Mario Strikers Charged Video

This comes out july 2. The first real online game for the wii.

New Riddick game?

Joystiq wrote this morning that there is a new Riddick game being developed. That is good news, the other Riddick games have been good ones.

I don't know about you guys, but I am a sucker for the director's commentary on DVD. I hope putting producers commentary on a game is more than just a gimmick. I hope it becomes a trend.

Pro-G reports that the game is currently titled The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena and is headed to Xbox 360 and PS3. It's also apparently got online multiplayer and a "developer's commentary mode" which has us praying that Vin Diesel has time to make a special guest appearance. (Spoiler alert: He does.) Vivendi apparently wouldn't confirm the story to Pro-G, but said that an announcement would be coming soon: We're already turning off all the lights and drinking protein shakes in anticipation.

Halo 3 Beta: First Impressions

After downloading the Beta, I was ready to send Crackdown back to Gameznflix and I realized I couldn't. The beta requires the player to launch from Crackdown. Dumb. Anyway...


The limited time I spent with the beta was fun. I tried out the noob combo, and that didn't work as well as it did in halo2, but it did work sort of. The map I played on was High Ground. It consisted of a valley with enclosures on each side for easy ambushes.

The control was great, the responsiveness was awesome, but the only thing I didn't like about it was the jumping. Everyone, when they had a 1 on 1 would jump up and down while shooting at you. I am not used to this, I am used to just circle strafing my way to victory. In the Halo universe, everyone is a high jumping Olympian, you can jump like 10 feet into the air.

All in all a fun time. I can't wait til we get to try out the party system.

Aegis Wing: The free XBL arcade game

Newbcakes, Ruud, Prometheus and I were playing Aegis Wing last night. It is a side scrolling shooter reminiscent of R-Type or Gradius with some humping elements. In order to get super huge weapons, one has to press the X button to essentially hump your teammates. Once you do, your missiles are more plentiful, your lasers are wider, your EMP blasts cover the whole screen. Everything is super sweet until the driver realizes he can't maneuver as fast as he needs to in order to avoid the plethora of bullets and indestructible spheres in his way.

Also, if you have a douchebag like Prometheus playing with you, it makes it super hard to do anything. Assclowns like Prometheus will run you into obstacles and kill your fragile little space ship. It is so sad, and so funny at the same time.

More games need to be like this. Great Co Op and just plain fun. And free

I give it 7/10