I dunno. I’m still tempted to rent this and see if I like it. God Hand was disliked by most of the mainstream press (because they were crap at it), but it’s one of my favourite games in the world. Still, it didn’t “universally bomb” like this new Golden Axe thing.

Dave Halverson (some bloke from play magazine) reckons people that don’t like it are just bad at games. Read his thing and decide for yourself.

It’s interesting, really. I’m not saying Golden Axe is any good (though people that know me will be aware that I would desperately love it to be), but I do think people have become used to enjoying really easy games that reward you for being average. Even on the hardest mode, Gears of War and its ilk are relatively easy experiences, and I’m not very good at games. The Club was a bit like Gears, except it was hard, old school hard, and it divided opinion.

Personal taste I guess.

Basically what I’m saying is: buy God Hand.

I was going to do a post yesterday that involved being angry about the whole LittleBigPlanet recalling thing. It was going to involve ranting about how ridiculous it all appeared, and how I thought it was an overly politically corrent reaction by a bunch of white blokes shitting themselves in an office somewhere because their “arses are on the line” should LBP dare to not make everyone the happiest person in the world.

I had it all written out, and then I thought “Golly gee, I really should look at the comment that started all this to make sure I’m not being silly.” So I did, and I thought about it, and then I deleted everything I’d written.

Why? Because the guy was polite.

I may not agree with him (if everybody keeps trying not to offend anyone, then everything in the world will be so fucking vanilla we’ll all go crazy and kill each other), but he had the decency to not go off on one and start attacking Sony or Media Molecule. Basically it went along the lines of “Hey guys, just thought I’d let you know that I find some lyrics in one of your background songs offensive, and I’m pretty sure a bunch of my mates will too. Could you possibly remove them? Nice one, cheers.”

Normally (because this is the internet) it would be like “Hey dickfaces! What the piss are you doing? Taking it up the arse? Cunts!”.

It’s just refreshing to see someone with some manners on the internet, especially someone with manners discussing videogames on the internet.

Still, it’s all a bit crazy. But it’s okay, here’s a picture of Sonic in London!

Sonic was voted the most popular games character by over 500 people to mark the launch of the London Games Festival (which may or may not be on this week, I don’t really care). I wonder if he’ll still be as popular after Sonic Unleashed?

Want to hear the reason you won’t be playing Little Big Planet this Friday?

That’s the reason right there. It was a (pretty catchy) song from the game which apparently quotes lines from the Qur’an. Who’d have known? Other than Muslims of course.

That’s why the game was recalled and won’t be sat snug in your PS3 this Friday, as (some peoples’) God had intended.

It has been confirmed, however, that a Muslim friendly version will be hitting the UK on November the 5th, so that’s only 16 days away. Or, if you can’t wait that long, you can give some lucky scamming twat £100 for a copy they managed to nab in America before the recall. Little big rip off.

I’m not really in a writing mood today. I’ve splurged enough of my words onto the site this week, my hands are starting to ache.

One last thingmajig for you, sirs.

Love, that game that is an MMO and is procedurally generated and is all fancy looking like a painting, is now moving for you to see! Rock, Paper, Shotgun (which is much easier to say, and therefore shitter than endoflevelboss) have some kind of world exclusive video of it, and it looks mighty fine.

Here is the official website of Love, should you wish to know more.

I didn’t know BioShock 2 was going to be a Kirby game… Haha, of course, this is a joke.

Let’s get serious. I dunno if this is real or not, but I’m pretty gullible, and happy to do an easy update. Apparently there is a 15 second teaser video for BioShock 2 included in the PS3 version of BioShock. You unlock it by doing shit in the game.

(screens were here but I can’t find them anymore, imagine them, they look nice)

It’s okay, I have an erection too.

Callously plagiarised from: NeoGaf.

EDIT: Someone’s only gone and uploaded it on Youtube.

I guess that would confirm that it’s real. Nice.

Sakura is in the console versions of the wonderful looking Street Fighter IV. Here are some pictures of Sakura being in the console versions of the wonderful looking Street Fighter IV.

Nice, eh?

Oh shit! Prince of Persia (the new one) animation director David Wilkinson has said that his good buddy Alex Drouin is working on Assassin’s Creed 2, and the last thing he saw those cheeky fellas doing was making Altair swim.

Apparently this is big news, because nobody knew that Assassin’s Creed 2 was in the works, and the revelation of Altair’s swimming prowess is simply astonishing. A highly skilled assassin that spends his time leaping about the skylines of cities throwing knives with adept precision, swimming? No. I can’t quite get my head around that.

Mr Wilkinson may be in trouble for spilling the aforementioned beans, but I would hope not, it’s hardly anything to be pissed about.

Robbed from: Eurogamer

Just found this while satisfying my newfound lust for Indie (read: Free) games.

The game is called Brain-Damaged Toon Underworld, which in itself is astounding, but it looks pretty swanky as well. According to the developer (Lo-Fi Minds), it’s set in “the bad neighbourhoods of the cartoon universe”, and you play a little dude called Twink who’s trying to find his way home. Something along those lines, anyways. Visually it reminds me a lot of Paper Mario even though it has kind of an 8-Bit feel, I think it must be the animation on Twink’s head.

Anyways, pretty nice, eh? Not exactly news to those indie gamers in the know, but if you’re out of the loop like me then I’m sure you’ll be rather happy I posted this. Not out yet as far as I can tell, but when it is I’ll let you know, assuming I remember to.

Consolevania is pretty ace, I think. It’s funny, and it has two Scottish blokes saying stuff I can barely understand, such as “pish”.

They also did videoGaiden for a bit on proper telly (not the shitty internet), but I think that went down the tubes. That’s what Karl told me, anyways, and I trust everything that Karl says. But yeah, now they’re back making Consolevania Series 4 for the internet, and you can go and see it here.

It’s different this time, instead of everyone having to wait literally thousands of years for a new complete episode (presumably because the creators have the audacity to lead real lives), they’re sticking bits up as they finish them and will eventually patch them together into a single episode when it’s all done. Fancy.

They already have a review of LittleBigPlanet and LEGO Batman up there, amongst other things, so check it the balls out!

If you’ve ever felt like heading down to the forest at night, hopping onto one of those fancy pogo sticks, and jumping all over some nasty vampire pigs, then you might be in luck.

Skullpogo casts you as someone that quite fancies a night pogoing the shit out of things, and is by some people that like to call themselves “The Proper Undead“. The point of the game is simple, jump on stuff in quick succession (i.e. get combos) and score as many points as you can before the time runs out. You get powerups and level ups and stuff like that, and they give you different ways of jumping on stuff. Jumping on stuff is what games used to be all about until guns were invented in 1996.

All in all it’s a pretty darn fun game, and gee wiz, I’d sure be obliged if you downloaded it and had a go for yourself.

Nabbed wholeheartedly from everybody’s best buds: tigsource.com