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- Nintendo Brings an Original Game to the 3DS eShop Today
- [G*Star 2011] Perfect World teams up with Nexon
- Metal Gear Solid: HD Collection is a Hat Trick of Awesomeness
| Nintendo Brings an Original Game to the 3DS eShop Today Posted: 10 Nov 2011 09:17 AM PST Nintendo has yet to put much emphasis on bringing its own original games to the eShop since it launched in June. That changes this week with the release of Freakyforms. As the full name might imply — it’s entitled Freakyforms: Your Creations, Alive! — this isn’t a traditional Nintendo platformer or action game. In it you create your own creatures, called Formees, and a world for them to live in. Formees can be shared with other 3DS owners through StreetPass or QR codes, and by using the question-mark AR card the system shipped with, you can bring your creations into the real world. Sorta. It’s definitely kid-oriented as compared with something like Spore. But as the Spore Creature Creator demonstrated, people love creating wacky-looking creatures. At $6.99, the ability to do that alone may make it worth its price tag. DSiWare gets a single new game this week (as does the eShop, which has access to all DSiWare games) in Castle Conqueror: Heroes. It seems to be a sci-fi take on the turn-based strategy gameplay you’d see in Advance Wars. Its price is set at 500 points or $4.99. Meanwhile WiiWare’s lone new game is Step Up, an aerobic exercise game. It can work with either a basic aerobic step or the Wii Balance Board, should you have one lying around. In either case, the game will run you 800 points ($8). Posted by: admin in Gaming News Thank you for Visiting Gameforumer.com, Hope you enjoyed the stay with us. |
| [G*Star 2011] Perfect World teams up with Nexon Posted: 10 Nov 2011 03:16 AM PST
Beijing China (November 10, 2011) – Perfect World Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: PWRD) (“Perfect World”), a leading online game developer and operator based in China, and Nexon Korea Corporation (“Nexon”), a leading global online entertainment company and publisher of microtransaction-based massively multiplayer online games (“MMOGs”), today announced that they have jointly established a company in Korea (the “New Company”) to manage and operate online games in Korea. Posted by: admin in Gaming News Thank you for Visiting Gameforumer.com, Hope you enjoyed the stay with us. |
| Metal Gear Solid: HD Collection is a Hat Trick of Awesomeness Posted: 09 Nov 2011 09:16 PM PST Even as our consumer rights are slowly whittled away by binding arbitration clauses, draconian DRM, and “online passes,” we gamers still remain an awfully spoiled lot. And if you don’t believe me, here’s a stunning example: the asking price of the original NES Metal Gear in 1988? 50 American dollars. The cost of a fully remastered bundle containing Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (not to mention bonus remakes of the original MSX Metal Gears 1 and 2), purchased in 2011? 50 American dollars. As a pure value proposition, that’s nearly impossible to beat; and, given the amount of finely crafted video game content contained in this little package, it’s unlikely that you’ll find a better disc to grace the system of your choice — though it helps to be on board with the polarizing quirks of the Metal Gear series. As a disclaimer, I feel it necessary to admit I’m a fan of most things Metal Gear, though it’s equally important to inform you that I haven’t let fanboyism shield me from its many flaws. Regardless of its various missteps, though, Metal Gear remains one of the few gaming franchises that exists solely as an auteurist expression, something that’s becoming increasingly rare in these design-by-committee days of game development. That said, either you jive with Hideo Kojima’s unique brand of lunacy, or you don’t; and no amount of high-def polish is going to change your mind. While the Peace Walker portion of this collection has been granted a much-needed overhaul to controls and online play, parts 2 and 3 are simply prettier — and these were very pretty games to begin with. Many would argue this collection provides the perfect opportunity to revamp the odd controls of Solids 2 and 3 (which were idiosyncratic at the time), but you only have to look at how Silicon Knights’ attempt to do just this in The Twin Snakes resulted in a horribly broken game — and besides, it’s highly unlikely that Hideo Kojima would allow Bluepoint Games to alter even a byte of his legacy. Posted by: admin in Gaming News Thank you for Visiting Gameforumer.com, Hope you enjoyed the stay with us. |
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