My boss gave this to me last week and I thought it was interesting enough to share with you all. Pac-Man Ghost Monster rain ponchos!
Dark Legends is an online MMO available for the PC and mobile devices. Since I’m not quite an expert on these kinds of games, I’ve enlisted my brother Jeff again to guest write this one (PC version reviewed here).
A couple of years ago around Mother’s Day, I wrote a blog about my mom’s favorite video games. Her lineup hasn’t changed at all since then, so this year for Mother’s Day (next Sunday, May 13), I thought I’d list some of her favorite video game characters instead.
Zombies are super popular right now. They’re in all sorts of movies, both new and old. And there are tons of zombies in video games, from Resident Evil to Dead Rising. Even TV shows are getting into the zombie craze. One of the most popular of these shows is cable channel AMC’s The Walking Dead. Now TellTale Games has combined the TV show and video games with their Walking Dead episodic point-and-click adventure downloadable for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. Me personally, I don’t know anything about The Walking Dead. But my brother Jeff loves the TV show and zombie stuff in general, so I let him have a go at reviewing this one (360 version reviewed here).
Due to the success of the first North Dallas/Plano, TX 3DS StreetPass meetup, there’s going to be another one in May. It’s on May 12 at the same GameStop as last time. You can read more about it on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere.
Looks like some General Mills cereals are going retro. The other day at the grocery store I noticed the Atari logo on a box of Cheerios. Since I like both video games AND cereal, it caught my eye. Nothing special, just some kiddy mazes and activities on the back of the box. But things have been slow on the video game front, and I thought this was at least somewhat interesting anyway. Click here for pics and info:
Ah, Ikari Warriors. So many memories. Thanks to movies like Rambo, the original Ikari Warriors was a huge hit in arcades, and I remember playing it there, on the NES, and even on the PC! The sequel, Victory Road, was quite a departure, pitting our army men against a demon filled underworld instead of a soldier infested jungle. But I only saw the arcade game of Victory Road at a Wal-Mart near out house, and I hardly ever played it since the other game there was Super Pac-Man. When the third game came out, I was very impressed with the jump in visuals. Characters were much larger and looked more like people instead of marshmallow soldiers, and even the water had ripples and waves! Now you can enjoy SNK’s pre-NEO-GEO arcade classic Ikari III: The Rescue as a PS Mini, playable on your PS3 or PSP.
This weekend I’ll be going to see a new movie in theaters. I’m a big fan of clay animation, so the movie I’ll be seeing is Aardman’s The Pirates! Band of Misfits. So because of this, lately I’ve been in a slight ‘piratey’ mood, and I’ve been thinking about video games that have pirate characters that I like. So here’s a blog featuring my favorites!
I love game collections and compilations. It’s fun to feel like you’re getting a good deal on a bunch of games at once, even though sometimes you’re not. A while back, Microsoft released the XBLA Triple Pack, a collection of three of their best-selling Xbox LIVE titles. I wanted to get it, as I haven’t tried the games on it (except a demo of one of them). But I wanted to wait until it went down in price. Well, it finally went down to 20 bucks, so I snagged it. So here’s a brief rundown and impressions on each of the three games found on this pack. This one’s got Trials HD, Limbo, and ‘Splosion Man. And yes, this is a filler blog, too. Nothing much going on gaming-wise right now, really.
Tales of Graces f for the PS3 came out at just the right time for me. The main reason why I don’t finish RPGs that I start is because another game comes along that I get into, or I have a bunch of games to review (which takes top priority). And then I find myself not going back to the original RPG I was playing. I might’ve forgotten what I was supposed to do next in the story or I might not be as familiar with the controls. But Tales of Graces f came out at the end of March, and there has been NOTHING since then to distract me from it. Even when Kid Icarus: Uprising came out, I didn’t stop playing Graces since I didn’t like Uprising that much (see last blog). And there isn’t anything interesting coming out in May either, so I just might finish Graces. So since I’ve been on a bit of a Tales RPG kick lately, here’s another Tales blog. This one is about my top five favorite classic Namco references you can find in Tales RPGs.
