In a move that surprised a lot yesterday, Nintendo announced that they would not be holding the traditional large scale E3 press conference. They instead will be putting on smaller events that will focus on all the software they have coming up for the Wii U and 3DS.
I was initially surprised with the announcement, but then it became more apparent to me that Nintendo may have been moving towards this anyway. At last year’s E3, they had a large press conference as well as three of four separate events at the show or through Nintendo’s direct stream. Over the past year Nintendo has used their direct stream to announce their biggest games including The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 2.
Even with Nintendo’s exit from the big time press conference they have many promised huge games to show off including Super Smash Bros. and Mario for the Wii U.
Emails were sent out this morning inviting everyone to come and see the unveiling of the next Xbox on May 21st. The event will take place on Microsoft’s Xbox campus in Redmond, Washington. The event will start at 10AM PDT and you can watch it on Xbox.com, Xbox Live or on Spike TV.
No announcement has been made if a hobbit will be hosting the event.
We will be updating you as more information comes in. Until then have fun going through our most recent set of Xbox rumor mill items here.
Images have leaked out of the supposed box art for the not yet confirmed, but sure as shit is gonna happen Call of Duty: Ghosts. It has a military man on the front who is apparently answering the…call of duty? I suppose.
The next game in the mega-popular Call of Duty series, Ghosts will see you take control of Ranger Man or Other Ranger Man as you work to shoot and climb or rappel things in hopes of bringing the villainous Terrorist B into custody before he can blow up….the world…or something. You will be able to shoot many people with a wide array of military weaponry that you will never see in real life and aren’t quite sure if it is real or not.
For the other 98% of you, there is multiplayer also so you can avoid any kind of annoying story in your game.
Call of Duty: Ghosts has no release date, but it will be November.
So remember waaaay back in January when Deep Silver announced the “Zombie Bait” edition of Dead Island: Riptide which included the lovely torso of a bikini-clad woman? And remember how the internet blew up over the next few days talking about how reviled and revolting it was to release something like this? Then, in response, Deep Silver issued a statement which went kind of like this:
“We sincerely regret this choice. We are collecting feedback continuously from the Dead Island community, as well as the international gaming community at large, for ongoing internal meetings with Deep Silver’s entire international team today. For now, we want to reiterate to the community, fans and industry how deeply sorry we are, and that we are committed to making sure this will never happen again.”
Yeah, so fuck all that, they released it anyway.
Why you may ask? Hell if I know. Now I do think the bust is on the tasteless side and to release it anyway after vehemently apologizing for it months back makes the matter even worse. Maybe Deep Silver thought enough time had blown over since January or forgot the internet existed. They may need as much cash as possible after parent company Koch Media purchased Volition for $22 million.
Of course you could just think of the bust as a man that has had a sex change operation after a lifetime of feeling wrong with himself and finally was enjoying his/her first trip to beach and things went awry.
Ratchet, Clank and Captain Qwark are headed to the big screen!
Insomniac announced that they, along with Rainmaker and Blockade Entertainment were bringing their popular franchise to theaters in 2015. If you have played any of the Ratchet & Clank’s then you know that they will easily adapt to an animated feature. The humor is second to none and I hope people unfamiliar with the franchise will give the movie a chance when it is released.
A trailer has been released for the movie which you can see below.
Konami officially announced Metal Gear Solid ‘The Legacy Collection’ which brings Metal Gear Solid 1, 2 & 3 HD Collections, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions and the “trophy edition” of Meal Gear Solid 4 all in one handy “buy it for the Snake, suffer through the Raiden” package. It also comes with two digital graphic novels by Ashley Wood.
Metal Gear Solid ‘The Legacy Collection’ will release in June.
Talk about a freaking deal! Relative unknown Nordic Games acquired almost all of the remaining THQ franchises today for the sum of $4.9 million. That includes over 150 titles including the franchises Darksiders, Red Faction and Destroy All Humans. Only two other titles (Homeworld and Drawn to Life) were purchased by other companies (Gearbox and 505 Games respectively).
Talk about a fire sale. I knew all those titles were up for grabs, but I did not expect an unknown company to just buy them all up and for only $5 million! But there is a big, bright, shining upside to this.
Please God, let there be more Destroy All Humans!!!
Canada may get made fun of for a lot of things, but they have given us William Shatner, SCTV and hockey. And this past weekend at their 4th Annual Video Game Awards they got something else right by naming Far Cry 3 the Game of the Year.
Good job Canada, agreeing with us always puts you on the good side again. Check out the full list of winners below.
We here at Nerd Rating love achievements and trophies. We are admitted whores for them, but when you think about it, the practice of gamerscores is only seven years old with the introduction of the Xbox 360. We have 30 years of backlogged video games that need to be updated! So that is what we are venturing to do. Our new feature called Retro Achievement List will look back at games of the past and give them a set of achievements to strive for even if they may not seem serious.
Alright, here we are. Battletoads. The game that begged to ask “will kids buy a game with roided up toads whipping the ever loving shit out of pigs and rats?” The answer to that was a rather large and emphatic SHIT YEAH WE WILL! The game also fed our underlying addiction for punishment because I am not sure about you, but Battletoads was hard as shit. When you look back at some of the games we played as kids, it’s no wonder some of us grew up with anger issues.
It’s time for Battletoads to get its due with an achievement list of its very own. Radical!
Achievement Unlocked:
*Achievement #1
Spend an excessive amount of time in your room, not playing Battletoads, but staring at a picture of the Dark Queen in your EGM.
*Achievement #2
Get into more than two arguments with classmates that Battletoads is not a ripoff of TMNT even though you know in your heart that it is.
*Achievement #3
Realize that your sophomoric humor comes from playing games that have enemies named Gonnad.
*Achievement 4
When you kill an enemy and your fist becomes large, wonder why the older people in the room laugh when you say “I fisted it!”.
*Achievement #5
Discover new meanings of rage when the vehicle levels boil down to pattern memorization….and your brain does not do that.
*Achievement #6
Perverted Star Wars fans disappointed when the level Wookie Hole does not meet expectations.
*Achievement #7
Break your big toe kicking your coffee table as you yell about every game having a fu**ing ice level that makes you slide around like an idiot.
*Achievement #8
Due to your age, have the complete phallic symbolism of riding giant snakes escape you.
*Achievement #9
Try and get a Battletoads movie Kickstarter going because of TMNT being sodomized by Michael Bay.
*Achievement #10
Write down a list of your favorite video game characters as a kid (Rash, Zitz, Pimple, Toe Jam, Earthworm Jim). Begin to see why your parents took you to see the “special doctor” when you were nine.
We want to hear from all of you also! What achievements would you add to Battletoads? Leave us a comment below or tweet us your responses on Twitter (@nerdrating) and use the hashtag #RetroAchievementList
Three of the best platforming games ever are coming the the PS Vita this summer. Sony announced the Jak and Daxter Collection that was released on the PS3 last fall would make its way onto their handeheld in June. You will get Jack and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Jak II and Jak 3 for only $29.99.
