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Ultra Sniper 2

L33T-Thor — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:24:50 -0600

Ultra Sniper 2, rate and enjoy please! :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV8fY7PiMrc

Sniper Vid

L33T-Thor — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:19:19 -0600

Posting a Sniping vid for by my friend Sarciss. Please rate and enjoy! No hacks were used in the making of this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV8fY7PiMrc

Sniper Vid

L33T-Thor — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:18:39 -0600

Posting a Sniping vid for by my friend Sarciss. Please rate and enjoy! No hacks were used in the making of this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV8fY7PiMrc

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Deathknight Level 70 Tanking Gear Set

WoWGrrl — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:26:32 -0500

Level 70 DK Tank

My DK has got it goin’ on!

She hit level 70 and swapped into the Cobalt gear set that’s craftable by Blacksmiths in their early Northrend professions levels:

[Cobalt Helm]
[Cobalt Shoulders]
[Cobalt Chestpiece]
[Cobalt Bracers]
[Cobalt Boots]
[Cobalt Legplates]
[Cobalt Belt]
[Cobalt Gauntlets]

Then, after affixing Armor Kits and various enchants with the Outland and early Northrend materials I had laying around in this Enchanter’s bank, I headed to the Auction House and picked myself up a few [Eternal Belt Buckle]s and a [Solid Chalcedony] to fill this current belt’s gem slot as created by the belt buckle.

I looked for new rings and trinkets, and managed to pick up one Heavy Adamantite Ring for low cost, but since it’s unique-equipped, I couldn’t make use of two. Trinkets were available in the form of the Darkmoon Faire ones, but the cheapest one started at 500g and I’m not sure I’m ready to invest that much without a bit of thinking, first.

Before and After

I’d originally taken some screenshots to be included in this entry that were meant to show how much of a change this new gear is going to make for me, but I must admit - I was going to be comparing apples and oranges, and then I had blog problems, so I’ll save those screenshots for another entry.

You see, I didn’t plan to tank during the Outland levels and as a result I focused on my DPS set and DPS Blood spec. So when I plan show the difference between the DPS gear I had on when I hit 70 and the Tanking gear set I put on after I dinged, it’s not really a fair comparison.

WoWGrrl’s Done The Research Already!

Solid gearing lists for your Northrend toons, from Instances, Crafting, PvP and more!

WoWGrrl’s Northrend Gearing Lists

Gearing Guides By WoWGrrl

I’m getting my Blacksmith buddy to craft me the cobalt DPS gear set soon, and once that’s crafted then I can do a more direct comparison of the improvements that can be had with a wee bit of work right at the level 70 marker for plate-wearing DPS or Tanks (Paladin, Warrior, Deathknight).

Blizzard has done a really good job at making sure the Tanks can start to be decently geared going into the new leveling dungeons this time around - while DPS folk wearing tailored or leatherworked gear have to level up to 72/74/76 before they can wear their full “set” of gear, Tanks can deck themselves out right at 70.

It remains to be seen if DPS gear requires higher levels than 70 to wear the whole set!

Epic Flyer Purchased

Once I got my gear all in line, I headed through the portal to Shattrath City and then hopped the Taxi to Thrallmar.

Being only Honored with Thrallmar, the cost of my Epic Flying training was a cool 4500g. Ouch! That took a chunk out of my savings, but didn’t decimate my monetary supplies like the first two characters I purchased Epic Flying for back in Burning Crusade. By the time my third character got to 70 in order to qualify for Epic Flying training, I had gotten a much better handle on my cash flow and still had thousands of gold left over.

With this Deathknight’s purchase of Epic Flying skill, it’s my fifth toon with Epic Flying.

It used to be that I bought Epic Flying more because of how painfully slow regular flying was in comparison - once you flew an Epic, your other flyers felt so horribly slow that you were MOTIVATED to get the money to upgrade to the faster flyer. But now, it’s simply because I can!

Choosing A Rune Enchantment

Oh yah! One more enchant I got done was on my new 2h sword, but I forgot to write about it.

One thing that makes a Deathknight unique from almost every other class in World of Warcraft is that we can enchant our own weapons with class-related skills.

Now, I realize the Warlocks can do the same, but I don’t think their firestones, etc, have the same flexibility as the Deathknight Runeforging.

After I finished off the enchants and armor patches and had visited the Auction House to get some belt buckles and a cheap stamina gem to go into it, I opened up my Death Gate and headed back to “home base” to apply a runeforge enchant to my new 2h sword. My sword wasn’t anything spectactular, so I’m not thinking of applying any “real” enchants on it yet.

I looked through my list of Runeforge enchants, and finally chose Rune of Swordshattering for my tanking sword:

Rune of Swordshattering: Affixes your two-handed rune weapon with a rune that increases Parry chance by 4% and reduces the duration of Disarm effects by 50%.

That looks like a good tanking runeforge to me!

Stay tuned for an upcoming entry where I talk about the coming together of my Blood DPS set, along with my first adventures as a tank in Northrend.

Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer Hands-On Impressions: No Buzzkills

Kotahu — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:00:00 -0500

Activision gave us our first taste of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer modes tonight at an event in Hollywood, California, featuring a fully playable—but still beta—version of the impending holiday blockbuster.

Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward brought with them three maps, five preset classes, and dozens of new improvements that make the sequel to Call of Duty 4 feel, well, even more modern than its predecessor. The addition of new perks, new killstreak and deathstreak bonuses, and the new Callsign unlockables ensure that players of the previous game will have hundreds of hours worth of reasons to reinvest in multiplayer. The blistering intensity of the game's multiplayer component, more frenetic than ever, will guarantee they'll have fun doing it.

First, let's talk about the location, location, location of Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer beta.

We spent most of our time on the Highrise map, a level that takes place on the rooftop of a building and two adjoining offices—the spawn location of flags and the players who long to capture them. It's a chokepoint-filled map, with both sides meeting in the middle for the majority of firefights, a handful of service tunnels cutting beneath the area where the action takes place. There's a sweet spot right in the center of Highrise, offering protective walls on all sides with two entry points that look to be easily guarded. One team we went up against took advantage of this spot to great effect, whether by luck or strategy, putting a hurt on my team of Army Rangers.

With its mirrored map layout and dozens of little nooks and crannies in which to hide oneself, we foresee Highrise becoming very popular, very quickly amongst the Modern Warfare 2 community.

Favela, a sun-bleached brick village full of brightly colored posters and billboards, looks like it could be set in Rio de Janiero. It was the map we spent the second most time with and my personal favorite. Plenty of winding alleyways, staircases and multi-tiered roofs on which to hide made the map more exciting, less predictable than Highrise. Grabbing the flag in the center of the map, then sprinting back to base with an escort was exhilarating. On Highrise, we were more concerned about being sniped from the back. On Favela, it was who might be around the next corner that was cause for concern.

Finally, we spent a little time in the map Afghan, a dusty desert location that featured a downed aircraft or two (or more) and some scary drop-offs. The edges of those sheer drops made for prime sniping real estate, though, giving the player full view of the map. Afghan also has a few lived-in caves that offer a bit of shelter from the open air layout of the rest of the map, but our time with it was brief.

The two predetermined classes I found myself leaning toward were the Riot Control class—armed with the riot shield as the primary weapon and dual-wielding a pair of sub machine guns as the secondary—and First Recon, which loaded me out with a FAMAS burst fire gun and a fairly massive hand cannon. I had less luck with the Grenadier, the Sniper Scout and the Overwatch classes. They just didn't jibe with my playing style, which is to generally be a pest.

Playing as a Riot Control class offered an exciting new gameplay tactic—being a distraction. There's a Challenge reward for doing so, one called Crowd Control, that one can receive for being a bullet sponge while sporting the Blast Shield. What's not as much fun is when an enemy takes you out by shooting your shins and feet into oblivion, an area unprotected by the shield while standing and running.

Plus, as Riot Control, you dual-wield right away.

We didn't get much of an opportunity to muck with the Create A Class option, but did quickly customize a pair of classes with what was already unlocked. I'm not sure if this is good news or bad, but Infinity Ward is being extremely generous with the load out options. The developer has broken the "rule" that secondary weapon means pistol. Players can choose an assault rifle for their primary weapon, a rocket launcher for their secondary. Or a machine pistol. Or a shotgun. Whatever. Expect chaos.

Players can also deck their custom class out with accessories—like suppressors for assault rifles, sniper rifles and shotguns—as well as special grenades, like the Tactical Insertion flare that lets the player choose his spawn location or familiar flashbang grenades.

Better players than me got to take advantage of some of the new Killstreak rewards. Most of what we saw tonight—UAV, AC-130 gunship, sentry guns, Predator missiles—we'd heard mention of before or had seen in Call of Duty 4. But what's nice about the Killstreak after the UAV, known as the Care Package, is its randomness. You may get ammo. You may get to step into the AC-130 and rain death on your enemies. It's designed to give the player who might not ever have an 11-kill long streak a chance to experience doing so. (But watch out, because anyone can grab your Care Package after it's been airdropped.)

Equally an experience is actually shooting down an AC-130 gunship. It, like the UAV, can be a nuisance to your enemies, and they have an option to take them both down.

On the flip side of Killstreaks are Deathstreaks. They don't reward the better player, they help to level the playing field for the less skilled player. Two were shown tonight. Copycat lets the player on the losing end of a streak inherit his killer's class and weapons load out—even if the player receiving the Deathstreak bonus hasn't yet unlocked those guns—for one life only. The other is Painkiller. It's much simpler, offering the less skilled player a short period of increased health.

Our three hours with Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer mode was both delightful and a little exhausting. There's just so much happening on-screen, all the time, a constant barrage of Challenges, kills, streaks, explosions and blood-spattered camera effects. Is that a bad thing? Not necessarily. Modern Warfare 2 keeps the intensity redlined throughout the match. But it somehow manages not to be abrasive, even with all that flaming death happening around you.

Based on the tiny shred of what was unlocked in our demo of the next Call of Duty, there's a deep well of weapons, accessories and unlockable bonus attributes that players will enjoy for a long time. The gameplay appears to be tighter than ever, the feature set more expansive than ever—even the Perks get perked. Modern Warfare 2 appears to be delivering a multiplayer experience beyond our expectations, an experience I look forward to enjoying again when the game ships on November 10th.

Modern Warfare 2 Conference: Call Of Liveblog

Kotahu — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:19:00 -0500

Infinity Ward and Activision are, as you read this, holding a Modern Warfare 2 press conference. Not a press event, a press conference. Must be some good stuff in store. We're there, and through the magic of liveblogging, so are you!

