Archive for March, 2006
NES Review: Ninja Gaiden II: Dark Sword of Chaos. Ryu Hayabusa returns in this classic
As promised, here is our second Classic Game Review, following up last week, with a review of the sequel, Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos. As a young kid, I remember this game fondly, and it has always remained one of my favorite NES games of all time, even now. So how does Ninja Gaiden II hold up today, and is at as good as the first Ninja Gaiden game? Find out below.
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New Silent Hill games for PS2 & PSP
1up mentions that in addition to the Silent Hill movie next month, Konami plans to release The Silent Hill Collection for the PS2. The collection includes versions of Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3 and Silent Hill 4: The Room. The Silent Hill Collection is slated to arrive in stores April 13, a week before the movie hits.
Sources close to 1UP have revealed that Konami is also working on a new Silent Hill for the PSP. Not to be confused with the Silent Hill Experience due later this Spring, this is a proper Silent Hill game - perhaps even the Silent Hill 1 remake that was recently alleged to be in the works (unless that happens to be the PS3 Silent Hill game in development).
42% of stores sell violent games to kids
The Federal Trade Commission of America says unauthorized sales of video games considered too mature for children declined last year due to stronger enforcement efforts. The FTC says an undercover investigation of 406 electronic and video games stores found that 42 percent improperly sold games with mature content to children 16 and younger who weren’t accompanied by an adult.
That 2005 figure is a drop from 69 percent in 2003. National chain stores were much more likely to restrict sales of the so-called M-rated games. Only 35 percent improperly sold them, compared to 63 percent for regional or local sellers.
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New Super Mario Bros teaser site & 2nd delay
Nintendo launched a teaser site for the New Super Mario Bros. On it is shown that the title’s release has been pushed back to May 21th. That’s on a Sunday, so it’ll be either the day before or after.
No explanation has been posted for the second delay, but they did put up some Mario-themed wallpapers and the promise of some new gameplay videos coming soon. We’re thinking they delayed it to either fine-tune the highly anticipated game, or get enough DS Lite stock together to launch with enough bundles to meet demand, we’ll see when it shows up in May.
Watch babies play videogames at gamevideos.com
GameVideos.com is a new website in its own words dedicated to “anything and everything to do with video game videos!”
The site is in public beta, which means you have to load as many movies as possible (no, not really). Below is a video of a baby playing Gran Turismo, he’s quite good at hitting the…
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Xbox 360 backwards compatibility games list updated
Microsoft just came out with some new Xbox 360 backwards compatibility update. You need to download a file for these games to make the old games work.
New to the list are: BLACK, Star Wars Battlefront II, and World Soccer Winning Eleven 9. Also, these buggy compatible Xbox games were fixed: Darkwatch, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Half-Life 2, Fable, Fable: The Lost Chapters, Forza Motorsport, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden Black, SSX 3, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, kill.switch, World Series Baseball 2K3. Enjoy!
Neverwinter Nights 2 website for your RPG FAQ & screenshot needs
Atari launched the official website of Neverwinter Nights 2, the sequel to the successful RPG from Bioware. The game, like other Bioware game sequels, is being developed by Obsidian Entertainment. The website gives information and screenshots of the game, and answers your most urgent questions in the FAQ section. Neverwinter Nights 2 is expected for a release in the summer of 2006 (June 20th in the USA).
World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.10.0 with many updates
Blizzard updated World of WarCraft to the long awaited version 1.10.0. In addition to cosmetic changes (zone-specific weather) and some new content (new class armor sets), the biggest part of this update consists of changes to the Priest class. For a full list of patch updates go here, and to download the patch go here. I think we’ve patched things up enough for today ^_^
Battlefield 2 v1.21 to v1.22 patch
EA is patching Battlefield 2, updating it from version 1.21 to 1.22. Here’s the Battlefield 2 patch download. The patch promises:
- Improved Server Stability -> Please let it be true!
- Fixed rank up messages in Special forces
- Adjusted handling of the Tiger attack chopper
- Added delay for aiming reticule when going prone to all support weapons
- Adjusted deviation on MG36 and PKM to be in line with other support weapons
- Increased rpm from 600 to 900 on the P90
- Fixed Lock on error on certain Oil towers
- Fixed a Great Wall Exploit
- Fixed exploits on Dragon Valley and Karkand
Be warned Quake 4 1.1 patchers
id has just issued the following warning regarding the Quake IV 1.1 beta patch: “There is a problem with the widescreen functionality that may harm a user’s monitor. We are working on a re-release and will make it available as soon as possible. Please advise your viewers that may be using the current 1.1 beta and/or final to NOT enable widescreen or disable widescreen if they are currently using it.”
The rest of the patch, which adds new features for single and multiplayer - including voice chat and four new maps - should be fine, but you may want to treat the widescreen features with special caution until id gets a proper fix.
