Teaser Site Alert!, Sega has dropped a new site found here, teasing us with balls. From the pic above, you can see it’s a number dispensing machine. Yet, when you click on the handle, all you get are the same numbers over and over. “042020″ in a color scheme of “purple, green, red, blue, purple, yellow”, does this in any way spell Sonic.
If you’re a fan of party games, Let’s Tap for the Wii is a bit space consuming but an original concept nonetheless. You’ll need a box or an object that will allow sound to travel through to get started. So get those tissue boxes, cereal boxes and tupper ware containers handy. Just make sure to get 4 of them for your friends and family but don’t Tap that Box too hard, she’ll break you know!
A quick tutorial guides you how to place your Wii controller upside down “A” button side down. Yo then are shown how to navigate through a couple of menu’s using the single tap and how to select an option with the double tap. And if you can’t master the menu by tapping pick up the Wii-mote and using the d-pad or sensor bar navigate that way as well. That’s the gist of it, so let’s get a Tap’n.
The fine folks over at Thinkgeek.com have re-stocked their inventory with.. ready for this… The Sega Dreamcast for a whopping $99! For many true gamers who went through the “video game console timeline” of the ’90s know that the Sega Dreamcast was a superior piece of hardware. Ahead of it’s time, the Dreamcast offered some of the better titles which included; Virtua Tennis, Shenmue and Jet Grind Radio.
Happy Earth Day and Thanks to SEGA! In celebration of today’s festive event, we present to you, our reader, with a pic of our favorite Earth Day gaming character ever, Earthworm Jim. This character enriches our soil and fights against other insects that harm our fertile land. What a better way to say “Thank You” than to take out your SEGA Megadrive/Genesis emulator (smog free) and fire up a good game of Earthworm Jim! The game was developed by Shiny Entertainment, released for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis in 1994, and subsequently ported to the SNES, Game Boy, Game Gear, Sega Master System, and years later, the Game Boy Advance.
Thank you SEGA! You gave us Sonic to rule the land and Earthworm Jim to conquer the Earth!
For fans of Sega’s 1986 racer game, Outrun is back! Upgraded in HD quality, and a chance to play against online racer, OutRun Online Arcade looks magnificent and players will take notice. Available now on the Xbox 360 for 800 Microsoft Points, why not make your PlayStation friends jealous. That’s because in the US, OutRun is only available for the XBox Live Arcade.
Arcades have died a bit in the U.S. in recent years but certainly not in Japan! They are in every nook and cranny of and proof of that is with the Sega Storm-G! This thing is having kids across Japan throwing up their school’s lunch. Storm-G that has been out on consoles for a while , is now hitting the arcade scene and in a big way.This simulator actually delivers some fast paced barrel rolling! Who needs to wait for a carnival when you have this thing!
Players will assume the role of Michael Thorton, a highly skilled government operative trained to eliminate threats to national security. When a mission goes horribly wrong, Thorton is the only one with the information, skills, and contacts required to stop an impending international catastrophe. To do so, he will utilize the very government directive that the enemy sought to use to against him – Alpha Protocol.
KEY FEATURES
* A morally-complex branching story – The world is not black and white and the story will change based upon how you act in it. By replaying the game with different choices, you will have a very different narrative.
* Dialogue Stance System – The revolutionary new dialog systems allows full control of Thorton’s reactions through emotive controls. However, characters will not always react the same way. He will have to choose carefully in each dialog.
* A Modern Day Role Playing Experience with Action Gameplay – The new RPG system gives players the ability to mold Thorton into the secret agent they want him to become with lethal close-combat techniques, marksmanship abilities, proficiency with spy gadgets, and much more.
Competing in a television show is nothing for this chainsaw wielding warrior. In MadWorld, Varrigan City has become a target for a group of terrorists known as “The Organizers”. The Organizers have taken over the city and transformed it into the setting for a game show called Death Watch, where the city’s citizens are being forced to fight for their lives against mysterious enemies, for a prize of 100 million dollars.
Released today for the Wii, Madworld was developed by Platinum Games and Published by SEGA.
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[NUMBERS UPDATED] In a stunning turn of events, these preliminary Japan Hardware Sales numbers see Sony’s PSP and PS3 top the handheld and console market respectively. The PS3 finally topped the Nintendo Wii for the top spot in hardware sales in Japan. The release of Yakuza 3 boosted the sales of Sony’s PS3. Many see the Japanese market as the key trend to US sales, so can this jump in hardware sales mean something? It’s not looking good for Xbox 360 fans in Japan, as next weeks release of Resident Evil 5 may boost sales a bit higher for the PS3 even though the game will be released on both the 360 and PS3.
Duckhunt with the Nintendo Zapper was cute. Zombies with the Wii-mote… F-in Awesome! We’ve come a long way from the grey and red NES Zapper era. Why the cussing? keep reading…
| PUBLISHER: | Sega |
| DEVELOPER: | Headstrong Games |
| GENRE(S): | Light Gun, First-Person Shooter |
| PLAYERS: | 2 |
| ESRB RATING: | M (Mature) |
| RELEASE DATE: | February 10, 2009 |
| PEREZSTART RATING: | 9/10 |
Ingredients for House of the Dead: Overkill = Planet Terror with some ‘Psycho’, add ¼ Total Recall and a generous amount Eddie Murphy’s Raw.
The characters of HOTD:Overkill, Agent G and Isaac Washington, are looking for Papa Caesar, the murderer of Washington’s father and the story continues from there. The cutscenes are not the best of graphics (Wii at fault) but Headstrong games did the most they could and made it enjoyable. House of the Dead: Overkill is one of the first REAL First Person Shooters thanks to the Wii-gun accessory.
The Overkill gameplay is fantastic and fun. Shooting Zombies, err, Mutants is why the House of the Dead series is as successful as it is. The game is loaded with F bombs and if your sensitive to cussing, this game would make your ears bleed. Read more…
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