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lazy sunday
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
It's crunch time over at the Kotaku West Coast Tower and this associate editor has a full plate... of responsibility! The bathroom looks like a truck stop's, the dishes need doing, Adobe Illustrator files need... illustrating, and there's a stack of games still in the shrinkwrap that need attention from daddy. BioShock, Zack & Wiki, and Jeanne D'Arc make up my current backlog, with a fresh copy of SOCOM: Tactical Strike showing up at my doorstep last night. So why am I about to beat feet down to ye olde game shoppe and pick up Manhunt 2 and Guitar Hero III? Because I've got a spending problem! More » -
lazy sunday
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Another (week)day, another dollar. Another weekend? More time in comfy pants, showering at two in the afternoon, brunches that weigh in at 1600 calories—all part of the Good Life. The icing on the lazy cake is hours upon hours of time spent "wasted" gaming. Me? I'll be group-gaming with some Zack & Wiki: The Quest For Barbaros' Treasure in between bouts of BioShock. I'm a little late to the party on the latter, as I've just recently become the proud owner of an Xbox 360, but the former was snatched up day one. And for $40! I had no idea it was so moderately priced. More » -
first fridays
Devil May Cry 4, Zack & Wiki, Harvey Birdman Box Art Blowout
Capcom has put out a fresh batch of piping hot box art for us to judge, including highly anticipated games such as Devil May Cry 4, Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure and Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law. Obviously, you can see Nero sporting his fancypants glowstick hand above, but the rest of box art fun continues after the break. More » -
capcom insensitivity watch
Zack & Wiki Accused Of Something, Acquiesces To Sensitive Types
Capcom's Zack & Wiki: Quest For Barbaros' Treasure may not feature the slaughter of hundreds of people of color by a big racist White Man, but it was on the receiving end of some Islamic ire recently. The company has removed from the game the phrase "Allahu Akbar"—meaning God is great!—at the urging of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and other interested parties. The phrase, heard in the above video just prior to a monkey tribe drinking delicious soup from skulls. More » -
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Zack & Wiki Awesome Watch: Still Currently Awesome
The E3 demo of Capcom's Zack & Wiki: Quest For Barbaros' Treasure was a much more fleshed-out affair than what was shown at Capcom's Spring Gamers Day. It also happened to be a much more awesome affair, with an expanded set of playable locations showing off the puzzle adventure game's more diverse, non-jungle environments. I played through to completion one of the game's lava filled levels, tasked with putting out a series of fires to reclaim the room's haunted treasure, a piece of Barbaros' golden armor. How awesome was it? So awesome. More » -
mini-game watch
Mario Party 8 Is Great Success!
Nice going, Wii owners. You've made Mario Party 8 the fastest selling game in the Mario Party series thanks to your purchases over the last month or so. Word from Nintendo today is that the Wii entry has sold over 550,000 copies since its debut on May 29. Nintendo's George Harrison supposedly said that ""Wii users are keeping the Mario Party going strong" which I can only assume means everyone is thrilled to death with the mini-game collection status quo and that Mario Party 9 is probably only weeks away. I hope you're happy. You jerks better buy Zack & Wiki: The Quest for Barbaros' Treasure or I'm stealing the batteries from your Wii-mote. -
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Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure
Floating closer and closer to the top of my most wanted Wii games list is Capcom's unfortunately monikered Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure. The company released a handful of sort of new screens of the brutal puzzle solving adventure game, many of which look familiar, but are officially indeed new. They're mostly worth reviewing for the fact that, hey, at least Capcom is releasing something that ain't a mini-game collection. Nine technically new screens are in our gallery. More »
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