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What if Metal Gear Solid 4 was an NES game?

By Stephen Munn | August 27, 2008

Doctored screenshots are fun. Completely faked ones are even better, as long as they’re not passed off as real.

With that, I’ll suggest you check out this compilation of faux screenshots compiled over at Infendo. In particular, I’m very fond of the shot at left. Not only does it reference somewhat the way Metal Gear looked like in its NES days (it didn’t even look this good, actually), but it sticks a nice pointy thing right in Konami’s famously terrible localization skills. Those skills have really only improved in the past five years, sadly enough.

There’s a nice shot at PS3 launch title Genji as well. The best looking shot is probably the one for Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess as it might look on the original Game Boy, though I can’t help thinking it’s too high resolution for that old fella.

Source: Infendo

Castle Crashers Living Up To Its Name

By Joe Haygood | August 27, 2008

Castle Crashers has been awash in all kinds of hype and furor, first over its gameplay, and then after the type showed it listed at $22.50 to purchase the game.

Now it is awash in more grumbling, but this time from players around the web, including some of the fortunate (or not so fortunate) at Destructoid who found their 360’s dropping them out of multiplayer Castle Crashers games, and shortly thereafter the game would just bomb on its own.

Castle Crashers developer The Behemoth, has acknowledged the issues with the online play, putting up the cartoon to the left on their devblog. No word on when the fixes will be uploaded, but not a good start for a game that was already enveloped in controversy from the beginning. Also not good for Microsoft, which seems to want to bump the default price of an XBLA game to 1200 points.

Strange Transmission Ahead: No Known Survivors

By Joe Haygood | August 27, 2008

Yesterday, the Dead Space developement team unveiled NoKnownSurvivors.com, the new website that delves into the backstory to the Dead Space universe. There is a story that will be told over nine weeks leading up to the release of Dead Space at retail. Each week a new body part on the website will start to mutate and grow, eventually turning into a Necromorph body part and unveiling a new segment of the story.

You say you want a Dance Dance Revolution?

By Stephen Munn | August 25, 2008

How exactly does one go about figuring out which is the best Dance Dance Revolution game to buy? Review scores are not a good idea, because they’re all relative. Maybe the first DDR reviewed the best, but Ultramix 3 is actually better… just not better enough to warrant a better score years later. Let me back up a little, because I’m confusing myself.

I want to buy a Dance Dance Revolution game. I’ve got a Wii and a 60GB PS3. That means I can play any of the DDR games for PS1, PS2, Gamecube, or Wii. There are none for PS3. Knowing little about any of these games, I’m having trouble figuring out what’s my best course of action here.

If anyone can offer me any input on this, I’d love to hear it. Look below for aggregate scores and releases. Keep in mind I can’t get the Xbox or 360 versions, I don’t have those platforms. Everything else is fair game.

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Smash Court Tennis 3 Addiction

By Shane | August 24, 2008

I’ve played video games at work before, but not like this interoffice Smash Court Tennis 3 addiction – it’s taking gaming at work too far. Especially the guy in the plaid shirt near the end saying “yeh” - thanks a lot now I’m going to be going around saying “yeh”.

Thanks, Dan

MK vs DC: The Joker Fatality

By Joe Haygood | August 22, 2008

The question with Mortal Kombat vs. DC has been the idea of fatalities and how they will work. Well we do know at this point that some people will have fatalities and some will not. The DC good guys will have finishing moves, but they will not kill people. Bad guys are open game, and it looks like someone at NeoGAF got some screen caps and put it together in a gif format to show the fatality for The Joker.

I really do like the fatality as it stays true to what The Joker would do in the comic books. Funny, yet brutal all at the same time, still showing off the insanity of the man behind the white face and pearly red smile.

Go ahead and click the jump to see the fatality and let us know what you think about it and how the game is looking in general.

Image via IGN.com

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How Will Rock Band Disc Tracks Get Into Rock Band 2

By Joe Haygood | August 21, 2008

The folks over at MTV Multiplayer blog got to sit down with Harmonix to talk about how a player can get songs from their original Rock Band disc imported into Rock Band 2.

It looks like the day that Rock Band hits the streets, there will be an update available for the original Rock Band, and will add an option in-game to transfer music. When you select this option, it will ask you to enter a code that will be in your Rock Band 2 disc case. Enter the code, pay the points, and you will get the music downloaded to your hard drive.

The whole process was described on the 360, but I would assume the process is coming to the PS3 as well. Also, it is still unclear if all songs from the disc will transfer, as Harmonix has stated in the past that “most tracks will be available from the disc”. It was also interesting, because someone could theoretically rent the first Rock Band, and then use the code from Rock Band 2 to get the music imported at the cost of $5.00 vs. buying the first game.

Moving Pictures Album Comes to Rock Band

By Joe Haygood | August 21, 2008

Next week, Rock Band will be getting another album release for the marketplace. Rush’s “Moving Pictures” album will come to both PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game.

Two weird caveats to this album release are that two of the seven songs on the album are in Rock Band already, “Tom Sawyer” and “Limelight”, but both are currently cover versions. The other anomaly is that “YYZ” is on this album, which has no vocal track, wondering what happens to the guy that is on the mic. Does he just get to wail, or maybe they will add some sort of percussion track for the mic.

No price has been set, but most likely, it will list for 800 points or $10, which would be similar in cost to the Boston track pack which had six songs.

New Postal 3 Footage from Leipzig

By Joe Haygood | August 21, 2008

I am going to admit that I liked Postal 2. It was not great, and I felt morally dirty whenever I played it, but it was a good dose of stupid fun. Yeah I would not rank it as a great game, but a fun diversion for a few hours at a time. Besides, who didn’t like the idea of shooting, burning and then finally decapitating the corpse of Gary Coleman.

Now we have Postal 3, in an early form, and I have to say that right now, I am not impressed. The guy running the demo seems a little out of it, and the game itself does not look all that special. Clipping abounds, and why is it that no cops react to a prisoner breaking out of his cell. They did say it was a pre-alpha build, but with a game that is not well liked by critics, to show it in this form is not going to help in any way.

NHL 2K9 Demo Now on Xbox and PSN Marketplaces

By Joe Haygood | August 21, 2008

2K Sports has released a demo for NHL 2K9 on both the Xbox Live Marketplace and the PSN Marketplace. The demo allows players to participate in a three minute period as either the Pittsburgh Penguins or the Detroit Red Wings in historic Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. Unfortunately, you cannot select the greatest hockey team ever in the Montreal Canadians. So get your stick, your helmet and download your NHL 2K9 Demo and start crushing people into the boards.

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What if Metal Gear Solid 4 was an NES game?

Castle Crashers Living Up To Its Name

Strange Transmission Ahead: No Known Survivors

You say you want a Dance Dance Revolution?

Smash Court Tennis 3 Addiction

MK vs DC: The Joker Fatality

How Will Rock Band Disc Tracks Get Into Rock Band 2

Moving Pictures Album Comes to Rock Band

New Postal 3 Footage from Leipzig

NHL 2K9 Demo Now on Xbox and PSN Marketplaces