I never knew Ryan Davis personally. The only sort of interaction I got was several years ago when he read one my questions for On the Spot on-air. Said my name was awesome -- even pronounced it correctly! Was a very cool, flattering, and weird moment. I've come close to meeting him along with the rest of the Giant Bomb crew at these past two E3s (and I did have a brief encounter with Brad and V...
Darn thing's have me hooked now. So much for getting anything productive done... And before you ask, yes, I am only doing this for the quest. That's how far I've fallen. I know, I'm ashamed, too. Maybe I should start blogging here more to make up for that. Yeah, that's the ticket.
...because there's still three more games on the way, and because I haven't got much else to talk about. So anyway, the fourth game was recently announced . It's called Bit.Trip Runner , which makes me suspect that it'll be some sort of platforming game or something. Especially after what happened at the end of Void : SPOILER WARNING: Click here to reveal hidden content. After the credits roll,...
Following the success of the videogame market, there were (and still are) many who developed small electronic game devices that host a variety of simple games that one could walk into a store and buy for a cheap price. The games on these devices paled in comparison to those of consoles, but they obviously still saw some success at retail, otherwise they would have vanished from store shelves so...
You know how the Dreamcast died just after the PlayStation 2 launched, and how there weren't anymore games being made for it? Well, it appears that's changed. As a new Dreamcast game titled, Rush Rush Rally racing, was announced yesterday. You can get the lowdown on the game here if you're interested. As for me, I'm gonna sit here, and try to come to terms with this strange development. I'll le...
I just came across this trailer for Bit.Trip Void -- the third installment in the Bit.Trip series -- on Bitmob , and it looks awesome . Really awesome . The trailer (embedded below) shows a large black mass moving around absorbing beats of the same of the same hue, while avoiding white-hued beats. Upon absorbing beats, the mass grows larger, and as it grows it seems you'll have to shrink it in...
Out of all the games I thought would get a sequel, Okami never once crossed my mind. Why? Well, for one thing, the game didn't do well at retail (neither version did particularly well, I believe), which is what typically determines whether or not a game will receive a sequel. Capcom , however, doesn't seem to follow that method, though. As today it was revealed that they are working on a sequel...
...We get another rumor just as we close the book on another one. Following yesterday's long awaited announcement of the PlaySation 3 Slim , which is set to be released in early September worldwide at $300 (Yay! Price cut!), another rumor regarding said system has surfaced via an FCC filing. The filing in question mentions a 250GB model of their newly announced system, which shares similarities...
As a reviewer, my job (not an actual job, mind you) is too help consumers make purchase decisions, by telling whether or not a game is good or bad. How we, the reviewers, tend to go about doing this, is by playing the game from start to finish before we write our reviews. As doing so gives us the knowledge to effectively evaluate the game. I have followed this philosophy ever since I began to r...
...they prove you wrong. Introducing the latest peripheral from the crazy minds at Nintendo... the inflatable Horseback Riding Saddle! *Cue cricket noise* ...Yeah, I figured that's the reaction I'd get. So yesterday this patent for a new peripheral from Nintendo surfaced. Siliconera was the first to find it, and from what I've seen in the patent, it looks (there are concept sketches in the pate...
As should be obvious to everyone now (unless you've been living under a rock for past few years), this console generation brought quite an increase on videogame prices. And while the standard console title costs about $60 U.S. dollars, special edition versions, and the Guitar Hero, and Rock Band games cost well over $100 U.S. dollars -- sometimes even more than that! But guess what? According t...
Sense I can't come up with a good way to start this post (I guess that's what I get for not posting much blog entries this month), I'll start with an abbreviated version of my thoughts on the game so far (I'm starting to think this will a regular thing in these posts): it's good. Rather difficult at times, and a tad complex, but good nonetheless. Now then...with that out of the way, I'll move o...
Just saw this awesome trailer for Retro/Grade -- a space shooter that's played in reverse -- in this article here on Giant Bomb . If you don't get what I mean by "reverse" (and you probably don't), it basically means it's a rhythm game -- much like how Bit.Trip Beat was. As you must line up your ship with the shots you have fired, and shots you will fire which only further complicates things. I...
...thanks to an article from Ars Technica . How does that article do this, you ask? Well the info comes from a very reliable source which they refer to as "The Mole." Who has given out details regarding things like the PSP Go with superb accuracy. According to this "Mole," the price of the PlayStation 3 will be lowered, and in addition they'll release the Slim PS3 this fall. There were no speci...