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We got not one, not two, but three Dragon Ball Z: Origins trailers to satisfy your needs. Luckily, you don't have to wait much longer. You can pick up the game for Nintendo DS November 4th. More videos after the jump.
A while back we posted the first Prince of Persia developer diary. Today we got the second. This new one focuses on one of the bosses you will fight as well as Ahriman's corruption that's spread across the world. Prince of Persia will hit Xbox 360, PS3, and PC on December 2nd.
It's been a long time since I've put my hands on a Crash game and honestly, the most entertaining run in with him I've had recent years was watching him get trampled by a mad horde of fans rushing into GC back in August. I'm not saying Mind Over Mutant will be a bad game, I'm just skeptical. Anyway, here is a launch trailer you guys can take a look at until the game hits stores tomorrow for Xbox 360, PS3, PSP, and DS.
There's plenty of rail grinding, skateboarding trick action in this new Skate It trailer. Yeah, it won't have the graphics of Skate or Skate 2, but the control scheme still kind of intrigues me. If nothing else, Skate It seems like it's surely worth a try. Look for it on store shelves November 17th for Wii and DS.
Mirror's Edge looks brilliant when you see the blue skies, the clean art style, the sense of motion. But that's easy for us, all we've ever seen is a near-finished product. How, then, did DICE manage to pitch the game when none of those things were in place? They did it like this.
We know. It's a "top XX" list. And on controversy to boot. Before you yawn, the reason we're posting this is that it's from a sensible news outlet, which not only makes a pleasant change from the usual culprits, but is also a good read. Mainly because it's able to both look past Hot Coffee into some genuine sex scandals (the Guy Game's underage T&A scandal) and look past 2004 (they remember Carmageddon!).
Dan "Shoe" Hsu has been writing some excellent pieces on the Sore Thumbs blog about the "behind the scenes" life of a video game journalist. (Mentally quote the word journalist if you want to make yourself feel better! -Ed.) The former Electronic Gaming Monthly editor in chief has recently been very blunt about the touchier subjects in games writing — accusations of bribery, the ethics of junkets, etc. — but now, it's the PR side's turn.
Can video games make children smarter? This is the question the American Library Association is looking into, conducting tests in various library systems throughout the country to see if getting children into the library helps promote literacy or just results in having a bunch of kids in the library playing video games. Tucson's News-4 posted a special report today on how the project is going at the Pima County Quincy Douglas branch, where children can come and somehow gain literacy by playing Guitar Hero and "Karaoke".
I'm not all that clear on how Guitar Hero is going to promote literacy. When you think about it, the very concept of Guitar Hero is about dumbing-down an activity so every one can do it, which would make it the literary equivalent of a McDonald's picture menu, but it sure does give News-4's reporter an excellent chance to stand on camera with a guitar controller. Hit the jump for the video report, condemned there due to its auto-starting nature.
