Archive for the 'Games' Category

-image-DS Lite Street Date Broken!

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

Word has it that the DS Lite is already selling in North America at some Target and Walmart stores.

Information can be found at this blog and also in these forums.

Im tempted to swing by some local stores on the way home from work to see if I can sweet talk my way into scoring one…
(hey [...]

-image-History of Console Prices

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

Curmudgeon Gamer put together some really neat graphs showing the relative prices of every game console from the Atari 2600 days to the announced price of the Playstation 3.

History of Console Prices (or: $500 ain’t the worst…)

-image-Guitar Hero PC : Freetar

Monday, May 15th, 2006

Anton Struyk is working on something he’s calling “Freetar”. Check it out:

Awesome.
It’s not ready for download yet, but I’m going to be keeping my eye out for it.
http://antonstruyk.com/freetar/

-image-E3: Waiting to Play Wii

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

The line to get a chance to play Wii

Word is the wait was/is about 6 hours… Who had any idea the Wii would be so popular? Oh yeah, Nintendo.

-image-E3: More Nintendo Goodness

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

Ok, so lately this site has been looking like it’s being run by a bunch of Nintendo fanboys. While I think I can safely say that both Thom and I enjoy products from Nintendo, I would argue that both of us are just gaming fans in general — with no brand allegiance — and in [...]

-image-E3: Sony Stumbling…

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

According to this Wired.com article, Sony just isnt making the showing at E3 that they had wanted to.
From the article…
“I think that (Microsoft) have their heads on straight….They’ve made a much truer gaming system than Sony has. They’re not trying to define the next generation of media content. That’s Sony’s aim — again,” said [...]

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Thursday, May 11th, 2006

May 11, 2006
Nintendo News
Nintendo Names New Characters in Smash Bros. Game for Wii Console
A brawl at Nintendo’s booth last night left dozens of gamers stunned - and wanting more.
Nintendo unveiled a spectacular video of Super Smash Bros.® Brawl for the company’s upcoming Wii console. The amazing footage also revealed a variety of new Nintendo characters [...]

-image-E3 : Super Mario Galaxy

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

Check out this footage from the Nintendo booth at E3 featuring a long look at the new Super Mario game coming to Wii.

Looks interesting. I continue to enjoy both Mario 64 and Mario Sunshine — hopefully this continues the good run of 3D Mario games.
Word is this won’t be a [...]

-image-Halo 3 Trailer

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

You can download the high quality trailer from the official Halo 3 site.
Personally, I’m not as jazzed about Halo 3 compared to the previous titles in the series. The original Halo rocked, but despite the expanded multiplayer component, I found Halo 2 to be pretty boring…
The trailer that was released appears to be all CGI, [...]

-image-Zelda: Twilight Princess

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

Joysitq runs down the features here where as the official site is a bit less than informative… 7 One of the more interesting features mentioned in the write-up is that:
“The Wii’s internal speaker will deliver ‘depth of sound’ with weapons like the bow (and presumably the hookshot and boomerang … no PS3 controller jokes [...]