Box-Art Art

Ok, while it isn't clear that nostalgia-tinged, clever photoshop is or is not actually art, one thing is for certain: it made me laugh and I'm posting it. The Atari box artist of yesteryear may have toiled in his efforts to bring semi-recognizable shapes and scenarios to life, but now we may ridicule their efforts with relative ease. Progress! I've posted a few of my favorites below, and to see all the orignals visit Might God King, HERE. Oh! I say!

Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena

The Chronicles of Riddick game for the Xbox has the distinction, in many minds, of being the only great movie based game to ever come out - ever, ever, ever, ever. The White Elephant is returning in '09, in the form of a complete revamp of the first game, along with a completely new game on top of that. It almost sounds too good to be true, but after seeing this trailer, I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's going to seriously own. Vin Diesel - all debts from your life as a craptastic movie "star" have been wiped clean.

After you watch the trailer, get the pertinent, mouth watering details from Kotaku.

Animal Crossing drops the N-bomb

Here's a good one: Nintendo programmers apparently programmed a racial slur into 14 version of their Animal Crossing Wild World that was sent to gaming jouranlists according to Kotaku.com. Anyway here's an artical about it from cinemablend.com... that I wrote...:

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Nintendo-s-Animal-Crossing-Drops-The-N-bomb-13802.html

New Ghostbusters Trailer!

Holy crap - this actually looks like it may be funny. My expectations are raised.

Portal Flash Game

Portal was definitely my favorite part of the Orange Box and it ended much to soon. The game continues however in 2D. A couple of guys from We Create Stuff decided they would make a flash version of the excellent Valve game back when it was first announced. Obviously the puzzles aren't as intense as the 3D version, but a lot of the same designs from the original version stay intact. Great way to waste the day.

Check it out, here: http://games.ign.com/index/freetoplay.html/

Black Mesa Source Trailer

No time to talk about it, but this shit looks crazy.

The Wii Problem: Part 2

My bro and I just returned from visiting our parents in sunny Florida and I was excited because I'd be able to stay away from video games for a while, finally. Guess I was wrong, though. My parents recently bought a Wii and sure enough every night it was turned on and we were bowling or something stupid like that. I love the Wii, but I feel like it just added way too much video game into my life. I mean even our grandma played it. These were the same parents that told me that I needed to start spending less time inside playing video games like 4 years ago. Well the tables have turned. Maybe video games shouldn't be so excessable... for the sake of my sanity at least.