At best a minor slip-up, at worst a "thank god we bought that company or they'd be pissed" type of feeling. MTV did a little behind the scenes (read: advertisment) on their website looking into GH2. During the video you could see the below list of songs. They realized their mistake and blurred them out but not before someone wrote down the entire list. It's blazing across the net at supersonic speed, and usually I wouldn't feel the need to post it... But I can't help but report every little piece of Guitar Hero news. Click the link for the full setlist so far.
If you want to skip to the best parts, try 7:20 and 13:55 (roughly). Though I thought the whole episode was damn funny. And I've NEVER even played World of Warcraft!
Kenny get ready to turn on "true shot aura", at that moment I will use "intimidating shout".
What's your favorite part of the show??
Thanks to Destructoid for the new (and working) link to the show.
Over at Gaygamer.net they've found this sweet Nintendo shirt that shows how the Ninty controllers have evolved (or been intelligently designed ;) ) over the years.
Even though my closet is already overflowing with geek, game, and nerd shirts, I'll probably buy this one. Somewhere between my Speaker City polo and my original Tempest T-shirt, I have the sneaking feeling this shirt will find a home.
Available over at Splitreason.com as a pre-order (dammit!) thankfully due to ship out soon.
I'm a fan of the gamer shirt with no words, nice and stealth like.
This shirt got me thinking of other similar t-shirt ideas. So after a quick run through with photoshop, I'm ready to unveil my mock-up for the Sony version.
Yes, I agree. It's a pretty easy joke to make. And before someone says something about the Dual Shock as the PS1 controller... I know the system didn't launch with one. It's a joke. Relax
The post right before this one is talking about the Burger King games/advertisments, and how I am dying to check these things out. Usually I'm a bit leery of in-game advertising, unless it's done in a way that actually helps the realism (like in a Nascar game). The worst implementation may be in Fight Night for the 360, when the announcer tells me that "This knockout has been brought to you by the new Dodge Calibur.
But the difference here is that the games don't contain ads, they ARE ads. At least they're not trying to sneak it in on us, they're being honest about it (as honest as ad people will ever be). And truth be told, this isn't the first time that a company has made a game for no other reason than to get some ad time with the kids.
Back in the Atari 2600 days there were two games that were actually available. Tooth Protectors from Johnson & Johnson and Chase the Chuck Wagon from Purina, could be gotten through the mail by sending in proof of purchases.
So think about how embedded games were in the 80's when a dog food company is able to put out a specialized game ONLY available via postal mail.
Needless to say these two games suck, but they're much sought after by 2600 hundred collectors like myself, since they're so hard to come by. They pop up on eBay every once in awhile, but never as often as other "rare" titles. I've heard of stories of people find these games in thrift stores and such, but I've never actually talked to anyone that's found one in the wild.
Adver-games didn't stop there, with games like Cool Spot and Yo! Noid appearing on the NES, SNES, and Genesis. Ugh.
I may actually own cool spot, I think I got in a lot of games I bought awhile back. If I do in fact own it, prepare for a review!
I'm not exactly the kind of person that treats my body like a temple. Let's just say I enjoy a good cookie. But at the absolute minimum I've always avoided fast food like the plague. No, Quizno's doesn't count.
Until now. The games will no doubt suck, yet I must have them. So I'll have to trick someone (Greshkov perhaps) into stepping up and buying the King's sandwich so I can get me a copy of "Big Bumping".
Burger King will be selling these games for 4 bucks that run on Xbox 360 and Xbox from November 19 to December 24. Apparently 2 of these games are going to have multiplayer over XBLA.
The gaming industry is a crowning achievement in entertainment. Growing from a few blips, to scrolling 2D screens, to massive worlds where people can come together and roam from location to location. There was a time when gamers, while choosing their particular console of choice, played everything. Every console, every game, and buying every pointless accessories they could get their hands on, to fully enjoy everything across the board. It was awesome when you had one system, and your best friend had another system. Combined the 2 of you had the greatest game library; a library that could never be confined to 1 console.
Fast forward from 8 bit, through 16 bit, to 32 bit consoles. SEGA, with its Saturn and Sony with its Playstation. What happened? Sony dominated SEGA by getting the casual gamer involved. Something that was so unheard of before that time. Most of us were considered nerds or dorks for spending hours upon hours in front of the TV, wishing we could put on a racoon tail and fly, or wishing that we could run at super speeds like Sonic. Then, Sony launched the Playstation. Even though Sony had great games hardcore gamers enjoyed, they still set out to capture those who either out grew video games, or the ones who felt they were too cool to play games.
Now I'm not saying that the growth of the gaming industry is bad, not at all. I'm just stating my opinion of why I think it’s the casual gamer who thinks they are hardcore that are ruining the experience that many have loved for our entire lives. So PSone had a great run, great marketing, a diverse library, and at the time stunning graphics. Graphics are the #1 appealing aspect of games to casual gamers. They saw games in 3D, characters took form in shapes, not sprites. At the time it looked so realistic. Animation begin to mimic real life movement to the point that sports games moved (to some extent) close to their real life counterparts. With sports looking and moving a lot better, the die-hard sports only fan was born.
