and the Sonic brand manager, I learned how developer Sumo Digital is working on setting Sonic & All-Stars Racing: Transformed apart from their first Sega kart racing title.
When I first played Diabolical Pitch, it was at the Tokyo Game Show 2011. There at the Microsoft booth, I played this Kinect title in two-player coop mode with a beautiful Japanese booth babe. I had a lot of fun.
Available now at GameStop locations across the US, Nyko’s Speaker Stand for the PS Vita adds a little more oomph to the Sony portable’s sound and transforms it into a handy mobile Skype solution.
If you think Nintendo is just an assembly line of Mario, Zelda and Pokémon, you’re probably missing some of their most interesting games. Take Ketzal’s Corridors, for example, an excellent new puzzle game from Nintendo and developer Keys Factory. It’s available for download on the Nintendo 3DS’ eShop.