Category: Video Games

From the Daily News: Salman Rushdie corroborates that new study that says video games can be good for you. Back when the the “Satanic Verses” author was hiding from the Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1989 death warrant, “My main pastime was playing Nintendo games,” Rushdie told Webster Hall curator Baird Jones at the Francesco Clemente show at the Larry Gagosian gallery the other night. “I devoted so much time to mastering Super Mario that I must have been the world champion by the end of my seclusion”… [Source]

Its a 129MB file but its worth it. If you have ever played Grand Theft Auto then you have to download it. Some guys went and acted out GTA in real life, its really cool and very funny. [Link]

Wow this brings back memories… [Link]

You can now download all your favorite old games (from any system) from OldGames.nu. I just downloaded SimTower for the mac!! I love this game and its only 1.6MB! [Link]

Update: You have to create an account on the site to start downloading. When you start they give you 5MB worth of downloads.

I am a major Mortal Kombat 1 fan and this TV game is the coolest. You don’t need a videogame system or anything, just plug this controller into your TV and you can play Mortal Kombat with near arcade quality graphics. If you hate playing the game alone you can get a second controller and plug it into yours for 2 player head to head fighting. Very cool and very cheap at only $24.99! [Link]

For those of you who read engadget you might have seen a post today with a side by side comparison shot of the PS3 and Xbox360. The picture shows the Xbox360 much larger then the PS3, this is not true. In reality the xbox360 is smaller. The picture above is the accurate dimensions, the one on Engadget is wrong. If you notice the power socket of the xbox360 in the engadget shot, its been doctored. I really like Engadget, but sometimes they can be really unproffesional.

Yup, this is Nibaq with his PSP!
Thats big enough proof that the DS will die..

We have 2 PSP’s at the office, a Japanese version and an American version. We have 2 copies of Need for Speed, a Jap version and a US version. The problem is we can’t get the two systems to connect for a head to head race! Wtf?! I thought we would be able to do this even though we have two PSP’s from different regions.

I don’t know why I didn’t know about this from before but it turns out you can play your current PSP games online now via tunneling. Amazing stuff and its for free! [Link]

The PSP firmware update to version 1.51 is now available for US systems. Go to your main menu and click on Network Update. Its a 14MB file. If you do not have wifi available then you can download the update from here. The file is rar format so you need to unrar it first then you have to put into X:\PSP\GAME\UPDATE folder (X = drive letter of PSP). This firmware update contains security fixes. When done installing the update, delete it off your memory stick.

Ok, so there is a new PS3, there is the Xbox360, the Nintendo Revolution and the Game Boy Micro. They are all amazing systems and as I told Nibaq, I will need to start saving up so I can buy them all. I just watched the PS3 duck technical presentation and it was good except I wanted to watch the Motor Storm video (check this: 1 and 2). I am also downloading the Dead or Alive 4 video, its 470MB but here are some screenshots for those of you with slow connections. Some cool games are coming out on the DS, Castlevania is one and its in 2D thank god. Sonic is the other game, the cool thing about sonic is the way it uses the 2 screens, click here to see what I mean. Finally I was hoping to see screenshots of GTA for the PSP but all I was able to find was this write up.

I think the next generation of systems is going to be really kick ass. I don’t have a favorite yet, each has its own advantage and thats why I will probably get them all.

Total hardware sales Jan 1st to May 1st in Japan:

PS2 – 828,824
PSP – 796,654
DS – 739,557
SP – 280,128
GC – 99,574
GBA – 9,594
xbox – 6,360

Am I reading this right, is the PSP kicking the DS ass? I think so.. 😀

Wow, the Playstation 3 is going to look cool. But whats up with their joypad?? [Link]

Just got a flyer from GameWorks with the following message:

Play all you can play in 1 hour for KD3.500 every night from 9PM to 11PM. Valid till May 31st.

KD3.5 doesnt sound bad. Probably will try it tomorrow night before starwars.

You guys have probably seen the Dance Dance Revolution arcade machines at Gameworks and Future Kid, but I am sure you haven’t seen this video of a one legged guy playing on the machine. Here is the video [5.7MB].