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May 28, 2010

Airport 51 Exists

Filed under: News Feed — Tags: Airport 51, Chateau Roux's, Clothing, Desperate Struggle, London, No More Heroes 2, Suda 51 — Jamie Love @ 2:05 pm

While many of us having been enjoying No More Heroes 2 since the Winter, many more poor European souls had to wait for the chance to slice and dice their way to the top of the assassin ranks again. As if to offer some sympathy however, those in London have a chance to visit and shop at an recreation of Travis’ favorite clothing outlet, Airport 51.

From May 28 until June 4, Chateau Roux’s independent shop based in Carnaby Street has been rebranded as the clothing store from the game, where clothing endorsed by Suda 51 waits to bite at the wallet.

I have a hunch that, much like in the game, I couldn’t afford to shop there – but if anyone overseas wants to send me a Bizarre Jelly 5 t-shirt out of love, we could probably be BFF.

Catch some images after the break.

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New Shades of Pokémon, in 2011

Filed under: News Feed — Tags: Black Version, DS, Nintendo, Pikachu, Pokemon, Pokemon Company, Reshiram, White Version, Zekrom — Jamie Love @ 1:38 pm

Pokemon
I’m just catching up with Nintendo’s buzz about confirmation that Pokémon Black Version & Pokémon White Version are heading to North American DS owners, along with a bit of art for new legendary Pokémon Reshiram and Zekrom.

When the games were originally announced for Japan there were plenty of people expressing surprise that the new titles would be hitting the DS rather than the platform we’re only a little over two weeks away from seeing – though that probably had more to do with disappointment rather than surprise.

Based on the title of this post you can probably conclude that I’m more surprised that the date for their arrival is a year from now, in Spring 2011, but I suppose we don’t have to worry about overdosing that way. All I know is that this is still a far cry from the Pokémon MMO I want.

While I ponder that, you can catch Reshiram and Zekrom after the break, along with a trailer for PokéPark Wii: Pikachu‘s Adventure – the minigame filled Wii title recieved a European release date of July 9, 2010 yesterday.

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Our Mango-Cherry Flavored Heroes Paradise Contest Winners

Filed under: News Feed — Tags: Cherry, Contest, Grasshopper, Heroes Paradise, Mango, Marvelous Entertainment, No More Heroes — Jamie Love @ 12:43 pm

Heroes Paradise Contest Winners
Gamesugar’s Heroes Paradise Contest came to a close last night, and I want to take time out right away to thank everyone who entered. We got a great response, which makes it easier to keep offering up more contests in the future. I also want to thank Marvelous again for giving us the opportunity to show that there’s plenty of love for No More Heroes and delicious gaming swag.

It was a pretty crazy morning here, we might have had a Mexican wrestler draw our five winners, or may have just put on masks while doing so ourselves.

Either way, here are our five winners, who will be hearing from us later this afternoon.

The congratulations go to – Mrmountie, Akari, Poofyslime, Nord and Joshhest.

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May 26, 2010

Imaginary Interviews – Bomberman

Filed under: Archives — Tags: bomberman, Imaginary Interviews — Jesse Tahirali @ 8:47 pm

Imaginary Interviews
There are a lot of videogames that involve having to destroy a few, or a few hundred enemy creatures that pose a threat to you as you try to trek to wherever your destination may be. It’s easy to forgive Mario for stomping his enemies into the ground, because they would probably do the same to him as soon he let his guard down.

Bomberman is a bit different though – he actively invades habitats just to destroy whatever is living there. It’s almost like some sort of commentary on the world – he is humanity personified, and he has a habit of seeking out new lands and exploding whatever gets in his way. Or he’s just running around and doing what most of us would do if we were given access to an unlimited amount of bombs.

Either way, he’s a pretty entertaining guy, but I can’t help but think that Bomberman is also kind of a jerk.

Imaginary Interviews #2

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Japanese Club Nintendo Gets…

Filed under: News Feed — Tags: Club Nintendo, Super Mario Galaxy 2 — Jamie Love @ 9:19 am

Club Nintendo
If only I had a nickel for every time I wrote something along those lines…

Anyway, this time around Japanese Club Nintendo members can reward themselves starting tomorrow with the two disc, 70 song stuffed soundtrack for Super Mario Galaxy 2.

I was expecting the point spread on such an item to be pretty high, but it seems the soundtrack can be had for 500 points, or 300 for those who register the code from their new copy of Galaxy 2.

Check it out here

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Tokyo Dreaming

Filed under: News Feed — Tags: CESA, TGS, Tokyo Game Show 2010 — Jamie Love @ 8:50 am

Tokyo Game Show
Sure E3 is coming up fast, but I’m really dreaming of a Gamesugar trip to Tokyo this Fall for TGS – which we all know isn’t really dead, it was just having a small nap.

As proof of this, CESA debuted this sweet visual for the show, which runs from September 16-19 this year.

That gives me nearly four months to raise enough money to get there, so if I show up selling cookies at your door you’ll know what’s up.

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May 25, 2010

Review – Alan Wake

Filed under: Reviews — Tags: Alan Wake, Horror, Microsoft, psychological, Remedy, Review, Xbox 360 — Jamie Love @ 10:35 pm

Alan Wake
Previously on Gamesugar –

We received a package in the mail, a review copy of Alan Wake. The envelope it came in deceptively hid the real weight of the contents, carrying the immense expectations caused by bold announcements made early in the development process, and aspirations focusing too much attention on the ability of a single game to define a hardware cycle.

From my own detached position I expected something Silent Hill sans the sickly sexualized horror that has kept the genre neatly niche. Perhaps I expected the kind of game Sierra might have made, following in a more accessible Gabriel Knight / Phantasmagoria vein.

It wasn’t going to be that simple however, the game somehow resisting the temptation to hover around the sun on the wax wings of hype, instead creating an experience that defends the existence of authoritative narrative in an era of open world desires, bringing along play mechanics that directly feed out of and back into the written words that pull players deeper down the rabbit hole.

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