Developer: Acquire
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Platform: PSP
Price: $9.99 (PlayStation Network)
Everyone knows that the coolest character in a video game isn’t the hero; it’s the villain. They get to wear cooler outfits, have master plans and let loose diabolical minions rather than sully their own hands. No Heroes Allowed! lets you do all these things as an 8-bit God of Destruction working along side the powerful demon lord Badman.
No genre gets more people online and blowing each other up than first-person shooters.
Video games are best served with a large side of friends and raucous laughter. With no actual holidays in sight, I feel the need to make something up to have a bunch of friends over. Maybe we’ll celebrate Tax Deadline Day?
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This week, SEGA released an application that will let fans pre-create characters for the upcoming PC/PS Vita MMO, Phantasy Star Online 2. This is great news for me, because with about one year before the game’s release, I might finally have enough time to make the character I want.
The software is in Japanese, but it’s pretty easy to figure out. If you really want to know what’s what, you can check out this guide explaining many of the options.
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I love how you can pick pre-constructed builds for each body feature if you’re not looking to dive in too deep, yet you still have the option to fine tune minor details like chin size, or how pointy your Newman’s ears are. It’s a vast improvement over any other Phantasy Star title.
You can download the application here which also has a benchmark to see how well the game will run on your PC. Be sure to share with me any of your creations and tell me what you think of these two characters I made!
Joel McHale Goes Viral for Nintendo
You may recognize Joel McHale for being the only reason to watch Community on NBC or as the host of The Soup on E!. But now he’s taken on the much loftier role as the Mushroom King, bringing his hallmark sarcasm to promote the Nintendo 3DS in a viral video that dissects itself along the way. I have to give Nintendo kudos for actually going just a touch into the risque side of things.
While this video doesn’t make me want a 3DS any more than I did, I think this one is a winner. Do you agree?
Yesterday was April 1st: a.k.a., the day you can’t believe anything on the Internet. This year seemed to have a strong nostalgic vibe, with many April Fools’ jokes focused around old-school gaming. Here is a list of all the ones that actually made me giggle.
Google Maps 8-Bit
My favorite of the day. The video explaining this (complete with authentic RPG music) would have been a worthy joke on its own, but only Google would go that extra step to actually make their popular app function as an NES game for the day.
Sony Candid Camera
Sony Online Entertainment released this pure and simple video of someone in their office pulling a classic practical joke on his co-workers. It’s not the most clever idea, but it works.
Hungry Hungry Hippos iPad
ThinkGeek.com put several gag items on their site for the day, but this one was the most amusing. Not only is this just a horrible idea, it’s that odd sort of horrible that someone might actually try to sell.
Retro City Rampage Cereal
You know, I used to make my mom buy me Nintendo cereal a lot when I was a kid. The commercial for it made me a willing zombie of marketing. I only wish I could say that commercial was different from this parody.
Assassin’s Creed Kinect
This one works only because it was made with so much care and quality that I’m sure more than a couple of people actually thought this was real…and I kinda wish it was.
Mass Effect Cartoon
Ah, the lost spectacle that was Saturday morning cartoons. This Mass Effect “debut trailer” harkens back to the horribly cheesy Super Mario Bros. and Captain N toons of yore. Ah, nostalgia.
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