Kotaku 
Enter your username and password.
Denver, 6:49 PM
Sun Nov 29
8 posts in the last 24 hours
Tip us:
Editor-In-Chief:
Brian Crecente
| AIM | Twitter
Deputy Editor:
Stephen Totilo
| AIM | Twitter
Senior Editor:
Michael McWhertor
| AIM | Twitter
Senior Contributing Editor, Japan:
Brian Ashcraft
| AIM | Twitter
Contributing Editor, East Coast:
Michael Fahey
| AIM | Twitter
Contributing Editor, Oceania:
Luke Plunkett
| AIM | Twitter
Contributing Editor, Weekends:
Owen Good
| AIM | Twitter
Correspondent, San Francisco:
AJ Glasser
| AIM | Twitter
Columnist:
Leigh Alexander
Columnist:
Tim Rogers
Original material is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.
07/24/09
What we have is FPS, RTS, MMORPG, Flash game saturation. I won't even touch the WWII subject...
But that's just the new business model...
Still, I always get nostalgic when I think back of the time where we only had a handful of games a year, and I could always discuss about them with every gamer friend I had.
About exercise games though, I don't see a problem with tons of companies trying to find ways to make gamers exercise while having fun.
It's always a problem when the genre gets stalled with only one game style, but I think most companies are trying to give different approaches to it... so it's all good.
But I still can't understand why no big company has tried to integrate REAL fitness machines to work with games.
You know, like making a Super Mario Kart with trendmills or ergometric bikes...
07/26/09
07/22/09
07/25/09
Whoopse blank post
07/25/09
His names Richard Simmons :)
07/22/09
As for being on topic: I think that the fitness genre should try to slow down a little bit. If you look at the multiple games out now, you'll see that there haven't been many advancements. This will probably lead to genre saturation and a decrease in sales, similar to what finally happened to the music game genre.
The industry should take time and try to make more innovations to the fitness genre instead of rushing out the same game over and over again, or else even the casual demographic will ignore it.
And that would suck, because the fitness genre actually helps people who don't have the time to go to the gym and do an actual work out.
07/22/09
It also helps for people who simply don't have the motivation. I'm not going to no gym, but I'll definitely play a game that gives me a small workout if it's fun. and no one is around, of course. lol
07/22/09
But seriously, it's the same story with any popular genre. You have trend setters and trend followers. Any time the followers start to vastly outnumber the setter, your genre can start to look pretty ugly.
07/22/09
07/22/09
07/22/09
And I think this is going to be a big factor in the upcoming burst of the video game bubble that I think will happen. Simply put: An ever-increasingly number of increasingly expensive games chasing a pool of money that has probably peaked, or is close to it.
07/22/09
07/22/09
07/22/09
That's how it works, ya know. I read about it in school.
07/22/09
"you spent more money on your tie than on my steamer" -win
07/22/09
Actually that video is in my favorites on YouTube. I love that video. Then Dave says, "How much did you spend on your waredrobe?"
Priceless.
07/22/09
07/22/09
07/22/09
07/22/09
Edit: Ooops. Nevermind. The bottom half of his face definitely DOESN'T look like Reggie Fils-Aime's
07/22/09
@Omegabakon: What about Reggie?
07/22/09
xbox, ps3? MEH!
07/22/09
So I guess what people really want is just to pay for fitness to just happen to them.
07/22/09
Until of course Activision releases their new $300 exercise package; then we'll know it'll be time to abandon ship.
07/22/09
Guitar Hero..Well, that's a different story.
07/22/09
07/22/09
07/22/09
07/22/09
07/22/09
07/22/09
07/22/09
07/22/09
07/22/09
07/22/09
07/22/09
In terms of saturation, let's talk about FPS and music games, because I think that's where we're really hitting the saturation mark.
07/22/09
07/22/09
07/22/09
Fat Princess should help cure all those I'm too thin blues...
07/22/09
If you want to get healthy, the best way to do it is through physical exercise. The last thing I would want is to be stuck INSIDE all day long playing a gimmick that will not help me get healthy. As for Miyamoto's foolish comment, he is just trying to justify to the consumer a reason to buy Wii Fit; just go get a gym membership and if you can't make it to the gym, do simple exercises at home. Not to mention the fact that you need a proper diet as well.
07/06/09
Course, nowadays I actually use an Atomic Alarm Clock with an MP3 file off of a netbook as my primary alarm clock. It doubles as my check-in machine during the times I'm 24/7 on-call for work. I have it set to a song that in the first 30 seconds sounds coincidentally identical to a chime you'd hear in a department store. Weird, but still works!
07/06/09
My kingdom for a 30 second edit window.