- Microsoft will be releasing a special MW2 version of the Xbox 360, which will be black, include MW2 styling, a copy of the game and two wireless controllers. [Update - here's some pics of the bundle]

- And now we're into the game. Multiplayer. It's announced that there are new rewards for killing streaks in the game. 3 kills gets you a UAV. 4 gets you a care package with a random drop.

- New feature called "Callsign", which lets you customise your online account with custom tags, clan emblems, etc. This also lets you create a custom class with a custom weapons loadout.

- Moving onto perks. Creating a custom class also lets you load custom perks, including one called "Scavenger", which lets you get a full resupply from a dead enemy.

- And...now it's off to play the game, try out some of this new stuff! Impressions to come.

Microsoft Releasing 250GB Xbox 360 For Modern Warfare 2 [Update]

Kotahu — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:20:38 -0500

Infinity Ward announced at a press event in Los Angeles today that, to commemorate the release of the game, Microsoft will be releasing a brand new model of the Xbox 360 based on Modern Warfare 2.

This new console will be black, with Modern Warfare 2 branding, and will also come packing a 250GB HDD (so, yes, it is real), a copy of the game and two wireless controllers. It'll be $399, available on November 10, and is already available for preorder.

UPDATE - We've now got some official shots of the console.

Calling All Readers: Kotaku Party In Tokyo

Kotahu — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:00:00 -0500

It's time for another Tokyo Game Show and that means it's also time for another Kotaku Party.

This year we decided to go with a subtle, casual setting, something that envelopes you in warmth and subtleness: Note the gold in the picture above. How much gold is too much gold? No such thing apparently.

Which is why we're hosting our Tokyo Kotaku Reader party at Trump House in Shibuya this year.

The party will be this coming Monday from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. It would help a great deal if you could shoot us an email to tips with the subject line "party" if you're planning on coming. Our Golden Gopher event in LA ended up reaching capacity super quick. I suspect the same may happen in this room of gold. So no promises about actually getting inside.

See you next week!

GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony Preview: Crimes For The Crazy Rich

Kotahu — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:30:18 -0500

Niko Bellic never had friends, missions or "toys" like Luis Lopez gets next month.

Those who have played Grand Theft Auto over the years know that 2008's adventure of Niko Bellic was, relatively speaking, one of the calmer GTAs. Ballistic bank heists and motorcycle chases in subway tunnels notwithstanding, Niko didn't parachute from skyscrapers or drive military vehicles down Broadway. That, with style, is where the next GTA IV episode comes in.

I played and watched a few missions from Rockstar Games' next and final extension of Grand Theft Auto IV at the company's New York City headquarters yesterday. The new episode, which Rockstar says will be similar in size to the last one, offers a few notable game design tweaks but will most likely stand out to series fans as a modern way to reintroduce some of the eccentricities not seen in a console GTA since the PlayStation 2-era Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

Bodyguard Luis Lopez, star of the Ballad of Gay Tony, is committed in this episode to help his friend and employer, the beleaguered nightclub owner, Tony Prince, resist the encroachment of some crooked gangsters. That's the set-up for a wild ride.

Rockstar is pitching this episode as an experience on the other side of Liberty City's velvet rope, an indulgence in the excesses of the super-rich and likely not-so-nice. So it was no surprise to hear that there's a champagne mini-game in Gay Tony, nor to witness a mission that involved stealing an attack helicopter from the back of a yacht before using said chopper's rockets to blow up some boats — nor to try a mission myself that had Luis walking along the top of a moving, elevated subway, using a shotgun with explosive shells to eliminate swarming police helicopters. That last mission's motivation? We're doing it to steal a subway car for a rich guy who wants to build a re-creation of Liberty City in the Middle East.

San Andreas would let you eat enough burgers to make its hero slovenly. It would hide a big purple sex toy for you to find and use to bludgeon people. There isn't any sign that Gay Tony is taking things quite that far. Instead, the new episode defines its colorfulness within the lines of Liberty City's demented wealthy. I witnessed one cut-scene that had Luis considering a job for a man with so much money that he has a super-hero costume, a TV running the end-credits of GTA IV and a big bird sculpture in his penthouse apartment… a man who has people upstairs making noises Luis mistakes for the filming of a pornographic movie... a man who delivers a life lesson that culminates with the instruction that an individual must always do what money dictates even if that dictation involves the loss of one's own legs.

For this eccentric cast Luis might machine-gun his way through the upper floors of the MeTV building, where, instead of my old MTV offices from my last job, we find on one high-rise floor the offices for the crooked owners of Liberty City's hockey team. Extra credit goes to the gamers who can shoot one of these no-good franchise owners in such a way that he crashes through a window and down many stories to the Liberty City version of the patio outside my old company's cafeteria. And more extra credit to the gamer who can follow that with a parachute jump out of the skyscraper and onto the back of a flatbed truck.

Rockstar's previous episodic expansion of GTA IV, The Lost and Damned, expanded the gameplay options of the base game by allowing and encouraging players to ride through the city and fight with a gang of other characters providing back-up. The twist in this episode is that Luis' missions will include optional goals — ideal completion times, ideal damage taken, bonus objectives like shooting that guy out of the window or landing on that truck. A mission can be completed without them, but Rockstar is enabling and encouraging gamers to re-launch the missions after having completed them, as players could in the DS' Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, and to strive for those goals. Rockstar reps couldn't tell me what the rewards for perfect completion might be.

I used to work with a guy who was almost depressed about the lack of access to a military tank in Grand Theft Auto IV. He liked the new game but missed the older games' wildness. It's for people like him that Rockstar is now promising in Gay Tony access to an armored personnel carrier with a 50-caliber gun, more advanced and devastating helicopters and even a more potent arsenal of firearms, which will be made available to Luis early in the episode. But I think the addition that will most excite my former co-worker is Luis Lopez' parachute. Find a high spot in Liberty City, equip the parachute and jump. Players can experiment with it freely, though be warned that it can't be used infinitely. You'll need to replenish your parachute supply. Gay Tony will also provide access to 15 parachute-jumping challenges, five of which involve trying to bullseye a target after leaping off a building, five of which involve leaping from helicopters and five of which involve leaping from motorcycles.

Rockstar estimates that this new episode will be similar in size to the previous one, The Lost And Damned, an episode that took me 12 hours to reach its narrative conclusion. The new game won't have any new multiplayer modes but will support existing ones. The radio stations will be beefed up once again, with more music, new DJs and new talk. There will be new in-game TV programming. Some missions will intersect with the previous GTA IV releases, allowing gamers to again encounter Niko Bellic and Lost and Damned protagonist Johnny Klebitz. Some side missions will be randomly generated, enabling Luis to do tasks for people who hang out in Tony's clubs. The story missions will have a more Algonquin/Manhattan focus than those of Lost and Damned.

Rockstar always keeps some secrets out of its GTA previews. That headline-grabbing full-frontal nudity in The Lost and Damned was not featured in any preview I got of that episode. Who knows what other eccentricities will be in this one. But what I've seen so far of what Rockstar says is this last-planned GTA IV episode is wild enough to wrap the saga of Grand Theft Auto in entertaining and eccentric fashion.

Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony will be available on October 29 both as a $20 download through Xbox Live or on an $40 Xbox 360 standalone disc called Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City that also included The Lost and Damned and does not require ownership of GTA IV. As with the previous expansion to GTA IV, Rockstar has only announced this new episode for the Xbox 360 and gave no word that it is ever coming to the PlayStation 3.

Thought for the day: Banning Need for Speed

Tobold — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:59:00 -0500

If we accept the notion that video games can alter the behavior of teenagers, shouldn't the first games to be banned be racing games? It seems unlikely that playing Counterstrike would cause school shootings, but playing Need for Speed would not result in reckless driving, which is ultimately much more frequent and thus more deadly. After all, people have easier access to cars than to guns and samurai swords.

Fred Hicks on Reviews and Reading

Zachary — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:46:01 -0500

"Please review my stuff without playing it. If I didn't write it well enough to get you excited to play, I've failed, and you should say so".

-Fred Hicks

Obviously, this trickles down a bit from yesterday's post. I believe the Evil Hat Man to be right; I think there's a lot to be said for a game that gets you excited to play in its reading. This can be through the author's own enthusiasm for the game, through an excellent presentation of rules (you can be excited that you get it), or through great and/or suitable accompanying art.

But mostly I find that if an author can't convey a sense of interest in excitement in their own RPG product, they're going to have a much harder time selling me on it. It's a problem I think a lot of late D&D 3.5 splatbooks suffered from, actually.

The OSR In the RPGNow Top 100

Zachary — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:31:00 -0500

RPGNow's list of the Top 100 best-selling products (not all-time total, but on average over time) is positively flowing with OSR (and OSR cousin) goodness! Let's take a look as of today (note: these rankings are subject to change without notice; by the time you read this, they very well may have):

#86: Tainted Lands

#77: Death Frost Doom

#67: Castles & Crusades Player's Handbook

#3: Labyrinth Lord Revised

Congrats, folks! Way to share the love! I'm sure more will be joining that list soon. I have to think if Fight On! were on there, it'd be somewhere near the top.

There's also Barbarians of Lemuria sitting at #58--very cool to see.

Trailer: The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom

indiegames — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:15:22 -0500

We didn't get a trailer for their announcement of the release on XBLA, but now there's a video up on GameSpot previewing some of the gameplay elements that can be found in The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom. Similar to Super Meat Boy, The Odd Gentlemen's upcoming puzzle platformer will be released sometime in early 2010.

The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom Official Trailer (GameSpot)

Nintendo Creates Own Quality Control Company

JohnnyV — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:23:01 -0500

When you have enough money to wipe your tears and blow your nose with $100 bills, you can afford to take some chances. Which is exactly what Nintendo is doing with their latest creation - Mario Club.

Since the origins dating back to the NES; the branded Nintendo Seal of Quality has been a stamp that has shown consumers that Nintendo stands behind their products. Up until now this assurance of quality was all directly managed by Nintendo. Now, the House of N has decided to branch their quality control into a separate company, aptly named ‘Mario Club’.

Employees who are being shifted to the new company will see highly improved working conditions. Many of them will be promoted from part time and contract work to full time staff. Which needless to say will cost a crap ton of money. The main goal of Mario Club will be the same as it was when directly harbored under Nintendo, to guarantee a solid product sees a release. Live on, oh great Quality Seal of Nintendo.

[via: Kotaku via: Inside Games]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is Renamed For Nintendo Wii

JohnnyV — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:36:56 -0500

You’d think that the logical name change for COD: Modern Warfare on Nintendo’s console would simply be, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Wii. However, Activision or Treyarch, whoever is in charge of actually naming the game looks to go down a different route.

When Call of Duty: Modern Warfare releases this Christmas for all us Wii owners it will be called, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Reflex.

