Category: Video Game Musings

It’s no longer up, but there was footage from the recent EVO 2013 event where the upcoming Killer Instinct game for Xbox One (as well as the console itself) was booed heavily. This is both hysterical and disgusting at the same time. On the one hand, you can’t help but feel for the presenters who were trying to promote a game (that looks pretty decent, for the most part) and they get this near venomous reaction that is more to do with the brand they’re associated with than anything they themselves have done… but on the other hand, it’s somewhat hilarious that a good chunk of the folks booing the game and crying “Death To Xbox One” or whatever… yeah, chances are they already pre-ordered the fucking thing.

Absolutely ridiculous…

http://hothardware.com/News/Nintendo-CEO-90-of-New-Gamers-Unable-to-Finish-Level-11-in-Original-Super-Mario-Bros/

Might make for decent vlog material… but really…

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20130707091417/http://gaminrealm.com/2013/07/03/ouya-outsells-xbox-one-no-you-read-that-right/

Rich the ReviewTechUSA guy did a video regarding Amazon sales figures and stuff… (2026 Update: until he nuked his channel a couple years ago, but here’s an archive news port that confirms this)

And really, the only thing that caught my eye was Ouya outselling Xbox One in Amazon Canada. Not surprising since I can’t find the fucking thing anywhere… still, that has to be a sore spot of Microsoft. (2026 Update: Doubly sore when the Ouya – from all accounts – well… I won’t spoil things.)

http://dispatches.cheatcc.com/dispatches/354#.UcR4sDu1GSo

Good for a laugh… just like the next bit of news above.

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/06/19/xbox-one-80-microsoft-reverses-xbox-one-drm-features/

An excellent decision. Where’s my imaginary chef puppet?

Seriously, Microsoft made a good move here. Especially if they want to continue the pretense of actually having customers.

To those who wanted DRM-loaded digital content and are pissed by the setbacks of Microsoft’s decision, there’s a really nice platform you can go for that does all this and more. It’s called your computer. See also iPhone, iPad, Android, iDontCare, iThis, iThat, iWhat, etc. etc. etc.

A friend of mine inquired about the whole Mega Man in the upcoming Smash Bros game and the only thing that crossed my mind is… “Okay, that’s kinda cool. Is there any new Mega Man coming up? This is supposed to be the 25th Anniversary of Mega Man here.”

I’m feeling a bit iffy about the whole deal here, actually. Other than a Mega Man fangame being endorsed, a few rereleases of the NES games here and there, and a Smash Bros. stint, what else is Capcom doing with the 25th anniversary of their Blue Bomber character that put them on the map? Where’s the new Mega Man game? I don’t care which version comes out. Just a new Mega Man game would be nice.

So far, this 25th Anniversary is something of a bust for me… oh well.

Details here:
http://hyperkin.com/blog/2013/03/retron-5-details-revealed-from-the-midwest-gaming-classic/

I’d share some thoughts, but I got an audio recording to fill, so I’ll share them then… Sunday.

So, if I may get back to that statement I was going to make a couple days ago before it digressed into something else and totally made forget what I was going to say…

With the recent announcement that Nintendo is going to be phasing out the more worthless Wii online services at the tail end of June, it seems like the writing is on the wall before support for Nintendo’s miracle machine goes the way of the original Xbox. So… since the eventually will come when Nintendo will drop all support for the console sooner or later to focus their efforts on the Wii U, I’ve decided to take the plunge and add in that Homebrew Channel thing that’s been the rage with the kiddies. I’m not going to go into the details of how I achieved this; this is information that you can pretty much attain yourself.