Archive for July 1st, 2006
Touch Generations Is Dead, Long Live bit Generations
Nintendo of Japan has opened up the official bit Generations site for the series of 7 simple, minimally and beautifully designed puzzle and rhythm games for the Game Boy Advance. The games, including the simply named Dotstream, Boundish, Dialhex, Digidrive, Orbital, Coloris and Soundvoyager, will retail for a paltry 2000 yen and can be imported for the low, low price of about $25 American. All titles ship in the second and fourth weeks of July.
Check the trailer for details on gameplay. This is good looking stuff, titles that might never reach U.S. shores, so I personally plan on importing.
Official bit Generations Site
Series 1 and 2 Gameplay Trailer
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Toastyfrog Rebuts Racism, Calls Out Internet For Dickery
Hey, Kotaku readership! Remember earlier this week, when both Brian “Briana” Ashcraft and Florian “I Don’t Want To Piss This Man Off” Eckhardt weighed in on whether the (seemingly) dreadlocked, blackfaced Loco Roco bad guys hit a little too close to home on the picaninny front? No? Well, they were both giving their opinions on one particular 1UP blogger’s initial reaction to potentially offensive character designs that even I, Mr. Insensitive, thought might stir up some ire.
Now, 1UP blogging champ and militant anti-Treasure-ist Jeremy Parish has something to say on the topic: you’re all a bunch of mouth-breathing dicks. Between the namecalling and missing the part where Eckhardt says he thinks Alejandro is not a racist, Jeremy makes some excellent points about the cultural differences and ignorances that lead to something as innocuos as disembodied cartoon heads being labeled racial propaganda.
Go on, read it. You might learn a thing or two about Japanese perception of American culture. And have a little fun thinking about the goodness of Loco Roco while you’re at it!
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Square-Enix Gives 360 Nasty Case of Sylpheed
Courtesy of Impress Game Watch come first screens of Square-Enix and Game Arts (developers of RPG mainstays Grandia and Lunar) Xbox 360 space shooter, dubbed Project Sylph. The official site is nothing but a teaser at this point, but Xbox 360 Japanophiles would be served well by keeping their eyes on the site next Friday, when the thing kicks into full gear.
The game was announced by S-E in April as a 360 exclusive, so Game Arts completists—both of you!—will finally have to pick one up. Sorry ’bout that! I actually think the game looks pretty hot, but my previous Silpheed experience does not fill my gamer soul with undying faith. More like cautious optimism.
Project Sylph Screens
Official Site
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Robot Chicken Ups GTA Shock Factor
Wow. The Adult Swim creative team is totally fucked in the head. I hope our nation’s respected elected officials will finally do something about the dangerous influence of stop-motion animated parodies of sandbox gameplay titles like Grand Larceny: San Diego. Think of the children who are up at 3:30 AM innocently watching basic cable!
Thanks for the link, Robert. I won’t sleep easy tonight.
More Halo 3 Beta Teasing From Bungie
In this week’s Bungie weekly update, the lads are giving Halo fans their weekly taste of Master Chief induced blue balls by dangling further shiny details on part 3. The crew dish more scant insider dirt, then proceed to rub your wet little nose in it. Like so!
At this point, they’re testing out the new AI and encounters as much as anything else. The graphics range from completely untextured placeholder surfaces, too brilliantly lit and detailed objects. But again, this is a gameplay test, not a graphics one. Lots of folks focus on what technology can do for the appearance of a game - but the 360’s prodigious horsepower can also be applied to AI - the behaviors, movements and reactions of computer-controlled characters. That counts for your human allies, but it’s more noticeable at this early stage in the behavior of your opponents.
Mmmm. Prodigious horsepower. It seems so far away until we’ll be hearing the unchecked cursing and racial epithets of thousands of pre-teens over Xbox Live alongside the glory of a shinier Master Chief. Much more at the weekly update.
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Sony Gets Hardcore Analyst Tongue Lashing
Damn, DFC. Why you gotta be so hard on my Sony crew? Look, just because my PlayStation bwoyz are gouging us poor upper-middle class saps to the tune of 600 bones doesn’t mean you gotta be so… nasty. I’m talking about your recent memo that says Sony could very easily slip from first place in the gamespace to the dreaded Nintendo Third.
I agree with you, DFC Intelligence, that “Sony has done very little to justify why the system is worth a premium price for consumers that don’t care about raw hardware performance and are not hard-core audio/visual consumers” but nobody wants to hear you spew such heavy handed market research vitriol.
Plus, it has always been my contention that the $600 price point just doesn’t matter—for the first six months. After that, when launch hype has worn off, and the next price drop doesn’t have as much impact with what Microsoft can counter, is when the real Sony marketshare blood bath is going to go down. So, we are on the same page when you say “If Sony wants to drive unit volume 2007 needs to be not only the year of price cuts, but the year of drastic price cuts.”
However, the following stab at Sony’s overly complicated, value unjustified Kutaragi wet-dream is just plain mean!
With the PlayStation 3 the company is going after the high-end power user. It is almost as if Coca-Cola not only decided to go with a new formula, but also decided to exit the low-brow soft-drink business to go into high-end wines.
Daaaayyaaammnnn!! Low brow? You cats are ice cold. Check out further nastiness at the full article.
Could Sony Go From First to Worst?
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Game Music Fan Works His Organ For *Twenty* Minutes
No, you haven’t errantly landed on sister site Fleshbot. This is, however, a hot, man-on-pipe organ solo performance video of one game music lovin’ altar boy doing the ten-finger shuffle to some of gaming’s greatest hits. From Koji Kondo’s Super Mario World castle theme, to The Legend of Zelda’s dungeon tunes, even wandering into dreaded anime territory, he runs the gamut of nerd tunes. There’s really nothing to see here, so just listen.
Thanks to everyone for the heads up!
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Weekly Webcomic Wrapup: June 25 - July 1, 2006
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eon8 pwns Internets … Halo 3 fans cry
Filed under: Culture, PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, Online, Simulations
If you’ve been paying attention to the Internet lately, you may have stumbled across this thing called eon8. The site had a mysterious countdown and ambiguousness that left many conspiracy nuts scratching their collective tin-foil hat heads. Everything from theories about terrorist ties to Halo 3 “bees” hysteria sweeped the entire Web community.
Well, now everyone can calm down a bit because the countdown is over. So, what was the purpose? The purpose was to make you think there was a purpose. The folks at eon8 describe it like so:
The purpose of this project was to determine the reactions of the Internet public to lack of information. We were amazed to discover that the site was instantly linked with terrorism, simply for the fact that it seems mysterious. Evil was the number one first impression people had of the site, in spite of the fact that there are no threats on the site.
So, HA! Take that Internet and Halo 3 fanboys. You just got punk’d!
[via ARGN]
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