Posted by Kevin Huffman
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Friday, March 26th, 2010
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Oh, look! The first screenshots of Sonic The Hedgehog 4 ! I do believe Sonic now hold the record for longest wait between the third and fourth game in a series, beating Street Fighter IV . That’s my gut feeling, but that has proven wildly inaccurate in the past. Incidentally, I’m currently en route to PAX East , and supposedly Sega will be there. My first order of business will be to tell them that Napoleon: Total War was fantastic. My second order of business will be to badger them for Sonic The Hedgehog 4 info. As you can see, it looks like old school Sonic, none of this Adventure business.
Posted by Kevin Huffman
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Monday, March 22nd, 2010
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No BioShock up there… That’s funny, not one hour ago I mentioned that Australia had embraced the idea that adults have the capacity to make decisions vis-à-vis buying violent video games. Good ol’ Switzerland, though, the darling of Europe, has passed a law essentially outlawing violent video games. I’d feign, well, not anger , but something , but it’s Switzerland: how can you get mad at those guys? The specifics of the ban haven’t been officially revealed yet, but apparently the most likely scenario is that games rated PEGI 18+, if not PEGI 16+, will be banned from going on sale in the country. ( PEGI is sorta the European version of the ESRB.) That would affect everything from Street Fighter to Modern Warfare 2 to God of War . While I sincerely doubt we have many Swiss readers, it’s still sorta interesting to note that enlightened Europe is still of the mindset “violent video games = bad.” As if Europe wasn’t a violent place before Kratos showed up… Flickr
Posted by Kevin Huffman
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
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An outstanding e-mail showed up in my inbox a few moments ago promoting the release of Donkey Kong Country 2: Serious Monkey Business . It’s a remix album from OC ReMix, the people who are famous for, you know, remixing video game soundtracks. (I used one of their Street Fighter remixes in a video review about a year ago.) But, yeah, Serious Monkey Business! The album is totally free to download, and it totally brings me back to 1995/1996 , perhaps the last year I was legitimately happy. That there video is a preview of what you can expect. I don’t know, I figured at least a few of you would get a kick out of it.
Posted by 010081
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
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We’ve spent three posts covering Street Fighter IV for the iPhone so far, and this fourth one is intended to inform you Capcom’s latest game has finally arrived in the App Store (I checked the US, German and Japanese store). Capcom itself isn’t listing the app [iTunes link] on their official “Capcom Mobile” site yet, but it is already being offered for $9.99. Initial reviews in the App Store are overwhelmingly positive. The game received 64 reviews so far, with 55 people rating it five out of five stars and 9 with four stars. And Street Fighter IV gets a lot of buzz on Twitter , too. Tell us what you think of the game in the comments.