Almost a year ago, we brought you some news about Space Invaders for all the iDevices. Taito has had a FREE update in the works for some time now that adds a new ship, a sideways mode, and the option to get some more ships via DLC. This was my iPhone FGotY last year and this keeps it right on the homepage of my iPod. The update is on the App store now.
News
Next Generation can wait
I’ve always worried that the five-year cycle of consoles was going to rear its ugly head soon. Maybe, I thought, it might turn out to be six or seven years, but it was coming. Either way, I’m not ready for the next generation. It definitely looks like we’ve got some time, especially after Chris Lewis, Microsoft’s executive VP of Interactive Entertainment in Europe said, “What you’ve seen is with this new sleek design and Kinect for Xbox 360 we’ve got at least another five years of this generation…”
Music to my ears. Especially when I end up trading in my old, 20 gig Xbox 360 in for a new Slim 360.
April Releases
It’s that time again, time for the long list of monthly releases. April is anemic. Splinter Cell and Monster Hunter Tri and… Let’s Garden? Not much to get excited about this month.
Week of April 5
Borderlands Double Game Add-On Pack: The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned / Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot
Week of April 12
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction– Normally I’d call this a Day One Purchase but with my new Gamefly Day One Rental (and then purchase) Trick. I cannot wait for this game.
Week of April 19
Sherlock Holmes Vs. Jack the Ripper
Week of April 26
NIER– This game win this month’s worst name and best boxart. I have no idea what this game is, but I’m intrigued.
Super Street Fighter IV
Record of Agarest War Limited Edition– I haven’t heard of this one, either, but it’s at least a discrete way to get that mouse pad.
2010 FIFA World Cup
Dead to Rights Retribution
Week of April 12
Pirates Plundarrr
Attack of The Movies 3D
Flip’s Twisted World
Week of April 19
Monster Hunter Tri– I don’t know a whole about this game besides the fact that Monster Hunter is big in Japan. Here’s another game I’m interested in (that I’ll probably never play)
Week of April 26
Let’s Play Garden– Let’s not
2010 FIFA World Cup
Week of April 5
Montessori Music
Week of April 12
Sea Park Tycoon
Week of April 19
Casual Mania– Isn’t that an oxymoron?
Dementium II– Strong runner up for boxart of the month.
Beat City
Week of April 26
Let’s Play Garden
Week of April 5
Margrave Manor 2 The Lost Ship
Borderlands Game Add-On Pack The Zombie Island of Dr. Nex and mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot
Week of April 12
Pure Hidden
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
Mystery P.I.: Lost in LA
Week of April 19
3D Hunting 2010 MBX
Week of April 26
Jumpgate Evolution
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction
Week of April 12
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
Week of April 26
Dead to Rights Retribution
Super Street Fighter IV
2010 FIFA World Cup
NIER
Week of April 12
Blood Bowl
Week of April 26
2010 FIFA World Cup
What are you picking up?
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March Releases
Yay, it’s the monthly releases! The year has started out strong and March continues the streak with a few strong titles interspersed with some games of questionable quality. All in a month of game releases:
Week of March 1st
Heist
Battlefield: Bad Company 2– I’m watching from the sidelines to see how this games matches up with Modern Warfare 2. I’m planning on sticking with MW2 but I’m always up for a good fight.
MLB 2K10
Lips: Party Classics
Week of March 8th
Final Fantasy XIII– The last main Final Fantasy game I played was FF3 on the SNES. Maybe it’s time to get back in.
Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition– I think I’m going to pick up some of the extra RE5 content sometime down the road, but if you haven’t played RE5 yet, I’d recommend it. It’s rather underrated in my book.
Week of March 15th
Prison Break: The Conspiracy– My mancrush on Michael Scofield is no secret. I am seriously considering picking this game up.
Dragon Age: Origins Awakenings– I thought Dragon Age was to be another Bioware Trilogy? It seems like this would be taking away from time they could be spending on a sequel. Or maybe this is all part of the plan.
Metro 2033
Supreme Commander 2
Resonance of Fate– It’s the month of 360 jRPGs!
