RSS Is still alive!
As Claptrap put it in Poker Night 2, “You better get used to (dubstep) grandpa, because the dub is the only music that survives the digital event horizon of 2033”. While the little robot can’t play poker to save his life, he is right that dubstep is one of the most popular forms of 90s modem dial tone around today. Is it popular enough to make a music game about it? Based on documents our sources have uncovered, Activision didn’t think so.
EA, long time kicker of puppies and owner of the rights to the NHL games have announced that Darth Vader will be gracing the cover of the 2014 edition of their hockey game. While there is normally a contest and a vote to decide who will be on the front of the box, this year the contest was cancelled and the Sith lord ‘won’ before the preliminary results came in. How did little Ani become the chosen one? Check after the break for the answer.
Fact: Normal birthday cards are boring.
Fact: Most people see Birthday cards and sarcastically think “Oooh, you signed a piece of paper and put money in it. How fancy.”
Fact: Video games are cooler than Jeeps.
Fact: We were sent a preview copy of the upcoming game/service “Heroes Cards” which merges video games and birthdays and want to give you the exclusive preview.
Fact: It’s already our game of the year.
Welcome to the first installment of PowerPast, a (hopefully) monthly look back 20 years ago in the world of gaming. We used our super awesome time machine made from recycled PS1 parts to travel back and see what all the buzz was all about. We wanted to know if the games that came out in April 1993 were all that and a bag of chips.
To put you in the right mindset, the hottest song in America in April 1993 was “Informer” by Snow. Yeah… we were scared too.
For years, fans of the SNES era RPG EarthBound have been sending Nintendo letters, emails, and dead horse heads in an attempt to get the Big N to re-release the game on modern-day consoles. Nintendo had adamantly refused to touch the game until earlier this week when they announced both that it was finally coming to North America, and that fans could finally shut up about it. While many denizens of Onett are delighted by this news, others have some serious questions about this re-release, most predominately “Why didn’t Nintendo do this years ago?”, and “What did they change, and thusly break, this time?”. We at Unlicensed News know, dear reader, that these are the hard hitting question that you need the answers for, or risk being the sorely under-informed in front of your game-loving friends. We have our connections and know the secrets behind Nintendo’s reluctance. Check after the break and gain intellectual superiority over your peers, at least as far as EarthBound is concerned.
We have received a few questions over the past month. Most asked questions along the lines of “What happened?”, “A pirate theme? Really?”, and “What kind of an impotent jerk writes this crap?”. There are answers to most of those questions. We promised an explanation as to what happened, and thus it shall be written.
Remember all those Saturday morning cartoons telling you not to give into peer pressure? Looks like legendary game genius Hideo Kojima didn’t watch those, because all those comments and speculations finally got to him. Kojima announced that The Phantom Pain is now part of the Metal Gear Solid 5 experience thanks to the internet not shutting up about it. We have the details about how this came about and how the internet won.
Holy crap on a stick! Ducktales Remastered came out of nowhere didn’t it? We around the office are beyond excited for this revisit to our childhood, and can’t wait to be pogo-cane-ing off of snakes like it’s 1990 again. At PAX East, we got a chance to sit down with one of the game’s executive producers, Mr.Mouse, to get the details about what this new version will add to the mix, and unfortunately it seems the game may not be everything we hoped for. Check after the break to read this exclusive interview where we reveal some of the changes that will be coming to this beloved franchise..
Let it never be said that Microsoft does not like to gamble. Our source at Microsoft sent us a spec sheet of the neXtbox, and it looks like we were dead wrong back in July last year. Evidence points to ‘Project Durango’ being not only the opposite of what we anticipated, but production has also been outsourced to a British company. You may want to sit down and prepare to have your socks knocked
straight into the stratosphere.
