Archive for August, 2006:

As British Gaming Blog has helpfully pointed out, the upcoming DS title Yoshi’s Island 2 is to have some kind of online play if the box art is anything to go by. Coming to this conclusion is a fairly simple affair: the box has the ... [ Read More ]

According to Destructoid, somebody claiming to be the Nintendo 64 kid’s dad has contacted them via eBay and proclaimed that his son is in fact a hardcore gamer after all. The message which can be alternatively read in .jpg form reads as follows: “The ... [ Read More ]

I was kind of hoping the fanboy guy I posted about last week would remain the worst case I’ve ever seen of obsession, and… well, he still is. But somebody started a thread on the Mojo forums today that’s quite a contender! That is ... [ Read More ]

A very intriguing video is currently on YouTube that was presumably used to advertise the GameCube back when it was fresh and full of potential. A lot of it is nothing special, but there’re some juicy parts that are quite noteworthy. For example some ... [ Read More ]

In a move that would make Vivendi Games roll over in its grave if it were dead, Electronic Arts has announced that it’s to close down online support for 13 games. In the words of Game Informer: “EA explains that servers for the games ... [ Read More ]

Attendees of this year’s QuakeCon (which is still ongoing) have been lucky enough to get the opportunity to play the upcoming Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, a multiplayer game very much along the lines of Battlefield and, more distantly, Team Fortress where you play a distinct ... [ Read More ]

Many people have come across the Nintendo 64 kid video during the past several months. If you haven’t, allow me to describe it in one sentence: a young boy gets excessively excited when his parents buy him a Nintendo 64 for Christmas. Seems innocent enough, ... [ Read More ]