MotoGP 09/10– Was this game initially called MotoGP 09 but then got behind schedule? They already had all the box art ready to go so they just added the /10? Sounds reasonable to me.
Week of March 22nd
Clash of the Titans– I thought they made this game already (at least three times) when they called it God of War
Just Cause 2– One of the first games I played on the 360 was Just Cause. It was flawed and at the time it didn’t grab me. Not sure I’m ready to give it another chance.
Week of March 29th
Samurai Shodown Sen
Singularity
Week of March 1st
Spongebob Boating Bash
Alice in Wonderland
MLB 2K10
Week of March 8th
The Daring Game for Girls
Winter Blast: Snow and Ice Games– Seems like this game was poorly timed…
Sam & Max 2: Beyond Time and Space
Week of March 15th
Sushi Go Round
Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon
Calling
Week of March 22nd
Rooms: The Main Building– Strange name for a game.
Red Steel 2
Week of March 29th
Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love
Secret Files: Tunguska
Week of March 1st
Alice in Wonderland
Sonic Classic Collection– The DS is almost five years old. I would have figured we had tapped most of “Classic Collections.” I stand corrected.
MLB 2K10
Week of March 8th
The Daring Game for Girls
Week of March 15th
Pokemon SoulSilver Version– The latest Pokemon sure snuck up on me.
Pokemon HeartGold Version
Let’s Draw!
Spectral Force Genesis
Week of March 22nd
Build-a-Bear Workshop: Welcome to Hugsville– If you would have told me there would be more than one Build-a-Bear game when the first one came out, I would have said you were crazy. I would have been wrong.
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
Yard Sale Hidden Treasures: Sunnyville– PLEASE tell me how this game will be fun. Can you win it all by just listing everything on Craig’s list?
Dawn of Heroes– I might buy this game on the strength of the box art alone.
Week of March 29th
Infinite Space
Monster Rancher
Chocolatier– I think this game comes highly recommended from Zack. That’s a solid recommendation in my book.
Week of March 1st
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Supreme Commander 2
Silent Hunter: Battle of the Atlantic
Major League Baseball 2K10
Week of March 8th
Sam & Max 2: Beyond Time and Space
Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising
Assassins Creed II
Week of March 15th
Prison Break: The Conspiracy
Dragon Age: Origins Awakenings
Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight
Mount & Blade: Warband
Metro 2033
Week of March 22nd
Alcatraz
Just Cause 2
The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom
Week of March 29th
Making History 2: War of World
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
Week of March 1st
MLB 2K10
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
MLB 10 The Show
Week of March 8th
Final Fantasy XIII
Yakuza 3
Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition
Week of March 15th
God of War III– This is all I need to link for this month, right? No PS3 owner cares about the rest of the month, right?
Dragon Age: Origins Awakenings
Resonance of Fate
MotoGP 09/10
Week of March 22nd
Clash of the Titans
Just Cause 2
Week of March 29th
Prison Break: The Conspiracy
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
Week of March 1st
MLB 2K10
Lunar: Silver Star Harmony
Dante’s Inferno
Lunar: Silver Star Harmony
MLB 10 The Show
Week of March 8th
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
Week of March 15th
Dead Or Alive Paradise
Week of March 29th
Hot Shots Tennis
Mimana: Iyar Chronicle
What are you picking up?
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PS3/PSN Problems Make People Cry
Bumbling irresponsibility, horrible math, and overall stupidity come to mind
Unless you’ve been living under a video-game rock, original PS3 owners (think “fat”) are experiencing all sorts of problems with their console in what appears to be due to an internal clock bug. My guess is that the system goes all bung-holio because the people at Sony don’t know how to do calendar math. Oh wait, they knew how to do it on the newer systems but didn’t really stop to bother with the older ones. My guess is a firmware fix would work. Problem: the PS3 fats cannot connect to the PSN to get it. What’s Sony’s solution?
We hope to resolve this problem within the next 24 hours. In the meantime, if you have a model other than the new slim PS3, we advise that you do not use your PS3 system, as doing so may result in errors in some functionality, such as recording obtained trophies, and not being able to restore certain data.