Puzzled? So am I. Unfortunately we won’t learn anymore until Nintendo: The Official Magazine conducts an interview with the lead producer of the game. Hopefully we’ll get some answers for this mind boggling decision.

[via: ONM]

Want a Punch-Out! Sequel? - It’s Up To You

JohnnyV — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:49:56 -0500

For those of us who played, or are still playing Punch-Out!! on the Nintendo Wii know of the greatness it exudes. If we would like to see the franchise continue then we need to let Kensuke Tanabe of Nintendo Software Planning and Development know how much we love it. During an interview with GameInformer magazine, Tanabe had this to say about an impending Punch-Out!! sequel,

“The more requests for a sequel we receive, the more we have to seriously consider it. Personally, I would like to consider making a different type of game than what we have created so far that utilizes the characters of Punch-Out in a new way.”

Simple enough. So it’s in our hands people. If we want a Punch-Out!! sequel to emerge we need to let Nintendo know how much we love it. So, get out there and shout from the rooftops how much you love Punch-Out!! Maybe even drop comments on here, and if there are enough I’ll make sure the appropriate people are made aware.

I’m a bit worried what Tanabe means by saying “I would like to consider making a different type of game”. Does he have a Punch-Out!! RPG cooked up? Or a Punch-Out!! action-adventure game? I would have to say no to those ideas, but I would like to see a bit more polish and tighter gameplay brought to the series. And how about stretching some creative muscles and bring us a new roster of characters.

[via: NintendodPad]

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Bethesda Softworks Sues Interplay Over Fallout License

Wired — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:05:52 -0500

Bethesda Softworks, the maker of Fallout 3, is suing developer Interplay over the use of the Fallout license.

Gamasutra reports that Bethesda, which now holds the rights to the series, filed a complaint in U.S. District Court of Maryland on Sept. 9 to restrict Interplay from selling older titles Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics.

Though Interplay was allowed to sell the older Fallout games, the complaint by Bethesda alleges that Interplay did not seek prior approval for packaging, advertising and promotional material, as required. The lack of pre-approval of those materials, Bethesda claims, has caused gamers to confuse the older Fallout titles with 2008’s Fallout 3, developed by Bethesda.

Additionally, Bethesda has cited a breach of contract over its agreement with Interplay to develop a massively multiplayer online game based on the Fallout license. Interplay was supposed to raise $30 million in funding and begin full-scale development of the game by April 2009, but according to Bethesda, Interplay had not fulfilled its part of the bargain by the deadline.

There have been rumors that Project V13 is Interplay’s Fallout MMO. If Bethesda triumphs in court, the rights for the Fallout MMO could revert back to the company. If that happens, we could see two MMOs in Bethesda’s future: The company’s sister studio, Zenimax Online, is currently working on an unannounced MMO title.

Bethesda Sues Interplay Over Use Of Fallout License [Gamasutra]

Fallout 3 image courtesy Bethesda Softworks

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Zune HD Plays Casual Games Now, 3-D Games in November

Wired — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:16:47 -0500

A handful off free casual games are available for the new Zune HD media player, the OLED touchscreen device launched Tuesday by Microsoft to challenge Apple’s dominant iPod.

The Zune HD handheld, pictured right, gives gamers a new mobile platform.

Among the free apps available for download from the Zune Marketplace are Chess, Goo Splat, Hexic (from Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov), Shell Game, Space Battle 2, Sudoku and Texas Hold ‘Em.

Microsoft plans to release another wave of applications in November, including Twitter and Facebook apps and a handful of 3-D games (Project Gotham Racing: Ferrari Edition, Vans Sk8: Pool Service and Audiosurf Tilt). These offerings, too, will be free.

Users can download games and apps from the Zune Marketplace using the Zune HD’s built-in Wi-Fi or by connecting their devices to their computers using Zune PC software.

The Zune HD will also extend certain functionalities of Xbox Live, allowing customers to play movies they purchased through the service’s Video Marketplace. No further gaming integration between the Zune HD and the Xbox 360 has been announced. The handheld device was released Tuesday in two flavors. The Black model touts a 16-GB drive and costs $220. The larger Platinum, with 32 GB of storage, runs a cool $290.

The full feature set, including HD radio reception, can be found at the official Zune HD site. You’re going to want to head over there anyway if you want to customize your new Zune HD with Xbox graphics. Can we recommend an engraving of the Big Brother from Bioshock 2 or Brütal Legend’s Eddie Riggs?

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Zelda DS Game Dated, Castlevania WiiWare Title Confirmed

Wired — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:12:18 -0500

Nintendo revealed its holiday videogame lineup Tuesday, confirming the release date for the highly anticipated DS game Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (pictured) and a new Castlevania title for WiiWare.

Action-adventure title Spirit Tracks, unveiled at this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, will be in stores Dec. 7, letting gamers control hero Link as he travels across the game world on a steam-powered train.

After its Teen ESRB rating was discovered over the weekend, Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth, a remake of the 1989 Gameboy title, was confirmed Tuesday: It is slated for release in the third quarter of this year (read: very soon) as downloadable WiiWare.

(via Shacknews)

Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com

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Nothing says raw punk like Geodesic Gnomes by Dyson Logos

Rob Lang — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:02:10 -0500

Geodesic Gnomes by Dyson Logos (of A character for every game blog fame) is a free cyberpunk RPG where you play low-tech gnomes who live in the superstructure of huge domed cities. As gnomes, you fight against injustice toward the gnomes, either from the proles who live in the main domes or from other gnomes. If you are looking for a cyberpunk roleplaying game with quite a twist of vodka, Geodesic Gnomes is for you.

Gnomes

Games that have interlocking system and setting are obvious during character creation and Geodesic Gnomes is no exception. You begin by rolling for your Generational Cohort. The higher the Generation, the longer your family tree has been living in the walls of the superstructure and the more of a hardened genetic throwback you are. Your Cohort decides your vital statistics, which are: Tunnels, Tribe, Tools, Timing, Toughness and Tallness. Talents are rolled randomly, and generally boost Stats in certain situations. Finally, you pick some equipment. Like a 6th Generational gnome, short, sweet and uncomplicated.

Mechanics

Typical of a 24 hour RPG, Geodesic Gnomes has featherlight mechanics. You roll 2D8 and pass when you are equal or less than your statistic. Difficulty is added on as you might expect. In opposing rolls, there is a little logic to obey to determine the winner or if there is a stalemate. Generally speaking, the higher roll wins. Conflict is taken in a story game context, encouraging Statistic checks to be made for persuasion, intimidation and one-upmanship! Damage is done to Stats, depending on which Stat you were using for the conflict. Getting to zero means a permanent affect and healing

Initiative is calculates with 2D8 plus the Timing Stat. The GM then moves up the numbers from 4 and anyone with a number higher than this can act. This means that if you have a high initiative score, you get more choice. I like that a lot.

Gnomes in Domes

The apocalyptic setting of an failed atmosphere, Geodesic Gnomes focuses on Gary, Indiana - or Dome City. In the walls superstructure the characters eek out a low fi living akin to Gibson's Johnny Mnemonic (as noted by Dyson). The Domes are lavish affairs, the prole inhabitants living a privileged if rather stayed life. Flavour upon depth upon detail gives Geodesic Gnomes a very distinct setting. Society is structured hierarchically, giving the Gnomes social standing to fight for. It is cyberpunk but it is not Cyberpunk 2020. It's cyberpunk from the veins of Gibson rather than a derivative of a derivative. The writing throughout is excellent. I liked the description of the effects of talents in character creation as "a special and unique snowflake" particularly. The layout is simple and there is a sample adventure that sounds fun to play.

To do...

[24 Hour Proviso]I would move the character sheet to the back and compress all the files into a single document. I would also include a cheat sheet of the salient points of the system. Geodesic Gnomes is also desperately in need of some graphics. Like most Sci Fiction, one can do only so much without imagery. Dyson does well in the text but I imagine more would be encouraged to play with some pictures. The opposing rolls section could be made a little simpler by adding the roll to the T-score and comparing. This is not mechanically equivalent but it would be much quicker to resolve. Dyson's writing style is very precise and technical and that does seep through in places. It's not jarring but I would prefer a more Gibson-esque use of modern terms. Ensure you download the Content version with a white background if you're going to print.

Conclude

Geodesic Gnomes is tighter than the suit you only wear for weddings and funerals. The system does not wear the setting like a serial killer might wear the skin of a victim but embraces it like an over affectionate grandmother. The setting is great and would stand up next to much larger games. If you think you've seen Cyberpunk done every possible way, think again. Well done, Dyson, it's a marvellous game!

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Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story Review: A Fawful Good Time

Kotahu — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:30:00 -0500

Mario and Luigi's eternal struggle against the forces that threaten the Mushroom Kingdom—and frequently kidnap Princess Peach—continue in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, the latest in the lighthearted, action-oriented role-playing game series.

This time, series staple bad guy Fawful has tricked Bowser into eating a particular strain of mushroom that causes him to inhale the court of the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario, Luigi and Princess Peach included. There's also a nasty Toad affliction going around, known as the Blorbs that needs curing. Of course, the goal is to save the Mushroom Kingdom and rescue Peach, with much of that work being done by Mario and Luigi, trapped inside the anatomical depths of the King of Koopas himself.

Players will control both Mario and Luigi and Bowser, offering two very different styles of play but with a common goal. Should you dive into Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story?

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Gameplay Over Storytelling: I've never been much of a fan of the conventional role-playing game genre, largely because I find the storytelling to be heavy-handed and the gameplay to generally be dull. But after playing the first Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga on the Game Boy Advance, I got hooked on developer Alpha Dream's formula. The series features timing-based gameplay that ensures a level of amusing rhythmic action on both offense and defense, one that rarely becomes stale. Part of that is due to the fact that the Mario & Luigi games regularly throw new skills, new items, new special attacks, and new characters at the player right up until the very end. Oh, and the storytelling? It may be skin deep, but it's certainly not dull.

Having The Chortles: One reason the story portions of Bowser's Inside Story are more enjoyable than what many other RPGs have to offer is simple. They're funny. The well-written dialogue is often worthy of out loud laughing, all of it delivered with well-directed animation. Some of the gags offered are for the older Nintendo fan, as the game makes reference to past Mario games and even Pro Wrestling for the NES. There are also self-inflicted jabs at Nintendo's current offerings, with a handful of Wii Fit jokes peppered throughout. It may not be as freshly entertaining or so disarming with its brand of humor as the first Mario & Luigi game, but it's still great fun.

Bowser's Guts: The bizarre fantasy anatomy of the Mushroom Kingdom's biggest Koopa is a trip. In these portions of the game, when one controls Mario and Luigi, the player will be doing plenty of 2D platform-adventuring. You'll also play a simple Galaga style shmup, whack hammers in a musical rhythm game, solve puzzles and flick the stylus in various mini-games. It's a very different experience from the portions played in the outer world as Bowser and, later on, the Bros. Alpha Dream crafted two very different experiences, one familiar to Mario & Luigi vets, another closer to recent console Mario RPGs.

