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| 5 hours ago | Super Mario Collection Confirmed as a Port of SNES Version | | In Japan,Amazon has started taking pre-orders for Super Mario Collection Special Pack. The company posted a product description, which appears to have been removed from the listing within minutes. However, those few minutes were long enough for somebody to copy and paste the info into a story atGame Jouhou.
According to the description:
- The Wii game is a port of 1993s Super Mario Collection (Super Mario All-Stars) - No graphical overhaul - Will include a booklet that recaps the 25 year history of Mario - Booklet includes unseen development materials - Will also Include a soundtrack - Soundtrack has music from the original Super Mario Bros. through Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Limited time production- The game will probably come packed in a yellow box. |
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| 5 hours ago | PAX 2010 Hands-On: Drumskulls (with World-Exclusive Screens!) | | Remember Evan's E3 preview of Rock of the Deadfrom a few months back? Where you could strum specific note patterns to shoot zombies? The problem with that, according to Andrew Laing, creator of the new, never-seen-before-PAX title Drumskulls, is that Rock of the Deaddidn't deviate far enough from the Rock Band/Guitar Heroformula. Despite having zombies as a backdrop, it's still very much in the "music game" genre. Drumskullsis not. It's all about shootin' some zombies... with your plastic drum set.
I had a chance to try out Drumskullsat PAX, and I dug it. It's by a company that's so grassroots indie that they don't have a website yet. They don't even have a name. Andrew Laing is the man in charge, however, and you can expect some big things from him.
So, the zombies marching toward you on the screen are four different colors. To shoot a zombie of a particular color, you hit that drum (it'll be compatible with any Rock Band/Guitar Herodrumset). Despite their slow zombie pace, when a dozendifferentlycolored zombies are coming toward you at the same time, it's gets really intense. Each drum hit is one shot, and each zombie takes multiple blasts to finish off. Hitting a drum pad to shoot a zombie is very visceral; it's quite a different experience than merely using a gamepad. The bass pedal will be implemented in the final product somehow, too, but it wasn't quite ready to be used in the version I tried out at PAX.
The game is on-rails, but there are plenty of secrets to discover; one in particular I found was a red dumpster that you blow away to open a hidden path through the level. The game is still very early in development (they stayed up until 4 a.m. coding the last level, in fact - that's so indie!), and they don't even have a publisher or a platform to release the game on yet. It's situated to be a downloadable title, though, and it's looking good so far.
Check out some gameplay footage from the show floor (and don't mind the dork on the drums - that's just me):
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| Yesterday | 15 Cancelled PlayStation 3 games that should have never been cancelled | | It really hurts me that some of these games had so much potential and they got canned for a ton of different reasons. Here are 15 games on the PlayStation 3 that got canned. I am pretty much sure that you must have either forgotten many of these or have never heard about them. Check the list out. |
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| Yesterday | Valve Promises A Trio Of Surprises This Year | | We hang on every word Valve says. When you're the company behind Half-Life, Left 4 Dead and Portal, you earn that kind of attention. Well, in a recent interview, Valve head Gabe Newell said we can expect 3 big surprises over the next 12 months. |
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| Yesterday | Call of Duty: Black Ops – Killstreaks Revealed | | Dogs are back baby, they are just a little harder to attain this time around. These are also subject to change since the game doesn’t come out until November 9th for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC. PC version will have dedicated servers as well as having full modding capabilities. |
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| Yesterday | Bunt! (GIF) | | This is what myself and my friends would define as a "cheese move." Every sports video game had at least one. |
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| Yesterday | Gambling 101: know when to walk away, know when to run | | Always remember that when you walk into a casino. Never risk more than you can afford to lose. Here is a primer to survive in the seductive world of gambling If you follow these tips, you should mitigate your losses and you might even win. |
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| Yesterday | The Ataris That Never Were | | Time for some concept art! Not for upcoming games, though. Not for old games, either. These are for old systems. |
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| Yesterday | Star Wars The Old Republic: Pax 2010: Mysteries of Knights of the Old Republic | | The Jedi Civil War left many unanswered questions. In the difficult days following the showdown between Darth Revan and Darth Malak, the Jedi Order struggled to survive, leaving little time for investigations. Redeemed as a Jedi, Revan traveled into deep space in search of a mysterious evil. We now know that the source of this evil was the reconstituted Sith Empire, but that solves only a portion of the mystery… |
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| Yesterday | Android Phone meets NES Controller At Last | | I've long held that ROMs are the biggest selling point for Android phones that no one wants to talk about (or are at least neck and neck for those of you who absolutely need your porn on the go). If, after a few drinks, I start having a good natured debate about smartphones with an iPhone owning friend (which does indeed happen more often that I'd care to admit), I'll usually break out my Droid and start playing a round of Super Mario 3 |
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| Yesterday | Rare Designer Slams Activision Regarding Goldeneye Remake | | Martin Hollis, the designer of the original GoldenEye 007 for the Nintendo 64, has spoken in a recent interview with Official Nintendo Magazine about his thoughts on the upcoming remake. What he has to say isn't particularly nice, however. |
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| Yesterday | Top 9 Worst Employees in Video Game History | | This Labor Day weekend, we take a look at the characters with the worst sense of work ethic in video games. These are characters that, despite their "occupation" spend all their time trying to save people or taking lavish vacations, or even just causing the end of the world. Think about it: when have you ever seen Mario do any plumbing? Here are the worst workers in video game history. |
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| Yesterday | Donkey Kong Country Returns Gets Lovely Boxart | | Perhaps it is not much to the average gamer, but to any gamer who has been longing for a new Donkey Kong Country since the last installment was released back in 1996, this will certainly bring tears to your eyes. Absence of Kremlings be damned, it looks fantastic to anyone whose been missing some good old jungle hijinks. |
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| Yesterday | Company of Heroes designer sacrifices life for wife and unborn child | | The first thing Erin Wood wants her baby to know is that Dad, Brian, died to save their lives.
“. . . In his final act he did the only thing that would save us,” said Wood, 31.
With an out-of-control Chevy Blazer bearing down on him, the 33-year old North Vancouver man braked and swerved his Subaru wagon so that he would take the force of the head-on collision, saving his wife of five years, pregnant with their first baby.. |
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| Sep 3, 2010 | Mafia II: Is Applied PhysX Worth It? | | The much-awaited (and much-hyped) Mafia II boasts some amazing PhysX effects with Nvidia cards. But do you need them to really enjoy the game? |
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