On July 27th, Legendo Entertainment will release The Three Musketeers: One for All! into WiiWare for 900 Wii Points. Inspired by Alexandre Dumas’ classic novel, the downloadable title has been specially tailored for the Wii to allow players to launch sword attacks and control the game’s hero, Porthos, with the Wii Remote and Nunchuk. The [...]
Remember the painful days of yesteryear when Japan had a lock on all extremely cool video game bonus items? If there was an art book to be had, it was there. If there was a soundtrack to drool over, it was there. But publishers are now seeing the value of supplying die hards with goodies; [...]
If Scribblenauts doesn’t currently place high on your “Games I Must Play In 2009″ list, you hate everything that is wonderful and pure in existence. Hyperbole? I confess, a tad. But I still question your gaming pedigree. Scribblenauts is a title that’s almost doomed to disappoint the legions of gaming nerds that have inhaled every [...]
The human mind never ceases to amaze me; old Atari cartridges are being converted into wallets. Enter “cha-ching” sound here people. Niles, the wallet’s maker, ingeniously converted an Atari 2600 Pac-man cartridge using every single component therein. Warning: Upon seeing probably the coolest wallet ever made, jealousy may ensue. These sexy beasts start at $35, [...]
Harmonix and MTV games have done a stellar job of torturing music-sim fans desperate to don mop-tops and skinny suits. After revealing snippets of the 45 on-disc songs at E3, the two companies have decided to toss us dogs a bone by revealing 15 tracks from The Beatles: Rock Band. The songs span the Fab [...]
Imagine you’re Rick Rocket, ace star pilot, who’s just saved the known universe from destruction at the hands of invading alien forces. What would you expect upon the completion of your mission? Accolades? Fanfare? Wealth? How about doing the whole damn over again due to a rift in the time-space continuum – – but in [...]
Lux-Pain is part of the terrible epidemic that has been sweeping the Japanese development scene in the past decade or so. It seems every director secretly wants to work in the anime field, but since they’re stuck in the far more challenging world of video games with nothing but blob-eyed girls and Evangelion rip-offs in [...]
You may have seen preview ads for Mini Fighter here and on other gaming sites, but now the Korean, 2D, side-scrolling fighter MM0 (mouthful!) is headed to closed beta, stateside, on July 23. If you haven’t been following its development here’s a swift primer. Mini Fighter is a side-scrolling fighter with cutesy, super-deformed characters. Unlike [...]
I’m obsessed with time travel; anyone who knows me well has heard me expound upon the various working theories that would possibly allow matter to move forward and backward through the temporal planes. I love Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis’ Back to the Future. I find Michael Moorcock’s Behold the Man quite intriguing, even though [...]
Bits and Bytes is a weekly round up of some of the more interesting gaming news items that happened to slip through the cracks during our normal posting schedule. They’re presented here in easily-digestible bite-size chunks. Harmonix and MTV Announced Rock Band Network Rock Band has proved to be a great way for artists to make [...]