Stylus Control Redux: The previous Mario & Luigi game on the Nintendo DS, Partners In Time, didn't take advantage of the platform's touchscreen in the smartest of ways. But during some of Bowser's boss battles, Alpha Dream really mixes things up. It's not worth spoiling, but there are some memorable moments—some of them occasionally frustrating in their length—while holding the DS like a book and blowing into the microphone.

Still Beans To Be Found: Even after spending more than 20 hours playing Bowser's Inside Story, there's still plenty left to discover, from power ups to Special Attacks to badges that still elude me. I did indulge in a handful of unnecessary side quests and the odd bean hunt, but I left plenty behind to dig out when I return to the game. The better part of all this stuff left undiscovered? I'm entertained by the game's mechanics enough to want to return for another 20 hours.

Complexity Without Losing Simplicity: The list of flashy Special Attacks is greater, the badge attribute system deeper, and the equipment options more robust—the Bros. can wear socks, shoes, and gloves in addition to their trademark overalls—but Nintendo and Alpha Dream ease the player into all of it brilliantly. Bowser's Inside Story actually lets the player practice Special Attacks at any time, so learning these techniques is much easier than before. There's not much in the way of intricate upgrade and item interaction systems to learn (should you actually be interested in such a thing) but series vets will find the customization in this entry far greater.

Goomba Engines And Broque Monsieur: The game features plenty of familiar enemies—Goombas, Koopas, Bullet Bills and Bob-ombs—but every visual trademark in the Super Mario Bros. series gets played with a remixed to a wonderful degree. Two of my favorites are the coal powered Goomba machines and shopkeeper Broque Monsieur. His interactions with the Mario Bros. touches on a great, unexplored topic of the series. Warp pipes and coin blocks as part of Mario universe anatomy is a wonderfully bizarre thing

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Long Winded: Well-written and visually amusing though it may be, sometimes the Mario & Luigi series gets a little too wordy for its own good. And sometimes those moments of dialogue just seem to drag on, particularly if they occur before an extended boss battle. Bowser's Inside Story addresses some of that impatience with Retry Clocks that let the player restart a fight, but sometimes the fluffy storyline and copious tutorials interfere with the fun. Also, does every single character have to have some quirky speech affectation? Some of the globin here make be want to tear out my globin.

Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story may be the best entry yet in the portable role-playing game series. Alpha Dream and Nintendo have slathered detail on every aspect of the game, expanding the experience well beyond what Partners In Time brought to the franchise. Even better, there's little of the repetition or control complexity that bogged down that entry. It's easy to recommend to just about any Nintendo DS owner, a near-perfect correction from the misstep that was Partners In Time.

Even if you don't consider RPGs your "thing" it's worth checking out what Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story has to offer, especially if you've never played a Mario & Luigi game before. This is some of the best content to grace the Nintendo DS, a gorgeously produced game that delivers on all fronts. Find a place for it on your list of games to play this year.

Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story Review was developed by Alpha Dream and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS on September 14. Retails for $34.99 USD. Played storyline to completion, which was about 20 hours.

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Star Ocean 4 Sails Onto PS3

Kotahu — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:30:00 -0500

The tri-Ace developed, Square Enix published Star Ocean: The Last Hope was released on the Xbox 360 earlier this year. The title is not an Xbox 360 exclusive, it's coming to the PlayStation 3.

Dubbed Star Ocean: The Last Hope International, the game will be hitting the PS3 February 4, 2010 and priced at ¥8,190 (US$90). The game features reworked menu screens and a tweaked battle system with auto-targeting. SO4: International also features English and Japanese voice acting options. It really is international!

What Is Microsoft Bringing To Tokyo Game Show?

Kotahu — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:00:00 -0500

Give or take, we're about a week away from Tokyo Game Show. We'll be there. Know who else will be there? People. Besides them. That's right, Microsoft.

The company has released a list of titles it will be showcasing at its booth at this year's TGS.

Some of the games will be playable demos, while others will be trailers. Others will be both! Here's the rundown:

Forza Motorsport 3 (Demo, Trailer)
Alan Wake (Trailer)
Fable III (Trailer)
Halo 3: ODST (Demo, Trailer)
Halo Legends (Trailer)
Halo: Reach (Trailer)
Crackdown 2 (Trailer)
Borderlands (Trailer)
Samurai Shodown Sen (Demo, Trailer)
FIFA 10 (Demo, Trailer)
Lost Planet 2 (Demo, Trailer)
MUSHIHIME SAMA Futari Ver1.5 (Demo, Trailer)
Shin Sangoku MULTI RAID Special (Demo, Trailer)
Castlevania ~Lords of Shadow~ (Trailer)
NINETY-NINE NIGHTS II (Demo, Trailer)
Pro Evo 2010 (Demo, Trailer)
FRONT MISSION EVOLVED (Demo, Trailer)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (Trailer)
NeiR Gestalt (Demo, Trailer)
BAYONETTA (Demo, Trailer)
Resonance of Fate (Demo, Trailer)
Assassin's Creed II (Demo, Trailer)
Splinter Cell Conviction (Trailer)
Infernal (Demo, Trailer)
Dragon Ball Rising Burst (Demo, Trailer)
Tekken 6 (Demo, Trailer)
STEINS;GATE (Demo, Trailer)

iPhone Chart Toppers

Kotahu — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:00:00 -0500

With the inclusion of a new "Top Grossing" category in the iTunes' App Store we finally get a more realistic look at which games are bringing in the most money.

As a new feature we will be tracking these, posting the results as a top ten list every week.

Here's your first look:

Position	Title	Price	Weeks	Last Week
1	Madden NFL 10 (EA)	$9.99	1	-
2	Modern Combat: Sandstorm (Gameloft)	$6.99	1	-
3	Uno (Gameloft)	$4.99	1	-
4	Scrabble (EA)	$4.99	1	-
5	Tetris (EA)	$4.99	1	-
6	Bejeweled 2 (PopCap Games)	$2.99	1	-
7	Blades of Fury (Gameloft)	$6.99	1	-
8	The Sims 3 (EA)	$6.99	1	-
9	Need For Speed Undercover (EA)	$4.99	1	-
10	Civilization Revolution (2K Games)	$4.99	1	-

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The Lessons Learned — Or Resisted — While Making Assassin's Creed II

Kotahu — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:40:26 -0500

The man in charge of Assassin's Creed II wants to continue his dialogue with you. He's changed his game in some ways you requested. But he still wants to send obsessive collectors a message and struggles with a grand idea.

"A game is a dialogue," Patrice Desilets was telling me earlier this month when we sat down at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle to discuss Assassin's Creed II. He is the game's creative director, but his work is pretty much complete while the team back at Ubisoft Montreal wraps the game up for its fall release.

I had asked Desilets if he'd kept a checklist of complaints players of the first game had. I imagined there had been a list because, when I last spoke to the game's executive producer, Jade Raymond, about Assassin's Creed II in New York it seemed that all of the feedback about mission variety and pacing were being addressed.

"For Assassin's Creed we received a real answer from the player," Desilets told me. He wasn't keeping a checklist but he'd heard the responses. He knew what the feedback was. That last game, acclaimed and popular as it was, was too routine, it confused people and it frustrated them. If what Desilets told me about what he and the 200-plus developers working on Assassin's Creed II for Ubisoft is accurate, most of that will be remedied by the sequel. But not everything — because Patrice Desilets is the rare video game developer who discusses taking the messages he gets from the gaming public and then sending them a message back. He's also still struggling with some key ideas that shape the works with which he is involved.

Let's start with a lesson absorbed: The first game was, "too obvious," Desilets said, finding another way of vocalizing the critique that multi-million-selling Assassins' Creed proved to be too repetitive. "We never played with the game structure. At the beginning of the game, we said to the players there's nine guys to kill. You'll do your investigations first. You'll assassinate. You beat it. At the seventh one it's still the same, and never did we play with that. So that was the first thing I threw in the trash can. I was like, 'Let's forget about this game structure.' Let's really hide the game design elements of the game structure and more have a narrative structure that is the game structure."

And here's a lesson resisted: The world of the old game frustrated collection-minded gamers, who discovered that there was no reward for finding all of the hidden flags in Assassin's Creed. And while Raymond told me in New York earlier this summer that there will be rewards for some collecting in Assassin's Creed II, Desilets informed me: "There are still some collectibles that are pretty useless." Then he laughed.

My last meeting with Desilets, back in 2007, had been unusual and therefore memorable. He had shown up to my old offices at MTV with a review build of Assassin's Creed, and then hung out while I started his game. Review builds of games often come in envelopes and boxes but neither before nor since have they arrived in the hands of the lead creator of the game. He was as gleeful about his team's work then as he was when I talked to him again two weeks ago in Seattle.

As Desilets laughed about refusing to offer rewards for every single collectible in Assassin's Creed II, I reminded him how happy he was to tell me back at MTV that flag-collecting in the first game did not yield rewards. "I know, and I still like it," he said in Seattle. "That's why I'm still smiling. And I know there's a big debate about that. I'm not a collector person. I don't collect a lot of stuff, so I don't get it. I don't understand." I suggested he was giving the finger to obsessive collectors. "It's not the middle finger," he said. "That's too [strong], but yes, I'm playing. I'm playing with them. It's a dialogue. I need to talk also. This time there'll be something else, but I'll still be smiling in my living room."

Desilets is not an altogether stubborn man. He'll yield as he aims to please. He also admits he's changing.

For the first Assassin's Creed Desilets was driven to explain away the artifices of game design. Why is a game character controlled by a controller? Because he is a remembered ancestor of someone else, manipulated by an advanced device called the Animus. Why are there game levels? There weren't. There were memories. Two years ago, making invisible the most game-y aspects of a video game was important to Desilets. He's softened. "I've let go a bit," he said. "I think in AC2 you'll find a lot more video gamey elements and I'm fine with it. The head's-up display, it's there. There's a lot more information. I realized it's important people understand. Some didn't in AC1 and we lost them. I don't want it to happen again."

Desilets said players ran into unnecessary confusion in that last game. For example, they didn't understand which guards were eying their hero assassin. The new game adds icons that appear above the guards or at the borders of the screen to indicate the position of off-screen patrols. "That is video gamey," Desilets said. "And I can live with that in 2009. I'm getting older. I'm getting wiser."

Older and wiser, Desilets does still feel the push and pull about how video-gamey his video games are. "It's still important for me that you get lost in the experience," he said, earnestly searching for the best way to express his ideas.

