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Relax With These Wii Sports Resort Screens
Wii Sports Resort, the sequel to Wii Sports brings more Wii Remote waggling fun — with bonus Wii MotionPlus precision. Out this July, Wii Sports Resort will usher in fresh mini-games, including new additions like ping pong and sword slicing. Yay for swords and little bouncy balls!
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Natasha Bedingfield Serenades A DSi
Last night’s Nintendo party starred Grammy-nominated pop singer Natasha Bedingfield. It also starred, for a brief moment, an electric-blue Nintendo DSi. After belting out a number of songs, Bedingfield pulled out a DSi and started, I don’t know, sorta fondling it as she sang. Initially I thought she was going to use it to distort…
By Brian Crecente Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Super Mario Galaxy 2 Screens And Trailer
Mario is back and ready to circle around planets in spaaaaaaaaaace. As we posted previously, Miyamoto said that the original plan was to “essentially create new variations of the worlds in Super Mario Galaxy.” But, over time, the developers have had so many ideas that Miyamoto estimates that 90% of the game’s levels are all…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
In Russia, Xbox 360 Controller Movie Poster Gun Shoots You
This fall, action flick Gamers will shoot up theaters. Not to be confused with Hollywood flick Game, this movie’s plot centers around the transfers of gaming skills to real life: Fighting, shooting, etc. There’s something about paintball, too. The hand-to-hand combat scenes are filmed like traditional 2D fighters, while the shoot-outs use first-person camera angles.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Things Unmentioned At The Sony Press Conference
These are the things we thought Sony would or should mention at their E3 2009 press conference, but didn’t: PS3 Slim: If you’re going to show all the other things that leaked in the weeks before the Sony press conference then why not show us the rumored PS3 Slim? Or was that the one leak…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony’s E3 Announcements
Well, Sony’s E3 press conference is over. Let’s take a look back, a walk down memory lane and review our Sony E3 press conference coverage. Hooray! Sony’s E3 Expo Live Blog Oh Yeah, PSP Getting Its Own Resident Evil The Last Guardian Is Team Ico’s Latest PSP Go Hands-On Video PSP Go Hands-On Impressions PSP…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Things Unmentioned At The Nintendo Press Conference
These are the things we thought Nintendo would mention yesterday at their E3 2009 press conference, but didn’t: Virtual Console For The DSi: We were almost positive that Nintendo would be expanding the DSi store with downloadable classics for the Game Boy and Game Boy Advance, but apparently Nintendo isn’t quite ready to plumb that…
By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gizmodo, Kotaku, Reggie: Who’s The Best Virtual Archer
Archery on Motion-Plus-enabled Wii Sports Resort is a surprisingly satisfying experience. Like other motion-controlled sports games on the Wii, playing archery is fairly straight forward. You hold a remote in your off hand — left if you’re right handed, right if you’re left handed — and then lift the controller up at the screen as…
By Brian Crecente Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Nintendo’s E3 Announcements
Got to give it to Nintendo — this year’s E3 press conference was better than last year’s train wreck, don’t cha think? The company announced some big news. All that and more after the jump. Nintendo’s E3 Expo Live Blog Mario Vs. Donkey Kong, Flipnote Studios Coming To DSiWare New Metroid Game Announced: Metroid Other…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Zelda Attends E3 In Spirit Tracks
Yes, yes, we were all hoping Miyamoto would surprise us with a follow-up to Twilight Princess — but in lieu of a new Legend of Zelda announcement, here are some Spirit Track screens. The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks is a Phantom Hourglass-flavored adventure for the Nintendo DS and DSi. Players take Link by train…
By AJ Glasser Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles E3 Trailer
Another Resident Evil game is coming to the Nintendo Wii. Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles is a game developed to one up Wii million-seller The Umbrella Chronicles with better design, better atmosphere, and the best graphics ever seen on the Wii.
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Heavenly New God Of War III Screens
Sony has dated God of War III for the PlayStation 3. And Namco Bandai has announced that series star protagonist Kratos is coming to Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny. We’re announcing that we’ve posted new screen shots. The latest batch of God of War III screens features some very familiar scenes and scenarios. We saw them months…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Assassin’s Creed 2 Gameplay Glides In
Click to view The Assassin’s Creed 2 trailer from yesterday’s press conference was short on the gameplay footage. This gameplay demo is not. In Assassin’s Creed 2, Leonardo da Vinci is your friend and own personal inventor, making a flying machine you can use to GO KILL PEOPLE. Talk about a Renaissance man. Thanks an1sh!
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sin & Punishment 2 Looks Sick… In A Good Way
Sequel to the Nintendo 64 shooter, Sin & Punishment 2 brings what the press release calls a “frantic arcade sensibility to a post-apocalyptic world.” Players take the role of Isa or Kachi, two young-ish looking people on the run from pretty much everything. Based on these screens, we don’t know much about them besides the…
By AJ Glasser Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
PixelJunk Shooter Impressions
By Josiah Munsey E3 is Vegas on crack, lights pulsing, base thumping, nunchucks swinging, people dancing for joy to DJ Hero’s remix of “Holla Back Girl” (thanks, Activision). With this sensory overload, it becomes easier to see which games stick out, which games are unique. I was hoping to find a game with original content…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kratos Is In The New Soulcalibur
.html Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny for the PSP has a new guest soul entering the stage of history, Kratos. Yes, the Kratos from Sony’s God of War series. Funny how much sense that makes, really. Kratos will join the generously mustachioed Dampierre as the newest Soulcalibur contender, a nice little reminder that God of War III…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
E3 Round-Up: Day Deux
Day two of E3 is over. What a day! We got to go to not one, but two press conferences. Lucky us. No, lucky you. Here’s a round-up of the day’s E3 coverage. It’s right here. You can read it! How Halo ODST’s Firefight Isn’t Like Gears of War A Closer Look At Borderlands’ New…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2009