Well it’s the last weekend before the storm. E3 is only days away, and before we know it we’ll be flooded with enough news to melt the minds of every gamer on the face of the planet. But before that happens, I thought I’d take time out to fulfill my previous promise of offering up reviews of every Ninja Gaiden title. And so, I present to you, my review of Ninja Gaiden, for the Xbox. This concludes, for now, my splurge of Ninja Gaiden reviews. All three NES games, and now the Xbox version, are reviewed on the site for your reading pleasure. A review of Ninja Gaiden Black will be forthcoming, although I cannot say for certain when. Click the names for my previous reviews of Ninja Gaiden I, Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos, and Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom.

And with that, pop some popcorn, pour yourself a nice hot cup of coffee, snuggle up, and get ready to read! Click below for my final review of Ninja Gaiden for Microsoft’s Xbox console.
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Koei today pulled the wraps off the games it will showcase at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, with a pair of offerings for Sony’s next-gen console headlining the publisher’s lineup.

The company’s Omega Force development team will have a hand in both the action game Blade Storm: The Hundred Years War, and the futuristic racer Fatal Inertia, which is being developed in cooperation with Koei’s Toronto, Ontario studio. While both these titles appear to be entirely new franchises, the rest of Koei’s lineup is built mostly of more familiar offerings. The full announced lineup is as follows:

PlayStation 3:
Fatal Inertia
Blade Storm: Hundred Years War

Xbox 360:
Samurai Warriors 2

PlayStation 2:
Samurai Warriors 2

PSP:
Gitaroo Man Lives!
Dynasty Warriors Vol. 2

Nintendo DS:
Dynasty Warriors DS

PC:
Uncharted Waters Online
Dynasty Warriors BB (working title)

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Activision and developer Raven have teamed up to develop their follow-up to their very successful previous games, X-Men: Legends and X-Men: Legends II, with a new game that will extensively cover the entire Marvel universe. That game is Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. Using the same basic engine and a lot of the same mechanics as the X-Men: Legends titles, Marvel: UA is a brand-new game and is not connected to the X-Men: Legends titles, thus the new name lacking a “Legends” monicker.
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According to a report in The Brownsville Herald yesterday, Democratic Texas senator Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa has said he will propose a tax on games sold in the state at a Senate Finance Committee meeting this weekend. The tax would hike the cost of games 5 percent. Hinojosa said the measure would generate about $65 million every two years and that the money would go to fund new schools and improvements in poorer school districts.

This is not the first time someone has proposed taxing games. Earlier this year, another Texas politician, Republican gubernatorial candidate Star Locke, campaigned on a platform that included a 50 percent tax on soda, a $10,000 tax on medical clinics for every abortion they provide, and a 100 percent tax on violent games. Unlike Locke, Hinojosa already holds office (Locke came in fourth out of four candidates in the primary elections with 3.5 percent of the vote), and his tax isn’t singling out violent games.

“You have all these kids buying video games, and sometimes they are good, some are bad and that’s not my call,” Hinojosa is quoted as saying in the Herald article. “But I think that we can generate (money) to put toward the schools they go to.”

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While E3 is nearly a week away at this point, EA has announced that they are hard at work with a brand new Madden game for Nintendo’s upcoming Wii console, which will be shown at the show, in playable form. More game titles are also in development by EA for the Wii console, most likely more sports games as well. All will be revealed soon, but for now here’s some details on the new Madden.
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The Nintendo Revolution name is gone. Introducing… Wii. As in “we” or “wheeee!” Press play to see for yourself:


Why Wii we wonder, Nintendo explains: While the code-name “Revolution” expressed our direction, Wii represents the answer. Wii will break down that wall that separates video game players from everybody else.

“The other systems have an extension of their current names; ours is a new leap to something different,” Perrin Kaplan, Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Affairs for Nintendo of America said “A lot of thought went into the name.”

So why announce the name now and not at the show? “By letting the gaming community vent now about the name, they will be less distracted as launch titles for the system are announced and initial reports about what it’s like to play the games begin to come in.”
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Public figures love to play the blame game, so how new media keeps corrupting our children is a topic that comes up often. There’s just one problem, it’s not true, because parents are responsible for raising their kids. Obviously we all know the trash-talking of U.S. senators in blaming videogames for violence in children, to quote “videogames desensitize them to death and destruction.”

I don’t know about you gamers, but I’m not less emotional towards violence then I was 10 years ago, and I played a lot of Grand Theft Auto games the past 8 years…
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Buena Vista Games will publish Lumines Plus for the PlayStation 2. Lumines Plus will be a new version of the original handheld title, which will also get a sequel titled Lumines II on the PSP. Buena Vista Games will also publish two more forthcoming Q Entertainment puzzlers, Every Extend Extra (PSP) and the newly announced Meteos: Disney Edition (DS).

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Capcom’s official website for the upcoming Rockman ZX / Megaman ZX for the Nintendo DS has been relaunched. Since it’s all in Japanese, you’ll have to make due with the screenshots showing the gameplay details. But there’s an upcoming movies section as well, so if you’re a fan keep an eye out for that site.

Rockman ZX is set for a Japanese release on July 7th, Megaman ZX however has not yet been announced for a release outside Japan.

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IGN reports that at the recent MMBB Online Game Festa, a King of fighters tournament and demo event held by Online service provider KDDI on April 22 in Tokyo, KOF series producer Falcoon announced that details on a DS version of King of Fighters would be announced in the near future.

That’s all the man said. For now, take this as confirmation that a DS version of the classic arcade franchise is in development.

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