September 2007
6 posts
Kingdom Hearts Goes Portable Three Ways!
Kingdom Hearts, the game that fused the RPG mastery of Square-Enix and the magical characters of the Walt Disney Co., is headed for portables! At its press conference in this year’s Tokyo Game Show, Square-Enix revealed that THREE new games in the beloved series are headed for portable systems: for the Nintendo DS, Sony Playstation Portable and mobile phones. All games are currently slated...
Some people just can't be satisfied.
Well, it’s official. Super Smash Brothers Brawl is going online. And I’m as giddy as a young schoolgirl over that fact. But that’s not what I’m going to talk about. It’s the problem that people just can’t be satisfied with something so awesome. In the case of Brawl’s Wi-Fi mode, there are people complaining about a few aspects that are missing. In one...
Bloxorz: Easy to Learn, Hard to Master
Bloxorz, by DX Interactive, is a deceptively simple puzzle game, where your task is to get a rectangular block into a square hole. Of course, a player will find that it’s not an easy task when if even half the block is over the void, the block falls in. The first few levels are simple enough, but I got frustrated on Stage 6. I am one of those people, unfortunately, who has to be guided by...
Wii Sports 2 Will Have to Wait →
Wii Sports is probably the biggest reason Nintendo’s Wii system has sold so well: it is one of the few games non-gamers can learn to play. Since non-gamers are the Wii’s target market, it shows that the Wii is successful. But apparently Nintendo has opted not to go with the quick cash-in, preferring to wait for greater improvements in programming before making the sequel, if at all....
Banhammered for almost 8,000 years →
This little article seriously made me chuckle. It’s not so much that this kid got his XBox Live account suspended for sneaking into the Halo 3 beta, it’s the length of the suspension. Cutting someone’s access for a length of time that may very well be longer than humanity will last is really going overboard on Microsoft’s part. Besides, there’s an easy (and...
This blog is mostly for my Concepts in Game Studies class. I’ll be posting various entries for the class, and some work I’m doing. Nothing up for now. More to come. -Janus P.S. It’s named after the two-faced Roman god, not the part used to clear your bowels, in case any of you got that idea.