"Sometimes to me playing Assassin's Creed is not playing a video game. I don't want it to be. You're playing an experience."

I pushed him to elaborate. He brought up another game. "Playing Hitman — and I have nothing against Hitman — It's not playing the fantasy of being a Hitman. It's playing a video game about a hitman and it's unfolding a puzzle. That for me is very gamey and something I don't want to do... [Assassin's Creed] is all about being this assassin in this period of time. It's not about being an assassin in a video game. I'll give you an example. I'm sure people would expect an assassin in a video game to hide in shadows. It's not about that. It's like: Those are video game rules. And for me, no, that's not what I want to be playing or experimenting. I'm more into an experience than a video game, but we've put a lot more video game elements into AC2 than AC1."

As Desilets tried to distinguish "video game" from "experience" I could already envision the responses to this dialogue between Desilets and his gamers. Might they accuse him of pretension or say he's quibbling with semantics? Desilets talks about losing one's self in Assassin's Creed, of "not only playing it for numbers or objectives." It can transport you. "You're elsewhere for while," he said. "That's what I call the 'experience.'

Maybe the "video game" term is a label that is losing its relevance, he suggested. "We decided at some point in history that it's called a video game," Desilets said of the things he and thousands of other people in game development create. " A lot of stuff in video games are rules, common rules. You have to do it because it's like that. I think, the more technology enables us to create worlds, it will be less and less about video games. AC1 we went really far in that idea. Maybe too far for where we are. That didn't stop anyone from buying the game, because we sold a lot. But I know it stopped a lot of people from appreciating what it was. So this time around, I'll let go like I said."

The dialogue, it seems, will continue, not just between Desilets and his customers but among Desilets' competing instincts as well.

Assassin's Creed II ships in November for the the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. Play it as a game. Play it as an experience. Just don't expect there to be a reward for everything you find within it. And know that while you're playing it, Desilets might be in his room, smiling, ready for your response.

Scribblenauts Review: Embrace Your Inner Geek

Kotahu — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:00:00 -0500

Riding on the back of a Tyrannosaurus Rex into a crowd of robot zombies: It's a pretty powerful image, one that taps into the basic instincts of most geeks and screams "Buy this game."

Scribblenauts is out to prove that it's more than just a clever, a really clever, game mechanic and that the "Write Anything, Solve Everything" puzzle game from 5th Cell is worth your money and a permanent spot in your Nintendo DS or DSi.

But does the game do more than provide gamers with a glorified visual, animated dictionary? Is it a game worthy of its own unique mechanic? Let see.

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The Write Stuff: While Scribblenauts is a classic puzzle game at its heart, the thing that separates it from like titles is the ability to type or write just about anything they can think of (minus trademarks and profanity) and have it appear in the game. This staggering new mechanic, writing a word and seeing it pop onto the DS screen in cartoon form, is alone worth the price. The fact that you can then use these inventions to try and solve riddles or make your way to the game's Starites is all bonus.

Broad: Developer 5th Cell isn't saying just how many words are available for you to summon in Scribblenauts. All we do know is that there are more than 22,800 of them available in the game. And we're not just talking about words found in your typical dictionary. There are plenty of fun little surprises including Internet memes, urban legends, chemical compounds and even the intangible. This incredible, expansive word list, essentially all new toys that can be used to play and replay levels, is one of the keys to the game's success.

Deep: It's one thing to include tens of thousands of words and their animated counterparts in a game. But to define them, that's a whole other Herculean task. And the game does just as good a job defining, categorizing and animating all of these bits of pop culture, history, science, existence as it does in creating the list. Each summoned word has specific potential, likes, dislikes, history, weaknesses and strengths. It's staggering how deep the game can go.

Interactions: Finally, pulling everything together neatly is the game's ability to look at varying objects and decide how they might interact. The game knows that when the sun comes out a vampire turns to dust. It knows you can shoot a human to kill him or her, but not a zombie. But that's the easy stuff. The things that have been covered in countless books. But what about the bizarre, the unthinkable. What happens when you hand this world of possibilities, of limitless interactions over to a gamer? Hilarity, in my experience.

Take for instance a problem I ran into in the 150th or so puzzle I was working on. Confronted by an area teeming with West Virginia's legendary Flatwoods Monster, my initial thought was to take out one urban legend with another. So I quickly typed in Chupacabre. Only I mistyped it and accidentally summoned not the panther-like, blood-sucking lizard of Mexican lore, but the delicious Mexican snack, a chalupa.

Flummoxed, I dropped the chalupa in the hand of one of the monsters and summoned a vampire instead. The vampire quickly attacked the Flatwoods Monster who, seemingly confused by the treat she was just handed, began to swat at the creature with the chalupa. The vampire made quick work of her while I watched on belly laughing.

These are the moments that make this game sing. And they are plentiful.

Lateral Thinking: Because the game offers gamers an almost unlimited supply of objects, tools and creatures with which to tackle the game's riddles and puzzles, the way to solve any given problem is incredibly varied. To deal with this, on some level I believe, many of the game's levels feel like lateral thinking puzzles. Lateral thinking puzzles are the sort of brain twisters that challenge your preconceived notions and force you to approach problems in unique ways. I've long been a fan of these sort of puzzles, so it wasn't long into the game that I started to recognize their presence in many of the challenges I faced and the solutions I found.

Not only do these sorts of puzzles provide a more engaging experience, and certainly one better fitted to the nearly omnipotent powers of the gamer in Scribblenauts, they are also the sort of puzzles that children tend to be quite good at, expanding the game's potential audience.

Pop Culture: I've already touched on the breadth and depth of the game, but it's worth circling back to point out just how amazing it is that a game that includes the likes of worm holes, hydrochloric acid and Einstein, also includes the Keyboard Cat and Flatwood Monsters. This integration of pop culture makes the game feel that much more approachable and gives the developers countless opportunities to sneak inside jokes and funny asides into the title. That's the sort of thing that can win over a fan for life.

Charming Art: The cleverly crafted puzzles and amazing mechanic is backed by a delightful art style that makes everything, no mater how deadly, dangerous or disgusting, really cute. Tapping into this, the game even allows you to unlock different creatures to use as your avatar as you play through Scribblenauts. I went with a pirate.

Create Your Own: I was surprised to find that Scribblenauts also allows gamers to create their own challenges. The method of creation is startlingly easy. You essentially drop objects into a room and place the end-goal Starite. You can even assign moods or actions to creatures and people with a simple interface. The end result is a tool set that is easy to use and allows for fairly deep custom level creation. That's certain to greatly extend the game's life.

Hated
Touchy Avatar: The one major problem I ran into with Scribblenauts is a doozie: The controls. Unfortunately, the detailed, tiny animations and the need to control everything with the touchscreen don't combine very well. To move your main character around, Maxwell, you tap on the screen and he moves to that point. The d-pad, meanwhile, is used to move the camera around the screen. The problem is that if you're trying to interact with an object, like attaching a recently summoned rope to a boulder, and you accidentally miss that very tiny rope, you may send Maxwell running toward you... often with fatal results.

I can't tell you how many times I lost a level simply because an object moved as I went to tap it or I mistapped and Maxwell ran off a cliff. It's incredibly frustrating. It's so frustrating that it proves just how amazing the rest of the game is, because despite the annoyance I played through nearly all of it.

Word Confusion: This isn't nearly as bad as the control issue, but I was annoyed that my use of phrases sometimes resulted in what I wanted and sometimes didn't. Typing shark and robot shark, for instance, result in the same thing: A shark. But sometimes, that isn't the case. For instance there are both zombies and robot zombies. This issue is most annoying when you're trying to apply size or length to something like a rope or a rock and it works with certain words and not others.

In Scribblenauts you truly get as much out of it as you put into it. I found that many of the puzzles can be solved with pretty routine ideas. You can simply summon up a dragon and clear the room of monsters, or you could arm one of your monster foes with a Mexican snack and have a vampire attack. The fun is up to you.

While Scribblenauts is a well crafted puzzle game, its real power is its ability to tap into the soul of the Internet. Finally, someone has created something that puts our vast knowledge of the inane and arcane to use. I can proudly say that I know how to vanquish a griffin, what to summon when I'm confronted by Cthulhu, and why a river is handy when facing Nuckelavee, all without looking it up.

Embrace your inner geek, pick up this game.

Scribblenauts was developed by 5th Cell and published by Warner Bros. Interactive for the Nintendo DS on September 15. Retails for $29.99 USD. Solved 159 of the 231 levels included in the game's action and puzzle modes, including the last levels. Created a level.

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Nintendo Updates Holiday Lineup, Reveals New Games

Kotahu — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:20:50 -0500

Nintendo of America has laid out its plans for the upcoming holiday shopping season—and a little bit beyond—dating a ton of Wii, Nintendo DS, WiiWare and DSiWare games, while also subtly announcing a few new ones.

The list is long and likely full of third-party goods for both the Wii and DS platforms that won't appeal to the general Kotaku readership, so here are some highlights.

• The Legend of Zelda: Spirits Tracks has been dated for December 7th in North America. You might already know that.
• Sadly, there is no specific release date for New Super Mario Bros. Wii. It's still listed as a "Holiday" release.
• Shantae: Risky's Revenge is coming to DSiWare from developer WayForward Technologies.
• Art Style: Digidrive adds another bit Generations title to DSiWare and the Electroplankton DSiWare releases are coming stateside.
• Nintendo will release Pinball Pulse: The Ancients Beckon and Sparkle Snapshots via DSiWare, titles previously unannounced.

But if you want the full list, here it is...

