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That’s right, today button mashing dot com has reached the age of a small child. Five years ago today I launched the site.
We’ve got some new stuff coming, including a new look and some new contributors. I’m closing my eyes, making a wish, and blowing out the candles!
(You thought the E3 post was late!)
What better way to wrap up E3 week with a list of games you can play right now (or really soon)?
Week of June 1st
Red Faction Guerilla
FUEL
Week of June 8th
Prototype
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10
Virtua Tennis 2009
Week of June 15th
Ghostbusters: The Video Game
Black College Football Xperience
Week of June 22nd
Fight Night: Round 4
Overlord 2
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires
Week of June 29th
Heist
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger Limited Edition
Borderlands
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
Week of June 8th
EA SPORTS Grand Slam Tennis
Virtua Tennis 2009
Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10
Week of June 15th
Guitar Hero Smash Hits
Ghostbusters: The Video Game
Week of June 22nd
Overlord: Dark Legend
The Conduit
Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil
Week of June 29th
Roogoo
Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince
Week of June 8th
Miami Law
Lego Battles
The Legendary Starfy
Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled
Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings
Puzzle City
Week of June 15th
Ghostbusters: The Video Game
Flower, Sun and Rain
Emergency Room: Real Life Rescues
Week of June 22nd
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
Overlord: Minions
Week of June 29th
7 Wonders 2
Mega Man Star Force 3 Black Ace
Mega Man Star Force 3 Red Joker
C.O.R.E.
Week of June 15th
Prototype
Defense Grid
Ghostbusters: The Video Game
Hummer
Week of June 22nd
FUEL
Spore Galactic Adventures
Overlord 2
Week of June 29th
Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince
Borderlands
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
Week of June 8th
Virtua Tennis 2009
Prototype
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10
Week of June 15th
Guitar Hero Smash Hits
Ghostbusters: The Video Game
Week of June 22nd
Overlord 2
Fight Night: Round 4
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires
Week of June 29th
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger Limited Edition
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
Borderlands
Week of June 8th
Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings
Class of Heroes
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10
Week of June 15th
PDC Championship Darts 2008
Week of June 22nd
Pangya: Fantasy Golf
Monster Hunter Freedom Unite
Week of June 29th
Mytran Wars
Steambot Chronicles: Battle Tournament
Not a bad month, considering all the good gaming that’s already out this year.
What are you picking up?
Yay for super late E3 wrap-up posts! E3 2009 happened and there was quite a bit to be excited about. Nat covered a few of the things, but here is some of what caught my eye:
It’s not secret that I am a HUGE fan of both New Super Mario Brothers on the DS and Super Mario Galaxy on the Wii, so it’s no surprise that I’m excited to see a new New Super Mario Bros. on the Wii (game play video) and of course Super Mario Galaxy 2 (game play video). The return of Yoshi will make my kids happy (they love Super Mario World on my old SNES) and the multiplayer for NSMB looks like a blast.
On the 360 front, the new last.fm integration is intriguing. While I’m a big fan of Twitter (and Facebook to a lesser extent), I’m not sure if I’m excited about the integration there. Time will tell. Game-wise, I’m a Forza Fan, so Forza Motor Sports 3 (game play video) is probably a day-one purchase for me. Because I’m also a Halo-whore, Halo: ODST will also be picked up at some point. Nat highlighted the Crackdown 2 trailer. No need to say anything more about that. I’m ready for some new Splinter Cell. It’s been too long. I’m still not sold on Natal.
As far as PC gaming goes, I’m reluctant to commit to anything other than fearing how terribly addicted I could become to playing Star Wars: The Old Republic (hands-on). That is looking extremely polished and pretty much full of pure awesomeness.
And wrapping everything up is my surprise hit of the show, Scribblenauts on the DS. This game is going to be a blast. It’s got keyboard cat, people!
I’ve got an E3 post coming up shortly, but I quickly wanted to post how excited I am that EA has announced that the “Create A School” feature is finally back in the game.
This was a mainstay in all the NCAA games I played on the Gamecube and has been sorely missed in the recent 360 versions. I’ve already played around with the create-a-school website and I whole-heartedly approve.
