Nintendo Apologizes For Wii U, But Can It Ever Be Saved?
I’m still here, waiting for you.
Satoru Iwata’s seen a lot of success as Nintendo’s CEO. He took the top spot in 2002 when legendary leader Hiroshi Yamauchi retired and oversaw the continuation of their handheld dominance with the Nintendo DS and their return to home console glory with the Wii. Unfortunately, his legacy may hinge on whether he can fix their massive Wii U misfire.
Nintendo Won’t Hold E3 Press Conference, Focusing On Small, Closed Events Instead
No big Fils-Amie moment?
If you watched Nintendo’s big E3 presser last year, the big one where they introduced the Wii U properly with all its gyrometers and blitz-blatzers and other nonsense, you probably fell asleep. If you were in the audience like we were, you probably did. Well, after a long line of these presentations, Nintendo’s eschewing their big and bombastic display in favor of more intimate affairs. Like, with game demos, not whatever you were thinking of.
Star Trek: The Video Game (Xbox 360) Review: A Phaser Blast To Your Brain
Even Spock doesn’t want to be here.
I hate Star Trek: The Video Game. I hate it so much. I just finished it and I’m still shaking at how revolting that ten hour experience was. I have no idea why this happened! No idea! Paramount was duplicitous in their role of providing high-quality Star Trek assets – namely, full access to the film’s art and an original story that takes place between the two films – but they also turned a blind eye while developer Digital Extremes sewed this purely offensive experience together. Paramount said they didn’t want this game to be merely ‘movie tie-in merchandise’ and they have failed. They have so fucking failed. I don’t care how much you want Kirk’s new adventures, stay the hell away from this game. I am not kidding.
Next Generation Xbox To Be Unveiled On May 21st
The Next Xbox…Nextbox?
It looks like Microsoft’s finally opening the floodgates on the next Xbox (they won’t call it the Xbox 720) or at least, it certainly seems so based on an email I just got from Microsoft which contained nothing but the subject line “In 27 days…” and a biggie-sized graphic which says they’re either unveiling the new Xbox or they’re announcing who will be taking over Microsoft when the people running it die.
Read on to see what I saw.
New Game Releases: Week of April 21, 2013
Save me, Captain Kirk!
We’re a little late this week, but don’t worry, you didn’t miss anything special. Check out the list of new games and DLC coming out today and the rest of the week including Dead Island: Riptide, Star Trek and Sturmwind! You’re gonna have to blow the dust off your Dreamcast for that last one. Read the rest of this article…
Spellirium (PC) Preview: A Clever Classic Adventure With… A Word Game?
It’s not a yeti, it’s a tunk. Big difference.
Yo dawg, I heard you like classic adventure games and word games, so we put a word game in your classic- you get the idea. Being touted by the gaming elite, including Double Fine’s Tim Schafer and Penny Arcade’s Jerry Holkins (Tycho), Spellirium is a witty adventure game much like those old LucasArts and Sierra titles. In keeping with the times, the game resorts to a tile-based word game, which will either make you cheer or squirm. As a Scrabble non-afficianado, It made me squirm.
Shinji Mikami Wants To Breathe New Life Into Survival Horror Games With ‘The Evil Within’
Oh, do I love me some horror. Most gamers probably scoff at the idea of going into a game environment made to illicit fear, but for me, there’s something enjoyable and satisfying about it. For me, the experience of running around a hazy warren of death and mayhem, dark corridors saturated in grime and mystery, or simply moving about an old house with a shady past is sort of a fantasy of mine, though it’s waned as I’ve grown older. Still, a good horror game with omnipresent mystery and intrigue is very attractive to me. Read the rest of this article…
Gearbox Wins ‘Homeworld’ IP, Feelings Are Mixed
Fans took real good care of these games after they were pretty much abandoned by their publisher.
Back when Homeworld released in 2000, real-time strategy games were somewhere between Command & Conquer and StarCraft and not much further than that. Relic, who we know now for their Company of Heroes games, debuted with this ‘wagon train among the stars’ in which you must guide the survivors of your world’s destruction to their fabled homeworld of Hiigara. So, yes, Battlestar Galactica. After THQ’s collapse, the Homeworld IP was parted from both Relic and THQ and until today, had a mysterious new owner. It’s Gearbox, for better or worse.
‘Grand Theft Auto V’ Creates New Religion, Is Pretty Amazing
Give your mind. Give your wallet.
It just wouldn’t be a Grand Theft Auto game without a massive reservoir of well-produced satire tucked into its wings. GTAV is no doubt Rockstar’s biggest production to date (I can’t quantify this in any way, except to say it probably is), so it makes sense that in their incredible reproduction of Los Santos, they’d bring in one of the town’s wackier elements: a Scientology riff.
Oculus Rift Might Bring Me Back To Skyrim
Fire in the disco!
Guys, I still haven’t gotten back to Skyrim. I had all the ambition of doing so in the past year and a half, I just haven’t. I mentioned it on a previous PRO SHO that I’m weary of having to open up to all the game’s mechanics without a little tutorialization. It happened to me with Fallout 3 when I lapsed from that game as well. Of course, with some handy VR technology, I might find myself incredibly interested in starting over.
