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50 Cent Blood In The Sand Cover System Trailer
By Joe Haygood | January 7, 2009The premise of the new 50 Cent game is absolutely ridiculous, and the action is sure to be over the top, but it will sell a million plus, just like 50 Cent: Bulletproof. All that said, I will admit that the game is starting to shape up nicely, and it is looking pretty nice. Not sure if I will find this at the top of my list, but I am definitely putting it towards the top of my Gamefly queue.
Capcom’s early 2009 release calendar a star studded affair
By Stephen Munn | January 5, 2009
Cry sequelitis all you like, but Capcom’s got something in each of a number of their key franchises rolling out in the next six months. There’s some Resident Evil, Street Fighter, Dead Rising, and Bionic Commando action coming your way, and some of that’s even coming to Wii, even if it may not be the one we really wanted.
Street Fighter 4 is coming February 17th to PS3 and 360. As disappointed as I was that the whole game doesn’t look like Okami as the original trailer seemed to imply, I still think there’s a lot of potential for some great fighting here. Unfortunately, I can’t help but wonder if there’s anything that can be done with the Street Fighter format to give it legs beyond what it was already doing 15 years ago. As interesting as it is, I’ll be waiting and trying before I consider a buy.
February 27th will bring the Wii edition of Dead Rising, subtitled Chop Till You Drop, which is still adorable. The game was expected last year, so I’m hoping the delays mean we’ll see more zombies in the game than the screens out there are showing *cough 6 killed cough*. Dead Rising on 360 was legendary for its swarms of zombies, and the idea that there might be so many fewer on Wii makes me think I’d be better off waiting for a PS3 version.
Resident Evil 5 is something of a legend at this point. In addition to being perhaps the game with the biggest shoes to fill of this lot after the incredible Resident Evil 4, it’s brought out a great deal of ongoing discussion on one of our older articles here at Aeropause. And for the record, I have the opposite opinion of whatever yours might be. Look for this one on PS3 and 360 on (dun dun dun!) Friday the 13th… of March! I’m glad to hear this, because the people at work keep asking me when it’s coming out. Now I have an answer.
Other games mentioned without release dates are the amusingly named FLOCK!, a download-only animal herding puzzle game with UFOs for PSN and XBLA and a bike-racing MotoGP game for Wii in March. They talk about Bionic Commando as well, but they keep the date on that one wide open. Like, six months wide, so we’ll see if it hits in that timeframe or not. It’s due for PS3 and 360 and I think it looks pretty slick.
Windows versions of the PS3 and 360 games are expected at a later date. Press release follows.
Lips Review (Xbox 360)
By Joe Haygood | January 3, 2009
After sitting in the shadow of Sony and its Singstar franchise, Microsoft has finally brought their own karaoke to market in the form of Lips. While Lips provides a fun filled party atmosphere, and a savvy platform for future content, the single player will find themselves grasping for more to do with their $70 purchase.
Lips is, for lack of a better description, a karaoke game, but it adds a few wrinkles to the mix to separate it from the crowd. Upon loading the game, you are presented with the main screen where you can select songs and sing them using a conventional karaoke format, where a pitch bar is above each word, and a pitch meter follows along to let you know if you are on, above or below pitch for each segment of the song. It is a tried and true formula that has worked in Singstar, Karaoke Revolution and just about every karaoke machine in the land.
CNet explains why PS3 is losing, thinks Wii Sports is online
By Stephen Munn | January 2, 2009
In a recent article on CNet’s “Negative Approach” blog called “Why the Wii and Xbox are killing Sony’s PS3″ by Dave Rosenberg, there are a number of interesting points made, but few of them are new. This is not special or important at all, but what is amusing is the list of factual errors in the article, the most glaring of which is not the unwillingness to call the Xbox 360 by its own name rather than that of its predecessor, follows.
Minimal modern touches (i.e. social features)
The Wii makes your goofy little Mii character come alive by connecting consoles online. Xbox Live has a community and marketplace. Playstation Home is compelling but empty, which should even out over time. But, the competition is so far ahead, Sony needed to do something much bigger and better.Personally, I thought the social stuff was a little stupid until my nephew destroyed me in Wii bowling while playing 3,000 miles away. Now I get it.
No, he still doesn’t get it. Miis have nothing to do with connecting consoles online, and social stuff on Wii is not a little stupid. What’s stupid is that Rosenberg thought that he was playing Wii Sports Bowling online with his nephew, when in fact he was playing with an AI controlled opponent who was using his nephew’s Mii. There is no online play in Wii Sports.
In his favor, I find the argument that games take too long to start on PS3 surprising, as I’ve never heard that complaint before. I do find that some games take a long time to start up, but it’s not something that makes me “curse the machine” as he claims.
