Yesterday, I had the pleasure of watching Jack Thompson take questions from a surprisingly respectable and and open-minded crowd at the ScrewAttack Gaming Convention. I have to say that, after all my dealings with the silver-haired fox, I was impressed with JT’s performance. His self-deprecating humor and intelligent oration was a breath of fresh air, and I think everyone left the conference hall with a heightened respect for the man....
Grasshopper Manufacture and composer Akira Yamaoka have yourShadows of the Damnedsoundtrack ready, hot off the presses. It’s not available at theGMH web store, but don’t waste any time ordering, as this release is limited to only 1,000 copies. To sweeten the deal, Yamaoka has signed the first 300 international orders, which makes this collectible item that much more collectible. It’s available right now for about $30. “I wanted to craft a soundtrack that was more than just a collection of the most popular songs from Damned....
Here are some screenshots forDynasty Warriors Gundam 3, which features anime faces looking at each other, mouths agape. That’s what the game is about, I think. The title’s looking pretty hot. I haven’t bothered with these games since the first one, but I’m digging the new visuals for this one, and hopefully they ironed out the weird difficulty spikes and made the combat a bit more engrossing. Anybody picking this up?...
How hard should a video game be? Should it tromp on your skull the whole way through until you break multiple controllers in aggravation? Or should it hold your hand throughout, offering a plethora of tutorials and stages easy enough for anyone to complete? Of course, the obvious answer is somewhere in between the two, but I think that it is even a little more complicated than that. Take dying, for example....
Friggin’ Koreans and their cool-as-sh*t MMO scene. We getFree Realmsand the endless parade ofWorld of Warcraftupdates, while they get the stuff I actually want, likeRockman Online— this happens to be the onlyMega Manknown to be in active production, by the way. Oh, and how about aPower Rangersgame for good measure? A teaser site has just opened up forPower Rangers Online, a side-scrolling action RPG with a closed beta scheduled for later this year....
The team who brought us ModDB — one of the best online resources for finding videogames mods, in my opinion — isat it again with IndieDB. As you probably guessed, this new site takes the same great concept but limits its content to the ever-crazier world of independent games. IndieDB has actually been up for a little while now; we wanted to make sure the announcement wouldn’t get lost in last week’s E3 2010 absurdity, so we saved it for today....
Al de Leon, Sony’s hardware PR representative, has confirmed to Game Informerthat those PlayStation 4viral videosare fake. Al simplytold GIthat he “can confirm that this video is not from SCE [Sony Computer Entertainment].” So yeah, that was a giant waste of time and energy! Neat! You know what this whole thing reminds me of? That Nintendo ON hoax that made the rounds just before E3 2006. You remember that sh*t? Nintendo had yet to reveal the Wii so everyone and their mother thought the ON was the real deal....
There’s a class action lawsuit that has been filed against Sony and Square Enix overFinal Fantasy XIII. There are some that say that the latest in the RPG series has caused “severe and widespread damage” to numerous PS3 consoles since release. From the filing: Both defendants are eminently aware of the damage being caused by their defective products, and have chosen to do nothing about it… In response to voluminous consumer complaints, defendants have taken to blaming the problem on each other....
Similar to the multiple versions ofSuper Meat Boy, each with their own unique incentives, the game’s stellar soundtrack might be worth purchasing a second timenow that it’s availablein physical form. The 73-song, double-CD Special Edition soundtrack contains what was — and continues to be — available digitally, plus “two new remixes, menu screen music, cutscene score, and more!” And heck, you may even chip in a little extra to get it signed by composer Danny Baranowsky....
Surprise! Square’s been busy. Somehow, this does not come as a shock to any of the staff at Destructoid (or any gamer that’s actually awake, for that matter.) If you’re a fan of the highly productive developer, surely there will be something to excite you on this upcoming list. Titles on the way for the new year includeDragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrorsfor Wii,Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fatesfor DS,Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Corefor PSP andThe World Ends With Youfor DS (this last title was previously known asIt’s a Wonderful World....
One of the forum members from Sydlexia.com, Not Sure, was determined to beat a bad record. Someone before him beatSuper Mario Broswith only 700 points earned. Crazy! It took him a few days but he was able to complete the game with a 600 point finish, as you’ll see in the above video. No deaths. Just skill and patience. In just under eight minutes he was able to dodge all hammers, avoid power-ups and skip all the things you’re normally drawn to to help you to save the ugly, big-nosed princess....
According to review aggregator Metacritic, Take-Two enjoyed more positivity in the reviews department than any other publisher in 2010. It ended the year with a 77.1 average as opposed to Nintendo’s 76.1 and Capcom’s 74.5. The critical success was helped in no small part thanks toRed Dead Redemptionand its 95 average score andCivilization V‘s 90. Its other major victory wasThe Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, which averaged 83. Its lowest scoring game wasMajor League Baseball 2K10on the Wii, which nabbed a score of 52 overall....
If you love RPGs, as I do, you’ve likely played quite a few of them in your time. Even fans of the genre know that it suffers from a lot of cliche and repetition — finding one with a decent story, characters that you haven’t seen a hundred times before and a truly fun experience to offer can seem really daunting sometimes. For some reason, it didn’t seem that way ten years ago to me....
