Fanboys unite! Next in line for “Playing Catch Up to the Catch Up” is my Wii U premiere video. True be told, it isn’t the really the premiere video, that honor belongs tothis live stream(I brand them as “Live Boredom”). Click that to watch me use a high quality for a low quality broadcast. The theme for this video is fanboyism…straight fanboyism. Nintendo has a new console, and I liked it before playing....
The dream came kinda sorta true I never thought we’d see the day, but according to Nintendo’s E3 Treehouse stream, we’re finally getting aMario Partygame with online play… sort of. The Treehouse briefly discussed one ofSuper Mario Party‘s modes, Mariothon, in which players play five minigames and compete to get the best total score. It’s similar to recurring minigame modes like the Minigame Decathalon that started inMario Party 5, but with five randomly chosen minigames instead of ten preset ones....
Gen. Ripper has exceeded his authority Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold Waraficionados have a new reason to fear online’s finest, (or at least biggest cheating), players. The famously devastating “Nuke” scorestreak has returned,now available to launchin all ofBlack Ops Cold War‘s multiplayer modes. ThisBlack Ops Cold Warappearance is the first time the Nuke scorestreak has been deployed in a TreyarchCall of Dutytitle. The maniacs finally went and did it. Here’s the scorestreak in action,courtesy of YouTuber Xanzyi:...
It’s in the PTS now TheFallout 76Moonshine Jamboree is nearly upon us, asthe latest PTS(public test server) update just dropped. It’s all part of the Test Your Metal patch,which is being tested nowand will make its way into the game soon enough. Content-wise we’re looking at three new events:Test Your Metal(arguably the biggest one, which is a gladiatorial skirmish),Eviction Notice(tuned for “higher level characters,” this one is a supply crate defense mission), andMoonshine Jamboree(gather acidic gulper venom to pour into a bathtub to make moonshine [why wasn’t more stuff like this in the base game?...
Do these guys stop firing at any point? Talk about intense! D’you think the players in this trailer forWarsideever take their finger off the firing button? When I first started watching the trailer above, I initially though this was a 2D platformer/shooter in the vein of eitherShadow Complex,Intrusion 2, or even the recentStriderreboot. Turns outWarsideis an online, team-based game with an RPG system too. Currently on Greenlightand developed by Russian studio Kraken Games,Warsidehas got co-op action, which is something that’s always going to get my interest....
This week’s Virtual Console releases come with a sci-fi theme, and I’m absolutely giddy:Cybernator(SNES, 1 player, 800 Wii Points),Alien Storm(Sega Genesis, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points), andMonster Lair(TurboGrafx 16 CD-ROM, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points) should all be available on the Wii Shop Channel at 9 a.m. Pacific Time. Of particular interest to me isAlien Storm, a game in which you punch and kick alien baddies in their faces until they run crying for mommy....
Living it up in oblivion Nippon Ichi Software has released screenshots, details and a teaser trailer for the recently-announcedTo All of Mankind, a new adventure title that sees a group of teenage girls making the best of their lives in post-apocalyptic Tokyo. The five girls, who traveled to Akihabara on a sight-seeing trip, awaken in their hotel one morning to find the city decimated and themselves seemingly entirely alone. Fortunately, the hotel’s kitchen is fully stocked with cup ramen, so the friends decide to cheer up and make the best of it....
No more bicep stickers though Japanese casual clothing company Uniqlo has released images of a new range of T-Shirts based on Capcom’s iconic fighting game franchiseStreet Fighter. The collection, which goes on sale at Uniqlo outlets from April 15,features classic characters and art fromStreet Fighter IIandStreet Fighter V.TheSFIIrange features block colours overlayed with various sprites from the 1991 arcade classic, including the character select screen, a trio of uppercuts, and Guile’s famous victory screen, among other designs....
Who blocks the blockchain? Valve, the company behind massive PC gaming platform Steam, looks to be cracking down on NFTs on its storefront. A new update to the Steam partner rules says applications that allow issuing or trading cryptocurrencies or NFTs shouldn’t be published on Steam. The update was noted today by the developer ofAge of Rust, which says it received notice that “Steam will be kicking all blockchain games off the platform....
Machines from many partners Time sure flies when you’re having fun. It seems like not all that long ago that we were marveling at theXi3 Piston at CES 2013and wondering if it would be the first “Steam Box”. Now we’re already knocking on the door to 2014, and we’re about to find out a whole lot more about Steam Machines at the next Consumer Electronics Show. Valve has confirmed toIGNthat it will reveal the first set of Steam Machines hardware partners at CES ’14, along with different manufacturing designs....
Hands-on preview with The Last Guardian The years-long layup leading up toThe Last Guardian‘s release has been,Oh I just fucking know the cute dog/bird/animalthingis going to die. The death of a beloved animal pal is an easy emotional trigger that can easily backfire if done badly, but Team ICO doesn’t make bad games. At the same time, unless that potentialOld Yellermoment isincrediblyhard-won, it’s probably a bolder move to attempt to equal that theoretical emotional resonance in a less easy, less expected way....
Do you want matchmaking still? Is it fun? If you followDestinybut don’t play it, you’ve probably heard this line a lot: “the raids are the best part.” But that’s basically all you hear, and then you move on because of all the other negative word of mouth. So I wanted to ask the readers that do playDestiny, do you like the raid aspect of the game? If so, what’s your favorite part?...
In a surprise announcement at the start of the month, LEGO andFortnitedeveloper Epic Games announced that LEGO would be coming to the popular battle royale game in the form ofLEGO Fortnite. So, how long do we have to wait to rock our favorite skins in LEGO style? When will LEGO Fortnite be released? LEGO Fortnitewill be released as a free update toFortniteon July 10, 2025.The new game actually works like a game within a game....
