edgecrusher said:

So what's the final word on BC for the new Nintendo? Compatible with Wii but not Gamecube?

Nintendo did say it WILL NOT play Gamecube games. Additionally, Gamecube controllers will not be able to be plugged into the Wii U.

Chad Concelmo <3 talking about the Wii U.

*PS: The Sonic Dog photo was his dog!*

robio said:

Thanks for posting the downloadable game videos. Games like that got virtually no attention this year.

From Dust looks pretty good. Looks like Sim City where you build an island as oppsoed to a town? SFIII should be a lot of fun. Awesomenauts looks absolutely awful, but the theme song alone may warranty a buy.

SF3 sold me with just the amount of work they're putting into it. Oh, and that moment at EVO where the dude parried Chun-Li's Super Art and countered into his own? That's an in-game challenge. Brilliant.

Thank you FIXED!

Apparently, everyone's cure all solution to me being blue is to take me out for about two dozen more drinks than I am used to drinking and getting me shit faced.

Who am I to argue?

Note to self: The "Can you help me get this back in my pants?" gag that works so well in Manhattan doesn't go over so well in a Long Island, family restaurant rest-room. Prudes.  

That Star Wars video was awesome. Thanks for posting it, Vader!

Peter Molyneux goes to great length to stress game isn't an on-rails shooter

Oh Peter Molyneux is lying to us again:

It's fair to say that the Fable: The Journey demo was far from a highlight of Microsoft's E3 2011 press demo.


The short snippet of the game demonstrated a sequence where a player was guided through the game world while shooting enemies with their hands.


In truth it was more than a little reminiscent of the Kinect levels from EA's Harry Potter game. Which, incidentally, were broken and slammed by critics.


Indeed, MCV has been less than kind about the Fable showing.


Speaking to OXM after the briefing, the game's lead developer Peter Molyneux apologised for the game's debut.

"I made an horrendous mistake on the press demo on taking out the navigation allowing players to move," he stated. "I'll state on record now that Fable: The Journey is definitely not on rails."

Except it is, ALL media have said it is.

Molyneux

The Shantae design is clearly inspired by the classic Castlevania and Metroid series. It's pure Castlevania in the way players whip enemies into submission (with hair instead of a handheld weapon), and the power-up secondary weapons that you can earn with item purchases. And it's Metroid where areas open up with specific skills earned along the way. In this case, it's animal transformations: turn into a monkey to shrink small enough into tight spots or climb walls, turn into an elephant to smash giant boulders. There's also some truly vicious platforming in Shantae: Risky's Revenge, especially in the monkey transformation areas, and there are points in the game that will put your old-school skills to the test.

Shantae: Risky's Revenge is easily among the top DSiWare games. And just like the Game Boy Color version you'd be making a huge mistake by skipping over this excellent and ambitious action platformer.

IGN 9.0 Review

What I am most interested in seeing with the Wii U is it being applied to mess with your mind via Augmented Reality.

Since the Controller has Cameras on it, there can be something in a game where someone shouts: "LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU!"

You can spin around... and have reality mixed with game elements where there's a Zombie, or any enemy, behind you depicted IN your own room!

Fight this rear-attacker off using the Wii U controller screen, then spin around to continue the adventure on the main screen.

With those cameras, the Controller becomes a Window into a parallel universe to our own where reality and gaming combine!