You’ve probably seen this already, as it seems to be everywhere– or at least on a lot of male-targeted programming, anyway. I’m not especially inclined to play the game, but I do enjoy this ad more than last year’s version. I guess there’s something about Tony Stark bringing a jet to a gunfight that I just find appealing.
Incidentally, how many of these people are celebrities, anyway? I don’t watch enough TV or anything to really know unless they guest-host Monday Night Raw.
A lot of Transformers fans have things they’re looking forward to in the sequel of Transformers: War for Cybertron, titled Fall of Cybertron. Some are looking forward to learning more about the story which precedes the current television series, Transformers: Prime and Transformers: Rescue Bots, in the new “Aligned” continuity family. Others are eager to take control of the mighty Dinobot leader Grimlock or the Decepticons’ Combaticon combiner, Bruticus, and lay waste to their enemies through sheer force on the battlefield.
Me? I’m looking forward to all of those things, too. But since Game Informer first pulled back the curtain on the game, there is one element I’ve been dying to see. And at E3, it finally happened.
Though I may not have said as much about it here, I’ve made no secret that Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing is one of my favorite games– period. And in the kart-racing arena, I honestly feel that SEGA and Sumo Digital have managed to craft a product which actually surpasses Mario Kart in many ways, chief among them being the actual racing, item use, and how unlockables are earned.
So as you can imagine, I was absolutely giddy when it was revealed that they were now creating a sequel, Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. In the following video (with some NSFW language), ConsoleCreature has one of the developers show us what’s new in this version:
We’ve heard about the additions of Shinobi star Joe Musashi and Golden Axe hero Gillius Thunderhead to the roster, but now we get to see them and their rides in action with three of the game’s all-new racetracks: Dragon Canyon from Panzer Dragoon, Temple Trouble from Super Monkey Ball, and Adder’s Lair from Golden Axe.
Full disclosure: Sony has been my platform of choice since before I quit and after I jumped back into console gaming. With so many properties under their belt that interest me, I can’t help being more interested in their franchises than most. Sony being my main platform also means I already have all of their hardware. As such I won’t be saying much about any hardware bundles announced.
While I am primarily a Sony fan, I know very well what’s going on with other platforms. With the Wii U on the horizon and PC gaming putting consoles to shame in both graphics and software lately, Sony needed to wow me as my personal gaming incumbent. Here’s my rundown. Continue reading
Next up on our three-hour tour (well, more like four and a half or so…) is Sony. Unlike Microsoft, which I watched later, I saw this one firsthand as it happened live on Spike. Or was it G4? Well, somewhere.
Delving back into the full-disclosure bit: I do not own a Sony PlayStation 3. I have every other model of PlayStation prior, and I have friends and family who have it, but I never made the jump. Nothing against the system itself, but $599 U.S. dollars was a bit off-putting at the outset, and removing the backwards compatibility with the PlayStation 2 did no favors (if I’m not mistaken, it was actually around this point that we actually got our PS2 Slim).
Even after the price drop, between the Xbox 360 and Wii (and handhelds, and iPhone), there just wasn’t enough going on there to justify the purchase. From all my experiences, it’s a fine machine with some great games I would not mind playing; it’s just nothing that ever happened. Maybe if the PlayStation 4 doesn’t play PS3 games and costs the better part of a grand, we’ll look at getting one then.
Oh, and the Vita? Don’t have one of those, either. I’ve tried some demos, and it’s a very nice handheld (and playing ModNation Racers was more comfortable to me than Mario Kart 7, but there just isn’t enough there right now for me to take the plunge.
So, there we are. I like Sony well enough, but at the moment, I don’t own either of their active platforms. Will this year’s press conference reveal something that will turn the tide? Will I finally break?
Let’s find out!
From the Toronto Video Game Examiner:
E3 Impressions: Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition – Shoryuken! Unless you’re using those joystick controllers…
E3 Impressions: BurgerTime World Tour – Simply delicious!
E3 Impressions: Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension for PS3, Wii, NDS – Hey, where’s Perry?
From the Canada Nintendo Examiner:
E3 Impressions: Power Rangers Samurai for Wii – Rangers together, Samurai forever! …and why didn’t anyone tell me Inti Creates is making this?!
E3 Impressions: Shinobi for Nintendo 3DS – Shinobi is back!
Straight Shooting with the Canada Nintendo Examiner – 7/6/11 – And everything else that’s fit to print.
From The Mega Man Network:
Check out UDON at SDCC for a Slathering of Guests – Come one, come all!
DASH 3 Vanishes from CoJ Front Page – There is no need to panic… yet.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”
From the Toronto Video Game Examiner:
Toronto video game deals for the week of June 24th to June 30th, 2011
From the Canada Nintendo Examiner:
Straight Shooting with the Canada Nintendo Examiner – 6/24/11 – Sonic the Hedgehog, Xenoblade Chronicles/The Last Story/Pandora’s Tower campaigns, Game Boy, Metroid, Kirby, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and more!
From The Mega Man Network:
Comics Alliance Hails Archie’s Mega Man as “An All-Ages Comic That Deals With War and the Nature of Humanity” – Deep stuff.
Megafying Your Wear to Support Mega Man Universe – Bad Box Art Mega Man, all the way.
From the Archie Mega Man Blog:
Clever Cameos & Rocking References, part 2: Neige(?) – Wha?! How can this be?!
–LBD “Nytetrayn”
From the Toronto Video Game Examiner:
E3 Impressions: Sonic Generations – Blue streaks, speed by…
From the Canada Nintendo Examiner:
The Nintendo Download – 6/23/11 – Tennis… yay…
E3 Impressions: Wii U, part 2 – Featuring the demos Battle Mii, Chase Mii, Measure Up, and overall thoughts.
E3 Impressions: Sonic Generations for Nintendo 3DS – S-O-N-I-C, GO!
Straight Shooting with the Canada Nintendo Examiner – 6/23/11: 20 Years of Sonic – The Legend of Zelda, Contra, the Kid Icarus Wrestling Federation, tons of Hedgehog Havoc, and more!
From The Mega Man Network:
Mega Man Legends 3 Prototype Version Contest: The Results – And the winner is…
From the Archie Mega Man Blog:
Clever Cameos & Rocking References, part 1: The B&C Gazette Team – Plum, Ripot, and Chest!
–LBD “Nytetrayn”
Ack. I spent the day working on something else last-minute (more on that later), and so I didn’t get to write about anything regarding E3. Well, besides the news stuff, anyway. Better luck there later today, I hope!
From the Canada Nintendo Examiner:
Straight Shooting with the Canada Nintendo Examiner – 6/15/11
From The Mega Man Network:
MML3 Prototype Contest Update: The Contenders – Did you make the list?
Some More Outstanding Mega Man Apparel – Yay, Mega Man shirts which don’t look like they were designed by a third-grader using a sprite sheet and MSPaint!
–LBD “Nytetrayn”
From the Toronto Video Game Examiner:
Toronto video game deals for the week of June 3rd to June 9th, 2011
Straight Shooting with the Toronto Video Game Examiner – 6/3/11 – The final edition? You decide! …after reading about Sony, Konami, Kinect in Mass Effect 3, Sonic, Call of Duty Elite, DRM on Super Street Fighter IV: The Arcade Edition for PC, Bushido Blade (for real!), and more.
From The Mega Man Network:
Christian Svensson Speaks on Various Things Mega Man – On the success of Mega Man 9 and 10, the green-lighting of Mega Man Legends 3, and more.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”