This Ninja Gaiden Σ II may not have wall breast touching, but it does have footprints. And footprints are almost as good as wall breasts. Right? Right?

The video above show the startup with same settings on both consoles.

In this video, Metal Gear Solid 4 boots up on both the 2.8 and 3.0 firmware.

Here, a level in Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune loads on both the 2.8 and 3.0 firmware.

And finally, launching a Blu-ray movie on both firmware.

We cannot vouch for the validity of these clips. Mileage and results may vary.

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We got to go hands on with Xbox Live Indie Games entry Grapple Buggy at E3 this year, a fine buggying session through a lush alien world. At the time, developer Nathan Fouts teased the game’s story.

Now, we’re getting a taste of some of that story, courtesy of a new Grapple Buggy trailer and some of the newly released spoken dialogue. Not a small undertaking for a tiny developer like Mommy’s Best Games, something we weren’t really expecting based on the game’s original teaser trailer.

In a bleak world, legend tells of a child queen who will one day rise to give hope to a world filled with despair. In Drawn, you must unlock riddles and solve puzzles as you work your way to the top of The Painted Tower in order to save the young girl who would be queen. I’m completely surprised that this is the first I’ve heard of this title, because it’s right up my alley—a gorgeous art style, point and click adventure gameplay and puzzles aplenty. I may not have heard of it before, but now I am drooling.

Luckily I won’t have long to wait for the release. Drawn: The Painted Tower is being released at 12.01am Pacific time this Friday (5.01pm today AEST) at BigFishGames.com for the low, low price of $US6.99.

Ignition Entertainment’s Muramasa: The Demon Blade will be in stores soon, so the company has released a “Moment in Art” trailer to make sure everyone who owns a Wii sees how lovely it looks.

See? Isn’t that lovely? It could be the prettiest thing you’ll see on your Wii this year. While you desperately struggle not to make some sort of crude joke out of that statement, I will disappear into the night, ninja-style.

The art style remains intact, but the play style has changed a little bit. As mentioned in Owen’s article on the game this past weekend, LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias gives the player the power to instantly switch between summer and winter, with different wind-based powers available based on whether or not the weather outside if frightful. It looks delightful, doesn’t it? Let it snow I say.

There’s a new LocoRoco game due out later this year, and a new game means new gimmicks, in this case a fundamental change to the game’s simple control scheme, with the introduction of the “boing”.

The premise is actually really neat: you’re a time-travelling donkey on a quest for tacos. To get those tacos, you have to respawn yourself, creating a number of “ghosts”, just like you’d see in Mario Kart. Don’t worry. The video below will explain.

As with Flashbang’s other games, it’s playable for free in your browser.

[Time Donkey]

Time Donkey Trailer from Flashbang Studios on Vimeo.

Level-5’s puzzle franchise Professor Layton series are not 8-bit NES games. They have many more bits and are on the Nintendo DS.

Let’s say, for snots and giggles, that Professor Layton was a NES. What would it look like? Perhaps, just perhaps, it would look something like this.

8-bit Professor Layton theme by Nonsak. I feel… [Tiny Cartridge via Infendo]

Bionic Commando’s cheeky YouTube ads were pretty alright; the game, eh, it had problems. But Capcom’s right back at it with this pitch, giving your pre-order of Dark Void from GameStop all the fulfillment of visiting a pawn shop.

And just like Cash4Gold, you get nothing for something with this offer, too! Well, not really. Something about unlimited boosts. And you can…wait for it…do a barrel roll(!) and other moves with impunity. Plus, you won’t cry yourself to sleep anymore!

You know what would be great? If used game sales worked like this. Just put Bionic Commando in this insured (why?) pouch and get even less on your trade-in!

Are ya wondering if Gold4Jetpack.com exists? Yeppers. Not much, but there’s a page.

GOLD4JETPACK [site, thanks Alberto]