Katamari Damacy 2: In Stores (In Japan)
Posted by inpheaux on July 8th, 2005 at 6:44 pmThe highly-anticipated sequel to the undisputed best game ever was released this week in Japan. It has taken all my willpower to manage to NOT import it and get all the crazy stuff required to have the import actually work on my PSTwo. Apparently us sad merrikans get to wait until August.
Oh well. In the [...]
Nintendo Skips the 2005 Tokyo Game Show
Posted by inpheaux on July 8th, 2005 at 2:31 pmThe exhibitor list for the 2005 Tokyo Game Show was released this week, and casually missing from the list is Nintendo. They've skipped it before, so it's not like it's earthshattering news, but it still seems strange for a player as huge as Nintendo to decide to not even show up.
This means the last potential [...]
Indie Games You Should Know
Posted by inpheaux on July 8th, 2005 at 2:09 pmAh, the often-overlooked indie game scene. Sure, a lot of the stuff it churns out isn't worth downloading, but sometimes you find stuff that's just AMAZING. So here's a short list of some recent (and not so recent) stuff I've come across that I can't stop talking about.
Cave Story [aka Doukutsu Monogatari] - Cave Story [...]
American McGee presents American McGee’s Bad Day: LA (an American McGee Production)
Posted by inpheaux on July 6th, 2005 at 12:07 pmAfter the quickly-forgotten "Scrapland" and the never-released (but doomed-to-fail) "Oz", American McGee had to be up to something, but no one was quite sure what.
Apparently he's been working on a new game entitled Bad Day LA, which I hadn't heard about until today. Bad Day LA seems to be a stylized GTA Clone, but somehow [...]
Welcome to DirectionalPad.com
Posted by inpheaux on July 6th, 2005 at 11:57 amFrom the ashes of the long-stagnant Jedi-Outcast.com comes Directional Pad, a general gaming news outlet. We've spent the past month cooking this up, and we're quite proud of how quickly everything has pulled together.
It may take us a bit to really get the news / columns / articles side of things rolling, but hey, you [...]