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New Star Wars game debuting during Spike Video Game Awards {Joystiq}
Nov 25th 2009 4:15PM I don't think its BattleFront 3. I think this just going to be more info on SW: TOR? I couldn't help but notice the teaser trailer video contained scenes from the SW: TOR hype-video from about 3 months back where the sith invade the capital building in Corescaunt and the large battle persues.
New Star Wars game debuting during Spike Video Game Awards {Joystiq}
Nov 25th 2009 4:12PM The Star Wars: Clone Wars: Saga of Heroes game is actually a pretty fun side-scrolling platformer game. Its kind of a neat tie-in as it follows the cartoons storyline and you get to fight some of the actual battles. Most stages/parts of levels really only take 10 minutes to pass and 3-4 stages per level so its very easy to start/stop/continue. It's co-op enabled over xbox live and local seat multiplayer. Both those are pretty cool as you can work with a partner to destroy the 'robot' enemies or the dark side's Jedis.
Also, there's something like 35 levels? Each level takes around 30 minutes with the exception of a few short levels so around 18 hours of gameplay. Then there's different difficulties for achievements, etc. The neat part also is you get to actually play a few missions storm troopers and use storm trooper vehicles which is rare as so many games focus on Jedi-only.
In addition, you get experience points from battling and your Jedi or Stormtroopers level up and your able to purchase increased dmg, force powers, etc with your experience points. It seems few side-scrollers have an upgrade system so that was a nice surprise/bonus to find out. The jumping in the game is pretty natural, smooth and intutitve. Its kind of like Prince of Persia where your character can pretend when your going to jump and aim for obstacles he or she can jump on, climb on, summer-sault on or the motion where you go in a circle around a bar? Whatever that's called in gymnastics. The difference though is unlike Prince of Perisa, jumping WORKS. Your character doesn't semi-frequently decide 'Ohh, you want to jump off the wall and fall into the pit, not run across, don't you?' or 'Ohh, you want to run across the wall not jump to the object right infront of you that leads to the next, so-on, so-on, don't you?'
French police avert school shooting, 13-year-old boy apprehended {Joystiq}
Nov 19th 2009 6:39PM Well, if they blame it on WoW, it is partially correct. He received poor marks in school and if he was staying up until 1:00am-2:00am playing World of Warcraft, its not THAT surprising why he got poor marks.
I'm not sure about you but if I spend my entire evening playing video games, doing no studying and no homework and then go to school with little to no sleep, I'm not exactly planning for success in school. When your dead tired, you won't retain as much knowledge from any activity. When you dont study, you won't learn as much. When you don't do homework, you won't learn as much. All three added up to bad marks? You don't say? perhaps if the kid stopped playing World of Warcraft and did those, he'd do better in school?
But wait, don't articles even articles listed on Joystiq show studies that Wow is as addictive as Heroine? Young kids are known for their self control, restrait and good judgement so surely this kid could stop if he tried? /sarcasim.
This time, video games are somewhat very slightly related. The real cause of the school shooting attempt was poor marks. The poor marks were made by all night gaming sessions/addiction to wow distrubting this kids ability/chance/opportunities to study. So its a chicken before the egg scenario. Did wow create the bad marks or would the kid have gotten bad marks even if Wow didn't exist? IE from watching tv too much, dirt-biking too much, reading books too much or playing tag with neighbourhood kids too much and was already prone to commiting acts of violence.
I'd also ponder did the child get the idea from watching media coverage of previous school shootings so did the Media themselves help encourage this kid to commit a school shooting rampage?
Sony planning to expand PSN infrastructure to non-game devices {Joystiq}
Nov 19th 2009 3:08PM Grammar errror? I think you meant 'Install Base' not 'installed base' when you were talking about PSN in the middle of the second paragraph. What's up with all the spam on Joystiq, its becoming more and more retarded. Its like the casual Wii gamers have found joystiq.com or something.
Swag Saturday: Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 controllers for all those holiday games {Joystiq}
Nov 14th 2009 9:19PM My brother and I played through games during the holiday seasons to get some 2-player acheivements quite often. Like last year we were playing through the TMNT games and this year were planning to co-op the star wars clone wars: saga of heroes coop.
Report: Alan Wake stops snoozing May 2010 {Joystiq}
Nov 13th 2009 4:14PM Bluetev, they've done a fair bit of look at our physics engine tech demos as a hurricane literately rips a building apart board by board. The technology/engine looks really well done. I think part of the problem is they set the engine sights/goals too high and to perform well, they needed to wait for the technology to play catch-up a bit.
NVIDIA tablet mystery solved: an ODM Tegra prototype {Engadget}
Nov 11th 2009 12:55AM Great, we are one step closer to becoming the humans in Wall-E. Excellent news. Just excellent.
/sarcasim
NVIDIA tablet mystery solved: an ODM Tegra prototype {Engadget}
Nov 11th 2009 12:54AM What do you mean we can't get away with rebranding again??
HTC HD2 ripped to shreds, probably in the name of science {Engadget}
Nov 11th 2009 12:46AM to me last night.
HTC HD2 ripped to shreds, probably in the name of science {Engadget}
Nov 11th 2009 12:45AM Half. You can rip someone in half.
