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DPrime Retroview: Sonic the Hedgehog

With Sonic the Hedgehog 4 on the horizon, now is a better time then ever to look back at the classics which it is building off of. The general idea of early Sonic games is that their all speed trips all the way to the end. Despite laying the blue prints of the series, the original Sonic the Hedgehog actually has a much larger focus on platforming rather then speed. If you are coming back to the original title to escape the stop start action of recent entries like Sonic and the Black Knight or the werehog sections of Sonic Unleashed, you will be severely disappointed.

Posted by Oculin in Featured Articles, Originals, Previews, Wii | 0 comments

DPrime Preview: Monster Hunter Tri

Online games don’t fare well on the Wii. Friend codes and a lack of a real online community really hurt the system’s online potential. But Capcom plans on giving Wii owners a title with a real online component with Monster Hunter Tri, a hack and slash title. While you may not have heard of the Monster Hunter series, it has been very successful in Japan. Most of the titles have made it to Europe and North America, but the sales of the series has been less than stellar in these regions. Monster Hunter Tri, the third major installment in the series, will be hitting North America and Europe next month. The demo is available now at Gamestop for free, but many locations are requiring a pre-order to get the demo. Of course, if they are giving you a hard time, you can always just pre-order it and then come back at a later date and cancel it.

Posted by Default Prime Reporter in Originals, Site News | 0 comments

It’s been confirmed that Default Prime supports the church of Satan

Yup, after seeing that Default Prime has acquired 666 subscribers to our RSS feed, it has been confirmed that Default Prime is a supporter of the Church of Satan. Yes, it is clear that this is what it means.

What do we have to do? Revolt. We must keep subscribing to Default Prime, constantly, getting it away from the deadly 666, and raising it to…766? Yeah, lets do it.

Remember, only you can prevent forest fires the Church of Satan.

Subscribe here and help the cause

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Posted by Oculin in Featured Articles, Nintendo, Originals, Reviews, Wii | 1 comment

DPrime Review: New Super Mario Bros. Wii

When Mario moved into the third dimension with Super Mario 64 it seemed like there was no looking back for console Mario titles, and for almost fifteen years that remained true. Now Mario has finally returned to the second dimension on home consoles with New Super Mario Bros. Wii, but it comes with a bit of a twist adding simultaneous multiplayer which is a first for the series. New Super Mario Bros Wii is also the debut of Nintendo’s Super Guide to help more casual players pull through the game. The additions of these features may give you the impression that New Super Mario Bros Wii is a side scrolling Mario title aimed at casuals, but fortunately that is far from the case.

Posted by Sid982 in Breaking, Companies | 0 comments

Mark Beaumont, Campcom COO, Dies Suddenly

Mark Beaumont, the chief operating officer for Capcom in North America and Europe suddenly died this morning of a heart attack. Mark Beaumont was in his late 50s and was officially Capcom’s executive vice president, officer and Head of North America, South America, and Europe consumer software publishing.

Capcom released the following statement

“Our COO and dear friend, Mark Beaumont, passed away this morning. This sudden loss has left us with deep sadness. Our hearts go out to his family and loved ones. We will remember him for his humor, passion and commitment to Capcom and our industry. He was a great leader and visionary and his spirit will carry on in everything that we do. Please join us in memory of Mark.”
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Posted by Keenan "SuperMario290" in Featured Articles, Gaming in General, Originals, Primed, Videos | 3 comments

Weekend Primed: 10 of the Greatest Video Game freakouts ever

Video games are a form of entertainment. They provide us something to do when we’re bored, they give us an excuse not to hang out with our loved ones, and they keep us competitive with other people. There are some of those people though that content to freaking out over video games whenever they get killed, they do something wrong, or their team is a bunch of douches. Well this Weekend Primed is a homage to the greatest freak-outs over video games caught on video (oh, and we’re not posting the goddamn World of Warcraft “greatest freakout ever” or the N64 kid videos).

10) The art of bitching while playing World of Warcraft

It takes a lot of skill to be in public, where people can watch you, and be able to bitch this much while playing World of Warcraft. It’s two minutes of these two bitching at each other (mostly the prick in the white jacket).

