Normal people would wonder what videogames has to do with going back to school? Us? Who cares! It’s cheap games, right? Amazon’s Back-to-school salehas a ton of cheap games and accessories for you to pick from. Discounts go as high as 75 percent off; I know you’ve been waiting forCombat of Giants: Dinosaurs 3Dto go on sale! There’s five pages ofgoodokay stuff. I’ve already gotKevin VanDamm’s Big Bass Challengefor Wii in my cart....
Alundrais a game which I have purchased on no less than four separate occasions. It seems that nearly every time I have felt the urge to pop it back into my PlayStation, the disc is nowhere to be found and the impulse to play becomes an uncontrollable obsession. This pressing and urgent need to play this game at the very moment the mood strikes should be apparent to anyone who has had the experience before....
We’ve already heard Nintendo’s admission to possibly having problems meeting consumer demands for their Wii console this holiday, but analysts don’t think that this will hurt Nintendo’sincredible standing in the video games market. “The shortage will play a minimal role in hindering sales this season given empirical data coupled with the expected high sales figure. The Wii has been outselling its competitors by large margins all year despite these shortages,” says the simExchange’s Jesse Divnich....
Today, we received afuriousemail from an incensedAnimal Crossingfan, absolutely horrified by the fact that a new update to the game has censored “bad” words. For Christina and her friend, there was no greater joy than makingAnimal Crossingcharacters say depraved and nasty things. Unfortunately, their innocent fun has been stamped out by thoseNazisat Nintendo. Won’t somebody think of the children? Here’s what Christina had to say: Animal crossing santized EVEN MORE My roommate and I areanimalcrossingaddicts!...
Batman: Arkham Asylumdirector Sefton Hill says that taking “four, five, six henchman on” at a time won’t be trouble for someone as badass as the Caped Crusader. The challenge doesn’t come into play until you’re fighting 10+ enemies, each using weapons like machine guns, tasers, and pipes. Unless you happen to be fighting someone named Killer Croc, in which case you should probably get your ass up to the elevated gargoyle statues, pronto....
A rating for an unannounced Ubisoft-published Xbox LIVE Arcade title,Bloody Good Time, was spotted on theGerman USKratings page today. A quick Google search found atemporary Web sitefor the game on Ubisoft’s servers with the following description: Bloody Good Time is a game regrouping ambitious teen actors ready to kill for fame! Selected by a weird B-movie director looking for the best shot, they will do anything to get the lead role....
Backlog is back and coming to you earlier than ever. Going forward, I’ll be taking over Destructoid’s Justin.tv channel at 8pm Pacific every night, right after Mash Tactics. And we’re at the start of a brand new old game! Instead of the traditional voting method I usually employ for each series, I’m invoking the “Player’s Choice” clause in my totally real contract which allows me to play whatever I want....
Electronic Arts has announced that the upcomingBattlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnamexpansion is going to run you $14.99, or 1200 MS Points. TheVietnamexpansion will pit United States Marines against the North Vietnamese Army on four new maps, each of which will support Conquest and Rush modes. Toss in new era-specific weapons and vehicles (along with new achievements and trophies), and the price tag isn’t looking that bad. It’ll be available for PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 later this year....
NBA Jamis the lost basketball game for a whole generation. Born in the arcades, this legendary title was the very first basketball game to properly recreate the likenesses of the players we grew up and loved. With insane commentary and an entirely enjoyable 2v2 set-up,NBA Jamdidn’t recreate basketball, but boiled it down to its most fun. In the years since,NBA Jamhas been a game that has been copied and revered, but never remade....
I was never one to buy multiple games at the same time, but if you don’t mind adding to your backlog in the name of penny pinching,Amazon is currently doinga “buy two, get one free” promo. Most of the games are on or around their suggested price points, but the selection applies to many platforms and includes newer releases likeThe Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D,Oblivion 5th Anniversary Edition,The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings,Resident Evil: The Mercenaries, andDiRT 3....
Ah,Grand Theft Auto IV. It’s perhaps the biggest release in the history of video games, and it has received near-universal acclaim — well, that’s except for a few facets: namely, themultiplayerand thedriving. Regarding that second point, I received a couple of emails earlier this week asking about a “driving guide” that I had supposedly written up, and I also saw a number of comments wondering when it would be released. I had no idea how word of it got out until I noticed Jim’s “Second Jimpressions” blog, in which he mentioned the “ridiculously lengthy tutorial on car turning” that I had written in a staff emailer....
I guess the PS3 equivalent of a 360 achievement whore is a trophy slut. Or something like that. At any rate, if you relate to those words and also own an iPhone, the newest app fromUIEvolutionmay be just what you had in mind: a free way to track any and everything relating to trophies on your iPhone. The PS3 Trophy Guide is basically a comprehensive guide to all the trophies you can possibly earn and also includes game descriptions, trailers, stats and more....
Take PlayStation RPG epicFinal Fantasy VII, knock it down to 8-bits, translate it to Chinese, and then throw it on a cartridge, and you’ll have something like this somewhat collectible piece of crap. It’s gotAdvent Childrenbranding, though it has nothing to do with the movie. That’s just how Chinese rip-offs work. This one is in new condition, and has only been played once. A mere $2.25 could buy you one of the darkest parts of gaming’s history....
