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Diddy Kong Racing DS In-Hand
Look what the nice FedEx guy just dropped off in my leathery hands. I plan on playing this up to and through the official Kotaku party later this week, so bring your DS. I hope to post up some impressions between now and then. Oh, and they included a cool shirt that I'lll be giving out at the party too.why is everyone reporting that they got this? do you guys normally report when you get review copies of games? what's special about this particular game?
This Day in Gaming, January 23rd
2002: EA releases Medal of Honor: Allied Assault for PC in the US. Not only did Medal of Honor invent the whole WWII fps genre, they actually invented WWII. I don't think the war ever even existed before EA added a solid dose of 3D acceleration. What were those vets even talking about? So the TDIG question of the day: what is your favorite WWII game? It doesn't have to be Allied Assault. I mean, it's her birthday and she has a crush on you, but she can just dance with her brother or something.i totally forgot about day of defeat. that gets my vote too. i haven't played for like 3 years. i loved the immediate respawning as opposed to waiting out the end of the turn like CS. If you respawned fast enough you could just wait for the guy who just killed you to come around the corner and then kill him. so many fast kills, it felt like "combat" on the 2600. they should have made the players spin wildly, too.
The New, New Wii Strap
Play Nintendo and Go Nintendo are both reporting on what appears to be a third Wii remote safety strap. This latest one appears to be thicker, longer and (no, not uncut) has a better plastic doohickey for cinching the thing to your wrist. The plastic dealio on my current old-school break-away strap always slides down, so that's a nice improvement. What I don't like is that the new strap doesn't feature that coolio Wii console shape on the end, instead it's just a rounded plastic nub. Booo!these are just the DS thumb stylus wrist straps in a different color and probably minus the thumb stylus. and there's a little line on the slider.
Mario Hits The Funny Pages
The last time I read the comics section of a newspaper, Funky Winkerbean was still doing his hippie thing and Doonesbury was the most politically charged comic on the scene. I was a huge fan of Calvin and Hobbes and anything by Lynda Barry, but I chose to read them in book collections, all at once, rather than have to sift through The Family Circus and The Wizard of Id to get them.it should have said "my wife is a slut."
Here It Is, The Official Korean DS
This is the official DS Lite that will launch in Korea on January 18th. And guess what? It's looks just like the DS Lite in Japan, North America, Europe and even Australia. Yes, Australia! Well, not *just* like. There are some subtle differences. The box has Korean on it, and the games are in Korean. Oh, and the plug looks effing sc-ary. More pics after the jump.crecente, if you aren't impressed by the box or product...why'd you post this?
Wii Flash Games
Albino Blacksheep has posted a repository of Wii friendly flash games. Pretty much games that only really require a mouse pointer to use, so they translate well to the wiimote. There's a Duck Hunt clone, a shooting gallery, puzzles, and my personal favorite... It's a game where you try to spank the monkey so fast that disco music plays, which is a refreshing new twist on the plain vanilla monkey spanking genre. Some of the games work well, others don't seem to work at all.wiicade launched BEFORE the wii launched, actually. they deserve more credit.
Link Graffiti
Check out this graffiti of Zelda's pixelated main-squeeze from Melbourne, Australia. Why doesn't Denver get anything cool like this? Brian Crecentein continuing with pointing out things wrong with this post, it has a retro tag, when this looks to be like minish cap or maybe a four swords zelda. that's not THAT retro.
Nintendo: Mario, Others Hit VC on Christmas
Nintendo has confirmed that the original Super Mario Bros is hitting the Wii shopping channel on Christmas morning for 500 points along with a bunch of other hot titles. Check out this sexy list: * Street Fighter(R) II: The World Warrior (Super NES(R), 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points): This game revolutionized the fighting-game genre with characters that had unique fighting skills, speed, special moves and unique endings.8 buck for a game is not that much. lunch at burger king costs nearly 8 bucks. and that's not NEARLY as cool as super castlevania 4 which although i own the cartridge will probably buy for the sake of not having to switch consoles.
i'm a little disappointed that i bought super star soldier. i forgot about r type coming out. sss is kinda fun i guess. it costs about the same as lunch at taco bell, or 4 cups of coffee.
Reggie Promises Games, No Drought
Newsweek's resident game guru N'Gai Croal pinged us about a pledge Nintendo honcho Reggie Fils-Aime has made. The company president has promised no "Nintendo drought," which typically follows between first party games. While Twilight Princess is out and about, sites such as CVG rumor that the next two big titles Metroid Prime 3: Corruption and Mario Galaxy won't see the light of day until late next year. In a sit-down interview from October, Reggie told Croal: Metroid Prime 3...yeah good luck with THAT attitude, edgey.
wii play doesn't count it's a garbage demo disc.