GG Weekly Videogame News 
Rocket Knight adventure is back!
Made by Climax, coming to PSN/XBLA and Steam
1up.com news
gamingeek
Monster Hunter 3
Consideirng removing fee and adding wii speak for western release
kotaku.com.au news
Foolz
First look at guitar hero van halen
Literally. There's just a pic of the CD and box.
kotaku.com.au media
Foolz
Christmas Carol being developed by Charles Cecil
For Disney. Details inside
1up.com impressions news
gamingeek
Tell Capcom how you want RE5 Alternative version
On-rails, on-rails, on-rails, on-rails
kotaku.com.au news
Foolz
Ausssie Game industry still growing
Yet still not producing anything even close to the quality of Freedom Force
kotaku.com.au editorial news
Foolz
Sarah Palin signed 360 on eBay for $1.1 milllion
if this gets sold I'm killing myself - love Robio
nydailynews.com news
robio
Gay Tony achievements
No DVDA achievement? Lame, but i suppose it makes sense.
kotaku.com.au editorial news
Foolz
Biblical Striptease Game
Do you really need a description? The Virgin Mary looks even better in HD.
kotaku.com.au editorial news
Foolz
Capcom Resident Evil T-Shirts up for sale
Ever wanted to pretend you were in the R.P.D?
capcom-unity.com news
gamingeek
Two pound dumbbells for your wii-remote
Now people might have a point when they say waggle is tiring
kotaku.com.au news
Foolz
Oddworld "Oddbox" revealed, Digital Distro info
Strangers Wrath & Munch's Oddyssey coming to PC. FINALLY.
bitmob.com news
darthhomer
18 pics of Final Fantasy XIV
Mostly cutscenes but a couple of gameplay pics
gfdata.de media
gamingeek
Tales of Graces downloadable content confirmed
Also has DSiWare minigame
andriasang.com impressions
gamingeek
Display:
Order by:
Oooo! Can I play with you Bugsie?
...and go co-op with you in Demon's Souls too...?
You will face Rag rage.
It's not my fault. I have vowed to buy this game, but I can't buy it if it's not here.
Same goes for Afrika.
New pics in the Animal Crossing thread:
http://thevgpress.com/forumtopics/the-official-animal-crossing-wii-goty-hype-thread-_18_78.html
Including sexual innuendo, a new Zelda outfit, a full moon equinox, Nintendogs, Steel's wife, an amazing machine and panang curry.
Nice try
PS3 is region free.
Rag the hunter will destroy you.
sure you can play with me. we can cross swords!
... then go co-op in demon's souls too as soon as my game arrives
___
Listen to Wu-Tang and watch Kung-Fu
Travis Dwyer at Gaming Age gives Demon's Souls a grade of A-. "Make no mistake, this can be a brutally unforgiving game and may not appeal to everyone," he warns, "but this is definitely the type of game that was needed to expand the PS3's library."
"Demon's Souls is best described as an action RPG," Dwyer explains. "It's a dungeon crawler that's kind of light on story yet not even close to a loot-filled Diablo clone. There is lots of stat building to define your character type, but success is really dictated by the skill of the user."
Dwyer finds that Demon's Souls adopts a unique approach to multiplayer gameplay. "Demon's Souls is a very unusual, but welcome, mix of single and multiplayer online," he says. "While you can't invite a friend to play through the game co-op, there is a constant mix of multiplayer in your single player game."
Dwyer continues: "First, there are the player notes. Anyone can leave a glowing message on the ground as a hint for other players. They'll give advice like 'ambush ahead' or 'enemy uses fire'. These appear in everyone's world and can be rated for helpfulness by the rest of the community. Second, players that are dead can place a glowing marker on the ground for living players to invite them into their world. This dichotomy of living and dead can work together to kill the stage boss serving each others' goals."
Demon's Souls is a game that requires patience, but ultimately offers a rich reward. "I found Demon's Souls to be very addicting, especially when you make full use of the multiplayer features," Dwyer concludes. "There's no way to sugar coat the difficulty though, and even I had to put the game down for a couple days just to take a deep breath before going back to it. But, the things that draw you back in are the superior level design, morose artwork, and engaging gameplay."
Play Magazine's Heather Campbell rates Demon's Souls at 9.5 out of 10. "No pause button. Constant, recurring death. Loss of XP. And brutal, challenging combat," she begins. "Welcome to the anti-casual game experience."
Campbell notes that Demon's Souls is an experience defined by its difficulty. "Demon's Souls is a game that takes itself seriously on a Dungeons and Dragons level," she writes. "A game where real-world physics meets a meticulously realized fantasy setting. The producer-developer of Demon's Souls is your DM, and he's a real stickler for the rules."
