Kombo News Round-up 4/17/08 (My birthday!)-4/18/08
I haven’t played a single game all week. I bet my mother’s proud; “You’ll never get anywhere playing video games all the time!” she’d exclaim, after telling some kids to get off her lawn and making me take out the trash. Well, except that she never actually said that, and my line of work (if it could so be called at this point) is acutely focused on video games. But she is old, and she did make me dispense of our collective garbage when I was a wee little ‘un. Anyway, since I need to play something before I succumb to gaming withdrawal — and, more pressingly, the need to sleep — here’s the news.
Mercenaries 3 and Mercenaries 2 Wii Hinted at, Yet So Far Away
NBC and Time Warner Gaze Longingly at SCi, Offer Money in Exchange for Portions of Its Body
Why Do We Play Games? (Protip: Read, Digg, and N4G this unless you don’t want to, in which case there are no actual consequences. Well, other than my eternal ire, which will drive your guilt-ridden conscience to envision a mopey, saddened version of me, and that’ll make you happy. I am, after all, incredibly handsome — no matter what mood I’m in.)
Fallout 3 Leads on Xbox 360, Aims to Achieve Similar Quality with PS3
EA Gets Impatient with Take-Two, Says Life is Good Under EA’s Umbrella
Dragon Quest IV DS to Establish North American Chapter
First Mortal Kombat vs. DC Characters Unveiled, Story to be Penned by Top DC Authors
Brand New NBA Ballers: Chosen One Screenshots and Trailer (In this story, I used a term you’ll never, ever, ever, ever hear me use in real life. Click the link to find out what it was!)
So, I’m getting tired. I’m not sure if I can make it through Metal Gear Solid’s opening scene in my current state. Maybe I’ll pick up Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Screen again after all.
Edit: This is damn near the greatest thing I’ve ever read.
Kombo News Round-up 4/9/08-4/10/08
Sorry about the lack of an update yesterday, but I was completely exhausted. Laptop firmly shut (and newly updated — Vista is a demanding mistress), it was only once I slid into bed that I realized my mistake. Well, consider this post a heartfelt apology, each and every “i” dotted with a bleary-eyed sad face.
Sega Divulges Details on Wii Version of Sonic Unleashed — Yes, Sonic’s Still a Werewolf
MI6 Teaches Us the Great Truth of Video Game Sales
Factor 5 Adding Analog Controls to Lair, Fun Not Available for Comment
Sony: “If You Can’t Beat Homebrewers, Poll Em’”
And don’t worry, I can still feel your vehement disappointment boring into my conscience, and I know why. My final Crisis Core write-up is, thus far, a day late, with nary a word to its credit. But before you haul-off and submit all my stories to Digg — oh wait do that. Anyway, my blog-negligence is not without reason; for the past couple of days I’ve been tired, depressed, and in a bit of a slump. Previous evidence has shown, however, that I should win my bout with gloom in the next day or two, so expect my Crisis Core conclusion by then.
:’(
