Penny-Arcade gives us a unique insight into the spin-doctoring process required to smooth acceptance of the XXL-Box.
Gamespy.com’s feature on the “Top 50 Games of All Time”, errm, strikes me as just a little PC centric and biased.. Only one console game in the Top 10 surrounded by 9 RTS or FPS titles?!?! 2 Ultima games in there!?!? is Starcraft really better than Zelda?!?! Says a lot about the American develpoment community.. And how do they have Richard Garriot heaping praise on his own games?
AM2 are back with another classic for Dreamcast. OutTrigger takes the FPS genre into the arcade with compact arenas, frenetic skirmishing, and innovative game mechanics. The Japanese aren’t known for their FPShooters but SEGA’s finest have proved they have a lot to offer when it comes to pushing the genre in a slightly different direction. OutTrigger limits the player to 3 basic weapons with the odd super weapon placed around respawn points on the arena floor. Far from limiting your options however this pairing down of hardware forces the player to concentrate on the micro rather than macro, and tactics and playing style become all important. With OutTrigger SEGA have once again proved that sometimes less most definately equals more.. Warning: Due to the fast nature of the game, OutTrigger plays a damn sight better with the mouse than with a joypad, and as such I’d recommend giving it a go first if you dont have a DC mouse..
Hayao MIyazaki has just broken Japanese box office records again with his new release “Spirited Away”. His last masterpiece Princess Mononoke held the record for highest grossing Japanese film of all time before James Cameron’s Titanic came along. Hopefully a western release won’t be too long in coming..
See Steve run, see Steve dance, see Steve squeal like a mildly psychotic little girl. You will not believe your eyes as Microsoft president and CEO Steve Ballmer lets his employees know how much he “LOVES HIS COMPANY!!!” (3.1M and worth every byte).
Oh my god. With all of the original’s levels and a multi-player option to boot, could this be the GBA’s killer app? All we need now is a Wolfenstein Advance that looks as good as the upcoming Gray Matter version.
IGN’s new screenshots of the Battle for Hoth from Gamecube Rogue Leader are just unbelievable. I’ll be very impressed if this is realtime in-game footage, but judging by the radar in the top left and the tone of the article I’d say it quite possibly is, wow..
So you had the Ree-Yees, Yak Face and Snaggletooth. You had the Rancor Handler, Sy Snootles and Max Reebo and you even had a Chewbacca Bandolier to stick them all in. But I’ll bet you didn’t have a Gargan prostitute or a Mongo Beefhead Tribesman.
Kieran Hebden is a founder member of Fridge, part of Badly Drawn Boy’s backing band and remixer of the likes of Aphex Twin, Slag Boom Van Loon (-ziq vs SpeedyJ) and Pole. His new album under the Four Tet moniker is titled Pause and is well worth checking out if you’re into the more Jazz/Post-Rock leanings of Electronica..
IGN has posted screens from Famitsu Magazine’s scoop of Nintendo’s GBA line up for Spaceworld. The screens include a first glimpse of Mario Advance 2, Spaceworld takes place between the 24-26 of August in Tokyo..
