SHODAN LIVES
Notes and links from @colemanm.
Interview with Ben Heck, the God of modding »
“When I was a kid, anything I had, I would take it apart, but I would usually put it back together. And I had a rule that you should always have some screws left over, because everything is over-engineered anyway.”
I had no idea that some of his creations had been bought as manufactured 3rd-party devices.
(Pardon the horribly annoying paginated OXM article.)
Xbox 360 now cheapest console in the US -- game on Santa »
So the Xbox 360 Arcade version is now $199. The Wii, still $249. Do people honestly think that this means it’ll outsell the Wii? Price is only one selling point of the Wii for its market. The major selling point is: it’s the Wii and all my friends have one so I want one, too.
Dark Void cover gameplay.
As much as this is just a basic third-person, Gears ripoff, some of the flying mechanics and vertical cover in this game look pretty neat.
Mirror’s Edge. Parkour like whoa.
Gears of War 2 first gameplay.
I wasn’t all that excited to think about what Epic had in store for the sequel, but this looks pretty damn good.
Ikaruga — This week’s XBLA release.
Time for some controller smashing.
Rez in HD looks bumpin’.
Burnout: Paradise Review »
EGM’s Shane Bettenhausen reviews Burnout: Paradise, Criterion’s crash extravaganza.
The demo for this on Xbox Live was a complete joke. I played it for about 10 minutes and all it did was make me want the game, I didn’t want to play the demo at all. I was expecting to play the hell outta this demo all the way until release, as with Crackdown. This very-limited-demo approach might hurt their potential sales with newcomers to the series. It was a foregone conclusion that I was buying this game, but without all the better features (marked man!), a Burnout newb might just be thinking “this is it?”
Someone on NeoGAF has posted some images of the upcoming Xbox Live Arcade release of Ikaruga. That’s two good XBLA releases already this year. Keep ‘em comin’, Microsoft.
Arcade: METAL SLUG 3 »
Metal Slug 3 on XBLA. First XBLA download for me since, what… Puzzle Quest?
A graphical breakdown of all the assets and their sizes on disk in the new Xbox Live Arcade title, Undertow.
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