AndrewTS

This game (Curse of Darkness) manages to be incredibly cool in some aspects, and horribly lame in plenty of others. I just kicked Trevor's ass...and took his curry. Then he cuts himself and bleeds so I can continue my quest. ...no, I'm not kidding. Castlevania Adventure on Game Boy makes me appreciate the controls of NES Castlevania much more.

Is it true you can't even SEE what their OVRL is until *after* the match?

yes! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Of course, you have a huge room full of arcade machines...

It was a bad idea when Nintendo did it. It's even worse for a handheld that costs 3x as much.

A major video game franchise gets a portable game released close to a 3D console version, and the portable one outclasses it? Crazy! (And yes, I'm assuming Shadow will be junk). However, looks like finally somebody got around to making a 2D Sonic game that *feels* right, like the Genesis ones: Full text here

I am planning on it but I didn't get to cash my paycheck yet...and tomorrow is the worst possible day to shop in the US.

Another take on the Castlevania storyline, different from the Japanese-rooted chronology of the Dungeon: http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/davros/57/ctime1.html

But nothing in WWE now is either. There is nothing that could make me care about another Orton/Taker match.

IIRC they were going to release her, and King quit in protest. She dumped King after he quit, was boning the Dupps and then kind of vanished from the biz.

I wonder if Velocitygurl bought one.

There needs to be enough folks to be guinea pigs for us who patiently wait to enjoy a system with decent support. Plus, if you feel loyalty towards a company/system you're willing to shell out a little more cash. I'd buy a really good Konami/Capcom game at release date. EA would have to practically give a game away for me to buy it.

http://rapidshare.de/files/7878015/DOA_TEASER_FINAL.mov.html It's...pretty much what you'd expect. Seems like they even kept several of the costumes and Ayane's hair color... Looks like Street Fighter The Movie had a head-on collision with one of McG's Charlie's Angels flicks.

Wait, wait. Ryu Hayabusa? Wasn't that the guy from Ninja Gaiden, or NES Pro Wrestling or something?? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ninja Gaiden--he's been in all the DoA games since the first one. er..costumes. Yeah.

^ Assuming IMDb is up to date and correct (ha!): The actual movie title is "DOA: Dead or Alive." ------------- Full Cast and Crew for DOA: Dead or Alive (2006) Directed by Corey Yuen (actually a competent choice) Writing credits (in alphabetical order) Adam Gross Seth Gross Granz Henman J.F. Lawton screenwriter Cast (in alphabetical order) Devon Aoki .... Kasumi (only seen her not act in Sin City, so no comment) Derek Boyer .... Bayman (so yeah, guess he was the army guy) Sarah Carter .... Helena Douglas Collin Chou .... Hayate Steve Howey .... Weatherby Kane Kosugi .... Ryu Hayabusa Natassia Malthe .... Ayane Matthew Marsden .... Maximillian Marsh Chad McCord .... Chief Detective Kevin Nash .... Bass (Nash playing a Hogan clone. Brilliant.) Jaime Pressly .... Tina Armstrong Eric Roberts .... Donovan (Yes, brother of Julia) Robin Shou .... Pirate Leader (at least we won't be seeing his sizzling on-screen chemistry with Talisa Soto in this one). Silvio Simac .... Leon Holly Valance .... Christie Allen Brian J. White .... Zack Oh...and worth mentioning: Produced by Mark A. Altman .... producer Paul W.S. Anderson .... producer Yikes. Then again, they're only producers. Wouldn't be surprised. They'll probably make Ayane and Kasumi like the bestest and closest of sisters. EDIT: Rottentomatoes article that confirms just about all of that info: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/news/comments/?entryid=264038 This movie should be fantastically awful. Jaime Pressly works as Tina; I hope she's Dixie in the inevitable Rumble Roses movie. It will be funny when the movie is PG-13.

MNM suck at tying people up.

MadTV--because we're not mainstream enough for SNL anymore.

Kurt Angle's action figure is taking some sick bumps.

Okay, I popped Lament of Innocence in, picking up where I left off.... This is a lot better than I remember, actually. Camera angles aren't as much as issue as Curse because the camera is fixed. You earn more skills later on to vary up the combat. The real time window, while sometimes a bit annoying to use (like for the tickets, or attempting to get the right healing item), helped put you on edge much more than opening the pause menu to heal--and reminds me of how you would need to heal in SotN. Plus, as a fan of Kingdom Hearts, the RTW is cool with me. However, the platforming sections in LoI really kind of suck, and when those areas pop up in Curse (while rare), the camera is much more useful in those cases.

