Tag: gaming

I love Ratchet & Clank. I really do. So far I've played every single game of the franchise (except for Secret Agent Clank and the new PSN title Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty) and absolutely loved every single one of them. The first installment of the franchise on the Playstation 3, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction is no exception there ... at least for the most part.

Nice, Bizzard Creations has now also put the leaderboard for Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2 online. Flash ... but better than nothing Now I just have to get a higher score in all, I guess, all modes. Lurking around in the lower 50,000 isn't all that nice.

I already thought that my 800 MS space bucks were already well invested, but with an online leaderboard, I really have to start getting into the higher score-ranges ... Sometimes achievements simply aren't good enough.

[via Joystiq]

Something smelt quite fishy when news broke that Tomonobu Itagaki left his long-time employer Tecmo and in the same move sued the company for not paying out bonuses for completed games. Was he the only one affected or what?! Now 1UP ran a story that basically said: No, he wasn't the only one and ...

GameTrailers did it again: Release a simply great series of retrospective features and in this case, about the Metal Gear franchise thus far. In 5 episodes the viewer gets to know all the MG games including not only the relatively recent and well known (thanks to the Playstation) "Solid" games, but also the original games as well as portable episodes like Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops and one of my personal favorites: The AC!D series (1, 2).

But be warned: Most of the videos aren't really what you'd call spoiler-free (perhaps except for the Portable Ops one).

If you think about getting Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and haven't played all the MG-games, then this might be something for you. It definitely convinced me to get a copy of Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (and the expansion pack for this game) today. Let's see if I can finish at least the original game before the Euro2008 ends (which is when I plan to get a new TV and MGS4 to inaugurate the new HDness)

The first time I saw the trailer for Uncharted: Drake's Fortune I wasn't overly excited about getting my hands on this game. Sure, it looked great, but just a little bit too much like Tomb Raider but with a dude (so back to Indiana Jones). Then when some folks over at 1UP got a change to play it, they described the main character as your normal dude who also acts like that. No über-hero, but someone you often get the feeling that he is scared, that he has a problem keeping his balance on a pole etc.

The more I play games like Super Stardust HD and Geometry Wars I have to wonder what really brings me back playing those quite simple games (compared to games like for instance Resistance or Halo 3) again and again. Sure, they are fun, but I guess another highly motivating aspect is the hunt for a new highscore.

I have to admit it: I'm an Insomniac fanboy. I played every single Ratchet & Clank game (except the PS3 one) and loved them. So when I first learned about Resistance: Fall of Man it was clear to me, that I eventually had to have it. Now that I finally have a PS3, Resistance was the first game (not bundled with the system) that I got.

For the last year or so I've been more often than not looking over at the PlayStation 3 and though: "Damn, they have some really nice games over there". Back then the PS3 had a couple of problems for me. First The price. Paying 600 EUR for a console without a game packed in was simply not an option for me. And second: The AV-outputs. With my Xbox 360 I have the nice option to just hook it up to my 19" computer display and get nice 1280x1024. With the PS3 I'd have to go the HDMI or component route to get some HD and I neither have a new TV with HDMI or component, nor do I have an expensive enough computer display to support HDMI not to mention HDMI + HDCP. And spending around 800EUR to get any of these, was and still is not an option either.

OK, this was definitely the Huh-moment of the week. I just read an article on Betanews about an interview with Acer's senior vice president James T. Wong, where he announced some obscure PC-based gaming machine (I guess he means a console ). The big selling point compared to established players in the market like Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony some obscure "open standards" are mentioned.

Burnout Paradise is probably one of the biggest time-suckers of all times. Since I bought it about 3 weeks ago, I've been spending most of my free time on it. So far it took me about 25 hours to complete around 65% of the game. It was definitely a risky move by Criterion to make Burnout more an open-world game, but at least for me, Burnout Paradise could become my favorite installment of the franchise. I started with Burnout 2 on the Playstation 2 and so far only missed out Burnout Dominator, which I still plan to get, but none of them (perhaps with the exception of Burnout 3 got me that excited).