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Dreamcast Games Coming to Xbox Live Arcade

Looks like the rumors about Dreamcast games coming to the Xbox Live Arcade are true, if the leak from Korea's Game Ratings board can be trusted. The full story can be found here at ResumePlay.

The games that tipped off this interesting development are Sonic Adventure and Crazy Taxi. I've never met a person that didn't enjoy these games, so it looks like Microsoft will be making bank after they hit the Xbox Live Arcade. However, that also makes me wonder what other Dreamcast games will become available for purchase.

This is another one of those things, like DLC, that I think the industry-at-large is seeing as something they can charge for that gamers will eat up. In this case, though, I can understand. Crazy Taxi is one of the most addictive games I've ever played. Its also much easier for you to just buy all of your favorite Dreamcast titles on the 360 and play them there instead of dragging out your Dreamcast. Microsoft is going to make a killing in sales with this...

Expect an official announcement sometime during E3.

Batman: The Brave and the Bold

Now that Fanime weekend is finally over, we're back. Let me tell you, it was outrageous. We'll be getting the footage we did get up as soon as we can, but in the meantime, let me do what I'm supposed to be doing on this blog. (Make posts about video games.)

Looks like the popular Batman: The Brave and the Bold cartoon is getting a video game for the DS and Wii. It looks like a Double Dragon-type beat em up, matching Batman up with any of the characters from the show. The trailer shows Blue Beetle, Hawkman, and Robin as playable characters. If you're a fan of the show (like me), you'll probably be expecting appearances from Aquaman, The Atom, The Flash, and Green Lantern to name a few. I hope they include the Question, or at least give him a cameo.

There are a TON of characters from the show that could be included, and I hope they get the same voice actors. Most of the fun of the show is from the VA's, and the game would be ruined if there was little (or no) voice acting. If you haven't seen the show, I highly recommend it if you're a fan of the more campy side of Batman. If you're not, at least you can enjoy some really cool team-ups. After all, how can you think badly of a show that manages to make Aquaman cool?!

PS. Plastic Man better be in there too. I'm still annoyed that Cartoon Network never picked up his show.

Wii Games - E3 2010 - Batman: The Brave and the Bold

Avatar Days

I stumbled upon a really cool movie that was shown at the Darklight Film Festival. The movie follows four World Of Warcraft players through their daily mundane lives as they talk about their characters and their experiences in the game.

Its pretty cool because instead of seeing the real people, their in game avatars are walking around. And there's something about how boring their real lives are and hearing how much better this fake game world is in comparison.

Valve cancels Portal 2 E3 press event

Portal is a great game but if I said it was my favorite Valve game I would be lying. I would much rather hear Valve talk about another game at E3 instead of the already announced Portal 2. And I might be in luck.

Today Valve sent out emails to established game sites saying that they are canceling the Portal 2 press event and replacing it with a "surprise".

I'm crossing everything I can including my dicks hoping its an announcement something Half-life related. ANYTHING, just let me hear SOME news about Half-Life episode 3 or even Half-life 3, how about a new box that includes those games counter-strike 2 and Portal 2.... AGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH

This is the actual email that was sent out, its typcal Valve which means its amazingly awesome.


Subject: A note from Aperture Science

Dear Subject Name Here,

Aperture Science is pleased to inform you that we have partnered with Valve to announce the gala CANCELLATION of the June 14 Portal 2 event at the Regal Theater. The event will be replaced by a surprise. And even though the cancellation of the event certainly counts as a surprise, we are pleased to further announce that the cancellation of the event is not THE surprise. However, per International treaties regarding the definition of the word "surprise", of which both Aperture Science and Valve are signatories, the time, date and content of the actual surprise will only become available as you experience the surprise.

If you'd like to ask fruitless questions about the E3 Portal 2 surprise or, more fruitfully, schedule an appointment to attend a Portal 2 screening at the Valve booth during E3, please contact Valve's Special Envoy to Surprises, Doug Lombardi.

Thank you for DELETED

PS: The surprising record scratch is also not the surprise.

Pokemon Black/White gets a release date

Over the weekend Nintendo announced the release window for Pokemon Black/White saying that they are aiming for a spring 2011 release date. They also released pictures of the new legendary Pokemon for each game. I also found some pictures of the three new starer pokemon.



I haven't been totally invested in a Pokemon game since red and blue and I am really looking forward to getting into these new ones. Whether its the more dynamic battles, 3D graphics or gameplay changes I'm definitely more excited about these games than previous Pokemon sequels. Hopefully the 3DS will come out around the same time so I wont have to buy a DSI then turn around and buy a 3DS.

Dev says Alpha protocol should have been cancelled

Whew last weekend was crazy, All of us just got back from Fanime and it was proably the best weekend of my life. But we will talk more about it on the next episode of Boss talk. While we were in San Jose though reviews for Obsidian's new action RPG Alpha Protocol have surfaced and I have not seen a positive one yet.

People are complaining about how broken and buggy the game is and one of the developers actually agreed that the game was utter garbage and claimed that it should have been canceled instead of the Aliens RPG.

"I worked on this game (a fact of which I am not proud). I’m not here to defend it; I agree with all these reviews," claims the supposed developer. "There was a ton of work put into this game. The problem is that is was a ton of undirected work, or work on things that were just stupid. The Executive Producer for the game, Chris Parker (also an owner of the company), seemed to think he was the world’s greatest designer ever, and created all these absolutely shitty systems and wouldn’t listen to any of the real designers or devs about things that just didn’t work.

"... Sega also was a factor, because they kept changing the design requirements (yes they had heavy influence there), which never gave the producers and designers time to actually decide on one set of features to make and polish. The blame is still mostly Obsidian’s because the execution was absolutely terrible, and it was obvious 2 years ago that this game should have been scrapped.

"... Sega should have canceled AP instead of Aliens..."

Its realy to bad. I was sooooooort of looking forward to it, but after all of this negative talk about it I am just going to ignore it completely and play some more Red Dead.