It's that time yet again, when the self-proclaimed "first network for men" pieces together their farce of an awards show. You can go to the main page of http://www.spiketv.com and then temporarily allow popups to bring up their utter nightmare of a voting page. KISS applies, guys. Nominees for Game of the Year are FEAR, World of Warcraft (which came out in late 2004...but that was right about the time the last show was out anyway), Resident Evil 4, God of War and Call of Duty 2. Yes, no Madden. I'm shocked too. 50 cent's game is nominated for best Action game. WTF?! There's now individual and team sports categories...and Winning Eleven is nominated for team sports. Hm... Guitar Hero is up for Best Soundtrack. We Love Katamari up for Best Original Score. Shaolin Monks nominated for "Best Fighting Game?" Fight Night R2 is there too. Perfect Dark Zero up for best FPS...even though no one owns a full version now. Best Heldheld game is missing Dawn of Sorrow. GTA is included because it's GTA, not because it's any good. Best PC game gets its own category, but two of the nominees are up for GotY. Best RPG includes only Western made games.

It's Ron Michaels, the tag team partner (half brother?) of Mike Benoit. related topic: http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0692/ The Big QuasimodShow needs serious plastic surgery.

Apparently PS3 will play PS2 *and* PS1 games (although as mentioned you won't be able to directly use old data). http://www.gamespot.com/news/6136677.html ...that is, about as well as PS2s play PS1 games. The EBgames I got my most recent N64 from installed the expansion pak. It's only a RAM expansion, and yes, many of the enhanced games are very framey. Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness supports it for an enhanced "high resolution" mode. It looks cool but the choppy framerate makes low-res a better option.

Newer PS2s not playing Tekken 5 is a known issue. It's a problem with the system, and newer releases of T5 apparently are going to have to be patched to work. This is also an issue with the new Japanese silver PS2s.

Hopefully she gets an online column...

Winners minus the noms from 1up: GAME OF THE YEAR -- Resident Evil 4 (Capcom) BEST ACTION GAME -- God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America) BEST INDIVIDUAL SPORTS GAME -- Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (Activision, Inc.) BEST TEAM SPORTS GAME -- Madden NFL 06 (Electronic Arts) CYBER VIXEN OF THE YEAR -- Maria Menounos as Eva in James Bond 007: From Russia With Love (Electronic Arts) BEST GAME BASED ON A MOVIE -- Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie (Ubisoft) BEST PERFORMANCE BY A HUMAN -- MALE -- Jack Black in Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie (Ubisoft) BEST SUPPORTING MALE PERFORMANCE -- Christopher Walken in True Crime: New York City (Activision, Inc.) BEST PERFORMANCE BY A HUMAN -- FEMALE -- Charlize Theron in Aeon Flux (Majesco Entertainment) BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE PERFORMANCE -- Traci Lords in True Crime: New York City (Activision, Inc.) BEST CAST -- Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie (Ubisoft) BEST ORIGINAL SONG -- "Maybe We Crazy" by 50 Cent in 50 Cent: Bulletproof (Vivendi Universal Games) BEST SOUNDTRACK -- Guitar Hero (RedOctane) BEST ORIGINAL SCORE -- We Love Katamari (Namco Hometek Inc.) DESIGNER OF THE YEAR -- David Jaffe for God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America) PONTIAC BEST DRIVING GAME AWARD (Viewer's Choice) -- Burnout Revenge (Electronic Arts) MOST ADDICTIVE GAME FUELED BY DEW (Viewer's Choice) -- World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment) BEST WIRELESS GAME (Viewer's Choice) -- Marc Ecko's Getting Up (Atari, Inc. & Glu) BEST FIGHTING GAME -- EA Sports Fight Night Round 2 (Electronic Arts) BEST FIRST PERSON ACTION -- F.E.A.R. (Vivendi Universal Games) BEST MILITARY GAME -- Call of Duty 2 (Activision, Inc.) BEST GRAPHICS -- Resident Evil 4 (Capcom) BEST HANDHELD GAME -- Lumines (Ubisoft) BEST MULTI-PLAYER GAME -- World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment) BEST BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY -- Sony PSP (Sony Computer Entertainment America) BEST PC GAME -- World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment) BEST RPG -- World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment)

Expansion Pak. Only a few games used it, though. Hard drive was supported for one or two games for PS2, and the selection of games with online play for PS2 was pretty pitiful. It's not entirely clear if Sony's going to require a separate online adapter, or if they're going to do a core/deluxe thing with a hard drive.