Archive for December, 2007
Nintendo Support: Smack Remote to Fix It [Wii]
31 December 2007This post brought to you by Kotaku.
Wired’s GeekDad teamed up with the blog-free GeekMom to get their equally blog-free GeekChildren a Wii this Christmas. But once they set things and started playing one of the remotes went all funky.
GeekDad, living up to his name, tried to fix the remote himself. He put in […]
Devil May Cry 4 opening cinematic is very cinematic indeed
31 December 2007This post brought to you by Joystiq.
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action
We’ve been impressed by the footage we’ve seen of Capcom’s newest demon slaughtering simulator, Devil May Cry 4. It has all the elements we’ve come to expect from the DMC series: acrobatics, dismemberment, and extreme cases of early-onset leukotrichia. However, […]
Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep and Final Fantasy: Dissidia Screens [Screens]
31 December 2007This post brought to you by Kotaku.
Famitsu is currently hosting some new Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep (PSP) and Final Fantasy Dissidia screens. Also available are screens for Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days (DS) and Kingdom Hearts: Coded (cell phone). I got a chance to check out trailers for all of these games at […]
Reader’s Choice GOTY [Poll]
31 December 2007This post brought to you by Kotaku.
You had yesterday to vote on your favorite games by platform, now’s your chance to vote on which favored platform game should get the overall Reader’s Choice Game of the Year. Hit the jump to vote in the poll. On Monday I’ll publish the results for all of […]
CVG picks the Best and Worst Box Art of 2007
31 December 2007This post brought to you by Joystiq.
Filed under: Culture
Regardless of your loyalties to any particular console, we think we can all agree that 2007 was a damn fine year for video games as a whole. Every system had a number of well received games over the past year, as reflected by the fairly diverse […]
Arcade Flyer Art Saturday: A Retrospective [AFAS]
31 December 2007This post brought to you by Kotaku.
Judging from the comments on the article I wrote mentioning a hiatus for the Arcade Flyer Art Saturday feature, a lot of you have grown to love my little pet project. When I first started this feature over a year ago, I really wanted to put a […]
Tales of Symphonia 2 Japanese Trailer [Clip]
31 December 2007This post brought to you by Kotaku.
The Tales franchise continues with the second installment of the Tales of Symphonia series. Featuring Tales’ custom “Flex Range Linear Motion Battle System” and what looks to be quite a bit of anime cutscenes, Tales of Symphonia will be a Wii exclusive. No release date for the US […]
Writers Guild strike might help video game industry
31 December 2007This post brought to you by Joystiq.
Filed under: Culture
Has the Writers Guild of America strike got you down? Are you despondent when watching reruns of How I Met Your Mother? Depressed about the short season of Heroes? Well turn around, bright eyes — at least the WGA strike hasn’t slowed the production of video […]
Reader’s Choice XBLA GOTY [Poll]
31 December 2007This post brought to you by Kotaku.
Yesterday we published our goaties for each platform and the overall game of the year. Today’s your chance to vote for the best game in each platform. Hit the jump to vote for the XBLA’s Game of the Year. We’ll be publishing polls for the rest of the […]
Populous Coming to a Japanese DS Near You [Populous]
31 December 2007This post brought to you by Kotaku.
With all the focus on SimCity and SimCity2 on the DS, it seems one of my favorite city building games is getting overlooked. Populous, the finger pointing god game is finally making it’s way onto Nintendo’s popular handheld! EA Japan already has a website up for the […]