9) Monitor gets with help of keyboard and DDR frustration

The video is pretty cool when he’s rockin out to DDR on a keyboard. But I think that’s one of the better questions though: who the fuck plays DDR with a keyboard? That’s his first problem. The next is, look at his room! I mean this person should be in a padded white room if he’s putting his head through the wall because of video games.

Click the “read more” link to see the rest of the videos

Posted by Keenan "SuperMario290" in Featured Articles, Originals, PC, Reviews | 0 comments

Half-Life 2 Mod: Post Script Episode Microview

Well I don’t know what happened, but for some reason it took me fucking forever to play through the first part of Post Script, the 5-part episodic mod based on Half-Life 2. So here is a microview (that’s a short review don’tcha know), and I’m going to do one for each episode that’s released.

Okay, so in Post Script you’re left in a post-apocalyptic world, where you explore the world, go through the remains of the town, and explore everything. The game is very puzzle-based, whether they’re easy or not. Everything even from like getting into a building is kind of built into a puzzle no matter how much brain power it takes or not.

Along the way in the game, you are being talked to by Celeste, and you are constantly being referred to as “cherub”. We don’t know much more about this at this point, but the tone in which Celeste talks, how negative but also the tone of her voice when she (I’m assuming)  is talking to you is very unique and clever. Celeste’s narrative also is very real and down to earth, like a real person is talking to you.

Overall the game takes about 15 minutes to complete, it took me 2 months to actually play through and get this post up about (sorry Lewis), but the mod is great and honestly, I’m stoked for the other episodes for Post Script. I really think that this could be the start to something great. Keep it up.

You can download the game at the official Post Script website. Go check it out, download it, and enjoy it.

Posted by Keenan "SuperMario290" in Breaking, Gadgets | 1 comment

Apple introduces the iPad, we’ve got details

We all knew it was coming in some form or another, a huge, decked out version of the iPod touch and iPhone, and here it is. Apple has officially unveiled the iPad, that has all of the features of the iPhone, but can also be used as a laptop. It is said that this will completely bridge the gap between the smartphone and the laptop (unless you have huge fingers and can’t use the keyboard worth a shit).

Anyhow, I really like the idea, but essentially it’s a bigger iPhone. Just more real estate to surf the web, and do all of that. Plus there are other laptops that have accelerometers in them, have touch screens, have a full keyboard, and are small (just not as), so what really sets this apart? That discussion will be for an editorial of another day.

Kotaku has all of the details of the device, and it’s going to cost a pretty penny obviously, especially if you want to add some 3G to that package. You can check those out below this.

Go Apple, you’re innovative. And stuff.

Pricing
WiFi only models are:
$499 – 16GB
$599 – 32GB
$699 – 64 GB

3G models are:
$629 – 16GB
$729 – 32GB
$829 – 64 GB

Online plans are$14.99 for up to 250 MB of data per month or $29.99 for Unlimited data.

Posted by Oculin in Featured Articles, Originals, PS2, Retro, Reviews | 0 comments

DPrime Retroview: Space Channel 5

Before rhythm and music games required large plastic accessories many games, like Parappa the Rapper, Vib-Ribbon, and Frequency, just used the normal controllers. Space Channel 5 is much like these titles as it also uses the standard controller. Released on the Dreamcast in 2000, Space Channel 5 was one of the titles SEGA released to try to broaden the audience of the Dreamcast. Their attempt brought to life a simple rhythmic dancing game with a futuristic style that is as unique as it is wacky. While the title is one of the many unique titles SEGA created for the Dreamcast, the question is should you be looking to add this title to your collection or not.

Posted by Oculin in Featured Articles, Originals, Reviews | 2 comments

Dprime Review: Phantasy Star Zero

     Phantasy Star Online was one of the very first console massively multiplayer online role playing games. While the Dreamcast’s life span was short lived, Phantasy Star Online’s life was far from short as it moved to almost every other home console last generation. While Phantasy Star Universe is the first real sequel to Phantasy Star Online, many changes were made that pushed many fans to go back to the original Phantasy Star Online. Now that the fan base is split between Phantasy Star Universe and Phantasy Star Online, SEGA has created a title that goes back towards the original Phantasy Star Online with Phantasy Star Zero for the Nintendo DS. While it sounds all fine on paper, the question is if SEGA can really duplicate the success of the original Phantasy Star Online with this new entry and bring the full experience onto the DS.