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Desperately Seeking Captain Rainbow

arne — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:51:55 +0000

I heard that the price on Captain Rainbow has been dropping in game stores in Japan. This is good news as the Play-Asia price is a bit high for my tastes at the moment, even though it is exactly the same as all other import Wii titles. Doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be nice if we saw some savings with the price dropping nonetheless.

I’ll wait it out a bit longer and see if the price drops at all before I try to grab it — all this despite the fact that I don’t own a Japan region Wii, so I couldn’t even play it. This is one of those titles where it’s worth having because of its uniqueness and the extremely slim likelihood it will be localized into English.

One can hope though… and get some wallpaper and box art images while we’re at it.

Baby Got Back… log.

arne — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:41:46 +0000

I realized last week that the next few months are going to be absolutely insane with game releases that I will undoubtedly want to pick up. I also realized that my gaming backlog is rapidly heading towards a ridiculous level. In fact, it’s probably already there and my weekly gaming log hasn’t helped too much in tackling it. In an effort to shame myself into playing more I will present my most shameful list of games on my backlog. There are games I’ve either never played, barely played and want to play more or have played and I want to finish or get close to.

Tales of Vesperia
Grand Theft Auto IV
Condemned 2: Bloodshot
Just Cause
Alone in the Dark
Too Human
Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise
Operation Darkness
Lost Odyssey
Diablo
Diablo II
Bully
Ninja Gaiden II
Culdcept Saga
Devil May Cry 4
Assassin’s Creed
Army of Two
The Club
Beautiful Katamari
Resistance: Fall of Man
Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds
Blue Dragon
Enchanted Arms
Eternal Sonata
Oblivion
The Orange Box
Braid
Penny Arcade Adventures Episode 1: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness
Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
Siren: Blood Curse
The Last Guy
PixelJunk eden
Castle Crashers
Okami
Manhunt 2
No More Heroes
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Paper Mario
Shadow of the Colossus
Yakuza
Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
The Red Star
Persona 3: FES
God of War
God of War II
Patapon
The World Ends with You
Bangai-O Spirits
Contact
Trauma Center: New Blood
Fallout
Fallout 2
Sins of a Solar Empire
The Witcher
Spore
God Hand
Killer 7

Time to Clean Out the Fridge

arne — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:37:04 +0000

First I need to get my frid… I mean Wii back from an old coworker who borrowed it. Then I have to free up some space in internal memory, which is full of Virtual Console games and one WiiWare game–Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King, which I haven’t even played yet. I think there will be plenty of easy targets for moving them off to the SD card for storage. For example, after playing it again, I can’t for the life of me remember why I was so fond of the Splatterhouse franchise. Apparently I wasn’t the only one since there is a ~~next-gen~~ (can we kill this term now?) remake in the works.

Anyhow, I now so greatly desire my Wii back (snicker) because Mega Man was released on Virtual Console this week. I actually had to make a quick scan of my NES games to make sure I didn’t already own this, as I do remember playing it many times. But I don’t. I already wanted to revisit it seeing as the super retro Mega Man 9 is on the way and the Virtual Console release just sealed the deal.

I want my… I want my NintyWii. plzkthx.

lolcats r in ur ads, stealin ur clickthrews

arne — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:55:30 +0000

We launched a new online ad campaign today and, let me tell you, it was cooked up by some extremely creative, enterprising people. Or maybe they just read NeoGAF far too much. We’ll never know. We do know that NeoGAF (kinda, sorta) still loves the cats. Several other sites, like Wii Fanboy and Go Nintendo like them too. Good show!

Grab your own Geometry Wars: Galaxies lolcats code at the GWG Cats site.

Image courtesy of John Harker (NeoGAF).

E3 2006 – The Electronic Entertainment Expo

arne — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 07:29:00 +0000

I am now officially registered, booked and reserved for my first E³ ever, to start in just under a month. I will arrive in LA early on Monday morning, probably too early considering what the rest of the week is going to entail. I don’t know yet what I’m doing on Monday, I’m sure it involves set-up, planning and rehearsal. As many people know, Sony’s press briefing has been scheduled for Monday afternoon. I’m sure many of us will expectantly wait to see what announcements ~~should~~ must be made: price, further timing on the worldwide launch, HDD-inclusion, controller design, online features, etc. It is definitely going to be one heck of an evening afterwards.

Tuesday morning is Nintendo’s briefing, to be held at the famed Kodak Theater, where we can expect a lot more news about the Virtual Console, their big franchises and whatever creatively disruptive things they have cooking up Iwata-san and Miyamoto-san’s sleeves. As soon as the Nintendo briefing is over, most everyone will be headed over to Grauman’s Chinese Theater, which is just a stone’s throw away, for the Microsoft briefing. It took me a while to realize that this was THE Chinese Theater we see and hear about when some movies premiere in Los Angeles. Wow. I’m really not as free to speculate about what the Microsoft announcements will be (since I already pretty much know them) as I can about Sony and Nintendo, but I’m sure it will be all that everyone seems to expect and more.

Wednesday the show starts and so will the absolutely chaotic mayhem, judging from some show floor pictures of E³ 2005 and being told that the floor is pretty much constantly like that throughout the show. Commit me if you have to, but I think this is going to be a great time for a guy like me. I don’t remember what my schedule and responsibilities are for each day, obviously I will be busier than I will probably ever be in my life. There will be a couple of “parties” that I will attend (or at least try to) from the looks of it. I say “parties” because they aren’t really the type of party where you just go to have fun and let off steam. In one way or another they will be related to networking, getting to know other folks in various parts of the industry, getting to meet people I talk to often face to face and generally networking. I mean, it will be fun, but again, not entirely super party time.

I also hope that I can find enough time to walk the floor and adequately check everything out. Partly out of curiosity of course, but I’m really interested in being able to see what’s coming down the pipe for publishers across all platforms, including PC. It will be like being a kid in a candy store. Depending on the level of announcements, it will be interesting to see how far Sony and Nintendo are coming along on their first party titles — in the case of the latter company, there hasn’t been much being said or shown. I can’t even begin to think about what from multi-platform and 360 exclusive publishers I want to see. A lot of it is stuff Microsoft Game Studios is publishing anyway — the Japanese titles. The one thing I do know for certain, is that whatever I see, I know I’ll see enough that it’s going to mortally injure my pocketbook this year. And I can’t wait!

E³ 2005 show photos courtesy of the E3Expo.com Media Archive.