Archive for the “Wii News” Category

It’s the perfect gift for the gaming hipster who has everything, but owning this piece of Super Mario gear will cost you some serious coin… …

Babies are like actual people, only smaller and not as smart. They can also be totally awwwwdorable, especially when they’ve been designed to look like a cutesy caricature of an actual baby and made into a cuddly, completely non-shitting accessory for upcoming Wii game, Babysitting Mama. How could you not love this ickle-wickle bambino bumpkins? …

Are you a girl gamer who’s been hit by, lets diplomatically describe them as carnal desires, half way through a 14 hour Mario Galaxy session? Well, if you have, you’re in luck, because a company called Mojowijo has just invented a sex device that turns the Wiimote into something that sounds distinctly like a Lord of the Rings character (Hint: we mean Bilbo).  Won’t somebody think of the sex-starved, Italian plumbers!? …

Leave it to the point-and-click wunderkinds at Telltale Games to throw an all-star party like this. As gleamed by today’s not-so-cryptic trailer on GameTrailers, Telltale Games has announced plans to unite the likes of Sam & Max, Strong Bad, Penny Arcade’s Tycho and Team Fortress’ ‘Heavy’ for one upcoming unnamed title. The trailer features silhouettes of the cult-gaming icons in question prefaced by the words: “Bet you never thought these guys would get together.”

Truthfully? It’s never crossed our minds. Ever. But you can bet that we’re interested… …

Have a look at what an extra $20 will get you… …

It’s been mentioned many a time how absolutely massive a deal the Dragon Quest game franchise is in Japan, but it’s still a bit hard to conceptualize until you see things like the amount and variety of merchandise available overseas… …

Best Buy has begun testing a new in-store program for customers to trade in their old games for store gift cards. So congratulations, you all have another entry to the list of places that will buy your games for less than the amount of change in your pockets… …

Sure, there are plenty of gaming awards kicking around, but the Golden Joysticks are the ones to be voted by you, the guys and girls who actually buy and play the games. There are no committees of journos and games industry execs deciding who wins, just a giant online ballot box where gamers cast their votes and a piece of software spits out the final counts. So in a nutshell, that’s why you should care about the Joysticks and head to www.goldenjoystick.com to vote. Now! …

It might lack the satin sexiness of Ada Wong or the strike-a-pose foppishness of Leon Kennedy, but this inspirational Licker costume has a special charm all of its own. It is quite simply the best Resident Evil cosplay I have ever seen. …

Ever since the late ’80s, the phrase “darker, grittier” has been synonymous with two things. Firstly, stimulating adult reinterpretations of existing media. Thankyou, The Dark Knight Returns. Secondly, misguided reboots that grind all the joy out of their predecessors in the name of an adolescent sales boost. Damn you, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and Final Fight: Streetwise

The Mega Man franchise has greatly fluctuated between light and dark over the years, the original games making up the former tone and the X and Zero sagas taking care of the latter. Being a mash-up of all Mega Man eras, we expected the tone of the upcoming Korean MMO Mega Man Online (MMO MMO?) to be pretty eclectic, but yikes, does this anime trailer imply very serious business indeed. It’s epic, it’s bleak, and it implies that the finished game is going to take in an apocalypse roughly every 15 minutes.

Though surprisingly, I might actually love it a bit. In fact I’m pretty sure it’s incredibly badass. In fact I’m pretty sure I want it turned into a full-length movie instead of a game. Immediately. Take a look and tell me what you think. …