Wii

2K Sports
NHL 2K10 - Sept. 15
Baseball Blast! - Sept. 28
NBA 2K10 - Oct. 6

2K Play
Dora the Explorer: Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom - Fall
Ni Hao, Kai-Lan: Super Game Day - Fall
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus - Fall

505 Games
My Ballet Studio - November
Baby and Me - November

Activision Publishing, Inc.
Animal Planet Vet Life - Sept. 15
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 - Sept. 15
Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2010 - Sept. 22
Rapala We Fish - Sept. 22
Bakugan Battle Brawlers - Oct. 20
iCarly - Oct. 20
Madagascar Kartz - Oct. 20
Mountain Sports - Oct. 20
Hidden Mysteries Titanic - Oct. 27
Barbie and the Three Musketeers - Oct. 27
Jurassic Hunter - Oct. 27
DJ Hero - Oct. 27
Chaotic: Shadow Warriors - Nov. 10
Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 - Nov. 10
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Reflex - Nov. 10
Tony Hawk: RIDE - Nov. 17
Band Hero - November
Guitar Hero Van Halen - Dec. 22

Aspyr Media
My Baby and Me - Nov. 17

Atlus U.S.A., Inc.
101-in-1 Party Megamix - Oct. 27
Trauma Team - Spring
Shiren the Wanderer - Spring

Capcom Entertainment, Inc.
Spyborgs - Sept. 22
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles - Nov. 17

City Interactive USA, Inc.
Chicken Riot - November
Combat Wings: The Great Battles of WWII - January
Art of Murder - March

D3Publisher
Family Party: 30 Great Games Outdoor Fun - Sept. 22
Astro Boy: The Video Game - Oct. 20
THE SECRET SATURDAYS: BEASTS OF THE 5TH SUN - Oct. 20
BEN 10 ALIEN FORCE: Vilgax Attacks - Oct. 27
Kamen Rider Dragon Knight - Winter

Destineer
We Wish You A Merry Christmas - Oct. 13
Buck Fever - Oct. 20
Alien Monster Bowling League - Oct. 27
Marines: Modern Urban Combat - Nov. 3
Satisfashion - Nov. 17
Rec Room - Nov. 17

Disney Interactive Studios
Disney Sing It: Pop Hits - October
Princess and the Frog - November

Electronic Arts
MySims Agents - Sept. 22
Dead Space Extraction - Sept. 29
Spore Hero - Oct. 6
CHARM GIRLS CLUB Pajama Party - Oct. 20
SimAnimals Africa - Oct. 26
LITTLEST PET SHOP FRIENDS - October
NERF 2: "N-Strike" Elite - October
HASBRO FAMILY GAME NIGHT 2 - October
FIFA 10 - October
Need for Speed Nitro - Nov. 17
EA SPORTS Active More Workouts - November

Knowledge Adventure
JumpStart Escape from Adventure Island - Nov. 1

Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.
Walk It Out! - October
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories - November
Storybook Workshop - November
Karaoke Revolution - November
Ultimate Party Challenge - November
DanceDanceRevolution Hottest Party 3 - November
pop'n music - November
Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 - Q4

LucasArts
Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes - Oct. 6
LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues - Fall

Majesco Entertainment
Our House: Party! - Sept. 22
A Boy and His Blob - Oct. 13
Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2010 - Oct. 20
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel - Dec. 1
The Daring Game for Girls - Holiday

Mastiff
Shimano Xtreme Fishing - Sept. 29
Remington Great American Bird Hunt - Oct. 27

NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc
Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo - October
Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked - November
We Cheer 2 - November

Nintendo
Wii Fit Plus - Oct. 4
New Super Mario Bros. Wii - Holiday

Playlogic
Sudoku Ball Detective - Sept. 22

SEGA
Wacky World of Sports - Sept. 22
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games - Oct. 13
Planet 51 - Nov. 17
Jambo! Safari: Animal Rescue - Q4
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing - Feb. 10
Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll - Early 2010

SouthPeak Games
My Baby First Steps - Holiday
Sushi Go Round - Holiday

Square Enix
FINAL FANTASY CRYSTAL CHRONICLES: THE CRYSTAL BEARERS - Dec. 26

Storm City Games
The Island of Dr. Frankenstein - Oct. 6
Vegas Party - Oct. 27
Bermuda Triangle: Saving the Coral - Nov. 9

Tecmo
Family Fun Football - Sept. 29

THQ
The Biggest Loser - Oct. 6
Cars Race O Rama - Oct. 13
Marvel Super Hero Squad - Oct. 20
WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 - Oct. 20
SpongeBob Truth or Square - Oct. 26
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader: Game Time - Oct. 26
World of Zoo - Oct. 26
All Star Cheer Squad 2 - Oct. 27
Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter - Oct. 27
Daniel X - Jan. 12
World of Outlaws: Sprint Cars - Feb. 2

TOMY Corporation
NARUTO Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3 - Nov. 17

Ubisoft
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - Sept. 15
Where's Waldo: The Fantastic Journey - Sept. 22
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-up - Sept. 22
The Price is Right 2010 Edition - Sept. 22
Family Feud 2010 Edition - Sept. 29
CSI: Deadly Intent - Oct. 20
Monster 4x4 Stunt Racer - Oct. 27
Rabbids Go Home - Nov. 3
Academy of Champions - Nov. 3
Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage - Nov. 8
Just Dance - Nov. 17
James Cameron's Avatar The Game - Nov. 24
Your Shape Featuring Jenny McCarthy - Nov. 24

UFO Interactive Games, Inc.
Army Rescue - Sept. 29
Rock Blast - Oct. 20
Arcade Shooter: Ilvelo - Oct. 27
Geon Cube - Oct. 27
Smart Series Presents: JaJa' Adventure - Nov. 10

Vir2L Studios
Medieval Games - Oct. 20

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Scooby-Doo! First Frights - Sept. 22
Where the Wild Things Are - Oct. 13
Game Party 3 - October
LEGO Rock Band - Holiday
SCENE IT? BRIGHT LIGHTS! BIG SCREEN! - Holiday

XSEED Games
JU-ON: The Grudge - Oct. 13
Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga - Fall

WiiWare

Aksys Games
BIT.TRIP VOID - Q3
BIT.TRIP series (3 additional titles) - Q4, Q1

Broken Rules
And Yet It Moves - Q4

Frontier
LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias - Q4

Gameloft
Ghost Mansion Party - Q3
The Oregon Trail - Q4

Ghostfire Games
Rage of the Gladiator - Q1

Incredible Technologies
Carnival King - Q3

Konami
Castlevania: The Adventure Rebirth - Q3
Frogger Returns - Q4

Nabi Studios
Toribash - Q4

Natsume
Moki Moki - Q3
Harvest Moon: My Little Shop - Q4

Nicalis
Cave Story - Q3
Night Game - Q1
La Mulana - Q1

NinjaBee
The Amazing Brain Train - Q4

Nintendo
You, Me, and the Cubes - Q3
Eco Shooter: Plant 530 - Q4

Nintendo/TPC
Pokémon Rumble - Q4

Press Play
Max & the Magic Marker - Q4

React Games
Archon: Classic - Q1

Taito
Arkanoid Plus! - Q3

Team Meat
Super Meat Boy - Q1

Telltale Games
Tales of Monkey Island: Lair of the Leviathan - Q3
Tales of Monkey Island: The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood - Q4
Tales of Monkey Island: Rise of the Pirate God - Q4

Nintendo DS/Nintendo DSi

2K Play
Dora the Explorer: Dora Puppy - Oct. 26
Ni Hao, Kai-Lan: New Year's Celebration - Oct. 26
The Backyardigans - Oct. 26
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus - Fall

505 Games
My Ballet Studio - November
Discovery Kids SpiderQuest - November
Dream Diary - November
Picture Perfect Hair Salon - November
IL2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey - Sept. 15

Activision Publishing, Inc.
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 - Sept. 15
Animal Planet Vet Life - Sept. 15
Bakugan Battle Brawlers - Oct. 20
iCarly - Oct. 20
Madagascar Kartz - Oct. 20
Barbie and the Three Musketeers - Oct. 27
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Mobilized - Nov. 10
Chaotic: Shadow Warriors - Nov. 10
Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 - Nov. 10
Band Hero - November

Aspyr Media
Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain - Oct. 26

City Interactive USA, Inc.
Sushi Academy - Oct. 13
Chronicles of Mystery: Curse of the Ancient Temple - Oct. 27
Animal Country: Life on the Farm - November
Party Designer - November
Art of Murder - February
Jewels of Sahara - March

D3Publisher
Astro Boy: The Video Game - Oct. 20
THE SECRET SATURDAYS: BEASTS OF THE 5TH SUN - Oct. 20
BEN 10 ALIEN FORCE: Vilgax Attacks - Oct. 27
Kamen Rider Dragon Knight - Winter

Destineer
Satisfashion - Nov. 17

Disney Interactive Studios
Disney Fairies: Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure - October
Disney's A Christmas Carol - November
JONAS - November
Princess and the Frog - November

Electronic Arts
MySims Agents - Sept. 22
Spore Hero Arena - Oct. 6
CHARM GIRLS CLUB My Fashion Show - Oct. 20
CHARM GIRLS CLUB My Fashion Mall - Oct. 20
CHARM GIRLS CLUB My Perfect Prom - Oct. 20
SimAnimals Africa - Oct. 26
LITTLEST PET SHOP CITY FRIENDS - October
LITTLEST PET SHOP COUNTRY FRIENDS - October
LITTLEST PET SHOP BEACH FRIENDS - October
HASBRO FAMILY GAME NIGHT 2 - October
FIFA 10 - October

Ignition Entertainment
Nostalgia - Oct. 20

Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.
WireWay - November

LucasArts
Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes - Oct. 6
Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron - Nov. 3
LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues - Fall

Majesco Entertainment
Our House - Sept. 22
Sideswiped - Sept. 29
Cake Mania 3 - Oct. 13
Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2010 - Oct. 20
Cooking Mama 3: Shop and Chop - Oct. 27
My Hero: Astronaut - Nov. 3
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel - Dec. 1
Dawn of Heroes - Dec. 1
My Hero: Firefighter - December
The Daring Game for Girls - Holiday

NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc
Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans - November

Nintendo
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky - Oct. 12
Style Savvy - Nov. 2
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks - Dec. 7

NIS America
A Witch's Tale - Oct. 6
Atelier Annie: Alchemists of Sera Island - Oct. 27

PopCap Games, Inc.
Bookworm - Dec. 1

SEGA
Bleach: The 3rd Phantom - Sept. 15
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games - Oct. 13
Phantasy Star Zero - Nov. 10
Planet 51 - Nov. 17
Jambo! Safari: Animal Rescue - Q4
Sands of Destruction - January
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing - February
Infinite Space - Spring

SouthPeak Games
Montessori Music - Oct. 20
My Baby First Steps - Holiday
Sushi Go Round - Holiday
Crime Scene - Holiday

Square Enix
KINGDOM HEARTS 358/2 DAYS - Sept. 29
SPACE INVADERS EXTREME 2 - Oct. 20

Storm City Games
Hands On! Tangrams - Oct. 13
Jewel Master Egypt - Oct. 20
Flaw - Oct. 27
Foto Frenzy - Nov. 2
Bermuda Triangle: Saving the Coral - Nov. 9

THQ
James Patterson Women's Murder Club: Games of Passion - Sept. 15
Fabulous Finds - Sept. 21
Just in Time Translations - Sept. 21
The Biggest Loser - Oct. 6
Cars Race O Rama - Oct. 13
Marvel Super Hero Squad - Oct. 20
WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 - Oct. 20
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader: Game Time - Oct. 26
World of Zoo - Oct. 26
SpongeBob Truth or Square - Oct. 26
Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter - Oct. 27
MX vs. ATV Reflex - Holiday

