That’s right, guys. The Commodore 64 and a PS2 Guitar Hero guitar.
And here’s Part II when you’re done with the above vid.
Anyone else think it’s time to think about that 3rd Vintage Game Party?
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At last the next sequel in the Destroy All Humans series has been unleashed! To be redundant, it’s called: Destroy All Humans: Big Willy Unleashed! Yes, that’s right, kids. As of today you can order this tasty sequel for the PSP and the Wii (exclusively) and delight in the discontinuation of the human race.
You can again unleash destruction in an open world setting! But this time you can do it in 3 ways: on foot as Crypto, in the air (UFO) or in the Big Willy Mech! There are 5 different environments to explore: Harbor City, Fairfield, Vietnmahl, Fantasy Island & Antarctica.
As predicted by members of this site, the game takes place in the early 70s. Crypto and Pox have started a fast food restaurant and their mascot is a large boy called “Willy” and the secret recipe includes Soylent Green! OK, it’s not actually called Soylent Green as far as I can tell. However! The reference indicates that the recipe does call for people… or at least their flesh. And a new arch-nemesis has been created called: Colonel Kluckin. The Colonel finds out their secret recipe and Pox makes a Furon war machine disguised as a giant robot version of Big Willy (the aforementioned mascot of the restaurant).
There is another sequel already in the works entitled: Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon which will be set in the late 70s and is exclusive to the Xbox 360 and PS3. It’s release date is Mid-June of this year.
Last October Electronic Arts out of Redwood, CA purchased two reputable game companies putting their company in the lead on the NY Stock Exchange. Recently that lead has waned with competition from Take-Two Interactive, another large player in the video gaming world. You might have heard of them. Under their RockStar development group they produce a little game called: Grand Theft Auto.
EA has just bid Two Billion dollars to purchase this rival.
Last year’s October purchase of BioWare and Pandemic Studios added the following games to EA’s arsenal:
From BioWare:
- Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood
- Dragon Age
- Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
- New Next Gen Game
- LucasArts/BioWare Interactive Product
- Neverwinter Nights Series
- Mass Effect
- Jade Empire
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Baldur’s Gate Series
- MDK2 Series
- Shattered Steel
From Pandemic:
- Full Spectrum Warrior™
- Star Wars: Clone Wars
- Triple Play 2002
- Army Men RTS
- Dark Reign 2
- Battlezone II
- Saboteur
- Mercenaries Series
- Destroy All Humans Series
- Full Spectrum Warrior Series
- Star Wars Battlefront Series
If the $2,000,000,000 take over were to go through, EA would have controlling stock in games like:
- The Manhunt Series
- Bully
- Actually, Rockstar Games alone account for:
- Table Tennis
- Midnight Club Series
- Grand Theft Auto Series
- Smuggler’s Run Series
- The Italian Job
- Max Payne Series
- The Aforementioned Bully
- BioShock
- All-Pro Football 2K8
- The Darkness
- and more…
I’ve never played Portal but I was reading a blog entry by Pocket Frenzy on GirlGamer.com about an apparently lame game Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Death–or something like that–when she suddenly paused to give props to Portal. This video was featured on her site and I couldn’t stop laughing even though I’ve not seen the game. The War Games reference alone about made me pee. Be advised: You may want to turn your volume down or wear headphones if you’re at work.
At the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco last Wednesday, Nintendo announced a new game for its leading console: Wii Fit. What? A console which already battles sedentary gaming is adding a product that will improve your health too?
Wii Fit comes bundled with a wireless Balance Board “controller” with which you can stretch, exercise and even try out ya ya ya ya-Yoga! WiiFit includes mini-games that test your hand eye coordination with Soccer-related challenges, Marbles and Down-Hill skiing. Additionally, it adds the Wii Fit channel to the already large list of channels on the Wii Conole. The channel allows users to check in and track fitness progress by weight and body mass index (also known as BMI).
Although originally rumored to come out in January this year, WiiFit will be available May 19th. In addition to WiiFit, Nintendo announced WiiWare–a digital distribution game service set to launch May 12th allowing gamers to download new games directly to the console–some of which are said to include episodic content. This is different than the Virtual Console which has existed since its incept.
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