Posted by Keenan "SuperMario290" in Gaming in General | 2 comments

Amazon sells stuff and here’s the top stuff they sold game-related in 2009

Goddammit. Yeah, I’ve hired local interns to help with the site, and I told one of them to make a picture for this story it seems obvious that the Amazon rain forest would fit in better than Amazon.com. Christ.

Anyhow, we’ve got your top 10 game-related items sold in 2009 from Amazon.com. And…it’s almost no different then last year. Analysts say the Wii is dying; I say they’re dying. So without further ado:

1. Wii
2. Wii Remote Controller
3. Wii MotionPlus
4. Wii Nunchuk Controller
5. New Super Mario Bros
6. Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board
7. Wii Sports Resort
8. Wii Fit
9. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (360)
10. Mario Kart Wii with Wii Wheel

Compared to last year:

1. Wii
2. Wii Fit
3. Wii Nunchuk Controller
4. Wii Remote Controller
5. Mario Kart Wii with Wii Wheel
6. Official Nintendo Wii Wheel
7. Wii Play with Wii Remote
8. Super Smash Bros. Brawl
9. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack
10. Wii Charge Station

Good job remote, way to beat the nunchuk on that one!

Posted by Keenan "SuperMario290" in Nintendo | 1 comment

This is how you do a Zelda-Themed Wedding Right!

Exactly. Just look at the picture above and let the bad-assness sink in. Has it sunk in? Now we can continue.

Kotaku reader Kyle and his recently wedded wife Ashley must like the Legend of Zelda, a lot. So when they were getting married, what better to do than have the game as the theme!? Plus, it’s classy!

As you can see, all of the groomsmen are sporting some nice cufflinks with with all of the game cartridges up to the Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker on the GameCube. Now I don’t wear anything that needs cufflinks, but I really want those. ALL OF THEM.

A custom cake? That would be the thing to top off one fantastic wedding eh? So by looking at this picture and reading this, I hope you now know how to prepare a Zelda-themed wedding. I hear that’s a sought-after skill nowadays.

Posted by Keenan "SuperMario290" in Gaming in General | 1 comment

Game Rankings and MetaCritic Tell us what the best games of the decade were, so don’t argue

It looks like we have a recap post of what Game Rankings and MetaCritic rated as the best games of each year for this decade were. It’s kind of weird to see that  handheld game could have possibly made it to the top, along with those Tony Hawk Pro Skater games (although back then they sucked a lot less). Nevertheless, here’s what we’ve got as statistically the best games of the decade:

Game Rankings

2000: Metal Gear Solid for the Game Boy Color
2001: Halo: Combat Evolved for the Xbox
2002: Metroid Prime for the GameCube
2003: Grand Theft Auto Double Pack for the Playstation 2
2004: Half-Life 2 for the PC
2005: Resident Evil 4 for the GameCube
2006: Out of the Park Baseball 2007 for the PC (zelda twilight)
2007: Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii
2008: Grand Theft Auto IV for the Playstation 3
2009: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves for the Playstation 3

Metacritic

2000: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 for the Playstation
2001: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 for the Playstation 2
2002: Metroid Prime for the GameCube
2003: Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker for the GameCube
2004: Half-Life 2 for the PC
2005: Resident Evil 4 for the GameCube
2006: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for the GameCube
2007: Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii
2008: Grand Theft Auto IV for the Xbox 360
2009: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves for the Playstation 3

Posted by SuburbanHell in Microsoft, PC, PS3, Sony, Xbox 360 | 0 comments

“Return to Ostagar” DLC for Dragon Age: Origins Coming January 5

Leading video game developer BioWare™, announced today that the Return to Ostagar downloadable content (DLC) for Dragon Age™: Origins will be released on January 5 in North America and Europe for the Xbox 360® videogame and entertainment system and PC versions of the game at a cost of 400 BioWare Points or Microsoft Points. The DLC will be available for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system later in January. Return to Ostagar allows players to exact their revenge and embark on a quest for the mighty arms and armor of the once great King Cailan when they revisit Ostagar, the site of the Grey Wardens’ darkest hour, to reclaim the honor and learn the secrets of Ferelden’s fallen king.
“We are thrilled at the way the fans have embraced Dragon Age: Origins and we’re excited to welcome them back into the game,” said Aaryn Flynn, General Manager and Vice President, BioWare Edmonton. “Return to Ostagar represents BioWare’s commitment to providing a steady stream of compelling post release content as we continue to expand the Dragon Age universe.”

Return to Ostagar summons players to a new quest in which they will return to the fateful battleground in Ostagar where the Grey Wardens were nearly wiped out. Players will discover King Cailan’s top-secret political agenda and go behind enemy lines to revisit a place that many feared had been lost to history.

Return to Ostagar will be available for 400 BioWare Points on the PC and 400 Microsoft Points on the Xbox 360 on January 5. It will be available for $4.99 on the PlayStation® Store later in the month. Dragon Age: Origins is rated M by the ESRB and 18+ by PEGI.

