Duke Nukem Forever is Real! (Hands-On)
Aye, I've seen the monster. Plenty of other sailors'll tell you it's just a myth, or a trick of the sea, but I saw it with me own eyes, so I did! Even got me hands on it for a few minutes, before it got away from me. Oh, yes. Duke Nukem Forever's real.
I met with Gearbox on Wednesday for a demo of Duke Nukem Forever. Not only is the game real, but it's near completion. The version I saw was far more developed, polished, and ready for release than any previous preview of the game 3D Realms bothered to put out. In fact, this preview could be considered filled with spoilers, considering it seems like the game is actually coming out.
Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Ultimate Battle of Almost Ultimate Destiny
Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds
It has all the Capcom fighter basics, but with a few streamlined aspects casual players like me, who aren't obsessed with keeping the genre "pure" in its decade-old, frame-counting glory, will appreciate. There are four attack buttons, three light/medium/heavy attacks and a special launcher attack, and everything in the game can be done with a combination of those buttons and the standard fighting came stick motions (quarter-circle, dragon punch, mash buttons). Honestly, for non-veterans, it's pretty much the same mechanics as Street Fighter 4, Capcom Vs. Tastunoko, and well, basically everything Capcom since the hyper combo was first invented.
Fallout: New Vegas: Back to the Wasteland
It was almost noon, and we still had more than a hundred hours to go. They would be buggy hours. Very soon, I knew, my PS3 would be completely frozen. But there was no going back, and no time to rest. We would have to ride it out. Machinations at the fabulous Lucky 38 were already underway, and we had to get there with the chip to claim the presidential suite. A fashionable casino in New Vegas had already taken care of the contract, along with the Securitron escort we got coming in from the Strip. And I was, after all, a professional courier, so I had an obligation to deliver the chip, for good or ill.
The pit boss had already given me 300 caps, most of which was already spent on extremely dangerous chems. My inventory looked like a mobile Brotherhood narcotics lab. We had two bags of Psycho, seventy-five Mentats, five puffers of high-powered Jet, half a salt shaker full of Buffout, and a whole galaxy full of multi-colored RadAway, Rad-X, Super Stimpacks, and also a quart of whiskey, a quart of scotch, a case of Nuka-Cola, a pint of Sunset Sasparilla, and two dozen Stimpacks. Not that we needed it for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious chem collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.
I've already talked about the bugginess and open-ended nature of Fallout: New Vegas
Bethsoft-itis: Making A Masterpiece Out Of A Beta
A Fallout: New Vegas
Despite conventional widsom, gamers can be very forgiving. They just need to be given an incentive to forgive. Eye candy, ear candy, blood, boobs, these are all great bullet points for catching the attention of gamers, but they're not enough to overcome a technically flawed title. For a game to win despite itself, to succeed in the face of bugs that would have it kicked back to beta testing in any sane development house, it needs to show real ambition of scope. It needs to put a lot of real, gameplay-affecting choices into the hands of the player for it to be a successful case of Bethsoft-itis.
From the Game: Fallout: New Vegas Collector’s Edition
This week's From the Game is late because the courier carrying it was attacked by raiders. You know what the Wasteland is like. If you're not getting shot at by thugs, you're getting attacked by radioactive ghouls or mutated insects. Or, more likely, I got distracted by the game itself and the task of photographing all the little tchochkes it comes with completely slipped my mind.
The Fallout: New Vegas Collector's Edition
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode 1: Sonic’s Back, But He Hasn’t Learned Much
Sonic the Hedgehog hasn't had a great decade. After an excellent jump to 3D in 1998, Sega's blue mascot slide straight down the mountain and into a deep, deep chasm. The series got more and more characters and more and more gimmicks, until it eventually forgot that the original games' success came from the speed and flow of running through twisting, branching levels as Sonic the Hedgehog. Not as some tertiary character nobody cares about. Not as part of a team where each member has unique powers. Not as a hedgehog that becomes a monster, or swings a sword. As Sonic.
Sega has finally gotten back to basics with Sonic the Hedgehog 4. No other characters, no gimmicks, no third dimension, just running, jumping, and beating up a fat man in a futuristic Hoveround. It's been released on every home console, plus the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Did Sonic reach a new top speed, or did he run headfirst into some spikes? Find out after the break.
Gearbox Planning To Respect Duke Nukem Forever Preorders
At this point, it just seems like Gearbox is mocking 3D Realms mercilessly. First, they took Duke Nukem Forever
Gearbox seems to be successfully turning Duke Nukem Forever into something other than the gaming world's longest running gag. After a decade of hopelessness, it looks like the game will actually be made. Of course, that just makes 3D Realms look like an even bigger joke. The Gearbox boys are all but dancing in George Broussard's face just by making the freaking game.
Artists Recording In Simlish for Sims 3 Late Night
"Simlish" is the official language of The Sims. It's what Sims speak instead of English, and it's going to be the language of choice for over two dozen pop, hip-hop, and alternative artists in The Sims 3 Late Night
I'd honestly take offense at this, if anyone of the music was good. Fortunately, the tracks are all from autotuned pop bands with z's in their names, or guys like Souja Boy or My Chemical Romance. Incidentally, My Chemical Romance uses lyrics that are far too interesting and violent for the quality of music. They sound like a bunch of wussy douchebags, so why do they keep talking about things like murder and poison? Bah, kids these days. Let me know if George Fisher or Glen Benton re-record any of their bands' songs in Simlish.
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