Reminder: Bioshock 2 Seems Pretty Good

By Rob Bricken in Video Games
Tuesday, Feb. 9 2010 @ 9:11AM
It's also out today, so if you wanted to buy it, today is the first day which you could do so. GameTrailers made the above montage of video clips from the game's development over the last couple of years, which I think is fantastic -- it's great seeing all the old promos and footage, and it gives a pretty swell overview of the game overall. I mean, I did catch myself drooling about mid-way through the video, so I'm assuming I was liking what I was seeing.
Tags: Bioshock

Begun, These Videogame Makers on a Lego Clone Wars Game Have

By Rob Bricken in Cartoons, Toys, Video Games
Monday, Feb. 8 2010 @ 12:01PM

It's true! So says Kotaku, who have announced that Travelers' Tales have announced they'll be making a Clone Wars game in the style of their popular (and very, very fun) Lego Star Wars games. Apparently they'll be based on the first two seasons of the show (season 2 just started a little while ago, right? With the Mandalorians?) and will come out this fall for pretty much everything. You guys have heard my rants about Clone Wars, but I'd play a Lego game based on the Star Wars Holiday Special if they made it. And as long as the characters look like Legos and not puppets from the '50s, my biggest problem with the Clone Wars will be utterly avoided. Keen!

Give Him the Dagger, Dickweed

By Rob Bricken in Movies, Video Games
Monday, Feb. 8 2010 @ 9:05AM

This is the commercial for the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time movie that aired during the Super Bowl last night. Since I'm still recovering from a great game and a great party, please just recall my previous comments -- looks surprisingly accurate to the videogame, Jake Gyllenhaal is so not Persian -- and pretend I also said something brilliant and funny. Now I'm going to get some coffee.

War Machine's Prime Directive: Being Player 2

By Rob Bricken in Comics, Movies, Video Games
Friday, Feb. 5 2010 @ 10:29AM
Looks like Sega's Iron Man 2 game is coming along well. There's ground battles, air battles and punching, although I can't tell exactly how free you are to go back and forth between the modes, or if they're specific gameplay styles for specific missions (I'm hoping the former). Also, I can't tell if War Machine is actually Player 2 and you can play co-op missions or if he's just another playable character -- it'd be pretty cool if it were the former, but I'm sadly betting it's the latter. In fact, I don't know why I posted this video at all. My bad. Move along.

Geek Apparel of the Week: Epics

By Rob Bricken in Merchandise, Video Games
Thursday, Feb. 4 2010 @ 2:00PM
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Teextile is an online shirt company that offers four designs every week; I've had my eye on them for a little while. But I still feel that the above shirt is their masterpiece, and at $14, not a bad deal at all. Quick quiz -- if you looked at this shirt and, within two minutes, wondering how many points each icon was getting for their height when grabbing the flagpole, you are a huge, huge nerd.

Looks Like Sonic Can Finally Tell Mario to Suck It

By Rob Bricken in Video Games
Thursday, Feb. 4 2010 @ 12:12PM

And Sonic can quit his day job at the restaurant too. Sega has announced -- by way of the video above -- Sonic the Hedgehog 4, which is a new Sonic game in 2-D. Well, it's 3-D, obviously, but on a 2-D plane, so it actually recreates the gameplay of the games that made a Sonic a star. No talking to human girls, no black knights, no fucking werewolves -- just running and getting rings. You may have noticed the "Episode 1" subtitle; turns out that this will be an online game on Xbox Live and WiiWare (and assumably PSN at some point). I don't know how many levels players will get in each episode -- surely more than one, and hopefully more than three, or one "World" -- but on the bright side, there's a lot of classic Sonic potentially coming down the pike. Thanks to everyone who sent this in.
Tags: Sega, Sonic

Mario and Sonic at the Awkward Restaurant

By Rob Bricken in Nerdery, Video Games
Thursday, Feb. 4 2010 @ 9:05AM

Not College Humor's best, but I still got a chuckle out of Sonic trying desperately to tell Mario about his recent slate of games. Also: "I knew a guy... who had a Dreamcast."

Bioshock 2: Everything's Better Down Where It's Wetter

By Rob Bricken in Video Games
Wednesday, Feb. 3 2010 @ 9:05AM
That's not the subtitle to Bioshock 2, although it really should be. I need to confess something. As much as I enjoyed the first Bioshock, I realized the other day I wasn't in any big rush to play the sequel. Sure, I wanted it, but I didn't think I needed to buy it when it comes out next week (on the 9th) -- I have some other games to play and stuff I need to watch, so I was thinking about just waiting until after I finish the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII, whenever that might be. Then I saw this new trailer.

Yeah. I think I'll be picking up Bioshock 2 next week now.
Tags: Bioshock

Left 4 Dead (Assumably by Paul Reiser)

By Rob Bricken in Movies, Video Games
Tuesday, Feb. 2 2010 @ 10:30AM
You guys have all seemed pretty excited about Sega's upcoming Aliens Vs. Predator game, so I hope you don't mind yet another clip. This is for the survival mode, which lets four players/marines see how long they can survive against an onslaught of Aliens (and maybe Predators, I don't know for sure). So basically, it's Left 4 Dead versus Aliens, which pretty much sounds like the awesomest thing ever.

Someone's Got a Mass Effect... in Their Pants

By Rob Bricken in Video Games
Monday, Feb. 1 2010 @ 2:00PM
Since about 80% of the people in my Friends list on Xbox Live are playing Mass Effect 2 right now, I'm going to guess that there's a certain amount of interest for a video of the game's various scenes of PG-rated booty-knockin', set to the finest sounds Skinemax After Dark has to offer. It's not even as naughty as the Ancient Dogoo Girl trailer below -- jiggling real breasts are naughtier than virtual clothed dry humping, in my opinion -- but it'll give you guys something to watch while I figure out who won the TR contest.
Tags: Mass Effect, Sex