"As a result, Demon's Souls will be misread as a game that punishes the player," Campbell continues. "It does not. Instead, it asks you, sincerely: What would you actually do if you were thrust into a dark fantasy world? What is it really like to be a hero? Would you grab the three-foot sword because it looks awesome? Or would you equip yourself with a more conservative blade, and gingerly step towards your opponent with an eye on the exit?"
This emphasis on difficulty results in an altogether satisfying experience, says Campbell. "There is nothing insurmountable about Demon's Souls," she says. "Because each challenge can be overcome, you want to overcome it. You thirst for victory. The feeling of accomplishment when you down an enemy that has kept you at bay is so rich, so heavy, that it satisfies like nothing else."
RPGFan's John McCarroll scores Demon's Souls at 86 out of 100. "Demon's Souls is a game that escapes being numerically defined by a scale," he warns, "since it will mean so many different things to so many different people. Demon's Souls is tough, stylistically different from anything you've ever played before, and introduces gameplay elements that are at the same time both archaic and gloriously new."
McCarroll praises Demon's Souls for its unique online functionality. "If you do not have your PlayStation 3 connected to the internet, this game is drastically different," he writes. "When Demon's Souls is played online, the player is always connected to the server, and is constantly receiving updates."
"Players can leave messages for each other," McCarroll continues, "although there is no freeform messages, only those that are left as part of a 'choose-the-word' system, resulting in messages like 'Watch out for spear!' These messages are incredibly important to Demon's Souls, however, as the game's brutal difficulty is curbed somewhat by players being able to tell others what's ahead."
The control setup may take some adjustment, however. "The one thing I'm not so hot on in Demon's Souls' gameplay is the control scheme. Attacks and shield blocks are located on the triggers, which for an action-RPG seems odd," McCarroll says. "There's nothing wrong with the controls, it's just they take some time to get used to."
Despite its problems, McCarroll recommends Demon's Souls for its unique qualities. "It's up to you as the gamer to figure out if an incredibly difficult, incredibly unique game is the game for you," he notes in conclusion. "For me, the experience of just playing a game that has these features not seen anywhere else is worthwhile."
Like I've said before countless times, importing is completely out of the question around here, foetid chunk of beef. I might harass a relative to get me Demon Souls and Afrika. He travels to the states a lot.
Why is out of the question again?
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3176380
Microsoft Announces New Platinum Hits Five new titles added for $19.99 each, list includes GTA4 and Street Fighter 4.Microsoft announced five games that are being added to their Platinum Hits line today, and the list includes some heavy hitters for cheap if you haven't tried them already. The titles included are Grand Theft Auto 4, Street Fighter 4, Left 4 Dead, Saints Row 2, and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Each game will receive a Platinum Hits box and be priced at $19.99 when those copies reach stores.
Microsoft also teases that some retailers will be offering a buy-2, get-1 free promotion alongside the release of the new titles. Potentially, you could fill three gaps in your gaming curriculum for less than the cost of one regular-priced Xbox 360 game.
For those of you who have interest in Afrika I just want to let you know to be very wary of it and wait for a lot of reviews. I just played Natsume's dumbed down version for the Wii - Wild Kingdom. What a piece of crap. Pushing aside the graphics, this game plays like crap. It's not a real fluid experience. Every time you want to take a picture you find "activity", stop the jeep, go to a new screen where the animals are. Then you have to creep around a designated area taking pictures of animals or going after an assigned pose (get a pic of a giraffe eating). And then you leave to go back to the jeep and do it again. It's all remarkably boring.
Now Afrika will likely be more seemless, and obviously have much better graphics. But if it's just taking pics.... well it'll need another hook like Endless Ocean has. But at the end of the day it better be night and day different than Wild Kingdom, or it'll just be another pretty game that gets old after 15 minutes.
customs charges probably. i have been raped like that before.
___
Listen to Wu-Tang and watch Kung-Fu
Yup.
I just popped over the Metacritic to look at how Afrika was fairing and.... not so good. Most of the reviews are around 7 right now. Most of them are Playstation sources, and not entirely unbiased. But IGN just dropped a bomb on it with a 3.5. Ouch. Their review echoed the same thoughts I had for its Wii counter-part.... it's boring as hell.
We need another Pokemon Snap. These safari games just aren't cutting it.
LIES! DAMNED LIES!
---
Tell me to get back to rewriting this site so it's not horrible on mobileCheck out the 1up and IGN previews. They both say the game is hard!
I'll believe it when I play it.
Can't you just say that your daughter shares some of your DNA and therefore is a part of you, and therefore you have already finished Galaxy?
w00t! I finished Galaxy!
Then I finished Elite Beat Agents as well.