In the earliest hours of yesterday morn a most curious thing was taking place throughout this land. Compelled by post-religious zeal, followers of the CoCoD (Church of Call of Duty) assembled to welcome the return of their deity. A rather curious deity in a number of respects, you won’t find any anti-aliasing on Vishnu; however much like religion, it has sparked it’s fair share of controversy.
The one where you slaughter civilians whilst posing as a terrorist. Is it wrong that you can carry out this atrocity in a incredibly realistic way? Of course not. Yes it is graphic, bloody and incredibly violent; but it is just part of a story, one that is examining the state-granted absolution that being a solider affords in an interesting and striking way.
Frankly i’m ecstatic that a popular game has this kind of depth. Compare this to the current number one by ‘JLS’ which requests that:
So little boot’s album was released ages ago (8th of June). I have just received it. I should probably consider other forms of delivery. Carrier pigeons just aren’t as quick as they used to be. hmmm.
Because of the delay most of you probably know how good ‘Hands’ is. For those who don’t bathe yourselves in the glory of this:
Is she in fact the embarrassing little sister of Lady GaGa?
I think the world would be a better place if this rather convincing rumour was true; imagine the family meals! Imagine the awkward double-dates! Imagine the sound that must emanate from Lady GaGa’s bedroom in the darkness of night! Can’t imagine the sound? I’ll give you a hint: It’s the sound of flesh and bones, crunched, and devoured.
Anyway, have you heard about the word? well a bird bird bird, a bird is the word. A new harry potter film is impending, it impends on July 15th to be precise. Not really relevant to a gamemusic blog as it stands is it, well, the tenuous connection is that there is also a game for it.
As you can see it contains the usual rigmarole and wizardry one should expect from a Harry Potter game. It’s also out on basically everything, and will probably be as ferociously standard on everything.
The real news here is that Emma Watson is actually the perfect woman.
This is the only bit of information currently available on the new Zelda game. Do not squander this precious gift, drink it in deep. Let it course through your body, nourishing every aspect of your being. Because it isn’t going to formally announced until e3 NEXT YEAR.
Right, now let’s start the boundless speculation as to who the fuck that girl is, and in what way does it fit in with the hugely convoluted, bifurcated story arc. Some people are even suggesting that she may be the literal anthropomorphism of the master sword, mostly because she’s so featureless she looks like sword. What is of note though is that this link very much resembles the one from the ‘Twilight Princess’, I’m going to guess that it is a direct sequel to that, much in the vein of Majora’s Mask to The Ocarina of Time, or The Phantom Hourglass to the Wind Waker.
Much like butter, Kojima is going to be spreading himself over alllllll the ‘hd’ gaming platforms for his upcoming game ‘Metal gear solid: Rising’. It was a little bit unclear earlier, but it’s now been super-confirmed by the Konami presser.
Is the equivalent of putting slightly too much water in your ribena, you know, so it’s kinda blackcurrenty, but not quite the taste-sensation you dreamed of?
No, probably not. Mutli-platform doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to lack any of the polish of an ‘exclusive’, this is Kojima we’re talking about, the man fucking excretes polish.
I think Kojima is a pretty cool guy, eh makes games and doesn’t afraid of anything! Unfortunately, this respect is tempered by his apparent nature as a PATHOLOGICAL LIAR. The man has insisted for, by my reckoning, all of the time I have been alive (this is actually true) that he ‘won’t do a sequel’. I almost believed him after MGS4. Almost. I was a fool. Here is a new Metal Gear Solid. Quelle. Fucking. Surprise!
Perusal of other screenshots reveals multiple ‘Snakes’ in the same environment. This is either indicative of multiplayer (probably), or a ridiculous plot twist whereby more than one copy of Big Boss exists AT THE SAME TIME AS HIM (also probably). Details are thin, but hey, the man knows how to make a game. And more importantly, a cutscene!
