iPhone: 3D Checkers Review

It may not look too bad, but looks are often deceiving.

• Game: 3D Checkers (v2.0)
  
• Developer: koduco
• Price(at time of review): Free
• Release Date: 9/12/2009

Checkers isn’t the most complicated game, but that doesn’t make it an easy game to create in video game form. 3D Checkers has potential; it looks good and has a fairly nice presentation. Sadly the game features dumb AI and unresponsive controls.

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The PSP Go: Now an Even Bigger Rip-off

Kaz Hirai is currently thinking about how he can screw every PSP owner even more!

Just when you thought the PSP Go couldn't get any worse, Sony decides to add another kick to the balls. It seems that there will be no UMD transfer program for all those early supporters of the PSP. That means that every single UMD is essentially worthless now. I must thank Sony for giving me yet another reason to never buy a PSP Go.

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TGS 2009: The Last Guardian

Here's to hoping they don't kill off this lovely creature...

Ico and Shadow of the Colossus are two of the best Playstation 2 games you'll ever play. I personally believe that Shadow of the Colossus is one of the greatest games that I've ever played. Team ICO was responsible for those games and their newest game, The Last Guardian, looks to follow quite fittingly in their footsteps.

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Fall Out The Sky Trailer

Updated on Friday, September 18, 2009 at 7:55PM by Marc Kusnierz

Above is the trailer for the upcoming music video for "Fall Out the Sky", from the mixtape, "Everybody's Nobody". It will be premeiring on Myspace this Friday (aka September 18th). Why should you care? It just so happens that XV is a friend of Big St3ph3n and sir Stephen is featured in the video; he's going to be a star!

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SMT: Persona 3 Portable

It would appear that the world of Persona 3 will be coming to the PSP later this year (in Japan at least). It seems that you will be playing as a young lady this time around, though the main character from PS2 game will have a part in the game as well. Not much is known about the game as of right now, but I'm sure we'll hear more in the coming months, probably at the Tokyo Game Show.

I don't know about everyone else out there, but I am really excited for this game. I would have been happy with a simple port of Persona 3, but the fact that we're getting a brand new story is more than I ever could have asked for. Hopefully those of us living outside of Japan (and not understanding Japanese) won't have to wait too long to get the game. I've only just heard of the game's existence, but I'm already dying to get my hands on it.

Ghostbusters: The Game - First Impressions

This won’t come as a surprise, but Ghostbusters: The Game was made specifically for fans of the film (and its sequel). The game can still be enjoyable for those unfamiliar with the franchise, but the real joy comes from seeing our favorite characters kick some ghost booty after such a long absence. I’m not saying that the gameplay isn’t fun, but it’s definitely not the strength of this game.

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The Elder Scrolls Series Remains Dormant

I am a huge fan of the Elder Scrolls series and find something so beautiful about that world. While I did enjoy Fallout 3, I was really hoping that Bethesda Softworks would start working on the next Elder Scrolls game after finishing their work with Fallout 3 (they officially confirmed that they are done bringing DLC to the game), but that doesn't seem to be the case.

"Don't look for a new Elder Scrolls game in the near future."

That is a direct quote from Todd Howard, executive producer and game director of Bethesda Softworks, taken from his keynote speech at QuakeCon 2009. I know that this doesn't mean that the series is dead by any means, but I do find it a bit disheartening that we won't be seeing anything new in the Elder Scrolls universe for quite some time. Howard chose to only throw some bread crumbs at the gaming populus by saying that "We are working on our next big game but we are not talking about it." I wish their "next big game" was The Elder Scrolls V, but it is Bethesda and I'll take what I can get.

CGI-Quality Graphics Finally Possible?

This isn't so much a post on whether CGI-quality graphics are now possible in video games, but more of reaction to another story that made this claim (the original story can be found here).

"Ratchet and Clank A Crack in Time finally brings the graphical quality of pre-rendered CGI to video game consoles."

The above statement is taken directly from the original story and though I can't say I disagree with this statement, I find the way it was delivered to be rather odd. The reason I find all this praise and crazy fanboyism odd is that this story directly compares the game with the CGI of Toy Story 2. Maybe it's just me, but I find it almost pointless to praise a video game for delivering graphics of the same quality as a 10 year old movie. Shouldn't we be questioning why there is such a gap in the quality of pre-rendered graphics compared to CGI? It's not that I don't understand why it's more difficult to reach CGI-level graphics, but I just find it odd to praise a game for looking as good as a 10 year old movie.

Bite Down on a Dragon's Sausage [Update]

This is without a doubt the greatest collector's edition that's ever existed...if only it were real. Seriously, who wouldn't want some delicious sausage in their collector's edition?

Update: The video was taken down...I guess it was just too much sausage for most to handle.

A Pixelated Sausage Community Gamertag

I've known about these little group gamertags for a while now, but never thought to create my own for this here little site. It has now been done and as of right now only officially contains we three podcasters: CannoliCrasher(me), Hendersonman, and BigSt3ph3n. The group is open to everyone and I really hope you decide to join us in our shenanigans. This will be a good way for fellow listeners to get to know one another better and possibly get some gaming done as well!

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