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Enslaved: First pic of new game
From Ninja Theory - this guy is nearly nude
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Gamepro Scribblenauts review
An incredibly charming and interesting gaming experience; puzzles are brilliant and the dictionary is massive. Tons of potential here.
gamepro.com
gamingeek
EA stock drops 25%
Pachter watch! He says they are overeacting - Wii HD coming
gamedaily.com
gamingeek
1up review Mario and Luigi 3
"Mario & Luigi is quite simply the best Mario RPG to date -- and I say this as an ardent fan of Paper Mario"
1up.com
gamingeek
Pachter Watch - 360 will be last place this holida
Wii HD coming soon! I get paid for this shit!
industrygamers.com
Dvader
Shantae prequel announced for DSiWare
WayForward, creators of Contra IV and Boy and His Blob, is making a new Shantae game for DSiWare. Awesome!
1up.com
ASK_Story
1up Hands on Rabbids Go Home
Rabbids Go Home actually has the potential to be enjoyable all the way through
1up.com
gamingeek
Dammit Reggie (Interview)
Reggie mentions Kid Icarus in passing reference, taunting fans
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New Genesis Game Back On Track
Pier Solar - Pre-order, get your name in the credits.
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aspro73
1up says Yakuza 3 is in fact being localized
Through sources, localization is in development, though not officially announced
1up.com
Ellyoda
1Up.Com Ratchet and Clank Preview
How would you know if it's getting 'long in the tooth' if you've NEVER played it before, fucktard?
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I'm in buying paralysis. After reading that CING interview I want Another Code R especially seeing how its not out in America and that it didn't do too well in sales.
But its still quite pricey. Anno has actually gone up from £18 to £20. Fallout 3 is only cheap used - unless I sign up to a new account somewhere else.
Meanwhile I spotted Staff of Kings for £13 but the only reason I want it is for Fate of Atlantis so I cant bring myself to buy it.
I'm sure you guys will give me all sorts of reccomendations but I still probably wont buy anything. Gah.
First page, easy enough to find. Nothing going on anyway as it's a sad little thread with only 9 posts, 2 of which are Carnage's.I picked up the game last night and played through the first 12 levels or so. I wouldn't go that far. Truth be told it's a pretty pointless thing to even complain about.
Scribblenauts (at least at this point in the game) is essentially like a point and click adventure game served up in mini levels. In each level you have a task that you need to complete and to do so you have to summon the right things. Some are very simple and direct - in one level there was a guy in the desert who needed to be refreshed (I eventually gave him an iceberg). Others are much more tricky - a later level required you to pick 3 flowers that were scattered across the level. One was under a tree with a bee, the second underwater by a piranha, and the third on a cliff so high that a ladder won't reach it (I eventually summoned a bear and a jetpack to get the job done).
I will admit that the character can be a little tough to control as his momentum often makes him hard to stop in an exact place, and if two objects get laid on top of one another it can be tough to select the right one, but I wouldn't go so far as to say its fucked up. Plus, for the most part this is a game about typing in wordsm and dragging objects around to interact with one another. Not exactly a lot of gameplay in the traditional sense. This is almost like complaining about bad graphics in a text adventure game.
Just to add a little more about Scribblenauts. Overall it's a fun game. If you're someone who played a lot of point and click adventure games this is totally for you. For those adventure game fans, at some point we've all said something to the extent of..."I needed to use THAT ITEM in THAT WAY to progress further?"
Following the developer's logic wasn't always easy and sometimes just made no sense. I can remember in King's Quest 2 I had to summon a genie to give me a magic carpet to get to the top of a cliff, while the whole time I though..... "wouldn't a grappling hook would have worked?" That's what Scribblenauts is. You've given a problem, and you have to solve it yourself using anything you can think of. That's the fun of this game. Using your imagination with few limits or restrictions.
As I said above it's not always perfect. Controls are a little rough at times, but never to the point where I've been impeded. I just have to be a little careful where I put items I'm not using (putting two objects over one another can be problematic when you try to retrieve them). But it's definitely fun. It's not GOTY quality as a lot of the E3 hype suggested, but it's a damn good game. Certainly the most original idea I've seen in years. I heartily recommend it.
I see it:
http://uk.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=27038009&tag=topics;title
But why do I see a VGpress get together there? Get the fuck OUT.
Guys watch this and then get into the classic cartoon thread:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hSMzrWZCAE
i won't get it ahead of mario & luigi 3 (which would be true for 99% of games), but i will stay open about it and look forward to hearing more impressions as you play on
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Those Japanese sales numbers are interesting. I honestly thought the PS3 would post at least one more 6 digit sales week. Still I don't think Sony is crying too much. Very curious to see their sales position in another 4 weeks.
What really caught me off-guard was the PS2 sales. 3K. That's the lowest I recall seeing. Maybe the PS3 slim is what is finally going to kill off the dinosaur.
You lucky american gamers. Look at all this... er great stuff you have from the Wii shop channel.
Nintendo DSiWare
- Art Academy: First Semester (Nintendo, 800 NDSi-Punkte)
- Oscar in Toyland (Virtual Playground, 800 NDSi-Punkte)
WiiWare
- Texas Hold'Em Poker (Gameloft, 600 Wii-Punkte)
- Spaceball: Revolution (Virtual Toys, 800 Wii-Punkte)
- Mart Racer (JoJu Games, 800 Wii-Punte)
Virtual Console
- Crash ‘N The Boys Street Challenge (NES, Akysy Games): 500 Wii-Punkte
It's normal for a new machine isn't it? They are still beating the other consoles by a huge margin.
I'm at 43 updates today.
I guess it's normal, but PS3 sales were so ridiculously low for the past 3 or 4 weeks prior once word of the price cut came out that it looked like there would be a huge surge, which there was. I sort of assumed that surge would just sustain itself a little bit longer due to the long dry perior prior to it.
In the long term its still a good way to go before it catches up with Japanese Wii sales, which has been outselling it by anything from 3:1 to 6:1 each week since the end of 06.
It reminds me of the PSP, which is still selling really well, post-redesign(s). I hope it does well for itself, it deserves to. FF XIII will rocket Christmas sales too.
It's not out here yet but I watched the walkthrough videos I posted up top in the updates. Not sure, it doesn't look elegant presentationally. They've boxed everything. I like the idea of favourite tracking.
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Huh? Someone say, "Cookie?!"
Num, num, num!
Dammit, Cookie Monster! That was GG's cookie!
They can fit more videos onto a single screen now, which I like, and it's easier to navigate. The high quality option is the best part, though.
How fast do the videos load though? Is there a lot of buffering?
An improvement to the channel would be to have DS demos, lots of them permanantly residing on the service and even downloadable to SDcard.
Thanks for the cookie
Microsoft Game Studios boss Phil Spencer reckons you don't want another Xbox machine at the moment, but is focusing instead on offering a "huge return" on your original Xbox 360 investment.
"And in terms of putting more hardware on the market, what else can we do? Put more memory in it? I don't think that's enough. We like where we are at with the box - 360 currently has a great price point. Consumers don't want another $400 box right now.
"We instead want consumers and developers to know that we are all going to make a huge return on that original investment in the hardware - the one Microsoft made in building it, the one developers made in making games for it, and the investment consumers made in buying the console," he added. "In the current climate that's something people are going to appreciate much more."
Damn straight! I feel like they're just beginning to tap into the full potential of 360s/PS3s hardware, so there's a lot more life left in both of those consoles (Nintendo doesn't count.
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