Penny Arcade™, the comic strip for gamers by gamers is now available in comic shops and bookstores everywhere. Not familiar with Penny Arcade™? It's only the most popular gamer's comic strip on the net. It's just the funniest, most twisted comic that ever lampooned gamer culture, and takes shots at everything from Star Wars™ to Steve Jobs.
Experience the joy of being a hardcore gamer as expressed in vignettes of random vulgarity and mindless violence! Get online and direct your browser to penny-arcade.com, check out the latest strips, then, to read Penny Arcade™ from the very beginning, get the first collection, Attack of the Bacon Robots!, which includes strips, sketches, and creator commentary not available anywhere else!
Look out for Penny Arcade™ Volume Two: Epic Legends of the Magic Sword Kings, later this year!
After countless years of disappointing game-to-movie translations--need we dredge of unpleasant memories of Street Fighter™, House of the Dead, and Super Mario Brothers™?--it looks like TriStarPictures™ is taking the high road with Silent Hill.
The upcoming film looks to be a spot-on translation of the first game, right down to the characters, the mannequin monsters, the pea-soup fog, and the creeping sense of dread. Fans will doubtlessly be intrigued by the film's lush visual style.
Free online arcade games! That's right, it's like MAME™ in your web browser, playable online at no cost!
That's not all though, they also have online playable Nintendo™ games too!
And if you weren't already aware of it, we have a list of tons more classics online playable on our classic games page, and in the archives of this newsletter.
Think Tempest™ meets Space Harrier™ and you'll have a pretty good idea of what this game's all about. Beautiful graphics and fast paced gameplay make this one a must play.
Midway® Arcade Treasures: Deluxe Edition has hit stores. The 4-disc set includes all the games from Midway® Arcade Treasures 2 and Midway® Arcade Treasures 3, as well as the original Mortal Kombat™.
Among the classics included are Super Off Road, Gauntlet II, Pit Fighter, San Francisco Rush 2049, and Rampage World Tour. Midway® Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition is rated E for Everyone and is on sale now.
Mortal Kombat™ Armageddon - Every Kombatant, ever!
Move over Trilogy, MK: Armageddon will feature ALL the previous kombatants from every Mortal Kombat™ game ever, even bosses like Motaro and rare characters like Rain. Rumor has it that a lot, maybe even all, of the stages from the previous games will also be returning.
And if you too were a fan of the Shaolin Monks game , the new Konquest System mode will be based upon it's fast paced gameplay engine.
Another big feature is the expansion of the new Fatality system. Now instead of just watching a Fatality act out like a movie or play, instead you will be able to control every step in the Fatality. You will be given a set allotment of time to execute various movements, some exclusive to your fighter, to decimate your victim.
Perhaps the koolest feature is the new Kreate-a-Kombatant mode where you can change the appearance, fighting styles, weapon and even some form of custom fatalities for your character!
Issue #154 of Game Informer has an exclusive several page feature of the game. Here is a quick run down of the features mentioned in the article:
At least 60 playable characters, "all the characters from Mortal Kombat fighting history". But they do mention that Motaro may not make the cut. Character select screen is so large that it has to rotate to reveal them all.
Create a Kombatant system for customizable characters.
The Fatalitiy system will be "reinvented," but no elaboration on that yet.
Air Combo system implemented that allows string combos in mid-air.
Throws can now be executed so that you toss the opponent where you want to. This helps with stage deathtraps, making them much more of a threat than before.
Konquest mode is now based off of the Shaolin Monks engine. This will allow the game to much more dynamic and expansive.
Game to be released for PlayStation 2 and Xbox in October 2006.
Not be outdone by Midway®, Capcom® has announced Street Fighter® Alpha Anthology for the PlayStation®2, a monumental compilation of the entire Street Fighter® Alpha arcade series. The collection features direct arcade conversions of Street Fighter® Alpha, Street Fighter® Alpha 2, Street Fighter® Alpha 2 Gold and Street Fighter® Alpha 3 which have never before been available together in one package. As an added bonus, the “pint-sized” Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix® (also released on consoles as Pocket Fighter®), is included which brings the total to five action packed games on one disc. Street Fighter Alpha Anthology is scheduled for release throughout North America in summer 2006.
Not be left out, SNK® has announced The King of Fighters™: NeoWave, which will be released this month on the 21st. KOF:NeoWave a 2D revolution for the franchise and fighting genre comes to the Xbox® Video Game System with improved graphics and an enhanced game system, featuring full Xbox™ Live support.
You'll be able to choose from 36 fighters, both new and old. You'll find each one has their own unique Special Moves and flashy Supers, colorful character art, an evacuation rolling maneuver and a thrust attack.
Reviews of the X-Arcade™ Trackball are pouring in from all over the place. We will be featuring review's as they come in, just cause we can.
IGN seems to have given it quite a go: "we drew quite a crowd in the office with an impromptu Marble Madness™ tournament."
The results were good: "In the end we were quite please with the X-Arcade Trackball. Fans of the classic games of the 80s would do well to add the unit to their emulation setups, as so many of the old games simply can't be enjoyed and horned with a keyboard or mouse setup, and since it's built to take heavy abuse without a scratch, the Trackball will likely survive just as well as the classic games it plays."