Wait 24 hours for the day to go through the cycle and it works. Brilliant. Reminds me of the Zune fiasco. In the meantime, no games, no Netflix, no media center, no nothing.
This, of course, affects our system at home. Ironically, since getting rid of our satellite, the PS3 has been our go-to media device. We don’t use it everyday, but Mondays are the days we use it the most. I guess not today. A couple of things:
- I’m amazed that in 2010, a rather large company that has a computer division cannot due simple calendar math.
- I’m amazed that many PS3 games will not work because they cannot check in to the PSN for various reasons. Want to play some Heavy Rain? Forget it. (What do offline people do? )
- We’ll see how Sony responds to this “outage.”
- At least PS3 users don’t have to pay for their downtime. (Zing?)
It’s for the last reason alone that I’m not royally ticked, just mildly annoyed. Shame on them for allowing something so simple to happen, and shame on them for having so many handshakes for games and movies with their service.
Epic.
General Knoxx Arrives This Week
February Releases
January started the parade of good titles for 2010 and February packs another good, if not compact punch. Here’s what we’ve got to look forward to this month:
Week of February 8th
Dante’s Inferno
Bioshock 2– I fell in love with Rapture when the first Bioshock came out, but when I finished the game, I felt that I had seen everything that needed to be seen. Not sure I’m really on fire for playing Bioshock 2.
Week of February 15th
Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce
Alien vs Predator
Tropico 3
Week of February 22nd
Risen
Deadly Premonition
Borderlands Game Add-On Pack The Zombie Island of Dr. Nex and mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot– Borderlands is a game I definitely need to get back to. I was really enjoying co-op and now that DLC is rolling I need to get back to it.
Dead to Rights Retribution
Week of February 1st
Family Party 30 Great Games Winter Games
Week of February 8th
Rock Blast– You can never get enough of “line up items of the same color” games.
Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll
Shiren The Wanderer
The Daring Game for Girls
Week of February 15th
Triple Crown Snowboarding
Week of February 22nd
Endless Ocean: Blue World
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
Week of February 1st
Puzzle Chronicles
Playmobil: Knights
Week of February 8th
Destiny of Zorro
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
The Daring Game for Girls
Scene It? Twilight– Really, Nintendo? Really?
Legend of Kay
Week of February 15th
Dementium II– I don’t have one, but if I kept a “games I should play one of these days” this game would be on it on the strength of the boxart alone.
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
KORG DS-10 Plus
Ragnarok DS– If this game is online, I may pick this one up.
Crime Scene
Week of February 22nd
Art of Murder– Starring Duff from MTV!
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s World Championship 2010 Reverse of Arcadia
Week of February 1st
Iron Roses
Star Trek Online
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat
Week of February 8th
World Of Outlaws Sprint Cars
Bioshock 2
Week of February 15th
StrongBad’s Cool Game for Attractive People– I’m linking this specifically because (a) I love Strong bad and (b) I am an attractive person. This must be a cool game.
Everquest II: Sentinel’s Fate– Glad to see Everquest II is still going strong. With or without me.
Alien vs Predator– Seems like there have been other versions of this game out there, right? How is this not a sequel or anything?
Becky Brogan
Week of February 22nd
Alice in Wonderland
Napoleon Total War Limited Edition
WarBirds Dogfights
Week of February 1st
White Knight Chronicles International Edition
Week of February 8th
Dante’s Inferno
Star Ocean: The Last Hope International
Bioshock 2
Week of February 15th
Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce
Alien vs Predator
Week of February 22nd
Last Rebellion
Heavy Rain
Week of February 1st
Puzzle Chronicles
Week of February 15th
SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3
Week of February 22nd
Metal Slug XX
Dante’s Inferno
What are you picking up?
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Violence and video games together again
Most be another one of those violent video games, right?
An Italian man who argued with his son over Sony PlayStation tactics was recovering in hospital on Monday after the teenager stabbed him in the neck with a 15-inch kitchen knife, police and hospital officials said.
