Hours Played: over 50
Progress: Completed “Endless Setlist” (gained Legendary status!)
Rock Band is the first music simulation game to encompass a full band. It allows players to play drums, guitar, bass, and sing. This is the first time drumming has come to a console (at least a full drum set unlike Taiko Drum Master or Donkey Konga). Singing is much like Sing Star and the guitar/bass is much like Guitar Hero.
Hours played: 40
Progress: Enough to play each song like 10 times, passed hard.
Well, guess which version of Guitar Hero 3 has sold the most. Yes, the Wii version. Thank goodness downgraded technology is selling, ah yes, free market, thank you! (-_-) lame
Well, Nintendo’s had their kick at the E3 cat. How many of my predictions came true? Did Nintendo give me an early Christmas present by addressing any of my Pipe Dreams? Once again in the Kodak theatre, Nintendo had a huge venue from which they could unravel their magic upon a very ready and very large crowd of the press. Read on to find out whether they used their powers, or just left us by the wayside while they went off on a gaming tangent again.
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Well, E3 is once again upon us, and Microsoft had a pretty good showing today, so tomorrow morning it will be up to both Nintendo and Sony to strut their respective stuffs. Thus, it is as good a time as any to make some predictions before everything starts happening tomorrow. There have been very few rumours floating around before this E3, which is quite unusual. This could either mean that big things are afoot, or that nothing much will be happening at all. GoNintendo says that Iwatadono will be making an appearance this year, and that usually spells that something big is in the cards. Here are my predictions/hopes split into two categories: Predictions and Pipe Dreams.
So, the most wonderful time of the year for gamers has arrived and Microsoft was given the duty of kicking off this year’s festivities with their press conference this year. In my opinion, last year Microsoft “won” E3 in a big way with their press conference, even though I’m always rooting for Nintendo deep down. Hopefully Nintendo has something insanely huge up their sleeves, because Microsoft again had a pretty good showing this year. Read on for the highlights.
There comes a time in every critic’s life when they come across something that is beyond their cynicism and critique. Somewhere along the line, something will present itself to them at is beyond all reprehension and is simply beautiful in every possible way. WALL-E instantly hit #1 in the box-offices, has been given perfect scores by essentially all notable critics, and has a ratings average of 9.2 on imdb and a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. Is it really worth all of the hype that has been afforded it?
Time played: approx. 18 hours
Progress: completed game (1 time), player level 49, ESP’er Rank C
The World Ends with You is an action-RPG for the Nintendo DS. It was developed by Jupiter (a subsidiary of Square Enix) who was also responsible for the game Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. The World Ends with You’s pedigree and ancestors have set a pretty high set of standards for new Square Enix games not of the Final Fantasy lineage. But does this new game meets up to these standards?
Cost: $54 (most places; I found mine for $34)
Interface: Wireless via USB
Platform: Playstation 3 (Works on PC, Mac and Wii (no trackpad on Wii))
The Logitech Cordless MediaBoard for Playstation 3 is an all-in-one Keyboard and Mouse. It says that it is for Playstation 3, but I have tested it on a PC and it worked perfectly without any driver installation. To be more specific, I built a new system and used it to setup my BIOS settings for the first time, then to install the operating system.
The Game Usagi team has been busy behind the scenes prepping some new things for our readers over the summer. Here’s some of what we have planned:
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