The self-proclaimed king of Dream Land formally joins the brawl! Mechanizing his wooden mallet, he delivers a mighty, earth-shaking blow!
He joins as a member of the heavyweight class alongside Bowser and Donkey Kong. Can he defeat Kirby?! Finally some more heavy weights! Oh man, I'm getting nervous about owning this game. There's a very good chance that if I touch this game I may never come out of the awesome induced coma that is sure to happen. I can see it now, my coworkers just looking around one day, "Hey, where's Austen? I haven't seen him in like a month."
This video not only shows a really stinking funny kill in Halo, but it shows how amazing you can make the game look using the replay feature. The camera angles and pans are amazing! Enjoy!
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
So, I am very happy. Rooster Teeth announced today that they will soon be debuting a new RvB mini-series on their website and XBL marketplace. I cannot find any words to describe what I'm feeling other than: Booyah.
Verizon announced today that they will soon be offering 20/20 FiOs service to the states of New York, New Jersey and Conneticut. Now, I must insist you sit down for this next part... okay prepare yourself. 20/20 means simultaneous 20 Mbps uploads and downloads. That means you could download a DVD in it's entirety with no quality loss in about a half hour! Holy snot that's freaking insane!
But the cost is going to also be insane, you say? Nope. Verizon has been quoted as saying the price will be as low as $65 a month. At the rate Verizon is going with increasing the bandwidth and potential speeds, we may finally be up to speed with the rest of the world. For example, the average internet user in Japan averages around 60 Mbps.
Like I said, while this news is awesome for the lucky fools who live in New York, New Jersey, and Conneticut, the rest of us are left in the dark as to when it'll come to the rest of us. Let the tears fall, it's okay.
For some reason, completely stolen from Jonathan Coulton's website, and given no credit:
Stay with me here, I had to look a lot of this up myself:
Some crazy fool called FPtje on YouTube has used the Valve Source engine and GMod (yeah grandma, that’s like, a sort of sandbox add-on thingie built using the Source SDK…er…which is kind of like a, um, forget it, never mind) to create a playable piano within the Half-Life environment, on which he plays along to “Still Alive” in this here video, seemingly BY AIMING AND FIRING HIS GUN. In theory I understand what’s happening here, but I’m not sure I would be able to explain it without reading from the post I just wrote. [Gee willikers], when did I fall so far behind?
Anyway, it’s awesome. As Mr. tje (or perhaps Ptje?) points out in his YouTube post, “It’s hard to play a piano with a gun!” I couldn’t agree more.
Game Videos released 3 new videos of the game this morning. The game looks pretty solid and, honestly, looks remarkably similar to Melee. If these videos are any indication, SSMB is definitely going to live up to everyone's expectations and more.
comes DEAD FANTASY 1! This is a mash up of Final Fantasy characters and DoA characters. This guy is getting good. The choreography is absolutely amazing and the camera work is genius. This guy is good. How he doesn't have a job working at some game or film company making epic scenes for epic games yet I'll never know. Enjoy!
SONIC IS IN FREAKING SMASH BROTHERS BRAWL! WHAT NOW?! HOLY CRAP MY HEAD JUST EXPLODED!...kinda messsy... ALSO, A VIDEO! NOW YOUR HEAD EXPLODED TOO! OH NOES!!1!11!!ONE!!11!
So, if it's not obvious I'm a bit of a gamer by now then you probably haven't been reading my posts. (Or you haven't spent more than five minutes with me) Anyway, I've noticed that lately there have been a ton of awesome new games coming out for various systems (most of which I don't have). It's gotten to the point where I've got a new thing to play every week. Which is pretty much impossible considering my lack of income coming in. But, I've tried to keep up as best I can.
And, seeing as how I've done a fairly good job thus far, I'm going to see how long I can keep it up. So, as of this moment, I'm instituting a new weekly post that explores the game(s) I'm playing during that week. And with no further ado...
Here's the first post! Yippee!
This week I've been deeply engrossed in The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (DS). It's been absolutely freaking fantastic thus far. I'm sure I'm at least 3/4 through the game and it has taken a consider amount of time and has been filled with countless hours of fun and brain rattling puzzles.
Now I have to clarify something for those who have yet to enjoy this game; Phantom Hourglass is a puzzle game. And a fairly tough one too. Most of the time you just stumble across the solutions by accident, sometimes you can't figure them no matter what you do. Until you slam your DS shut in frustration and then come back in an hour after you've cooled down, only to soon realize that the simple act of closing and reopening the DS was the desired action in the first place. (I kid you not) CURSE YOU WISDOM SPIRIT!!!
Later this week, I will be investing a fairly large amount of time to The Orange Box. It doesn't come out until Wednesday and I probably won't even get my grubby hands on it until Thursday, but I have no doubt that it will be well worth the wait. For those who don't know what The Orange Box is, allow me to explain. The Orange Box is a actually 5 games all wrapped up in one. Three of which are brand new. The games are: Half Life 2, Half Life 2: Episode 1, Episode 2, Team Fortress 2, and the greatly anticipated Portal.
I, personally, have never actually played Half Life and, honestly, I'm not all that interested in it. I'm interested in Portal. The game revolves around a gun you get in Half Life known as the "Portal Gun". How it works: It's very simple actually. You simply aim it a wall right next to you and fire. Then you aim it at another wall (this latter presumably being out of reach). This creates a "portal" between the two you just created. You walk through one portal and come out the other.
The guys over at Valve have taken this seemingly simple mechanic and created an entire game around it. Chock full with insane 3d puzzles that are sure to destroy your mind in the process from the sheer amount of awesome.
So that's what I'll be doing this week. How about you?
No doubt you're wondering what the heck the title of this article could possibly mean. I assure the video you're about to witness will have one of two effects. You will either laugh hysterically as you realize that they're actually trying to be completely serious. Or you'll just stare with your mouth half open wondering why the heck you're watching this. Either way, enjoy!
Well for me anyways. Some of you might remember one of my first posts on this blog, it was about a game called Pirates of the Burning Sea. well, after much waiting, they have finally given a release date. January 22, 2008. This game is going to be amazing. See you on the open ocean!
And I'm not talking about their recent separation from Microsoft. this is a few of Bungie's staff riding in a Warthog replica from the movie that might have been...
I found this on Digg today. The guy who made this is amazing. He clearly took some artistic license on some of the pieces, but they turned out great. Linkage.