What was he playing? Grand Theft Auto IV? Modern Warfare 2? God of War?
The man, identified as Fabrizio R., suffered a deep cut to the throat after his 16-year-old son, Mario, attacked him during an argument on Sunday over the soccer video game FIFA 2009.
Huh. So it wasn’t a violent video game that led to this violent outburst. My world view = shattered.
Set your DVRs
Got this note from EA’s PR peoples and figured some of you would be interested. I know I am, but I’m also torn. I’ve been avoiding any and all info about Mass Effect 2 to go into the game pure and unsullied as possible. I have seen a few of the teaser videos for the game, so maybe I’m already corrupted. Either way, check it out:
Tonight the SyFy Network will debut the special TV documentary, Sci vs. Fi: Mass Effect 2 , featuring celebs, creators, and experts discussing 2010’s first blockbuster videogame, Mass Effect 2 and its place in the sci-fi pantheon. Tune in to the Sy Fy Network for the premiere airing on Tuesday January 19th at 11 PM EST/PST and 10 PM CET. The show takes an in-depth look at both the science and fiction of Mass Effect 2, and features interviews with in-game voice talent Tricia Helfer and Yvonne Strahovski, Sci-Fi fan favorite Wil Wheaton and journalists Jessica Chobot and Adam Sessler among others.
January Releases
It’s the new year and what a year it’s going to be for gaming! The excitement starts this month and hopefully the momentum carries us through the year. Let’s get to the list:
Week of January 4th
Bayonetta– I’m torn on Bayonetta. On one hand, it looks beautiful and wicked stylish. On the other hand, I’ve never gotten into the stylized-action-game like Devil May Cry or God of War. Maybe it’s time to try.
Darksiders– In a month loaded with triple-A titles, I’m worried I’ll never get around to playing this, but I am definitely intrigued.
Divinity II: Ego Draconis– I didn’t even know there was a Divinity I. Anyone have any info on this game?
Week of January 11th
Vancouver 2010 – The Official Video Game of the Olympic Winter Games– Gotta fit this game in somewhere I guess.
Army of Two: The 40th Day– Another one I’ll probably end up passing, but I wonder what I’ll be missing.
Week of January 18th
Dark Void
Week of January 25th
Mass Effect 2– There it is. This should do just fine to tide me over for quite some time. At least until February. I hope it doesn’t take me two years to finish this one.
Week of January 4th
My Fitness Coach 2 Workout and Nutrition
Week of January 11th
The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces
Crazy Chicken Tales
Walk It Out
Sleepover Party– Walk It Out? Sleepover Party? Have you Wii game makers have no shame?
Week of January 18th
Fast Food Panic
Pinball Hall of Fame: The Gottlieb Collection
Week of January 25th
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
Tatsunoko VS Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars
Week of January 4th
Fast Food Panic
Learn Chess
Week of January 11th
Daniel X
Sands of Destruction
Week of January 18th
Glory of Heracles– This looks like a solid DS strategy game. Tempting…
Bejeweled Twist– Haven’t you milked us enough already, Pop Cap?
KORG DS-10 Plus
Week of January 25th
Quad Kings
Personal Fitness Women
Legend of Kay
Week of January 4th
Divinity II: Ego Draconis
Week of January 11th
The Sims 2: Fun with Pets Collection– Looks like the Sims 2 will not die.
Insecticide
Two Worlds
Week of January 18th
Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventure
Dark Void
The Tudors
Week of January 25th
Hotel Giant 2
Mass Effect 2
Alcatraz
Week of January 4th
Bayonetta– See above.
Darksiders– Ditto.
Week of January 11th
Darksiders
Army of Two: The 40th Day
Week of January 18th
Dark Void
Week of January 25th
MAG
Week of January 11th
Army of Two: The 40th Day
Week of January 18th
Shepherd’s Crossing
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Week of January 25th
TNA: Cross The Line
Shadow of Destiny
Not a bad way to start the year off. While I think I’ll be grabbing Mass Effect 2, I’ve got plenty to keep me busy. What are you picking up?
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