Getting your foot in the magical internet door of video game journalism seems to be harder than getting into a girls pants after opening with a line like, “what’s your level in WoW?” It just doesn’t happen, and when it does we don’t seem to hear much about how it happened. So what does it take? It’s one of the most common questions seen on the web, “how do I get a job writing about video games?” Well I think I’ve finally got it figured out and besides the obvious quality needed – luck – I’ve narrowed it down to just a few things that seem to have helped the journalists we love, and the ones we hate, break into the industry.
Breasts
I love it when games use a strong artistic presence as part of their appeal. Limbo does this with it’s black and white world, but is that enough to make you want to part with $15 dollars just to play it?
You know when you get excited for a new bag of jellybeans? The kind with an assortment of flavors? Well Naughty Bear is kind of like that bag of jellybeans, but instead of having a delicious bag of goodies with a few bad things in it, you open up this bag of jellybeans and someone has taken all of your favorite flavors out and replaced them with human excrement. I may or may not have eaten a bag of jelly beans before writing this review.
Anyway, lets continue with far less jellybean similes.
If you’re a Playstation 3 owner than you’ve probably heard of Uncharted 2. The hype behind Naughty Dog’s latest outing has been simply astounding, but now the final product is out and we get to see if it live up to all our expectations.
I should be thanking the developers. Up until about an hour before writing this, I thought we were going to pass on preview coverage of Borderlands because we weren’t able to use any video footage. Well, having the guilty concience I do and having a lot of videos do this week I said I’m going to sit down, and give this game about an hour. It took about 5 minutes and I was hooked.
UPDATE:
It seems that this may just be some very well done fan art as Yoshinori Ono said the two new characters will be revealed at TGS this September.
http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2010/jul/24/ono-announcements-comic-con-2010/
Okay so this is just a rumor until tomorrow but listen up. If you happen to be following the Super Street Fighter IV fan page on Facebook then you probably already know this, but the rest of us can now start squealing like little girls. The two empty slots that some noticed on the character select image that hit the net a few days ago have apparently been filled. So who are the two new characters that seem to be making their way into Super Street Fighter IV? Who you ask? None other than Alex, and Rolento!
No one knows for sure if this is just the beginning of a character DLC push by Capcom, or some eager fans teasing us with wishful character additions, but we can expect more announcements from Capcom this weekend. I hope these “rumored” additions are for both the console and the arcade versions because if it was just for one, well that just wouldn’t be fair. Hey Capcom, if you’re listening, make sure you add Q and his “S my D” move of greatness. THANK YOU!
Thanks Mike Dodd for the heads up!
Source: SSFIV Facebook
A source who wishes to remain anonymous has leaked a little tidbit of info that may be interesting to some of you.
The source, who I again remind you wished to remain anonymous, is saying that an internal memo has been circulating around Sony that hints at what everyone has been hoping to be true. That Sony’s black beauty the PS3 will be getting a price drop this Christmas. To quote “we got an internal memo from ______ saying there should be a price drop soon.”
Maybe that’s why they closed the store in the Metreon. You know, to offset the money they’ll lose with every sale of the now, reasonably priced console.
Lets all have a moment of silence for the store in the Metreon…at least before we break open the champagne and all buy PS3’s.
Source: ScrewAttack
Cut from Hard News today, but I figured I’d give it to ya anyway.
Sony may have denied the 3.0 firmware rumors we talked about on Friday, the PS3 slim, and the price drop many of us are expecting, but one thing they can’t deny is their software sales. Unfortunately PS3 exclusives are selling rather low quantities with only one new property, Resistance: fall of man, breaking a million sales. Uncharted has sold 2.6 million copies worldwide, but included in that number are games that have been bundled with PS3 systems and not off of store shelves. To compare, Gears of War sold a million copies in the first month, and Gears 2 sold 1.56 million units in the first month. Now I didn’t bring this up to bash on sony, but more to ask the same question GameSetWatch.com asked with this study. Has the release of original properties paid off for Sony? The sales would say no, but with sequels like Uncharted 2 coming out this year that could quickly change. Just thought I’d leave you something to think about today
Via: GameSetWatch
From the YouTube description
“What if you were a Hollywood movie star with an obsession for cars and racing? You would probably read every script with even the tiniest link to the subject matter, in the hope that you could tell a great car story of the likes of Grand Prix, Le Mans or Mad Max. Then one day you happened to open your garage door and sitting there, right in front of you, was the film you had been searching for.”
This movie looks pretty good, stars Eric Bana, and if you love cars you’ll see why I posted it after you watch the trailer.
Holy poop the Mass Effect 2 trailer looks amazing. This Pre-E3 video from BioWare and EA shows some of the amazing new improvements to Mass Effect 2, everything from cinematics, gameplay combat and of course… weapons. At E3 only a select few will get the change to demo this. If you go to E3 2009 make sure you try and get in on this.