When you're starting a website, the domain name is probably the toughest thing to figure out. For us, we went back and forth for a while, and usually the names we liked were bought up with the attempt to resell them. Bastards.
So as a joke, and because it rhymed, I registered thebbps.com. My original intention was to use the domain name itslikeanything.com, and bitsbytespixelssprites would be my testing area. So I throw my software up, start playing with templates and post some stories to get to know how this thing was going to work. Next thing I know we're getting hits and someone submitted a story to digg. Destructoid picked up a story, then Kotaku, then Joystiq. I guess I never planned on anyone finding us.
So basicially, you can say this domain name is really kind of an accident. Through the months, I've grown attached to it. It goes against almost every rule of web domains, but it's not like we're trying to be fark over here. So the hell with it, we're running with it.
Florian over at Kotaku has given a few good natured jabs, and like they say, no press is bad press. Besides I like his posts, and he's a funny dude. Playfeed.com had some harsher words, but they can go eat a dick cause no one reads their site anyway. Most people seem to dig it. But I understand the problems it causes, so we're bringing in a new address that'll bounce you over here.
www.thebbps.com
nice and short. thebbps.com, just call us thebbps for short. It's all good.
Reggie Fils-Aimes gets a huge amount of respect from me. As the head of Nintendo of America, it'd be easy for him to just be your typical executive. Worried about only the bottom line, trying to figure out how to squeeze your customers dry, etc. And while he's no doubt trying to make the most of the company, he seems to honestly care about Nintendo's customers. Gamers can smell our own, and Reggie is one of us. And like the small town boy making good, I think for one of the first times we know that the man in charge of bringing us the games, plays the games he sells.
People like their 360's, and it's a great machine. But we know damn well that Gates & Allard aren't at home playing Oblivion, no matter what they say in an interview.
Case in point. A excerpt from an interview Reggie did with AOL I found over at Infendo.com. They pulled the best quote of the interview out so I'm just going to re-quote it here.
Well, I remember those days. I was a parent to kids with an age range from four to eight years old, and I remember sitting around playing SNES with my kids.
I'll tell you a story -- I was playing ‘Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past.’ I would stay up to the wee hours of the morning playing that game. And in the daytime, my son, who was probably about seven years old at the time, would play the levels I had beaten.
So I get to the final boss. I'm going to beat Ganon for the final level of the game. It's probably 4 o'clock in the morning, I said [to myself], 'You know what? I'm going to stop here so I can be fresh and beat this level in the morning.' You can probably tell what happens, right? So my son gets on the system the next day, sees that I've gotten to the final boss, and he beats the boss. He finishes the game before I do. He stole my thunder.
We're getting to a point where the people in charge grew up with games in their lives. I can only think this will help both the perception of gamers and the quality of games going forward from here.
There's few things out there that get this site all hopped up and excited. But the one thing that ALWAYS makes us sit up and take notice is co-op play. Ever since B's article about the ebb and flow of co-op, we've sort of taken it on as one of the guiding lights of the site. While it's fun to kick your friends asses sometimes, it's even more fun for you AND your friend to work together and decimate everyone else.
So it's with great pleasure and pure excitement that we bring up the newly revealed news that Gears of War will be fully co-op. Not content to have a few co-op missions, you and your buddies can play through the whole game together. I can honestly think of few things that sound more fun that tearing through this game with friends.
Seeing a company take co-op gameplay seriously makes us happy. CliffyB rocks the house.
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The post right before this one is talking about the Burger King games/advertisments, and how I am dying to check these things out. Usually I'm a bit leery of in-game advertising, unless it's done in a way that actually helps the realism (like in a Nascar game). The worst implementation may be in Fight Night for the 360, when the announcer tells me that "This knockout has been brought to you by the new Dodge Calibur.
So think about how embedded games were in the 80's when a dog food company is able to put out a specialized game ONLY available via postal mail. 
I'm not exactly the kind of person that treats my body like a temple. Let's just say I enjoy a good cookie. But at the absolute minimum I've always avoided fast food like the plague. No, Quizno's doesn't count.
The gaming industry is a crowning achievement in entertainment. Growing from a few blips, to scrolling 2D screens, to massive worlds where people can come together and roam from location to location. There was a time when gamers, while choosing their particular console of choice, played everything. Every console, every game, and buying every pointless accessories they could get their hands on, to fully enjoy everything across the board. It was awesome when you had one system, and your best friend had another system. Combined the 2 of you had the greatest game library; a library that could never be confined to 1 console.
Reggie Fils-Aimes gets a huge amount of respect from me. As the head of Nintendo of America, it'd be easy for him to just be your typical executive. Worried about only the bottom line, trying to figure out how to squeeze your customers dry, etc. And while he's no doubt trying to make the most of the company, he seems to honestly care about Nintendo's customers. Gamers can smell our own, and Reggie is one of us. And like the small town boy making good, I think for one of the first times we know that the man in charge of bringing us the games, plays the games he sells. 
There's few things out there that get this site all hopped up and excited. But the one thing that ALWAYS makes us sit up and take notice is co-op play. Ever since 
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