If you have a DS and have ever played Tecmo Bowl you owe it to yourself to grab this game. I had lots of doubts when I heard about the remake of this classic football game, but I have to admit that this is looking good. I like the classic look of the game combined with some new features like the create a character, added weather and building your own team functions. The fall can not come fast enough for me to grab this game up and get in some old school running and gunning. The first character I will create is Bo Jackson, Bo knows football and Tecmo Bowl just won’t be the same without him.
What do you guys think, just old school nostalgia on my part or a must buy for you as well?
This is one of the coolest and possibly the most unnecessary mods I have ever scene. This guy took his Nintendo DS version of Guitar Hero: On Tour and integrated it into a full sized guitar to make playing it easier, it also transmits the music to his entertainment center. I agree that the DS version hand grip is borderline horrible because it will cause you major uncomfort after a couple of songs, but this mod makes the game huge, which defeats the purpose of a portable game. I guess unless you don’t mind walking round the streets with a guitar and headphones you will be fine.
You have probably traveled around and seen the Apple vending machines where you can buy iPods and accessories, but on Loot Ninja’s recent travels to the twin cities, a.k.a. Minnesota, Loot Ninja came across two vending machines it had never seen before. Right in the Minnesota airport there was a kiosk for Best Buy Express and another not too far away for Sony. There was actually a third one that had Elizabeth Arden products as well, but we weren’t as interested in perfume and cosmetics.
The Best Buy vending machine had an assortment of products that any frequent flyer may find a need for like headphones, chargers and video games. Inside there was a few Nintendo DS handhelds as well as Mario Kart and Mario Party for the DS at normal retail prices which was the real shocker, I was certain you would be charged a joy of buying in the airport fee but it was normal MSRP.
MLB Power Pros 2008 is the follow up to last years MLB Power Pros from 2K Sports and we had a chance to put a lot of time into the game. Do not let the fact that these super cute versions of ball players do not have noses or mouths fool you into thinking that this is a dumb down baseball game, in fact quite the opposite in some respects it can be too complicated.
Power Pros is a huge franchise in Japan and over the last few years it has slowly made it’s way to the North American market. The bobble head style characters in conjunction with the cartoon style graphics make it very easy for any age gamer to become interested in this game, but the intricate nature of the game makes it a huge challenge to master. Read More »
Looks like Apple is really standing behind its product and letting people know just how great it really is. Not only does it play music, take photos, have applications, make phone calls and it will shred at video games as well. The iPhone is the hottest piece of technology out right now and at QuakeCon 2008, Carmack (id Software co-founder) let everyone know just how great it is and what it could spell for the handheld market.
While Carmack sees graphics memory as a potential limiting factor on the iPhone, he’s stoked about the intuitiveness of the iPhone SDK. He also described the handset’s hardware as equivalent to that of the Sega Dreamcast living room console, and almost on par with Sony’s PlayStation 2 and Microsoft’s original Xbox.
When it comes to portable gaming systems, the iPhone is ‘more powerful than a Nintendo DS and PSP combined,’ he added. Apple’s revenue sharing deal that offers developers 70 percent of the sale price was also cited as a plus.
That is a pretty fierce claim that a small phone has the power of a console, but after playing around with my iPhone it can easily be believed. Carmack didn’t hold back and really let people know his stance on how great the Apple product is, perhaps a money hat was a flying or maybe just cheap gin, who knows?
Loot Ninja recently had the opportunity to discuss the upcoming 2K Sports title, MLB Power Pros 2008 with Robert Nelson the Producer of the game.
Power Pros is developed by 2K Sports and released on PS2 and Wii for the second year in a row in North America, but for the first time on Nintendo DS. MLB Power Pros uses MLB licenses for all stadiums and players and is a huge success in Japan.
Rob Nelson calls it “Blend of sim baseball, but has a look and design acceptable to new players.” Power Pros 2008 tries hard to be mixed for casual and hardcore gamers so that no one is left out. Read More »
Everyone has been enjoying Guitar Hero on the Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, and even the Wii for quite some time now, but our friends over at Activision/Vicarious Visions decided that we, the gamer, needed to have Guitar Hero goodness on the go as well and developed Guitar Hero: On Tour. GH: On Tour brings you 26 tracks that you can now rock out on your Nintendo DS complete with multiplayer modes.
The hand grip is awkward at best and really needs some time to get used to, but fortunately is very easy to install into the Gameboy Advance slot. Unfortunately, I can only play about 3 songs at a time before my hand begins cramping up and getting uncomfortable. There is a Velcro strap on the hand grip to help hold it in place, but it does little to help. The game comes with a stylus guitar pick, which you use to strum on the right screen as the notes scroll down the left screen.
I can sum up the Nintendo press conference in one word… BORING! Nothing was said that was even remotely close to interesting.
The conference opens up with Shaun White and his new snow boarding game, which is confirmed will use the balance board. Then Satoru Iwata babbles on and on about a paradigm shift in gaming and never makes it to a valid point. Iwata’s babble went on for about 10 minutes, which seemed like forever.
Nintendo gives E3 a new acronym: E3 is Engaged, Enriched and Enthused. Ok if you say so? Read More »
Nintendo just announced that the DS will be getting their own version of GTA, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. Not too many details divulged at all, but a custom game engine for the DS is confirmed and it will be set in Liberty City as well. Look for this title this winter season. We will keep our eyes on this one for sure.
The folks over at Atlus bring us Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2 for the Nintendo DS, which is a great follow up to the original and brings back the love of cutting up patients. You return as young Dr. Derek Stiles 3 years after his first exploits to rid the world of all kinds of ailments and diseases. GUILT, a terrorist disease concocted to destroy humanity, is back and Dr. Stiles and his nurse must stop it no matter what the cost.
Trauma Center does not deviate from the great gameplay of the first game. All the same tools and procedures are back in this installment. You use your stylus to control everything on the touch screen, from injections to control infections, to incisions to remove exploding organs, to stitching up wounds and putting antibiotic gel on them. You have 8 tools to choose from at a time and simply click on the one you want to use and then perform the correct stylus stroke to operate on your patient. To perform an incision, simply stroke along the incision line and to perform a suture, make a zigzag motion across the wound. The stylus controls are phenomenal and the prompts from the nurse make the game very exciting.
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