A lot of you gamers out there will be doing this – trying to teach gram-gram and pep-pep how to use your video games when they come over for Thanksgiving. It’s the only way you’ll get to play games over Thanksgiving week because your parents want you to spend “family time” with them. Yeah. I’d rather be locked up in a wet rat infested cellar than spend time with my grandma, but don’t tell my mom that.
It’s our weekly musing into the busy lives of our very loyal Loot Ninja readers. For most of us out there it’s the end of another shitty work week. For gamers our week is just getting started (glorious weekend gaming time). We want you all to sound off on all of the great games you are playing at the moment.
I’m leaving today to go on vacation to visit my family. The place I’m headed to is up in bum-fuck, KKK-infested northern Arkansas. I love the Natural State to death, but man, it really knows what to hang it’s hat on. You know how I know the KKK are there in droves? They actually donated and have a roadside sign saying that the next mile’s trash and debri is picked up by loyal KKK members. Yeah. Good fucking times. Anyway, I’ll be away from computers, internet, and anything electronic for the entire week. I am sneaking my DSi up there with a few games to play, but other than that I’ll be miles away from video games (and civilization).
What about you guys? Are you going to be able to play video games over your Thanksgiving week? Off work and can catch up on some gaming? Be sure to let me know what you’re gaming on in the comments below.
There are two kinds of people out there. Those who enjoy torture horror and those who do not. I am in the latter. I did see the first Saw movie and thought the concept to be something new from the usual slasher flicks. The premise of the movie franchise and ultimately the games is simple. This maniac has a giant game of elaborate traps that are designed to kill you. You have to stay alive. After playing through this game, I am not sure I really wanted to make it out unscathed.
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We’re all enjoying our time in Call of Duty: Black Ops, as long as it’s not on Nuketown. But the game isn’t without its flaws. To try and fix some of the online problems, Treyarch issued a patch today for PS3 and Xbox 360 users.
Full patch notes are after the jump, but the biggest change, in my opinion, is fixing the party system so players aren’t split up. I’ve encountered that entirely too many times in my short experience with the game. I’d be in a lobby with a friend, chatting with Party Chat just talking about whatever, and then hear my friend start yelling “TAKING A!” in a game on Domination. It’s promptly followed by “Dude, are you in a game? I’m still in the lobby”, then confusion about what just happened. I’ve spent over an hour with friends thinking it was our NAT being Open vs Moderate, etc. Turns out it’s just a glitch with the game’s party system.
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Microsoft has set the bar pretty high for the remainder of the holiday season. They boldly came out and stated that Kinect would sell a whopping 5 million units. 5 mil? Really? Well, to help fuel their fire, they later sent out a press release 10 days after the Kinect launch saying it’s been confirmed that the controller free gaming camera has already sold 1 million units. They are officially 1/5th of the way there.
Compared to it’s Sony counterpart Playstation Move – which sold 1.5 million units in it’s first few weeks on the market – the bold statement from Microsoft about it’s expectations could actually come true this year. Shocking. Simply shocking. The finalized numbers for Playstation Move haven’t been released yet, so we’ll keep you guys posted on the motion controller race to Christmas.
I have a feeling though that Kinect will suffer from the “rush and trickle” effect. Kinect will do great right out of the gate, but like the Wii, the sales numbers will be mammoth at launch but will drop, and drop, and drop some more. Where is that dropping off point? We don’t know. But it’s safe to say I don’t see the Kinect sprinting across the 5 million mark finish line, but limping and crawling it’s way on the back of families everywhere.
Everyone who wants a Kinect can go get one. The only thing going for it is the fact that it isn’t limited on the shelves like the Wii was. But 5 million? Come on Microsoft. Let’s be realistic.
Bond games have come and gone over the years with few shining stars. Goldeneye back on the N64 and recently Goldeneye 007 on the Wii stand out from the pack, but most games on non-Nintendo consoles just haven’t lived up the franchise’s namesake. Bizarre Creations, of Project Gotham Racing and Geometry Wars fame, took the reigns in the latest Bond experience, 007: Blood Stone. While the graphics, sound, and controls live up the hype, the game doesn’t deliver where it counts.
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WWE Smackdown vs RAW is finding itself on familiar ground with the great sports franchises of EA. The series tries to make leaps and bounds every year because the game will sell millions and people need a reason to buy the latest release. Unlike sports, WWE rosters/factions are so fluid, they can change multiple times in a year. More importantly, the action is entirely scripted and for the most part predictable. The ratings of most of the Superstars does not change from year to year that drastically. THQ was able to revamp the single player modes for 2011 making this installment well worth picking up.
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Available via the Game Marketplace over Xbox Live, Ubisoft’s Bloody Good Time demo puts players in the skin of a variety of wannabe movie stars as they compete for fame on set by eliminating the other wannabe’s via a multitude of murder weapons, murder aids and over the top death traps.
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It’s November. It means that another Call of Duty game is being released and everyone is on the edge of their seat waiting for a chance to play it. The development shifts to Treyarch who gave us the forgettable Call of Duty 3, the surprisingly good World at War, and now Black Ops. The focus this time around is the Cold War and we take a look at all of the conflicts that “didn’t” happen. The game is very, very good, but feels like Modern Warfare 2.5 and not the leap forward we all had hoped.
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Boy have I got a news filled show for you guys! Man, so many stories and so little time. I’m going to stop typing now and just tell you to enjoy the show!
On today’s show:
– Pissed Gamer Destroys Modern Warfare 2
– Masturbating To Pokemon
– Is Kinect Racist? Short Answer: Yes.
– Kinect Is Already Hacked Because of Bounty
– F*#ked Up News: Gamer(?) Stand-off Lasts Two Hours
– Sound Clip Corner: I Would Totally Have Done Detention For This
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Back in March of this year when I went to PAX East, I kept drifting toward a game from EA called Dante’s Inferno. A few months later, I bought the game and a few months after that I finally played it. Now I haven’t played a single player console game in a really long time but I found myself alone and bored over 4th of July weekend so I pulled the game out and gave it a shot. I was hooked. I couldn’t stop playing until I finished it. It seemed to have the perfect mix of story and graphic art. It mixed flashbacks and video with intense game play. I never played God of War so I have no comparison of the two. I loved this game for the simple pleasure it gave me and the incredible distraction it provided to my real life.
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