Yesterday beloved Megaman inspired musical fighting force The Protomen had some car problems on their tour of the United States. They broke down on their way to Texas and reached out to fans via twitter, facebook, mailing lists and their own site in an attempt to make their show. Unfortunately they were not able to make it and had to reschedule but even that news is eclipsed by the events that followed. Due to the fact that The Protomen HAVE to rock and roll, they decided that if someone in the Texarkana region they were stranded in could assist them in moving equipment to said fan’s house they would hold a rock and roll pool party for the fan’s friends.
Blizzard’s RealID controversy, TF2 finally updates the Engie, Crackdown 2 and much more.
Things have been hectic in GNSU HQ (especially with the holiday cutting the week short) but despite being insanely busy a lot has been going on game wise so let’s take a look at this past week in gaming.
A conversation with my pal Angel inspired this image. If Bros had their own game it would probably be like this. Of course it would be redundant because you’d end up playing an 8-bit simulation of Madden in it.
Naughty Bear’s multiplayer modes were announced today by 505. The four different modes more or less translate to king of the hill, capture the flag, attack and defend and death match game modes standard to a lot of games.
The game modes come off as tacked on and don’t seem to offer anything additional to the experience. This is something a lot of games are guilty of – a totally underwhelming multiplayer experience. Sure, some games can drop a killer multiplayer and singleplayer experience but for the most part games should stick to what they are good at. Either offer us a good single player experience or go all the way with the multi.
Let’s take a brief break from E3 – shall we? I came into work today and sat down to go about my day with my iPod on shuffle to keep me from bludgeoning myself with a stapler when this gem came on:
…a song from the SMASH 90′s hit family sitcom “Dinosaurs” it was none other than Baby Sinclair singing “I’m the baby, gotta love me…” etc.
How would something like this happen you ask? Simple.
On November 4th of this year Microsoft promises to make gaming on your 360 more clumsy and awkward than ever before. They will be launching Kinect (formerly known as Project Natal), a motion sensor controller that will let you interact with games via body movement and shouting orders at your television.
Microsoft has rented out the Bagger 288 in anticipation of all the upcoming shovelware en route to the 360 this November.
Judging from the launch titles alone, Microsoft would appear challenging Nintendo in the race to see who can push out more shovelware on their system. The lineup includes the following (list courtesy of Kotaku):
Kinect Adventures (Microsoft Game Studios)
Kinectimals (Frontier Studio/Microsoft Game Studios)
Kinect Joy Ride (Big Park/Microsoft Game Studios)
Kinect Sports (Rare/Microsoft Game Studios)
Dance Central (MTV Games)
Your Shape: Fitness Evolved (Ubisoft)
EA Sports Active 2 (EA)
Deca Sports Freedom (Hudson)
Dance Masters (Konami)
Adrenalin Misfits (Konami)
Zumba Fitness (Majesco)
Sonic Free Riders (Sega)
The Biggest Loser: Ultimate Workout (THQ)
Motion Sports (Ubisoft)
Game Party: In Motion (Warner Bros.)
The list includes games where you can exercise, race, play sports, and raise cats. Now before you get too excited, let’s take a look at Kinect in glorious action by a commercial family.
GOOD JOB, MOM! THIRD PLACE!
This is the demo video that’s supposed to make Kinect look appealing to the general public. Every game in this painful to watch video looks absolutely awkward to play. The only redeeming part of it is watching the dad pull a Minority Report while watching a movie to skip to a point where a fat girl complains about being with her family, possibly because her family hasn’t experienced the joy of Kinect.
One of the upcoming Kinect titles is a Star Wars game where you’ll get to play as a Jedi who uses the force to randomly flail around and gently knock over Stormtroopers with a lightsaber.
Which in your living room will look like this.
And yes, I know everyone has already seen this video.
Early reports indicate this gimmicky device can be yours for approximately $150.
I suppose I can try to end this on a positive note. Despite not really showing much in the way of gameplay, Ubisoft’s Child of Eden looks like a total trip and gives off an uncontrollable urge to get under the influence of anything really. Seen by many as a spiritual successor to another trippy game, Rez, we can only hope that in the spirit of being more interactive with games it will also include a vibrator like Rez did. Girl gamers deserve a break once in a while.
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