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Archive for November, 2008
Video Review: Left 4 Dead (PC)
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Nintendo DS
Nintendo has announced they are releasing two new DS bundles for Black Friday, this Friday November, 28th. One of the bundles comes with a red DS with a Mario “M” on the bottom right of the front and will come with Super Mario Bros. The other bundle has a ice blue DS that comes with Brain Age and a carrying case. Both bundles will be priced around $149.99. Hopefully this can tide you over until the new DSi comes out.
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition (PC)
Monday, November 24th, 2008
Developer: CDProjekt RED
Publisher: Atari
ESRB Rating: M (Mature)
Players: 1
Genre: 3rd-person real-time RPG
Hours played: A Ton
The original Witcher game received many awards including RPG of the Year from IGN, PC Gamer, GameSpy, and GameSpot. CDProjekt, hoping to further this great success, recently released an entirely updated version of the game with improvements covering essentially every aspect of the game. 80% faster load times, vastly improved graphics, new quests, and all-new dubbing in 8 different languages are just a few of the improvements that were put in to enhance the original award-winning game. This is all quite impressive, but does the game fare well under the Usagi’s metaphorical gaming microscope?
Usagi News! Nov. 15th
Saturday, November 15th, 2008
It’s food time! It’s also time for your weekly dose of cute cuddly gaming news which comes in the form of Usagi Meta News. The highlights this week are:
Halo 3 Recon
Halo 3 Recon has a shorter single player campaign and price tag. The campaign is said to be around three to five hours and the price tag should be under $60. The Recon armor which is pretty well exclusive to Bungie staff members and a few select others will now be available when you purchase Recon, so be ready for everyone to look like you once Recon hits shelves.
Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/12/game-informer-halo-3-recon-3-to-5-hours-earn-recon-armor/
Gears of War 2
Gears 2 has sold an incredible two million worldwide on its opening weekend. Not only were Gears of War 2 sales incredibly high but also the amount of people who were logged into Xbox Live on Gears of War 2?s opening weekend, 1.5 million users to be a little more exact. Were you really that shocked?
Source: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3171273
Console and Game sales:
Though Gears of War will come close to the top in game sales this month, Fable 2 (360) took its piece of cake and ate it too with almost 800,000 sold in October. Wii Fit was choking on dust in 2nd place at about 487,000 sales and Fallout 3 taking 3rd with 375,000.
Console wise, the Wii is the little bunny that could. Wii sales have gone up just over 100,000 since September when it sold 687,000 units. Last month the PS3 sold 190,000 units, 360 with 371,000 units and PSP with 193,000 units, combined they could not overcome the tiny console; it appears size doesn?t matter.
Since we are on the topic of sales, Ubisoft?s Far Cry 2 has sold one million copies Worldwide over three weeks. Looks like Fallout 3 isn?t on everyone?s mind for open world gameplay.
Source: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3171305 / http://360.kombo.com/article.php?artid=15069
Blizzard?s new MMO:
World of Warcraft?s developer Blizzard has announced they are working on a ?next generation? MMO. I?m curious to see if this means they could be working on an entirely new IP, because it sounds like they are moving away from producing another Warcraft title. Check out the interview between Blizzard COO Paul Sams and VG247 for the full story.
That?s it for this weeks gaming update! Come back next week for some oh so sweet information.
WR: Star Wars The Force Unleashed (PS3/360/Wii)
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Developer: LucasArts
Publisher: LucasArts
ESRB Rating: T (Teen)
Players: 1
Hours played: 20
Game progress: Finished game on Sith (Medium) difficulty level
Star Wars is a fickle mistress. She makes you feel loved and good about yourself with movies like Episodes IV – VI and then when you think the wonderful relationship is over, wait! There’s hope with Episodes I – III, but promises of more prove just to be further evidence that the relationship is tired and done. It’s not that different in the game world, there are signs, mere hints that the relationship could be great with games like Rogue Squadron (next-gen follow up, please!), Knights of the Old Republic and yes, OK maybe even Lego Star Wars. But then there’s so much heart ache with the multitude of bad games that make you wonder what you’re still in it for. Well, which of the two categories does Force Unleashed fall into? Surprisingly, a bit of both.