I just wish I could figure out how to link directly my team (The North Royalton University, named after my high school) but if you know how, let me know. Here’s a screen grab of my unis:
Even though the title is redundant, some of us here—namely one—is taking a trip down a little overlooked road that 136 million other people may have travelled.
The PlayStation 2 library is massive.
I owned a PS2 for almost a year before trading it in. I had done some IT training and as a result received five Xbox’s. Sadly, looking back, the Xbox became my main console. I did experience some titles such as Gran Turismo 3, Ico, and Maximo. Metal Gear Solid 2 was in that mix and a few other titles I honestly cannot remember. The PS2 was a DVD player that played games in our house.
A month ago as I was hyping myself up over Infamous, (oh, yeah, we are going to chat that dude up) Brock had mentioned to me that it was being developed by Sucker Punch, who according to him, had, “created the best PS2 game of all time, Sly Cooper 2: Band of Thieves.” He mentioned I should give it a try because, well, my PS3 is backwards compatible
Alright. I couldn’t play the second title without the first, so why not? The following day I walked in to the sweaty, greasy place that is my local Gamestop (first time this year) and picked up both titles for a total of $10.
In short, it was the best gaming deal of my life.
The PS2 library had opened up to me. Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus was a wonderful title and even though I’m only half way through the sequel I am thoroughly enjoying it. You can actually see a lot of Sly’s mannerisms in Cole McGrath’s motions in Infamous.
I eventually went back to Brock and hit him up for some more titles. At over 2,400 games, there’s got to be some other great games waiting to be played and easy to find. It looks like there is. My only criteria to Brock is that I wanted to overlook JRPGs at the moment. Of course, that cut out a chunk of the titles, but I can wait on those.
Today, for the second time this year, I walked in to Gamestop, ignored the up-saler-salesman and started to go through the PS2 bins.
Adding the Sly games, Shadow of the Colossus (which I got with the Sly titles for $10), Rogue Trooper (I don’t remember where I got that one), and Kingdom Hearts II (a weird Target impulse buy at $20) that brings my PS2 library at eleven titles for $75.
In some ways I’m glad I waited. I know that many of those titles were on other systems, but from what I’ve read they are definitive on the PS2.
I’m all ears as to what other titles you guys may recommend I try. In the mean time, I’m set for summer. Seventy-five dollars for ten AAA games or $60 for one new one that I’ll probably play 5 hours at the most? No brainer.
Because we are true to you we go out of our way to remind you of special things. This one is almost eight months old.
We gave Too Human a Rent rating and mentioned you should buy it when it’s a budget title. Amazon is selling it for $20 right now.
This now makes it an amazing exclusive title for your 360. Let me know if you have it and we’ll play some co-op.
And because we’re feeling saucy, you can get Bully: Scholarship Edition for $20 as well. We gave it a Buy rating.
The internet + people = amazing coincidences?
UPDATE: The video is no longer there thanks to the butt-funks at NBC Universal. And they wonder why they are almost dead last in ratings right now.
UPDATE 2: The butt-funks have posted the video on their alien website Hulu.
IP law is the pits. I give you FREE advertising, and you make it hard for me to do so. Idiots.
I saw this trailer a couple nights ago on The Ultimate Trailer Show. I can’t get this trailer out of my head. I’ve watched a dozen times and it doesn’t get old. So even though this has nothing to do with E3 or video games or anything else, I’m still posting it because it needs to be seen by all.
Actually, don’t waste your time watching the embedded version. You need to get yourself to Apple’s Trailer page and download the 1080p HD version. It is well worth it.
While the movie looks amazing and intriguing, I am a trailer junkie and this trailer has made it in to my top-5 all time trailers. I should put that entire list together one of these days.
If you’re the tweeting type (and we are), you might be interested in checking this out (via EA):
Chat live w/Tim Schafer @ 7PM PST tonight. Send your Q’s after 6pm to #E3BL and watch them unfold live at http://tr.im/nbKW #E3
Heck, yes. It does.
We’re all fans of the recent Metroid games here. This one looks like Ryu is in the suit. Please, no waggle.
If you’re a feed reader and don’t see the vid, please come over to our house to play.