TOMY Corporation
NARUTO Shippuden: Ninja Destiny 2 - Sept. 15

Ubisoft
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - Sept. 15
Where's Waldo: The Fantastic Journey - Sept. 22
The Price is Right 2010 Edition - Sept. 22
Family Feud 2010 Edition - Sept. 29
Battle of Giants: Dragons - Sept. 29
Imagine Salon Stylist - Sept. 29
Imagine Sweet 16 - Oct. 4
Imagine Zookeeper - Oct. 6
PETZ PONY BEAUTY PAGEANT - Oct. 13
Imagine Fashion Designer World Tour - Oct. 20
CSI: Deadly Intent - The Hidden Cases - Oct. 20
Jam Sessions 2 - Oct. 20
PETZ DOLPHINZ ENCOUNTER - Oct. 27
Might and Magic Clash of Heroes - Oct. 27
Imagine Artist - Oct. 27
C.O.P. The Recruit - Nov. 3
Rabbids Go Home - Nov. 3
Imagine Babyz Fashion - Nov. 3
Fairyland Melody Magic - Nov. 8
Style Lab Jewelry Design - Nov. 10
Style Lab Makeover - Nov. 10
PETZ NURSERY - Nov. 10
PETZ DOGZ TALENT SHOW - Nov. 17
PETZ HAMSTERZ SUPERSTARZ - Nov. 24
James Cameron's Avatar The Game - Nov. 24

Virtual Play Games
Junior Brain Trainer - Nov. 10
Junior Classic Games - Nov. 10

UFO Interactive Games, Inc.
Smart Boy's Gameroom 2 - Sept. 29
Smart Girl's Playhouse 2 - Sept. 29
Smart Kid's Mega Game Mix - Sept. 29
Reversal Challenge - Oct. 13
Balloon Pop - Nov. 12

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Scribblenauts - Sept. 15
Scooby-Doo! First Frights - Sept. 22
LEGO Rock Band - Holiday
Where the Wild Things Are - Oct. 13
TouchMaster 3 - Oct. 27

XSEED Games
THE WIZARD OF OZ: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road - Sept. 29

Nintendo DSiWare

Gameloft
Uno - Q4

Hudson Entertainment
Bomberman Blitz - Q4

Nintendo
Art Academy: Second Semester - Sept. 28
Art Style: DIGIDRIVE - Q4
Electroplankton (10 titles total) - Q4
Picturebook Games: The Royal Bluff - Q4
Pinball Pulse: The Ancients Beckon - Q4
Sparkle Snapshots - Q4

Subatomic Studios
Fieldrunners - Q4

WayForward Technologies
Shantae:Risky's Revenge - Q4

Consider, BioWare, The Non-Epic RPG

Kotahu — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:00:14 -0500

Must we always save the world or preserve the existence of humanity in our video game role-playing games? Must the stakes always be so high? I recently asked one of the principals of RPG super-studio BioWare about this.

Between discussing the impending launch of Dragon Age: Origins or teasing the features of Mass Effect 2, BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk has devoted energy toward convincing gamers that it will be exciting to grandly save humanity once again.

When Zeschuk and I spoke a couple of weeks ago at the Penny Arcade Expo, however, I asked if there was any reason BioWare couldn't or wouldn't make a role-playing game about something more pedestrian. Must the preservation of all life always be the motivation?

"Like you said, it's almost like there's a formula," he said. "Save the world: Check." Zeshuck and I both know that a lot of gamers want that feeling of being a hero. That's a big draw.

Half-joking, I said to him: Why not have an RPG just about having a good week?

"You've got to go to work," Zeschuk riffed. "You've got to finds your clothes." As he threw these ideas out, I realized they didn't sound that appealing. But Zeschuk liked the idea of making an RPG that's about less pressing matters than the preservation of all life.

"We have had conversations about having a game that would have much more intimate moment to moment experience, not so much like saving the world," he said. As a means of loose comparison, he brought up Milo & Kate, the virtual person project showed by Peter Molyneux at this past E3. "It's not quite like the Milo stuff, but taking the character technology and taking something like — mundane is the wrong word — but something like sitting around the table." His idea sounded more like indie games I've played or heard about that center on the simpler moments in life, like the dinner part in Facade.

BioWare's epic Mass Effect did involve a lot of visual and interactive technologies designed to make conversations more nuanced and engaging. So it's easy to see how the company could enable the creation of more quotidian role-playing games.

Zeschuk could also see fans taking BioWare's tools and doing it themselves. He's high on the potential for the mod-making tools in the PC edition of Dragon Age and told me he's already seen someone recreate a key scene from Hamlet with them. Smaller-scale RPGs could be made through that. "Funny enough, I think that's the stuff people will do with the tools," he said. Smaller creators could pull that off as BioWare devotes energy to the grander endeavors.

"I wouldn't say we're limited by our creativity," he said. "But we're limited in the scope of things we can undertake."

Here's to the creation of a Having-A-Good-Day RPG. Who wants to make it?

To Patrick Swayze, Thanks for Everything! Wong Foo

Tobold — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:27:00 -0500

Maybe this weekend you and your significant other are heading over to the video rental store to rent a Patrick Swayze movie, in memoriam. You'll argue whether to take a chick flick like Dirty Dancing or Ghost, or a guy movie like Point Break. And you'll find that all of these are already gone, because everybody has the same idea when an actor dies. So maybe I can recommend you what I think is the best Patrick Swayze movie: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar. It is an intelligent and funny movie, which makes you think. Maybe not everybody *wants* to think when going to the movies, especially not about difficult things like gender issues and tolerance, but I'd say that forcing you to think generally makes for better films.

The opening scene with Patrick Swayze is a classic: He comes out of the shower, a perfect image of masculinity, and then step by step through clothes and makeup transforms into a drag queen. The film then evolves into a road movie, a fish out of the water story, with the drag queens stuck in a small town, chased by a homophobic sheriff. The movie teaches us about the difference between just looking away and true tolerance, and that alone makes it worth watching. Add some superb acting from actors you wouldn't expect in those kind of roles, and you get a truly superb movie. Recommended!

Does size matter?

Tobold — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:04:00 -0500

The Ancient Gaming Noob, Wilhelm2451, says about blog stats: "Comparing blog stats is like comparing penis size. My stats will look big to some people, and then a porn-star like Tobold will come along and make us all cry. Okay, do I get a prize or something for comparing Tobold to a porn-star? Is that a first?" Yeah, that *is* a first. I usually only get comments on having an oversized ego, not oversized parts of my anatomy. But apart from remarking that "adult" and mature language are two very different things, I have to say that his remark is a pertinent one: Do blog stats really matter all that much?

People usually assume that whenever I mention blog stats, it is to brag about mine. To my defense I have to say that I'm chronicling my blog stats since 2004, a year in which said visitor stats went up from practically zero to 1,400 visitors *a month*. I had a grand total of about 8,000 blog visits in the whole year of 2004. I have continued that blog visitors annual statistic every year on the 31st of December, and numbers have grown and then flattened out to about 1 million visits per year plus the same in RSS feed reads. I am certainly not denying that this is something that makes me proud, an achievement so to say. But I don't think that it makes my opinions more important or valid than those of any other blogger or commenter.

What it does do is to allow me to get my opinion heard by more people. With both good and bad results. Recently I read a comment from somebody somewhere complaining why I would put even my worst posts on VirginWorlds. Doh! I'm not putting my posts anywhere else than this blog, which does have an RSS feed for the convenience of those readers who can only access a feed reader, but not gaming sites, at work. That there are a range of sites from "MMO news" sites to blatant gold-selling fake MMO blogs who copy my content, is out of my control. I do not have link-sharing agreements with anyone, in fact as you can see I prefer linking to individual entries on other people's blogs instead of having a permanent side-bar with a blogroll. I am not trying to maximize my blog stats. But of course I wouldn't write my opinions down on a public blog if I didn't want people to read them, so I don't mind being copied, as it helps to spread my word.

I think the whole obsession with visitor numbers and blog stats is a relic from the dot.com boom. People think that if they could create a site attracting lots of visitors, they could monetize these visitor numbers by putting up advertising, and get rich quick. In practice that is not that easy. Google Ads apparently has specific clauses in their contracts that prohibit people from reporting how much money they make with their Google Adwords, but the few reports I read from people who posted their numbers anyway suggest that even a popular blog would only earn a handful of dollars per month. It isn't even as if I was completely against advertising, if a major game company would write me and offer me a fixed sum every month for putting up a banner ad promoting some big MMORPG, I would be tempted. But if you look at MMO blogs with Google Ads you'll quickly realize that nearly all the ads are for gold sellers or gold making guides. I'm not interested in promoting those. And I wasn't planning to put up Evony ads either, or to earn $5 a month for a banner ad to some website you never heard of. When was the last time you saw an ad on a website and were really interested, instead of annoyed or bored by it? The little serious advertising there is, is furthermore more and more not based on visitor numbers at all, but only offering "affiliate" deals, where the website only earns something when the ad leads directly to a sale. So I think getting rich from blogging, while still keeping some integrity, is a pipe dream.

And even in the context of getting the word out, visitor statistics aren't always what they seem. Google Analytics not only tells me how many visitors I have, but also informs me that over half of them just popped in due to having found one of my posts via a search engine. And the average time my visitors stay is just over 1 minute. Given my verbosity, that means that they haven't even read one of my posts.

In general I prefer to rather look at feedback received than visitor numbers. And as discussed previously, even that isn't really a good measure. Not everybody who reads a post of mine, likes it, and agrees, is going to leave a comment. I'm much more likely to get comments when people disagree. And certain posts, like asking simple questions, or making overly generalized outrageous statements like "Darkfall sucks!" will of course result in far more feedback than a detailed two page analysis of some aspect of game design.

Of course a blogger can dream of having some influence on game design. Maybe Blizzard adopts my idea of in-game databases and calls the NPC sage who tells people where to go to upgrade their gear "Tobold"? But of course we all know it doesn't work like that. The best one could possibly hope for is some game designer picking up an idea or concept from a blog post, and repeating that idea in some internal meeting in the game company, where it might get picked up, disected, digested, and ultimately finding its way into some game in a barely recognizable form. The funny thing is that there are consultants out there whose ideas aren't any better than those of many bloggers, but who not only will get paid for repeating those ideas to some game company, but also end up being more likely to have their ideas implemented. An idea you had to pay for is valued higher than one offered freely, regardless of the quality of the idea.

I don't even believe that visitor numbers or any other measurable stat reflect how much readers value the opinions of the blogger. Quantity and quality of the writing also has a huge influence on the success of a blog, not just whether the blog offers new or especially great ideas and opinions. And curiously being constantly outraging and insulting can also result in lots of net fame.

