Posts with tag Video
Posted Jul 18th 2007 11:30AM by Eric Caoili
Filed under: Video, Imports
It's highly unlikely that
SD Gundam G Generation Cross Drive will ever make it to the states; obtaining rights for 500+ characters spanning over a dozen different series, most of which having never made it out of Japan, would be a nightmare. Still, we like to keep up to date with the
SRPG on the off-chance that a North American publisher might take a risk and pick it up, much like
Atlus did with
Super Robot Taisen Original Generations 1 & 2 for the GBA.
Bandai Namco has updated
Cross Drive's official site with a two-minute-and-a-half trailer and a new commercial, advertising its August 9th's release. If you're at all interested in the title, or if you just have a bizarre fetish for chibi mobile suits, make sure to check both of the clips out!
See also: Mobile Suit DS Lite
Posted Jul 17th 2007 7:00PM by Alisha Karabinus
Filed under: Video
At this point, we're about ready to offer Gamecock our firstborn child, because they are really
rolling out the
hotness for the DS. On the tails of recent
good impressions of the upcoming
Dementium: The Ward comes this new trailer, which features -- are you ready? -- nightstick beatdowns. Even if the rest of the game looked awful, we might sign up just for that. Of course, now we fully expect Renegade Kid's second DS game to be
Touch! Police Brutality or something along those lines.
Did we mention we have an unhealthy appreciation for video game violence? Just go watch the trailer already.
Continue reading All-new video from Dementium: The Ward
Posted Jul 16th 2007 1:20PM by Alisha Karabinus
Filed under: Video
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Jam Sessions may be somewhat less than good, but that doesn't make the title
less worthwhile -- nor does it detract from this hilarious E3 demo! We've tucked it away after the jump, but first you have to run the screenshot gauntlet. We're bad, bad people.
We do find some of the screens a little disturbing, however. Is that redheaded chick
puking? We really only need so much rock-and-roll realism in our video games, thanks ....
Continue reading Jam Sessions gets the demo treatment
Posted Jul 14th 2007 7:00PM by Alisha Karabinus
Filed under: Features
... but all good things must come to an end, eh? It's always nice to wallow in the explosion of news that surrounds a trade show, and even the diminished E3 was no exception. Sure, for Nintendo fans, at least on the DS side, things
started out a little slowly, but once the media hit, we no longer had anything to be disappointed about! So what was tops for DS owners? Here's the best -- according to us, at least.
Top E3 trailers:
- Contra 4 -- After all our Contragasms, you knew we were going to say this!
- Front Mission DS -- What can we say ... we're big fans of ass-kickery.
- Brain Age 2 -- We know you'll probably disagree with us here, but we can't help it. We a) dig a good, brainy challenge and b) think the selection of games looks even better than before.
Less-discussed games we desperately want right now:
- Professor Layton and all his mysterious locales -- Okay, we wanted this before. But it was mentioned in passing around E3, and now we're more rabid for it than ever!
- Nintendo Magic -- Another game we weren't sure would head our way, but that just sounds like fun.
- Advance Wars 2 -- The first is one of the best the DS has to offer, though it seems to rarely get a mention.
Worst trailer that should have been awesome:
Insecticide, hands down. Please pass us some Dramamine on your way out.
Biggest disappointment:
Probably the missing wi-fi for
Mario Party DS. C'mon, Nintendo, slip it in there! We promise not to complain about friend codes for at least a week.
Posted Jul 12th 2007 2:50PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Video
If your
face hasn't been sufficiently rocked by the DS showings at
E3, then we suggest watching this video of the first boss battle in
Contra 4. Even if you feel like you've been rocked enough, you should go ahead and watch it, and allow Virt's brilliant cover of the Stage 1 music to rock your face
clean off.
No
brains are being
trained here, people. Unless you count the brains of
alien soldiers, which are being trained to
blow up. We know it's early to declare a winner of E3, and we also know that E3 is not technically a competition. Even so,
Contra 4 wins.
Continue reading E307: Contra 4 video wins E3
Posted Jul 12th 2007 9:51AM by Alisha Karabinus
Filed under: News, Video, Screens
It looks like the second round of
Brain Age will have a lot more to offer, and that's without even considering the unlockable
Dr. Mario! We've updated our gallery with new screenshots that include images from a change-making game (a very helpful skill to practice) and a pretty dubious drawing of New York that's still better than anything we could manage (but somehow reminds us of Pictochat ... ). And don't forget to check out the trailer after the jump!
