Posts By Jesse Miller
A Good Ol' Sit Down About Games
This week is a little different from the rest. Seeing how it’s been awhile since the four of us have gotten together, we decided to talk about what we’ve been playing. While the discussion starts out simple enough, we manage to stumble upon some interesting topics along the way.
It's okay, we all thought it was a joke at first too.
When a trailer was released for Pokemon + Nobunaga’s Ambition there were many that may have thought that Nintendo was putting them on, but amazingly enough this pairing of Pokemon and samurai is quite real and a Japanese release date and some gameplay details have bubbled up.
A multiplayer beta will also be coming sometime in the future.
Activision has Modern Warfare, EA has Battlefield and Ubisoft has Ghost Recon. With the former two enjoying their time in the sun it’s about time for Ghost Recon to join the battle. The original March release date for the next iteration of the Ghost Recon series, Future Soldier, was pushed back with no replacement date furnished, but now Ubisoft has provided us with a brand new date that’s not too far off the original.
A change has occurred for Sony's transferable dungeon crawler.
At last year’s E3, Sony paraded out a little title called Ruin that was playable between both the PS3 and on the Vita. Much has been made of this transferring ability but today Sony announced that Ruin is no more. That’s right, Sony has decided to exchange the game’s original title for a new one and as such Ruin is now Warrior’s Lair.
Cross promotion with Mass Effect gets gamers free in-game swag!
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning has quickly become one of this year’s most highly anticipated titles, and even though its release date is only about a month away, gamers will get an early opportunity to get a peek at 38 Studios’ first release via a demo coming to the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC next week.
It's a shift in a very positive direction.
The 3DS version of Snake Eater has been moved around quite a bit since its announcement at the 2011 Tokyo Game Show. Originally scheduled for a December 2011 release, the game was pushed back to March 8, 2011 in November to iron out some bugs and prep the game to be compatible with Nintendo’s Circle Pad Pro. Now the date is shifting again, but this time it’s going in a much more favorable direction.
There’s death a-plenty in the eShop’s gravity defying PC port.
Reviewing VVVVVV is about as tough as getting your head around its title. It’s an odd game that sticks out in a crowd. It’s simple, yet quirky. It’s hard not to want to pick it up and play it, yet once consumed it becomes difficult to formulate an opinion on. But that’s precisely my job, to form an opinion and disseminate that to you, the reader. The review that follows almost mirrors the end experience with VVVVVV – somewhat unstable but worth taking in.
Gamers opting into AT&T's service will get more than just data for their dollars.
At E3 earlier this year Sony announced that AT&T would be providing the 3G service for its newest handheld gaming device, the Vita. Today AT&T revealed how much the data plans would cost US gamers and what perks, if any, they would get with them.
Get all the DLC in one place in this new edition.
Mortal Kombat was rebooted last year to both critical and commercial accolade. Following the launch was a steady supply of DLC that included new skins, fatalities and fighters—most notable of which was the original dream stalker Freddy Krueger. Now that the DLC train has run its course, Warner Bros. has decided to make the entire Mortal Kombat package available to consumers via the Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition.
You should never judge a book by its cover, even if it is one of the most gorgeous covers you've ever seen.
It’s obvious that Trine 2 is trying to impress. The bright and vibrant visuals paint a particularly lovely picture and the music is appropriate – thunderous at times and ambient at others. The production values suggest it may be one of the best puzzle platformers released in quite some time, but after digging a little deeper it only proves that you can't judge a game by its looks alone.
