June 2009
31 posts
Fuck you, Seth!!1
w00t. Life is so good right now.
Dungeon Fighter Online looks awesome, and it'll be... →
And it looks like they’re taking applications for closed beta ‘til July 6th! 2D side-scrolling + character customization + online co-op = hours of fun.
Oh it's now or never / we shall stand together /...
Every time I play Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, I find it to be more and more enjoyable. It’s such a cool game, because it potentially appeals to all different kinds of gamers. I think it’s because it really defies preconceived notions—basically, Sacred 2 takes everything that’s been done in RPGs lately and does them in its own unique way.
It plays kind of like an action RPG...
RELOADIN'!!1
You probably already guessed from that last post, but I’ve started playing Left 4 Dead again. I got the game the day it came out back in November, but since then it’s just been collecting dust on my shelf. I’m not entirely sure why I stopped playing it initially, but I think it’s because it released amidst a whole bunch of sequels that I had been really dying to play and I just sort of never got...
Castle Crashers - “Jumper” (Composed...
Is this seriously a post about You're in the...
I’ve wanted the Xbox Live vision camera for a while now—I have absolutely no idea why, but I’m guessing it has something to do with some sort of overwhleming subconscious compulsion that makes me buy every accessory for every platform I own. There’s actually some pretty neat stuff you can do with these cameras—you can take your own personal gamer pictures that people on your friends list will...
Wah-ha-ha-ha!
Way back in 1989, Nintendo released Super Mario Land for Gameboy—that’s right, just regular old Gameboy. It was basically a handheld version of Super Mario Bros., one of the most highly praised NES games of its time. I guess Super Mario Land was also pretty successful (it sold like 18 million copies), becuase Nintendo released Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins a few years later in...
Mega Man X soundtrack - Storm Eagle
Wickzilla,...
Heart and Soul...and Exercise
Dude, this is just the kind of goofy thing that’s going to make me buy Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver. I bought Nintendo’s earlier remakes of older Pokemon games and of course I loved them, but not quite as much as I love new adventures in Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn. After seeing this pedometer thing called the “PokeWalker” though, I’m definitely more interested...
Only one more to go.
Why does Soul Calibur 4 have the best character... →
Wait, MOARTS? Count me in.
So the April 2009 issue of Play Magazine has a really good cover story on Kingdom Under Fire II, a medieval tactical action game that promises huge wars and tons of excitement, both offline and online. The article spans eight full pages, and has a whole bunch of absolutely gorgeous screenshots of epic battles between the game’s two factions, and some of the stuff the developer Blue Side has...
Down the mog hole
“Like the First Morning” by Buranchi—FFXI Fanart
So Coldsnap helped convince me to buy Final Fantasy XI for my 360. I stayed up til 3:30am last night installing the game and downloading the patches, and this morning I got my first taste of Vana’diel. I haven’t played a MMO in almost two years now, and after what I saw this morning, I’m really excited. The...
“Man, see that score? That’s why they CALL me ‘Flicky.’”
– Wickzilla
E3: My highlights, part two
Joy Ride: Seriously, it’s about time someone made an avatar kart-racing game! Going off of the trailer and what’s been said so far, it seems like it’s going to be a really casual game, which is exactly what I would want in a game like this. Oh, and for the awesome price of free, you definitely can’t go wrong :)
Assassin’s Creed 2: The first game was really fun for the...
E3: My highlights, part one...
Beatles Rock Band: I’m going to get flamed for this, but I’m really just not interested. I don’t really like the Beatles too much. The amount of effort going into making this a really enjoyable game for people who do—both rock band veterans and people who will be enticed into playing a music game for the first time—is really cool. The mere fact that they had Paul...
Microsoft points or mob?!
Yesterday amidst all the crazy E3 excitement (which I’ll get to later, I promise!), the first beta episode of 1 vs 100 “aired” from 10:30pm - 12:30pm EST. After playing it, I can’t wait for the first “season” to debut—it was too much fun!
Around 9:15pm, I was able to schedule myself a reminder via the Xbox Live Spotlight (have you always been able to set...
There's a riot at the bat rack!
During the late ’90s and early ’00s, Midway (RIP?) totally dominated the arcade sports market, with NFL Blitz and NHL Hitz throwing down nonstop, full-contact, steroid-induced action. I guess it made sense at the time to apply the tried-and-true formula to America’s pastime, and the result was this:
MLB SlugFest 2003.
If you’re somehow not already sold by the premise,...
