Last night the votes were tabulated and the awards were given out for G4’s G-phoria. The votes were cast by the fans on the G4 website or by text message. Games had to be released between July 31, 2007 and July 31, 2008. If you want to blame anyone for the crappy selections, you have no one to blame but yourselves (for either having bad taste or not voting at all).
Horray! I get to eat this week because there is sweet fuck all that is a worthy buy this week. Unless you really want that Beijing 2008 thing, surely someone, somewhere has uttered the sentence: “I wish there was a Discus game for the PC.” OK maybe not.
(08.04.08)
King of Clubs (Wii)
Summer Atheletics (Wii)
Ys I+II (Wii)
Wild West Guns (Wii)
(08.05.08)
Beijing 2008 - The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games (PC)
Ford Racing: Off Road (PC)
B-Boy (PS2)
Hannah Montana: Spotlight World Tour (PS2)
Monster Madness: Grave Danger (PS3)
Baseball Mogul 2009 (PC)
Little League World Series 2008 (Wii, DS)
Crash Time (360)
GRID (DS)
Puzzler Collection (DS)
The Cheetah Girls: Passport to Stardom (DS)
Quick Yoga Training (DS)
(08.06.08)
Braid (360)
(08.08.08)
Fate: Undiscovered Realms (PC)
Personally, I have never been too fond of fighter games. Not my thing. I do have to say though, Mortal Kombat Vs DC Universe (MK vs DC for short), looks pretty kick ass.
The game is written by comic vets Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray. To keep up with the realism style that the MK series has always preferred over the cartoony look of the Street Fighter series, MK vs DC will be powered by the Unreal 3 engine.
The list of characters is still under wraps for now, but we were able to confirm Batman, Flash, Catwoman, Captain Marvel and Superman on the DC side as well as Liu Kang, Scorpion, Sub Zero, Shang Tsung and Sonya Blade for MK.
Step one: Watch the trailer below.
Step Two: Read comics till November 17th (release date).
Despite being turned away in April, the highly acclaimed game Portal will be make it’s way onto Xbox Live in the near future under the semi new name Portal Still Alive.
The story will remain the same as the original, but there will be additional puzzles, levels, achievements and cake. No word yet on the possibility of the game also seeing life on PS3 or PC.
Fans and GlaDOS can now have their cake and eat it too.
As you have probably noticed, GvL has un-reverted from the previous design to the current design. There was a technical problem with the design that had been custom designed for GvL, and I finally fixed it!
Yay for progress!
As an added benefit, there is a little secret that I have coded into the new site. Can you guess? (Here’s a hint, it has to do with web comics.) The aforementioned secret isn’t complete yet, but it is useable.
In any case, no background yet. (Joe hated the original one, and the last one was too girly.)
So, let’s have a contest! Email your background image to dan.spacemonkeys@gmail.com, and the winner will be obvious 
This one is straight off Kotaku:
Shigeru Miyamoto has announced a new Pikmin. No loud flashy displays or shows, just words uttered during an E3 2008 Nintendo Developer Roundtable.
“We’re making Pikmin.”
Linky here.
Are you a fan of City of Heroes/ Villains but the double XP weekends are not doing it for you anymore?
Lookie here! Champions Online by the same makers as COH/V, is on the horizon to fulfill all your not so kinky spandex fantasies!
Seriously, look!
Sad new: you’ll have to wait till Spring ‘09
That’s right, the PS3 exclusivity of Final Fantasy XIII is no more. Why? Speculation abound that it could be that there is about a million more Xbox360 in the US. So the possibility of more sales is quite eminent and evident. It is becoming much harder for companies to keep exclusivity in the gaming market, where every sale counts.
Do you hear that? Those are the tears of Sony Entertainment of America, Japanese Xbox 360
owners and people who bought a PS3 figuring that it was the only way to get FFXIII. My condolences.
OH! Game trailer, sweet!
With E3 going right now, the amounts of news that we can post is enormous. More on that later. Right now, important news: the Rock Band 2 set list.
Scheduled to be released on September 14 2008, Rock Band 2 looks like it will not be a reinvention of itself, but rather just an update to fix the kinks that had lodged itself in the original one. For example, your character will no longer be limited to playing one instrument anymore, your corset wearing goth chick can be singing lead vocals one track and slapping the strings on bass for the next song. World Tour Online will be greatly improved as well. The finally got rid of the Band Leader crap which pretty much forced someone to ALWAYS be on drums. Mostly, that was Joe.
So I’m browsing around on TV.com, adding episodes for Haruka -Beyond the Stream of Time-, when I catch this little nugget at the top of my screen. I’ll spare you from reading it (although the comments are amusing), and give you a brief synopsis:
A 10-year-old girl in England who is reportedly 4′9″ and 6 stone (84 lbs) was called “fat” by Wii Fit (even though that term is not used) in their BMI test. Her parents are pissed, and now the spokesperson from the National Obesity Forum (remember, it would be England’s National forum) wants to ban the game from children.
If you want more on what’s been said and everything, you can go ahead and read it, but here’s the reason I’m posting this:
Something in that article is wrong.
It’s like a partnership made in heaven and hell. Microsoft & Activision partner up with 7-11for what will surely cause mass amounts of brain freeze to overtake most of geekdom. Buy a 22 ounce Slurpee with the cool Guitar Hero fan favorite characters on the label (as seen above), grab the code on the cup and enter it at www.slurpee.com.
Now what do you get for the labor of your efforts? You get a chance to win a copy of the new Guitar Hero: Aerosmith videogame on the Xbox 360, where one game will be awarded every hour for the whole month of May, 744 games in total.
Personally, not being a huge fan of the Guitar Hero series (I’m a Rock Band fan) I will be collecting my codes in hopes of getting Microsoft Points to purchase additional content from XBL Marketplace. Heh, more than 711,000 points will be awarded.
I know this is a little late, but since I’ve been on vacation and all, well, yeah. It gave me plenty of time to think about this.
Valve, the company behind Half-Life and the Orange Box, released a suite of tools for developers called Steamworks. This is potentially big. Let’s take a look at what it entails from their press release…
In recent news, it has been reported that according to a survey by the folks at Hill and Knowlton, 60 percent of Americans believe that the government should regulate which video games are made and sold.
I find it disturbing. The problem is not what is being made, it’s what you buy your kids. There is the ESRB has a rating system which parent often will disregard or ignore because “little Billy” wants it.
Following that thought, here is a list of video games that you SHOULD NOT buy your kids this holiday season (According to the National Institute on Media and the Family along with their reasons in parenthesis). No matter what “little Billy” says he wants.
1. Assassin’s Creed (stabbing)
2. Call of Duty 4 (shooting)
3. Conan (loin cloths)
4. The Darkness (gangland monsters)
5. Jericho (Clive Barker)
6. Kane and Lynch: Dead Men (not very good)
7. Manhunt 2 (murder)
8. Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles (zombies)
9. Stranglehold (balletic violence)
10. Time Shift (gratuitous time manipulation)
The new single from Metallica will soon be downloaded by thousands of people and the band is ok with it.
No, the band did not have a change of heart on their feelings about file sharing. Rather they will be releasing the single exclusively as downloadable content for Rock Band, said Paul DeGooyer the MTV Senior vice president of home entertainment in an interview with Rocky Mountain News.
Is this finally the match made in heaven we have been waiting for? With Harmonix’ incredible game design and MTV’s music connections, the possibilities are endless when it comes to what kind of content can be downloaded in the near future on a console near you.