Continue reading E307: Brain Age 2 is looking better all the time
Posted Jul 11th 2007 5:50PM by Alisha Karabinus
Filed under: News, Video, Screens
Well, call it a
controlled explosion, kinda like a
smart bomb -- but we're still pretty pleased to see some sweet new media from a brand new DS game. Er,
mostly new, considering it's a franchise title. Still,
Mario Party on the DS sounds like a winner, though we would prefer more than just local wireless play.
Mario Party could only make
Game Night that much more fun, amirite? Oh well, enough complaining -- check out the images in our gallery and the spankin' new trailer after the jump.
Continue reading E307: Mario Party DS media explosion
Posted Jul 11th 2007 3:50PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News, Video
Insecticide combines a noir theme with visual elements of
Psychonauts and personality-filled characters reminiscent of an adventure game. This is our first chance to see any of the actual DS version of the game, however, and something tells us the publisher doesn't
want us to see it. The
PC trailer certainly didn't get the shaky-cam treatment.
Check after the break for a textbook example of how
not to make a video game trailer. Seriously, this goes beyond poor editing or bad screen quality and into intentional obfuscation. But it's worth it to check it out, because Crackpot's game looks fantastic.
Continue reading E307: DS Insecticide trailer dances before our eyes
Posted Jul 9th 2007 7:30PM by Eric Caoili
Filed under: Video, Imports
We shooed
Insect Wars (
Konchuu Wars) away when the game's beetle-filled screenshots first flew into our periphery, believing the
bug to be an uninspired pest. "Go away," we said, "and bother us no more." In our defense, language barriers kept us from understanding what the
Success Corp. title was trying to communicate with its antennae and movement patterns.
Having studied its habits, we found that the game isn't a
Mushiking clone as we'd originally assumed, but
a tactical RPG where you command an army of customizable, mechanized insects. Our mouths were agape, monocles falling from our faces when the truth was revealed. Below is a sampling of
Insect Wars' creepy crawlers:
- a rifle-mounted praying mantis with buzzsaws -- my god, buzzsaws! -- for arms
- a lightning bug that terrorizes foes with its beam cannon tail
- a heavily-armored, treaded snail (pictured above) which acts as a transport for other units while healing them
Not since
Puzzle Quest have our loins ached for such a game.
Insect Wars swarms into Japanese stores this August 2nd. Head past the post break for a minute-long trailer.
Continue reading Insect Wars is the bee's knees
Posted Jul 6th 2007 6:10PM by Alisha Karabinus
Filed under: Friday video
Since we talked a little about
import games here
this morning, showing off a trailer for a game often mentioned in the same breath as "if only" seemed appropriate for our
video spotlight. If you're one of the four people around who isn't familiar with
Jump Ultimate Stars, let us enlighten you.
Jump Ultimate Stars is a fighting game packed with
hundreds of manga characters. Yes, hundreds, from dozens of series ... and it also happens to be a great fighting game on the DS. Check out one of the trailers for the game after the jump.
Continue reading Friday Video: Fast as lightning
Posted Jul 2nd 2007 3:50PM by Alisha Karabinus
Filed under: News, Video
We've seen the
tiniest of teasers, but now we can enjoy the full trailer for the upcoming title
Dementium: The Ward. From this short video, the debut from developer Renegade Kid looks a little like the recent
Touch the Dead, but with a few more character models. And should we be surprised? The games have a similar basic premise -- guy awakens in hospital and finds he must fight for his life -- but
Dementium is more than just a shooter ... and it seems to have a few more
character models to boot.
Publisher Gamecock has really been
all over the DS lately, and from the looks of these releases, we hope they decide to stay.
Continue reading Full trailer for Dementium: The Ward
Posted Jul 2nd 2007 1:15PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Video, Imports
If you've been following
Doki Doki Majo Shinpan with the same level of interest as we somehow have developed, then you probably saw our
first video footage of the game, taken from a store demo. But that was in a noisy store, shot with a handheld camera, and not really the ideal presentation for game video.
Well, this is significantly more ideal. It's a Windows Media stream of that same video, in
much better quality. The only problem-- like we said, it's a
Windows Media stream. Expect to wait a bit.
[Link goes to a streaming .WMV video.]
[Via Dengeki]
Posted Jun 29th 2007 6:35PM by Alisha Karabinus
Filed under: Friday video
Selecting a video for this week's
spotlight was somewhat difficult ... because we managed to stumble across some of the weirdest videos we've seen in a while. Take a moment to think about the magnitude of that statement. Around here, we spend all day immersed in the fruits of Miyamoto's brain (and other Nintendo goodness), and yet these videos were
extra weird.
Hit the jump for the full array. And yes, we know there are even
weirder videos out there. Please don't supply links; we're not sure our bruised brains could take it just now!
Continue reading Friday Video: Curiouser and curiouser
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