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WIN! Resonance Of Fate Game, T-Shirt & Soundtrack Yesterday, Nike’s soccor division cranked up “My Time is Now”, which looks like the big campaign it’ll have going during UEFA Euro 2012 in about three weeks. It shows a soccer pitch, the locker room, a team dinner all overrun by ordinary joes. OK, I get all that.
Upcoming 3DS collaboration Project X Zone sure is getting crowded. Here’s a look at the latest screens of the pair-based combat game.
I had lunch with a friend and colleague on Thursday, a guy who has been to every E3 — and before that he was going to the Consumer Electronics Show when it was the gaming industry’s big expo. Absent some miracle hardware reveal, he thinks we could see the quietest and most depressing E3 ever this year. I hate to say it, but I have the same fear.
I sort of relate to this video — because I’m a grumpy old man who doesn’t like change. ‘Retro gaming with a modern twist’ takes aim at all the concessions we’ve made in our gaming: day one patches, pointless DLC, obtrusive advertising. As someone who is literally too scared to turn on their PS3 for fear of all the updates — I can relate.
Take a look at this commercial, for the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis). It’s for the Indian market, and while it’s a little rough around the edges, it’s mostly what you’d expect from the mid-1990s. Except for that weird “Shaw Wallace” business.
We’ve looked at Sega’s pioneering role in the world of 3D gaming before here on Total Recall, but only briefly stopped on Time Traveler, one of the company’s two and only attempts at holographic, 3D arcade gaming.