So in summary, while blog stats can be interesting, especially for the blogger himself, they don't really say all that much. In the end, the only person who really needs to be happy with the blog is the blogger himself. Stats, feedback, or even advertising revenue can help to motivate the blogger. But in the greater scheme of things we are talking about a tiny amount of net fame in an obscure corner of the internet here, not something which is really likely to make you rich and famous. The bloggers that keep writing are invariably those who have a personal need to express themselves.

Publishers: How Not To Respond To A Review

Zachary — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:51:00 -0500

Link here.

Look for Mr. Goodman's comments at the bottom.

Yipes.

Contrast this with how the Evil Hat guys handled Pundit's review of Spirit of the Century.

On Darkness

Zachary — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:46:00 -0500

One night this past weekend, I ventured outside this weekend into a narrow strip of woods near our place. (I was actually looking for a misplaced toddler bike, but no matter). On a night with no visible moon, I was struck by how very, very dark it was, even so close to civilization. Imagine then, how dark the woods would be with a sky that wasn’t dimly illuminated by the light pollution from some car dealer and a small Indiana downtown a mile distant.

I notice this when I go camping as well—out in the woods, with no moon, it is dark. Really, really dark. Storming, even darker. Now, some people are blessed with excellent night vision, but how do you think you would do if you dropped in a campsite in the middle of the woods with a sword and were attacked by goblins?

We did night exercises in Korea. Your eyes get tired. You begin to make humanoid figures out of shapes in the distance that aren’t really there. Movement blurs.

Most RPGs give some penalty for fighting in the dark, but I sometimes wonder if it’s sufficient. Those demi-human races with night vision are in good shape, but what about us sorry humans? I wonder if as Game Masters we adequately convey how frustrating and challenging not only fighting and other tasks would be on a dark night?

It seems to me, as a player and as a Game Master, I tend to treat the darkness in my head as sort of a manageable inconvenience, a sort of dimming background effect that doesn't really hamper as much as perhaps it should. This may be because it might be hard to represent on a minis mat the sort of uncertainty and difficulty darkness can bring, or perhaps it's because I want to imagine the scene in my head.

This is something I'll have to ponder for my group's next nighttime encounter.

I never did find the toddler bike until the next morning. I had passed right by it.

Old Favourite: Inner Space (Software Dynamics)

indiegames — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:59:31 -0500

Inner Space ate up many hours (days, weeks) of my time back in 1994 and it's still great fun to play 15 years on. A virus has infected your computer, so it's time to dive right in, drag your programs to safety and destroy all trace of the deadly infection.

It's a shooter that uses your computer's hard drives as worlds. Flying around each directory, it's your job to find each of the icons for your files and grab them before the virus can infect. You have team-mates who are ready to help out, and there are also other teams who may or may not be friendly towards you. You can sway their feelings by either helping them out or giving them a good battering.

Each level has an ambulance for fixing yourself up and upgrading your ship (called by pressing H) and police ships which roam around upholding the law. There are also races and arena matches to be beaten.

Strangely enough, after all these years the game is still $24.95 from the Software Dynamics site. However, there is a 14-day trial available to download which includes every feature except the very last level, so it's worth grabbing that.

Platogo Launches

indiegames — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:55:37 -0500

Platogo, a new browser-based games site, has just opened its doors. The social gaming site has been in beta for the last few months, and is now available for developers to upload their ActionScript 3 and haXe-based games.

It comes with its own Platogo API so that devs can add achievements and high score boards to their games. Like most of the browser-gaming sites out there, it has an ad sharing revenue system, allowing users to earn cash from advertising in and around their games.

Of course, there are already plenty of sites like this churning out new releases all the time, so why bother with Platogo? The Platogo team hope to stand out from the crowd with games which have level-creation tools, allowing users to create levels for others to try out. Right now there are only 8 games on the site to play, but nearly 400 user-created levels already!

The wonderful Gregory Weir has already got in on the action with his game Exploit, and Platogo users have been creating tons of levels for it. Any flash devs out there might want to check it out!

Xbox Live Indie Games Rating System Boosts Sales

indiegames — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:03:12 -0500

Sister site GameBytes is reporting that sales on Xbox Live Indie Games have had a considerable boost since the switch from Community Games. Prices have dropped and a new rating system has been implemented, which are both huge factors in the rise in sales.

Ryan Langley talked to a number of XBLIG developers who each told him the same thing - their sales have been greatly increased due to the new system. Barkers Crest Studios' Easy Golf is now selling 3 times as many copies as before the update, while Johnny Platform’s Biscuit Romp, created by Craig Forrester, has seen a spectacular rise of over 1000% in sales (from 113 purchases in July to 1,469 in August).

James Silva from Ska Studios, developer of the #1 highest rated game on XBLIG I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1, also revealed that the rating system has helped his sales immensely, with the trial and full game versions having been downloaded a total of 122,063 times. At $1 a pop, and with an estimated trial vs full purchase conversion rate of 15%, that means he has earnt himself at least a tidy $15,000 sum from the month of August.

All this bodes very well for Xbox Live Indie Games! Read all the details at GamerBytes.

Nintendo Channel Upgrade Complete

JohnnyV — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:10:31 -0500

Some of you probably already know, and have the new and improved Nintendo Channel downloaded. If you aren’t one of those people then listen up, as there have been a few updates that might pique your interest.

The Nintendo Channel has always provided users with videos, and bits of info about upcoming releases. If you own a DS then you could also download demos for games as well. With the update comes higher quality videos, a list of games that is based on user recommendation. Then the biggest addition is the premiere of Nintendo Week. This weekly series highlights everything that is happening in the world of Nintendo.

Below is a press release for the announcement, and further down from that is a video showing off all the new changes. Enjoy.

NEW-AND-IMPROVED NINTENDO CHANNEL GETS UPDATED FEATURES AND WEEKLY SHOW

Sept. 14, 2009

The Wii™ console’s Nintendo Channel is getting a makeover. On Sept. 14, the channel, which provides users with videos and information about current and upcoming Nintendo products, re-launches with a new look and feel. Some of the upgrades include higher-quality streaming videos, lists of top games that other viewers recommend and a new ability to rate and recommend Nintendo DS™ games.

Current features of the Nintendo Channel will remain, including Nintendo DS demo downloads and an extensive lineup of videos about Wii and Nintendo DS games.

As part of the update, Nintendo Channel will also premiere Nintendo Week, a weekly, hosted series about what’s happening in the world of Nintendo. The premiere episode includes an in-depth look at Mario and Luigi™: Bowser’s Inside Story, an interview with the developers behind the Wii version of Guitar Hero 5, plus coverage of the new Nintendo DSi colors, Nintendo DSiWare games and other surprises.

Nintendo Channel is available free of charge to Wii owners, and can be downloaded by going to the Wii Shop Channel and following the on-screen instructions. For more information about the Nintendo Channel, please visit www.NintendoChannel.com.

Nintendo Wii Price Cut - A Good Move Or A Bad One?

JohnnyV — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:55:35 -0500

Reading the title of this post many of you might be scratching your head. How could a price cut ever be a bad move? Nintendodpad has brought up an interesting point, and one worth looking a bit deeper into regarding potential negative effects of a price drop.

Here’s a quote from the author and sums up how he/she feels about the situation, “With the Toys R Us ad leaking yesterday, I can’t help but question why this may be the dumbest decision Nintendo has made all generation.”

So, you can see why this is a wonderful topic for debate. The author for Nintendodpad believes that the price drop is a mistake because it’s a sign of Nintendo not focusing on what brought people to the Nintendo Wii in the first place. Which is attributed to the software. Instead of worrying about Microsoft and Sony dropping their price, Nintendo should instead find ways to develop software that drives the consumer base to the hardware.

I don’t completely disagree with the author but I think they’re missing some key points here. First, this is nothing new in the landscape of competing for consumer’s money. The everyday consumer base are a fickle bunch, and it’s tricky to discern what leads them to make one purchase over another. A price drop is many times the key. Don’t believe me, then go ask Sony. It’s my hypothesis that Nintendo is dropping their price for psychological reasons. Sitting at $249.99 the Nintendo Wii seemed like such a bargain when the Xbox 360 and PS3 were selling for $399.99. Putting those two numbers side by side there’s no contest. However, when you see $299.99 along side the $249.99 the brain doesn’t separate the figures nearly as much. I should point out that I’m not a psychology expert, and this is all just speculation on my part.

Another small note to make about the article is the author states that the Nintendo DS isn’t receiving a price cut. The reason is that it already had one back in 2005.

Something I do agree with the author on is that Nintendo really needs to have it’s primary focus on bringing software that drives the consumer back to the console. Many times a price drop will coincide with a massive release(s), and as of now Nintendo’s big releases around that time are New Super Mario Bros. and Wii Fit Plus. Could something else be cooking up at the House of N though? How about a different bundle than the Wii Sports one which has been the same since the console’s launch? Drop the price to $199.99 and include Wii Sports Resort instead of Wii Sports and I’d say you almost have another launch type scenario on your hands.

In conclusion I’d like to tell the author that price drops are a fact of life. No matter how big a console gets, it’s popularity will always take a slide. While software will always be important, it isn’t ‘always’ a solution for selling hardware when sales are down. The Nintendo Wii has already sold around 50 million units, therefore mathematical reasoning dictates that less people will buy it as it ages. That’s not saying that the Nintendo Wii can’t still grow, but sometimes a price drop can be that catalyst it needs. Which looks to be ideally timed to strike right around the holiday season.

Preview: NERF 2: “N-Strike” Elite

JohnnyV — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:01:25 -0500

While at EA for their annual Bloggers’ Day I had the privilege of demoing the next game in the “NERF FPS” series entitled NERF 2: “N-Strike” Elite. Overall I found the game to be rather fun, and fast paced.

Elite is the sequel to the uber-popular Nerf N-Strike, which Chase Payne, the Marketing Coordinator for the title, said is the 2nd best selling shooter for the Wii of all time, just behind Metroid.

Sounds pretty amazing when you think about it, doesn’t it? I mean, when you consider that Nintendo even has a branded shooter accessory called the Wii Zapper. But I’ll go on record right now as saying that the Zapper doesn’t even come close to the NERF switch shot EX-3 in terms of looks or gameplay. (Not to mention it also doubles as a pretty solid toy for the kiddos, and some EA employees from what I heard).

In “Elite” you’re equipped with your Nerf blaster and new attachable decoder lens (a.ka. Red Reveal), which helps you decode in-game messages and solve puzzles to further your gameplay. The game is very fast paced, but in a good way. There is absolutely no downtime; you’re constantly on the move and blasting through robotic enemies. I played the game for a good 15-minutes and didn’t get tired/bored in the slightest… in actuality I could’ve kept going.

NERF 2: “N-Strike” Elite is scheduled to hit store shelves sometime in October…

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