An App Store gem is headed to the DSi next week.1UPis reporting thatFlight Control, Firemint’s cute and acclaimed airplane navigation game, is slated to hit DSiWare on February 22nd at a 500 DSi Bones price point. Even though its price isfour dollars more than its App Store cost, don’t expect a ton of new content: the port looks to remain true to its touch-screen brother, and the only addition other than the stylus controls, will be a snow level....
As 2007 draws to a close, we say our goodbyes to what has arguably been one of the greatest years for videogames ever. With so many amazing releases, this year has been absolutely stunning, and we can now definitely say that the new generation of games has finally arrived. FromBioShocktoSuper Mario Galaxy, the hobby we love has given us so very much to latch onto, and latch we did. The online gamer community made memes, injokes and even obsessions of so very much in 2007 as iconic moments, characters and people surfaced....
Want to save a little bit of money this year on an Xbox Live Gold subscription? Amazon has temporarily marked down their supply of one-year cards to 60% of the MSRP. That’s an entire year of online gaming, Netflix access and whatever other “bonuses” Microsoft decides to make available to paid users for thirty clams. Neato! Amazon likes to do this sort of thing periodically and with little to no fanfare, which is awesome but does require one to keep an eye out for it....
It’s no secret that new IP can sometimes struggle to get the spotlight it needs. In fact, I’veranted about the situationmany times.Raskullsis one such game that seems to not get given much attention, despite the fact that it looks pretty great. I’ve been chatting with developer Halfbrick about how difficult it is to get that spotlight. “It’s not so much ‘difficult’ as it is ‘balls hard work’,” says Phil Larsen. “The simple act of contacting so many people to let them know about a game takes a very long time, and that’s not counting the time taken planning what you have to say about it....
This is one of those trailers where the game will probably end up appealing to a pretty small percentage of players but I’m still going to urge you to check it out. Mostly because I think Joshua Nuernberger’sGemini Ruelooks a hell of a lot like the classic point-and-click adventureBeneath a Steel Skyand I also think that’s pretty neat. And you’ll probably enjoy hearing the voice acting which, while initially promising, quickly takes a wrong turn at Albuquerque....
Two games have recently been released that bear several striking similarities. Both of these games are open-world sandbox titles featuring superpowered antiheroes who begin to realize a host of awesome abilities with which to distribute justice and/or malice as they see fit. While they share a lot of features, the two games are certainly distinguishable, taking the superhero model in different directions. However, that doesn’t mean we’re not going to compare and fight about them anyway, just because we can....
I only heard ofHunted: Demon’s Forgelast night, which is weird because it looks exactly like my kind of game. A dark fantasy that blends Western roleplaying with Western shooting/combat games, it seems incredibly perfect. Too good to be true, I reckon, but I’ll stay excited until I found out! Bethesda isn’t saying a great deal about it, as evidenced by the latest bit of news — two bits of concept art....
Keiji Inafune wants to make new games after leaving Capcom? You don’t say! Mega Man’s daddy looks a little dorky in the header ofhis new blog, but we’ll let it slide because we know that he’s cool. As of now, it’s just a blog. He has nothing to announce yet, but he would like to. The former Capcom boss says he wants to get back to making games for consoles and portables, but is also interested in some new things, like social and online games....
I love you, SNK. It seems like you’re still taking care of me, giving me what I want as a gamer. This new Neo Geo gamepad is a perfect example. It’s the exact pad I’m still in love with from the late Neo Geo days (and the early PlayStation days), and now I can use it with my PS3. SNKgives us this beautifully designed gamepad, complete with the delicious floating d-pad, in a USB corded version for use with the PS3....
As I was playingHotel Duskthe other day, I was thinking that Kyle Hyde is a bit of a dick. Not bad enough to actually annoy you, but enough for you to notice he could probably use an enema. It set off a conversation between myself andAaron Lindeabout all the characters we’ve met over our illustrious gaming careers that we love to hate. I know everybody has them, so I want to hear about it in the comments....
Everybody’s influenced by somebody, unless you’re Randy Savage, who influencesall. Guerrilla Games has namechecked its own influences when it comes toKillzone, and bothHalf-LifeandUnchartedget pride of place. “In terms of the most influential games for us at Guerrilla, the first one has to beHalf-Life,” said MD Hermen Hulst inOPM. “Just because of the sheer quality of the implementation of the first-person experience, and also the variety in there and the storytelling. “A second [influence] would beUncharted 2....
Lance “The Chameleon” Henriksen has been confirmed as one of the cast members of Rebellion’s upcomingAliens vs. Predator, taking on the role of Karl Bishop Weyland, a descendent of Weyland-Yutani founder Charles Bishop Weyland. This is clearly the best news of the day, if not the year. “They’ve made me look very good,” said Lance Henriksen, “This is the first time I’ve been fully represented in a game, with my voice and how I look, and the Rebellion guys have done a great job....
What if tomorrow morning you woke up and your life was exactly like your favorite video game? What would you look forward to doing first? Would you drive down the I-90 in your Pontiac Sunfire at 100mph with no regard for traffic laws or your own life, or would you travel cross country killing monsters and rescuing damsels in distress in order to get laid? Oh the possibilities would be endless, but what about the bad points of living in a video game world?...
