Archive for July, 2009
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Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
Another tape that’s only brief, but will hopefully do for now:
The sequel to the first, with more action on the slopes.
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Lost World playthrough
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So here’s the sequel to Jurassic Park - the game, that is. It may not be fully available on emulator systems yet, so this is the best I could find. In five videos:
More chaos has broken out in the new exhibition park, and two kids need to be saved [...]
AP reviews the Wii Sports Resort
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The AP Wire puts out a review of Nintendo’s latest sports offering:
How do you create a sequel to a product that changed the way people think about video games?
In November 2006, “Wii Sports” — the software that’s packaged with Nintendo’s Wii — introduced the U.S. audience to a new [...]
Halo series goes to the anime world
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This isn’t really new to me, since I’m aware that as early as 1991, Japanimation began doing some productions based on games. In any case, here’s an AFP article on the latest example:
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Microsoft said Thursday that it is collaborating with Japanese anime studios to make [...]
Modern Warfare 2: Multiplayer AC130
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The first look at Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer, introducing the AC130 killstreak reward.
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Wii Sports Resort
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Watch Jeff Gerstmann over at GiantBomb review Wii Sports Resort along with his impressions of the required Wii Motion Plus that’s bundled with the game.
Read more: http://videogame2play.com/2009/07/25/wii-sports-resort/#ixzz0MVDPeETI
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LGJ: Fan Sequel? Still not legal.
Submitted by Law of the Game
This week’s LGJ talks about fan sequels, fan art, fan fiction…basically a ton of different kinds of derivative works.
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A lawsuit filed over inability to advertise violent game on subway
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Here’s something about a suit filed in Chicago:
CHICAGO (AP) - A trade group that represents software and video game publishers sued the Chicago Transit Authority on Wednesday, saying a rule barring ads on trains and buses for “mature” and “adults only” games violates the right to freedom of speech.
“The [...]
Keep on truckin’ with The King of Route 66
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Push the nitro and take a look.
This may be a followup to Sega’s earlier 18 Wheeler: Pro-American Trucker, and similarly, the idea is to get a delivery made in time. Here, some of the settings are more urban, and there’s even such nifty features as the ability to use [...]
Wants and Needs of a Gaming Addict: Where Is The Co-Op?
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Where is the co-op? Call Of Juarez: Bound In Blood is a really good game, I loved everything about it. What I don’t love is what is not in it. It is clear that the game was meant to be a co-op experience but was cut out for some reason. If it [...]
Project Justice posting
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This is the followup to Rival Schools. The video is in three parts:
If the first installment gave you a choice of two, this one gives you three. It’s interesting how this even features a “background fight” that’s almost like a bonus segment.
Overall, this too has great graphics and even [...]
UbiSoft gets into the social gaming scene
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Here’s an article from the AFP on how UbiSoft is coming up with games for sites like Facebook, including one titled “Tick Tock”.
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AP reviews Devil Survivor
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A new strategy game is debuting:
The “Shin Megami Tensei” series may be the epitome of cult video-game franchises, barely known by most players but beloved by a small but devoted core of fans.
The name (sometimes abbreviated to MegaTen) means “true reincarnation of the goddess,” and publisher Atlus has stuck [...]
LGJ: And still, they want to take away our games
Submitted by Law of the Game
This week’s LGJ address some possible alternate routes the government might use to regulate video games, rather than the typical violence argument.
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The Debate Video - Now Available
Submitted by Law of the Game
I’m sure many of you have been waiting for the video of my debate with Jack Thompson from SGC. Well, there’s now both an unedited version and a 16 minute edited version available from ScrewAttack.
With that now up, some of my commentary from Late Nite JengaJam may make more sense [...]
A short clip of Warzard
Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
Right after the jump.
This interesting gem looks vaguely similar in some ways to Konami’s Monster Maulers, if you consider how the opponent’s life gauge appears at the bottom of the screen rather than above and next to that of the character you’re playing as.
In Japan, this was usually titled [...]
Some news about Fallout 3
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The Playstation blog has an entry about the upcoming Fallout 3, a war game, and there may even be some downloadable samples of it available.
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Dragon’s Lair delivery
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Here are three videos of the first official game that employed laserdisc technology, and even animation provided by Don Bluth (yes, he who made cartoons like The Secret of NIMH and An American Tail):
You play as a good-hearted knight on a quest to rescue a princess from the clutches [...]
Astron Belt gameplay
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Click over to watch.
Still another laserdisc game, this one used special animation footage produced by Toei in 1979, though I can’t tell just now where it might be from, assuming it was borrowed from some anime production.
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Cube Quest cassette
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Another early game that used laserdisc technology.
Its perspective reminds me of Gyruss, which came out the same year, and if it weren’t for the fact that this game has a more “square shaped” way of maneuvering the spaceship, I’d almost think this were a more 3D based version of [...]
Mega Zone recording
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Click ahead and take a look at…
A game similar to Xevious, what else? To add to the fun, there’s also some special dots that give you more points (ten each, from what I can tell).
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‘99: The Last War video
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A neat game from the mid-80s.
Using a pretty impressive interface, what we have here is a game with vague similarities to other classics as the Space Invaders and Galaxian series, but you can move your tank around - that is, you can “move it up to the far end” [...]
UbiSoft opens Canadian branch
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Another developer branch being opened overseas:
TORONTO (Reuters) - French videogame maker Ubisoft Entertainment SA is set to open a Toronto studio that will create 800 jobs over 10 years, the Ontario government said on Monday.
The Canadian province said in a statement it will invest C$263 million ($227 million) over [...]
The Thompson - Methenitis Debate Video is Forthcoming
Submitted by Law of the Game
I know many folks on the internet are waiting for the video of the debate I had with Jack Thompson last weekend on the 4th of July at the ScrewAttack Gaming Convention in Dallas. I’ve been told by some of the folks at ScrewAttack that both an edited and an [...]
UbiSoft opens Canadian branch
Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
Another developer branch being opened overseas:
TORONTO (Reuters) - French videogame maker Ubisoft Entertainment SA is set to open a Toronto studio that will create 800 jobs over 10 years, the Ontario government said on Monday.
The Canadian province said in a statement it will invest C$263 million ($227 million) over [...]
