I got mine! Harmonix and MTV Games have finally started sending out the download codes for the 20 free bonus tracks they promised to all owners of Rock Band 2. After dating those downloads for November 4th, and then experiencing a brief snafu in getting the content online, those codes are now finding their way [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 30, 2008
The very first entry in Telltale Games’ episodic Sam & Max series debuted on the PC, almost exactly two years ago. The premiere episode, Culture Shock, garnered largely positive reviews, walking home with a handful of awards and rekindling gamers’ love for the cherished dog & rabbit duo. The series has been on a roll [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 28, 2008
In recent years, Mario’s money-grubbing cousin Wario has found his way into the Nintendo spotlight. He holds his own in Mario Kart; he’s unstoppable in Super Smash Bros. Brawl; and his popular WarioWare minigame collections have had critically acclaimed outings on Game Boy Advance, DS and Wii. But it wasn’t always this way: back in the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 27, 2008
Oh we of little faith. On Thursday, GameCyte reported that Nintendo’s new Wii Shop Channel update was expressly designed to break homebrew applications, and that Nintendo had sneakily left the end user with only two choices; give up the opportunity to install potentially groundbreaking homebrew apps, or completely lose the ability to purchase new WiiWare [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 27, 2008
With another episode of Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People now released to the world, the series has crossed the halfway mark. The new entry, Baddest of the Bands, is the third of five planned episodic games for the initial run of Telltale Games’ take on the Homestar Runner universe. As we mentioned during [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 24, 2008
If you’re over the age of twelve, I’m willing to bet that the Nerf Switch Shot EX-3 isn’t exactly on top of your holiday wish list. This might have something to do with the fact that it is made of brightly colored plastic… the fact that it is used to launch harmless foam darts through [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 23, 2008
Update 10/27: Actually, you do have a choice — in two days flat, the homebrew community has defeated Nintendo’s dastardly update. Five months ago, Nintendo released “Wii Menu Update 3.3,” an attack on the Wii homebrew and import communities masquerading as a functionality improvement, where the only added functionality was the ability to drag and drop [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Quite a few terms have been thrown around in order to refer to Wii Music. Nintendo’s marketing materials call the title “a musical playground where there are no mistakes.” Game auteur Shigeru Miyamoto agrees that Wii Music is more like a “toy,” suggesting that its friendly, non-competitive nature, and its lack of scores make it [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Rock Band enthusiasts, the wait is nearly over: Very soon, your copy of Rock Band 2 will come with as many tracks as it says it does on the box! Today, Harmonix and MTV Games sent us a press release, confirming the 20 post-launch downloadable tracks that every owner of Rock Band 2 is entitled [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Ask yourself the following question: How many times, over the course of your life, have you bought a version of Tetris? Two? Five? A dozen? Tetris is about as ubiquitous a game as has ever existed. It singlehandedly defines an entire genre — when people are trying to describe an action-puzzler, they say, “You know, [...]
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