I Got a Nintendo Wii
So I decided to spend some money on myself last weekend and got myself a nintendo wii. Of course wii sports is a blast, you can’t deny that. But I had to get something that didn’t come in the box… so I jumped online and did some research of the games available. I saw “game party” and it had ski ball, hoops and even a beer pong game so that sounded like a blast… I went to my local gamespot and picked up a copy… played it for 20mins and it was 20mins of the worst gaming experience of my life. I then decided I had to get something else… I saw some things about a game called “No More Heroes” and it had an average score of 9 on gamerankings.com so it had to be good…
I went back to the gamespot and tried to return “game party” and they would only give me $10 store credit for it… I paid $35 errrrrrrrr.
So I got my copy of “No More Heroes” and went home. At first I was kind of disappointed with the gameplay since it didn’t really let me swing the sword freely, as if my wii remote was the sword. Instead you press A to swing the sword and only swing the remote to do kill moves.
After getting over the fact that I was not swinging the sword as much as I originally thought I really began to enjoy the game. I see now why they held back on the sword swinging. After 10mins of playing the game you’d be sweating balls because there is so much action… I mean A LOT OF ACTION. So swinging the sword to do a kill move is very gratifying and the story so far is really good for the casual gamer like myself. It’s not a long winded story they are very good at moving the story along quickly… well I’m getting tired of talking about this game and I need to go play it… I’ll continue this post another time!
InstantAction - The Future of Online Gaming?
I recently came across a website called InstantAction.com. What is Instant Action? It is a web based platform that brings together online gaming, social elements such as; chat and online profiles and it does all this with ease and for web based graphics they are top notch. It has been proven that the casual online gaming market is much larger than the hardcore PC gaming market and I think we will see a lot more services like this in the future. Recently we have also seen announcements from Dice and ID software about free to play online games like Quake Live and Battlefield Heroes.
Publishers are seeing a market in Free to Play, ad supported games. It has come to the attention of game developers and gamers themselves that to compete in the PC Gaming market you need games that are playable across PCs of all types, from low end to high end. I expect we will see more services like this popping up in the near future.
Interview with the Famous arQon
For any of you who know much about operation Survive, you’d know that we spent a large amount of our time playing the ever popular Quake 3 Mod; CPMA. The creator of that mod, arQon, was interviewed on eGames.de. Here is a preview…
“The featureset mods like OSP, Q4MAX, PK++, HL2DMPro, and so on, are simply doing a job that should have been done by the company that sold you the game. Instead, extremely bright, talented, and dedicated people give up literally hundreds or even thousands of hours of their free time, and put up with incredible amounts of abuse from the community, for absolutely nothing in return except personal satisfaction and the chance to play a game that sucks less than it did out of the box. ” - arQon
Battlefield Heroes… Play at work?
Today a video was released for Battlefield Heroes, a new title from dice. Heroes is separating itself from the other Battlefield games by taking a much cartoonier(i like to make up words) fun approach, looking to appeal to a more casual gaming crowed… OH AND DID I MENTION IT’S FREE!? I am always happy to try out a free game and this one looks to be very promising. This title is going on my “can’t wait to play” list. This game will be great for that downtime at work.
Watch, Record & Upload Game Videos
I was watching a recent episode of diggnation and they mentioned a website called WeGame.com where you could watch video game movies. I went to wegame.com and I’ve been here for the past hour watching all kinds of videos (when I should be
working). So if you have a few minutes to burn or you just love watching video game movies then check out WeGame.com.
Get Your Game at the Digital Games
Recently the GGL announced the 2008 Digital Games. In a recent post on the GGL Form they are asking you, the community, for game you’d like to see at the 2008 Digital Games.
“Throw out the names of your favorite games that you would like to see in the Digital Games!” - GGL Admin
Visit the form now to make your suggestions!
GGL Launches the 2008 Digital Games Website
“In the Olympic spirit, competitions across Sports, FPS, RTS and casual games will provide a first time opportunity to be selected for your Country’s national team and a chance to compete in Shanghai! We will run competitions in 5 Regions – North America, South America, Europe, Middle-East & Africa and Asia/Oceania (there will be separate competitions in China ( china.ggl.com) and South Korea ( korea.ggl.com)). The highest ranking individuals or teams from their country within that given region at the end of the competition will be that country’s representative (and an alternate will also be named).”
