Alternating between Saturdays and Thursdays every week, I’m going to play somewhere between 2 and 4 hours of a video game. Up first is the PS2/Wii classic game Okami! There are some…
Alternating between Saturdays and Thursdays every week, I’m going to play somewhere between 2 and 4 hours of a video game. Up first is the PS2/Wii classic game Okami! There are some…
With the release of the Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword’s release, and the series’s 25th anniversary ending, it has come to my attention that there are a lot of different…
Kirby’s been seeing quite a bit of action over the years. He’s been an amputee, a glutton, had an adventure that was strung together at the last minute, and even had…
Razer announced a gaming laptop that has some beefy specs, but is it all worth it?
At Gamescom 2011, Valve showed off the recent build for DotA2 and held a tournament with a 1 million dollar prize pool. It built a lot of hype for the…
Its that time again where Sweden shows off their fabulous internet, wonderful community, and holds the largest LAN party ever to be thought of. This season of Dreamhack is already…
Alternating between Saturdays and Thursdays every week, I’m going to play somewhere between 2 and 4 hours of a video game. Up first is the PS2/Wii classic game Okami! There are some audio issues in this episode, but I hope to find a way to fix them in future streams. The recording of the first episode is above. Enjoy!
With the release of the Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword’s release, and the series’s 25th anniversary ending, it has come to my attention that there are a lot of different Links. With 16 different games in the series canon, Link has gone through many changes throughout the years in skills, abilities and equipment. The question, of course, is who is the best? When was Link at his strongest? Read the rest of this entry »
Kirby’s been seeing quite a bit of action over the years. He’s been an amputee
I don’t know about you, but whenever I’m looking at boobies on the internet, I can’t help but think to myself “Man… these boobs are great, but this is really cutting into my time of watching game reviews and playthroughs! If only there was a website that could combine these two pastimes…”. If you’re a likeminded individual, then you may need to sit down, because I have some breaking news… your wish is about to be granted.
Porn stars Alana “Superpinkninja” Evans and Misti “MeowMistiDawn” Dawn are the leading ladies of the up and coming website Pwned By Girls! Not only will it offer topless game reviews and playthroughs of the latest games, but they’ll also give you, yes YOU, the chance to… play video games with them! Over the internet, no less! Be still, my beating heart.
The website launches this tuesday, September 20th. Until then, you may have to find another way to play a video game with a girl.
(Image courtesy of Infendo)
Welcome to “Sunday Squabble”, the newest feature here on Down + B. Every Sunday, I’m going to bring up a subject related to current events and discussions going on in the game industry. I’ll then either offer up a further explanation, defense, or accusation of said subject, and then pass it off to the comments thread(that’s you!) for further discussion and debate. The saturday that follows, I’ll make a follow-up post, highlighting the best comments from the post! Our first subject: Did the 3DS need a 2nd circle pad from the start?
At Gamescom 2011, Valve showed off the recent build for DotA2 and held a tournament with a 1 million dollar prize pool. It built a lot of hype for the game, but it’s the not the only title that is being talked about. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has been announced and has a lot of old and new players giddy with excitement.
A few weeks ago, before I went on a trip to SoCal for Anime Expo, and to visit friends/family, I decided to invest in a cheap Android tablet called the Herotab C8. Although my experiences with mobile gaming have not been very deep, I found myself engaged with various games and apps that were available on the Android marketplace. So from now on, every weekday, I’ll briefly showcase a game or app that deserves some attention. The first game is called Radiant HD.
NAME: Radiant HD
Developer: Hexage Ltd
Price: £1.49 (Currently $2.36), Lite version available for free
From the moment you boot up Radiant HD, you’ll notice aesthetic similarities to classic arcade games like Space Invaders and Galaga. In fact, a lot of the enemy sprites are in fact taken from those two games. But that’s really where the similarities end.
Instead of skillfully choosing when and where to shoot, the ship shoots automatically, while all you control is the ship’s left and right movement, again, like Galaga. Where’s the skill in that, you ask? Well as you progress through the game, you collect currency and power-ups, which you can use to buy and upgrade various weapons, including your primary blaster, lasers, homing missiles, and more.
The music and sound effects are soft and moody, which helps immerse you into the Radiant universe. The game is fairly light on a storyline, which is told via dialogue boxes during stages, but the dialogue is quite witty, and will keep you engaged and entertained in between the waves of alien ships and boss fights. All this, coupled with being able to regularly upgrade your weapons, make this game extremely hard to put down.
VERDICT: Buy!
Nintendo’s online services have been rough since the advent of Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and the dreadful Friend Code system. While the Wii and DS boasted several strong online experiences (such as Pokémon and Mario Kart) the manual entry of multiple Friend Codes per game was tedious and repetitive. Nintendo’s attitude has now started leaning to an easier system for the Nintendo 3DS with Single Friend Codes and active Friend Lists. Read more after the jump.
Lots of promising titles in this playlist. Other than the obvious Mario games, Zelda, and Starfox, I’m specifically interested in Nintendo’s original title for the eShop “The Rolling Western”. Kind of odd that Nintendo would shove away an original IP from the spotlight, but hey, we still have this trailer. Let’s hope we get some impressions if it’s on the show floor.
Looks like we have some more technical information involving Wii U, aside from the vague fact sheet that was given to the press. According to various Nintendo reps on the show floor, we now know the following:
*Wii U’s optical discs can hold 25gb on a single layer, similar to a Blu-Ray disc.
*Any external HDD is indeed supported, no word on internal memory.
*The Wii U tablet controller will not be sold in stores, in the sense of needing multiple tablets for multiplayer. The system is being designed around the tablet controller either being the centerpiece or passed around for multiplayer, and everyone else will be using the Wii Remote Plus and whatever attachment needed.
*While Iwata announced that Smash Bros. would indeed be coming to Wii U and 3DS, Sakurai clarified that it is extremely early in development, and probably shouldn’t have been announced at the press conference. Development won’t start until Kid Icarus: Uprising is finished later this year.
What do you guys think? Does it sway you either way on the system, or are you still waiting for more? There’s still another dev roundtable to go, so we may hear more sometime in the next couple days.
