Hey Bugsie... Have you played the Bit.Trip games?

If not, you should pick up Bit.Trip Saga for the 3DS! I played it on the XL last night and ... WOW!

Look into it if you haven't already! I think you would LOVE the 6 games on the cart!

Advanced play, but you have to respect the "build the song as you play better" gameplay!

Gamespot Asia said:

While we can't actually show you the footage of Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes that was shown since we were told not to do direct filming, at least we can tell you about what we saw during the 20 minute demo.


The scene starts in a remote military base with heavy rain. The camera is following a shadowy figure in a business suit and hat accompanied by a number of well-armed soldiers and guard dogs as he converses with a little boy in a cage. He throws a portable music player after some dialogue and the boy proceeded to use it. The rest of the scene was playing "Here's To You" from the film "Sacco e Vanzetti" (also on Metal Gear Solid 4) as the man in a coat rides off to an airfield before taking off on a helicopter to an undisclosed location. Before erasing the "XOF" emblem off of the helicopter, he took out his hat and speaks about what transpired in very vague words. His face and head was all burned-up and scarred with no hair; at this point in time, we have no idea who he is. He proceeded to toss away all a stash of mini "XOF" emblems as he flew off with the rest of the soldiers.


Yeah, that's all we can show off at the moment.


After that, out comes a spy climbing from a cliffside near the base followed by the subtitles "From FOX, two phantoms were born". As he flips up his visors, we saw the trademark eyepatch and gruff face with the facial hair: Solid Snake seems to be back at a glance. He's referred to as Snake; no, not Solid Snake, Old Snake or Naked Snake, just Snake at the moment, so there's a chance that he could be some clone or someone posing as Solid Snake. Whatever the case, he definitely looks much younger than Old Snake in Metal Gear Solid 4. Old-school fans yearning for the days of a nimbler stealth action hero can sigh with relief at this revelation.


Series creator Hideo Kojima then took centrestage and showed off the title's gameplay for a few minutes. We see Snake do what he does best: go in a prone state and sneak around (no Octocam this time; just old-fashioned crawling and hiding), as well as going into aiming mode in third person shooting a nearby guard at a security post. We should also mention that the demo gave out a sandbox open-world vibe; the military base itself felt expansive and huge, and Snake can summon a helicopter to bring him around as well as drive a jeep to go from point A to B. Kojima did state that he wishes to add a new spin to the stealth genre; even when you're discovered, you can use all the means and tools to escape rather than see a "game over" screen.


We would love to see how future demos of this would unfold; adding a sandbox element to the story-heavy Metal Gear series and having everything open-ended seems like a daunting task.We have to also state that the Fox engine looked really, really good.Everything about the demo was completely real-time. The demo itself was running on a PC and was played using an Xbox 360 controller. Nothing was spared in terms of detailing and fidelity, from the lighting and shadows during Snake's sneaking bits to the vehicles and character models in motion during the heavy rain. So far the game and its engine was designed with the PS3 and Xbox 360 in mind, but Kojima stated that the engine itself will cater itself for next gen consoles.


No release date has been announced for this upcoming entry in the Metal Gear series. We don't even know if Kojima may even pull a protagonist switcheroo ala Metal Gear Solid 2, or if the open-world concept will gel well with the already vague and cryptic narrative. We don't even know which era this is all taking place in, although we gathered that it was set in a modern period, what with the jeeps and helicopters. What we can say is that Snake is back in the game and fans can look forward to more current gen tactical espionage action.

So I was suprised by Ex Troopers in the Nintendo direct video yesterday. I had seen screens before and thought it was random crap.

Apparently it's a Capcom game, an anime inspired Lost Planet spin off coming to PS3 and 3DS being developed by Shintaro Kojima of the Monster Hunter series and directed by Resident Evil 5's Yasuhiro Anpo.

EX Troopers shares the same world view as Lost Planet, but carries an anime visual style and a school themed story. It's about the fight between the snow pirates and Akrid aliens on EDN-3rd. You play Bren Turner, an academy graduate from EDN-2nd.

With Capcom farming most of their series out to western studios lately, a game like E.X. Troopers comes as something of a surprise. At first glance, there's not a trace of Lost Planet in its hyperactive, cel-shaded anime stylings - but it's all there lurking beneath the hood. The animation, the enemy Akrids, the orange gel that spews from their corpses - oh, this is Lost Planet alright.

Ex-Team Bondi devs announce next gen game: Whore of the Orient

Next gen graphics?^

gamingeek said:

SC Blacklist, 1 new pic

Ah...this reminds me more of Chaos Theory. I approve.

gamingeek said:

What's this shit?

Why does a frag doll get a black wii u debug kit?

Aren't some of them game designers? I know they are apart of Ubisoft.

gamingeek said:

What's this shit?

Why does a frag doll get a black wii u debug kit?

Because she gives insanely good head?

aspro said:

Why jump straight to the denigrating women line (the only reason they could have gotten them is because they are giving sexual favors?).  

Its what I do...

Archangel3371 said:

+1 for the WWE gifs.

I actually ordered this shirt yesterday



I felt it suited me

Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd you Steal our Garbage is being developed by WayForward games for the 3DS. It based on the cartoon, obviously, but it is being likened to a modern Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. THAT caught my attention! Only problem is, I know nothing about the show...

I decided to remedy that and watch a few episodes on YouTube...

...Hmmm...

I'll let you all decide.

**I find myself strangely hooked.**