Category: Video Games
Disney continues consumer electronics onslaught
From engadget.com
TweetIf you’re in the market for a particular gadget and you’re unable to find a Disney-themed version, well, you’re just not looking hard enough. Second only to Hello Kitty as shameless animated shills for cheap electronics, Mickey and friends have just released yet another portable DVD player — now with 10% less explosions! — along with a digital photo viewer, Princess and Cars swag to go along with yesterday’s Pirates of the Caribbean silliness, and new skins for nearly all of its five million MixPixMaxClixStix devices. The Dual-Screen Mobile DVD System, as it’s known, features two seven-inch LCDs that hook onto the back of both front seat headrests; the kiddies still have to watch the same movie, but now there’s less of a chance that they’ll give each other concussions fighting for the best viewing angle. As for the Show Pix photo frame, you’re getting a keychain-sized, um, keychain with a 1.1-inch LCD that can store 50 of Junior’s best in-class pics of his teacher slowly being tormented into insanity. Finally, the Mix Max PMP, Mix Stix and Mix Clip DAPs, and Pix Micro, Pix Click, and Pix Max digital cameras (try saying that even two times fast) are all getting hot new looks courtesy of Pirates and undercover pop star Hannah Montana (pictured, and we swear we had to look that up). Available immediately, the DVD system bundled with a sampler disc is going for $180, the Show Pix will run you $40 apiece, and the gazillion other models cost the same as they always did.
20GB PlayStation 3, RIP: 2006 – 2007
From engadget.com
TweetDamned, was that ever fast? After much hemming and hawing about whether production of the 20GB PlayStation 3 would continue, Sony officially dropped the axe on it today. Apparently sales were 10 to friggin 1 between the high and low end models, so it’s not like we can really bust ‘em on their decision. Still, just goes to show that no matter how well you think you’re going to do in the market place, there’s always a mysterious x factor. So, now that we’ve ticked that console off the list, it looks like the price differential between the Premium 360 and PS3 is $200, while you’re gonna pay $350 more for one than a Wii.
UCSC Engineering Building Attacked by Giant Gorilla (Donkey Kong)
From ucsc.edu:
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Donkey Kong Climbs E2
3×3″ Post-It® Notes on glass
4 floors x 2 windows
E2 Building UCSCTotal Number of Post-It® Notes: about 6400
Total People: about 10
Total Time: 5 hoursTo get enough of the colors needed, we had to buy about 14,000 post-it notes. This is what 14,000 post-it notes look like:
Super Paper Mario Marathon.
From gamespot.com:
Though it may have been originally announced for the GameCube, Super Paper Mario is now one of the most anticipated titles for the Wii. For those of you who are itching to see more of the game (and spoil some of the story for yourselves in the process), we’ll be hosting a 4-hour live gameplay marathon right here on this page. All GameSpot members will be able to tune in to this special event, and GameSpot subscribers will be able to chat with each other as the marathon moves along.
So join Ricardo Torres and Rich Gallup on April 6 at 1 p.m. as he flips his way through the first few chapters of Super Paper Mario, through the land of Flipside and beyond. For those of you unable to catch the live broadcast, be sure to check out the highlights reel we’ll be cutting together afterwards.
What: GameSpot’s Live Gameplay Marathon – Super Paper Mario
When: Friday, April 6 at 1 p.m. PST
Where: Right here on this page
Who: GameSpot’s Ricardo Torres and Rich Gallup
I’ll be tuning in. Sounds like it’ll be a lot of fun. If you’re thinking of picking this game up next week you should watch as well.
TweetDisney’s Meet The Robinsons Game Launch.
From joystiq.com:
Disney was kind enough to invite us out for a tour of their studios and to attend the launch of the Meet the Robinsons video game recently, and we’ve got the proof. They also screened the movie for us, in Disney Digital 3D and while we might be hardkor fanboys sometimes, we really loved the flick.
One of the best things was getting to visit the Disney Archives and sift through things dating back as far as Snow White and the early days of Mickey Mouse, but the best thing we saw? Oh nothing, just the original sign for Flynn’s, the arcade run by Jeff Bridges in Tron. Our inner fanboy exploded when we saw that (see above — for the sign, not exploding fanboys). Check out the rest of our tour in the gallery, and get the skinny on the game after the jump.
I did end up buying the game (Wii Version). So I’ll try to get a quick mini-review up before the end of the week, maybe Friday. So far however, I am enjoying it and find the control of the camera to be one of the best parts (Despite what other reviews are saying).
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