Fight At Skyloft In Super Smash Bros. Brawl

The next Super Smash Bros. is not going to be released any time soon – in the meantime, play Project M. Project M is a Super Smash Bros. Melee-inspired mod that can be applied to Super Smash Bros. Brawl. The mod is legal because you need to have a copy of Brawl in your possession.

Project M’s purpose is to make Brawl’s gameplay mechanics similar to Melee’s style. Project M also removes the random tripping prevalent in Brawl, balances the characters, and adds new stages such as Skyward Sword’s Skyloft. The mod is free of charge and can be downloaded from Project M’s website.

“Project M is playable on ANY NTSC Wii, without any hardware modification, and even without any longterm software modification. All that is needed to get started is an SD card and a copy of Super Smash Bros. Brawl.”

Doom Designer Believes That You Don’t Need A Console To Play Games

John Romero, the co-founder of id Software, believes that traditional video game consoles are not needed. Romero helped design many well-known games including Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake. Romero prefers gaming on a PC and says that PCs are “way more powerful than consoles. They keep getting faster and faster, while consoles sit for six years without changing, or if they do they there are minor changes.”

What impact do you think tablets will have on the traditional console business in the future?

“That’s kind of something that I wrote about on my blog in 2005, which was bye-bye consoles. I was thinking more about the PC, itself, being so powerful. Your PCs at home if you’re upgrading them are powerful machines. They’re way more powerful than consoles. They keep getting faster and faster, while consoles sit for six years without changing, or if they do they there are minor changes. There’s been this truth in the games business. It’s been happening for a while, but they’ve gotten to the point now with the technology and the price differential, why don’t I just get a PC? Why would I spend more money beyond the console when a PC can deliver Wi-Fi video at HD resolutions. I can play my console games on my PC and blast it to the screen and use a wireless controller? What I didn’t foresee in 2005 was the rise of the post-PC, which are all these tablets now. These are the things that actually will probably be the end of the consoles. The new iPad has crazy fast graphics and it’s a fast machine and it delivers great games. It can mirror the graphics to a giant HD screen and it’s basically just showing you that you don’t need a console.”

 

Rayman & Mega Man Arrive On UK Virtual Console

An original 2D side-scrolling classic comes to Nintendo 3DS in the form of Rayman. With over 25 levels of platforming madness and seven unique worlds to explore, it is up to you to free the Electoons, defeat the menacing evil forces along the way, and engage in an epic boss battle that will test your skills to the limit as you take on the evil Mr. Dark!

Memories of time spent with a childhood sweetheart return in Sweet Memories Blackjack. With each game of blackjack played you will learn more about your returning friend, Kasumi and find out if she is the perfect match for you. You can also enjoy two different game modes; Normal and Score, where you can place higher wages with different members of the Poker club, or in Score Mode you can beat your opponent by gaining a higher score.

Help Mega Man X lead the fight against a new threat in Mega Man X2 on Virtual Console for Wii. When a band of Maverick Reploid rebels known as X-Hunters attack, it’s up to you to defend against them. Use new state-of-the-art upgrades from Dr Light and turn the defeated enemies’ weapons against them.

Wii Price To Drop To $99?

Nintendo might be planning to sell the Wii for $99 sometime later this year. The rumour comes from a Kmart employee who managed to take a snap of the revised pricing for the console from the company’s database. It would make sense for Nintendo to announce a price drop for Wii during E3 as the company shifts its focus onto Wii U, which is due for release later this year. We should know for certain in just a couple of weeks.

Tip: Ray B

Pikmin 2 Joins Mario Power Tennis In US Nintendo Selects, Plus New Prices For Wii Games

Nintendo of America is adding two great games to the Nintendo Selects value collection for the Wii console on June 10 with Mario Power Tennis and Pikmin 2, a Nintendo GameCube classic making its U.S. debut on Wii. Nintendo Selects games are available at a suggested retail price of $19.99.

Separately, two of the best-selling Wii games of all time will be getting new prices: Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Donkey Kong Country Returns each will be available at a suggested retail price of $29.99. The value pricing provides shoppers with a great way to expand their game collections with some of the hottest Wii games around.

Mario Party 9 Storms Japanese Charts & The Nintendo 3DS Is On Fire

Mario Party 9 has successfully managed to climb to the top of the Japanese software charts this week selling a more-than respectable 144,585 units. If you look at the entire top ten you’ll immediately notice that eight of the ten game are on Nintendo platforms. With regards to hardware the Nintendo 3DS is once again the best-selling format, easily beating Sony’s PlayStation 3. Here’s the software and hardware charts:

  1. [WII] Mario Party 9
  2. [PS3] Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
  3. [3DS] Fire Emblem: Awakening
  4. [3DS] Super Mario Land 3D
  5. [3DS] Mario Kart 7
  6. [3DS] Kid Icarus: Uprising
  7. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3 G
  8. [3DS] Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games
  9. [PSP] Conception: Please Have My Children!
  10. [WII] Wii Sports Resort
  • Nintendo 3DS: 91,868
  • PlayStation 3: 23,478
  • PSP: 20,033
  • Wii: 15,789
  • PlayStation Vita: 10,583
  • Nintendo DS: 1,911
  • PlayStation 2: 1,611
  • Xbox 360: 1,420

Project Zero 2 Wii ‘Feels Like An All-New Game’

Project Zero 2 Wii producer Keisuke Kikuchi, claims that while Project Zero 2 is a remake of a PlayStation 2 game, it now feels like a brand new game. Kikuchi says that it’s this is down to the dramatic changes that the development team at Tecmo Koei have implemented.

“I feel that to all intents and purposes, it’s a new game! The objective viewpoint that Nintendo brought to the project meant that we ended up reworking a lot of different elements of the game from first principles.”

“We’ve made significant changes to the battle system, and we have added new episodes and several endings. We’ve also brought the graphics up to date, and packed it full of features that put it right at the cutting edge of horror games.”

XSEED Pursuing Limited Edition The Last Story For North America This July

XSEED has confirmed that it’s looking to release a limited edition version of The Last Story when the game makes its debut in North America in July. Presumably the limited edition version of The Last Story will be similar to the version that was released in Europe back in February. The limited edition version of The Last Story contains a copy of the game, a steel book-case, a soundtrack, and an art book.

Pandora’s Tower Review

Pandora’s Tower is the third game in the exclusive trio of Japanese games for Wii which included Xenoblade Chronicles and The Last Story. Pandora’s Tower however features less RPG elements than the aforementioned titles and is far more reliant on hack and slash action with a strong dose of gripping adventure. You’re tasked with a quest which sees you climbing 13 dark and deadly towers to defeat the powerful Master which dwells within each and everyone.

Fans of the Legend of Zelda series should enjoy what the game has to offer – which is plenty of action based combat and a few brain teasing puzzles, but the overall package is nowhere near as polished or as innovative as any of the acclaimed games within the Zelda franchise. The storyline however is the games coup de grace as it’s something that gradually emerges as you progress through the game, leaving you wanting more – which it does to a successful effect.

Pandora’s Tower is a dark and brooding fairy tale, with its Brother Grimm inspired storyline, and a traditionally noble hero devoted to rescuing the one person who he would ultimately give his life for. It’s just a shame that I found the game became increasingly monotonous. It’s because you know that once you have successfully defeated the Master in the tower you move onto the next tower, and rinse and repeat.  Pandora’s Tower is an essential purchase for those that are still attached to the now rather ageing Wii, but for those who aren’t there’s better entertainment to be found elsewhere.

7/10