Sonic Colors! (Hooray?)

Despite Sega's past transgressions of where they announce a Sonic game, crap in a bag, and then neatly place it onto my doorstep, with a brightly coloured label displaying the words, "NEW SONIC GAME!", I find myself crawling back to them in hopes that one day, some how, they would end up giving me what I wanted. So far, from what we've seen of Sonic 4, they're getting close to it. But then out of the blue(heh, yeah you know you like that), yesterday was announced that they are making another new Sonic game: Sonic Colors. 

Watered Down

There was a video on the TV at my local Gamestop that gave me pause recently. I heard an edited brief of the following the Splinter Cell Conviction release trailer that details the intentional "accessibility" of the newest title. The video in full is just below.

New Sh*t to Watch!

Finally, been waiting for the new anime stuff to crop up. To be honest. looking at this list, I'm only interested in one of them at the moment though, Osaka Hamlet. Looks interesting to me as it's not in it's "typical" anime style. What about you guys? See anything interesting?

via [NipponMedia.net]

Zeldathon!

I love charities. I love especially, charaties that are cool, and of course, involve video games. I like to see video games be involved in the world in good ways, instead of always smeared as they are, but that's a whole new article.

Anyway, Zeldathon!

Join Sam Wolfe, the dashing rogue, Will Alvarez, the troubled poet, Art Lansing, the bespectacled villain, Travis Johnson, the eccentric diplomat and Ethan Toolis, the giant with the heart of gold, as we play through all of the classics...

That's from the blog of a group of guys who are, right now, playing through all the Zelda games, in hopes that you will donate to them, and they, in turn, will donate the money gained through this, to Child's Play, a charity organaization developed by the creators of Penny Arcade.

Not only is this an awesome act of charity, it's apparently a school project as well. That's a great and commendable accomplishment, to try and make ones own charity and actually succeed in doing so. I encourage anyone reading this to stop on by and maybe help out a bit, if they can. You'll being helping out in more ways than one.

Fun with Punnett squares and playing the odds

I seem to be finding a lot of interesting videos lately. I'll share this one as it seems relevant to the "logic" debates I often find myself in. Sometimes something simple is the easiest way to explain the potential end of the world as we know it after all.

UR Doin it Right

First off, I'm new to the blog scene, so forgive my first few posts; I'm trying to find my legs.

I am often at odds with my peers due simply to the fact that I over-analyze everything. This trend does, however, have its advantages. I'll demonstrate by taking my first few outings into positive territory; Media Molecule is doing it right.

Enslaved!

Finally! I remember seeing this back in the September 2009 issue of Game Informer(link's to some pretty neat screenshots of the game). It's supposed to come out sometime this year(2010) on Xbox 360 and PS3; published by Namco Bandai. I love these type of games, to be honest, and so when I saw this, I became really excited.

Paying for Wii Online?

So yeah, apparently Shigeru Miyamoto said in an interview, that free online gaming with the Wii could change. Pay for online with the Wii? A ridiculous thought, to be honest. It doesn't even offer enough with the free online gaming. There are barely any titles that would even benefit from this, I can probably count them all on one hand. But then again, that's purely my opinion.

Using Friend Codes the way they do, isn't very optimal, they would more than likely have to perform a complete overhaul of the entire online system. And as much as I would like to see them do that, I think it would be for naught. 

It'll be very hard to convince people that the Wii is a viable online gaming plaform, espesially since it's already been established that it's not. I think gamers have already concluded, if you want to play an online game, you do it with PC, PS3, or 360. After so many years of giving us the same thing, over and over again, it's really hard to change how people view you. 

That said, I'd love to see what they think, they could do, to change this.

via [Gaming Center Online]

Kicking it Off With Something I Like

So, finally, Final Fantasy IX is coming to the US PSN. Soon, anyway, according to the PSN Blog. No actual date has been announced unfortunately. In anycase, this Final Fantasy happens to be my favourite one. It had a versatile cast of characters, who had depth and were more relatable than that of VII or VIII's, in my opinion.

One of the things I loved so much about IX happened to be Zidane. He was peppy, happy-go-lucky, and had an all out good view on life, for the most part. After VII and VIII, he was a breath of fresh air, all things considered. He never whined, or complained, he simply went ahead and did what he thought was right, and I commended him for this. Granted by the end of the game, he became slightly more downtrodden, but without spoiling anything, he certainly had every right to be.

Since this isn't a review or anything, just simply something I stumbled across, and wanted to kick this place off with something, I'll end it here. I hope there are others who share my excitement in the fact that Final Fantasy IX is coming to the PSN soon.

Anyone?

via [PSN Blog]