What we’ve been playing: Week of 9/12/10
Hey, people. How was your 9/11? My whole house still smells of smokey delicious Qurans. Time for games of the week!
September 2010
Trippy Games: McDonald’s Treasure Land Adventure
In-between generating brilliant, though sometimes how-you-say batshit crazy new properties, Treasure needed some way to pay the bills. Occasionally they would make games based on preexisting properties like Astro Boy or even Tiny Toons, long after the show had ended. You can’t blame them, we all gots ta get paid,…
Miscoded Confidence: Crazy Taxi
This week marks one of the biggest events to happen in the last decade or so for people the world over and that, my friends, is the release of the Sega Dreamcast. A storm of perfected technology dripping with everything other consoles at the time could only dream of accomplishing…
ESRB lists Crazy Taxi for PC and Mac
I love the ESRB sometimes. While game companies can plan a reveal of a game for ages the ESRB can ruin that in one swift move, confirming things you never thought possible. For example the Dreamcast game Crazy Taxi has been listed for PC, Mac, PS3 and Xbox 360. This…
PAX Hands On: Conduit 2
The best first person shooter experience on the Wii so far is easily The Conduit. So now that High Voltage Software is rounding the corner on bringing us The Conduit 2, expectations are high. I got a to play through a great demo of the game and see the latest…
Sega Addicts Podcast: Episode 26 is here!
The newest Sega Addicts episode is here and it is full of love, laughter, and lame jokes (mostly mine). This week’s main topic was the early Phantasy Star games and it’s definitely put me in the mood to download Phantasy Star II to my iPod and actually finish the game…
UK site offers figure with Vanquish order
Online UK retailer Zavvi have recently listed a limited edition version of the upcoming game Vanquish, which includes a sweet figurine of the main character. The limited edition itself is about £55 which is only £15 more than it would be for just the game. Seems like a good deal…