Now that Steam is on Mac and Valve has shown that it's willing to branch out, how long do you think it will be before they announce that they are developing for the PS3?
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that by the end of the year, Half Life: Ep. 3 will be announced along with the announcement that the HL series is headed to the PS3. Who's got my back on that?
This week serves up a double-dose of "pew pew", as two shooters arrive on XBLA this week; Metal Slug XX and Aqua.
First off, Metal Slug XX is actually a revamp of Metal Slug 7 and not Metal Slug 20 as you may have guessed at first. The game will release on XBLA on May 19th, for 1200MSP.
Aqua is a steam-punk styled, top-down, naval-based shmup, made by Slovak developers Games Distillery. It is set to release on May 19th, for the price of 800MSP.
As I write this, it's currently early morning, on Friday the 14th of May here in the UK -- which has been officially renamed here in Europe, as Alan Wake release day. So, all I have to do get my hands on all of this survival horror-y goodness, is survive work, manage a trip to whichever shop I decide to purchase the game from without getting over-excited and passing out, and hope that they don't sell out of copies before I get there. Suddenly today feels like it's going to be a really long day.
As a closing thought, I'd just like to point out that, from the above screenshot, we can clearly see that Mr. Wake is clearly looking for something. In the immortal words of everyone's friend, Lionel Richie (especially if you're a blind chick): "Hello? Is it me you're looking for?"
Back to Gamefly goes Batman: Arkham Asylum, and in comes Super Street Fighter 4.
For the most part, I really liked B:AA, and I feel the demo that came out last year didn't do it justice. What I absolutely hated was the way that Joker taunts you over the loudspeaker throughout the entire game. God, that was annoying. Equally annoying was finding one of those Riddler things and every time the Riddler would say some variation of, "That was an easy one..." Ugh, that made me cringe every time. I didn't finish Arkham Asylum, but I got what I imagine to be about halfway through it, so I really feel I got the gist of the game.
Speaking of gist, does anyone else think Harley Quinn and Poisn Ivy were strangely super-sexy? They make me want to gist all over the place.
I just wrote a much longer and more awesome post, but Firefox crashed and I lost the whole thing. But like ol' Bill Shakespeare said, "Brevity is the sould of wit," so here's the gist.
My wife Jess spends more time playing games than I do, but since it's not teh Haloz and teh Mawdurhn Kombatz, I'm still considered the more hardcore gamer (discrimination, anyone?). She's great at puzzle games, probably because she's Korean. She beat every puzzle in Picross DS (300+ puzzles), so I bought her Picross 3D. She likes it, I have no idea what the hell she's doing (again, Korean).
I got chills watching this trailer. It reminds me of the Halo 3 ad campaign (and the ODST and Reach ones as well, actually) that was took the subject matter ot combat so deadly seriously. Almost half the video is without images and just voice-over. No ice pick climbing, no AC-130s. No "Ramirez! Go take out that tank with this bayonet and save America!".
Tyler and I both picked up copies of Halo: ODST (used natch) today in order to gain access to the Halo: Reach beta that just launched. I am currently downloading the 1.15gig file, and may get a little pay time in before bed tonight, and then as much as I can in the next week before I have to Gamestop Shuffle back my copy of the game.
I'll tell you one thing I won't be doing in the next week, though: playing Halo: ODST. No interest whatsoever.
The game Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Old West has for the most part flown under my radar, but I'm starting to become interested. I've heard it described as "Team Fortress meets the Old-West" which doesn't sound too shabby to me. It's available on Steam right now (just like everything that's fun but I can't play), but it drops on the US PSN May 4th, and I need a quick-in-quick-out multiplayer shooter for my bedroom-based PS3 since I've pretty much gotten over Battlefield 1943.
As reported on Joystiq, Capcom held an event -- called "Fight Club" -- in LA over the weekend to promote the soon-to-be-released Super Street Fighter 4. However, what was probably the high point of the event, was a match-up between two of the worlds best Street Fighter players: DaigoUmehara and Justin Wong.
Match-ups between these two players are always pretty intense (just look on Youtube for proof!), so anyone interested in the game would do well to check out the videos of their fights, which are posted after the break.
The first video is a three-match warm-up, in which Daigo and Justin are only allowed to use the new characters, whilst the second video is the actual fight. Watching two high-level players go at it like this is nothing short of exhilarating, and it's always good to see the game being played the way it's supposed to be.
Super Street Fighter 4 is set to release in North America on April 27th, and in Europe on April 30th.
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