Source: CNet
Looking Back At 2008 Predictions
By Joe Haygood | December 31, 2008
At the beginning of 2008 I made a few predictions for the coming year. Some were crazy, some were serious, and some just made people scratch their heads. So how did I do when I look back at my predictions? I would give myself a big fat F, because I missed on quite a bit. So lets take a look at what I guessed at and what actually happened, and I give a little commentary on my guesses in regards to the actual happenings of the year.
10 Predictions For The New Year
By Richard Windsor | December 31, 2008
With 2009 less then twelve hours away it’s time to make some predictions about what may come to pass in the new year. I am no fortune teller, but if the past serves as benchmark for the future then I am sure that some of these will come true. 2008 was a bright year for gamers and game makers, but a lot rests on what happens in 2009. Can Sony actually sell PS3’s, will Microsoft release the long awaited motion controller, and will Nintendo release any quality games? Honestly I have no clue, but I can make some predictions.
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The First (of Many) Aeropause Gaming Nights
By Joe Haygood | December 27, 2008
Tonight was the first of what we hope to be many Aeropause Gaming Nights. The game on tap was Gears of War 2, playing Horde mode. We only had myself and a couple of people from the Aeropause community, Jordan (whom I called Jonathan Snyder again) Snyder and Terry, a not so regular visitor of the site.
The night started with myself just trying to learn the controls in Gears 2, to which I had just bought two hours before the gaming night began. Snyder (gamertag snyderunc) was the star of the evening, getting myself (gamertag mclazyj) and Terry (gamertag tawspot) out of a ton of jams. We worked our way up to level 17 in Horde mode and had a blast the whole way.
Best moment of the night had to be after Terry had died, and he was giving us heads up on where people were coming from, and as myself and Snyder made our last stands, all we got from Terry was “You have everything coming up the stairs at you!”. It was a blast and we hope to have more join us.
If you have a game suggestion and a night you would like to play, either use the current gaming thread here, or create a game specific thread in the appropriate forum. I will see about making a forum specifically dedicated to gaming nights if they become popular enough. Also, we have another gaming night happening on Sunday night and it is for Left 4 Dead on the PC. I will be in there for the start, but will have to leave early to podcast. Hope to see you PC gamers there on Sunday!
You Want Some Halo With Your DLC
By Joe Haygood | December 23, 2008
When the Xbox Live originals program was started, Halo was right there, but most complained about the price point. Why should people pay $15 for a game that is not updated in any way when you can go to the local Gamestop and buy it for $5-10.
Well, while the originals program is not cutting its prices overall, it is listening to its fanbase and has temporarily cut the price of Halo: Combat Evolved to 600 MS Points or $7.50, a savings of 50%. If you have been under a rock, or disavowed the first Xbox console, now is your chance to try a good shooter that is tuned and adjusted specifically for consoles. It also give you some ideas of how the Halo series got started if you came to the party late.
Also, another rumor going around (again) is that achievements will actually be coming to Xbox Live originals, which might suggest that sales of Xbox Orignals are slow and that achievements might be the way to boost those numbers. Remeber, people will do a lot of stupid things, like play Open Season, to get achievements. I am not buying into this one as of yet, as the evidence supporting it is thin at best.
Aerocontest: Multi-plat Holiday Bonus Code Contest!
By Joe Fourhman | December 21, 2008
If you have LittleBigPlanet (PS3) or 007: Quantum of Solace (360) but you did not preorder them through GameStop due to moral objections to those punks breaking the seal on new games, you are in luck.
We’re running a teeny tiny contest to give away DLC codes for LittleBigPlanet’s God of War pack and the Quantum multiplayer map pack! To enter, just head to the official forum thread and come up with something, anything, that uses the initials of the contest’s title… the Multi-plat Holiday Bonus Code Contest!
To keep things easy, we’ll make the P and the second C optional. For example, you could submit: May Have Bargain Christmas Cesspool! Or My Pretend Huge Bear Craps. We just want to see an M-H-B-C in there. And make sure you mention which prize you want… you can enter separately for both, but you can only win ONE of them. Additionally, only forum posts will count, so if you post them in Intense Debate comments, you’re just wasting your time.
More details below, and the official forum thread is right here.
So Wii Graphics Are Too Fugly For TV According to EA
By Joe Haygood | December 18, 2008
So earlier today, its seems that some truth in advertising came out after someone noticed some too good to be true graphics for the latest installment of Tiger Woods’ golf game. Electronic Arts seems to have used the visuals and video from the Xbox 360 version of Tiger Woods 09, while having the Wii label overlaid on the screen, basically making it look like EA is proclaiming those are the graphics you will see in the Wii version of the game. When they were caught, the response was unbelievably truthful, “Wii footage would not be of broadcast quality, and the originating agency had thought it preferable to use the Xbox footage”.
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