She’s Not Dead Yet, Jim, Keep Beating Her…
Final Fantasy has spawned so many derivations that even Rocky cowers in fear at the sight of their beautiful, beautiful ladyboys. Nobody was actually expecting a new Final Fantasy so be announced, which was, in retrospect, rather odd. I suspect that the odds were on more Fabula Nova Crystallis (FFXIII to the uninitiated) iterations, but, as you might surmise from the subtitle, this is actually an online game. FFXI, Squeenix’s previous stab in the MMO dark, was like a dominatrix speaking in tongues: probably quite a lot of fun when you figured out what you were doing, but otherwise utterly incomprehensible and weird. If FFXIV can actually make itself more fun to learn than the fine art of being punched in the face by a gorilla with screwdrivers for hands, then it will surmount the failings of its predecessor.
It’s Clearly Just A Lightsaber
The rather exciting Motion Controller For PS3 has a rather unexciting moniker, but that shouldn’t bother us. More words would be insufficient, other than to direct you to this video, and perhaps compare it to a previous post on the subject (will link later).
The annual electronic entertainment expo, or ‘e3′ is pretty much over. Loadz of new gamez have been announced, here i present some of my highlights:
Super Mario Galaxy 2.
The first super mario galaxy is literally one of the best things on the wii, not only that, but it is also one of the best 3d platformers ever conceived, full-stop. Announced during Nintendo’s conference was a direct sequel. This makes me very, very excited, even if it’s just going to be more of the same. Sometimes more of the same is very good thing. If someone offers you the choice between more delicious beer, or a different drink, say carrot juice; you would never, ever take the juice would you.
Ergo SMG2 is equal to or greater than, a very good thing.
There is a trailer for it right here. Saving the princess never looked so fracking colourful.
Metal Gear Solid: Rising.
Konami’s tiresome, torturous tease is finally over, a new metal gear has finally been announced. It’s set to star ‘raiden’ and was announced during Microsoft’s conference. I put ‘Raiden’ in ‘inverted commas’ because the guy featured in all the art and teaser material for the game clearly has the wrong eye-colour to be the Raiden we all know and hate from mgs2 and 4. Which makes me think Kojima is about to pull the same trick he’s pulled 50% of the time already, and in fact this ‘Raiden’ will be someone else, possibly sunny? Who knows.
Either way, there also seems to be a little bit of confusion as to which platforms it’s being released on, Gamespress seem to suggest a multi-platform ps3, xbox 360 and pc release. But then again, it wasn’t mentioned during Sony’s presser. Either way, it’ll be resolved soon and fanboys world-wide will have some new ammunition. To the boardz.
Milo: The weird virtual boy.
Peter Molyneux created Black and White, for this he is to be praised, and absolved of any sin that he may commit. Milo, is that sin. Announced by micosoft Milo is basically a virtual boy that you can interact with using Microsoft’s newest controller the so called ‘Project Natal’. You can talk to him, taunt him, play with him, anything you want; all the while he’ll be reacting in genuinely disturbing way.
I’m both terrified and and excited for the future.
The best, worst, thing you can do right now is to watch the video:
I hope that’s legible guys. It’s taken from the official glastonbury website. I know, I know, judging from how it looks you’d think it was some-kind of handmade mock-up, a fake.
It’s not, it’s just that the festival’s website is apparently run by a bunch of monkeys randomly typing into word ‘97.
Either way, the only thing you need to know is that Little Boots is playing. yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Right, here in england the weather is rubbish and it’s a bank holiday. This is the worst combination of things conceivable. A combination of things that normally always yields boredom and melancholy. Well, for some of you, hopefully not today. For this is the day that i instruct you to download the Braid demo. Hopefully everyone’s idea of a perfect band holiday is being told to do stuff…
Just bear with me, it is beautiful, and you can get it in either mac or pc flavours right here. At it’s very essence is essentially a platformer of the simplest kind, Mario-like in it’s simplicity. But it is set amongst a theme of rebellion against the existential crisis that we endure as people.
We wouldn’t have to account for our decisions, if we could just go back in time and change them.
This essentially forms the beginning arc of the story, but it does a lot more than this in it’s entire course. Basically, if you are bored, i can’t think of a single thing that’s better to do. Except, maybe making a giant snickers bar.
