-
Rent Video Games
Nov
10
New Releases: Week of November 11th, 2007
Category: PSP, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC, Nintendo, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft, Playstation 2, Nintendo DS, Sony, New Releases | 
Leave a Comment
My excuse to buy a Wii is finally here! No, not Super Mario Galaxy, although that is pretty badass in itself. I am referring to Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles. Other notable games this week include Assassin’s Creed, Kane & Lynch: Dead Men and WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2008.
At this rate, we may have to […]
Nov
10
Game journalist Troy Goodfellow’s blog, Flash Of Steel, has been debating the concept of symbolic figureheads in game development - and he hits on some pretty interesting points about - well, this: “For how long should game journalists be expected to go to Will Wright for every Sims article or to Sid Meier for […]
Nov
10
Attack of the Show makes the world’s largest Arcade Machine
Category: Wii Xbox 360 Playstation 3 | Leave a Comment
Attack of the Show has created the world’s biggest Arcade Machine. It’s 14 feet tall, has a 75 inch screen, weighs 1300 pounds, and has 150 arcade games built into it. It even requires quarters to play (3 inch sized Quarters that is)! Guinness World Records validated the machine and announced that the Guinness World […]
Nov
10
Weekend Destructainment: Gon with the wind edition
Category: Wii Xbox 360 Playstation 3 | Leave a Comment
Ah, Japan. The land of robots, hot women, crazy gadgets, better cell phones and some of the best reality shows on the planet. Let this be a warning to you all if you ever visit Japan: Don’t play videogames that are a big empty room. Thanks to everyone that sent this in!
The Destructainment begins with […]
Nov
10
1UP’s Jeremy Parish writes about all kinds of random stuff on his Gamespite.net personal blog, but I wanted to point to a recent post about the latest 1UP Show, currently available on GameVideos.com, in which there is apparently “…a brief West Side Story-esque musical interlude from Parish about receiving the [Super Mario Galaxy] in […]
Nov
10
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney on the docket for early 2008 release
Category: Wii Xbox 360 Playstation 3 | Leave a Comment
Personally, I’m had enough of Capcom’s Phoenix Wright games, which is why I’m pleased that they’ve announced Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney for the Nintendo DS.
Unlike that old, wash-up Phoenix Wright, Apollo Justice is a rookie defense attorney who visits crime scenes, questions witnesses, and collects various pieces of evidence. The cases are whacky, the characters […]
Nov
10
Screenwriter for Free Radical, Rob Yescombe, takes it to the streets of Nottingham to talk with kids, bums, and goths about the upcoming first-person shooter, Haze. Of the people he chats with, few of them have the slightest idea of what Haze is and one man goes so far as to think that Rob is […]
Nov
10
Half-Life 2: Episode Three is going to be epic
Category: Wii Xbox 360 Playstation 3 | Leave a Comment
With Half-Life fans making love to copies of The Orange Box everywhere, Valve is now turning our attention to the final installment of its current Freeman-flavored story arc. As the final chapter of the Half-Life 2 series, Episode Three is looking to end the series with a bang, as Valve confirms.
"We’re going to try […]
Nov
10
Say it isn’t so!
A PlayStation Portable version of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion sounded like a great idea right out of the gate, but our hopes were semi-crushed when get heard some worrysome news back in August. At the time, we were hoping that the news pointed toward a delay, but now it looks like they’ve […]
Nov
10
Yet again, all kinds of detritus has built up in my GameSetMicroLinks dummy posts, and I’m here to hose it off in your general direction, while you look mystified as to just why all this disparate subjects deserve to be summarized in one place. Close your mouth, already:
- Gus Mastrapa’s Looky Touchy blog has […]