Nintendo Download: Wii U Roundup, Zelda II, Crashmo, more

Posted on November 22, 2012 by John Scalzo

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Nintendo is dishing out a ton of new eShop content thanks to their first Wii U games update as well as a handful of 3DS, DSi, and Wii games.

This week, Wii U owners got the chance to download five eShop titles including the dreamy Chasing Aurora, the white-hot Little Inferno, the high-defintion remake Mighty Switch Force! Hyper Drive Edition, the twin-stick shooter Nano Assault Neo, and the puzzle platformer Trine 2: Director’s Cut. Almost two dozen Wii U retail games were also added to the eShop including New Super Mario Bros. U, ZombiU, Scribblenauts Unlimited, and more.

3DS owners have their own batch of games to be thankful including another puzzle platformer (Crashmo) and the underappreciated Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.

Hit the break for more details on all of these games as well as this week’s new DSi and Wii downloads.

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Daily Scoop: November 22, 2012 – Happy Thanksgiving!

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Nicole Kline

To all of you folks in the United States about to gorge yourselves on too much food and pie: Happy Thanksgiving! We are going to get some take out vegetarian Chinese food later, and play some video games. It’s a beautiful day!

There are a lot of great deals at Amazon today! Check out the link to see all of them for the whole weekend or if you just want today’s, here they are:

Again, a lot of tempting deals! But I’m trying to hold out until tomorrow!

Steam is having some ludicrous sales as well until November 26, with different deals every day. Today’s deals include Dead Island for $6.79, Rage for $4.99, Terraria for $3.39, and XCOM: Enemy Unknown for $33.49. Yeesh! That’s intense.

Just one shirt today, but it’s a fantastic one!

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Halo 4 Review: Change Is Good

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Troy Matsumiya

The Chief is back, baby – and better than ever. Remember those initial concerns when Bungie handed the Halo franchise over to Microsoft and its internal 343 Industries studio? Well, you can relax: the series is in very good hands. Halo 4 is by far the best of the bunch, surpassing even Bungie’s pinnacle swansong, Halo: Reach.

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XBLA Today: Walking Dead Episode 5, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D, Kinect Sports Gems

Posted on November 21, 2012 by John Scalzo

Telltale has finally reached the end of the first season of their adventure game adaptation of The Walking Dead. The final episode, “No Time Left,” is available to download from the Xbox Live Arcade today for 400 Microsoft Points ($5):

The final episode of a five-part game series set in Robert Kirkman’s award-winning zombie apocalypse. With time running out and the odds stacked against you, Clementine’s fate is in your hands. The culmination of your choices leads to the stunning conclusion of this first season of The Walking Dead. Purchase of this DLC requires The Walking Dead – Episode 1: A New Day.

Also available today is Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Decade Duels Plus, a video game adaptation of the collectible card game. It’s been priced at 800 Microsoft Points ($10) and also includes the option to purchase additional card packs in-game:

Based on the popular Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s animated TV series Includes the latest cards from the official Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Trading Card Game Complete against the most popular Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s characters during the finals Battle through Single player or compete in 4 player tag duels with text and voice chat ability.

Finally, a trio of Kinect Sports Gems, bite-sized motion-based sports titles, have been added to the XBLA. Each game is very accurately titled (3 Point Contest, Ski Race, and Darts vs Zombies) and has been priced at 240 Microsoft Points ($3) apiece.

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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City comes to iOS, Android on December 6

Posted on November 21, 2012 by John Scalzo

Rockstar Games has announced that the mobile remake of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City will be available to download for iOS and Android devices on December 6. The mobile version of one of the PS2’s most popular games has been priced at $4.99 on both platforms.

This 10th Anniversary Edition brings the full experience of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City to mobile devices, with native high-resolution graphics and several enhancements unique to the iOS and Android platforms including updated character models and lighting effects, more precise firing and targeting options, a fully customizable control layout and native support for Retina display devices.

A complete list of compatible iOS/Android devices can be found at the Rockstar Newswire blog.

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Daily Scoop: November 21, 2012 – Thankful for so much

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Nicole Kline

It’s not even Thanksgiving, and I’m already thankful for so much. I’m thankful for the good friends I spent last night with, laughing until we were in pain. I’ve never had that much fun at an IHOP! I’m thankful for my boyfriend, who just wrote his first article. I’m thankful for my family, who I got to see this weekend (and surprisingly survive a game of Cards Against Humanity with). I’m thankful for so much!

Day three of Black Friday deals at Amazon is upon us, and again, I’m just copying from John Scalzo’s hard work:

I might get Spirit Camera… NO!! No, I won’t! Don’t do it, bro!

Three awesome shirts today – see if you can resist them!

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Be thankful for a PSN update including Epic Mickey 2, PS All-Stars, Family Guy, more

Posted on November 21, 2012 by John Scalzo

PS3, Vita, and PSP owners will have a lot to be thankful for this week as Sony has added more than a dozen games to the PlayStation Store in an attempt to steal some of your Black Friday dollars.

Leading the way are a trio of PS3 Full Games that includes mascot brawler PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale, artistic sequel Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, and the cartoonish chaos of Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse. PlayStation All-Stars is also available to download on the Vita.

But there’s even more to be thankful for, including…

  • The final episode of Telltale’s The Walking Dead adaptation, “No Time Left.”
  • Doom Classic Complete, a PS3 compilation that includes Ultimate Doom, Doom II (plus “The Master Levels”), and Final Doom.
  • A Vita-exclusive remake of Persona 4, subtitled “Golden.”
  • The wild Grasshopper Manufacture shoot ’em up Sine Mora (on PSN and Vita).
  • The Vita remake of Sega’s cult classic, Jet Set Radio.

And that’s still not everything that was added to the PlayStation Store yesterday. You can hint the break for more information on every new release or visit the PlayStation Blog for a list of this week’s new game add-ons.

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Torchlight II Review: Diablo II Never Looked So Good

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Anthony Amato

Torchlight II builds off of Torchlight‘s rock solid foundations to create a game that fully delivers on developer Runic Games’ goal to “give [the players] what they’re asking for.” Oddly, even though the game was in development long before Diablo III‘s release, what the players wanted seems to be all the things Diablo III got wrong.

Blizzard’s Diablo III is certainly the 800-pound gorilla in the room, and some might try to write a review of Torchlight II without mentioning its major league rival, but I’m not going to bother. Anyone who is a fan of the click n’ loot fest likely has played the Diablo games at some point, and that series pretty much defines all the core elements, so I see little reason in avoiding the comparison. Considering Torchlight’s developers include Max and Erich Schaefer, the co-founders of Blizzard North and co-creators of the Diablo series, it’s interesting to see how much Diablo has diverged while Torchlight II has remained true to its origins.

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