For more information on Dragon Age: Origins, please visit www.dragonage.com.

Posted by Keenan "SuperMario290" in Nintendo, PC | 0 comments

Tetris + Mario = Why the Hell not?

We get more and more interesting flash games coming from people every single day. This time, it’s a skew of two of the most popular games of all time, Tetris and Super Mario bros. What do you get when you combine the two? Tuper Tario Tros. of course!

The game is a recreation of level 1-1 in the original game, but you can switch between the “Mario” view and the “Tetris” view at any point to get rid of those damn bricks. You can’t play it forever obviously, but it works very well, is an interesting concept, and I would actually love to see more levels done this way. I would highly recommend you guys to go check it out!

Posted by Keenan "SuperMario290" in Gaming in General, WTF | 0 comments

There will be pieces in a new Metal Gear Solid game? WTF?

Yeah, we were wondering what the fuck too when we saw the above image. That’s just a screenshot off a new website Konami has put up, and shows snake under a cardboard box with a little text bubble that says “Piece Walker coming soon”. Well, we don’t know what exactly a “Piece Walker” is, but there’s either some cleverness behind the title, or the person they hired to make the title is half fucking retarded.

It’s only on the Japan version of the site, so we’re expecting it to stay there, but odds are it’s some mobile device sort of thing. That or…yeah, that’s it.

Posted by Keenan "SuperMario290" in Xbox 360 | 1 comment

Pick up the original Gears of War on Games on Demand

There are lots of new and old games on the Games on Demand service for the Xbox 360, well it looks like if you want to kick some locust ass and here some cheesy punch lines (nevermind that’s the second game), and lots of blood and gore? Well you can now pick up the original Gears of War. It’s a 6GB download and costs $20 so if you get the itch to replay the game and you want to spend a couple hours downloading it, head over to your Xbox and do that now!

Posted by Keenan "SuperMario290" in Gaming in General, Videos | 0 comments

Video of OnLive; This Might be the Future

The video above is of OnLive CEO Steve Perlman talking about their gaming service, OnLive. If you’ve been stuck in a cave in the middle of nowhere since GDC 2009, you’ll want to watch this. It is about their OnLive service that is a bunch of cloud servers and a subscription-based service that allows people to play games on all different systems using this one service. You can switch instantaneously through each game in a quick manner. It would get rid of piracy, the revenue from the used games market, and could possibly get rid of all of those consoles you have sitting around your TV.

Posted by SuburbanHell in Microsoft, PS3, Sony, Xbox 360 | 0 comments

Paul McCartney brings live tracks to Rock Band

Harmonix and MTV Games today announced that a three pack of songs from Paul McCartney’s latest live album will soon be added to the Rock Band Music Store and LEGO® Rock Band Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Wii™.
Paul McCartney joins the more than 390 bands currently available through the Rock Band platform. With more than 1,000 songs available, Rock Band is, without question, the industry leader in providing the best selection of interactive musical content, songs and artists.

Paul McCartney’s historic three-night musical christening of New York’s Citi Field, witnessed by 120,000-plus attendees and universally hailed as a concert experience for the ages, was immortalized Nov. 17, when Hear Music/Concord Music Group released Good Evening New York City. This momentous musical experience is available in two formats: a three-disc (two CDs and one DVD) standard edition and a four-disc (two CDs and two DVDs) deluxe version, featuring expanded packaging and a bonus DVD including McCartney’s traffic-stopping, headline-making July 15 performance on the Ed Sullivan Theater marquee.

And beginning Jan. 5, Rock Band and McCartney fans will be able to download “New York City Pack 01” in the Rock Band Music Store. McCartney’s solo debut on the Rock Band platform includes “Band on the Run (live),” “Jet (live)” and “Sing the Changes (live).” These tracks will be available Jan. 5 for the Xbox 360 and Wii and Jan. 7 for PlayStation3.

Price: $1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track

$5.49, £2.49 UK, €3.99 EU (440 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “New York City Pack 01”

$2.00 USD (200 Wii Points™) per track

** Dates for Rock Band game tracks are tentative and subject to change. **

For more information, please visit:  Rock Band Website

Posted by Keenan "SuperMario290" in Xbox 360 | 0 comments

You will Fallout of Your Chair When you see this deal

There was a really bad pun in the title, and you’re going to understand once you read this. Okay, so with all of this Christmas and holiday deals going on everywhere because people think that just because it’s the holidays they don’t have to spend money on shit, there is a new Fallout 3 deal on Xbox Live.

You can pick up all five of the add-ons (Mothership Zeta, Point Lookout, Broken Steel, The Pitt and Operation Anchorage) for only 400 Microsoft Points today, which evens out to roughly $5. A bad deal? I think not.

You better pick them up today if you plan on doing so, because we don’t know how long this deal is going to be going on.